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Forum: General XP issues or comments November 1st 20, 07:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

R.Wieser wrote:
Ed,

You've misinterpreted my advice.

Ah yes : when you don't understand my explanation its my problem and I need
to "delineate" "more explicitly", but when you make a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 31st 20, 08:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

R.Wieser wrote:
Ed,

Ah, light dawns.
Well, you can certainly remove the little arrow, and even put it
back again,

Changing the existing shortcut and/or its overlay icon was and/or...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 31st 20, 03:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

Ed Cryer wrote:
Big Al wrote:
On 10/31/20 6:47 AM, this is what Ed Cryer wrote:
Mayayana wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote

| Do you mean "an icon pointing to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 31st 20, 03:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

Big Al wrote:
On 10/31/20 6:47 AM, this is what Ed Cryer wrote:
Mayayana wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote

| Do you mean "an icon pointing to another icon"? And, if...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 31st 20, 11:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

Mayayana wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote

| Do you mean "an icon pointing to another icon"? And, if so, how does
| your mew .ovl extension fit into this schematic?
|
| As...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 30th 20, 08:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

R.Wieser wrote:
To all,

After digesting some of the responses I realized that my request, "Changing
a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon", was perhaps a bit
ambigue.

I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 30th 20, 01:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 3,219
Posted By Ed Cryer
Changing a filetypes icon - adding a"shortcut" like mini-icon

R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all,

I would like to know if its possible, thru changes in the registry, to
change a filetypes icon. No, not just change the icon itself, but to either
:

Add a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 8th 20, 07:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 12
Views: 911
Posted By Ed Cryer
The "Send To.." function.

Peter Jason wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 12:15:21 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:

I got this working via File Explorer to send a copy of an image to...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 7th 20, 12:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 12
Views: 911
Posted By Ed Cryer
The "Send To.." function.

Peter Jason wrote:

I got this working via File Explorer to send a copy of an image to a
particular folder.

But there is no "Send To" when I am surfing thru images in "Photo" or
"Photo...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 2nd 20, 07:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 23
Views: 1,534
Posted By Ed Cryer
To fit 3.5 HD as extra drive in new PC

Dean Jackson wrote:
New computer advertised as as having 2 X 3.5 inch drive bays.
However there is just a gap with no slots to fit drives into. What do I
need to buy.


If you wanted to...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 20, 12:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 42
Views: 2,227
Posted By Ed Cryer
Win95

mechanic wrote:
25 years on, we are reminded of the big changes Win95 showed
compared to the preceding Win3.1 (I'm talking of home/consumer
versions). 25 years is a long time - what is it,...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 23rd 20, 03:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 2,034
Posted By Ed Cryer
USB Port on TVs

Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 17:21:08 +0000 (UTC), "John Michael"
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 16th 20, 09:37 PM Posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 53
Views: 817
Posted By Ed Cryer
How do you edit an icon in one of the Windows system DLLs?

Ed Cryer wrote:
Arlen Holder wrote:
Two fundamentally basic Windows icon-editing questions:
(A) How do you edit an icon in one of the Windows system DLLs?
Â*Â*Â*Â*...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 16th 20, 09:04 PM Posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 53
Views: 817
Posted By Ed Cryer
How do you edit an icon in one of the Windows system DLLs?

Arlen Holder wrote:
Two fundamentally basic Windows icon-editing questions:
(A) How do you edit an icon in one of the Windows system DLLs?
https://i.postimg.cc/43GKMY2Z/icon01.jpg
(B)...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 20, 09:10 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 143
Posted By Ed Cryer
2 document folders

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-05-09 1:58 p.m., Ken Blake wrote:
On 5/9/2020 11:32 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-05-08 4:33 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
This...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 9th 20, 07:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 143
Posted By Ed Cryer
2 document folders

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-05-08 4:33 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
This kinda hard to explain but here goes.
Macrium Reflect creates a folder called my backup.xml and places it in
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 9th 20, 02:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 126
Posted By Ed Cryer
RAM compatibility

On 08/05/2020 20:00, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 08/05/2020 12:48, Ed Cryer wrote:
One of my towers has two slabs of DDR3 RAM. They have the same part
number but a slightly different max...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 9th 20, 02:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 126
Posted By Ed Cryer
RAM compatibility

I don't know if you'll remember this, Paul, but about a year and a half
ago I was looking for a "gaming PC" and you helped me with various
options I was considering. I ended up with this...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 8th 20, 07:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 8
Views: 143
Posted By Ed Cryer
Monitor scaling

Mayayana wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote

| I use a 32" Samsung TV as monitor, and Windows shows under Display
| Settings that it's set to the recommended 1920x1080; and I...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 8th 20, 12:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 126
Posted By Ed Cryer
RAM compatibility

One of my towers has two slabs of DDR3 RAM. They have the same part
number but a slightly different max bandwidth.
Are these running well together? Or should I make them more compatible?
Here are...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 8th 20, 12:12 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 8
Views: 143
Posted By Ed Cryer
Monitor scaling

Name SAMSUNG on Intel HD Graphics
Current Resolution 1097x617 pixels
Work Resolution 1097x617 pixels
State Enabled, Primary, Output devices support
Monitor Width 1920
Monitor...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 7th 20, 10:43 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 30
Views: 317
Posted By Ed Cryer
Why am I getting faster bandwidth when running a VPN thanwithout?

Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 5/7/2020 10:31 AM, Buffalo wrote:
Don't have any idea other than the VPN connects to a site a lot closer
to the transmit site of your service provider.
I use Xfinity...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 7th 20, 12:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 30
Views: 317
Posted By Ed Cryer
Why am I getting faster bandwidth when running a VPN than without?

Yousuf Khan wrote:
So, when I run a network speed test (I've tried several of them, they
are all showing the same thing), my upload and download speeds are
approximately 10x faster when I got...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 2nd 20, 03:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 33
Views: 568
Posted By Ed Cryer
Install Linux - only £28

Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:

Just for fun (well, also because I'm in lockdown) I decided to get
Ubuntu on a bootable 16GB stick.
Downloaded a Ubuntu iso, 10 mins
Downloaded Rufus...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 1st 20, 08:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 33
Views: 568
Posted By Ed Cryer
Install Linux - only £28

nospam wrote:
In article , Ed Cryer
wrote:

Just how computer-non-savvy do you have to be to fall for this one?
I'd say "very",...
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