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Forum: General XP issues or comments May 3rd 18, 08:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 314
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Web sites that won't return to Google

On 3 May 2018 17:16:50 GMT, KenK wrote:

Is there anything you can do about web sites that appear nicely when you
select them the the Google list of sites but will not return to Google when
you...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 10th 18, 07:56 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 705
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Windows 7 and printer drivers

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:33:11 +1000, Maurice Helwig wrote:

The problem is that every time I reboot the computer the OS installs its
own drivers which then have to be removed before installing the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 1st 18, 08:26 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 917
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Video Viewer may have Trojan

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 02:39:17 -0400, G Ross wrote:

Rodney Pont wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:14:38 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:

I've used VLC for years. But as I mentioned
earlier, what it...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 31st 18, 07:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 917
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Video Viewer may have Trojan

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:40:04 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:

If you select all of the clips when you open a file in VLC they become
a playlist and you can click the next item in the playlist button...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 31st 18, 05:39 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 917
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Video Viewer may have Trojan

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:14:38 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:

I've used VLC for years. But as I mentioned
earlier, what it won't do is go into a folder in
Windows Explorer and play the clips one...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 29th 18, 09:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 116
Views: 2,896
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Can Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint & with fonts?

On 29 Mar 2018 18:19:06 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Ragnusen Ultred wrote:
[...]
I'm limited by what formats with fonts Adobe Illustrator will accept.
DOC, PDF, RTF,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 21st 18, 09:12 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 110
Views: 1,971
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Self-driving Uber kills Arizona woman in first fatal crash involving pedestrian

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:39:35 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

From what I read, she was hit just after stepping in the street by a
car gin a legal 45mph. That doesn't sound like lack of driver or...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 17th 18, 04:53 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 18
Views: 610
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
What's _in_ a hidden partition?

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:41:36 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Prompted by the thread where we're trying to help "fake" with his "dark"
laptop, I wondered:

I have a 100 MB (MB, not GB)...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 20th 18, 10:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 10
Views: 359
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Tab key.

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:12:43 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Why doesn't this work when renaming files? Can it be made to do so?

What do you want it to do? It does jump to the next file for you...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 13th 18, 08:31 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 68
Views: 1,231
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Clock

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:53:18 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Big Ben is the name of the Bell, not the clock (believe)


Isn't Big Ben referring to the *WHOLE* clock tower? How could you have...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 26th 18, 06:02 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 28
Views: 2,387
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
2 security issues found on your account

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:58:43 -0800, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

I did not ask for this quantity of E-mail. The handling for
it is the same as for "regular spam". I see little point in
distinguishing...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 29th 17, 07:15 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 438
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
HomeGroup Setup

On 29 Dec 2017 03:51:16 GMT, PaulRS wrote:

Any help would be appreciated

I run ftpserver on the OS/2 system and use the ftp facility in windows
explorer to connect to it. It looks like...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum December 17th 17, 08:49 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 438
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
HomeGroup Setup

On 16 Dec 2017 20:41:29 GMT, PaulRS wrote:

What is the secret to setting up a "Homegroup" with a non-Windows
computer . . . . Or is this possible?

I am having a terrible time with getting file...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 11th 17, 07:05 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 14
Views: 342
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
SSD and Problems with Start Button

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:30:00 -0500, Doomsdrzej wrote:

There's a chance that eComStation has the code IBM used to produce
OS/2 and that Arcanoae is basically a rewrite of the operating system
sort...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 11th 17, 07:53 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 14
Views: 342
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
SSD and Problems with Start Button

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:08:08 -0500, Doomsdrzej wrote:

On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 07:47:35 +0000 (GMT), "Rodney Pont"
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:09:33 -0500, Paul...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 9th 17, 07:47 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 14
Views: 342
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
SSD and Problems with Start Button

On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:09:33 -0500, Paul wrote:

Or should I switch to OS/2 ?

latest OS/2 version :-)

https://www.arcanoae.com/

--
Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 27th 17, 08:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 556
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Getting rid of that f**king ethernet card

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:28:11 -0600, wrote:

You could probably put all your tax software and data on a flash drive
to keep it separated too.

I would caution anyone thinking of...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 13th 17, 10:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 70
Views: 1,682
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:17:49 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Both the cable and drive and mothervboard have an alignment tab. They
can only be plugged in one way. However, I could put the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 29th 17, 08:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 35
Views: 1,455
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
O.T. eBay

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:08:24 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Recently when I open an item I have to close it
whereas before I use to be able to go back. Is

You don't actually state, but...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 25th 17, 05:21 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 963
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
A browser question

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:55:33 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

"Rodney Pont" wrote


| I think you're right. I never noticed that before.
| The guidance doesn't explain in detail...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 25th 17, 03:26 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 50
Views: 963
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
A browser question

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:00:12 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| 127.0.0.1 *.doubleclick.net
| 127.0.0.1 *.doubleclick.com
| []
| Could that not...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 14th 17, 06:13 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 372
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Changing Focus

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:25:20 -0700, David E. Ross wrote:

For example, I launch my Web browser, and its window gets the focus.
Later, I launch Adobe Reader by selecting a PDF file on my...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 6th 17, 04:01 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 22
Views: 199
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
easy mail client

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:29:22 -0500, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

One account only, No binaries or Syncing required, No newsgroups for
that I have Thunderbird. Just plain and Simple.
Any...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 27th 17, 07:42 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 67
Views: 419
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Cmd prompt as Administrator with elevated privilages

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:26:36 +1000, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

Right-click on Windows icon on taskbar Command Prompt (Admin) [after
you switch from Powershell back to Command shell in...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 27th 17, 07:42 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 41
Views: 1,076
Posted By Rodney Pont[_5_]
Cmd prompt as Administrator with elevated privilages

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:26:36 +1000, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

Right-click on Windows icon on taskbar Command Prompt (Admin) [after
you switch from Powershell back to Command shell in...
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