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  #31  
Old April 6th 12, 10:15 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Gene Wirchenko typed:

From My Sig Collection:

Lowery's Law: If it jams -- force it. If it breaks, it needed
replacing anyway.


Oh is that Lowery's Law? I have heard it many times, but I never knew
that is what it is known by. Many thanks!

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  #32  
Old April 6th 12, 10:32 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Gene Wirchenko typed:

From My Sig Collection:

Lowery's Law: If it jams -- force it. If it breaks, it needed
replacing anyway.


Oh is that Lowery's Law? I have heard it many times, but I never knew
that is what it is known by. Many thanks!

--
Bill
Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2

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  #33  
Old April 6th 12, 10:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Wolf K
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote:

On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)

Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!

You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my
side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate
up with a video output.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.


You're way too easily confused.



That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'.


Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity.

Wolf K.
  #34  
Old April 6th 12, 11:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).


Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?


I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.


I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.

Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk
away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came
back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work.
So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-)


Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let
it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from
going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a
non-youtube tab and it works as expected.

I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it
on others. Both ways work for me.

--

Char Jackson
  #35  
Old April 7th 12, 12:10 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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Default How do I blank out my screen

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf
K writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but
not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some
systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?


I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.


I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.


There are more applications it happened too. I just never kept track
which ones it works and which ones it doesn't. You would think Windows
is smart enough to figure it out, but I guess not.

Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could
walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked
when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it
just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power
button. ;-)


Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let
it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from
going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a
non-youtube tab and it works as expected.

I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it
on others. Both ways work for me.


I think the worst is when Windows focus is on the desktop. That almost
never allows the monitor to blank. I just learned over the years to just
never trust it. As sometimes it doesn't kick in when you want it and
does when you don't want it.

--
Bill
Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2


  #36  
Old April 7th 12, 01:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Drew[_6_]
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On 4/5/2012 6:25 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
On 4/5/2012 10:50 AM, John Williamson wrote:
Bob Hatch wrote:
On 4/5/2012 8:50 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

Control Panel, Power Settings.

:-(

Or, right cick on the desktop, personalise, screen saver, blank screen.

There's an option to go to power settings from there to set standby
times for the monitor, and to change how the monitor is told to go into
standby mode.

Well, I to .../Power Options-Edit Plan Settings. I see Recommended
Setting with its button depressed, so I click on Change plan settings
way to the right. Turn off the display shows 10 min, and Put the
computer to sleep shows 20 minutes. If Turn off is active I would think
I would see the screen blank out every 10 min, but I don't. A week or so
ago it did. If I click on Change advanced power settings, I see a
Advanced settings dialog with choices like Hard disk, Sleep, PCI Express
... Nothing about a display.


Did you take that same route and look further down in advanced power
settings and change the multimedia settings? I would assume if you
change that tab playing multimedia from "allow the computer to sleep"
that it might be the way to go
  #37  
Old April 7th 12, 02:06 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:10:58 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf
K writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but
not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some
systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?

I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.


I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.


There are more applications it happened too. I just never kept track
which ones it works and which ones it doesn't. You would think Windows
is smart enough to figure it out, but I guess not.


No, I never assumed Windows should be able to figure it out. I assumed
it was up to the application to signal the OS that it wanted to
override the default power settings.

Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could
walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked
when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it
just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power
button. ;-)


Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let
it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from
going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a
non-youtube tab and it works as expected.

I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it
on others. Both ways work for me.


I think the worst is when Windows focus is on the desktop. That almost
never allows the monitor to blank. I just learned over the years to just
never trust it. As sometimes it doesn't kick in when you want it and
does when you don't want it.


In my experience, one of the foolproof ways to make sure the monitor
blanks when it should is to put the focus on the desktop. It's
interesting that that doesn't work as reliably for you when it's 100%
reliable on all of my systems.

--

Char Jackson
  #38  
Old April 7th 12, 02:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
choro
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On 06/04/2012 23:38, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

[....]

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?


I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.


I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.


I thought this was a Power DVD *plus* point. I haven't used Power DVD in
years either but you certainly do not want the screen to go blank in the
middle watching an XXX rated movie; or do you?

-- choro


Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk
away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came
back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work.
So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-)


Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let
it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from
going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a
non-youtube tab and it works as expected.

I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it
on others. Both ways work for me.

  #39  
Old April 7th 12, 03:01 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:33:17 +0100, choro wrote:

On 06/04/2012 23:38, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

[....]

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?

I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.


I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.


I thought this was a Power DVD *plus* point. I haven't used Power DVD in
years either but you certainly do not want the screen to go blank in the
middle watching an XXX rated movie; or do you?


The "problem" we were talking about was that (apparently) some video
players don't know how to let the OS know that monitor blanking should
be suspended because a video is playing. I think we're all in
agreement that the monitor shouldn't go dark while a video is playing,
regardless of its rating.

--

Char Jackson
  #40  
Old April 7th 12, 10:55 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Allen Drake
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote:

On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)

Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!

You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my
side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate
up with a video output.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

You're way too easily confused.



That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'.


Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity.

Wolf K.

Confusion is unlearning.
  #41  
Old April 7th 12, 02:10 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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In ,
Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100,
wrote:

On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and
mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work
better. ;-)

Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone
kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop
for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that
to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But
next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop
into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable
for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into
the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!

You guys have some strange connector configurations over
there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power
cable that would mate up with a video output.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some
of the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

You're way too easily confused.


That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'.


Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning
opportunity.

Wolf K.


Confusion is unlearning.


Just the opposite actually. Well at least if you thought you were making
progress anyway. ;-)

"We have not succeeded in solving all of our problems. In fact, the
solutions we have found have served to raise a whole new set of
questions. In some ways, we are as confused as ever; however, we feel we
are confused on a higher level and about more important things." --
(source unknown)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

--
Bill
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Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


  #42  
Old April 7th 12, 05:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Allen Drake
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 08:10:38 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100,
wrote:

On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and
mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work
better. ;-)

Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone
kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop
for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that
to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But
next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop
into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable
for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into
the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!

You guys have some strange connector configurations over
there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power
cable that would mate up with a video output.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some
of the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

You're way too easily confused.


That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'.


Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning
opportunity.

Wolf K.


Confusion is unlearning.


Just the opposite actually. Well at least if you thought you were making
progress anyway. ;-)

"We have not succeeded in solving all of our problems. In fact, the
solutions we have found have served to raise a whole new set of
questions. In some ways, we are as confused as ever; however, we feel we
are confused on a higher level and about more important things." --
(source unknown)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein


Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be.
  #43  
Old April 7th 12, 10:48 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be.


It's usually more than it's cracked up to be.

--

Char Jackson
  #44  
Old April 7th 12, 11:16 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Allen Drake
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Default How do I blank out my screen

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:48:28 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be.


It's usually more than it's cracked up to be.


Seriously it really depends on what you use for a comparison. I sure
don't see the political process as a good example. If you are simply
speaking in technological terms maybe. The world as a whole- I would
say not. Progress only advantages a few.

  #45  
Old April 8th 12, 01:51 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:16:41 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:48:28 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be.


It's usually more than it's cracked up to be.


Seriously it really depends on what you use for a comparison. I sure
don't see the political process as a good example. If you are simply
speaking in technological terms maybe. The world as a whole- I would
say not. Progress only advantages a few.


Regarding that last statement, I couldn't disagree more, but this
probably isn't the place to discuss it.

--

Char Jackson
 




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