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Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 14, 06:05 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 14
Views: 698
Posted By Harry Putnam
About cutting down on all the startup junk at boot

Setup: Win7 running on Sager NP8760 older i7 M820 cpu - 8GB ram

I'd like to take a stab at cutting back on all the stuff windows
starts running on bootup. I don't mean stuff in the Startup...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 14, 05:54 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 506
Posted By Harry Putnam
drastic change in UI display

"KCB" writes:

[...]

It sounds like you have changed your Theme to Basic. Click Start,
type 'theme', select 'Change the Theme'. You can figure it out from
...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 16th 14, 05:42 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 506
Posted By Harry Putnam
drastic change in UI display

Chuck Anderson writes:

[...]

It sounds like you have changed your Theme to Basic. Click Start,
type 'theme', select 'Change the Theme'. You can figure it...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 14th 14, 06:26 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 506
Posted By Harry Putnam
drastic change in UI display

"KCB" writes:

"Harry Putnam" wrote in message
...
Setup: Win7 64 bit on Sager NP8760 laptop (i7)

I've somehow...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 14th 14, 01:22 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 506
Posted By Harry Putnam
drastic change in UI display

Setup: Win7 64 bit on Sager NP8760 laptop (i7)

I've somehow unset or set something that is causing my desktop display
to really suffer. Taskbar displays none of the usual shadows etc and
the start...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 11:09 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 2
Views: 360
Posted By Harry Putnam
System cannot find update.inf

Paul writes:

3) If you made a System Image recently, before the "event", restore
from backup, being careful to safeguard any new files between "then
and now". That...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 09:58 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 628
Posted By Harry Putnam
No Windows Imaging Components after crash

Ken1943 writes:

I would run chkdsk /r from a command prompt. The file indexing (forget
the real name for it) on the disk could have gotten corrupted. Do...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 09:54 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 2
Views: 360
Posted By Harry Putnam
System cannot find update.inf

Running Win 7 64 bit.

Attempting to install Windows Imaging Components, the install fails
with this error: `System cannot find update.inf'

Anyone know how to solve this?
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 09:24 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 628
Posted By Harry Putnam
No Windows Imaging Components after crash

Ed Cryer writes:

When you suggested that, what were you thinking it would show? What
else might I do to get straightened out here?



That sounds like a drive...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 03:26 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 628
Posted By Harry Putnam
No Windows Imaging Components after crash

Ed Cryer writes:

Harry Putnam wrote:
Running Win7 64 bit


[...]

I was not able to re-install 'Basecamp' and the attempt received this
error: MSI: error...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 17th 13, 03:00 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 628
Posted By Harry Putnam
No Windows Imaging Components after crash

Running Win7 64 bit

I had a system crash 5 days ago. I was tinkering with virtualization
software called 'Virtualbox'. The crash rendered the OS unbootable
until I let windows try to repair...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 19th 12, 04:51 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 36
Views: 1,276
Posted By Harry Putnam
Search Hidden/System Files?

Zaidy036 writes:

[...]

Try Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/

Sorry to butt in here with a slight off topic twist.

Does anyone in this thread who knows anything about...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 18th 12, 09:36 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 1
Views: 211
Posted By Harry Putnam
What causes this phenomena: A pause on opening directories (and more)

Running Windows 7 Home premium with an i7 Q820, 8 GB ram.

I notice this phenomena quite often on some days, not so much on
others.

On a fresh boot it does not happen but not sure just when it does...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 14th 10, 09:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 69
Posted By Harry Putnam
about print drivers when printer is remote

On a recent re-install of XP pro, I am now adding printers that are
connected to another windows XP machine.

Following the dialog I get so far and then am told that the printer in
question has the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 14th 10, 08:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 162
Posted By Harry Putnam
A catch22 trying for Restore from Install media

Jose writes:

[...]

It makes zero sense to start trying to copy files around on a hard
disk that has a corrupted file system so this must be fixed first
using the XP...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 14th 10, 08:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

John John - MVP writes:

I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found
such a driver.

The drivers that you need are not for the CD-ROM, they...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 13th 10, 01:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 162
Posted By Harry Putnam
A catch22 trying for Restore from Install media

I've hit a problem where bootup tells me the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system
file is corrupted and suggests using windows install media with the
`R' option, however when I try that, I'm asked...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 12th 10, 10:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

boatman312 writes:

Search for ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1

Should that disc be taking a very long time to load? I see a little
dot every so often ... so far about 10...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 12th 10, 06:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 77
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to insert special driver at F6 during Windows Install

Can anyone tell me how to insert a driver for a cdrom at the F6 prompt
one sees during windows install?

Apparently the older media I'm using does not contain drivers for a
lite-on ihas324 sata...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 12th 10, 03:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

mm writes:

[...]


I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a
restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows.

That...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 10, 10:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

boatman312 writes:

On 10/11/10 11:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots
but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 10, 10:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

John John - MVP writes:

Try dadiOH's suggestion and use a PS2 keyboard. As for the 0x7b
error that is a drive controller error, you need to use the F6 method
to load...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 10, 04:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 257
Posted By Harry Putnam
How to restore when install disk fails

I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots
but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in
since inserting the password requires a working keyboard.

I've...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP June 17th 10, 09:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 1,197
Posted By Harry Putnam
Oh no.. I thought I knew how to network

After yrs of running home lans and discovering over time the
peculiarities of windows networking... I'm faced with a whole new rash
of network problems... I don't know how to solve.

Following a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 1st 09, 07:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 121
Posted By Harry Putnam
SOP for salvaging OS (legal stuff) of dying machine

I'd like someone to show a brief outline or comments about how to go
about switching an XP-pro licensed OS from one machine to another.

I seem to recall a couple of yrs ago, just doing it by...
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