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Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 12, 10:59 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 70
Views: 1,724
Posted By Rob
Do you think we will get back drive a: and b:

On 15/02/2012 15:21, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Ken.

Yeah, floppy DRIVES are dead. But what about these hundreds of DISKETTES in my office? :(

There are both 5.25" and 3.5"; some are...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 12, 10:47 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,268
Posted By Rob
What happens when Win7 runs out of RAM

On 15/02/2012 23:14, Eric wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:50:27 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:00:19 -0500, Eric
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 14th 12, 01:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 3
Views: 600
Posted By Rob
Windows Update Craziness

On 14/02/2012 13:46, Ricky Jimenez wrote:
On the two occasions that it hung when trying to do this particular
update it was running for over 3 hours before I gave up and hit the
power button.
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 7th 12, 01:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 17
Views: 1,173
Posted By Rob
windows 7 won't boot (missing/corrupt boot loader) reinstalledwindows, same problem

On 07/02/2012 05:24, Mike S wrote:
I have a neighbor who has a windows 7 desktop, she told me it wouldn't boot, and even after repeated attempts to repair itself (the repair utility reports that it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 3rd 12, 10:57 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 23
Views: 1,131
Posted By Rob
XP Running Slow for No Obvious Reason

On 02/02/2012 17:00, Paul wrote:
Rob wrote:
On 02/02/2012 15:01, TMitchell wrote:
Starting about a month ago my XP ThinkPad T60p laptop started booting and operating much slower (opening and...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 3rd 12, 10:16 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 64
Views: 1,310
Posted By Rob
Anything Wrong With Having 2 Anti-Virus Programs Active

On 02/02/2012 21:06, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Alias writes:
On 02/02/2012 05:12 PM, Wolf K wrote:
On...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 2nd 12, 03:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 23
Views: 1,131
Posted By Rob
XP Running Slow for No Obvious Reason

On 02/02/2012 15:01, TMitchell wrote:
Starting about a month ago my XP ThinkPad T60p laptop started booting and operating much slower (opening and closing programs, selecting drop-down menus, word...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 1st 12, 03:31 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 8
Views: 680
Posted By Rob
Hibernate on Desktop

On 31/01/2012 07:23, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 30/01/2012 6:21 AM, Oldster wrote:
Is it possible? I have windows 7 Ultimate 64 SP1. There is no option to
turn on/apply Hibernate in any of the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 1st 12, 03:04 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 607
Posted By Rob
Win 7 cant find any devices on Network

On 01/02/2012 11:32, Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:30:35 +1100, z wrote:

...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 27th 12, 02:26 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 578
Posted By Rob
what a bunch of a-holes

On 27/01/2012 13:26, Seth wrote:

MetalStorm© wrote in message ...

rant snipped

i am so intellegent that I can honestly say that i...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 19th 12, 12:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 1,427
Posted By Rob
WinXP - Possible Memory Issues

On 19/01/2012 04:51, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:18:43 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:48:51 -0800, ...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 18th 12, 05:10 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 1
Views: 334
Posted By Rob
Switching off unnecessary services?

On 18/01/2012 17:05, Kenny wrote:
Following tha article he
http://www.askvg.com/windows-7-services-that-can-be-safely-set-to-manual/
to turn off unneeded services but when I double click any...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 16th 12, 03:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 44
Views: 1,135
Posted By Rob
problems with Win XP SP3 Booting

On 16/01/2012 13:54, Don Phillipson wrote:
"jim" wrote in message
...

First, With an ASUS motherboard (P4S533)set to "cable...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 13th 12, 12:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows-xp
Replies: 34
Views: 646
Posted By Rob
Any utility that will tell me what program or service is accessingthe hard drive?

On 16/12/2011 01:24, XP Guy wrote:
This is for XP, sp3.

I've just installed XP-sp3 on a new motherboard and I'm in the process
of turning off a lot of garbage services and in general...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 13th 11, 12:03 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 517
Posted By Rob
General question about installation of win7

On 12/12/2011 19:28, Nil wrote:
On 12 Dec 2011, Tony Vella wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I have a vista computer which is 4 years old but still like new.
I...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 12th 11, 03:25 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 564
Posted By Rob
Chkdsk vs. Chkntfs?

On 12/12/2011 01:01, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 11/12/2011 5:07 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Will doing that clear the flag that is causing Yousuf to get the warning
messages he is...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 9th 11, 03:30 PM Posted to alt.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 174
Posted By Rob
I cannot get my XP machine booted.

On 09/12/2011 14:51, Paul wrote:
Rob wrote:


Is it not simply the case that setting a PATA drive as master enables
cable signal termination on the drive?
For 20 years I have assumed...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 9th 11, 02:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 179
Posted By Rob
System Freezes Upon Return From Sleep

On 03/12/2011 00:19, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Consistent scenario:

- User having no problems

- User puts system to sleep (not hibernation, just sleep)

- Sometime later, user wakes...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 9th 11, 01:31 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 28
Views: 488
Posted By Rob
Ravenous RAM use.

On 07/12/2011 22:22, Paul wrote:
Rob wrote:


Perhaps it should have been phrased "making extremely efficient use
of available resources". Any program which reads large amounts of
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 9th 11, 01:10 PM Posted to alt.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 174
Posted By Rob
I cannot get my XP machine booted.

On 09/12/2011 10:17, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul writes:
[]
What bothers me a bit, is the DH20A is...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 7th 11, 01:46 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 28
Views: 488
Posted By Rob
Ravenous RAM use.

On 07/12/2011 02:26, Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:21:00 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 12/06/2011, Char Jackson posted:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 6th 11, 02:10 PM Posted to alt.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 174
Posted By Rob
I cannot get my XP machine booted.

On 06/12/2011 07:59, Peter Jason wrote:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:32:06 -0500, Paul wrote:

BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Peter...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 11, 02:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 221
Posted By Rob
Explorer wrongly displays bit rate

On 30/11/2011 13:44, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Rob wrote:

On 30/11/2011 10:01, Terry Pinnell wrote:
I've just added the Bit Rate column to an XP Explorer folder....
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 11, 01:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 213
Posted By Rob
Right click slow

On 30/11/2011 12:00, Harold Druss wrote:
Hi All
When I right click it causes explorer.exe to take 98% of the cpu.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Harold


This can be caused by corrupt or bad...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 11, 01:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 221
Posted By Rob
Explorer wrongly displays bit rate

On 30/11/2011 10:01, Terry Pinnell wrote:
I've just added the Bit Rate column to an XP Explorer folder. Seemed a
potentially convenient way of displaying it while I experiment with
various...
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