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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 5th 19, 11:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 18
Views: 314
Posted By Robbie Hatley
How do I force windows 10 to stop blocking downloaded files?

Greetings, group. I'm having a bit of a blocked-file issue, as you
can guess from my "Subject". I ran this question through Google,
and I got 7 million hits, but 0 of the top 100 were relevant, and
I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 5th 12, 08:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 279
Posted By Robbie Hatley
tcpsvcs: qotd, chargen, etc: how to use?

Howdy, group. I'm curious: how exactly does one go about
using the services provided by the "tcpsvcs.exe" service?
Say that just for fun I want to have a "quote of the day"
service running on my...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 5th 12, 08:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 686
Posted By Robbie Hatley
RPC service won't start.

In response to my RPC query, "glee" wrote:

Download Farbar Service Scanner from Bleeping Computer
and save it to your desktop... do not run it from the
download dialog:
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 3rd 12, 08:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 686
Posted By Robbie Hatley
RPC service won't start.

I have a friend with a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP,
and he's having a problem: he can't get the "Services" msc
plugin to work, because the "Plug and Play" service isn't
running, because it's...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 25th 11, 01:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 191
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?

VanguardLH wrote:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827

Thanks for the link. Yep, that says what they're doing, but not
why they're doing such an idiotic, useless, damaging, infuriating
thing. ...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 25th 11, 01:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 191
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?

Regarding making Windows Exploder stop mangling hexadecimal numbers,
"Bill in Co" writes:

If you manually change the registry key as follows:

Under this key:
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 25th 11, 12:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 191
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?

I'd written:

I find Windows XP Explorer's sort order infuriating.
For example, given a list of folders containing
Firefox Extentions (hex id codes), it presents them
in this order:

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 25th 11, 12:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 188
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Solution: How to force CD drive letter to be Y.

I'd written:

... Now my CD always came up as drive D:.
I could change it to Y: in Computer Management,
but on next reboot it was always D: again. ...

and sleepily, at 1AM on the morning...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 24th 11, 05:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 191
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can Explorer sort order be adjusted?

I find Windows XP Explorer's sort order infuriating.
For example, given a list of folders containing
Firefox Extentions (hex id codes), it presents them
in this...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 24th 11, 05:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 188
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Solution: How to force CD drive letter to be Y.

Greetings, group. I have a solution for you. (Hey, it makes
a change from people coming here with problems, no?) In this
case, the solution is how to force balky drive letters that
keep reverting...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 17th 11, 05:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 222
Posted By Robbie Hatley
How can I make links in Google Earth open in Firefox insteadof IE?

On 2011-03-16 5:47 AM, Don Phillipson wrote:

"Robbie Hatley" wrote:

... links open in Internet Explorer ...

The cause seems probably within the coding of Google Earth's
own software,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 16th 11, 04:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 222
Posted By Robbie Hatley
How can I make links in Google Earth open in Firefox instead of IE?

Greetings, group. I have a question: How can I make links in
Google Earth open in Firefox instead of IE? The only setting
regarding browsers I can fine in Google Earth is the
"Open links in...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 7th 10, 08:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win2000.general
Replies: 4
Views: 309
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Modify target path of link in mass

"AndyHancock" wrote:

I used a unix utility (cygwin's tar) to copy a file
tree from a hard drive to a stick. One of the things
I learned was that file links/shortcuts...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 22nd 10, 04:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 1,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
XP and Large Hard Disks (Attempt #6)

Greetings again, group. This is my 6th post here.
My first 5 posts all asked the same question. And
though I received 7 answers, none of them were
relevant. But I'm patient, so I'll try...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 22nd 10, 04:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 0
Views: 1,314
Posted By Robbie Hatley
XP and Large Hard Disks (Attempt #6)

Greetings again, group. This is my 6th post here.
My first 5 posts all asked the same question. And
though I received 7 answers, none of them were
relevant. But I'm patient, so I'll try...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 22nd 10, 03:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 23
Views: 12,853
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can you partition a C drive without deleting what is on it?

"Patti Barden" wrote:

Thanks everyone - I am struggling.

If before I do anything I should make a backup/copy of my
37GB data in case anything goes wrong -
where do I put the backup/copy?...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 22nd 10, 03:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 23
Views: 12,853
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Can you partition a C drive without deleting what is on it?

"Patti Barden" wrote:

Thanks everyone - I am struggling.

If before I do anything I should make a backup/copy of my
37GB data in case anything goes wrong -
where do I put the backup/copy?...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 21st 10, 06:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

Some months ago, I asked the follow question (among others):

registry in order to use HD partitions over 137GB, as with Win2K?
Or is XP smart enough to automatically use the correct LBA type
...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP January 21st 10, 06:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

Some months ago, I asked the follow question (among others):

registry in order to use HD partitions over 137GB, as with Win2K?
Or is XP smart enough to automatically use the correct LBA type
...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 6
Views: 814
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Different day, same 2 questions.

I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several
replies, they were not relevant. Apparently no one here knew
the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll
repeat it as a...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 0
Views: 433
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Different day, same 2 questions.

I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several
replies, they were not relevant. Apparently no one here knew
the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll
repeat it as a...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

An anonymous coward wrote:

Bite the bullet and buy a new computer with Windows 7.
That way you'll have the latest hardware and software.

Firstly, I don't do "new computers"; I build my...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

An anonymous coward wrote:

Bite the bullet and buy a new computer with Windows 7.
That way you'll have the latest hardware and software.

Firstly, I don't do "new computers"; I build my...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

"DL" wrote:

ditto

???

I'm sorry, but that answer does not come even remotely close
to answering what I asked. So I'll repeat:

Greetings, group. This is my first post to this group.
Forum: New Users to Windows XP November 11th 09, 12:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 22
Views: 2,617
Posted By Robbie Hatley
Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.

"DL" wrote:

ditto

???

I'm sorry, but that answer does not come even remotely close
to answering what I asked. So I'll repeat:

Greetings, group. This is my first post to this group.
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