Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum
July 5th 19, 11:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Replies: 18
Views: 335
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
May 5th 12, 08:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 0
Views: 279
tcpsvcs: qotd, chargen, etc: how to use?
Howdy, group. I'm curious: how exactly does one go about
using the services provided by the "tcpsvcs.exe" service?
Say that just for fun I want to have a "quote of the day"
service running on my...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
May 5th 12, 08:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 687
RPC service won't start.
In response to my RPC query, "glee" wrote:
Download Farbar Service Scanner from Bleeping Computer
and save it to your desktop... do not run it from the
download dialog:
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
May 3rd 12, 08:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 687
RPC service won't start.
I have a friend with a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP,
and he's having a problem: he can't get the "Services" msc
plugin to work, because the "Plug and Play" service isn't
running, because it's...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 25th 11, 01:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 191
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?
VanguardLH wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827
Thanks for the link. Yep, that says what they're doing, but not
why they're doing such an idiotic, useless, damaging, infuriating
thing. ...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 25th 11, 01:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 191
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?
Regarding making Windows Exploder stop mangling hexadecimal numbers,
"Bill in Co" writes:
If you manually change the registry key as follows:
Under this key:
...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 25th 11, 12:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 191
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?
I'd written:
I find Windows XP Explorer's sort order infuriating.
For example, given a list of folders containing
Firefox Extentions (hex id codes), it presents them
in this order:
...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 25th 11, 12:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 188
Solution: How to force CD drive letter to be Y.
I'd written:
... Now my CD always came up as drive D:.
I could change it to Y: in Computer Management,
but on next reboot it was always D: again. ...
and sleepily, at 1AM on the morning...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 24th 11, 05:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 191
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?
I find Windows XP Explorer's sort order infuriating.
For example, given a list of folders containing
Firefox Extentions (hex id codes), it presents them
in this...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 24th 11, 05:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 188
Solution: How to force CD drive letter to be Y.
Greetings, group. I have a solution for you. (Hey, it makes
a change from people coming here with problems, no?) In this
case, the solution is how to force balky drive letters that
keep reverting...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 17th 11, 04:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 222
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 16th 11, 03:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 222
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 7th 10, 07:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win2000.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 309
Modify target path of link in mass
"AndyHancock" wrote:
I used a unix utility (cygwin's tar) to copy a file
tree from a hard drive to a stick. One of the things
I learned was that file links/shortcuts...
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 22nd 10, 03:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,636
XP and Large Hard Disks (Attempt #6)
Greetings again, group. This is my 6th post here.
My first 5 posts all asked the same question. And
though I received 7 answers, none of them were
relevant. But I'm patient, so I'll try...
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 22nd 10, 03:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,332
XP and Large Hard Disks (Attempt #6)
Greetings again, group. This is my 6th post here.
My first 5 posts all asked the same question. And
though I received 7 answers, none of them were
relevant. But I'm patient, so I'll try...
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 22nd 10, 02:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,391
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 22nd 10, 02:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,391
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 21st 10, 05:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
January 21st 10, 05:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 6
Views: 830
Different day, same 2 questions.
I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several
replies, they were not relevant. Apparently no one here knew
the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll
repeat it as a...
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 0
Views: 441
Different day, same 2 questions.
I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several
replies, they were not relevant. Apparently no one here knew
the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll
repeat it as a...
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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Forum: New Users to Windows XP
November 10th 09, 11:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,671
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