Forum: Windows 7 Forum
November 20th 15, 12:35 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,939
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
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Replies: 7
Views: 983
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 24th 15, 08:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,550
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 24th 15, 08:36 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,550
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 23rd 15, 09:41 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,043
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 23rd 15, 09:37 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 20
Views: 901
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 9th 15, 01:37 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 734
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 9th 15, 01:34 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 861
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 7th 15, 09:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 647
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...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 7th 15, 09:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 486
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 7th 15, 01:08 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,889
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...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 3rd 15, 01:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 427
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
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
August 24th 15, 10:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
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...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
August 24th 15, 10:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
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...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
August 23rd 15, 11:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,546
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. ...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 20th 15, 12:53 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 0
Views: 285
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...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 13th 15, 11:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,463
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 3rd 15, 09:59 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,952
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
July 10th 15, 02:50 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 414
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
July 10th 15, 02:43 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 414
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
July 10th 15, 02:36 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 414
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 12th 15, 11:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 13
Views: 499
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
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Replies: 11
Views: 626
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...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
January 24th 15, 10:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 641
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...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
January 21st 15, 01:38 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,273
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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