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Forum: Windows 7 Forum November 20th 15, 12:35 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 1,939
Posted By OldGuy
Windows Media Player has no sound?

Go into Control Panel Sound and try different settings to select the
sound source.

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Forum: Windows 7 Forum November 10th 15, 12:42 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 7
Views: 983
Posted By OldGuy
Windows Desktop Recorder

I want a way to record what I do on my Windows PC desktop and be able
to send the movie with sound to a friend. This so I can show how to
operate an application. He has no internet so I am...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 24th 15, 08:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 29
Views: 2,550
Posted By OldGuy
Windows Services and Startup

Sysinternals - Process Explorer.

Left click on a column header and select
Select Columns
On the first tab shown, check
Command Line
close this

Hit space bar to stop updates.
Hover the mouse...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 24th 15, 08:36 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 2,550
Posted By OldGuy
Windows Services and Startup

Name Description
..NET Runtime Optimization Service v2.0.50727_X86 Microsoft .NET
Framework NGEN
Acronis Scheduler2 Service Provides scheduling for Acronis components'
tasks.
Agere Modem Call...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 23rd 15, 09:41 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 18
Views: 1,043
Posted By OldGuy
Microsoft Security Essentials - opinions ?

All the free anti-virus apps that I have tried will nag the heck out of
you and you have to be very careful installing since they sometime have
pre-checked boxes to get you to the premium trial...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 23rd 15, 09:37 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 901
Posted By OldGuy
It is dead! Laptop With HDD out

Battery out.
HDD out
Checked CMOS battery is OK at 3.2V installed.
Reseated the BIOS chip and two RAM modules.

Power by external.
Power on then ... get nothing on the display.

I suspect that the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 9th 15, 01:37 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 17
Views: 734
Posted By OldGuy
Disc Cloning

Paul presented the following explanation :
Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:25:22 +0100, "Ophelia" wrote:

Most recent activity was to run CHKDSK C: /r...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 9th 15, 01:34 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 8
Views: 861
Posted By OldGuy
Setup Two Routers

You typically want all devices throughout the house to be on the same subnet
so you can share files, printers, etc. throughout the house. To do this, set
up as follows:

ATT: Set device IP...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 7th 15, 09:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 647
Posted By OldGuy
Clone Help

I tried the Samsung Clone disk and it failed.
Said there were problems with C:
Nothing else agreed and all other app said C: was good.
Not sure what the problem is with Samsung Clone App and C:

I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 7th 15, 09:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 486
Posted By OldGuy
Clone Help

I tried the Samsung Clone disk and it failed.
Said there were problems with C:
Nothing else agreed and all other app said C: was good.
Not sure what the problem is with Samsung Clone App and C:

I...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 7th 15, 01:08 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 18
Views: 1,889
Posted By OldGuy
Home LAN hookup

Stuff I did not know, especially the DHCP off on one router.

What is happening now is that I now have the backroom ATT modem-router
hardwired to the livingroom PC.
I have NAS on the LAN that I can...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 3rd 15, 01:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 427
Posted By OldGuy
Yikes! Saga

So here is where I am at.

Chkdsk Disk Test says good disk.

Seatools says disk looks good.

TestDisk says good.

Macrium Reflect 6 Free Recovery boot says
C: NTFS 10G used of 250G
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum August 24th 15, 10:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
Posted By OldGuy
Avira versus Avast

I installed Avira on a Win XP and Win 7 PC.

On the Win 7 PC I get an Avira sales comparison bar in the web browser.

It wants me to look at another product that costs more than the one I
am...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum August 24th 15, 10:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
Posted By OldGuy
Avira versus Avast

Ran on Win XP Pro.

I kept getting nags to upgrade!

And Panda would get stuck using 50% of my CPU.

I had to kill it all the time.

It never found a problem and all other anti-virus apps never found...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum August 23rd 15, 11:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
Posted By OldGuy
Avira versus Avast

Throwing my hat in the ring.

I still run (oh my gosh) Win XP Pro on several PCs.

On XP:
Avast was too annoying. A year ago, so now ????
Panda was also rather annoying although highly rated. ...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 20th 15, 12:53 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 0
Views: 285
Posted By OldGuy
OT GoogleDrive Giggles

So why does Google Drive use 50% of my CPU when there is NO internet
connection? Google programmers stupidity, i.e. fresh out of high
school! Hysterical question (way beyond rhetorical). Let me...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 13th 15, 11:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 37
Views: 1,463
Posted By OldGuy
Anti-Virus For XP

I tried some time ago to use Avast.
I cannot remember the problems but gave up on it.

I am now using Panda but it bogs my PC down so bad that I can barely
scroll the Windows Explorer and that is...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 3rd 15, 09:59 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,952
Posted By OldGuy
OT Macrium Reflect 6

Macrium Reflect Free v6
New version.

Website downloads installer, then this installer download ~40MByte
application installer that does the actual install of all needed
including the WIN PE used...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 10th 15, 02:50 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 414
Posted By OldGuy
OT GMail Client Login

After the "fix" I got this eMail in my Opera client.

If you made this change
Please be aware that it is now easier for an attacker to break into
your account. You can make your account safer again...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 10th 15, 02:43 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 414
Posted By OldGuy
OT GMail Client Login

Unbelievable!!!

I finally got to a page with two option buttons.

I selected "Use Less Secure Login"

Now Opera connects. Probably SeaMonkey too.

Those rats are pushing some GMail Client? The do...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 10th 15, 02:36 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 414
Posted By OldGuy
OT GMail Client Login

I did that and followed the instructions but still cannot log in
through either SeaMonkey or Opera.

Yes, IMAP is enabled and all the setting you provided are the same as
on the GMail site.

Not...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 12th 15, 11:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 499
Posted By OldGuy
Remote Drive Access


Team Viewer
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/products/screenshots.aspx

Doesn't that require someone on both ends?

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Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 16th 15, 11:08 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 626
Posted By OldGuy
LAN Visibility

1 WPS has a big security hole turn if off if you can find the setting.
2 Home Group does not work with XP
3 You have to use Work Group when adding XP to the mix.
4 Network Discovery needs to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 24th 15, 10:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 641
Posted By OldGuy
Network Honked (Technical Term)

Laptop
Win XP Pro all updates.

Use standard way to connect WiFi as I always did in the past.
WiFi hardware switch on.
Click on system tray icon and select an ISP.
It shows several available...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 21st 15, 01:38 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 1,273
Posted By OldGuy
OS Ver Order

Please correct the order of Windows OS Versions.

Win31
Win95
Win98
WinNT
WinNT3.5
WinNT4.0
Win2000
WinME
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