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Forum: General XP issues or comments January 5th 21, 12:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 3,512
Posted By Apd
Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 22:20:33, Apd wrote:
What's stopping you from renaming it?

The upgrade process it goes through when you run it with the -U
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 4th 21, 10:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 3,512
Posted By Apd
Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
I think he was talking about real DOS;

I certainly was, and you can't run youtube-dl on 16-bit DOS.

you're talking about command mode from within Windows.

Which...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 4th 21, 10:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 3,512
Posted By Apd
Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?

"Ant" wrote:
Apd wrote:
"Ant" wrote:
Woah, W2K. What else do you use in it?

Not much these days. Some software development, archiving. It dual
boots to MSDOS if I fancy playing with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 3rd 21, 11:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 3,512
Posted By Apd
Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?

"Ant" wrote:
Apd wrote:
(Posting this mesage from Win2k)

Woah, W2K. What else do you use in it?

Not much these days. Some software development, archiving. It dual
boots to MSDOS if I fancy...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 3rd 21, 01:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 45
Views: 3,512
Posted By Apd
Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?

"G.F." wrote:
Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out
the "great step" to Windows 10.
What about you?

XP is still fine for me and I have Win7 (which I don't like much)...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 15th 20, 01:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 38
Views: 2,818
Posted By Apd
How to add a "Shutdown" folder (the opposite of the "startup" folder) ?

"Jeff Barnett" wrote:
On 11/14/2020 1:15 PM, Apd wrote:
"Jeff Barnett" wrote:
Further, M$ in their wisdom made .net unavailable in safe mode so a
whole bunch of utilities that might have...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 14th 20, 08:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 38
Views: 2,818
Posted By Apd
How to add a "Shutdown" folder (the opposite of the "startup" folder) ?

"Jeff Barnett" wrote:
Assume that a malicious code somehow enters your system. It simply puts
itself on the "shutdown list" if there is such an entity. At shutdown it
puts itself on the startup...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 7th 20, 11:57 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 13
Views: 878
Posted By Apd
Voice Message in NewsGroups

[groups trimmed]
"Lynn McGuire" wrote:
On 8/4/2020 6:30 PM, ?? Good Guy ?? wrote:
https://*********io/Apps/NewsGroup.zip

Virus ! Virus ! Virus !

I tell your three times so you know...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 7th 20, 11:57 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 919
Posted By Apd
Voice Message in NewsGroups

[groups trimmed]
"Lynn McGuire" wrote:
On 8/4/2020 6:30 PM, ?? Good Guy ?? wrote:
https://*********io/Apps/NewsGroup.zip

Virus ! Virus ! Virus !

I tell your three times so you know...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 2nd 20, 11:12 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 1,395
Posted By Apd
Conundrum!

"David_B" wrote:
On 02/08/2020 09:28, Paul wrote:
David_B wrote:
A friend is having difficulty signing up to newsgroups on the
Dogagent.com server.

This a screenshot of the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 15th 20, 06:14 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Steve Carroll" wrote:
On 2020-07-15, Apd wrote:
"Steve Carroll" wrote:
Are you forging Apd, who uses an aioe account?

WTF? I have been using a "custom" ES account for some time...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 15th 20, 04:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Steve Carroll" wrote:
Are you forging Apd, who uses an aioe account?

WTF? I have been using a "custom" ES account for some time now.
Aioe is used as a backup.
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 15th 20, 03:56 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Joel" wrote:
[...] Vista, which was only based on XP to the extent that it
implemented the functions of the OS, not that it actually built
on the same code.

There were a lot of changes in...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 11th 20, 07:54 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Snit" wrote:
On 7/10/20 8:29 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
And Windows 2000 was actually NT5. It was where Windows started to
properly grow up.

Windows naming was weird back then.

For the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 10th 20, 02:16 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Wolffan" wrote:
On 10 Jul 2020, Apd wrote:
That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95 & 98
ran on...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 10th 20, 11:54 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 594
Views: 17,493
Posted By Apd
Microsoft end of support dates

"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 4th 20, 01:54 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 326
Views: 12,494
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 00:18:11, Apd wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with its being there, as...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 4th 20, 01:54 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 48
Views: 3,107
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 00:18:11, Apd wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with its being there, as...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 4th 20, 01:09 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 326
Views: 12,494
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"Paul" wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 00:18:11, Apd wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 4th 20, 01:09 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 48
Views: 3,107
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"Paul" wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 00:18:11, Apd wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 4th 20, 12:18 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 326
Views: 12,494
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with its being there, as long
as you know its limitations - and, for me, it _is_ useful.

It can be useful...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 4th 20, 12:18 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 48
Views: 3,107
Posted By Apd
What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with its being there, as long
as you know its limitations - and, for me, it _is_ useful.

It can be useful...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 14th 20, 11:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 88
Views: 1,513
Posted By Apd
Second opinion requested! Does anyone else get a warning?

"David_B" wrote:
On 14/06/2020 15:13, nospam wrote:
In article , David_B wrote:
Is there some way I can
examine what is ACTUALLY on the disk?

insert...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 14th 20, 03:01 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 88
Views: 1,513
Posted By Apd
Second opinion requested! Does anyone else get a warning?

"David_B" wrote:
On 14/06/2020 10:17, Apd wrote:
"David_B" wrote:
ClamXav told me that it had detected malware on my AOL disk. We all
agree that it was impossible for Ramnit to be on my...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 14th 20, 10:17 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Replies: 88
Views: 1,513
Posted By Apd
Second opinion requested! Does anyone else get a warning? (was - Oops! (Was - '3D'))

"David_B" wrote:
ClamXav told me that it had detected malware on my AOL disk. We all
agree that it was impossible for Ramnit to be on my AOL DVD. So where
WERE the files it detected?

On the...
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