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Forum: Windows 7 Forum November 3rd 16, 07:09 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 752
Posted By Jeff Layman
printing without ink - new technique

On 02/11/16 19:24, VanguardLH wrote:

This isn't new technology. There are factories that use a CO2 laser to
burn expiration dates on the sides of boxes as they passed by on a
converyor belt. ...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum October 16th 16, 03:13 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 28
Views: 1,477
Posted By Jeff Layman
Recommendations on a new printer

On 15/10/16 20:22, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Some of the guides I've read involve a somewhat alarming circular iron
you heat up, to make a hole in the cartridge to refill them through (and
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum October 8th 16, 05:14 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 16
Views: 1,084
Posted By Jeff Layman
Faster PC's? (or Moor's Law running out....?)

On 06/10/16 16:09, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Every so often I post something to the effect of "Is there anything that
is sufficiently faster than my Intel i7 @3.50GHz that I would notice a
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 16th 16, 12:46 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 18
Views: 1,078
Posted By Jeff Layman
File I can't delete

On 16/09/16 07:03, masonc wrote:
I have a file, odd extension: .wmf-.asf that I cannot delete.

It says I must run as administrator.
Win7pro, I'm the administrator.

I do the accessories,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 28th 16, 07:56 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,134
Posted By Jeff Layman
Search gold mine

On 27/05/16 22:04, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 27/05/16 14:13, Paul wrote:

And even though the control panel has a tick box to turn
off content indexing (and just pay attention...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 27th 16, 06:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,134
Posted By Jeff Layman
Search gold mine

On 27/05/16 14:13, Paul wrote:

And even though the control panel has a tick box to turn
off content indexing (and just pay attention to file
names), the OS ignores the tick box, and does...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 16th 16, 08:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 1,103
Posted By Jeff Layman
Tuning file system performance

On 16/04/16 17:02, Yousuf Khan wrote:
So I've been backing up my Users folder. I found that the Users folder
was too big for the SSD that my OS exists on, so I moved it to the D:
drive. Now...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 25th 16, 08:24 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 937
Posted By Jeff Layman
What free openvpn client software do you recommend?

On 25/02/16 00:05, Nancy Pym wrote:
I keep reading about "openvpn" and that there is free client
software but when I look for the free client openvpn software,
all I find are COMMERCIAL...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum October 2nd 15, 08:20 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 744
Posted By Jeff Layman
Can't uninstall Free Avast

On 30/09/15 22:27, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , chicagofan
writes:

Another thing to try would be Revo Uninstaller: the free version...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 29th 15, 04:00 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 58
Views: 2,137
Posted By Jeff Layman
Microsoft intensifies data collection on Windows 7 and 8 systems

On 28/08/15 21:01, Johnny wrote:


Microsoft intensifies data collection on Windows 7 and 8 systems

(snip)

What you can do about it

The best way to deal with these updates is to make sure...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 15th 15, 12:34 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 703
Posted By Jeff Layman
Win 7 games

On 14/08/15 12:04, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
Well, if it it based on popularity, it isn't working. I would hardly
call IrfanView not popular. According to the Home page, there have...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 14th 15, 07:21 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 703
Posted By Jeff Layman
Win 7 games

On 13/08/15 14:00, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 13th 15, 09:15 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 703
Posted By Jeff Layman
Win 7 games

On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long gone
if not...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 10th 15, 09:33 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 17
Views: 928
Posted By Jeff Layman
Something Went Wrong

On 10/08/15 08:28, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Martin Edwards
escribió:

I don't care whether I get W10,

Good,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 12th 15, 10:13 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 8
Views: 383
Posted By Jeff Layman
URL no longer launches in FireFox

On 09/07/15 22:16, Ken1943 wrote:

You must have forgotten, you are running Windows.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN !!!


KenW

It's not just Windows where these things occur...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum June 12th 15, 10:38 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.windows-xp,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 79
Views: 2,946
Posted By Jeff Layman
Is the XP classic start menu back (finally) with Windows 10?

On 11/06/15 01:05, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-06-10 7:01 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
knuttle wrote in message


Until the advent of...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 15, 06:32 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 728
Posted By Jeff Layman
Microsoft fixes severe 19-year-old Windows bug found in everythingsince Windows 95

On 05/06/15 18:13, Tim Streater wrote:

NT4 was quite good, reliable, and did the job.

It was reasonably secure, but as for being reliable I really couldn't
count the number of BSODs I had with...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 1st 15, 08:09 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 17
Views: 560
Posted By Jeff Layman
Windows key

On 01/06/15 01:23, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2015 16:35:23 -0400, Seymore4Head

My sister has a Toshiba laptop that is giving errors that the hard
drive is going bad.

Update.

...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 22nd 15, 02:21 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 480
Posted By Jeff Layman
Good Intelligent Search Engine

On 20/05/15 20:19, s|b wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:12:45 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:

You may like Ixquick and StartPage too. They don't track you either.

AFAIk Ixquick =...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 10th 15, 06:37 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 874
Posted By Jeff Layman
Bizarre problem with update KB3039066

On 09/04/15 23:24, VanguardLH wrote:

The Libraries are not actual folders. They only contain *links* that
point at the actual files which are somewhere else. Deleting the [soft]
links does...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 3rd 15, 06:27 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 781
Posted By Jeff Layman
Browser Addition

On 03/04/15 14:56, Mayayana wrote:
| http://www.qupzilla.com/

That looks very good. Just one question: I imported
Firefox bookmarks and it worked fine, but they show up
as a 4th-level...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 3rd 15, 01:35 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 781
Posted By Jeff Layman
Browser Addition

On 03/04/15 00:40, Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:17:46 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote:

If you want to try something outside the usual list, have a look at...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 2nd 15, 07:17 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 781
Posted By Jeff Layman
Browser Addition

On 01/04/15 22:01, Naybody wrote:
My notebook, Win7/Win8 has only Explorer.

I do not want to add more than one browser.

Are there any, recommended by you, good browser reviews that tell...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 24th 15, 06:48 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 3
Views: 271
Posted By Jeff Layman
Bluetooth adaptor

On 24/03/15 14:28, Wolf K wrote:
On 2015-03-24 8:45 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
I recently got a Bluetooth adaptor from Maplins and put it in a USB slot
of my Win7 desktop.
It worked fine for a...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 22nd 15, 05:07 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 807
Posted By Jeff Layman
text suddenly went into a double layer

On 22/03/15 12:38, Mick IOW wrote:
Hi all,
I have a computer problem but not itself with Windows 7.

This is my computer spec: Novatech Black NTA31

(snip)

I did a reboot and it...
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