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Forum: General XP issues or comments July 10th 14, 11:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 13
Views: 857
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Remove File Association

[*.clp] files, that have been saved with the application "ClipBook Viewer
[Clipboard]" (clipbrd.exe), can *only* be opened with the;

File Open...

...menu function, from *within* that...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 30th 14, 03:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 937
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Convertio: FAT32 to NTFS

P.S. If, in fact, he, or anyone else, does want to know, there are many
third-party partitioning tools, such as the very capable Partition Magic,
or EAESUS, can convert a drive (partition) from...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 30th 14, 03:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 937
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Convertio: FAT32 to NTFS

I do believe that the OP's question was not; "How do I convert Fat32 to
NTFS...." but, rather; "Is it a wise thing, if I did so convert the
drive..." - ...and so, presumably, he knows *how* to do...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 30th 14, 02:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 937
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Convertio: FAT32 to NTFS

I'm sure the OP did actually mean - convert his 'hard-drive' to NTFS - it's
exactly I'd say it as well...!!

Also, I would just like to add to my original reply - I would never
make *any*...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 29th 14, 07:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 937
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Convertio: FAT32 to NTFS

Converting your system drive from Fat32 to NTFS will only be good for your
PC's performance - it will not affect the reading /writing to any other
media (CDs, floppies, etc.), whatsoever.

Do be...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP January 21st 14, 08:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 14
Views: 7,803
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
ntp server

NO IDEA WHO HAD RE-POSTED THIS [OLD] POST BUT;
(...for all those who find this in any current search )

You can find [a] list[s] of NTP [News] Servers...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 29th 13, 04:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 436
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Sector by sector copy of one pendrive to another ?

You can do that in Windows, using the [free to use] utility: WinImage.exe

Choose the source/target drive to use, from the "Disk" menu, then use the
read (and Save As)/write commands to create a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 17th 13, 12:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 557
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Automatic Update Download OFF but still Downloads

Yes, I agree [philo] - Sometimes, just turning off "Automatic Updates" in
the Window's Control Panel extension of the same name, is not enough...

If, for *any* reason, you need updates turned off...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 18th 13, 11:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 494
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
No sound

You make some valid points - and my [first re-post] contribution was based
on the assumption that suggestions such as yours, and other similar ones,
would also be posted...

However, though my...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 18th 13, 12:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 494
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
No sound

If you can get an application, such as Sound Recorder, or Media Player, to
"play" any recordings (i.e. the application looks like it's playing with
the progress (seek) bar moving and time display...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 31st 13, 09:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 776
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Spelll Cheker

Google Chrome has a reasonably good built-in spell-checker, for any text
that can be entered within web-page text fields - however, it doesn't
support dictionary definitions. But, the way Chrome...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 26th 13, 03:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 389
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Power Save does not work

Sometimes, the timeout power-save mode for cutting power to the monitor is
overridden by the settings in your BIOS (system settings that can be
accessed at start of your PC's boot-up...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 14th 13, 10:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 596
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Guest account and power profile question

Rather than changing the Guest account's privileges (something that was
never designed to be done with the special 'Guest' account), instead, try
this;

Power profiles are what's known as"Global" -...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 27th 13, 10:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 537
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Show I.E. hidden files

So glad you got the point, and was able to make use of it...

Glad to be of [some] help!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 27th 13, 08:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 537
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Show I.E. hidden files

You need to look where your "Temporary Internet Files" folder is set to :
open the "Internet Properties" control panel extension; and under the
"General" (tab), then in the middle section...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP April 23rd 13, 10:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 7
Views: 42,500
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Control Panel

Unfortunately - not!

You can copy the file: gpedit.msc - that is not the problem - but when you
try to start it on a XP Home PC, it will say that you nee to import the
correct 'snap-in' for the...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP April 17th 13, 10:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 42,500
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Control Panel

Use the Group Policy Editor (under XP Start Menu's "Administrative Tools" )
to limit user-level access to many Windows components, including access to
the Control Panel itself...

If you can't find...
Forum: The Basics April 16th 13, 12:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 2
Views: 2,650
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Microsoft Security Essentials

I suggest that you [temporarily] turn off MSSE (double-click on it's
taskbar icon to open MSSE's interface, goto 'Settings' tab, set the
Real-time protection to "off"), then download and run the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 13th 13, 12:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 680
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
CHKDSK: no Winlogon result

I didn't know the reasons for it, but knew the behaviour - exactly right -
just what I was trying to say!...

There's a difference between a little accumulated data corruption (which, I
was also...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 12th 13, 03:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 680
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
CHKDSK: no Winlogon result

It's my opinion that computers, like cars, can be "driven" a certain way by
it's owner so as to make it more vulnerable to certain types of fault - in
my own personal experience (with WinXP) I have...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 12th 13, 12:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 680
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
CHKDSK: no Winlogon result

Also like to add; there is no real benefit in using the exhaustive [/r]
switch (rather than, simply, using the [/f] switch, instead), unless you
have received error messages stating, specifically,...
Forum: The Basics March 10th 13, 03:20 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 5
Views: 2,335
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
flickering icons

That's fine, my pleasure to help!...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




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Forum: General XP issues or comments February 8th 13, 01:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 610
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Transman.dll error loading

Go to the Symantec / Norton websiteč, and download the appropriate *removal
tool* that they provide as a solution for this very issue.

The problem occurs because the uninstall software included...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 8th 13, 11:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 46
Views: 1,376
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Some Anti-Virus/Malware Questions

Regarding your question of incompatibility issues with McCafee - All "true"
Anti-Virus software (that will satisfy Windows XP Security Center that you
actually have one installed) are "mutually...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 8th 13, 10:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 46
Views: 1,376
Posted By Tim Meddick[_3_]
Some Anti-Virus/Malware Questions

I've been using Microsoft's [free] Security Essentials for about three
years now and have had no problems with it. I was using AVG prior to this,
and made a change as their [resident] program had...
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