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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 13th 20, 01:19 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 55
Views: 587
Posted By Nil[_5_]
I'm almost ready to go back to W7

On 11 Mar 2020, Art Todesco wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of
things to make it better, but it's still not as...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 15th 20, 05:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

On 13 Jan 2020, David wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

On 13/01/2020 20:02, Nil wrote:
On 12 Jan 2020, David wrote in
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 13th 20, 09:02 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

On 12 Jan 2020, David wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

Can one use Xnews on Windows 10?

Yes.
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 11th 20, 09:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

On 09 Jan 2020, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

Nil wrote:
Any idea how far you can get into it before the install starts
making unreversable changes?

There...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 10th 20, 12:50 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

On 09 Jan 2020, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

Nil wrote:
On 08 Jan 2020, David wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

On...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 9th 20, 01:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

On 08 Jan 2020, David wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

On 08/01/2020 23:47, Nil wrote:
I think I recall that during the initial rollout of Windows 10
there was a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum January 9th 20, 12:47 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 31
Views: 330
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Hardware compatibility checker?

I think I recall that during the initial rollout of Windows 10 there
was a compatibility checker you could run that would tell you if your
hardware was adequate to run Win10 before you installed...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 15th 19, 06:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 14 May 2019, Dane Beko wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On Sat, 4 May 2019 14:26:27 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I've used Foobar with good results converting from...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 7th 19, 02:17 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 9
Views: 97
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Fonts in Win10

On 06 Apr 2019, pinnerite wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I installed an additional ttf font in Win-10 by dragging it from
its folder to the font window, together with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 6th 19, 06:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 04 Apr 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Nil wrote:

Unless it's quite old I can't think of a computer audio utility
that...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 5th 19, 02:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 02 Apr 2019, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
in alt.windows7.general:

Since the editor I use doesn't accept .m4a, I use Pazera's
"extract to WAV" function, and proceed...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 5th 19, 01:57 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 04 Apr 2019, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

FLAC natively supports information tags that can be read by any
player that plays...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 5th 19, 01:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 04 Apr 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I simply meant there are some audio utilities or audio players
that won't recognize it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 4th 19, 06:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 03 Apr 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

FLAC is indeed a lossless format, but I've never used it. For one
thing, it only reduces...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 4th 19, 02:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 03 Apr 2019, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I think most serious editors do that because it takes a whole lot
longer to "load" than simply to copy the MP3....
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 3rd 19, 04:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 02 Apr 2019, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

On Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:51:56 -0400, Nil
wrote:
If the original M4A is high...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 2nd 19, 07:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 48
Views: 1,699
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Can a .m4a audio file be converted into a .mp3 one losslessly?

On 02 Apr 2019, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

(If so, with what software?)

I have one of many utilities for extracting the audio from video
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 20th 19, 02:24 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 63
Views: 17,447
Posted By Nil[_5_]
is "Everything" doing some mining?

On 18 Mar 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

OK. I read that happens so quickly since it simply uses the NTFS
change journal information.

Simple or...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum March 18th 19, 02:17 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 63
Views: 17,447
Posted By Nil[_5_]
is "Everything" doing some mining?

On 16 Mar 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

For me it's a general issue with indexing. The indexes may or may
not be up to date, for example, after...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 18th 19, 02:26 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 9
Views: 414
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Installing Software BS

On 17 Feb 2019, "Bill Bradshaw" wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

Running Windows 10 Pro 32 bit just updated to 1809. Why do I have
to be connected to the internet to install...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 19, 02:40 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 3
Views: 1,209
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Open Shell

On 15 Feb 2019, wrote in alt.windows7.general:

I saw mentions of Classic Shell recently and since I am attempting
navigate Win 10 and would prefer a Win 7 type screen I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 16th 19, 02:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 440
Posted By Nil[_5_]
VPN vs Thunderbird email

On 15 Feb 2019, AIOLI wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

The newsgroup said I was connected too long and locked me out.
The other newwsgroup I use is...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 3rd 19, 06:52 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 3
Views: 324
Posted By Nil[_5_]
update problems again - fixed it.

On 02 Feb 2019, slate_leeper wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

Found it. Fixed it. All better.

Why keep it a secret? Someone else might benefit from your experience.
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 2nd 19, 08:43 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 25
Views: 781
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Not complaining at all but?

On 02 Feb 2019, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I have a copy of Windows 10 in a VM (where it would not have seen
a qualifying OS), and it just shows the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum February 1st 19, 12:08 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 7
Views: 507
Posted By Nil[_5_]
Storage Sense

On 31 Jan 2019, Optimist wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

They are not in use as they have been in the bin for over 60 days.
Doubtless I could empty it manually in...
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