Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 26th 14, 02:14 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 20
Views: 621
Win 7-32 Recovery Problems
On 8/26/2014 3:28 AM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:06:37 +0200, A wrote:
xfile wrote:
I'm going to say this only once,
The old man doesn't exist. The old computer...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 25th 14, 02:58 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 20
Views: 621
Win 7-32 Recovery Problems
From your other post:
Well, one or two have suggested a new install. Without thinking
enough, I did that. Now I'm really screwed and I suppose it's[...]
First of all, I'm not really some...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 23rd 14, 01:44 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 54
Views: 935
Well, me again -- killed computer?
On 8/23/2014 6:14 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
Well, I guess I finished off that old desktop!
--- doing a system restore back to before I installed
that 3-rd party internet connection software. It...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 22nd 14, 10:59 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 111
Views: 1,901
Microsoft Store
On 8/23/2014 1:13 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:38:46 +0800, xfile wrote:
Why would anyone *want* a seventy kilo-buck watch, anyway? You can
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 22nd 14, 02:38 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 111
Views: 1,901
Microsoft Store
Why would anyone *want* a seventy kilo-buck watch, anyway? You can
always just ask someone nearby if you really need to know what the
date is. If you ask a dozen or so one of *them* is...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 21st 14, 11:34 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 111
Views: 1,901
Microsoft Store
More seriously, even if I were a multi-billionaire, I wouldn't buy
such an expensive watch.
No pun intended, but a true multi-billionaire wouldn't feel it's
"expensive" though they may buy a...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 21st 14, 12:33 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 111
Views: 1,901
Microsoft Store
On 8/21/2014 7:35 AM, Mayayana wrote:
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Yes. I think that's the biggest problem with computers
in a nutshell. Techy...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 16th 14, 02:51 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 36
Views: 787
Need Help --Router Password
Huh? The password "to get on the internet" is the router password.
I think, "the router password" means the router's administrative
password, and "the password "to get on the Internet"" is...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
August 10th 14, 02:12 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 268
Views: 6,203
MS's support logic
Hope we say "SCREW YOU, YOU GREEDY *******S ALWAYS WANTING
MORE".
No worries.
I’m eager to see how business and consumer will react when MS forces
them to make a “conscious” decision on...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
August 1st 14, 03:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 258
Views: 7,803
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
July 28th 14, 10:40 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 258
Views: 7,803
Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
I believe Windows 8 was a marketing failure not a failure of the basic
operating system. MS concentrated on the tablet interface, and hid the
fact that there was the desktop...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 26th 14, 11:42 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 61
Views: 1,507
Exercising 8.1 Pro to 7 Pro "downgrade" rights
Though speaking of Dell, they and other large PC manufacturers do offer
pre-downgraded PCs that come with a Windows 8.1 Pro license but Windows
7 Pro actually installed on the hard drive. So...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 26th 14, 02:42 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 61
Views: 1,507
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 26th 14, 03:18 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 61
Views: 1,507
Exercising 8.1 Pro to 7 Pro "downgrade" rights
We're using ordinary OEM Win7 Pro keys from other computers, as specified
in Microsoft's instructions. What we are trying to do is perfectly legitimate,
per the company's own "explanation of...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
June 25th 14, 07:10 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 69
Views: 2,043
Email program
I have to attribute some of her use of
Open Office to be a spin-off of people thinking MS Word is the be all
end all for everything. And in her case, getting her to try something
else is...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
June 25th 14, 12:45 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 69
Views: 2,043
Email program
And we'll have different definitions of useability here.
Yes, and also for time and cost allocation.
I've a friend that just learned that lesson. She kept fighting with
Open Office for some...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
June 23rd 14, 04:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 69
Views: 2,043
Email program
Better believe it. My impression is, from reading the Thunderbird
newsgroup, many TB users do text only. That's fine, it's their choice.
Many times their solution seems to be to ask you...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 18th 14, 11:40 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 57
Views: 1,279
Who can answer this?
On 6/18/2014 3:26 PM, Andy wrote:
A good 2 cents at that i agree with alot of what you had to say:)
Thanks and that's all I have to say. :)
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 18th 14, 12:57 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 57
Views: 1,279
Who can answer this?
The problem for MS is that they want to be Google/Androids + Apple
Again, where do you get this idea that Google/Android
is somehow dealing in serious computing functionality?
I see...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
June 17th 14, 01:04 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 57
Views: 1,279
Who can answer this?
On the other hand, I wasn't altogether thrilled with the
Apple church, either. The ridiculously enthusiastic young
man who showed us tablets couldn't tell me whether an
iPad had an...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
June 15th 14, 01:00 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 166
Views: 5,637
Windows 9 will be for rent
[...]This is an opportunity for Linux but I doubt they can provide
what corporate Windows users want, especially Office.
The right question to ask is, why one has to go for corporate segments...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
June 14th 14, 02:12 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 166
Views: 5,637
Windows 9 will be for rent
On 6/5/2014 6:17 AM, one wrote:
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/windows-9-release-date-news-and-rumours-1029245
What the collective has heard exactly is that a...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
April 9th 14, 06:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 55
Views: 896
Smartphone to PC file transfer?
As most reply authors understood, alleged iOS solutions is not why
I posted. I understand the limitations of iPhones. I even
understand the reason (as Paul pointed out) for its limitations.
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
April 9th 14, 12:22 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 55
Views: 896
Smartphone to PC file transfer?
On 4/5/2014 1:46 AM, John Doe wrote:
Have they figured out that copying data is a fundamental part of
computing? My iPhone 3G does not easily copy files to/from a PC.
My next smartphone...
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Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum
December 29th 13, 02:29 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,201
TTF fonts
Fyi...The terms 'without a qualified license' are excluded from MSFT's
definition of software piracy.
Show me and how many times do I have to ask you?
Windows is MSFT property.
"An end...
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