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Forum: General XP issues or comments May 14th 21, 02:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 4,098
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Win XP Pro cannot see any workgroup PCs.

On 5/13/2021 2:53 PM, Ohleeohlaititee wrote:
Under My Network Places
Entire Network
MS Windows Network
MyWorkgroup

Will not expand at all to show other PCs in that same...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 12th 21, 10:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 3,774
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Script to open text file.

On 4/12/2021 1:59 PM, Ivan Denisovich wrote:
I have always checked a command line on the CMD black screen prior to inserting it into a .bak file, and it has always worked.

Well, I ran into a...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 12th 21, 07:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 3,774
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Script to open text file.

On 4/12/2021 1:59 PM, Ivan Denisovich wrote:
I have always checked a command line on the CMD black screen prior to inserting it into a .bak file, and it has always worked.

Well, I ran into a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 25th 21, 01:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 420
Views: 318,015
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
O.T. Missing Folder/files

On 3/24/2021 7:47 PM, Robert in CA wrote:
I don't quite know what you mean by I must stop using
the partition?

You stop as much disk activity as possible because when ANYTHING is written to
the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 13th 21, 07:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 4,286
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP "Send To" folder not working Resolved

On 3/13/2021 10:57 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
John,

Both the registry keys you mentioned have the correct data as you
described.

Great. That pretty-much rules out you have another "SendTo"...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 13th 21, 04:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 4,286
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP "Send To" folder not working

On 3/13/2021 9:34 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"John Dulak" wrote

| The "Send To" item in Windows Explorer's right click context menu does NOT
show
| all the items in the Send To...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 13th 21, 04:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 4,286
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP "Send To" folder not working

On 3/13/2021 9:08 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
John,

It does show some other items that I have added but no longer shows
"Notepad" (though it did at one time) or any other newly added items!!

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 13th 21, 01:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 4,286
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP "Send To" folder not working

On 3/13/2021 4:48 AM, JJ wrote:

Make sure the file/folder in the SendTo folder has no Hidden file attribute,
because the SendTo menu won't show file/folder if it has it - even though
the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 12th 21, 10:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 4,286
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP "Send To" folder not working

The "Send To" item in Windows Explorer's right click context menu does NOT show
all the items in the Send To folder. It does show some other items that I have
added but no longer shows "Notepad"...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 11th 21, 03:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 1,485
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
I know, I know

On 2/10/2021 4:57 PM, Ant wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 12:48:24, OhMy wrote (my responses
usually follow points raised):
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 6th 21, 04:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 1,005
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
What's the best modern web browser to use in old Windows XP SP3these days?

On 2/6/2021 10:16 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
John,

Mypal browser (Firefox fork) maintains reasonable compatibility with most
of the modern fluff:

Do you have any info about if and how well it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 6th 21, 04:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 1,005
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
What's the best modern web browser to use in old Windows XP SP3these days?

On 2/5/2021 5:27 PM, Ant wrote:
IE8, Firefox ESR, and Google Chrome are too old these days on modern web sites. :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon.:)


Ant:

This works for...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 21st 20, 05:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 1,174
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Image of Bottom of Motherboard, HP Pavilion XT155 laptop

On 8/20/2020 7:41 PM, Paul wrote:

I'm expecting, if it is an LR20xx or ML20xx rechargeable cell,
that's not going to be available at the watch repair store
(a supplier of batteries). I don't...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 11th 20, 12:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,727
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP Browser

On 7/10/2020 9:03 AM, Mayayana wrote:

I got curious about this, as I'd never heard of it.
MyPal, despite being a very dumb name, seems to be
based on the very latest Pale Moon. And unlike...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 8th 20, 11:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,727
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
XP Browser

On 7/8/2020 7:29 AM, Norm Cook wrote:
Using Chrome For XP Version 49.0.2623.75
Works well despite warnings that it will soon no longer be
supported.

Has any figured out how to avoid the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 14th 19, 11:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,sci.electronics.repair
Replies: 44
Views: 2,353
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Mouse Refurbish

On 10/13/2019 6:25 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
Ken Blake wrote:
[]
Each to his own. Mice are...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 26th 19, 12:30 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 21
Views: 314
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can writean email ????

On 5/25/2019 5:32 PM, Yikes wrote:

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 26th 19, 12:30 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 22
Views: 1,043
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can writean email ????

On 5/25/2019 5:32 PM, Yikes wrote:

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 26th 19, 12:24 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 30
Views: 1,360
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Browser Blank

On 5/25/2019 4:58 PM, FreeMan wrote:
What is the best URL to use when opening a browser.
Something that will try to get to the internet but will not be political, sales
or anything but a benign...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 22nd 19, 01:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 1
Views: 5,216
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Standby and Backup Oddity

After doing a full system backup with HDClone from within Windows XP sp3 I
noticed something odd.

I keep this desktop on a short leash for power going into standby after 20
minutes and rarely...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 30th 19, 07:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 671
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Product caution

On 3/30/2019 1:46 PM, AK wrote:
I bought a bicycle tail light.

One of the cautions was rather funny.

The product is only slightly waterproof, please do not take it for diving.

:-)

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 29th 19, 12:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 718
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Telephone company switch

On 3/29/2019 12:17 AM, Paul wrote:


The only problem with the cell tower idea, is I don't
think anyone has a plan, to drive around to all the
cell towers and fill up the tanks, if there is...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 18th 18, 08:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 33
Views: 1,036
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Images that display in IE, but not in Picture-and-fax viewer(nor FireFox)

On 12/18/2018 12:01 PM, R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all,

I've got some (old) JPG and GIF images here that display in IE, but not in
picture-and-fax viewer (nor FireFox. The FreeImage DLL refuses...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 9th 18, 05:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 19
Views: 844
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Where to get a legal copy of Windows 7

On 9/8/2018 5:14 PM, wrote:
I keep hearing people saying to upgrade to Windows7 rather than keep
using XP. Supposedly W7 was the last decent version of Windows.

I thought...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 9th 18, 05:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 699
Posted By John Dulak[_2_]
Where to get a legal copy of Windows 7

On 9/8/2018 5:14 PM, wrote:
I keep hearing people saying to upgrade to Windows7 rather than keep
using XP. Supposedly W7 was the last decent version of Windows.

I thought...
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