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Forum: General XP issues or comments March 28th 19, 07:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 13
Views: 728
Posted By James Davis
Error Beeps - Need Identification of them

On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 3:20:30 PM UTC-7, Average Person wrote:
... I recall back in the DOS days, there was a
command that could be typed to determine memory, but I am not sure if
that...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 24th 19, 08:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 984
Posted By James Davis
Switch to classic mode after installing /without/ using the GUI

On Friday, March 22, 2019 at 12:02:31 PM UTC-7, R.Wieser wrote:
James ,

Why don't you ask woody?

Do you think Google will have indexed Woody's articles ? My searches on
Google did...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 22nd 19, 06:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 984
Posted By James Davis
Switch to classic mode after installing /without/ using the GUI

Why don't you ask woody?

https://www.askwoody.com/
https://www.computerworld.com/blog/woody-on-windows/
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 19th 19, 07:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 984
Posted By James Davis
Switch to classic mode after installing /without/ using the GUI

What you are trying to do is very dangerous!

But, if you have already done it all on one XP, then you should be able to export all your registry changes (into a *.reg file); edit it to remove (with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 19th 19, 06:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 633
Posted By James Davis
Another XP Search question

Sounds like Shady-Activity ;-D

Check your Indexing Options (in Control Panel).

Remove everything it wants to search; then stop/disable it (stops forever).

Then use a better finder like Search...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 11th 19, 08:45 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 403
Posted By James Davis
DST doesn't update

On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 1:52:24 PM UTC-7, Bill in Co wrote:
Bill in Co wrote:
I've got a Windows XP laptop here that doesn't update the DST. Yes, the
box is checked for that and it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 11th 19, 08:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,071
Posted By James Davis
OT - Windows 7 newsgroup issues

Sorry guys,

I just didn't see it ("alt.windows7.general") in the parts of this that I read.

Thanks for pointing it out for me.

James Davis

P.S. I use IE & GG most to post, but I also pre-read...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 10th 19, 03:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 363
Posted By James Davis
Thumb drive scanner?

On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 7:33:58 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Is there a tool out there that will scan a thumb drive and tell you if
the formatting/partitioning is buggered in a stuxnet...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 10th 19, 03:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,071
Posted By James Davis
OT - Windows 7 newsgroup issues

On Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 11:01:48 PM UTC-8, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:39:41 -0800 (PST), James Davis wrote:

What is the UNC address for the Windows 7 newsgroup?

I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 8th 19, 02:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 1,071
Posted By James Davis
OT - Windows 7 newsgroup issues

What is the UNC address for the Windows 7 newsgroup?

I have been looking for a good one for a long time, but haven't found one.
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 18th 19, 03:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 555
Posted By James Davis
Scanner uses only one cable

On Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 7:11:27 PM UTC-8, Andy wrote:
On Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 5:59:06 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
I want to replace my current scanner which uses a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 26th 19, 02:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 714
Posted By James Davis
Thunderbird Locked me out

This sounds like it might be related to this recent problem:

https://www.askwoody.com/2019/office-365-experiences-widespread-outages-thursday-january-24-2019/
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 18th 18, 06:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 33
Views: 1,105
Posted By James Davis
Images that display in IE, but not in Picture-and-fax viewer (nor FireFox)

On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 9:01:47 AM UTC-8, 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....
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