Forum: Windows 7 Forum
March 4th 19, 05:14 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 319
Views: 7,618
Questions about the "end of Windows 7"
On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:47:37 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
I have
wondered if W8 could be tamed to be like W7.
Both Classic Shell and, even better, Start8 get it very close.
I use StartMenuX....
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
March 4th 19, 07:48 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 319
Views: 7,618
Questions about the "end of Windows 7"
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 10:20:01 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
"PeterC" wrote
| OK, I'll risk excommunication: as an interim step, how does W8 compare
with
| W7 and...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
March 4th 19, 07:42 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 319
Views: 7,618
Questions about the "end of Windows 7"
On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 02:54:15 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 07:32:00 +0000, PeterC
wrote:
OK, I'll risk excommunication: as an interim step,...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
March 3rd 19, 07:32 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 319
Views: 7,618
Questions about the "end of Windows 7"
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 14:47:10 -0800, Mike wrote:
Win10 is inevitable. Resistance is futile. You don't have to
like it, you WILL submit eventually.
In recognition of that, I installed 10 on...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
March 2nd 19, 10:15 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,072
The Firefox Add-On Extensions Problem
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 13:45:03 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:
Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor of
the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
February 8th 19, 03:34 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,415
Deleting "Hidden" AVG Anti-Virus
On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:59:13 -0500, Paul wrote:
If that doesn't work (and only if), download and run the AVG removal tool:
https://www.avg.com/en-ww/avg-remover
As a last resort,...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
February 8th 19, 08:16 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,415
Deleting "Hidden" AVG Anti-Virus
On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 20:24:13 +1300, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 18:00:45 +1100, Daniel60 wrote:
My HP 6730b laptop is running Win7 quite happily with AVG, so this is
not my...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 9th 18, 08:32 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,732
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 6th 18, 04:52 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,372
New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:11:03 -0500, Paul wrote:
PeterC wrote:
This article has no details of any changes - are the ISOs updates or just
another source?
...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 6th 18, 08:13 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,372
New ISOs for W7 and 8.1
This article has no details of any changes - are the ISOs updates or just
another source?
https://news.softpedia.com/news/new-windows-7-and-8-1-isos-now-available-for-download-524135.shtml
Links to...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
October 25th 18, 03:56 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 65
Views: 4,728
Good Search Engine
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:37:15 +0200, Weatherman wrote:
wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a search engine that will ONLY display
locations that have the words...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 27th 18, 08:50 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:05:19 +0100, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 26/09/2018 17:48, PeterC wrote:
host-**-**-**-**.as13285.net
A Talktalk IP I think.
Correct.
--
Peter.
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 27th 18, 08:50 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On 26 Sep 2018 19:12:48 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:07:25 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:
[...]
2. Now visit several of...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 26th 18, 05:48 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:07:25 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:29:29 +0100, PeterC wrote:
In all 3 browsers there are some videos on the BBC that tell me:
"Available to UK...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 26th 18, 08:27 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:53:35 -0400, Paul wrote:
OK, apologies for top-posting.
Very useful sites, thank you.
Pale Moon default couldn't share location so no Lat/Long., but using the IP
address gave...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 26th 18, 08:08 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:52:29 -0700, David E. Ross wrote:
On 9/25/2018 1:29 PM, PeterC wrote:
In all 3 browsers there are some videos on the BBC that tell me:
"Available to UK users only."
...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 26th 18, 08:07 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:46:04 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
PeterC wrote:
In all 3 browsers there are some videos on the BBC that tell me:
"Available to UK users only."
At the top it has...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
September 25th 18, 09:29 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 18
Views: 942
Location in W7
In all 3 browsers there are some videos on the BBC that tell me:
"Available to UK users only."
At the top it has my username!
I don't know if the problem is in W7, connection details or...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 13th 18, 04:43 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 71
Views: 1,654
Latest Firefox ESR
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:09:16 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:
It also means that SeaMonkey seems to fail at pretty-much the same points
for why I want to ditch FF 52 for something else. In short, not a...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 13th 18, 04:43 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 71
Views: 1,463
Latest Firefox ESR
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:09:16 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:
It also means that SeaMonkey seems to fail at pretty-much the same points
for why I want to ditch FF 52 for something else. In short, not a...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 5th 18, 02:49 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 671
Odd Opera displaying
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 09:43:39 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
"masonc" wrote
| Opera displays a local file page at 85% of screen width but
| the same page online displays at...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 9th 18, 09:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 498
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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum
June 3rd 18, 05:35 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Replies: 40
Views: 508
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 3rd 18, 05:35 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Replies: 23
Views: 764
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 3rd 18, 05:27 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,052
Fast Light Weight Browser
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 08:26:01 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
"PeterC" wrote
| Using PM 27.9.2. "network.predictor.enabled" is there and not bold, so I
| assume that it's...
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