Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
May 14th 19, 11:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 2
Views: 10,402
Windows Media Player remnant
Windows media player apparently, having been used in a format emergency to play a DVD
instead of VLC player, apparently leaves something running that prevents my "turn monitor
off" program from...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
April 26th 19, 11:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,309
Standby and Backup Oddity
Probably unrelated, but some of our XP machines
turn on the screen (after it turns off from
inactivity) and keep it on for no reason. Not all
the XP machines, just a few. Dell laptops.
So...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 7th 19, 11:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 2
Views: 5,633
Modern Videos on XP?
A lot of new youtube videos won't play on XP with
Firefox. Is there something I ought to be
downloading to see the videos?
(Youtube seems to convert some of them to some
format I can play after...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 4th 18, 02:50 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 306
Can't Connect to Internet - Driver?
When one of my wifi's fail I just use a USB wifi
connector and skip everything native to the
machine. They're down to $9.99 or so for XP.
Netgear N300 has always worked. Belkin seems to
have a...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
March 23rd 18, 12:24 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,791
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
March 14th 18, 12:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,798
Internet Time Job? XP
Can I change the internet time setting?
There must be a job scheduled somewhere that I
could (automatically, bash available via Cygwin)
edit.
I'd like it daily instead of weekly.
--...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
November 28th 17, 10:24 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 167
Views: 3,664
Dell computer with no input
I'm using external DVD drives anyway, when the
original one wears out in whatever failure mode
that usually is. Increasing error rates, failing
to launch.
It does require the USB port be working...
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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum
September 9th 17, 01:36 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Replies: 2
Views: 177
Screen wont' turn off
It thinks there's activity. I've never been able to figure out why, on the perhaps
one in ten laptops the condition develops in. If it's a LED display, it won't
matter; but a flourescent light...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
May 19th 17, 02:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,754
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 17th 17, 09:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,589
Manually setting a STATIC IP in WinXP Pro
Richard Owlett wrote:
On 1/16/2017 8:10 AM, Ron Hardin wrote:
Incidental remark: try Cygwin under XP, which puts
a unix-like environment there while leaving
everything else working,...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 16th 17, 02:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,589
Manually setting a STATIC IP in WinXP Pro
Incidental remark: try Cygwin under XP, which puts
a unix-like environment there while leaving
everything else working, at least if all you want
is compilers and shells.
Its /dev/clipboard is...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 3rd 17, 10:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,132
Gradual out of disk space - fidbox.dat
VanguardLH wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote:
In case anybody didn't know about it, there's a remnant from some
popular virus scanner that gives you a growing file...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 3rd 17, 03:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,132
Gradual out of disk space - fidbox.dat
In case anybody didn't know about it, there's a
remnant from some popular virus scanner that gives
you a growing file that eventually gets big enough
to...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
December 23rd 16, 05:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,579
Serial Port (USB)?
Bert wrote:
In Ron Hardin
wrote:
Maybe I need what's referred to as a terminal
program, but I don't know what that...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
December 22nd 16, 05:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,579
Serial Port (USB)?
How do I send and receive ascii on a USB serial
port?
It's to and from a Drake R8B shortwave receiver,
and just to set the time of day etc, twice a year.
It would be nice if it just appeared as a...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
December 12th 16, 10:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,376
Can't Browse After FreshInstall
I use wsusoffline.net to grab a newer IE8 so that stuff works (necessary when
reinstalling XP - use v 9.21 for that). Probably windows 7 is under some category as
well.
Save it to a USB stick for...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
November 22nd 16, 07:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,638
Disk copying?
If I use the regular XP utilities to copy a
(failing) external HD to another HD,
1. Are file dates preserved? Or does the new HD
get today's date, that being the date it's
copied.
2. For...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
July 23rd 16, 03:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,717
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
July 22nd 16, 01:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,717
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
June 11th 16, 08:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,725
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
June 11th 16, 04:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,725
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
January 15th 16, 02:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,103
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 28th 15, 01:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,356
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
November 4th 15, 01:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,214
Having Problems deleting Folder From Win &
Dr X wrote:
Hi:
A MAC using client sent me a USB drive with 6 zip files: 4 of the six unziped
fine and created folders with the right files in them. 2 of the zip files
created folders...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
September 9th 15, 02:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,162
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