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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 26th 10, 08:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 633
Posted By Bob Lucas
Fueling your car with natural gas from home

Not only in Japan. USA (buses in Maine), Thailand, UK, Canada,
France - to name but a few.

But natural gas won't affect performance of Windows XP !



"Unknown" wrote in...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 26th 10, 06:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 633
Posted By Bob Lucas
Fueling your car with natural gas from home

It's a load of hot air. No need to include the original post in
your reply. Better to ignore.


"Unknown" wrote in message
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 26th 10, 06:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 633
Posted By Bob Lucas
Fueling your car with natural gas from home

It's a lot of hot air !

"Unknown" wrote in message
...
So? I'll bet you don't have a vehicle that uses natural gas. So
what's...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 24th 10, 03:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 669
Posted By Bob Lucas
Stoping tracking cookies

The following suggestion won't stop all cookies. However, it
will reduce the volume substantially.

However, most tracking cookies relate to a different URL from the
website you are viewing. Upon...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 21st 10, 09:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 694
Posted By Bob Lucas
Why suddenly is British daylight saving time not being applied

The 'Automatically synchronize' with an Internet time server
SHOULD keep your computer's clock up to date.

Unfortunately, the server at 'time.windows.com' is often
unavailable. If Windows fails to...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 19th 10, 08:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 543
Posted By Bob Lucas
Systray icons missing.

Win XP has a tendency to 'lose' icons from the Notification Area
of the taskbar. I have never identified the cause and I am not
aware of any permanent solution to this problem. However, you
can...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 19th 10, 07:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 694
Posted By Bob Lucas
Why suddenly is British daylight saving time not being applied?

I am also in the UK. Both of my Win XP computers switched to BST
on the correct date. There have been no other complaints in this
newsgroup, so I doubt whether your problem has been caused by a...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 19th 10, 03:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 7
Views: 732
Posted By Bob Lucas
Need to set extra hard return

You're welcome.

"vijuhegde" / wrote in message
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Wow, that's fantastic, thank you so much Bob!

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frmsrcurl:
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support June 19th 10, 09:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 7
Views: 732
Posted By Bob Lucas
Need to set extra hard return

In addition to Shenan's reply, you can use the following method
to add additional paragraph breaks in an existing *.doc file.

This tip definitely works with Word 2003 and earlier versions of...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 30th 10, 09:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 585
Posted By Bob Lucas
Scroll wheel not working in Word 7

You can download a selection of dedicated Labtech drivers from
www.labtec.com/index.cfm/service/listing/EUR/EN,crid=68,crid2=1763.
Most of them seem to be suitable for Win XP.

"pensive hamster"...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 26th 10, 12:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 13
Views: 596
Posted By Bob Lucas
Eternal-September Connection

There have been a few problems with the Eternal September server
names / DNS lookups.

I thought the DNS issue had been resolved. However, you could
try changing the server name to '62.141.42.50'...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 24th 10, 12:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 24
Views: 1,008
Posted By Bob Lucas
What's this? Is it malware perhaps?

"Jose" wrote in message
...
On May 23, 1:46 pm, "Bob Lucas" wrote:
Jose likes to...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 23rd 10, 06:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 24
Views: 1,008
Posted By Bob Lucas
What's this? Is it malware perhaps?

Jose likes to get his computer infected on purpose ... !

Some people find pleasure in the strangest things !!

It is difficult to supply current details of legitimate websites
that might damage...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 23rd 10, 03:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 24
Views: 1,008
Posted By Bob Lucas
What's this? Is it malware perhaps?

"James Silverton" wrote in
message ...
Leythos wrote on Sun, 23 May 2010 08:37:43 -0400:

In article...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 22nd 10, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 24
Views: 1,008
Posted By Bob Lucas
What's this? Is it malware perhaps?

Malwarebytes and SUPERAntiSpyware have an excellent reputation
for finding and cleaning infections, that have been missed by
other security utilities.

I am not a fan of McAfee (or Norton for that...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 16th 10, 01:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 446
Posted By Bob Lucas
vxdisrva service

I don't know what the vxdisrva system service does. As you say,
Google provides no useful info whatsoever, which suggest it might
be Malware. Have you tried a Malwarebytes scan?


"brian_mk"...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 12th 10, 12:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 1
Views: 344
Posted By Bob Lucas
How Can I Set Up Shared File On Home Network

I am not familiar with Palm Pilot, so I don't know whether the
program's scheduling files must be located in a single folder, or
whether you can save a scheduling file anywhere on your hard...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 4th 10, 08:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 525
Posted By Bob Lucas
Monitor went BLACK on Desktop, but not Laptop ?

The symptoms might not have anything to do with the Win XP
operating system.

The black screen is unlikely to be caused by a defective monitor,
because the monitor works OK with a different...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support May 2nd 10, 09:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 398
Posted By Bob Lucas
Disk drive problem / XP PRO

What Jerry said.

But for the avoidance of doubt, you must NEVER disconnect
components, whilst the computer is running.

Power down. Then, disconnect the drive on SATA 2 and reboot.

If the...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 26th 10, 09:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 6
Views: 808
Posted By Bob Lucas
Laptop Advent 7109

Are you in the UK. If so, PC World are primary retailers for
Advent computers and might even have exclusive rights to the
brand.

Although I would normally be very reluctant to use their...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 18th 10, 05:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 385
Posted By Bob Lucas
Speaker, no sound

Why did you install a new driver?

The new driver may be a read herring, so please check the usual
possibilities. Are the speakers plugged in? If they have a
power supply, is it connected and...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 27th 10, 10:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 537
Posted By Bob Lucas
Desktop not loading up

Have you installed any new programs recently ? (I had an
identical problem with two Win XP computers, after my bank
persuaded me to download and install the Rapport anti-phishing
software...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 19th 10, 08:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 12
Views: 3,127
Posted By Bob Lucas
Outlook Express problem receiving

Use your browser to connect to www.orange.co.uk. Click on "Check
email" and try to sign into your Freeserve email account. If
your sign-in is successful, then you will know the account is
still...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 13th 10, 01:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 0
Views: 961
Posted By Bob Lucas
Calling Bruce Hagen

You will need to provide a more information about your problem
with "Association" in Windows XP.

I'm not an MVP. However, you will find plenty of very good MVPs
at the...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 2nd 10, 01:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 11
Views: 815
Posted By Bob Lucas
Error message

Unchecking 'Include this account when checking for new messages'
will remove the immediate problem with your "http" mail account.
However, one of your mail accounts in Outlook Express has not
been...
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