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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:14:02 -0800 (PST), Carl, in
, after much thought, came up with this jewel: WOW! What a gold mine of sites to bookmark and checkout. Thank you very much for those. Carl Your welcome- ingest slowly! max -- Virus Removal http://max.shplink.com/removal.html Keep Clean http://max.shplink.com/keepingclean.html Change nomail.afraid.org to gmail.com to reply by email. nomail.afraid.org is specifically setup for use in USENET |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:14:02 -0800 (PST), Carl, in
, after much thought, came up with this jewel: WOW! What a gold mine of sites to bookmark and checkout. Thank you very much for those. Carl Your welcome- ingest slowly! max -- Virus Removal http://max.shplink.com/removal.html Keep Clean http://max.shplink.com/keepingclean.html Change nomail.afraid.org to gmail.com to reply by email. nomail.afraid.org is specifically setup for use in USENET |
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"Carl" wrote: On Jan 24, 4:46 pm, beamish wrote: "Carl" wrote: Leonard Grey wrote: "...get rid of those 11 games that M/S installs and that I will never use" Easy...when you know how. Go to Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components. Hi Leonard - I found my way to this, but it failed to remove the games. I clicked on the Add/Remove Windows Components and got the Windows Components Wizard. I selected Accessories and Utilities Details Games, and then checked the box for Games, then OK, then Next and the Wizard ran and finished with the message that I had successfully completed the Wizards Component Wizard. However, when I navigate to All Programs Games then choose one of the games, the game opens. It's still there. See anything I am going wrong??? Again, many thanks for your help and patience. Carl Hello, I beleive the first six games are internet links to on-line games. In the correct area but I beleive you should uncheck not check. Click on the "details" button after you highlight games, another page will open with a list of each game, uncheck each game then "ok". Then uncheck "games" then ok. Continue to use "ok" until you clear out of Windows Components. Please excuse my butting in, hope you do not mind. take care. beamish. Hmmm. There are some /very/ fundamental differences between Windows and Macs that are /most/ puzzling to an old brain like mine. You were right, Beamish, I had to /uncheck/ those boxes, not check them. In the Mac OS, you would have had to /check/ them in a situation such as that. The only one that hasn't been deleted is Pinball. It did not show up in the list proferred in Add/Remove tool Thanks for the help, Carl Hello, You are welcome. Pinball seems to be setup in a different way. In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version). http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack take care. beamish. |
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"Carl" wrote: On Jan 24, 4:46 pm, beamish wrote: "Carl" wrote: Leonard Grey wrote: "...get rid of those 11 games that M/S installs and that I will never use" Easy...when you know how. Go to Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components. Hi Leonard - I found my way to this, but it failed to remove the games. I clicked on the Add/Remove Windows Components and got the Windows Components Wizard. I selected Accessories and Utilities Details Games, and then checked the box for Games, then OK, then Next and the Wizard ran and finished with the message that I had successfully completed the Wizards Component Wizard. However, when I navigate to All Programs Games then choose one of the games, the game opens. It's still there. See anything I am going wrong??? Again, many thanks for your help and patience. Carl Hello, I beleive the first six games are internet links to on-line games. In the correct area but I beleive you should uncheck not check. Click on the "details" button after you highlight games, another page will open with a list of each game, uncheck each game then "ok". Then uncheck "games" then ok. Continue to use "ok" until you clear out of Windows Components. Please excuse my butting in, hope you do not mind. take care. beamish. Hmmm. There are some /very/ fundamental differences between Windows and Macs that are /most/ puzzling to an old brain like mine. You were right, Beamish, I had to /uncheck/ those boxes, not check them. In the Mac OS, you would have had to /check/ them in a situation such as that. The only one that hasn't been deleted is Pinball. It did not show up in the list proferred in Add/Remove tool Thanks for the help, Carl Hello, You are welcome. Pinball seems to be setup in a different way. In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version). http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack take care. beamish. |
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Pinball seems to be setup in a different way.
In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version).http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack Hi Beamish - Thank you for the clarifying data on where Pinball is buried and for the tip on the better Find program. I find myself doing in Windows exactly what I did over the years in Macintosh: discovering and adding terrific freeware programs that beat the pants off their equivalent that comes with the operating system. One of the Mac equivalents of Agentransack don't like the ransack part of that name! is NotLight, meaning not Searchlight, Searchlight being the native Apple search utility. It's buggy and doesn't find everything. NotLight finds everything. Again, thanks for the help. Carl |
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Pinball seems to be setup in a different way.
In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version).http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack Hi Beamish - Thank you for the clarifying data on where Pinball is buried and for the tip on the better Find program. I find myself doing in Windows exactly what I did over the years in Macintosh: discovering and adding terrific freeware programs that beat the pants off their equivalent that comes with the operating system. One of the Mac equivalents of Agentransack don't like the ransack part of that name! is NotLight, meaning not Searchlight, Searchlight being the native Apple search utility. It's buggy and doesn't find everything. NotLight finds everything. Again, thanks for the help. Carl |
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"Carl" wrote: Pinball seems to be setup in a different way. In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version).http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack Hi Beamish - Thank you for the clarifying data on where Pinball is buried and for the tip on the better Find program. I find myself doing in Windows exactly what I did over the years in Macintosh: discovering and adding terrific freeware programs that beat the pants off their equivalent that comes with the operating system. One of the Mac equivalents of Agentransack don't like the ransack part of that name! is NotLight, meaning not Searchlight, Searchlight being the native Apple search utility. It's buggy and doesn't find everything. NotLight finds everything. Again, thanks for the help. Carl Hello, You are welcome. A thought concerning Windows OS. Do to the abundance of nefarious software, would suggest three (3) areas for research. Backup capability, maintenance and security. take care. beamish. |
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"Carl" wrote: Pinball seems to be setup in a different way. In C:\program files\windowsnt\pinball (a folder). Then in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\help Finally in C:\windows\system32\dllcache is the back up .exe for pinball. I use a free program to locate items in Windows. It is faster and does a more complete search, then the Windows search feature. Agentransack (free version).http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack Hi Beamish - Thank you for the clarifying data on where Pinball is buried and for the tip on the better Find program. I find myself doing in Windows exactly what I did over the years in Macintosh: discovering and adding terrific freeware programs that beat the pants off their equivalent that comes with the operating system. One of the Mac equivalents of Agentransack don't like the ransack part of that name! is NotLight, meaning not Searchlight, Searchlight being the native Apple search utility. It's buggy and doesn't find everything. NotLight finds everything. Again, thanks for the help. Carl Hello, You are welcome. A thought concerning Windows OS. Do to the abundance of nefarious software, would suggest three (3) areas for research. Backup capability, maintenance and security. take care. beamish. |
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