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Forum: General XP issues or comments July 18th 20, 01:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
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Posted By [email protected]
regedit script not binary

ALso, do you have to reboot to take effect?


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Forum: General XP issues or comments July 18th 20, 01:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 803
Posted By [email protected]
regedit script not binary

Maybe it is because I removed the top line, maybe it is because there are
some binaty codes that appear at the end of each line like boxes in nitepad
and somehow emacs removed them???

Else, it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 7th 20, 04:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Thanks. I have Tweak UI somewhere, and an older version of W A



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Forum: General XP issues or comments July 4th 20, 06:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Ok, I renamed my pcitures to phot library. And a month later it shows up as
?My Pictures" again. So this time I emptied it out, set up a completely new
dir, and put the files in there.

Is there a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 15th 20, 11:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 988
Posted By [email protected]
CMD tab to fill out file name

FOund some .reg files online to run in batch

Thanks


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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 13th 20, 06:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Yeah, I was waiting for some diagnosis before just foregoing the Windows
directory assignments and making my own. Thanks! (ie, I'm make the file in
the ext drive "pics" and empty out the MyDocs...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 13th 20, 04:07 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 988
Posted By [email protected]
CMD tab to fill out file name

I know I'm dreaming, but there wouldn't be a simple proggie to do this?

I am always on edge when playing with registry because it is so easy to mess
more things up than you fix.

I know that when I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 13th 20, 04:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Any clue how it got unsynced?

wrote:
*+- Figured out it is "Properties"
*+-
*+- and why did I get (and prevent) duplication?



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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 13th 20, 12:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Thanks


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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 13th 20, 12:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 988
Posted By [email protected]
CMD tab to fill out file name

Many thanks


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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 12th 20, 03:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 988
Posted By [email protected]
CMD tab to fill out file name

Some command line versions will see TAB and expand out the file name, others
not, why? What do I need to turn it on?


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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 12th 20, 12:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

Figured out it is "Properties"

But how do I sync? (cut & paste)?

and why did I get (and prevent) duplication?

A few days ago, the USB plug for the Ext Drive was partially disconnected
with the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 12th 20, 11:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 1,182
Posted By [email protected]
MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync

I had moved my Docs to an external USB drive (years ago),
now I am finding the dir dupl in both drives and not in sync.

How can I sync and move to external?

I totally forgot the command to move a...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support July 23rd 14, 07:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 1,672
Posted By [email protected]
Move MyDoc vs SharedDoc

I now see it makes it look to explorer like the files are still in thei
roriginal location! THat can be dangerous!



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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support July 20th 14, 10:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 1,672
Posted By [email protected]
Move MyDoc vs SharedDoc

*+-http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/xp-downloads

*+-The setting is under (in TweakUI):

*+-My Computer - Special Folders - Folder = Shared Documents

Already have it, but didn't...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support July 19th 14, 07:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 1,672
Posted By [email protected]
Move MyDoc vs SharedDoc

This works for MyDOc but what about Shared?

1. Click Start, and then point to My Documents.
2. Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Target tab.
4. In the...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 10th 14, 12:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 1
Views: 1,417
Posted By [email protected]
Which unzip best for 6GB

WHich unzipper is best for large files?


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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 10th 14, 12:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

*+-One drawback though : If, for whatever reason whatsoever, the CSV contains a
*+-ctrl-z somewhere in the middle you will throw the remainder of the file

I'm up to my waist in alligators..
but I...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 27th 14, 01:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

Someone in the NT batch newsgroup suggestes:

copy x.csv+nul /a

for which I am most gratefule

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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 25th 14, 04:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

No, my line was bad and I was unable to finish.
(It was wierd. It wasn't just noise but I was typing one thing and
getting something else. Hadn't seen THAT in decades since I was
dialing up...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 25th 14, 03:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

Sure. (forgive noisy line)

2GB is mdb (out) limit not csv (in) limit

me hopes
but the bad file error comes
up too fast

ok.. gotta log off-- noise is driving me bats
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 24th 14, 08:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

*+-
*+- It's been 2 decades since i did something like this and I suspect
*+- whatever worked then won't work with 5.5 GB


*+-I seriously doubt you were working with 5.5GB files 20 years...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 23rd 14, 09:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 16
Views: 4,348
Posted By [email protected]
"Bad file or number"

I suspect somehow this file was not properly terminated (eg ctl-z).
it is 5.5 GB and I'm trying to load it into Access. It responds too quickly
to have tried to read the file and found out it was too...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 26th 12, 09:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 636
Posted By [email protected]
fname too long

I copied a file to a USB FOB and when I copy it back (XP, same machine)
it says file name too long?



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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support January 5th 12, 09:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 1
Views: 597
Posted By [email protected]
How to speedup up a legacy Toshiba 4010 Win98 laptop

*+-http://www.slitaz.org/en/


*+-as with any OS, the more RAM the better


*+-how much ram does your machine have?

Dunno, need to check
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