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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 12th 20, 07:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 40
Views: 188
Posted By croy[_2_]
How do you really empty the recycle bin.?

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:30:08 -0500, micky wrote:

I like it too, but it turns out to have a problem with win10Pro.

Another app in the same genre is WinDirStat. I've...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 27th 19, 07:58 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 38
Views: 2,049
Posted By croy[_2_]
AbbyyFineReader

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:43:30 +0100, Fokke Nauta wrote:

I'm running Abby FineReader 6 Pro, which I got free, on Win 10 Pro x64.
No problem, it runs fine.

Do you recall how you...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 11th 19, 09:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 38
Views: 2,049
Posted By croy[_2_]
AbbyyFineReader

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:09:41 +0000, Peter Johnson wrote:

Its usually included with Epson scanners so if you have one of those
look on the install disk to see if there's...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 10th 19, 12:42 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 25
Views: 201
Posted By croy[_2_]
Is this Costco laptop at $350 item number 1272966 with Windows S a good deal?

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:19:07 -0400, PT French wrote:

For the next week Costco has a 4GB 128GB SSD Hewlett Packard
HP DF0023CL 14" laptop on sale for about $350 out the door...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 24th 19, 03:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 4
Views: 155
Posted By croy[_2_]
Possibly useful Win-10 tip, undesired program sounds

On Fri, 24 May 2019 09:06:01 -0400, slate_leeper wrote:

How to turn that off -
WinKey
type: mixer
A list of programs that use sounds is shown. When the annoying...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 22nd 19, 11:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 8
Views: 123
Posted By croy[_2_]
CyberLink Software

On Wed, 22 May 2019 16:12:34 GMT, Bucky Breeder wrote:


Just saying.

What does that mean?

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croy
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 17th 19, 01:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 107
Posted By croy[_2_]
Update 1809

Is 1809 the number of gigabytes for the download? It looks like just the dl will cover about
24 hours. It's at 24% now, and it's been running for 6 or so hours.

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croy
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 19th 19, 10:31 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 14,876
Posted By croy[_2_]
Two connected devices

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:59:55 -0400, nospam wrote:

In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:
unless you are alone on a...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 17th 19, 09:33 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 2
Views: 1,270
Posted By croy[_2_]
XP Mode

Machine: Refurbished HP 8200 Elite Small Form Factor

OS: Windows 7 Pro SP1, fully patched

Question: Does this machine have XP Mode? How would I know? In the Control Panel, I don't
see any such...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 16th 19, 07:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 72
Views: 1,107
Posted By croy[_2_]
MS Word 2010

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:58:53 -0600, philo wrote:

On 1/14/19 11:01 AM, Davidm wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:11:29 -0600, philo wrote:

It's a 300 page...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 15th 19, 01:21 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 34
Views: 2,318
Posted By croy[_2_]
4th time, not the charm

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:11:30 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:


It could be globally unique and still human-readable. It doesn't need to
be a long hex string enclosed...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 7th 19, 06:47 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 25
Views: 2,235
Posted By croy[_2_]
Transferring files to Tablet via USB Cable Looses Original Time & Dates of Files

On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 07:34:44 -0500, wrote:

Hi,
I have a Samsung Android OS tablet with a SD card that I am unable to
remove ("stuck"). The alternative to putting...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 8th 18, 05:36 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 2,318
Posted By croy[_2_]
Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????

On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:

On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Different strokes for different...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 27th 18, 02:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 87
Views: 1,560
Posted By croy[_2_]
What was your experience when you last tried to get Google to archive this ng?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:01:25 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

But, to answer your question from my personal experience ...
Take a look at these two screen shots I just...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 27th 18, 02:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 87
Views: 1,560
Posted By croy[_2_]
What was your experience when you last tried to get Google to archive this ng?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:59:36 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:

I can confirm that Google emailed me to say my report has been verified,
and that Google emailed me again to say maps has...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 27th 18, 04:17 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 87
Views: 1,560
Posted By croy[_2_]
What was your experience when you last tried to get Google to archive this ng?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 07:21:18 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:

Correction: I have just gone back and checked the correspondence.

* Google took 23 months to verify it.
* Google...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 15th 18, 09:53 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 42
Views: 1,675
Posted By croy[_2_]
Download Speed Miserable, then A-OK following PC reboot?

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:21:27 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:


But killed the SageTV service, watched BitMeter for five minutes and the UL
speed quiesced to a steady 1-1.1.... then I...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 5th 18, 05:24 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 42
Views: 1,675
Posted By croy[_2_]
Download Speed Miserable, then A-OK following PC reboot?

On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:47:01 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

This has been going on for several weeks: download speed on my mail client
and everything else I try is terrible - as in...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 8th 18, 11:58 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 0
Views: 269
Posted By croy[_2_]
Gibsons DNSbench

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:45:06 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:


DNS is just a telephone directory. But still, we don't know how DNSbench
does it lookup and time...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 15th 18, 05:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 0
Views: 340
Posted By croy[_2_]
Keyboard Goes Dead

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:19:12 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

Sorry to hijack this thread, but did you go to Izaak Walton Intermediate School?

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croy
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 19th 18, 06:07 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 2
Views: 948
Posted By croy[_2_]
Recent Updates (?)

Using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, when I check using Windows Update, there is nothing besides
Defender updates--is that what others are experiencing?

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croy
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 29th 18, 02:03 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 471
Posted By croy[_2_]
Start Menu Not Showing New Items

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:18:03 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:


I take it that your Start menu had no scrollbar to let you see entries
outside of the current pane size. I've never had more...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 28th 18, 07:31 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 471
Posted By croy[_2_]
Start Menu Not Showing New Items

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:23:05 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

croy wrote:

Recently, when I right-click on an executable, and then click on "Pin
to Start Menu", the item doesn't show...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 24th 18, 08:31 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 471
Posted By croy[_2_]
Start Menu Not Showing New Items

Recently, when I right-click on an executable, and then click on "Pin to Start Menu", the item
doesn't show up on the start menu. Why not?

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croy
Forum: Windows 7 Forum November 4th 17, 03:29 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 10
Views: 403
Posted By croy[_2_]
C:\Drivers

It seems that there is always a C:\Drivers directory, and it usually contains files relating to
hardware not on the system. Is this directory necessary?

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