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Forum: General XP issues or comments November 12th 12, 03:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 439
Posted By Mint
Buttons greyed out

On Saturday, November 10, 2012 10:27:55 PM UTC-6, Greegor wrote:
What make and model of computer hardware is it?

Original install CD's are likely available.

If the IT guy can't pull the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 10th 12, 11:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 439
Posted By Mint
Buttons greyed out

On Saturday, November 10, 2012 1:18:25 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
Mint wrote:

My daughters computer uses MS Forefront Endpoint Protection and most buttons are greyed out.



I want to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 10th 12, 05:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 439
Posted By Mint
Buttons greyed out

My daughters computer uses MS Forefront Endpoint Protection and most buttons are greyed out.

I want to be able to make changes.

Thanks,
Andy
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 13th 12, 04:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 299
Views: 11,276
Posted By Mint
Why do you still use Windows XP?

On Feb 9, 10:26*pm, "Mayayana" wrote:
| Give your reasons.
|

* Because 98SE won't run on my current hardware. Actually,
once I got onto XP I found it notably more...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 11th 11, 04:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 241
Posted By Mint
Change default speech voice from Sam to Mary

On Dec 11, 9:27*am, "Mayayana" wrote:
There's a link here for Mary/Mike voices install:

http://www.jaws-users.com/programs/

*There should be other links online....
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 11th 11, 04:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 241
Posted By Mint
Change default speech voice from Sam to Mary

On Dec 11, 9:01*am, "Mayayana" wrote:
If you install SpeechSDK51.zip, you will get additional voices.
It's a big download.



* You can also download the Mike/Mary...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 11th 11, 01:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 241
Posted By Mint
Change default speech voice from Sam to Mary

On Dec 11, 7:39*am, Elmo wrote:
On 12/11/2011 6:11 AM, Mint wrote:

I want to change the default speech from M.S. Sam to Mary.

I downloaded the Speech SDK 5.1, but...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 11th 11, 11:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 241
Posted By Mint
Change default speech voice from Sam to Mary

I want to change the default speech from M.S. Sam to Mary.

I downloaded the Speech SDK 5.1, but it didn't help.

Does anyone know how I can change the voice to Microsoft Mary ?

Thanks,
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 9th 11, 01:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 202
Posted By Mint
Can't open cab file

On Dec 8, 9:40*pm, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 21:49:10 -0500, "Peter Foldes"
wrote:

Install the following from Steve Miller of Microsoft...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 8th 11, 05:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 202
Posted By Mint
Can't open cab file

When I try to open a cabinet file, XP uses notepad to open it.

I tried regsvr32 %windir%\system32\cabview.dll with no luck.

Thanks.
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 18th 11, 04:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 16
Views: 542
Posted By Mint
Change a user folder location inside Documents and Settings

On Nov 17, 10:51*am, liu wrote:
I got a fake virus checker that changed a lot of my system settings. First I saw a lot of messages prompting that my HD is not readable and...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 9th 11, 01:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 93
Posted By Mint
Append to modem log not working

I have the append to box checked for my modem log, but the log file is
not appended but merely starts a new one each time I use the modem.

How can I fix that ?
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 5th 11, 11:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 196
Posted By Mint
Defrag info

On Nov 5, 3:45*pm, "ctowers" wrote:
Mint wrote:
I have looked but haven't found much.

Are there any references to the logic used in Disk Defragmentation ?

I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 5th 11, 06:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 196
Posted By Mint
Defrag info

I have looked but haven't found much.

Are there any references to the logic used in Disk Defragmentation ?

I was also wondering about the O.S.

Say a 5 meg file is deleted.

If another file less...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 22nd 11, 01:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 54
Views: 308
Posted By Mint
Ping: John John MVP Ccleaner

On Oct 16, 8:07*am, Mike S wrote:
snip

And the bigger the registry is, the slower your computer will run.
That is a fairy tale and not true

Please correct me if...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 22nd 11, 01:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 54
Views: 308
Posted By Mint
Ping: John John MVP Ccleaner

On Oct 15, 5:40*pm, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT), Mint

wrote:
The good registry cleaners do provide a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 15th 11, 11:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 54
Views: 308
Posted By Mint
Ping: John John MVP Ccleaner

On Oct 11, 3:11*pm, Ken Springer wrote:
What's your overall opinion of Ccleaner?

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 7.0.1
Thunderbird 7.0.1
LibreOffice 3.3.3
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 3rd 11, 05:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 32
Views: 403
Posted By Mint
Recovery partition

On May 3, 5:08*am, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
For anyone else following this thread - I think it's not a very wise thing
to delete the recovery partition - what harm is it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 3rd 11, 04:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 32
Views: 403
Posted By Mint
Recovery partition

On May 2, 10:04*pm, "SC Tom" wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in ...







Forum: General XP issues or comments May 2nd 11, 04:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 32
Views: 403
Posted By Mint
Recovery partition

My Compaq computer has a recovery partition and I don't have an
install disk for the Home Edition.

Since I make image backups on a separate drive, do I really need that
recovery partition?

If my...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 10th 11, 07:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 251
Posted By Mint
Why are there 13 separate copies of WordPad on a fresh XP install?

On Mar 10, 8:48*am, VanguardLH wrote:
Jack wrote:
It's a rhetorical question meant to express bemusement at the
cobbled-together, Frankenstein like nature of any particular...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 10th 11, 12:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 251
Posted By Mint
Why are there 13 separate copies of WordPad on a fresh XP install?

On Mar 10, 2:15*am, Jack wrote:
It's a rhetorical question meant to express bemusement at the
cobbled-together, Frankenstein like nature of any particular version of
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 20th 11, 01:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 180
Posted By Mint
Another O.S. on a boot CD that has fax capability ?

On Feb 19, 5:31*pm, Paul wrote:
mm wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:37:56 -0800 (PST), Mint
wrote:

On Feb 17, 7:58 pm, Paul...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 19th 11, 02:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 171
Posted By Mint
Reinstall Fax service

On Feb 18, 4:00*pm, MowGreen wrote:
Mint wrote:
Since the post, I went back and did a System Restore to before SP3 was
applied and my fax service works again. So...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 18th 11, 03:37 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 180
Posted By Mint
Another O.S. on a boot CD that has fax capability ?

On Feb 17, 7:58*pm, Paul wrote:
Mint wrote:
Is there another O.S. that I can put on a boot CD that will fax
documents using an internal Fax Modem ?

Thanks,
* *...
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