Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 9th 13, 02:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
I install the DOCX converter and it works great in Office 97. Office 97 was
greater, Office 2000 is even better. Have used Office 2003 and 2007 since
and neither are an improvement (AFAICS) over...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 03:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
Thats true, our machines are generally not connected to the internet, except
occasionally on dedicated connections for remote support (via TeamViewer).
The machines are, however, usually connected...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 01:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
Thanks for the answer, but I have to smile. Saying something is "12 years
old" doesn't seem like a terribly sophisticated argument! Not everything,
even technology, gets linearly better with time....
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 01:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
Office 2000 here as well. Tried Office 2003 and 2007 and both were vastly
inferior. Only thing I could see that *was* improved was the notes feature
(where you can share a document between multiple...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 01:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
Its also a professional question. We develop a complex image processing
application that gets provided to clients on an embedded Windows XP machine.
There is lots of complex automated machinery...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 01:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
I'm also running Windows XP, never use an anti-virus and have turned off the
Automatic Updates service. Runs fast and sweet and never had a problem...
Alain
"philo " wrote in...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 5th 13, 01:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
I also don't run an anti-virus on my home XP machine, just a firewall. Never
had a problem. Windows XP rocks...really not looking forward to dealing with
Windows 7 or 8...
"Paul in Houston TX"...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 4th 13, 04:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 97
Views: 2,453
Continued support for Windows XP
Given the continued popularity of Windows XP (their best OS in my opinion)
is there any chance Microsoft will have a change of heart and continue
support for Windows XP SP3 beyond the 02 April 2014...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
July 4th 13, 04:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 0
Views: 357
Power Options applet in Control Panel
Hi,
I'm trying to load the 3rd tab of the Power Options applet (Hibernate)
programmatically (using Delphi or C#) but without success. According to a
few Google searches, I should be...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 30th 12, 12:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 413
Icons in System Tray do not appear
I have a Windows XP system that I have been configuring to run as optimised
as possible. This is for an industrial application and the PC has been
cloned and the clone will then be installed on...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
June 23rd 11, 03:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 300
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
January 14th 11, 11:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 34
Views: 478
Losing time
The computer is generally kept on at all times. The computer is also
generally not connected to the internet, allowing synching with an NTP time
server impossible.
When I saw this happening in...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
January 14th 11, 11:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 34
Views: 478
Losing time
The title of the OP says it all "losing time". On one machine it was truely
terrible: We set the correct time and watched it lose about 2-3s per 10s. In
other words, if we set the clock to...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
January 10th 11, 11:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 34
Views: 478
Losing time
Is there any good reason why some of the industrial machines we use run spot
on time (08:00 is correct every morning) and other lose as much as 2hrs in a
day? Machines are a combination of XP SP2...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
January 10th 11, 11:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,242
GetTickCount on dual core machines
I'm using the Win32 API call GetTickCount for various high speed uses in C++
and Delphi native code. We've noticed that on some systems, this is very
accurate (as you'd expect) but on other systems...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 6th 10, 12:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 2
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Control panel applets
I'm using Windows XP SP3. If I load the command prompt and navigate to
C:\Windows\system32, and then type this:
control.exe intl.cpl,,0
then the first tab of the Language and Regional Options...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 10th 10, 06:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
It was a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz. I'd like to compare its performance to a
P4 3.60 GHz, both running XP SP2 / 3. From what I've read the P4 could
easily outperform the Core 2 Duo if the main...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 10th 10, 06:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 230
Windows XP
Nice answer Pip. What is MS's take on all this? I've heard that some newer
websites and newsgroups are blocking Outlook Express and IE6 and stuff like
that, which just seems totally wrong to...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 16th 10, 03:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
Yes, thats another reasonable idea. I've actually removed the key altogether
(it could be wedged off with a screwdriver quite easily) and this is now
working well for me.
"Etaoin Shrdlu"...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 16th 10, 03:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
Yes, thats another reasonable idea. I've actually removed the key altogether
(it could be wedged off with a screwdriver quite easily) and this is now
working well for me.
"Etaoin Shrdlu"...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 12th 10, 02:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
We need to start a petition to the hardware driver writers to include this
as a feature! I cannot believe more than 1% of people need the functionality
that "Insert" provides (brace self for...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 12th 10, 02:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
We need to start a petition to the hardware driver writers to include this
as a feature! I cannot believe more than 1% of people need the functionality
that "Insert" provides (brace self for...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 12th 10, 11:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
Is there any way to stop this button from functioning?
I'm sure there are many people who do need the ability to type over what has
been written (if that needs to be done, just select the text you...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 12th 10, 11:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 0
Views: 131
Insert button on keyboard
Is there any way to stop this button from functioning?
I'm sure there are many people who do need the ability to type over what has
been written (if that needs to be done, just select the text you...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 15th 10, 11:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 182
Windows not shutting down
What about this:
Just before going to shut down, open up Task Manager (right-click taskbar,
choose "Task Manager"). Put list into alphabetical order. Kill tasks one by
one from the top (unless its...
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