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Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 20th 10, 11:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 0
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Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

John

It dawned on me ! I had to do "use net lpt1: /d" and got the response
lpt1: deleted.

Then tried to set bowwow With "net use lpt1: \\otto\bowwow
/persistent:yes" and it worked. The command...
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 20th 10, 11:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 2
Views: 1,684
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

John

It dawned on me ! I had to do "use net lpt1: /d" and got the response
lpt1: deleted.

Then tried to set bowwow With "net use lpt1: \\otto\bowwow
/persistent:yes" and it worked. The command...
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 20th 10, 10:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 4
Views: 1,859
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

John

Thank you for the prompt assistance. I don't think I succeeded in
deleting the printer mapping and the persistent connection however.

The server name is "otto". The old printer is "orwell"....
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 20th 10, 10:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 4
Views: 1,859
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

John

Thank you for the prompt assistance. I don't think I succeeded in
deleting the printer mapping and the persistent connection however.

The server name is "otto". The old printer is "orwell"....
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 19th 10, 01:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 0
Views: 1,328
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

Yes I still have a fairly large Program I wrote myself many years ago in
QuickBasic, which I use every week.

Some three years ago I found Bruce Sanderson's web page with
instructions on how to...
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP March 19th 10, 01:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 4
Views: 1,859
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Printing from DOS

Yes I still have a fairly large Program I wrote myself many years ago in
QuickBasic, which I use every week.

Some three years ago I found Bruce Sanderson's web page with
instructions on how to...
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP November 10th 09, 10:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 4
Views: 800
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net

Thanks to those who jumped in to help.

I finally found the culprit - Agnitum Firewall Pro.

Apparently in a recent update it installed a plug-in "Ads", which seems
to have been blocking everything...
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP November 8th 09, 03:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 4
Views: 800
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net

On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the
same problem.

I use Thunderbird.

In a message, I click on a link to get further details of an item. The
correct web page...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 10th 09, 08:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

I want to thank all those who jumped in with suggestions/recommendations
although none of them solved the problem.

By chance I was looking at a Swiss-German monthly, Online PC Zeitung,
and saw a...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 8th 09, 05:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Thanks but I don't have a HP printer. I have a Brother MFC attached
wirelessly but it doesn't take Drive letters for its card reader ports,
as far as I know.

Stuart

Jandy Computer Services...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 8th 09, 04:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Thanks Deejaydee

I tried updating the drivers for all usb devices but they all reported
there was nothing newer than the installed driver.

Stuart

deejaydee wrote:
Try updating usb host...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 8th 09, 04:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Have tried the batch file as you suggest, but no "Unknown devices"

Everything looks very normal

Stuart

Disconnect all "flash" drives

Create a "batch" file with the following:
...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 8th 09, 02:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Gerry

Thanks and sorry for the delay in replying.

Yes Plug And Play/StartUp type is "automatic".

Stuart

Gerry wrote:
Stuart
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 6th 09, 03:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I have 3 flash drives. The smallest - 16MB - I bought from Dell with
the computer 3 years ago. (At that time 16MB was considered big !) The
other two are each 2GB. ...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 6th 09, 10:30 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
USB Flash drive problems

Everybody seems to be having problems with USB drives today !!

I have a Dell Dimension 5150C with XP including SP3. Until recently, I
had no problems using flash drives. They showed up as another...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 1st 09, 09:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 0
Views: 239
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Flash drives won't work

No. It's a small home network.
Stuart
Leonard Grey wrote:

Are you referring to your computer at work?
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Stuart Grant wrote:
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 1st 09, 09:20 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 224
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Flash drives no longer work

No. It's a small home network.
Stuart
Leonard Grey wrote:
Are you referring to your computer at work?
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Stuart Grant wrote:
All of a sudden I can't...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support March 31st 09, 03:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 224
Posted By Stuart Grant[_2_]
Flash drives no longer work

All of a sudden I can't get flash drives to work.
I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with XP with SP3. It has 4 USB ports. I
often used Flash Drives to transfer information between computers.
It used to...
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