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Forum: General XP issues or comments November 21st 16, 10:45 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 737
Posted By gargoyle60
Recent Documents

On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:36:58 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:


You're welcome. After doing that once, do they now add to the Recent
list even if you double-click...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 20th 16, 02:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 737
Posted By gargoyle60
Recent Documents

On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:12:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , gargoyle60
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 19th 16, 11:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 737
Posted By gargoyle60
Recent Documents

I recently reinstalled XP SP3 but notice that now any image files that I have viewed using the
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer no longer show up in my list of My Recent Documents, whereas they
used...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 25th 16, 10:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,548
Posted By gargoyle60
Windows XP Font Rendering Issue

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:53:02 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Your eyes (brain) accomodate
movement with blur to allow for "seeing" continuous movement. That is
why stores will always have...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 25th 16, 09:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,548
Posted By gargoyle60
Windows XP Font Rendering Issue

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:42:04 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

gargoyle60 wrote:

Need some help with my desktop computer...

Previously I have bee using an AOC Razor Monitor e2343F...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 24th 16, 08:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 588
Posted By gargoyle60
WPA vs. Mac filtering

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:30:42 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 24 Jul 2016, Micky wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Sometimes...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 24th 16, 11:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,548
Posted By gargoyle60
Windows XP Font Rendering Issue

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 02:55:22 -0700, Mike S wrote:

On 7/24/2016 2:05 AM, gargoyle60 wrote:
Need some help with my desktop computer...

Previously I have bee using an AOC...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 24th 16, 10:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 11
Views: 1,548
Posted By gargoyle60
Windows XP Font Rendering Issue

Need some help with my desktop computer...

Previously I have bee using an AOC Razor Monitor e2343F (23") monitor attached via DVI-D (single
link) cable and have always had a clear monitor image with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 6th 16, 10:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,196
Posted By gargoyle60
XP install

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:04:02 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:30:01 +0100, gargoyle60
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:39:42 -0500,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 6th 16, 08:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,196
Posted By gargoyle60
XP install

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:02:57 -0400, Paul wrote:

gargoyle60 wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:39:42 -0500, wrote:

irst update will be something like 137...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 5th 16, 06:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,196
Posted By gargoyle60
XP install

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:39:42 -0500, wrote:

irst update will be something like 137 updates

From where, or how?
When I try to run Windows Update I get the usual message that XP is...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 10th 16, 10:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 1,253
Posted By gargoyle60
Chrome Tarnished

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:10:22 -0800, OldGuy wrote:

beside Firefox, what is recommended browser for Win XP

I use Pale Moon, although it also no longer supports updates for XP.
Also...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 1st 15, 01:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 853
Posted By gargoyle60
HTML5 has destroyed the Web.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:33:54 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 09:53:06 +0000, gargoyle60 wrote:

No, HTML5 has not destroyed the Web.
Poor web design and...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 29th 15, 09:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 853
Posted By gargoyle60
HTML5 has destroyed the Web.

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:52:34 -0600, wrote:

HTML5 has destroyed the Web.

Due to HTML5, the web has become unusable. And since the newsgroups are
almost dead, there's no point...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 13th 15, 09:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 504
Posted By gargoyle60
New anti-virus app?

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 8:03:01 AM UTC-5, gargoyle60 wrote:
On 11 Aug 2015 17:20:22 GMT, KenK...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 12th 15, 02:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 504
Posted By gargoyle60
New anti-virus app?

On 11 Aug 2015 17:20:22 GMT, KenK wrote:


I'm fed up with Kaspersky. I've had bad luck with Norton uears ago -
worse than a virus, so that's out too.

Kaspersky's Safe...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 8th 15, 09:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 34
Views: 1,240
Posted By gargoyle60
The Purpose of Today's Websites

On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:25:26 -0500, wrote:

pages that have crap moving continually, which distract my
reading of the text on the page

Me too. Remember the MARQUEE tag in...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 7th 15, 03:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 34
Views: 1,240
Posted By gargoyle60
The Purpose of Today's Websites

On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:53:26 -0400, "Mayayana" wrote:

commercial sites don't care about the
people on dialup

Agreed. But even on broadband, many pages are getting slower....
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 7th 15, 11:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 34
Views: 1,240
Posted By gargoyle60
The Purpose of Today's Websites

On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 22:35:27 -0400, "Mayayana" wrote:

It wasn't very long
ago that people tried to keep webpages to about 60 KB
or less and images were made as small as...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 12th 15, 01:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 535
Posted By gargoyle60
Take the plunge

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:16:50 -0500, wrote:

20 years old

Hmm, you mean just like you?
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 8th 15, 08:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 423
Posted By gargoyle60
Permanently uncheck Keep me signed in on Yahoo

On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:36:36 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:

Yahoo is inconsiderate.

Yahoo is mostly crap. I only use it for temporary throw-away email addresses and never for...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 29th 15, 09:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 535
Posted By gargoyle60
Take the plunge

On Thu, 28 May 2015 08:55:41 -0400, "Mayayana" wrote:

WINE is 20+
years old and never really did succeed at
running Windows software.

Disagree. It depends on the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 28th 15, 09:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 31
Views: 1,071
Posted By gargoyle60
Current state of SSD's

On Wed, 27 May 2015 18:08:53 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:

I will stick with the older IDE drives.

I have one that is 15 years old and still going strong.

17 years for...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 12th 15, 09:37 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 716
Posted By gargoyle60
(OT) Sending a phone text to an email address????

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:

wrote:

I have a basic "dumb" phone. (Prepaid cellphone). I only got it for
emergencies and an...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 8th 15, 09:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 563
Posted By gargoyle60
Virus Scanners (Free)

On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 09:29:44 +0000 (UTC), jim wrote:

OldGuy wrote:
Since MS virus scanner is going away, can folks here compare and contrast
the...
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