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Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 23rd 15, 04:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 451
Posted By OldGuy
OT SlingBox

I'll be more specific.

How does a SlingBox get stuff to you remotely?
Does it use some server some place that tracks my home IP address
changes or what? How does this work?

My WiFi cams use the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 22nd 15, 06:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 28
Views: 859
Posted By OldGuy
Avira Free

Link to Avira Free Anti-Virus full 200MB download install please.

I have several PCs to work on and do not need to suffer the download
time more than once of installer and then 200MB over and...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 22nd 15, 05:57 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.os.linux
Replies: 17
Views: 857
Posted By OldGuy
Trick to validate a new Windows 10 DVD once K3b burned it on Linux

If you ran ISOBUSTER (the free part) it would tell you if it had a
problem busting it.
You need disk space for the results but then you just erase that.

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Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 9th 15, 05:25 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 699
Posted By OldGuy
Watch TV Remotely

Home network LAN
Hauppauge HVR2255 in a Win 7 PC (1), hardwired to LAN.
PC(1) can run either Windows Media Center or Hauppauge Win TV.

A different Win 7 PC (2) in another room, LAN via WiFi.
All on...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 26th 15, 10:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 791
Posted By OldGuy
Media Center Guide

I booted with no success.
Then ...
I waited until today and still no Guide, no Guide loaded when it says
it did and still missing my program recording schedule.

So out of frustration, I went...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 26th 15, 03:50 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 5
Views: 791
Posted By OldGuy
Media Center Guide

Media Center has been working fine and today I decided to add a new
program to record.

The guide is empty.
The list of programs that I usually record is now blank.

It says it needs to download a...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum July 9th 15, 03:13 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 414
Posted By OldGuy
OT GMail Client Login

Set up a GMail account.
Logged out then logged in through the browser; it worked.

Went to eMail client on PC and tried to add account as IMAP.
Message is to go to browser to log in.

Using Opera as...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 25th 15, 06:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 225
Posted By OldGuy
Who Is Doing It?

Running
Sysinternals
TCPView
Process Explorer

A net data byte up/down monitor app shows data being downloaded.

I look at the Sysinternals apps and cannot figure out what is doing...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 2nd 15, 07:37 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 394
Posted By OldGuy
Aggravating USB Flash

Aggravating USB Flash!
Win 7 Pro PC with all MS updates.
Plug in USB3 SanDisk 64G flash into USB3 slot and the mouse goes crazy.
Unplug the flash drive and all is back to normal.
Same USB3 flash...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 2nd 15, 06:15 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 3
Views: 509
Posted By OldGuy
Bootable Flash Drive

I want to create a bootable USB3 flash drive that I can boot from a Win
XP and Win 7 PC. Is there a size vs format type restriction?
The XP PC is USB2 only.
i.e. if I have a 128G flash or a 64G...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 29th 15, 07:26 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 447
Posted By OldGuy
USB 3 Flash Write Protects Itself

All ports on Win XP are USB2 and I did try several.
I also have Sony USB3 Flash drive that always works fine on that PC and
in all the ports before and after the Sandisk write protects.
The problems...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 21st 15, 04:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 1
Views: 327
Posted By OldGuy
Personal Cloud Drive

I called Seagate tech support and they also currently have no way to
access their personal cloud drive remotely as a drive letter (mapped
drive) on the remote PC.
PCs on my LAN can access the NAS...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 21st 15, 04:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 602
Posted By OldGuy
Personal Cloud Drive

I called Seagate tech support and they also currently have no way to
access their personal cloud drive remotely as a drive letter (mapped
drive) on the remote PC.
PCs on my LAN can access the NAS...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 21st 15, 03:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 602
Posted By OldGuy
Personal Cloud Drive

aka Network Attached Storage.

a NAS is local on a LAN.
I want access from anywhere with the afore-stated requirements.

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Forum: General XP issues or comments May 20th 15, 02:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 602
Posted By OldGuy
Personal Cloud Drive

I need a personal cloud drive that will appear as a mapped drive on any
PC.

I purchased a Western Digital (WD) My Cloud thinking that it would do
the job (according to the sales person) but it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 19th 15, 03:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 17
Views: 162,905
Posted By OldGuy
USB Bootable recovery

OK so I will use Macrium Reflect Free to create the USB bootable.

How big a dedicated USB flash do I need?

Will this one USB flash work for all PCs, WinXP32 and WinOther64 bit
systems?
So it...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 18th 15, 04:21 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 16
Views: 920
Posted By OldGuy
Macrium Reflect Free Error

Have you seen this?
And is there a fix?

Macrium Reflect Free v5.3
Windows 7 Pro 64bit

Image (not clone) C: Primary with 100G used of 500G.
Back up to I: an internal 2TB drive with 578G...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 18th 15, 04:05 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 22
Views: 1,255
Posted By OldGuy
Spell Checker for Window 7

TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus

free and easy and excellent!


http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html

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Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 10th 15, 05:02 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 0
Views: 386
Posted By OldGuy
Chrome Dome Oversteps

Chrome browser blocks certain websites. Fine, but if I know that the
website is OK, then how do I download a file from that website without
having to switch to a different browser. e.g. Pale...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum May 8th 15, 06:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 26
Views: 1,214
Posted By OldGuy
WD My Cloud

I guess, based on the responses, I was not clear enough.
WD Drive is a 4T drive plugged into my home LAN.
It has one USB port also.
model WDBCTL0040HWT

The WD Cloud Drive in on my home LAN.
I can...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 8th 15, 09:52 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 284,409
Posted By OldGuy
any good mini atx mothers boards out there with XP support?

The best!
I dual boot Win XP and Win 7

MSI Mil Grade A75MA-G55

AMD CPU

In a Sentey Slim Series case.

Only warning is that it is a slim case and only takes low profile
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 9th 15, 07:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 649
Posted By OldGuy
Where do files go?

Paul explained on 2/9/2015 :
OldGuy wrote:
Use Procmon, with no filter set up (collects and
displays all events), then look for File Write operations.
You should see some path names in...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 9th 15, 07:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 649
Posted By OldGuy
Where do files go?

I am new to Kies and not familiar with its details. Still discovering
its innards.

Anyway, I was looking for a general purpose app that I can use all the
time to monitor file create/ update etc...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 9th 15, 07:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 649
Posted By OldGuy
Where do files go?

I am running the Samsung Kies phone backup and it is copying file to
the C: drive.
I can see the C: used space increase.
But I cannot find where the files are going.
Is there some app that can...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 30th 15, 06:15 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 32
Views: 1,090
Posted By OldGuy
TSXXWNSEUL.EXE - What is it?

Sorry have not been following this thread very well.

Try this:
Download from Microsoft SysInternals : Process Explorer
Run it.
Then Right-Click the Header anywhere (starts with Process column) and...
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