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Forum: General XP issues or comments April 10th 15, 12:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 149
Views: 2,976
Posted By Bob Willard
Will us elders soon be computerless?

On 4/10/2015 7:05 AM, Ant wrote:
Like in Win98 you'd click on "FIND" (to search for files). In XP it's
called SEARCH. Does the same damn thing, just confuses the user....
And for what...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 23rd 15, 01:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 396
Posted By Bob Willard
No news is snow news

On 2/22/2015 6:37 PM, Barry Schwarz wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 04:16:59 +0700, JJ wrote:


PS) Consider using OT for off topic posts, please. Know what I mean?

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 22nd 15, 12:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 396
Posted By Bob Willard
No news is snow news

The good news is that all of your snow will melt. The bad news is that
your snow cannot just melt into your frozen yard (the tundra).

If you are a pessimist, you should do something about all the...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 11th 14, 12:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 1,604
Posted By Bob Willard
XP Pro display stays on

On 12/10/2014 11:37 AM, Ron Hardin wrote:
As some of our older XP Pro (Dell) laptops age, they've started to think that
there's activity and keep the display on, when it's set to turn off in...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 14, 04:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 41
Views: 1,609
Posted By Bob Willard
Is it a platter drive ?

On 11/30/2014 9:13 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
David,

Solid State drives are silent as there are no moving parts and also
don't gedt warm.

So, why than do computer processors need those...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support October 29th 14, 12:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 6
Views: 2,316
Posted By Bob Willard
XP update malicious software?

On 10/29/2014 2:35 AM, Sasquatch Jones wrote:
"philo " wrote in message ...
On 10/27/2014 11:48 PM, Sasquatch Jones wrote:
"philo "...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 6th 14, 01:24 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 564
Posted By Bob Willard
Disk Check In Background

On 9/5/2014 7:20 PM, Bert wrote:
In Stef
wrote:

Bert wrote:

In Stef...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 25th 14, 10:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 564
Posted By Bob Willard
Laser printer recommendations

On 6/24/2014 9:29 PM, Andy wrote:
Looking for recommendations from users with laser printers.

I am fed up with inkjets.

thanks,
Andy


I have a HP LaserJet, a CP2025dn...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 22nd 14, 11:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 971
Posted By Bob Willard
Print as laid out on screen option not avaiable?

On 6/22/2014 12:50 AM, Bill in Co wrote:
Apparently this option is not available (or at least is greyed out)? I'm
using both IE8 and FF in WinXP, and it's evidently not an available option.

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 8th 14, 11:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 324
Posted By Bob Willard
I think this is Impossible

On 6/6/2014 4:33 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
I think this is Impossible. (Dual backups)

I want to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 4th 14, 01:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 953
Posted By Bob Willard
Partition Size Limit for Fat32

On 6/3/2014 10:56 PM, wrote:

It's weird that I could remove SVI on all the other drives, byut not
this one. I really dont want to use any of it. When I delete stuff, I
want...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 3rd 14, 12:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 38
Views: 1,030
Posted By Bob Willard
What is an Operating System?

On 4/2/2014 4:36 PM, wrote:
I used to think an Operating System, was the software that made the
hardware inside a computer operate in a language that we understand (in
other...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 1st 14, 08:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 700
Posted By Bob Willard
Start up weirdness - hanging up, losing a drive

On 2/28/2014 3:21 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:12:39 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:01:27 -0800, pyotr filipivich
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 14th 14, 11:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 319
Posted By Bob Willard
Download speed

On 2/13/2014 10:04 PM, Andy wrote:
I was hoping that a second computer with it's WiFi card could double my upload/download speed.

Didn't happen, one computer had 400 Mbs download speed while...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 2nd 14, 05:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 846
Posted By Bob Willard
Plague Of Pop-ups In WinXp-3, Firefox.

On 2/2/2014 10:32 AM, Barry Bruyea wrote:
In recent weeks I've been plagued with full page pop ups in programs I
access every day. The most common one is telling me my Browser is out
of date...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 13th 14, 12:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 55
Views: 1,945
Posted By Bob Willard
M$ drops support for security essentials in xp

On 1/12/2014 2:09 PM, Bill in Co wrote:
Bob Willard wrote:
On 1/11/2014 5:01 PM, edfair wrote:
On 01/09/2014 01:46 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
I also started out in the punched card...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 13th 14, 12:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 55
Views: 1,945
Posted By Bob Willard
M$ drops support for security essentials in xp

On 1/12/2014 11:17 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:31:32 -0500, Bob Willard
wrote:

Anybody can manually punch an extra hole into an IBM...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 12th 14, 04:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 55
Views: 1,945
Posted By Bob Willard
M$ drops support for security essentials in xp

On 1/11/2014 5:01 PM, edfair wrote:
On 01/09/2014 01:46 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
I also started out in the punched card days

Todd replied:
I remember those days too. I hated the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 31st 13, 02:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 53
Views: 2,188
Posted By Bob Willard
OT Internet Access

On 12/30/2013 9:04 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
OldGuy wrote:
Modems only last about a year. This year's modem is a Zoom ADSL X7N.


Uh, new modems may be announced every year or so, but the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 22nd 13, 01:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 28
Views: 1,216
Posted By Bob Willard
Ethernet cable from laptop to desktop

On 12/21/2013 3:15 PM, Hot-Text wrote:

I Had at one time A PC Win95 OS with A
3Com SW Cable Router with 24 Ethernet Link III 10mb
And
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 14th 13, 01:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 571
Posted By Bob Willard
WinXP & google Icon on Desktop

On 12/13/2013 2:57 PM, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
On Friday, December 13, 2013 12:10:39 PM UTC-6, Bob F wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:

AAH wrote:
I have google Icon on my desktop which...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 6th 13, 10:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 340
Posted By Bob Willard
Removing password?

On 12/6/2013 11:31 AM, KenK wrote:
I have a several-year-old notebook computer with XP Home. Years ago, for
some reason I forget, I password protected it (added administrative
account???). I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 14th 13, 11:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 415
Posted By Bob Willard
Defragmenting:

On 11/14/2013 12:40 PM, wrote:

I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, CcCleaner, Avast, and Windows firewall.

(1) TB HD
Intel...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 8th 13, 01:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 17
Views: 1,520
Posted By Bob Willard
OT How to display the Run box in win8

On 11/7/2013 6:11 PM, micky wrote:
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:36:44 -0500, micky
wrote:

I need to do something with Team viewer on my brother's computer.

To fix...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 4th 13, 05:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 404
Posted By Bob Willard
TClockEx moving to the right!

On 10/4/2013 10:44 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 07:35:38 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

I use TClockEx to give me different information in...
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