From glennci at yahoo.com Sat Nov 1 17:12:21 2008 From: glennci at yahoo.com (Glenn Civello) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? Message-ID: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it by you guys. She use Outlook Express. Thanks Glenn ________________________________ From wseehorn at earthlink.net Sat Nov 1 17:33:57 2008 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:33:57 -0400 Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? In-Reply-To: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20081101172732.01f9de30@pop.earthlink.net> I'm using Eudora, but the same technique may work. I created this email -- with the emoticons: :'( :-) 8-) -- I'm going to finish typing this, print it and see what happens. Willard PP (post printing) It worked , printed the emoticons -- :'(,:). the standard smiley, and 8-) -- as pictures. Your don't know if your email will show the classic text based emoticon or Eudora's graphic images. HTH Willard At 05:12 PM 11/1/2008, you wrote: >Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create >an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, >regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have >computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it >by you guys. She use Outlook Express. > >Thanks >Glenn > > > > >________________________________ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From grumpy66 at embarqmail.com Sat Nov 1 18:23:22 2008 From: grumpy66 at embarqmail.com (heh) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:23:22 -0400 Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081101172732.01f9de30@pop.earthlink.net> References: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081101172732.01f9de30@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <490CD6DA.5090804@embarqmail.com> She could also write the message in OE and use a screen capture (print screen) to print the message. There are several freeware programs available. Dick Willard Seehorn wrote: > I'm using Eudora, but the same technique may work. I created this > email -- with the emoticons: :'( :-) 8-) -- I'm going to finish > typing this, print it and see what happens. > > Willard > > PP (post printing) > It worked , printed the emoticons -- :'(,:). the standard smiley, and > 8-) -- as pictures. Your don't know if your email will show the > classic text based emoticon or Eudora's graphic images. > > HTH > > Willard > > At 05:12 PM 11/1/2008, you wrote: >> Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to >> create an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be >> sent, regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't >> have computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought >> I run it by you guys. She use Outlook Express. >> >> Thanks >> Glenn >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 081101-0, 11/01/2008 > Tested on: 11/1/2008 5:40:25 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 081101-0, 11/01/2008 Tested on: 11/1/2008 6:23:23 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com From campbell1930 at charter.net Sat Nov 1 19:53:48 2008 From: campbell1930 at charter.net (Donald) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:53:48 -0500 Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? In-Reply-To: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <490CEC0C.3020408@charter.net> In the list of e-mails, click the e-mail to highlight it. Right click in the body of the mail and select print. There ya go! Glenn Civello wrote: > Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it by you guys. She use Outlook Express. > > Thanks > Glenn > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > From jonpan at onlinehome.de Sun Nov 2 04:43:32 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:43:32 +0100 Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? References: <705375.35687.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <490CEC0C.3020408@charter.net> Message-ID: I suspect the problem lies elsewhere: she wants to write the email, then print it. In all the suggestions made so far, the Print option is greyed out or not available. She should write the email, then send it to herself. From the SentItems folder she can then print via File/Print and snailmail it. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:53 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? In the list of e-mails, click the e-mail to highlight it. Right click in the body of the mail and select print. There ya go! Glenn Civello wrote: > Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it by you guys. She use Outlook Express. > > Thanks > Glenn > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From embitt at westnet.com.au Sun Nov 2 07:11:44 2008 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Eric and Merna Bitter) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:11:44 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Old version (and Adobe) References: <6.2.0.14.2.20081012203058.00c2f860@pop.earthlink.net><000401c92cf4$b7288c20$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: <011001c93ce4$2ef83bc0$0401a8c0@number12> A belated "You're welcome," Russ. Following are some more found since previous posts in this thread, with more links at some of them. I have looked at the basic sites below and some of their sublinks, but not all. I enjoy surfing, but I haven't had time to check all of them. Also, note that some of them may be listed at some of the others or at the links in my previous post (especially the oldfiles.org ones) as a lot of these old-version / abandonware sites refer to each other. The more I find, the more certain I am that I'm merely scratching the surface of these resources. http://www.abandonia.com/index.php with many more in the "affiliates & rings" in the righthand column http://dhost.info/oldpc/ with DOS, hardware, and Windows sections and including many more links at http://dhost.info/oldpc/links.htm http://www.doslife.org/ esp http://www.doslife.org/stuff.html http://downloads55.webs.com/ http://old-pc.tk/ http://old_software_downloads.webs.com/ http://old_software_downloads.webs.com/links.htm http://old-versions.net/ http://www.theoldnetwork.com/ http://www.theoldnetwork.com/oldnet.html http://www.vetusware.com/ Could not connect the first time I tried -- reached it a couple of days later. (many files on this site corrupted according to downloads55.webs.com) http://wiki.oldos.org/ Also found re Adobe (when reading an Ask Leo article) -- "Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes" http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=2 Various links at the top of this page include Support (http://kb.adobe.com/go/gn_supp) with (among others) sublinks to (A) Knowledgebase (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?msid=MS_Customer) and (B) Documentation (http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/) Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell W. Coover" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:53 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Old version Merna, Thank you for these links. While I was aware of a couple of these URLs, others are new (to me), and, I'm sure, quite useful. Again, thank you very much. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Eric and Merna Bitter Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:30 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Old version Hi, Will. Balance of my "dl sites older versions" favorites folder (other than oldversion.com): http://browsers.evolt.org/ http://oldapps.com/ http://oldfiles.org.uk/ http://oldfiles.org.uk/lightspeed/main.html http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/ http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/WoundedMoon/ No time to check them for you now as I have a medical appointment. However, you might find something else interesting at some/all of them even if they don't have the Eudora you're looking for. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willard Seehorn" To: Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:33 AM Subject: TSGL: Old version I know about oldversion.com, but they don't have what I'm looking for== Eudora version 6.x -- I have 6.2 in a paid version. Unfortunately It's become corrupted & doesn't work properly. Now that Eudora has gone open source & Qualcomm isn't supporting it anymore I'd like to get another download of 6.x, but don't know where to go. Any suggestions? TIA Will From glennci at yahoo.com Sun Nov 2 12:04:22 2008 From: glennci at yahoo.com (Glenn Civello) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:04:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? Message-ID: <418982.9441.qm@web46011.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Yes John... you hit the nail on the head. I figured another way: Save it as a draft then go to your draft folder and click the listed email (which will highlight it) then print. The only problem is that the header (i.e. From: To: Sent: etc.) w/ the accompanying info will also print out. You can, of course cut that off with a scissors. ________________________________ From: jonpan To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:43:32 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? I suspect the problem lies elsewhere: she wants to write the email, then print it. In all the suggestions made so far, the Print option is greyed out or not available. She should write the email, then send it to herself. From the SentItems folder she can then print via File/Print and snailmail it. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:53 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? In the list of e-mails, click the e-mail to highlight it. Right click in the body of the mail and select print. There ya go! Glenn Civello wrote: > Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it by you guys. She use Outlook Express. > > Thanks > Glenn > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From glennci at yahoo.com Sun Nov 2 12:07:39 2008 From: glennci at yahoo.com (Glenn Civello) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:07:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? Message-ID: <913230.21636.qm@web46007.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Hi Willard. Doesn't work using OE. It prints out as "text-typed" rather than *graphic* (i.e. the cartoon like images, in colors, and sometimes animated. Anyway, I have found a solution by following John's train of thought. Thanks for your input gcc ________________________________ From: Willard Seehorn To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2008 5:33:57 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: print email to send via snail mail? I'm using Eudora, but the same technique may work. I created this email -- with the emoticons: :'( :-) 8-) -- I'm going to finish typing this, print it and see what happens. Willard PP (post printing) It worked , printed the emoticons -- :'(,:). the standard smiley, and 8-) -- as pictures. Your don't know if your email will show the classic text based emoticon or Eudora's graphic images. HTH Willard At 05:12 PM 11/1/2008, you wrote: >Hi people. Got an email from my dear ol' aunt asking me how to create >an email (w/ emoticons) and then print it so that it could be sent, >regular mail i.e. (via snail mail) to her friends who don't have >computers. I haven't had any luck figuring it out so I thought I run it >by you guys. She use Outlook Express. > >Thanks >Glenn > > > > >________________________________ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From darren at darrenfoster.co.uk Tue Nov 4 11:47:16 2008 From: darren at darrenfoster.co.uk (Darren Foster) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:47:16 -0000 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... Message-ID: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> Hi Guys and Gals, Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue. When we search for AVG for instance we are redirected to a "failed to connect" page. We used to be directed to a coupon mountain website everytime but now we are simply getting the failed to connect. This only happens on a bunch of keywords that are security related ie "spybot search and destroy" "online antivirus" "avg" Etc, etc, I have tried the following in no particular order with no avail. Avg Free Full scan and cleaned 65 viruses - scanned second sweep and found to be clean after a restart. Spybot search and destroy - 14 items cleaned - second sweep clear Malwarebytes - 6 items all taken care of - second sweep clear. SMitRem - clear SDFix Clear Ewido Micro - clear Ccleaner - cleared everything..... cleaned registry LSPfix WinsockxpFix Combofix Superantispyware Cwshredder Hijackthis Also checked the Hosts file and found that to be intact with no extra's. Hijackthis log below...... Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 16:37:36, on 04/11/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Documents and Settings\Ann Simpole\Desktop\HijackThis.exe O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" /background O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll O23 - Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc.exe O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe O23 - Service: Creative Labs Licensing Service - Creative Labs - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CreativeLicensing.exe O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology Ltd - C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe O23 - Service: Google Desktop Manager 5.7.806.10245 (GoogleDesktopManager-061008-081103) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe O23 - Service: Intel NCS NetService (NetSvc) - Intel(R) Corporation - C:\Program Files\Intel\PROSetWired\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (TalkTalk) (sprtsvc_TalkTalk) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TalkTalk\bin\sprtsvc.exe" /service /p TalkTalk (file missing) O23 - Service: SupportSoft Repair Service (TalkTalk) (tgsrvc_TalkTalk) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Supportsoft\bin\tgsrvc.exe" /p TalkTalk (file missing) Ideas Appreciated. Regards, Darren Foster From justin at whisperer.com.au Tue Nov 4 20:02:48 2008 From: justin at whisperer.com.au (The Computer Whisperer) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:02:48 +1100 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... In-Reply-To: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> References: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> Message-ID: <2852b8d40811041702p9fdac71j57a3a4288dcbcabb@mail.gmail.com> Lavasoft Adaware? lol 2008/11/5 Darren Foster > Hi Guys and Gals, > > > > Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue. > > > > When we search for AVG for instance we are redirected to a "failed to > connect" page. We used to be directed to a coupon mountain website > everytime > but now we are simply getting the failed to connect. This only happens on a > bunch of keywords that are security related ie "spybot search and destroy" > "online antivirus" "avg" Etc, etc, > > > > I have tried the following in no particular order with no avail. > > > > Avg Free Full scan and cleaned 65 viruses - scanned second sweep and found > to be clean after a restart. > > Spybot search and destroy - 14 items cleaned - second sweep clear > > Malwarebytes - 6 items all taken care of - second sweep clear. > > SMitRem - clear > > SDFix Clear > > Ewido Micro - clear > > Ccleaner - cleared everything..... cleaned registry > > LSPfix > > WinsockxpFix > > Combofix > > Superantispyware > > Cwshredder > > Hijackthis > > > > Also checked the Hosts file and found that to be intact with no extra's. > > > > Hijackthis log below...... > > > > Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 > > Scan saved at 16:37:36, on 04/11/2008 > > Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) > > MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) > > > > Running processes: > > C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE > > C:\Documents and Settings\Ann Simpole\Desktop\HijackThis.exe > > > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - > C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll > > O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - > C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll > > O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - > {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program > Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll > > O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} > - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - > {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - > {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common > Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll > > O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} - > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} > - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software > Update\HPWuSchd2.exe" > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & > Destroy\TeaTimer.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:\Program > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" > /background > > O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm > > O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - > C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - > {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - > C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - > {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program > Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - > C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll > > O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) - AVG Technologies CZ, > s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc.exe > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe > > O23 - Service: Creative Labs Licensing Service - Creative Labs - C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CreativeLicensing.exe > > O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology Ltd > - > C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe > > O23 - Service: Google Desktop Manager 5.7.806.10245 > (GoogleDesktopManager-061008-081103) - Google - C:\Program > Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe > > O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program > Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe > > O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program > Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe > > O23 - Service: Intel NCS NetService (NetSvc) - Intel(R) Corporation - > C:\Program Files\Intel\PROSetWired\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe > > O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (TalkTalk) (sprtsvc_TalkTalk) - > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TalkTalk\bin\sprtsvc.exe" /service /p > TalkTalk (file missing) > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Repair Service (TalkTalk) (tgsrvc_TalkTalk) - > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Supportsoft\bin\tgsrvc.exe" > /p > TalkTalk (file missing) > > > > > > Ideas Appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > Darren Foster > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- http://www.whisperer.com.au The Computer Whisperer - Gets you where you want to be. Friendly on-site technical support - Home and Small Business Specialist. Telephone: (03) 5979 1122 Mobile 0406 467 701 Servicing the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria, Australia) From tbrandl2 at chello.at Tue Nov 4 21:10:49 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 03:10:49 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... References: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> Message-ID: <00f201c93eeb$bf631c30$0201a8c0@til4200> Darren, have you seen the thread at http://forums.techarena.in/windows-software/1064282.htm or maybe the one from http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread144532.html ? Try to run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBA-M) Otherwise you may have to secure your data and reformat. Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Foster" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:47 PM Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... > Hi Guys and Gals, > > > > Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue. > > > > When we search for AVG for instance we are redirected to a "failed to > connect" page. We used to be directed to a coupon mountain website everytime > but now we are simply getting the failed to connect. This only happens on a > bunch of keywords that are security related ie "spybot search and destroy" > "online antivirus" "avg" Etc, etc, > > > > I have tried the following in no particular order with no avail. > > > > Avg Free Full scan and cleaned 65 viruses - scanned second sweep and found > to be clean after a restart. > > Spybot search and destroy - 14 items cleaned - second sweep clear > > Malwarebytes - 6 items all taken care of - second sweep clear. > > SMitRem - clear > > SDFix Clear > > Ewido Micro - clear > > Ccleaner - cleared everything..... cleaned registry > > LSPfix > > WinsockxpFix > > Combofix > > Superantispyware > > Cwshredder > > Hijackthis > > > > Also checked the Hosts file and found that to be intact with no extra's. > > > > Hijackthis log below...... > > > > Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 > > Scan saved at 16:37:36, on 04/11/2008 > > Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) > > MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) > > > > Running processes: > > C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE > > C:\Documents and Settings\Ann Simpole\Desktop\HijackThis.exe > > > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - > C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll > > O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - > C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll > > O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - > {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program > Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll > > O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} > - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - > {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common > Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll > > O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} - > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} > - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software > Update\HPWuSchd2.exe" > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & > Destroy\TeaTimer.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:\Program > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" > /background > > O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm > > O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - > C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - > {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - > C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - > {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program > Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - > C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll > > O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) - AVG Technologies CZ, > s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc.exe > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe > > O23 - Service: Creative Labs Licensing Service - Creative Labs - C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CreativeLicensing.exe > > O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology Ltd - > C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe > > O23 - Service: Google Desktop Manager 5.7.806.10245 > (GoogleDesktopManager-061008-081103) - Google - C:\Program > Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe > > O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program > Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe > > O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program > Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe > > O23 - Service: Intel NCS NetService (NetSvc) - Intel(R) Corporation - > C:\Program Files\Intel\PROSetWired\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe > > O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (TalkTalk) (sprtsvc_TalkTalk) - > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TalkTalk\bin\sprtsvc.exe" /service /p > TalkTalk (file missing) > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Repair Service (TalkTalk) (tgsrvc_TalkTalk) - > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Supportsoft\bin\tgsrvc.exe" /p > TalkTalk (file missing) > > Ideas Appreciated. > > Regards, > > Darren Foster From deepend at tpg.com.au Tue Nov 4 23:20:14 2008 From: deepend at tpg.com.au (Don Penlington) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:20:14 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... Message-ID: <4.3.2.20081105141452.00c5a0f8@mail.tpg.com.au> Darren wrote: >Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue>> Several things come to mind. With all that junk, it's obvious that the owner has had little or no regard for computer security. Bearing in mind that no a-v software is ever 100% perfect, it's very likely that some remnants of infestation will remain in the system. Therefore the only way you can be certain that everything has gone is to reformat. Can you update AVG or Spybot? If not, that's a certain sign that the computer is still infected by a W32 virus variant (of which there are many). The "redirection notice" may itself be re-generating whatever virus remnants remain. That's how these self-replicating viruses work. I see from the Hijack This log that a number of services are running. Open Services, and disable any that are not vital. (eg "talktalk---unless that is the user's ISP). Go to Steve Gibson's "ShieldsUp" website and download and run his "Shoot the Messenger" utility. Messenger can be a security risk if left running. While there, also run his security check. Set the browser advanced options to empty the browser cache on closing. Open the browser cache manually and check that all cookies have been deleted before trying to re-open the browser. Disable System Restore. These files are usually protected are may not be available for scanning. There's a possibility that a self-replicating virus could be hiding its sources in there. Check especially for any BHO objects (run a dedicated BHO utility such as Winpatrol or BHO Demon). Remove all browser toolbars. Some of these can be more trouble than they are worth. Then try re-scanning in Safe Mode. Send the Hijack This log to the HJ forum for expert analysis. If you can't update security databases, remove the drive to another computer with updated security software and scan from there. If, after all that, you are still unsuccessful---reformat. It'll probably save time in the long run and will certainly be more effective. Don Penlington From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland. Computer tutorials, local scenery, and other things at my website: http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html From justin at whisperer.com.au Wed Nov 5 01:07:38 2008 From: justin at whisperer.com.au (The Computer Whisperer) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:07:38 +1100 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... In-Reply-To: <00f201c93eeb$bf631c30$0201a8c0@til4200> References: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> <00f201c93eeb$bf631c30$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: <2852b8d40811042207t4e74db16n90b5ff5d3ab253bb@mail.gmail.com> Google Desktop and other plugins such as yahoo toolbar can prevent the default search provider and home page from being changed, perhaps it is something to do with them. Justin 2008/11/5 Tilman Brandl > Darren, > > have you seen the thread at > http://forums.techarena.in/windows-software/1064282.htm or maybe the one > from http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread144532.html ? > > Try to run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBA-M) Otherwise you may have to > secure your data and reformat. > > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Foster" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:47 PM > Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... > > > > Hi Guys and Gals, > > > > > > > > Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue. > > > > > > > > When we search for AVG for instance we are redirected to a "failed to > > connect" page. We used to be directed to a coupon mountain website > everytime > > but now we are simply getting the failed to connect. This only happens on > a > > bunch of keywords that are security related ie "spybot search and > destroy" > > "online antivirus" "avg" Etc, etc, > > > > > > > > I have tried the following in no particular order with no avail. > > > > > > > > Avg Free Full scan and cleaned 65 viruses - scanned second sweep and > found > > to be clean after a restart. > > > > Spybot search and destroy - 14 items cleaned - second sweep clear > > > > Malwarebytes - 6 items all taken care of - second sweep clear. > > > > SMitRem - clear > > > > SDFix Clear > > > > Ewido Micro - clear > > > > Ccleaner - cleared everything..... cleaned registry > > > > LSPfix > > > > WinsockxpFix > > > > Combofix > > > > Superantispyware > > > > Cwshredder > > > > Hijackthis > > > > > > > > Also checked the Hosts file and found that to be intact with no extra's. > > > > > > > > Hijackthis log below...... > > > > > > > > Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 > > > > Scan saved at 16:37:36, on 04/11/2008 > > > > Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) > > > > MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) > > > > > > > > Running processes: > > > > C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe > > > > C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Ann Simpole\Desktop\HijackThis.exe > > > > > > > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} > - > > C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - > > C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - > > {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program > > Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - > {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} > > - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - > {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - > > {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common > > Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll > > > > O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} - > > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > > > O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - > {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} > > - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL > > > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software > > Update\HPWuSchd2.exe" > > > > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe > > > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & > > Destroy\TeaTimer.exe > > > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:\Program > > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe > > > > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" > > /background > > > > O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program > > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm > > > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program > > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm > > > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program > > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm > > > > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program > > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm > > > > O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - > {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} > > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll > > > > O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - > > C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - > > {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - > C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll > > > > O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - > > C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > > > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - > > {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program > > Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe > > > > O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - > > C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll > > > > O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > > > O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - > > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL > > > > O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program > > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll > > > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) - AVG Technologies CZ, > > s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc.exe > > > > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. > - > > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Creative Labs Licensing Service - Creative Labs - > C:\Program > > Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CreativeLicensing.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology > Ltd - > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Google Desktop Manager 5.7.806.10245 > > (GoogleDesktopManager-061008-081103) - Google - C:\Program > > Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program > > Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe > > > > O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program > > Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Intel NCS NetService (NetSvc) - Intel(R) Corporation - > > C:\Program Files\Intel\PROSetWired\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe > > > > O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe > > > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (TalkTalk) (sprtsvc_TalkTalk) > - > > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TalkTalk\bin\sprtsvc.exe" /service /p > > TalkTalk (file missing) > > > > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Repair Service (TalkTalk) (tgsrvc_TalkTalk) - > > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Supportsoft\bin\tgsrvc.exe" > /p > > TalkTalk (file missing) > > > > Ideas Appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > Darren Foster > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- http://www.whisperer.com.au The Computer Whisperer - Gets you where you want to be. Friendly on-site technical support - Home and Small Business Specialist. Telephone: (03) 5979 1122 Mobile 0406 467 701 Servicing the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria, Australia) From justin at whisperer.com.au Wed Nov 5 01:08:20 2008 From: justin at whisperer.com.au (The Computer Whisperer) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:08:20 +1100 Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... In-Reply-To: <2852b8d40811042207t4e74db16n90b5ff5d3ab253bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <002201c93e9c$ff90cdb0$feb26910$@co.uk> <00f201c93eeb$bf631c30$0201a8c0@til4200> <2852b8d40811042207t4e74db16n90b5ff5d3ab253bb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2852b8d40811042208k156b9426v71095b6b4b14fd75@mail.gmail.com> Try a boot-time scan with Avast! Anti Virus 2008/11/5 The Computer Whisperer > Google Desktop and other plugins such as yahoo toolbar can prevent the > default search provider and home page from being changed, perhaps it is > something to do with them. > > Justin > > 2008/11/5 Tilman Brandl > > Darren, >> >> have you seen the thread at >> http://forums.techarena.in/windows-software/1064282.htm or maybe the one >> from http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread144532.html ? >> >> Try to run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBA-M) Otherwise you may have to >> secure your data and reformat. >> >> Tilman >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Darren Foster" >> To: >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:47 PM >> Subject: TSGL: Google Redirect issues..... >> >> >> > Hi Guys and Gals, >> > >> > >> > >> > Got a customers PC and it has a Google redirect issue. >> > >> > >> > >> > When we search for AVG for instance we are redirected to a "failed to >> > connect" page. We used to be directed to a coupon mountain website >> everytime >> > but now we are simply getting the failed to connect. This only happens >> on a >> > bunch of keywords that are security related ie "spybot search and >> destroy" >> > "online antivirus" "avg" Etc, etc, >> > >> > >> > >> > I have tried the following in no particular order with no avail. >> > >> > >> > >> > Avg Free Full scan and cleaned 65 viruses - scanned second sweep and >> found >> > to be clean after a restart. >> > >> > Spybot search and destroy - 14 items cleaned - second sweep clear >> > >> > Malwarebytes - 6 items all taken care of - second sweep clear. >> > >> > SMitRem - clear >> > >> > SDFix Clear >> > >> > Ewido Micro - clear >> > >> > Ccleaner - cleared everything..... cleaned registry >> > >> > LSPfix >> > >> > WinsockxpFix >> > >> > Combofix >> > >> > Superantispyware >> > >> > Cwshredder >> > >> > Hijackthis >> > >> > >> > >> > Also checked the Hosts file and found that to be intact with no extra's. >> > >> > >> > >> > Hijackthis log below...... >> > >> > >> > >> > Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 >> > >> > Scan saved at 16:37:36, on 04/11/2008 >> > >> > Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) >> > >> > MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) >> > >> > >> > >> > Running processes: >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe >> > >> > C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE >> > >> > C:\Documents and Settings\Ann Simpole\Desktop\HijackThis.exe >> > >> > >> > >> > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} >> - >> > C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - >> > C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - >> > {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program >> > Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - >> {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} >> > - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: Yahoo! IE Services Button - >> {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} >> > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - >> > {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common >> > Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll >> > >> > O2 - BHO: AVG Security Toolbar - {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} >> - >> > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL >> > >> > O3 - Toolbar: AVG Security Toolbar - >> {A057A204-BACC-4D26-9990-79A187E2698E} >> > - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\AVGTOO~1.DLL >> > >> > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software >> > Update\HPWuSchd2.exe" >> > >> > O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe >> > >> > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & >> > Destroy\TeaTimer.exe >> > >> > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SUPERAntiSpyware] C:\Program >> > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe >> > >> > O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" >> > /background >> > >> > O8 - Extra context menu item: &Yahoo! Search - file:///C:\Program >> > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsrch.htm >> > >> > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Dictionary - file:///C:\Program >> > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycdict.htm >> > >> > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &Maps - file:///C:\Program >> > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycmap.htm >> > >> > O8 - Extra context menu item: Yahoo! &SMS - file:///C:\Program >> > Files\Yahoo!\Common/ycsms.htm >> > >> > O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Services - >> {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} >> > - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yiesrvc.dll >> > >> > O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - >> > C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll >> > >> > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - >> > {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - >> C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll >> > >> > O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - >> > C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe >> > >> > O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - >> > {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program >> > Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe >> > >> > O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - >> > C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll >> > >> > O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - >> > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL >> > >> > O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - >> > C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL >> > >> > O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program >> > Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll >> > >> > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) - AVG Technologies CZ, >> > s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. >> - >> > C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Creative Labs Licensing Service - Creative Labs - >> C:\Program >> > Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CreativeLicensing.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology >> Ltd - >> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Google Desktop Manager 5.7.806.10245 >> > (GoogleDesktopManager-061008-081103) - Google - C:\Program >> > Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program >> > Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program >> > Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Intel NCS NetService (NetSvc) - Intel(R) Corporation - >> > C:\Program Files\Intel\PROSetWired\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe >> > >> > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Sprocket Service (TalkTalk) >> (sprtsvc_TalkTalk) - >> > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TalkTalk\bin\sprtsvc.exe" /service /p >> > TalkTalk (file missing) >> > >> > O23 - Service: SupportSoft Repair Service (TalkTalk) (tgsrvc_TalkTalk) - >> > Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common >> Files\Supportsoft\bin\tgsrvc.exe" /p >> > TalkTalk (file missing) >> > >> > Ideas Appreciated. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Darren Foster >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > > > -- > http://www.whisperer.com.au > > The Computer Whisperer - Gets you where you want to be. > > Friendly on-site technical support - Home and Small Business Specialist. > > Telephone: (03) 5979 1122 > Mobile 0406 467 701 > > Servicing the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria, Australia) > -- http://www.whisperer.com.au The Computer Whisperer - Gets you where you want to be. Friendly on-site technical support - Home and Small Business Specialist. Telephone: (03) 5979 1122 Mobile 0406 467 701 Servicing the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria, Australia) From HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de Thu Nov 6 02:35:49 2008 From: HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-15?Q?Heidi_Schr=F6der?=) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:35:49 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Hotpop.com Message-ID: <0EAE2A1F2C7B464191AFB0BB886861EB@HeidisPC> Hi there everybody, I think there was a question about hotpop.com in this circle a while ago, so maybe there is at least one person here who might be able to help. Tried to use their support several times but no luck, it is always "temporarily not available". I really don't know what is going on - maybe they are close to a break-down and can't do the promised job any more and I should better stop using their service, or do they offer support only for paying customers? My problem is that I can't get a few addresses to be blocked. I thought they are maybe changing the address every time, but no it is always the same info at der-fondsreport.de (there is one more address that I can't get blocked). I am checking my incoming mails using Magic Mail Monitor, so can check the source code before downloading the message and they are using different senders names like "Der Fonds-Report" or "Geldanlage Report" but the only address I can see in the source code always is the above mentioned. I did block the address weeks ago so maybe it is a question of how long it takes until the blocking actually works, but I think usually it works much quicker. And so far it does work with 22 addresses as it seems, don't remember each and every address, so it might happen that the one or other causes the same problem and I just do not realize it, as their mails do not come in so often/regularly. So does anybody know if there is a trick, the senders can use to make hotpop ignore the fact that the address is blocked, or could there be a reason why hotpop can't block this address? I have addresses blocked that include a "-" as well as ".de"-addresses and their blocking is working. Have a nice day Heidi From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Thu Nov 6 19:51:50 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:51:50 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Seeking newsgroup service recommendations Message-ID: <003001c94073$0591aea0$0100000a@michael> I use Comcast who, after years of providing newsgroup service via Giganews as part of my Internet service, has decided rather abruptly to stop offering it to its customers. Giganews has a "special" for Comcast customers but it seems pricy to me for my very occasional use. If anybody has any recommendation on newsgroup servers that are low cost I'd love to know! Thanks! Michael From Engineman1 at aol.com Thu Nov 6 20:19:15 2008 From: Engineman1 at aol.com (Engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:19:15 EST Subject: TSGL: Seeking newsgroup service recommendations Message-ID: I get RCM free through: _http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/topics_ (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/topics) In a message dated 11/6/2008 5:13:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, michaelsweeden at comcast.net writes: I use Comcast who, after years of providing newsgroup service via Giganews as part of my Internet service, has decided rather abruptly to stop offering it to its customers. Giganews has a "special" for Comcast customers but it seems pricy to me for my very occasional use. If anybody has any recommendation on newsgroup servers that are low cost I'd love to know! Thanks! Michael _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001) From whpike at cox.net Thu Nov 6 21:41:01 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:41:01 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Hi guys. I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. So I've come looking for feedback and advice. Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you recommend it over Norton (or not)? Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. From ian at iarp.ca Thu Nov 6 22:07:15 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:07:15 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: I'm no help when it comes to webroot as I've never used it personally. I've had customer that wanted to install it on Vista and it didn't fair out so well. Norton, i used to despise for ALONG time because it was always so cumbersome and just made the machine into a paper weight. I've noticed the 2009 that there's been vast improvements, it's actually finding viruses and removing them for once while allowing the machine to be of good use. I'm finally impressed by Norton 2009 for once. I think the last time i ever put Norton on my machine was almost 9 years ago. I currently use Avast Home Edition (free). Just my thoughts. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:41 PM, William Pike wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for > several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy > of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). > Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. > Basicly > I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get > their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both > products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my > Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for > Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. > So I've come looking for feedback and advice. > Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you > recommend it over Norton (or not)? > > Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. > > -- Thanks Ian R-P From hdavis1 at gmail.com Thu Nov 6 22:30:49 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:30:49 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <4913B669.6040503@gmail.com> William, My suggestion is to scrap both and use the free version of AVG or Avast. I use AVG and have for years and have never had a problem. The current version, v8, also has some antispyware capabilities also. It updates itself automatically and silently every day. I think many of the folks in this group also use AVG or Avast and I'm sure they'll pipe up shortly. Because so much bad stuff comes via e-mail I suggest, if your current e-mail provider doesn't have great antivirus and antispam capability, that you get a g-mail account. G-mail does AV screening and diverts your spam to a separate folder. It seems to be very good. You can set it up to automatically get the mail from your existing e-mail accounts (meaning you don't have to change your e-mail addresses). You can (probably, if you use a popular client) also retrieve your mail from the g-mail account using your current e-mail client if you like to read your mail locally. This method eliminates all the ads Google places next to your e-mail if you read it using your browser. Because a lot of the rest of the bad stuff comes from random scanning for susceptible systems I suggest you get a NAT router if you don't have one, even if you have only one machine. The router is essentially a hardware firewall and is more effective that the software firewall you are probably running. If you have only one machine you can get rid of the software firewall and get some of your machine's horsepower back. I was a Norton slave for many years but got so frustrated with the cost, processing burden and updating problems that I threw in the towel around Norton AV 2002 or so and have never regretted it. There are 3 systems in our house and I'm saving a bundle and none of the systems has ever even had a detection. Hummm..... maybe that means AVG is just twiddling its thumbs leaving me to think it's busy protecting my back......???? HTH H Davis William Pike wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for > several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy > of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). > Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly > I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get > their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both > products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my > Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for > Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. > So I've come looking for feedback and advice. > Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you > recommend it over Norton (or not)? > > Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From whpike at cox.net Thu Nov 6 22:41:30 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:41:30 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081107034330.SGHP3771.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> And thus is my quandary. I too am finally impressed with Norton ( I guess it's 2009, it's the latest version from the website) -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:07 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Antivirus opinions I'm no help when it comes to webroot as I've never used it personally. I've had customer that wanted to install it on Vista and it didn't fair out so well. Norton, i used to despise for ALONG time because it was always so cumbersome and just made the machine into a paper weight. I've noticed the 2009 that there's been vast improvements, it's actually finding viruses and removing them for once while allowing the machine to be of good use. I'm finally impressed by Norton 2009 for once. I think the last time i ever put Norton on my machine was almost 9 years ago. I currently use Avast Home Edition (free). Just my thoughts. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Thu Nov 6 23:12:25 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:12:25 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <20081107034330.SGHP3771.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081107034330.SGHP3771.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <003801c9408f$0af10b40$0100000a@michael> I would ditto the comments on Norton. I despised it especially from 2004 to 2006, when the products could bring a fast machine to a crawl while simultaneously providing very lame protection. On these counts, I found 2007 better, 2008 better still, and I am very impressed with 2009 and would recommend it wholeheartedly. Symantec has learned from their mistakes, it seems, and the 2009 product offers great protection, a VERY minimal system performance impact, and "pulse" updates so that the product is updated many times per day. I've used Spy Sweeper with Antivirus over the past 3 or so years on various systems, and its protection has been good, but that product has always in my experience induced a fairly healthy performance hit similar to the old Norton products. That's my 2 cents! Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of William Pike Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:42 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Antivirus opinions And thus is my quandary. I too am finally impressed with Norton ( I guess it's 2009, it's the latest version from the website) -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:07 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Antivirus opinions I'm no help when it comes to webroot as I've never used it personally. I've had customer that wanted to install it on Vista and it didn't fair out so well. Norton, i used to despise for ALONG time because it was always so cumbersome and just made the machine into a paper weight. I've noticed the 2009 that there's been vast improvements, it's actually finding viruses and removing them for once while allowing the machine to be of good use. I'm finally impressed by Norton 2009 for once. I think the last time i ever put Norton on my machine was almost 9 years ago. I currently use Avast Home Edition (free). Just my thoughts. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From rbrunton at accesswave.ca Fri Nov 7 05:19:52 2008 From: rbrunton at accesswave.ca (Ron Brunton) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:19:52 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <000d01c940c2$5f4d62f0$1de828d0$@ca> I have been using two anti-virus products (on different machines, of course). On my primary desktop computer I'm using ESET's NOD32. I've been very pleased with it. On my laptop I'm using AVG 8 (paid version) and I like it as well. Both products claim to provide some spyware protection, but I haven't seen reviews of that aspect of either. I was using Webroot Spysweeper and then I had to restore a clean image of my OS (Vista) and re-install virtually everything. I have not yet put Spysweeper back on, but that's mainly laziness rather than a decision. Ron -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of William Pike Sent: November-06-08 10:41 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions Hi guys. I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. So I've come looking for feedback and advice. Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you recommend it over Norton (or not)? Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com From tbrandl2 at chello.at Fri Nov 7 08:24:20 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:24:20 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions References: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <00d201c940dc$2aea7100$0201a8c0@til4200> Hi, you might be interested in the information here: http://windowssecrets.com/2008/06/26/05-Get-top-flight-antivirus-without-spending-a-dime Hope you can access it ... My own experience is whith AVG (free) for several years - with no problems whatsoever. Only recently when I set up a new machine I switched to Avast (free) which appears to be a little bit more 'sharp', at the price of a few false positives once in a while. Pretty simple to setup and use, so I would always recommend it. Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Pike" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:41 AM Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions > > > Hi guys. > > I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for > several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy > of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). > Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly > I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get > their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both > products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my > Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for > Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. > So I've come looking for feedback and advice. > Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you > recommend it over Norton (or not)? > > Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. From bo.maurin at ericsson.com Fri Nov 7 09:08:18 2008 From: bo.maurin at ericsson.com (Bo Maurin) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:08:18 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Reduce number of options in the Send To menu In-Reply-To: <58109167A59245779B460FC0C72484FA@AcerLaptop> References: <122491.31557.qm@web82102.mail.mud.yahoo.com><06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E681C8D@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> <58109167A59245779B460FC0C72484FA@AcerLaptop> Message-ID: <06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E0154AFA8@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> Does anyone know a simple way to reduce all the options from the right-click menu? I tried the instructions from this site (sorry, only in Swedish) http://www.din-it-kunskap.com/2008/10/26/3-enkla-steg-for-att-snabba-upp -send-to-menyn/ What is basically says is to navigate to the "sendto" folder and delete all items you don't want to be there. Problem is that I can't find that sendto folder at all. Windows says just can't find that folder. Maybe this trick is only applicable to XP I'm using Vista in both Home and Enterprise versions From Beezersmom at aol.com Fri Nov 7 09:59:43 2008 From: Beezersmom at aol.com (Beezersmom at aol.com) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:59:43 EST Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions Message-ID: Ron Before you reinstall Webroot Spysweeper try the 30 day free trial of A-Squared Anti-Malware 4.0 that Heidi recommend to me _http://www.emsisoft.com/en/_ (http://www.emsisoft.com/en/) There is also a free verison but I bought it and use it with the paid version of PC-Cillin and I'm not having any problems. Toni In a message dated 11/7/2008 5:20:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rbrunton at accesswave.ca writes: I have been using two anti-virus products (on different machines, of course). On my primary desktop computer I'm using ESET's NOD32. I've been very pleased with it. On my laptop I'm using AVG 8 (paid version) and I like it as well. Both products claim to provide some spyware protection, but I haven't seen reviews of that aspect of either. I was using Webroot Spysweeper and then I had to restore a clean image of my OS (Vista) and re-install virtually everything. I have not yet put Spysweeper back on, but that's mainly laziness rather than a decision. Ron -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of William Pike Sent: November-06-08 10:41 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions Hi guys. I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. So I've come looking for feedback and advice. Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you recommend it over Norton (or not)? Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3593 (20081107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001) From ebell at alliedvoa.com Fri Nov 7 11:48:42 2008 From: ebell at alliedvoa.com (Ethan Bell) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:48:42 -0600 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081107024301.MZPT8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <005501c940f8$b20a0d00$161e2700$@com> Webroot uses Sophos as its antivirus. Sophos has a comparison of themselves, Norton and McAfee. You can see that here: http://www.sophos.com/security/topic/enterprise-review.html In my opinion the best available is either ESET Smart Security or FSecure. As far as free solutions go you can use the ones mentioned or Spyware Terminator (rolls all into one application). For malware only the best is MalwareBytes. Good luck and safe computing. -Ethan "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." --Woodrow Wilson -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of William Pike Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:41 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions Hi guys. I've got a question about antivirus products, I've been using Norton for several years, (antivirus only). A few months ago I downloaded a free copy of Webroot Spysweeper with a 1 year subscripton (a free promo). Webroot is offering a discounted bundel of Spysweeper and Antivirus. Basicly I can pay to extend my Spysweeper subscription for another year and get their antivirus added in, this will give me basicly 18+ months of both products for 1 years subscription cost. I had intended to do this when my Norton subscription ran out (now) but I recently downloaded the upgrade for Norton (2008) and they seem to have made vast improvments in their product. So I've come looking for feedback and advice. Does anyone have experience with Webroot's antivirus product? And would you recommend it over Norton (or not)? Pricewise the Webroot is the best deal. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From deepend at tpg.com.au Fri Nov 7 12:54:13 2008 From: deepend at tpg.com.au (Don Penlington) Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:54:13 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Reduce number of options in the Send To menu In-Reply-To: <06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E0154AFA8@esealmw103.eemea. ericsson.se> References: <58109167A59245779B460FC0C72484FA@AcerLaptop> <122491.31557.qm@web82102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E681C8D@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> <58109167A59245779B460FC0C72484FA@AcerLaptop> Message-ID: <4.3.2.20081108032432.00c41dd8@mail.tpg.com.au> Bo wrote: >Does anyone know a simple way to reduce all the options from the >right-click menu?>> The SendTo folder has nothing to do with the right click menu (aka the context shell). SendTo is simply one of many context items. It's not easy to modify your context menu entries manually, as these are separately contained in many different parts of the registry. The easiest way is to use one of the many freeware context shell utilities. I use shellexview http://www.nirsoft.net/ Shellexview is a bit daunting at first sight, as it will tell your more than you'd ever want to know about the visible and hidden shell extensions---there are dozens of them. Just hunt through to locate each item you want to delete, right click the item and select Disable. You won't recognise most items---these should be left alone in most cases. There's an elementary tutorial on context menus at my website for those wanting to add new items to their right-click menu--it's the easiest way to open files in alternative programs other than the default. There's also a beginners tutorial on the use of right-click SendTo---a very quick and easy way to send files around your computer if properly set up. Sadly this procedure is not well known. I use it all the time, and it's one of the first things I configure on any new computer. The SendTo folder in XP is in C:/Docs and Settings/Your login name. There will be a second one in All Users, but it may not be effective. You should place shortcuts in the first one. Don Penlington From hdavis1 at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 16:15:52 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:15:52 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Reduce number of options in the Send To menu In-Reply-To: <06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E0154AFA8@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> References: <122491.31557.qm@web82102.mail.mud.yahoo.com><06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E681C8D@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> <58109167A59245779B460FC0C72484FA@AcerLaptop> <06FF74A28CE65745B4554454DA4B6D5E0154AFA8@esealmw103.eemea.ericsson.se> Message-ID: <4914B008.4000708@gmail.com> Well Bo, I don't know about "simple" but you might try Shell Extension Viewer (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html). It will show you probably more than you want. Click the column headers to sort the data. I'd try sorting by Type then focus on Context Menu first. You can disable anything you find, so some trial and error might be in order. I've never used this particular program so you're on your own. For others, Nir Sofer has an impressive collection of free for personal use utilities at http://www.nirsoft.net/. Most are very specific, nitty gritty things made to solve a particular problem. But if you need it, you probably can't find it anywhere else. Everything I've tried has worked well. H Davis Bo Maurin wrote: > Does anyone know a simple way to reduce all the options from the > right-click menu? > > I tried the instructions from this site (sorry, only in Swedish) > http://www.din-it-kunskap.com/2008/10/26/3-enkla-steg-for-att-snabba-upp > -send-to-menyn/ > What is basically says is to navigate to the "sendto" folder and delete > all items you don't want to be there. > > Problem is that I can't find that sendto folder at all. Windows says > just can't find that folder. Maybe this trick is only applicable to XP > I'm using Vista in both Home and Enterprise versions > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From whpike at cox.net Fri Nov 7 23:06:21 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:06:21 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Antivirus opinions In-Reply-To: <003801c9408f$0af10b40$0100000a@michael> Message-ID: <20081108040819.BKFH23768.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Thanks Mike, this was the type of response I was looking for. As I have not had much contact with the Spysweeper antivirus I was hopeing someone out there had.... -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeden Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:12 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Antivirus opinions I would ditto the comments on Norton. I despised it especially from 2004 to 2006, when the products could bring a fast machine to a crawl while simultaneously providing very lame protection. On these counts, I found 2007 better, 2008 better still, and I am very impressed with 2009 and would recommend it wholeheartedly. Symantec has learned from their mistakes, it seems, and the 2009 product offers great protection, a VERY minimal system performance impact, and "pulse" updates so that the product is updated many times per day. I've used Spy Sweeper with Antivirus over the past 3 or so years on various systems, and its protection has been good, but that product has always in my experience induced a fairly healthy performance hit similar to the old Norton products. That's my 2 cents! Michael ---- From tbrandl2 at chello.at Tue Nov 11 10:00:53 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:00:53 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? Message-ID: <007601c9440e$4e42c780$0201a8c0@til4200> Hi, some time ago I did a trial run with Firefox 3 and found it impressive enough in order to switch over from Maxthon 1.6 (or such). What I'm missing sofar is the option to have 'groups'. Groups in Maxthon allow you to gather several links/sites for a specific topic and save them away for later use. I've made use of this feature extensively in the past, but can't for the life of me find a similar way to handle groups of links in FF3. Has anybody of you enough intimate knowledge of FF in order to give me a hint on how to accomplish this? TVMIA Tilman From jonpan at onlinehome.de Tue Nov 11 10:53:21 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:53:21 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? References: <007601c9440e$4e42c780$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: <60C31F35743A4EB494D83018241886B0@johnsp2> Hi Tilman, Click Bookmarks Click "organize Bookmarks' Open 'All Bookmarks' Select Bookmarks Menu' Click 'Organise' Click 'New Folder" etc., etc. You can then put your links into the folder of your choice from the 'Organize Bookmarks' button. Excuse hurry - doing a translation! John Od/G P.S. I was able to transfer my 'favourites' from IE ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:00 PM Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? Hi, some time ago I did a trial run with Firefox 3 and found it impressive enough in order to switch over from Maxthon 1.6 (or such). What I'm missing sofar is the option to have 'groups'. Groups in Maxthon allow you to gather several links/sites for a specific topic and save them away for later use. I've made use of this feature extensively in the past, but can't for the life of me find a similar way to handle groups of links in FF3. Has anybody of you enough intimate knowledge of FF in order to give me a hint on how to accomplish this? TVMIA Tilman _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From edlynn at usa.com Tue Nov 11 11:00:12 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:12 -0500 Subject: TSGL: post it on the Internet Message-ID: <002e01c94416$97566280$2b765445@mine> Is there a way to post an announcement on the Internet by just typing it and sending it out via some application. I don't want to use a blog, website, public lists like Craiglist, Yahoo, Google... Every once in a while Google picks up private announcements and comments that were placed on the Internet by individuals. How are they placed on the Internet? Any clues? Thanks. ED From ian at iarp.ca Tue Nov 11 11:25:32 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:25:32 -0500 Subject: TSGL: post it on the Internet In-Reply-To: <002e01c94416$97566280$2b765445@mine> References: <002e01c94416$97566280$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: Well, these conversations are or used-to-be archived on the TSGL server and published online, then google's bots finds the archive website and scans everything. And for the announcement that you want to post, needs to be posted on some type of webpage so search engines can find it(if thats what your after). The easiest method is a free blog from like www.wordpress.com. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, EdlynnUSA wrote: > Is there a way to post an announcement on the Internet by just typing it > and sending it out via some application. > > I don't want to use a blog, website, public lists like Craiglist, Yahoo, > Google... > > Every once in a while Google picks up private announcements and comments > that were placed on the Internet by individuals. How are they placed on the > Internet? > > Any clues? Thanks. > > ED > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P From hdavis1 at gmail.com Tue Nov 11 12:47:57 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:47:57 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? In-Reply-To: <60C31F35743A4EB494D83018241886B0@johnsp2> References: <007601c9440e$4e42c780$0201a8c0@til4200> <60C31F35743A4EB494D83018241886B0@johnsp2> Message-ID: <4919C54D.5080700@gmail.com> Tilman, Follow John's directions but place your folder structure under "Bookmarks Toolbar" and this will cause the top level folders you create to appear in the Bookmarks toolbar in FF3. This will allow you to get to all your bookmarks without opening the Bookmarks menu. You might have to turn the Bookmarks toolbar on by clicking View, Toolbars, Bookmarks Toolbar. You can reduce the number of toolbars by placing the Bookmarks toolbar on the same level as the Back, Forward, Stop, etc icons but it's not intuitive. I'll leave that as an exercise for the student. H Davis jonpan wrote: > Hi Tilman, > > Click Bookmarks > Click "organize Bookmarks' > Open 'All Bookmarks' > Select Bookmarks Menu' > Click 'Organise' > Click 'New Folder" > > etc., etc. You can then put your links into the folder of your choice from the 'Organize Bookmarks' button. Excuse hurry - doing a translation! > > John > Od/G > P.S. I was able to transfer my 'favourites' from IE > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tilman Brandl > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:00 PM > Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? > > > Hi, > > some time ago I did a trial run with Firefox 3 and found it impressive enough in order to switch over from Maxthon 1.6 (or such). > > What I'm missing sofar is the option to have 'groups'. Groups in Maxthon allow you to gather several links/sites for a specific topic and save them away for later use. I've made use of this feature extensively in the past, but can't for the life of me find a similar way to handle groups of links in FF3. > > Has anybody of you enough intimate knowledge of FF in order to give me a hint on how to accomplish this? > > TVMIA > > Tilman > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From edlynn at usa.com Tue Nov 11 13:22:39 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:22:39 -0500 Subject: TSGL: post it on the Internet References: <002e01c94416$97566280$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: <004201c9442a$7c40b360$2b765445@mine> Thanks - I'll give it a try. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Ramsey-Planck" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: post it on the Internet > Well, these conversations are or used-to-be archived on the TSGL server > and > published online, then google's bots finds the archive website and scans > everything. > > And for the announcement that you want to post, needs to be posted on some > type of webpage so search engines can find it(if thats what your after). > The > easiest method is a free blog from like www.wordpress.com. > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, EdlynnUSA wrote: > >> Is there a way to post an announcement on the Internet by just typing it >> and sending it out via some application. >> >> I don't want to use a blog, website, public lists like Craiglist, Yahoo, >> Google... >> >> Every once in a while Google picks up private announcements and comments >> that were placed on the Internet by individuals. How are they placed on >> the >> Internet? >> >> Any clues? Thanks. >> >> ED >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > > > -- > Thanks > Ian R-P > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From ian at iarp.ca Tue Nov 11 18:47:33 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:47:33 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID Message-ID: Hey All, Quick summary: I was on vista, wasn't happy... had a mirroring raid controlled by the motherboard and not vista. I'm back on XP now and i've had to rebuild the array as i had to disable the RAID ability on the motherboard in order to install XP. I've been on Vista for about 6 months now but i've needed to be able to use my TV Tuner card, firewire card and wireless card. The wireless card was iffy and the firewire/tv tuner never worked and vista wouldn't let them. So i reinstalled XP but in order todo so i had to disable my mirroring raid with 2 500gb hard drives. When XP was back on i enabled raid on the motherboard again and now it's in the rebuilding stage. Questions: Anyone have any idea: A) How long rebuilds take(roughly 128GB on a 500GB hard drive) and B) if i have to do this again, isn't there a way to not have to disable the raid ability? -- Thanks Ian R-P From whpike at cox.net Tue Nov 11 21:57:45 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:57:45 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081112025748.GOBM8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> I never had to disable the raid in this type of situation... Basicly the windows install should see the two raid (mirrored) drives as one drive...as to the question of time to rebuild.. It can vary depending on drive types and motherboard.... But for a 500 gig drive (it has to rebuild the empty space also) you might as well set it and go to bed.... It "should" be finished by the next morning... By the way... Generaly it would be faster to use a smaller set of drives for your OS (reduces seak time, and use your larger drives as data drives with a second raid set... I use two 200 gig (still too large actually) for my OS and two 500 gig drives for data storage. My computer sees 1 200 gig "C" drive and 1 500 gig "D" drive -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:48 PM To: TSGL Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From ian at iarp.ca Tue Nov 11 22:23:18 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:23:18 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: <20081112025748.GOBM8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> References: <20081112025748.GOBM8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: When i tried installing XP with raid enabled, it couldn't see any of the drives installed. BIOS could see everything just fine, i tried multiple times to no luck. Eventually i tried just disabling the raid and bam the installer saw everything just fine as well, including the 2 raid drives but it showed them as protected and unusable. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, William Pike wrote: > I never had to disable the raid in this type of situation... Basicly the > windows install should see the two raid (mirrored) drives as one drive...as > to the question of time to rebuild.. It can vary depending on drive types > and motherboard.... But for a 500 gig drive (it has to rebuild the empty > space also) you might as well set it and go to bed.... It "should" be > finished by the next morning... > By the way... Generaly it would be faster to use a smaller set of drives > for > your OS (reduces seak time, and use your larger drives as data drives with > a > second raid set... I use two 200 gig (still too large actually) for my OS > and two 500 gig drives for data storage. My computer sees 1 200 gig "C" > drive and 1 500 gig "D" drive > > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:48 PM > To: TSGL > Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID > > > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P From whpike at cox.net Wed Nov 12 07:00:52 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:00:52 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081112120055.FXCJ19960.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> I honestly have never come across this before, may be some quirk of the raid controler. When I start up my systme I get an option to enter the raid utility (pre-boot)I'm assuming that is also the case with you... Curious what chipset (raid controler) does your motherboard use? -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:23 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Mirroring RAID When i tried installing XP with raid enabled, it couldn't see any of the drives installed. BIOS could see everything just fine, i tried multiple times to no luck. Eventually i tried just disabling the raid and bam the installer saw everything just fine as well, including the 2 raid drives but it showed them as protected and unusable. From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Wed Nov 12 07:13:43 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:13:43 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: References: <20081112025748.GOBM8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <01fe01c944c0$1b6281e0$0100000a@michael> Windows XP has RAID drivers for VERY few Controllers, and can only load additional RAID drivers at boot time via a floppy disk (when you boot an XP disc you will see at one point on the bottom of the screen "Press F6 to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver"). If the drivers for the RAID controller are not one of the precious few included and you do not install the driver here, then indeed Windows XP will see no hard drives on which to install. There is a program called nLite which I really love that will allow you to create a customized Windows XP CD, and one of the many things it will allow you to do is integrate your RAID drivers into the boot CD so that you do not have to install them via F6 from a floppy. It is available here: http://www.nliteos.com/ Regards, Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:23 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Mirroring RAID When i tried installing XP with raid enabled, it couldn't see any of the drives installed. BIOS could see everything just fine, i tried multiple times to no luck. Eventually i tried just disabling the raid and bam the installer saw everything just fine as well, including the 2 raid drives but it showed them as protected and unusable. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, William Pike wrote: > I never had to disable the raid in this type of situation... Basicly the > windows install should see the two raid (mirrored) drives as one drive...as > to the question of time to rebuild.. It can vary depending on drive types > and motherboard.... But for a 500 gig drive (it has to rebuild the empty > space also) you might as well set it and go to bed.... It "should" be > finished by the next morning... > By the way... Generaly it would be faster to use a smaller set of drives > for > your OS (reduces seak time, and use your larger drives as data drives with > a > second raid set... I use two 200 gig (still too large actually) for my OS > and two 500 gig drives for data storage. My computer sees 1 200 gig "C" > drive and 1 500 gig "D" drive > > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:48 PM > To: TSGL > Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID > > > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From tbrandl2 at chello.at Wed Nov 12 07:52:56 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:52:56 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? References: <007601c9440e$4e42c780$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: <00eb01c944c5$9abc0830$0201a8c0@til4200> Hi, thanks, John and H Davis for your quick answer. I should've seen that option myself, but didn't What I was still missing was an option to save a whole bunch of links (all open links) in one single swoop. Think I've found it under the tabs' context menu - "add bookmarks for all tabs". Will have to test this. Thanks again Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:00 PM Subject: TSGL: Can I save bookmark 'Groups' in FF3 ? > Hi, > > some time ago I did a trial run with Firefox 3 and found it impressive enough in order to switch over from Maxthon 1.6 (or such). > > What I'm missing sofar is the option to have 'groups'. Groups in Maxthon allow you to gather several links/sites for a specific topic and save them away for later use. I've made use of this feature extensively in the past, but can't for the life of me find a similar way to handle groups of links in FF3. > > Has anybody of you enough intimate knowledge of FF in order to give me a hint on how to accomplish this? > > TVMIA > > Tilman From ian at iarp.ca Wed Nov 12 12:50:59 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:50:59 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: <20081112120055.FXCJ19960.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> References: <20081112120055.FXCJ19960.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: I have this weird feeling that i have to activate something in order to start this rebuild process, only about 4 hours short of when i started it 24hours ago and its still on rebuild. The raid utility just says NVIDIA Raid Utility. I have an ASUS M2N-E motherboard if that will point to any certain program. Michael Sweeden's e-mail on this subject makes sence, and I'm looking into making the CD. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:00 AM, William Pike wrote: > I honestly have never come across this before, may be some quirk of the > raid > controler. When I start up my systme I get an option to enter the raid > utility (pre-boot)I'm assuming that is also the case with you... Curious > what chipset (raid controler) does your motherboard use? > > -- Thanks Ian R-P From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Wed Nov 12 13:40:44 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:40:44 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Mirroring RAID In-Reply-To: References: <20081112120055.FXCJ19960.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: <025301c944f6$2c5ff6e0$0100000a@michael> A lot of RAID BIOSes will let you do an "offline rebuild" and will show the percentage complete of the rebuild. I have seen cases where an extreme amount of time for the rebuild is caused by a failing hard drive. You may want to get and run the drive manufacturer's diagnostic software on both drives. Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:51 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Mirroring RAID I have this weird feeling that i have to activate something in order to start this rebuild process, only about 4 hours short of when i started it 24hours ago and its still on rebuild. The raid utility just says NVIDIA Raid Utility. I have an ASUS M2N-E motherboard if that will point to any certain program. Michael Sweeden's e-mail on this subject makes sence, and I'm looking into making the CD. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:00 AM, William Pike wrote: > I honestly have never come across this before, may be some quirk of the > raid > controler. When I start up my systme I get an option to enter the raid > utility (pre-boot)I'm assuming that is also the case with you... Curious > what chipset (raid controler) does your motherboard use? > > -- Thanks Ian R-P _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From wseehorn at earthlink.net Thu Nov 13 06:43:44 2008 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:43:44 -0500 Subject: TSGL: McAfee VirusScanPlus question In-Reply-To: <48898627.8020909@comcast.net> References: <48898627.8020909@comcast.net> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20081113063415.01f7add8@pop.earthlink.net> Through one of the financial sites I'm on I'm being offered a subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus, for up to 3 PCs. It's free for the first year and a reduced price thereafter. AFKI McAfee has a decent virus scan program, but: 1. Many Moons ago, in the 1980s or early 90s, I had a computer with McAfee anti virus pre installed. I wanted Norton & deleted McAfee, but I couldn't get rid of the icons for it on the desktop. They could be moved but not deleted. Does it still do that? (be a deal breaker if it did) 2. I've been using AVG free for several years, with no problems. I'm also wondering if I'm looking at "It ain't broke, let's fix it!" syndrome What sayeth the collective wisdom of the group? Willard From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Thu Nov 13 06:58:30 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:58:30 -0500 Subject: TSGL: McAfee VirusScanPlus question In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081113063415.01f7add8@pop.earthlink.net> References: <48898627.8020909@comcast.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20081113063415.01f7add8@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <001801c94587$25c8d4f0$0100000a@michael> I clean PC infections for a living, and I owe McAfee a debt of gratitude for helping me stay so busy and financially secure! I clean an infected machine running McAfee products on the average of once a week. I suppose it's better than nothing, but I certainly wouldn't pay for it. That said, I am a Comcast customer and Comcast gives it away free of charge. I did get an email 2 or 3 weeks ago about a new version being available. I can't yet speak for the new version, but historically it has been a poor performer. Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Willard Seehorn Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:44 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: TSGL: McAfee VirusScanPlus question Through one of the financial sites I'm on I'm being offered a subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus, for up to 3 PCs. It's free for the first year and a reduced price thereafter. AFKI McAfee has a decent virus scan program, but: 1. Many Moons ago, in the 1980s or early 90s, I had a computer with McAfee anti virus pre installed. I wanted Norton & deleted McAfee, but I couldn't get rid of the icons for it on the desktop. They could be moved but not deleted. Does it still do that? (be a deal breaker if it did) 2. I've been using AVG free for several years, with no problems. I'm also wondering if I'm looking at "It ain't broke, let's fix it!" syndrome What sayeth the collective wisdom of the group? Willard _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From Engineman1 at aol.com Thu Nov 13 13:26:56 2008 From: Engineman1 at aol.com (Engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:26:56 EST Subject: TSGL: Tivo problem Message-ID: Are any of you out there Tivo experts? I had 2 series 2 tivos connected to one TV and could use either one. There was no cable box. Now I have Comcast On Demand and I can only use one Tivo the way the Comcast tech connected it. Comcast says it cannot help me with Tivo problems. What do I have to do to use both tivos with the cable box? John **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001) From coover at fastmail.fm Thu Nov 13 19:43:02 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:43:02 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Tivo problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I suppose you could rent another cable box, probably $5 a month?, and either connect it to another TV or get an A-B switch, where you decide which box to connect to the TV. That may not be the best solution. But it should work. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Engineman1 at aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:27 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: Tivo problem Are any of you out there Tivo experts? I had 2 series 2 tivos connected to one TV and could use either one. There was no cable box. Now I have Comcast On Demand and I can only use one Tivo the way the Comcast tech connected it. Comcast says it cannot help me with Tivo problems. What do I have to do to use both tivos with the cable box? John **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redi r=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001) _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From hdavis1 at gmail.com Thu Nov 13 21:41:27 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:41:27 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader Message-ID: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> Does anyone out there use Foxit Reader as an Adobe Reader substitute? If so, is it possible to get it to open a pdf in a new tab in FF as can be done with Adobe? I've installed it but when I click on a pdf link it opens the pdf in a separate Foxit window outside of FF. I tried all the options I can find but nothing seems to work. -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From ian at iarp.ca Thu Nov 13 21:47:24 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:47:24 -0500 Subject: TSGL: RAId Rebuild problem(s) Message-ID: Hey, I checked both drives by taking them out and connecting them up manually to my laptop, they both ran and passed tests fine. I was unable to see any data as the partitions were, i think it said GPI protected or something like that. Were now well over 48 hours and status still set to rebuild. I have this feeling that i'm supposed to initiate the process somehow. MediaShield is the name of something that i use to enter the RAID program with F10. Whenever i click R for Rebuild and select the opposite drive, i get Error and then have to restart the computer.. no codes or anything, just Error. I've never used a raid before this one, so i've NO clue on what to do next. -- Thanks Ian R-P From whpike at cox.net Fri Nov 14 00:15:46 2008 From: whpike at cox.net (William Pike) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:15:46 -0500 Subject: TSGL: RAId Rebuild problem(s) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081114051546.ZGHP23768.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> If you installed windows on one of the drives then you should be able to do the rebuild in windows... Use the Nvidia utility... That's the same chipset that I have. On an MSI board.... I had a drive go bad a while back and when I replaced it I rubuilt in windows. The utility is called nvidia raid manager... -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Ian Ramsey-Planck Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:47 PM To: TSGL Subject: TSGL: RAId Rebuild problem(s) Hey, I checked both drives by taking them out and connecting them up manually to my laptop, they both ran and passed tests fine. I was unable to see any data as the partitions were, i think it said GPI protected or something like that. Were now well over 48 hours and status still set to rebuild. I have this feeling that i'm supposed to initiate the process somehow. MediaShield is the name of something that i use to enter the RAID program with F10. Whenever i click R for Rebuild and select the opposite drive, i get Error and then have to restart the computer.. no codes or anything, just Error. I've never used a raid before this one, so i've NO clue on what to do next. -- Thanks Ian R-P _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de Fri Nov 14 01:48:54 2008 From: HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Heidi_Schr=F6der?=) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:48:54 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> Message-ID: From: "H Davis" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 3:41 AM To: "TSGL List" Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader > Does anyone out there use Foxit Reader as an Adobe Reader substitute? If > so, is it possible to get it to open a pdf in a new tab in FF as can be > done with Adobe? > > I've installed it but when I click on a pdf link it opens the pdf in a > separate Foxit window outside of FF. I tried all the options I can find > but nothing seems to work. > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------- H Davis, I have no problem opening a pdf link in a new tab when right-clicking and just choosing that? Am using the latest FF-version and Foxit Reader 2.3.2008.2825. have a happy day Heidi From jonpan at onlinehome.de Fri Nov 14 03:32:07 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:32:07 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> Message-ID: <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> Hi H, I use Tab Mix Plus with FF and also have your problem with Foxit. It's really no problem for me since closing Foxit brings me back to FF, but I see what you mean. Nevertheless, Foxit is so much leaner and less intrusive than Adobe that I will stick with it. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Heidi Schr?der To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:48 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader From: "H Davis" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 3:41 AM To: "TSGL List" Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader > Does anyone out there use Foxit Reader as an Adobe Reader substitute? If > so, is it possible to get it to open a pdf in a new tab in FF as can be > done with Adobe? > > I've installed it but when I click on a pdf link it opens the pdf in a > separate Foxit window outside of FF. I tried all the options I can find > but nothing seems to work. > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com -------------------------------------------------- H Davis, I have no problem opening a pdf link in a new tab when right-clicking and just choosing that? Am using the latest FF-version and Foxit Reader 2.3.2008.2825. have a happy day Heidi _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From edlynn at usa.com Fri Nov 14 10:35:26 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:35:26 -0500 Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen Message-ID: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small when viewing mail. Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? Thanks. ED From csmdcs at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 11:43:20 2008 From: csmdcs at gmail.com (Don Searles) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:43:20 -0600 Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don> ED, If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then stretch it until the screen is covered. Don. ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA To: TechSupportGuys Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small when viewing mail. Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? Thanks. ED _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From Beezersmom at aol.com Fri Nov 14 11:54:37 2008 From: Beezersmom at aol.com (Beezersmom at aol.com) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:54:37 EST Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen Message-ID: Hi Ed I can maximize my screen but the print is so small that I can't read it, do you think that would be a completely different setting that has slipped? Thanks a lot Toni In a message dated 11/14/2008 10:36:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, edlynn at usa.com writes: For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small when viewing mail. Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? Thanks. ED _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001) From edlynn at usa.com Fri Nov 14 12:15:10 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:10 -0500 Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen References: Message-ID: <000a01c9467c$8e997340$2b765445@mine> I can't find how to reset settings. Font size is usually under VIEWS>Ctrl + ED ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:54 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Hi Ed > I can maximize my screen but the print is so small that I can't read it, > do > you think that would be a completely different setting that has slipped? > > Thanks a lot > Toni > > > In a message dated 11/14/2008 10:36:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > edlynn at usa.com writes: > > For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small > when > > viewing mail. > Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? > > Thanks. ED > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & > more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt > p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001) > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From edlynn at usa.com Fri Nov 14 13:25:43 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:25:43 -0500 Subject: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don> Message-ID: <000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> Don - Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the Maximize box at upper right.. My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter to you. Where is the setting selection located? Thanks. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > ED, > > If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place curser > arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top and left > side with your monitor screen, release, then place the curser on the > bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then stretch it until the > screen is covered. > > Don. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: EdlynnUSA > To: TechSupportGuys > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM > Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > > For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small > when > viewing mail. > Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? > > Thanks. ED > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From jonpan at onlinehome.de Fri Nov 14 13:37:31 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:37:31 +0100 Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen References: <000a01c9467c$8e997340$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: Try Tools/Options/Read/Fonts and/or Compose/Fonts John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen I can't find how to reset settings. Font size is usually under VIEWS>Ctrl + ED ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:54 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Hi Ed > I can maximize my screen but the print is so small that I can't read it, > do > you think that would be a completely different setting that has slipped? > > Thanks a lot > Toni > > > In a message dated 11/14/2008 10:36:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > edlynn at usa.com writes: > > For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small > when > > viewing mail. > Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? > > Thanks. ED > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. 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Arnold Tindall From Beezersmom at aol.com Fri Nov 14 15:58:54 2008 From: Beezersmom at aol.com (Beezersmom at aol.com) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:58:54 EST Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen Message-ID: Thank you ED and John, I can finally read the print. Toni In a message dated 11/14/2008 1:38:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jonpan at onlinehome.de writes: Try Tools/Options/Read/Fonts and/or Compose/Fonts John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen I can't find how to reset settings. Font size is usually under VIEWS>Ctrl + ED ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:54 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Hi Ed > I can maximize my screen but the print is so small that I can't read it, > do > you think that would be a completely different setting that has slipped? > > Thanks a lot > Toni > > > In a message dated 11/14/2008 10:36:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > edlynn at usa.com writes: > > For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small > when > > viewing mail. > Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? > > Thanks. ED > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. 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Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001) From ian at iarp.ca Fri Nov 14 17:41:44 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:41:44 -0500 Subject: TSGL: RAId Rebuild problem(s) In-Reply-To: <20081114051546.ZGHP23768.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> References: <20081114051546.ZGHP23768.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: After much frustration in finding this nvidia media shield utility, i finally have a progress % and expected ETA on it's rebuild status of 6 hours(keeps resetting every time i restart my machine). thanks On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:15 AM, William Pike wrote: > If you installed windows on one of the drives then you should be able to do > the rebuild in windows... Use the Nvidia utility... That's the same > chipset > that I have. On an MSI board.... I had a drive go bad a while back and when > I replaced it I rubuilt in windows. The utility is called nvidia raid > manager... > > -- Thanks Ian R-P From hdavis1 at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 21:46:42 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:42 -0500 Subject: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don> <000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> Ed, Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, Windows will remember it the next time. Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? H Davis EdlynnUSA wrote: > Don - > > Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to > maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the > Maximize box at upper right.. > > My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small > box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct > setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become > unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter > to you. > > Where is the setting selection located? > > Thanks. ED > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > >> ED, >> >> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top >> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >> stretch it until the screen is covered. >> >> Don. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >> To: TechSupportGuys >> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> >> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >> small when >> viewing mail. >> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >> >> Thanks. ED >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From tbrandl2 at chello.at Fri Nov 14 22:12:53 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:12:53 +0100 Subject: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> Message-ID: <023e01c946d0$17296320$0201a8c0@til4200> if I'm not mistaken, you'll have to pull the window's corners to full size while holding the Ctrl-key pressed ... There's nevertheless a quirk somewhere with OE. Here it's normally properly sized, but there are instances where it suddenly opens from the minimized state into an awkwardly small thing. No idea what causes this. Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:46 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Ed, > > Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the > maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting and > you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't do the > reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by > dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, > Windows will remember it the next time. > > Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows > to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of > operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? > > H Davis > > EdlynnUSA wrote: >> Don - >> >> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >> Maximize box at upper right.. >> >> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter >> to you. >> >> Where is the setting selection located? >> >> Thanks. ED >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> >>> ED, >>> >>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top >>> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>> >>> Don. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>> To: TechSupportGuys >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>> small when >>> viewing mail. >>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>> >>> Thanks. ED From hdavis1 at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 22:13:09 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:13:09 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader In-Reply-To: <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> Message-ID: <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> Heidi & John, For whatever reason, when I use Heidi's method Foxit opens full screen. That method also requires the extra step of doing the right click and selecting Open in a New Tab. I should be able to do the usual left click like I do on any other link since I may not know that it's a pdf when I click on it. However, Johns comment got me thinking. Foxit seems to work properly in IE. I have the IE tab add-on installed in FF. (IE Tab uses IE to render the current tab; everything else remains FF.) So on a whim I set the list of pages that IE Tab always opens with IE to *.pdf and it worked. I subsequently found this post http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=7190 that says there is a Foxit plug-in for IE but not for FF which is why Foxit doesn't work natively in FF and why the IE Tab trick works. It's not a perfect solution since using IE brings with it all the security problems but it's acceptable. I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. Thanks to both of you for the help. H Davis jonpan wrote: > Hi H, > > I use Tab Mix Plus with FF and also have your problem with Foxit. It's really no problem for me since closing Foxit brings me back to FF, but I see what you mean. Nevertheless, Foxit is so much leaner and less intrusive than Adobe that I will stick with it. > > John > Od/G > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Heidi Schr?der > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:48 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > > > From: "H Davis" > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 3:41 AM > To: "TSGL List" > Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader > > >> Does anyone out there use Foxit Reader as an Adobe Reader substitute? If >> so, is it possible to get it to open a pdf in a new tab in FF as can be >> done with Adobe? >> >> I've installed it but when I click on a pdf link it opens the pdf in a >> separate Foxit window outside of FF. I tried all the options I can find >> but nothing seems to work. >> >> -- >> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >> > -------------------------------------------------- > > H Davis, I have no problem opening a pdf link in a new tab when > right-clicking and just choosing that? Am using the latest FF-version and > Foxit Reader 2.3.2008.2825. > > have a happy day > Heidi > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From hdavis1 at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 22:37:35 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:37:35 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <491E43FF.1070700@gmail.com> Arnold, I'm digging pretty far back in my memory so check these suggestions out before proceeding. For Flash you can delete the extra or older copies. You will need the latest version since a LOT of web sites use Flash for various effects including menus. Adobe bought Macromedia at some point so the MM version is the oldest. Some of these might be the backup (original installation version) copy in folder i386. The problem is that there is probably no entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to do an uninstall. I think Adobe had a special uninstaller available on their web site to use on older versions. As a last resort just delete the files. I've done that with no ill effects. Some have strange extensions; .ocx I think. For Java you can probably delete the older versions and retain or install the newest one. You need Java to use the Secunia online tester. It shows the Java icon in the tray when it runs. Unfortunately, once loaded, the JRE can't be unloaded and will remain in your tray until you reboot. You can kill it with Task Manager but that's a little crude. But, there's always a "but", if you have any application you use regularly that need Java it might only work with an older version in which case you will have to retain that version. There were apparently a lot of problems with this. There was also some problem with the Java originally supplied by MS; not called Sun Java. I don't remember the details but it was something like Sun wouldn't license subsequent versions to MS because MS wanted to "extend" it thereby making that version different than Sun's version; sound familiar. So MS couldn't supply it and stopped supporting it. New versions are from Sun. Again, details are foggy. Both of these are a mess and seem to be afflicted with constant security updates. They are improving the updating process but since they are third party software you can't update through the relatively painless Windows Update procedure. Good luck, and as I said double check everything. H Davis Arnold Tindall wrote: > Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash > Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three > installations of Sun Java JRE. > > I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I > acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and > possibly also one of the two Flash players? > > Arnold Tindall > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de Sat Nov 15 03:30:22 2008 From: HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Heidi_Schr=F6der?=) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:30:22 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> Message-ID: <14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC> > .... > I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security > updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. > > Thanks to both of you for the help. > > H Davis Good morning! I thought I had given up on Adobe Reader as well, but lately had something to download - don't remember what it was, but think it was some add-on/update or such for a programme I am using that was to do with FTP which I do know nothing about and obviously never used or needed and therefore thought it was me who was not knowing how to do it or needing something special to be able to do it and after trying for hours/days in the end I had the great idea to try it with Adobe Reader as you had to open a pdf file and well, it simply did not work with Foxit reader as Adobe did open the download right away while Foxit tried to open a site??? So just keep in mind, if one day something to do with pdf does not work, you better try Adobe after all! have a great weekend everybody Heidi From jonpan at onlinehome.de Sat Nov 15 04:34:15 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:34:15 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs References: Message-ID: Adobe has 'uninstall_flash_player.exe' on their website for downloading. Java can be uninstalled from Control Panel. My experience has been that it is better to uninstall the lot, then download the latest versions and install them. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Arnold Tindall To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:30 PM Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three installations of Sun Java JRE. I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and possibly also one of the two Flash players? Arnold Tindall _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From embitt at westnet.com.au Sat Nov 15 05:53:49 2008 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Eric and Merna Bitter) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:53:49 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs References: <491E43FF.1070700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> Take a trip down memory lane with the almost two dozen posts re Sun Java versions at http://www.tsgserver.com/pipermail/list_tsgserver.com/2007-August/thread.htm l Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:37 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs Arnold, I'm digging pretty far back in my memory so check these suggestions out before proceeding. For Flash you can delete the extra or older copies. You will need the latest version since a LOT of web sites use Flash for various effects including menus. Adobe bought Macromedia at some point so the MM version is the oldest. Some of these might be the backup (original installation version) copy in folder i386. The problem is that there is probably no entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to do an uninstall. I think Adobe had a special uninstaller available on their web site to use on older versions. As a last resort just delete the files. I've done that with no ill effects. Some have strange extensions; .ocx I think. For Java you can probably delete the older versions and retain or install the newest one. You need Java to use the Secunia online tester. It shows the Java icon in the tray when it runs. Unfortunately, once loaded, the JRE can't be unloaded and will remain in your tray until you reboot. You can kill it with Task Manager but that's a little crude. But, there's always a "but", if you have any application you use regularly that need Java it might only work with an older version in which case you will have to retain that version. There were apparently a lot of problems with this. There was also some problem with the Java originally supplied by MS; not called Sun Java. I don't remember the details but it was something like Sun wouldn't license subsequent versions to MS because MS wanted to "extend" it thereby making that version different than Sun's version; sound familiar. So MS couldn't supply it and stopped supporting it. New versions are from Sun. Again, details are foggy. Both of these are a mess and seem to be afflicted with constant security updates. They are improving the updating process but since they are third party software you can't update through the relatively painless Windows Update procedure. Good luck, and as I said double check everything. H Davis Arnold Tindall wrote: > Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash > Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three > installations of Sun Java JRE. > > I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I > acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and > possibly also one of the two Flash players? > > Arnold Tindall > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1789 - Release Date: 2008-11-14 7:32 PM From csmdcs at gmail.com Sat Nov 15 08:07:02 2008 From: csmdcs at gmail.com (Don Searles) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:07:02 -0600 Subject: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <023e01c946d0$17296320$0201a8c0@til4200> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don> <000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> <023e01c946d0$17296320$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: <853cd9e80811150507m46ecc73t94c28ccaa83c0126@mail.gmail.com> ED, To my knowledge there is no setting/option to enlarge the screen except the "Maximixe" button. I know the suggestion by Tilman to hold the CTRL key works with IE, but it shouldn't be necessary with OE once the size is set; at least that is my experience. Don. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Tilman Brandl wrote: > if I'm not mistaken, you'll have to pull the window's corners to full size > while holding the Ctrl-key pressed ... > > There's nevertheless a quirk somewhere with OE. Here it's normally properly > sized, but there are instances where it suddenly opens from the minimized > state into an awkwardly small thing. No idea what causes this. > > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "H Davis" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:46 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > > > Ed, > > > > Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the > > maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting and > > you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't do the > > reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by > > dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, > > Windows will remember it the next time. > > > > Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows > > to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of > > operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? > > > > H Davis > > > > EdlynnUSA wrote: > >> Don - > >> > >> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to > >> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the > >> Maximize box at upper right.. > >> > >> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small > >> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct > >> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become > >> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter > >> to you. > >> > >> Where is the setting selection located? > >> > >> Thanks. ED > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" > >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > >> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM > >> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > >> > >> > >>> ED, > >>> > >>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place > >>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top > >>> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the > >>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then > >>> stretch it until the screen is covered. > >>> > >>> Don. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA > >>> To: TechSupportGuys > >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM > >>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen > >>> > >>> > >>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very > >>> small when > >>> viewing mail. > >>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? > >>> > >>> Thanks. ED > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From edlynn at usa.com Sat Nov 15 11:09:41 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:09:41 -0500 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> Message-ID: <000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> H Davis - Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, and then rebooting - it worked. Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. Thanks very much. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Ed, > > Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the > maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting and > you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't do the > reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by dragging > the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, Windows > will remember it the next time. > > Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows to > remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of > operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? > > H Davis > > EdlynnUSA wrote: >> Don - >> >> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >> Maximize box at upper right.. >> >> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small box >> which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct setting must >> have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become unchecked. I had to >> maximize this form in order to compose this letter to you. >> >> Where is the setting selection located? >> >> Thanks. ED >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> >>> ED, >>> >>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top >>> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the curser >>> on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then stretch it >>> until the screen is covered. >>> >>> Don. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>> To: TechSupportGuys >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very small >>> when >>> viewing mail. >>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>> >>> Thanks. ED >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sat Nov 15 16:12:56 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:12:56 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs In-Reply-To: <00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> References: <491E43FF.1070700@gmail.com> <00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: <491F3B58.9020703@gmail.com> What a memory you have Merna. BTW, the link needs the "thread.htm" part removed to work correctly for me. H Davis Eric and Merna Bitter wrote: > Take a trip down memory lane with the almost two dozen posts re Sun Java > versions at > http://www.tsgserver.com/pipermail/list_tsgserver.com/2007-August/thread.htm > l > > Merna > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "H Davis" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:37 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs > > > Arnold, > > I'm digging pretty far back in my memory so check these suggestions out > before proceeding. > > For Flash you can delete the extra or older copies. You will need the > latest version since a LOT of web sites use Flash for various effects > including menus. Adobe bought Macromedia at some point so the MM version > is the oldest. Some of these might be the backup (original installation > version) copy in folder i386. The problem is that there is probably no > entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to do an uninstall. I think Adobe > had a special uninstaller available on their web site to use on older > versions. As a last resort just delete the files. I've done that with no > ill effects. Some have strange extensions; .ocx I think. > > For Java you can probably delete the older versions and retain or > install the newest one. You need Java to use the Secunia online tester. > It shows the Java icon in the tray when it runs. Unfortunately, once > loaded, the JRE can't be unloaded and will remain in your tray until you > reboot. You can kill it with Task Manager but that's a little crude. > > But, there's always a "but", if you have any application you use > regularly that need Java it might only work with an older version in > which case you will have to retain that version. There were apparently a > lot of problems with this. > > There was also some problem with the Java originally supplied by MS; not > called Sun Java. I don't remember the details but it was something like > Sun wouldn't license subsequent versions to MS because MS wanted to > "extend" it thereby making that version different than Sun's version; > sound familiar. So MS couldn't supply it and stopped supporting it. New > versions are from Sun. Again, details are foggy. > > Both of these are a mess and seem to be afflicted with constant security > updates. They are improving the updating process but since they are > third party software you can't update through the relatively painless > Windows Update procedure. > > Good luck, and as I said double check everything. > > H Davis > > Arnold Tindall wrote: > >> Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash >> Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three >> installations of Sun Java JRE. >> >> I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I >> acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and >> possibly also one of the two Flash players? >> >> Arnold Tindall >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1789 - Release Date: 2008-11-14 > 7:32 PM > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sat Nov 15 16:15:53 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:15:53 -0500 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> <000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com> Ed, Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying to put his pants out. H Davis EdlynnUSA wrote: > H Davis - > > Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, > and then rebooting - it worked. > > Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. > > Thanks very much. > > ED > ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > >> Ed, >> >> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting >> and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't >> do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make >> by dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the >> borders, Windows will remember it the next time. >> >> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get >> Windows to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous >> sequence of operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >> >> H Davis >> >> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>> Don - >>> >>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >>> Maximize box at upper right.. >>> >>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >>> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >>> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this >>> letter to you. >>> >>> Where is the setting selection located? >>> >>> Thanks. ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>>> ED, >>>> >>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the >>>> top and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>>> >>>> Don. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>> >>>> >>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>> small when >>>> viewing mail. >>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>> >>>> Thanks. ED >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> -- >> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From arnotind at onlink.net Sat Nov 15 20:20:05 2008 From: arnotind at onlink.net (Arnold Tindall) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:20:05 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs References: <491E43FF.1070700@gmail.com><00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> <491F3B58.9020703@gmail.com> Message-ID: <300F365035744121965A40DF87A7BB9C@acer03bb9978b5> The Url as given by Eric and Merna Bitter had the l rounded off from /thread.html The link works perfectly if you stick the l back in place. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have been able to clear out the duplicate junk by following the advice offered. Arnold ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:12 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs > What a memory you have Merna. BTW, the link needs the "thread.htm" part > removed to work correctly for me. > > H Davis > > Eric and Merna Bitter wrote: >> Take a trip down memory lane with the almost two dozen posts re Sun Java >> versions at >> http://www.tsgserver.com/pipermail/list_tsgserver.com/2007-August/thread.htm >> l >> >> Merna >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "H Davis" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:37 PM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs >> >> >> Arnold, >> >> I'm digging pretty far back in my memory so check these suggestions out >> before proceeding. >> >> For Flash you can delete the extra or older copies. You will need the >> latest version since a LOT of web sites use Flash for various effects >> including menus. Adobe bought Macromedia at some point so the MM version >> is the oldest. Some of these might be the backup (original installation >> version) copy in folder i386. The problem is that there is probably no >> entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to do an uninstall. I think Adobe >> had a special uninstaller available on their web site to use on older >> versions. As a last resort just delete the files. I've done that with no >> ill effects. Some have strange extensions; .ocx I think. >> >> For Java you can probably delete the older versions and retain or >> install the newest one. You need Java to use the Secunia online tester. >> It shows the Java icon in the tray when it runs. Unfortunately, once >> loaded, the JRE can't be unloaded and will remain in your tray until you >> reboot. You can kill it with Task Manager but that's a little crude. >> >> But, there's always a "but", if you have any application you use >> regularly that need Java it might only work with an older version in >> which case you will have to retain that version. There were apparently a >> lot of problems with this. >> >> There was also some problem with the Java originally supplied by MS; not >> called Sun Java. I don't remember the details but it was something like >> Sun wouldn't license subsequent versions to MS because MS wanted to >> "extend" it thereby making that version different than Sun's version; >> sound familiar. So MS couldn't supply it and stopped supporting it. New >> versions are from Sun. Again, details are foggy. >> >> Both of these are a mess and seem to be afflicted with constant security >> updates. They are improving the updating process but since they are >> third party software you can't update through the relatively painless >> Windows Update procedure. >> >> Good luck, and as I said double check everything. >> >> H Davis >> >> Arnold Tindall wrote: >> >>> Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash >>> Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three >>> installations of Sun Java JRE. >>> >>> I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I >>> acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and >>> possibly also one of the two Flash players? >>> >>> Arnold Tindall >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >> >> -- >> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1789 - Release Date: >> 2008-11-14 >> 7:32 PM >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Nov 16 03:14:46 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:14:46 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader In-Reply-To: <14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2><491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC> Message-ID: <8EA0991B92AF4B65A96E6AB65DD06D1F@AcerLaptop> There is a "Lite" version of the Adobe Reader and it works quite well. It was developed by the author of the Vista Codec Package, Shark007, who seems to write some very good software ... http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Adobe_Reader_Lite/1215097676/1 Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Heidi Schr?der Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:30 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > .... > I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security > updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. > > Thanks to both of you for the help. > > H Davis Good morning! I thought I had given up on Adobe Reader as well, but lately had something to download - don't remember what it was, but think it was some add-on/update or such for a programme I am using that was to do with FTP which I do know nothing about and obviously never used or needed and therefore thought it was me who was not knowing how to do it or needing something special to be able to do it and after trying for hours/days in the end I had the great idea to try it with Adobe Reader as you had to open a pdf file and well, it simply did not work with Foxit reader as Adobe did open the download right away while Foxit tried to open a site??? So just keep in mind, if one day something to do with pdf does not work, you better try Adobe after all! have a great weekend everybody Heidi _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Nov 16 03:17:18 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:17:18 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Duplicate programs In-Reply-To: <00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> References: <491E43FF.1070700@gmail.com> <00bd01c94710$758a0c40$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: Try Java Ra ... http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/JavaRa/1207335071/1 Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Eric and Merna Bitter Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:54 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs Take a trip down memory lane with the almost two dozen posts re Sun Java versions at http://www.tsgserver.com/pipermail/list_tsgserver.com/2007-August/thread.htm l Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:37 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Duplicate programs Arnold, I'm digging pretty far back in my memory so check these suggestions out before proceeding. For Flash you can delete the extra or older copies. You will need the latest version since a LOT of web sites use Flash for various effects including menus. Adobe bought Macromedia at some point so the MM version is the oldest. Some of these might be the backup (original installation version) copy in folder i386. The problem is that there is probably no entry in the Add/Remove Programs list to do an uninstall. I think Adobe had a special uninstaller available on their web site to use on older versions. As a last resort just delete the files. I've done that with no ill effects. Some have strange extensions; .ocx I think. For Java you can probably delete the older versions and retain or install the newest one. You need Java to use the Secunia online tester. It shows the Java icon in the tray when it runs. Unfortunately, once loaded, the JRE can't be unloaded and will remain in your tray until you reboot. You can kill it with Task Manager but that's a little crude. But, there's always a "but", if you have any application you use regularly that need Java it might only work with an older version in which case you will have to retain that version. There were apparently a lot of problems with this. There was also some problem with the Java originally supplied by MS; not called Sun Java. I don't remember the details but it was something like Sun wouldn't license subsequent versions to MS because MS wanted to "extend" it thereby making that version different than Sun's version; sound familiar. So MS couldn't supply it and stopped supporting it. New versions are from Sun. Again, details are foggy. Both of these are a mess and seem to be afflicted with constant security updates. They are improving the updating process but since they are third party software you can't update through the relatively painless Windows Update procedure. Good luck, and as I said double check everything. H Davis Arnold Tindall wrote: > Secunia tells me that I have three installations of Adobe Flash > Player, one installation of Macromedia Flash Player, and three > installations of Sun Java JRE. > > I have no idea what any of this software does or how and why I > acquired it. Can I simply delete the duplicate installations and > possibly also one of the two Flash players? > > Arnold Tindall > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1789 - Release Date: 2008-11-14 7:32 PM _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Nov 16 03:22:27 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:22:27 -0800 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com><000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop> Sorry guys, I'm having some medical problems that sometimes keep me away from the keyboard. I'd rather not say what they are at this time. If you are of a religious nature, say a word for me. Thanks. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of H Davis Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:16 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen Ed, Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying to put his pants out. H Davis EdlynnUSA wrote: > H Davis - > > Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, > and then rebooting - it worked. > > Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. > > Thanks very much. > > ED > ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > >> Ed, >> >> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting >> and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't >> do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make >> by dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the >> borders, Windows will remember it the next time. >> >> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get >> Windows to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous >> sequence of operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >> >> H Davis >> >> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>> Don - >>> >>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >>> Maximize box at upper right.. >>> >>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >>> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >>> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this >>> letter to you. >>> >>> Where is the setting selection located? >>> >>> Thanks. ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>>> ED, >>>> >>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the >>>> top and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>>> >>>> Don. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>> >>>> >>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>> small when >>>> viewing mail. >>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>> >>>> Thanks. ED >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> -- >> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de Sun Nov 16 05:17:54 2008 From: HiHalloHeidi at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Heidi_Schr=F6der?=) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:17:54 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2><491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com><14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC> <8EA0991B92AF4B65A96E6AB65DD06D1F@AcerLaptop> Message-ID: <0C3243BAE7904045AF03C8B1727EC5EF@HeidisPC> Thanks a lot Russ, will try it out! wishing you all the best for getting well again quickly! Heidi -------------------------------------------------- From: "Russell W. Coover" Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:14 AM To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > There is a "Lite" version of the Adobe Reader and it works quite well. It > was developed by the author of the Vista Codec Package, Shark007, who > seems > to write some very good software ... > > http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Adobe_Reader_Lite/1215097676/1 > > Russ Coover > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Heidi Schr?der > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:30 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > > >> .... >> I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security >> updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. >> >> Thanks to both of you for the help. >> >> H Davis > > Good morning! > > I thought I had given up on Adobe Reader as well, but lately had something > to download - don't remember what it was, but think it was some > add-on/update or such for a programme I am using that was to do with FTP > which I do know nothing about and obviously never used or needed and > therefore thought it was me who was not knowing how to do it or needing > something special to be able to do it and after trying for hours/days in > the > > end I had the great idea to try it with Adobe Reader as you had to open a > pdf file and well, it simply did not work with Foxit reader as Adobe did > open the download right away while Foxit tried to open a site??? So just > keep in mind, if one day something to do with pdf does not work, you > better > try Adobe after all! > > have a great weekend everybody > Heidi From postmaster at moneymate.plus.com Sun Nov 16 11:35:02 2008 From: postmaster at moneymate.plus.com (pcparamedic) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:35:02 -0000 Subject: TSGL: Safer Surfing Message-ID: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> Hi All, I have been asked by a friend to recommend a suitable application to protect his child from the nasty side of the internet (porn etc). My friend is purchasing a laptop as a Christmas gift for his child and obviously is eager to obtain the best package at the lowest price. I have had a quick look around and found some promising looking stuff, including freeware but have decided to ask you people for some help. Anyone have an opinion as to which is the best (but not too expensive, preferably free but not at the risk of it not doing the job). Thanks ... Pcp From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sun Nov 16 14:35:08 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:35:08 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader In-Reply-To: <8EA0991B92AF4B65A96E6AB65DD06D1F@AcerLaptop> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2><491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC> <8EA0991B92AF4B65A96E6AB65DD06D1F@AcerLaptop> Message-ID: <492075EC.7070902@gmail.com> Hi Russ, AR Lite looks interesting. I visited Shark007's site but could find no info there about it. The description at the link you gave wasn't clear about whether it is an entirely different program or a copy of AR with superfluous stuff removed. The fact that it has the same rev number as a very recent AR version makes me think it might be the latter. If so, it is probably susceptible to any security problems in AR. Any ideas? Anything burning in your neighborhood? H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > There is a "Lite" version of the Adobe Reader and it works quite well. It > was developed by the author of the Vista Codec Package, Shark007, who seems > to write some very good software ... > > http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Adobe_Reader_Lite/1215097676/1 > > Russ Coover > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Heidi Schr?der > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:30 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > > > >> .... >> I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security >> updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. >> >> Thanks to both of you for the help. >> >> H Davis >> > > Good morning! > > I thought I had given up on Adobe Reader as well, but lately had something > to download - don't remember what it was, but think it was some > add-on/update or such for a programme I am using that was to do with FTP > which I do know nothing about and obviously never used or needed and > therefore thought it was me who was not knowing how to do it or needing > something special to be able to do it and after trying for hours/days in the > > end I had the great idea to try it with Adobe Reader as you had to open a > pdf file and well, it simply did not work with Foxit reader as Adobe did > open the download right away while Foxit tried to open a site??? So just > keep in mind, if one day something to do with pdf does not work, you better > try Adobe after all! > > have a great weekend everybody > Heidi > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sun Nov 16 14:47:24 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:47:24 -0500 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com><000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com> <8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop> Message-ID: <492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> Sorry to hear that Russ. Consider appropriate words said. H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > Sorry guys, I'm having some medical problems that sometimes keep me away > from the keyboard. I'd rather not say what they are at this time. If you are > of a religious nature, say a word for me. Thanks. > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of H Davis > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:16 PM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > > Ed, > > Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. > > BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying > to put his pants out. > > H Davis > > EdlynnUSA wrote: > >> H Davis - >> >> Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, >> and then rebooting - it worked. >> >> Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> ED >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> >> >>> Ed, >>> >>> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >>> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting >>> and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't >>> do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make >>> by dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the >>> borders, Windows will remember it the next time. >>> >>> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get >>> Windows to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous >>> sequence of operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >>> >>> H Davis >>> >>> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>> >>>> Don - >>>> >>>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >>>> Maximize box at upper right.. >>>> >>>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >>>> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >>>> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this >>>> letter to you. >>>> >>>> Where is the setting selection located? >>>> >>>> Thanks. ED >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> ED, >>>>> >>>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the >>>>> top and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>>>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>>>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>>>> >>>>> Don. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>>> small when >>>>> viewing mail. >>>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Nov 16 23:08:02 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:08:02 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Foxit Reader In-Reply-To: <492075EC.7070902@gmail.com> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2><491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <14A0AE98617C4E37B9EFA89C5D36D1AE@HeidisPC><8EA0991B92AF4B65A96E6AB65DD06D1F@AcerLaptop> <492075EC.7070902@gmail.com> Message-ID: I was using Foxit, but since I have used Shark007's software in the past and liked it, I decided to try it. I haven't had any problems with this "Lite" version, which is, as you suggested AR with the superfluous (including automatic update) removed. Shark007 is an independent software developer whose only income is donations (with major health problems) and lives in an area of northern Canada that is so remote that the only access he has to the internet is dialup. As far as the SoCal fires, thank God that (this time) they are about 50 miles away, though the Yorba Linda, Brea, Carbon Canyon, Diamond Bar areas (which have or are burning) are very familiar to me as I have spent a lot of time there. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of H Davis Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:35 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader Hi Russ, AR Lite looks interesting. I visited Shark007's site but could find no info there about it. The description at the link you gave wasn't clear about whether it is an entirely different program or a copy of AR with superfluous stuff removed. The fact that it has the same rev number as a very recent AR version makes me think it might be the latter. If so, it is probably susceptible to any security problems in AR. Any ideas? Anything burning in your neighborhood? H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > There is a "Lite" version of the Adobe Reader and it works quite well. It > was developed by the author of the Vista Codec Package, Shark007, who seems > to write some very good software ... > > http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Adobe_Reader_Lite/1215097676/1 > > Russ Coover > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Heidi Schr?der > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:30 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Foxit Reader > > > >> .... >> I finally gave up on Adobe Reader because of the constant security >> updates. The more recent versions seem to be faster but HUGE. >> >> Thanks to both of you for the help. >> >> H Davis >> > > Good morning! > > I thought I had given up on Adobe Reader as well, but lately had something > to download - don't remember what it was, but think it was some > add-on/update or such for a programme I am using that was to do with FTP > which I do know nothing about and obviously never used or needed and > therefore thought it was me who was not knowing how to do it or needing > something special to be able to do it and after trying for hours/days in the > > end I had the great idea to try it with Adobe Reader as you had to open a > pdf file and well, it simply did not work with Foxit reader as Adobe did > open the download right away while Foxit tried to open a site??? So just > keep in mind, if one day something to do with pdf does not work, you better > try Adobe after all! > > have a great weekend everybody > Heidi > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From mikemorgan at mbm-inc.net Sun Nov 16 23:52:35 2008 From: mikemorgan at mbm-inc.net (Mike Morgan) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:52:35 -0600 Subject: TSGL: Safer Surfing In-Reply-To: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> References: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> Message-ID: <73a2fd940811162052v6448eb30tc3f39f20f7673c90@mail.gmail.com> Hello All, and Pcp I just wanted to see if you have considered opendns.com I have been using it for my small network and I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a filter. It is free and I am not affiliated in any way. http://www.opendns.com/ Have a nice day. Michael On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, pcparamedic wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been asked by a friend to recommend a suitable application to > protect his child from the nasty side of the internet (porn etc). > > My friend is purchasing a laptop as a Christmas gift for his child and > obviously is eager to obtain the best package at the lowest price. > > I have had a quick look around and found some promising looking stuff, > including freeware but have decided to ask you people for some help. > > Anyone have an opinion as to which is the best (but not too expensive, > preferably free but not at the risk of it not doing the job). > > Thanks ... Pcp > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- U.S.A. From madfeese at sisp.net Sun Nov 16 23:54:02 2008 From: madfeese at sisp.net (Dave and Marcia) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:54:02 -0800 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com><000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com><8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop> <492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> Message-ID: <0B74C1A0C8044FB9900CC318F976EE0D@HPNEW> Russ you are in our prayers. Dave Feese ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Sorry to hear that Russ. Consider appropriate words said. > > H Davis > > Russell W. Coover wrote: >> Sorry guys, I'm having some medical problems that sometimes keep me away >> from the keyboard. I'd rather not say what they are at this time. If you >> are >> of a religious nature, say a word for me. Thanks. >> >> Russ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of H Davis >> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:16 PM >> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> Ed, >> >> Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. >> >> BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying to >> put his pants out. >> >> H Davis >> >> EdlynnUSA wrote: >> >>> H Davis - >>> >>> Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, and >>> then rebooting - it worked. >>> >>> Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. >>> >>> Thanks very much. >>> >>> ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>> >>>> Ed, >>>> >>>> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >>>> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting >>>> and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't >>>> do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by >>>> dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, >>>> Windows will remember it the next time. >>>> >>>> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows >>>> to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of >>>> operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >>>> >>>> H Davis >>>> >>>> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>>> >>>>> Don - >>>>> >>>>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>>>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >>>>> Maximize box at upper right.. >>>>> >>>>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>>>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >>>>> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >>>>> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter >>>>> to you. >>>>> >>>>> Where is the setting selection located? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> ED, >>>>>> >>>>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top >>>>>> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>>>>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>>>>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>>>>> >>>>>> Don. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>>>> small when >>>>>> viewing mail. >>>>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From mikemorgan at mbm-inc.net Mon Nov 17 00:00:13 2008 From: mikemorgan at mbm-inc.net (Mike Morgan) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:00:13 -0600 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don> <000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com> <000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com> <8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop> <492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> Message-ID: <73a2fd940811162100q4ce90cf3m76aa5f9aa2aef3b9@mail.gmail.com> I hope for the best as well and will do the same. Sometimes I have to resize a window. When I am done I press the shift key and while holding it down close that window and then re open it .. windows should open it back up the way you want it. Hope this helps. mike On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:47 PM, H Davis wrote: > Sorry to hear that Russ. Consider appropriate words said. > > H Davis > > > Russell W. Coover wrote: > >> Sorry guys, I'm having some medical problems that sometimes keep me away >> from the keyboard. I'd rather not say what they are at this time. If you >> are >> of a religious nature, say a word for me. Thanks. >> >> Russ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of H Davis >> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:16 PM >> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> Ed, >> >> Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. >> >> BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying to >> put his pants out. >> >> H Davis >> >> EdlynnUSA wrote: >> >> >>> H Davis - >>> >>> Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, and >>> then rebooting - it worked. >>> >>> Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. >>> >>> Thanks very much. >>> >>> ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Ed, >>>> >>>> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >>>> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting and >>>> you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't do the >>>> reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by dragging >>>> the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, Windows will >>>> remember it the next time. >>>> >>>> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows >>>> to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of >>>> operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >>>> >>>> H Davis >>>> >>>> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Don - >>>>> >>>>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>>>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the Maximize >>>>> box at upper right.. >>>>> >>>>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>>>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct setting >>>>> must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become unchecked. I had to >>>>> maximize this form in order to compose this letter to you. >>>>> >>>>> Where is the setting selection located? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> ED, >>>>>> >>>>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top and >>>>>> left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the curser on the >>>>>> bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then stretch it until the >>>>>> screen is covered. >>>>>> >>>>>> Don. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>>>> small when >>>>>> viewing mail. >>>>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- U.S.A. From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Nov 17 02:50:20 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:50:20 -0800 Subject: TSGL: Safer Surfing In-Reply-To: <73a2fd940811162052v6448eb30tc3f39f20f7673c90@mail.gmail.com> References: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> <73a2fd940811162052v6448eb30tc3f39f20f7673c90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <0311522820004AF38989F1576F7D9E62@AcerLaptop> Open DNS is excellent. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Mike Morgan Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:53 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Safer Surfing Hello All, and Pcp I just wanted to see if you have considered opendns.com I have been using it for my small network and I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a filter. It is free and I am not affiliated in any way. http://www.opendns.com/ Have a nice day. Michael On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, pcparamedic wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been asked by a friend to recommend a suitable application to > protect his child from the nasty side of the internet (porn etc). > > My friend is purchasing a laptop as a Christmas gift for his child and > obviously is eager to obtain the best package at the lowest price. > > I have had a quick look around and found some promising looking stuff, > including freeware but have decided to ask you people for some help. > > Anyone have an opinion as to which is the best (but not too expensive, > preferably free but not at the risk of it not doing the job). > > Thanks ... Pcp > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- U.S.A. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Nov 17 02:51:12 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:51:12 -0800 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen In-Reply-To: <0B74C1A0C8044FB9900CC318F976EE0D@HPNEW> References: <001801c9466e$9f994a20$2b765445@mine> <126347C6477C46C393469099C388245C@Don><000501c94686$69c267c0$2b765445@mine> <491E3812.5010703@gmail.com><000b01c9473c$9266f2c0$2b765445@mine> <491F3C09.9060105@gmail.com><8FCCAD456E6142DA8BDAB900807DC597@AcerLaptop><492078CC.9090900@gmail.com> <0B74C1A0C8044FB9900CC318F976EE0D@HPNEW> Message-ID: <9C02E9E406DF402489DFA35D765BE5AC@AcerLaptop> Thanks to everybody. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Dave and Marcia Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:54 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen Russ you are in our prayers. Dave Feese ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen > Sorry to hear that Russ. Consider appropriate words said. > > H Davis > > Russell W. Coover wrote: >> Sorry guys, I'm having some medical problems that sometimes keep me away >> from the keyboard. I'd rather not say what they are at this time. If you >> are >> of a religious nature, say a word for me. Thanks. >> >> Russ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of H Davis >> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:16 PM >> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> Subject: Re: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >> >> Ed, >> >> Microsoft = illogical. That's the magic formula. >> >> BTW, has anyone heard from Russ lately or is he out there in CA trying to >> put his pants out. >> >> H Davis >> >> EdlynnUSA wrote: >> >>> H Davis - >>> >>> Bingo!!! Staying away from the Maximize box, and by using dragging, and >>> then rebooting - it worked. >>> >>> Somehow, or other it seems illogical, but it's working fine now. >>> >>> Thanks very much. >>> >>> ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Davis" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:46 PM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>> >>> >>> >>>> Ed, >>>> >>>> Don is right. It's a "feature" of Windows. If you maximize with the >>>> maximize box in the upper right, Windows won't remember that setting >>>> and you'll have to do it again each time. (Go figure, Windows doesn't >>>> do the reasonable thing.) Windows will remember any setting you make by >>>> dragging the window borders; so once maximized by dragging the borders, >>>> Windows will remember it the next time. >>>> >>>> Having said that, I seem to remember that there is a way to get Windows >>>> to remember the maximize box method using some circuitous sequence of >>>> operations. Has anyone else got the magic formula??? >>>> >>>> H Davis >>>> >>>> EdlynnUSA wrote: >>>> >>>>> Don - >>>>> >>>>> Yes, OE is only place where it occurs, but your instructions are to >>>>> maximixe the screen once it has appeared. I do that simplywith the >>>>> Maximize box at upper right.. >>>>> >>>>> My problem is when the message first appears. It shows up as a small >>>>> box which I have to Maximize. This is a new wrinkle. the correct >>>>> setting must have slipped, or a box somewhere must have become >>>>> unchecked. I had to maximize this form in order to compose this letter >>>>> to you. >>>>> >>>>> Where is the setting selection located? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" >>>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:43 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> ED, >>>>>> >>>>>> If OE is the only program with this problem then you need to place >>>>>> curser arrow on the Title Bar, hold and then move it to align the top >>>>>> and left side with your monitor screen, release, then place the >>>>>> curser on the bottom right edge until you see double arrows, then >>>>>> stretch it until the screen is covered. >>>>>> >>>>>> Don. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: EdlynnUSA >>>>>> To: TechSupportGuys >>>>>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:35 AM >>>>>> Subject: TSGL: O.E. settings to enlargn screen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For some unknown reason, Outlook Express 6 screen has become very >>>>>> small when >>>>>> viewing mail. >>>>>> Anyone know which setting has slipped, and how to correct to normal? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. ED >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From jonpan at onlinehome.de Mon Nov 17 04:01:32 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:01:32 +0100 Subject: TSGL: MBM Message-ID: <38B2BB8FD40C4CCC8C3F2145F38822DC@johnsp2> Hi All, Does anyone know an alternative to Motherboard Monitor? It doesn't support my motherboard (MSI- K9VGM-V)chips and is no longer being updated. Down- and upload speeds, temperatures and CPU-usage are important. Have already tried several and nothing is comparable. Thanks, John Od/G From jonpan at onlinehome.de Mon Nov 17 04:05:48 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:05:48 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Safer Surfing References: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> <73a2fd940811162052v6448eb30tc3f39f20f7673c90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5DD80F21A13C4739ACBE1A32F0BB3579@johnsp2> Yes, Michael, I've been using it for a long time and can only concur with your recommendation. It's excellent. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Morgan To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:52 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Safer Surfing Hello All, and Pcp I just wanted to see if you have considered opendns.com I have been using it for my small network and I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a filter. It is free and I am not affiliated in any way. http://www.opendns.com/ Have a nice day. Michael On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, pcparamedic wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been asked by a friend to recommend a suitable application to > protect his child from the nasty side of the internet (porn etc). > > My friend is purchasing a laptop as a Christmas gift for his child and > obviously is eager to obtain the best package at the lowest price. > > I have had a quick look around and found some promising looking stuff, > including freeware but have decided to ask you people for some help. > > Anyone have an opinion as to which is the best (but not too expensive, > preferably free but not at the risk of it not doing the job). > > Thanks ... Pcp > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- U.S.A. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From donelias at juno.com Mon Nov 17 04:59:56 2008 From: donelias at juno.com (donelias at juno.com) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:59:56 -0600 Subject: TSGL: H Davis DON - O.E. settings to enlargn screen Message-ID: <20081117.041102.-547691.4.donelias@juno.com> I use a FREE program called Autosizer. YMMV http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/ Don On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:00:13 -0600 "Mike Morgan" writes: > I hope for the best as well and will do the same. > > Sometimes I have to resize a window. When I am done I press the > shift > key and while holding it down close that window and then re open > it .. > > windows should open it back up the way you want it. > > Hope this helps. > > mike ____________________________________________________________ Click for free info on criminal justice degrees, $150K/ year potential. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2jutg7HiOcTqka9mXjcKgrWVr5fhlQmDDm1XS1L3WoLLSA9/ From engineman1 at aol.com Tue Nov 18 14:16:18 2008 From: engineman1 at aol.com (engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:16:18 -0500 Subject: TSGL: keyboard quits Message-ID: <8CB17C944E0467E-148-71B@FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> I have a desktop running xp with sp3. Every so often the keyboard goes dead and I have to uninstall and reboot to get it working again. Plugging in a different keyboard doesn't help. I recently installed SP3 but my problem did not start right after that. Could SP3 be to blame or what else should I check for? Engineman From jonpan at onlinehome.de Tue Nov 18 14:48:24 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:48:24 +0100 Subject: TSGL: keyboard quits References: <8CB17C944E0467E-148-71B@FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: If it's USB, try a different USB-port. I've had no problems with SP3. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: engineman1 at aol.com To: List at tsgserver.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:16 PM Subject: TSGL: keyboard quits I have a desktop running xp with sp3. Every so often the keyboard goes dead and I have to uninstall and reboot to get it working again. Plugging in a different keyboard doesn't help. I recently installed SP3 but my problem did not start right after that. Could SP3 be to blame or what else should I check for? Engineman _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From embitt at westnet.com.au Tue Nov 18 17:55:38 2008 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Eric and Merna Bitter) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:55:38 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Linux blogs Message-ID: <008401c949d0$d02cec40$0401a8c0@number12> For the Linux and/or blog lovers: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2008/06/list-of-best-linux-blogs.html And the writer's home page (http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/) isn't bad either. Merna From postmaster at moneymate.plus.com Tue Nov 18 18:55:46 2008 From: postmaster at moneymate.plus.com (pcparamedic) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:55:46 -0000 Subject: TSGL: Safer Surfing References: <016c01c94809$469efd60$0200a8c0@primary> <73a2fd940811162052v6448eb30tc3f39f20f7673c90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <001e01c949d9$2d6cb680$0200a8c0@primary> Many Thanks to Mike, Russ & Jonpan, Looks like it`s a unanimous decision : Opendns is the best ! That`s good enough for me. Thanks again !! From engineman1 at aol.com Tue Nov 18 18:59:21 2008 From: engineman1 at aol.com (engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:59:21 -0500 Subject: TSGL: keyboard quits In-Reply-To: References: <8CB17C944E0467E-148-71B@FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CB17F0CF158F16-BA0-1FD@FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> I have the legacy keyboard connection. Engineman -----Original Message----- From: jonpan To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:48 am Subject: Re: TSGL: keyboard quits If it's USB, try a different USB-port. I've had no problems with SP3. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: engineman1 at aol.com To: List at tsgserver.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:16 PM Subject: TSGL: keyboard quits I have a desktop running xp with sp3. Every so often the keyboard goes dead and I have to uninstall and reboot to get it working again. Plugging in a different keyboard doesn't help. I recently installed SP3 but my problem did not start right after that. Could SP3 be to blame or what else should I check for? Engineman _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From hdavis1 at gmail.com Wed Nov 19 21:04:38 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:04:38 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Free tech newsletters Message-ID: <4924C5B6.90509@gmail.com> I know some of you get Windows Secrets so I thought you might be interested in some other, so far free, newsletters. Steve Bass, who wrote the PC World "Tips & Tweaks" newsletter, has left PC World and is publishing his own free newsletter . Mostly short tech tips and an amusing video or something similar. http://www.techbite.com/ Jack Teems also has a free and paid newsletter with more "stuff". Mostly mentions of interesting web sites or software. http://www.neatnettricks.com/subscribe/ for the free version and info on the paid version. If you're into multimedia Jake Ludington has a free newsletter. If you're using FF with Adblock you'll have to turn it off to see the box to enter your e-mail address to subscribe (??? I just relay 'em; I don't explain 'em.) http://www.jakeludington.com/ For those of you that were Fred Langa fans, he's back at Windows Secrets along with newly arrived Gizmo Richards. Windows Secrets also has a free edition but the best stuff is in the paid version which you can get for whatever contribution you want to make. They have particularly good coverage of Windows Updates which comes out a couple of days after Patch Tuesday. Somewhat higher tech level than the other newsletters. http://windowssecrets.com/info/ Pass along any others you've found worthwhile. H Davis -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From federal1862 at yahoo.com Fri Nov 21 09:58:05 2008 From: federal1862 at yahoo.com (Henry Stevenson) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:58:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? In-Reply-To: <447930.74642.qm@web62403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> I was wondering if many folks are using Windows Vista at work? My impression is thata lot of companies and organizations are avoiding it like the plague.I do IT for a organization with 2000 PCs and we will never use Vista while I dohave it at home on a new laptop.Just curious,Henry From hbcanon at homemail.com Fri Nov 21 12:39:09 2008 From: hbcanon at homemail.com (HBCANON) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:09 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? In-Reply-To: <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <447930.74642.qm@web62403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000301c94c00$0fd09a50$0201a8c0@hbcanon> My company is pushing it onto several thousand PCs just after new years. HBCanon Geneva, FL -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Henry Stevenson Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 09:58 To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? I was wondering if many folks are using Windows Vista at work? My impression is thata lot of companies and organizations are avoiding it like the plague.I do IT for a organization with 2000 PCs and we will never use Vista while I dohave it at home on a new laptop.Just curious,Henry _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From ian at iarp.ca Fri Nov 21 12:44:55 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:44:55 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? In-Reply-To: <000301c94c00$0fd09a50$0201a8c0@hbcanon> References: <447930.74642.qm@web62403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <000301c94c00$0fd09a50$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Message-ID: >From what i've been reading, it might be better to hold off until Windows 7. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:39 PM, HBCANON wrote: > My company is pushing it onto several thousand PCs just after new years. > > HBCanon > Geneva, FL > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Henry > Stevenson > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 09:58 > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? > > > > I was wondering if many folks are using Windows Vista at work? My > impression is thata lot > of companies and organizations are avoiding it like the plague.I do IT for > a organization > with 2000 PCs and we will never use Vista while I dohave it at home on a > new laptop.Just > curious,Henry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P From rbrunton at accesswave.ca Fri Nov 21 17:21:45 2008 From: rbrunton at accesswave.ca (Ron Brunton) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:21:45 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? In-Reply-To: <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <447930.74642.qm@web62403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <605395.83093.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <001801c94c27$8997c3f0$9cc74bd0$@ca> I have Vista on my home machine, my wife's home machine, my office laptop and my office desktop. I have not compatibility issues or any other serious problems with Vista. Particularly with my laptop, I appreciate the greater security built into the kernel. All things being equal, I don't like the User Account Control and have turned that off on my desktops (home and office) but left it enabled on my laptop and my wife's desktop. Ron -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Henry Stevenson Sent: November-21-08 10:58 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Vista Any Version At Work? I was wondering if many folks are using Windows Vista at work? My impression is thata lot of companies and organizations are avoiding it like the plague.I do IT for a organization with 2000 PCs and we will never use Vista while I dohave it at home on a new laptop.Just curious,Henry _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3631 (20081121) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3631 (20081121) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3631 (20081121) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com From wseehorn at earthlink.net Fri Nov 21 17:28:28 2008 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:28 -0500 Subject: TSGL: System Suite 9 In-Reply-To: <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20081121172751.01f8b1f8@pop.earthlink.net> got an offer for it for $19. Is it any good? Willard From coover at fastmail.fm Sat Nov 22 22:11:36 2008 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:11:36 -0800 Subject: TSGL: System Suite 9 In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081121172751.01f8b1f8@pop.earthlink.net> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com><119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2><491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081121172751.01f8b1f8@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <16B0E71557B94656B956F5F8280ED1C6@AcerLaptop> It's pretty good. I use it. You are allowed to put it on 3 machines and it includes a 1 year Anti-Virus subscription, so that actually makes it a good deal. I believe the AV, this year, is from Kaspersky (I did a quick search on the web to confirm this, but was unable to find proof that this is so). In the past (System Suites 8, 7, 6, etc.), they used Trend Micro. Beyond the AV module, they have a Firewall, a very good registry cleaner, a defragger, diagnostic software, and some other things that you could get through freeware. However, with System Suite 9, it's all in one place and free. Please note that the AV software uses only a small part of memory and resources of the computer. I have an old 128 MB Windows 2000 machine which runs well with System Suite. Put AVG or Norton AV on it (without System Suite), and it slows to a crawl. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Willard Seehorn Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 2:28 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: TSGL: System Suite 9 got an offer for it for $19. Is it any good? Willard _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From go2dieter at comcast.net Sun Nov 23 22:45:39 2008 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:45:39 -0800 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize Message-ID: <005201c94de7$1e312090$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? From jonpan at onlinehome.de Mon Nov 24 05:36:49 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:36:49 +0100 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize References: <005201c94de7$1e312090$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <806229984CA245D4A2D0708B45B639EF@johnsp2> Hi Dieter, Normally, when you maximize from the box at top right, the 'maximize' from the toolbar is greyed out. Since you can maximize from the toolbar, I conclude that you are looking at the non-maximized window which can be dragged to size. You could therefore try dragging to required size and closing with the X while holding down the Ctrl button. I'm not really sure whether this is what you need, but it might help at least by clearing up some confusion. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Dieter To: list at tsgserver.com Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:45 AM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From tbrandl2 at chello.at Mon Nov 24 05:33:49 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:33:49 +0100 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize References: <005201c94de7$1e312090$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <182c101c94e21$9193a730$0201a8c0@til4200> Dieter, before repairing XP personally I would certainly check these: If you had created a OE shortcut to open OE, you might try and delete + afterwards recreate it. See also ... http://www.theeldergeek.com/maximize_internet_explorer.htm (the CTRL-key trick) http://www.topshareware.com/window-xp-outlook-express-6/downloads/1.htm (see 3rd item; free program) You can find those and still more hints through http://www.google.at/search?q=maximize+oe6+window+win+xp Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:45 AM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? From edlynn at usa.com Mon Nov 24 14:04:46 2008 From: edlynn at usa.com (EdlynnUSA) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:04:46 -0500 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize References: <005201c94de7$1e312090$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <000b01c94e67$870e2920$2b765445@mine> Dieter - I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the maximizer box upper right. Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. > What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand > corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using > XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Mon Nov 24 14:41:12 2008 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:41:12 -0500 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize In-Reply-To: <000b01c94e67$870e2920$2b765445@mine> References: <005201c94de7$1e312090$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> <000b01c94e67$870e2920$2b765445@mine> Message-ID: <014801c94e6c$9b783270$0100000a@michael> I've had trouble on many PCs after installing IE7 with the IE window not reliably opening full screen no matter what methods of exiting were attempted. I use and recommend a free program called AutoSizer that solved my IE problem and it does the same for OE. It can be found here: http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/ Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of EdlynnUSA Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:05 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize Dieter - I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the maximizer box upper right. Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. > What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand > corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using > XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From go2dieter at comcast.net Mon Nov 24 15:03:52 2008 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:03:52 -0800 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize Message-ID: <002301c94e6f$c5d58150$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Hi, Folks ... I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom page). By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized windows. This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss 6.0, but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "EdlynnUSA" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > Dieter - > > I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the > maximizer box upper right. > > Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, > vertically, > and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the > program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. > > ED > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dieter" > To: > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM > Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. >> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >> XP/Pro/SP1+2. 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Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 2:36 PM From tbrandl2 at chello.at Mon Nov 24 15:44:26 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:44:26 +0100 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize References: <002301c94e6f$c5d58150$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <000e01c94e75$81ce4950$0201a8c0@til4200> Dieter, >From what I know, we have 1 - the OE program window (your 'inbox mail page' ?) 2 - message windows which open when a message line is double clicked 3 - new message windows that open when I click the 'New ...' Icon or select Files | New ... from the top menu (only guessing at the 'New...' thing, since I use German Windows). >Whenever my mail comes in, it goes directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom page). < Mhhhh - I guess this is the preview window, in case you have set OE to show it. >One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the right > click open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize > my mail page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the > bottom minimized windows. Not sure what the bottom minmized window is ? Maybe the program or message icon down on the taskbar, where you have 'Maximize' as an option in the context menu ... ? I supposed you were speaking of OE's program window, where the well-known trick does work, at least here with me. The trick is not 'dragging a page' but dragging the corners of a page until the window is spread out over the whole visible screen area = maximised. Then, if you close the program from the MENU, not the system icon 'X' , it will open maximized next time. That's what works at my machine (XP pro + SP2) Re. the message window, it works that same way on my PC, I just tried it. Maybe also will work with a new message - why you can't open that new message window from the icon (or the menu?) is beyond me. Tilman Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:03 PM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > Hi, Folks ... > > I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard > maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes > directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom page). > By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail > window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right > click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail > page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized > windows. > > This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. > > My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail > (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem > works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be > interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by > right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. > > I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this > problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss 6.0, > but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. > > Dieter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "EdlynnUSA" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> Dieter - >> >> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >> maximizer box upper right. >> >> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >> vertically, >> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >> >> ED >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dieter" >> To: >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >> >> >>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. >>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 > 2:36 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From csmdcs at gmail.com Mon Nov 24 15:56:43 2008 From: csmdcs at gmail.com (Don Searles) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:43 -0600 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize In-Reply-To: <002301c94e6f$c5d58150$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> References: <002301c94e6f$c5d58150$6bb7ac43@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <799BDEAA43B141FBA6F74ABF8C3F9F46@Don> Dieter In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". Don. Hi, Folks ... I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom page). By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized windows. This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss 6.0, but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "EdlynnUSA" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > Dieter - > > I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the > maximizer box upper right. > > Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, > vertically, > and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the > program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. > > ED > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dieter" > To: > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM > Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double clicked. >> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 2:36 PM _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From go2dieter at comcast.net Mon Nov 24 16:29:26 2008 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:29:26 -0800 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize Message-ID: Hi, Folks ... Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My Outlook Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to do with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two problems appear to be interrelated. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > Dieter > > In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". > > Don. > > > > Hi, Folks ... > > I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard > maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes > directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom > page). > By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail > window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right > click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail > page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized > windows. > > This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. > > My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail > (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem > works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be > interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by > right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. > > I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this > problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss > 6.0, > but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. > > Dieter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "EdlynnUSA" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> Dieter - >> >> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >> maximizer box upper right. >> >> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >> vertically, >> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >> >> ED >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dieter" >> To: >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >> >> >>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>> clicked. >>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: > 11/24/2008 > 2:36 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 2:36 PM From csmdcs at gmail.com Mon Nov 24 17:12:45 2008 From: csmdcs at gmail.com (Don Searles) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:12:45 -0600 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1DEC992C94A045C3B7D11A9FF1964526@Don> Dieter, The Preview Pane only opens on the bottom or right side half of the Inbox screen and then only when the "Show Preview Pane"/Bottom or Side Option is selected under View>Layout. It cannot be maximized as its only use is to preview the email that is highlighted(selected in the upper half of the Inbox screen). According to email security procedures it is not a good idea to use the Preview Pane as it automatically opens email without your intervention/selecting it. As for as your Write Message(OE6)/ Create Mail(Windows Mail) button goes I can't help with that one. It has always worked for me as long as it is present. Hang in there.............. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Dieter To: list at tsgserver.com Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize Hi, Folks ... Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My Outlook Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to do with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two problems appear to be interrelated. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Searles" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > Dieter > > In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". > > Don. > > > > Hi, Folks ... > > I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard > maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes > directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom > page). > By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail > window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right > click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail > page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized > windows. > > This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. > > My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail > (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem > works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be > interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by > right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. > > I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this > problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss > 6.0, > but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. > > Dieter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "EdlynnUSA" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> Dieter - >> >> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >> maximizer box upper right. >> >> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >> vertically, >> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >> >> ED >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dieter" >> To: >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >> >> >>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>> clicked. >>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: > 11/24/2008 > 2:36 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 2:36 PM _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From tbrandl2 at chello.at Mon Nov 24 20:15:13 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:15:13 +0100 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize References: Message-ID: <004701c94e9b$4753c720$0201a8c0@til4200> Dieter, Don has already answered the preview pane question. As to the rest: While my OE is in German, it should be quite the same as yours. So I guess you have an icon titled 'Create Mail'. Is there a dropdown arrow beside it (triangular arrow pointing down), offering different stationery to create an email? If yes, you might try any of these options, or the 'None' or 'No stationery' option' to make clear if there's any of this icon's functions working. The workaround of course is using Files | New ... (or what it's named) from the menu. Does this work? Something else: If all fails, you might try accessing the windows setup from the main menu (Set Program Access and Defaults). There you can remove the mark with OE, it should get uninstalled now (I would reboot afterwards). Add a checkmark for OE again after reboot, and see whether things have improved. Good luck Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:29 PM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > Hi, Folks ... > > Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My Outlook > Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to do > with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. > Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two > problems appear to be interrelated. > > Dieter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Searles" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize > > >> Dieter >> >> In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". >> >> Don. >> >> >> >> Hi, Folks ... >> >> I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the standard >> maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes >> directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom >> page). >> By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire mail >> window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right >> click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my mail >> page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized >> windows. >> >> This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. >> >> My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create Mail >> (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one problem >> works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be >> interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by >> right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. >> >> I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this >> problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss >> 6.0, >> but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. >> >> Dieter >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "EdlynnUSA" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >> >> >>> Dieter - >>> >>> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >>> maximizer box upper right. >>> >>> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >>> vertically, >>> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >>> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >>> >>> ED >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dieter" >>> To: >>> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>> >>> >>>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>>> clicked. >>>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: >> 11/24/2008 >> 2:36 PM >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 > 2:36 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From go2dieter at comcast.net Mon Nov 24 20:51:11 2008 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:51:11 -0800 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize Message-ID: <0DE9DBB3CD9B419ABCEEC776B4DFCCD6@rhsbf6862da54a> Tilman, Thanks for your help. Could you please be a little more specific concerning the last paragraph. I don't think I understand what it is you are suggesting. What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults and where do I find them? I finally realize how little I know. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:15 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > Dieter, > > Don has already answered the preview pane question. > > As to the rest: While my OE is in German, it should be quite the same as > yours. So I guess you have an icon titled 'Create Mail'. Is there a > dropdown arrow beside it (triangular arrow pointing down), offering > different stationery to create an email? If yes, you might try any of > these options, or the 'None' or 'No stationery' option' to make clear if > there's any of this icon's functions working. > > The workaround of course is using Files | New ... (or what it's named) > from the menu. Does this work? > > Something else: If all fails, you might try accessing the windows setup > from the main menu (Set Program Access and Defaults). There you can remove > the mark with OE, it should get uninstalled now (I would reboot > afterwards). Add a checkmark for OE again after reboot, and see whether > things have improved. > > Good luck > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dieter" > To: > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:29 PM > Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > > >> Hi, Folks ... >> >> Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My >> Outlook >> Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to >> do >> with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. >> Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two >> problems appear to be interrelated. >> >> Dieter >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Searles" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >> >> >>> Dieter >>> >>> In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". >>> >>> Don. >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, Folks ... >>> >>> I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the >>> standard >>> maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes >>> directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom >>> page). >>> By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire >>> mail >>> window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right >>> click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my >>> mail >>> page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized >>> windows. >>> >>> This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. >>> >>> My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create >>> Mail >>> (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one >>> problem >>> works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be >>> interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by >>> right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. >>> >>> I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this >>> problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss >>> 6.0, >>> but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. >>> >>> Dieter >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "EdlynnUSA" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>> >>> >>>> Dieter - >>>> >>>> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >>>> maximizer box upper right. >>>> >>>> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >>>> vertically, >>>> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >>>> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >>>> >>>> ED >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Dieter" >>>> To: >>>> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >>>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>> >>>> >>>>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>>>> clicked. >>>>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>>>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>>>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. 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Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 11/24/2008 2:36 PM From tbrandl2 at chello.at Mon Nov 24 23:20:16 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:20:16 +0100 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize References: <0DE9DBB3CD9B419ABCEEC776B4DFCCD6@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <006701c94eb5$22f44250$0201a8c0@til4200> Hi Dieter, >What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults > and where do I find them? Ok, so let me try: ***** Before you begin - BEWARE: Possibly depending on how your PC is set up, removing OE from the Windows installation and putting it back later COULD sever your OE database with all your emails from the program, or even destroy it. If I'm not mistaken, OE on re-install creates a new basic set of dbx-files, which could overwrite (some of) your own set of folders. If you still want to try this, PLEASE by all means make a BACKUP up of your data - just copy that whole OE-folder plus content to somewhere else, before you start. If that folder is not simply named /Outlook Express (it's not here on my PC), you can identify the folder and it's location by searching for files with dbx-extensions. Later, after re-install, you can tell OE from under Tools | Options where your OE saving location can be found, or you could even copy your existing dbx-files (=content of that whole folder) back into the new folder, with OE closed ***** ***** One more thing to consider: Re-installing OE could make your account details and also any rules you've set up vanish (I'm not sure if this happens necessarily, but I've seen it happen myself. There are methods to backup these details too, but that's a little bit more complicated. Just ask here if you have a lot of accounts and/or rules and still want to proceed ***** Ok, if all this wasn't too intimidating, let's begin. Click on Start (bottom lefthand side on desktop taskbar) or press the WIN-key (often the second key on a keybord from the left, bottom row) and then click on 'Set Program Access and Defaults' (could be a bit different depending on whether you have the classic menues or not.) In the window that opens, select 'Windows components...' (or similar) from the lefthand vertical menu, here it's the 3rd option from the top. A dialog (1) will pop up showing all elements of Win XP, with a vertical scrollbar to the right. Scroll down till you see 'Outlook Express' with a lil box to it's left. Unmark that box (should be empty afterwards). Now click the 'Continue' button. A new small dialog should pop up, here click Finish (or such). Then click Ok to close the original dialog (1). You will not have OE any longer. I would reboot at this point. Afterwards you can go back to dialog (1) checkmarking OE again, then close dialogs like before. You should now have a new OE working on your machine. If you run into problems with your old email database (*.dbx files in OE folder), please let us know. As long as you have backed up/copied away your original OE-database, things can be rstored to work like before - and hopefully better than this. If you somehow botch up this step, your email messages will be gone forever. As to knowing little.... that just depends on the field and the level, so you're anyway not alone ..... ;-/) Tilman (sending this without any guarantee...) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > Tilman, > > Thanks for your help. Could you please be a little more specific concerning > the last paragraph. I don't think I understand what it is you are > suggesting. What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults > and where do I find them? I finally realize how little I know. > > Dieter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tilman Brandl" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > > >> Dieter, >> >> Don has already answered the preview pane question. >> >> As to the rest: While my OE is in German, it should be quite the same as >> yours. So I guess you have an icon titled 'Create Mail'. Is there a >> dropdown arrow beside it (triangular arrow pointing down), offering >> different stationery to create an email? If yes, you might try any of >> these options, or the 'None' or 'No stationery' option' to make clear if >> there's any of this icon's functions working. >> >> The workaround of course is using Files | New ... (or what it's named) >> from the menu. Does this work? >> >> Something else: If all fails, you might try accessing the windows setup >> from the main menu (Set Program Access and Defaults). There you can remove >> the mark with OE, it should get uninstalled now (I would reboot >> afterwards). Add a checkmark for OE again after reboot, and see whether >> things have improved. >> >> Good luck >> Tilman >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dieter" >> To: >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:29 PM >> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize >> >> >>> Hi, Folks ... >>> >>> Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My >>> Outlook >>> Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to >>> do >>> with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. >>> Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two >>> problems appear to be interrelated. >>> >>> Dieter >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Don Searles" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>> >>> >>>> Dieter >>>> >>>> In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". >>>> >>>> Don. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, Folks ... >>>> >>>> I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the >>>> standard >>>> maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes >>>> directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom >>>> page). >>>> By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire >>>> mail >>>> window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right >>>> click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my >>>> mail >>>> page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized >>>> windows. >>>> >>>> This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. >>>> >>>> My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create >>>> Mail >>>> (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one >>>> problem >>>> works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be >>>> interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by >>>> right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. >>>> >>>> I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this >>>> problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss >>>> 6.0, >>>> but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. >>>> >>>> Dieter >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "EdlynnUSA" >>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM >>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dieter - >>>>> >>>>> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >>>>> maximizer box upper right. >>>>> >>>>> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >>>>> vertically, >>>>> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >>>>> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >>>>> >>>>> ED >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dieter" >>>>> To: >>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >>>>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>>>>> clicked. >>>>>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>>>>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>>>>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>>>>> _______________________________________________ From federal1862 at yahoo.com Tue Nov 25 18:25:49 2008 From: federal1862 at yahoo.com (Henry Stevenson) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:25:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ In-Reply-To: <1DEC992C94A045C3B7D11A9FF1964526@Don> Message-ID: <963903.5057.qm@web62402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> I have tried unsuccessfully to remove the DROP DOWN history list from the new Firefox 3.0 and have been unable to do it.? I have gone in the removed history in the usual methods but it does not loose the drop down.? Has anyone figured out how to do this?? Remove the drop down history list? Thanks, Henry From embitt at westnet.com.au Tue Nov 25 19:03:28 2008 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Eric and Merna Bitter) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:03:28 +1000 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize (Address Book corrupted?) References: <0DE9DBB3CD9B419ABCEEC776B4DFCCD6@rhsbf6862da54a> <006701c94eb5$22f44250$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: <014801c94f5a$8eb8daa0$0401a8c0@number12> Everybody, Warning: long post following. Hi, Dieter. Earlier this year a friend had the same problems with his Outlook Express that you are having. He lives several hundred km away from us, and attempts to help him had to be done on the telephone and by sending him emails to which he would reply on the phone. After trying numerous things -- one or more of which included backing up as noted by Tilman below -- he was finally working again and could create and send new messages. However, his Address Book was not working even when everything else was. The troubleshooting started all over again, and in hindsight I wondered if his original problems had been caused by a corrupted Address Book and if solving that problem first would have made our original troubleshooting steps unnecessary. In any case, you might find these sites helpful: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/oerepair.mspx (Also see the "Related Links" on the righthand side of the above site.) http://www.diskinternals.com/ (more about this link in copy/paste below) I am copying and pasting below part of my email returning his salvaged Address Book. It might or might not be applicable to your situation if your Address Book is the cause of your problems or has contributed to them. Note that he had sent me his corrupted Address Book, and I worked on recovering it. Note also that I am still using Windows 98SE but worked on his problem on both my PC and my husband's (XP SP2 -- same as our friend had). *** start of info sent to our friend *** Contents of your address book attached. I got them by downloading a free program ("DiskInternals Address Book Recovery") to recover corrupted .wab files. After the program had recovered "_____.wab" ("nameoffriend.wab") I tried to import it into Outlook Express (opening OE and clicking on File - Import Address Book - and navigating to the location, as we did the other night). Same error as you had when you tried to import it into your OE -- "an error has occurred" or something like that. I thought I could import it into Eric's OE (since he has only three email addresses on his computer) and send the restored .wab file back to you as an attachment and you could import it into OE on your computer. However, that is not to be. When I open one of the attached files on my computer in 98SE, I am given the option to "Add to Address Book." When I open one on Eric's computer in XP SP2, I can see the email address but cannot see the "Add to Address Book" option. The screen that opens on his computer is completely different from mine. If yours opens as his does, you may have to retype all of the addresses (or copy and paste them) into your Address Book. If you want to download and/or play around with the program itself, go to http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Communications/E-Mail-Clients/Address-Book-Rec overy-by-DiskInternals.html (If that link breaks because it wraps around the lines when this email goes, you may have to copy and paste it into Internet Explorer.) It doesn't take long to download, and it doesn't take long to run. However, when I ran it, the "Help" button did not work -- perhaps because I have not registered it with the manufacturer. So I had to play around with it a bit (hoping I wasn't damaging Eric's computer). It's also available at the manufacturer's site -- go to http://www.diskinternals.com/ and click on the "Downloads" link at the top of the page. That will take you to a list of products -- the freeware ones including "DiskInternals Address Book Recovery" are at the bottom of the list. (snipped) One thing I did notice is that the name "Ida Portella" has an empty space in front of it -- instead of looking like this: Eric Bitter Ida Portella it looks like this: Eric Bitter Ida Portella I wouldn't have noticed that space except for two things: (a) I don't know when you added her name and details to your address list or tried to send an email to her. The space in front of her name may have nothing to do with what caused the problem, but it also might have if it caused OE to look at it as an invalid address. I noticed the space because the addresses from the recovery started with hers and then proceeded alphabetically from A onwards. The reason hers was first was because of the basic rule of filing -- "nothing before something" -- because there was a space (nothing) in front of her name, her name/address comes before the "A" details instead of in the "I" details where it belongs. (b) In the surfing and reading I did today with results from searching Google for "corrupted Address Book" + "Outlook Express" there was a mention somewhere about "unexpected character, line 1, position 1" (or something like that -- perhaps "unrecognised character, line 1, position 1"). At the time I wondered if I could somehow get into the Address Book file and change/delete the character at line 1, position 1. When I saw that space in front of her Ida Portella, I thought of "line 1, position 1." Again, I might be wrong. However, if I'm right and you don't fix that name, you might wind up with a corrupted Address Book again. *** end of info sent to our friend *** Good luck with solving your OE problem, whatever the cause is. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:20 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize Hi Dieter, >What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults > and where do I find them? Ok, so let me try: ***** Before you begin - BEWARE: Possibly depending on how your PC is set up, removing OE from the Windows installation and putting it back later COULD sever your OE database with all your emails from the program, or even destroy it. If I'm not mistaken, OE on re-install creates a new basic set of dbx-files, which could overwrite (some of) your own set of folders. If you still want to try this, PLEASE by all means make a BACKUP up of your data - just copy that whole OE-folder plus content to somewhere else, before you start. If that folder is not simply named /Outlook Express (it's not here on my PC), you can identify the folder and it's location by searching for files with dbx-extensions. Later, after re-install, you can tell OE from under Tools | Options where your OE saving location can be found, or you could even copy your existing dbx-files (=content of that whole folder) back into the new folder, with OE closed ***** ***** One more thing to consider: Re-installing OE could make your account details and also any rules you've set up vanish (I'm not sure if this happens necessarily, but I've seen it happen myself. There are methods to backup these details too, but that's a little bit more complicated. Just ask here if you have a lot of accounts and/or rules and still want to proceed ***** Ok, if all this wasn't too intimidating, let's begin. Click on Start (bottom lefthand side on desktop taskbar) or press the WIN-key (often the second key on a keybord from the left, bottom row) and then click on 'Set Program Access and Defaults' (could be a bit different depending on whether you have the classic menues or not.) In the window that opens, select 'Windows components...' (or similar) from the lefthand vertical menu, here it's the 3rd option from the top. A dialog (1) will pop up showing all elements of Win XP, with a vertical scrollbar to the right. Scroll down till you see 'Outlook Express' with a lil box to it's left. Unmark that box (should be empty afterwards). Now click the 'Continue' button. A new small dialog should pop up, here click Finish (or such). Then click Ok to close the original dialog (1). You will not have OE any longer. I would reboot at this point. Afterwards you can go back to dialog (1) checkmarking OE again, then close dialogs like before. You should now have a new OE working on your machine. If you run into problems with your old email database (*.dbx files in OE folder), please let us know. As long as you have backed up/copied away your original OE-database, things can be rstored to work like before - and hopefully better than this. If you somehow botch up this step, your email messages will be gone forever. As to knowing little.... that just depends on the field and the level, so you're anyway not alone ..... ;-/) Tilman (sending this without any guarantee...) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieter" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > Tilman, > > Thanks for your help. Could you please be a little more specific concerning > the last paragraph. I don't think I understand what it is you are > suggesting. What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults > and where do I find them? I finally realize how little I know. > > Dieter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tilman Brandl" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > > >> Dieter, >> >> Don has already answered the preview pane question. >> >> As to the rest: While my OE is in German, it should be quite the same as >> yours. So I guess you have an icon titled 'Create Mail'. Is there a >> dropdown arrow beside it (triangular arrow pointing down), offering >> different stationery to create an email? If yes, you might try any of >> these options, or the 'None' or 'No stationery' option' to make clear if >> there's any of this icon's functions working. >> >> The workaround of course is using Files | New ... (or what it's named) >> from the menu. Does this work? >> >> Something else: If all fails, you might try accessing the windows setup >> from the main menu (Set Program Access and Defaults). There you can remove >> the mark with OE, it should get uninstalled now (I would reboot >> afterwards). Add a checkmark for OE again after reboot, and see whether >> things have improved. >> >> Good luck >> Tilman >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dieter" >> To: >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:29 PM >> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize >> >> >>> Hi, Folks ... >>> >>> Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My >>> Outlook >>> Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to >>> do >>> with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. >>> Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two >>> problems appear to be interrelated. >>> >>> Dieter >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Don Searles" >>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>> >>> >>>> Dieter >>>> >>>> In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview Pane". >>>> >>>> Don. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, Folks ... >>>> >>>> I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the >>>> standard >>>> maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes >>>> directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom >>>> page). >>>> By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire >>>> mail >>>> window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > right >>>> click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my >>>> mail >>>> page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom minimized >>>> windows. >>>> >>>> This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. >>>> >>>> My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create >>>> Mail >>>> (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one >>>> problem >>>> works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be >>>> interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route by >>>> right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. >>>> >>>> I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this >>>> problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss >>>> 6.0, >>>> but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. >>>> >>>> Dieter >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "EdlynnUSA" >>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM >>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dieter - >>>>> >>>>> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >>>>> maximizer box upper right. >>>>> >>>>> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >>>>> vertically, >>>>> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of the >>>>> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >>>>> >>>>> ED >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dieter" >>>>> To: >>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >>>>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>>>>> clicked. >>>>>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right hand >>>>>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>>>>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>>>>> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: 2008-11-24 2:36 PM From go2dieter at comcast.net Wed Nov 26 16:21:41 2008 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:21:41 -0800 Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize Message-ID: To all who tried to help ... I certainly appreciate your inputs. I tried most of them, but to no avail. Finally, Microsoft had to come in and tell me that there was a corruption "somewhere" in the mail and that a new "profile" needed to be established for the mail. Frankly, I didn't know what they were talking about. Anyhow, after a minute or two of shoveling files around and creating new ones, everything was copastetic and back to normal. I wish I had their smarts ... just once. Thanks for all your efforts. Dieter Sacramento, CA (USA) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric and Merna Bitter" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize (Address Bookcorrupted?) > Everybody, > Warning: long post following. > > Hi, Dieter. > > Earlier this year a friend had the same problems with his Outlook Express > that you are having. He lives several hundred km away from us, and > attempts > to help him had to be done on the telephone and by sending him emails to > which he would reply on the phone. After trying numerous things -- one or > more of which included backing up as noted by Tilman below -- he was > finally > working again and could create and send new messages. > > However, his Address Book was not working even when everything else was. > The troubleshooting started all over again, and in hindsight I wondered if > his original problems had been caused by a corrupted Address Book and if > solving that problem first would have made our original troubleshooting > steps unnecessary. > > In any case, you might find these sites helpful: > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/oerepair.mspx > (Also see the "Related Links" on the righthand side of the above site.) > > http://www.diskinternals.com/ > (more about this link in copy/paste below) > > I am copying and pasting below part of my email returning his salvaged > Address Book. It might or might not be applicable to your situation if > your > Address Book is the cause of your problems or has contributed to them. > > Note that he had sent me his corrupted Address Book, and I worked on > recovering it. > > Note also that I am still using Windows 98SE but worked on his problem on > both my PC and my husband's (XP SP2 -- same as our friend had). > > *** start of info sent to our friend *** > > Contents of your address book attached. I got them by downloading a free > program ("DiskInternals Address Book Recovery") to recover corrupted .wab > files. > > After the program had recovered "_____.wab" ("nameoffriend.wab") I tried > to > import it into Outlook Express (opening OE and clicking on File - Import > Address Book - and navigating to the location, as we did the other night). > Same error as you had when you tried to import it into your OE -- "an > error > has occurred" or something like that. I thought I could import it into > Eric's OE (since he has only three email addresses on his computer) and > send > the restored .wab file back to you as an attachment and you could import > it > into OE on your computer. However, that is not to be. > > When I open one of the attached files on my computer in 98SE, I am given > the > option to "Add to Address Book." > > When I open one on Eric's computer in XP SP2, I can see the email address > but cannot see the "Add to Address Book" option. The screen that opens on > his computer is completely different from mine. > > If yours opens as his does, you may have to retype all of the addresses > (or > copy and paste them) into your Address Book. > > If you want to download and/or play around with the program itself, go to > http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Communications/E-Mail-Clients/Address-Book-Rec > overy-by-DiskInternals.html > > (If that link breaks because it wraps around the lines when this email > goes, > you may have to copy and paste it into Internet Explorer.) > > It doesn't take long to download, and it doesn't take long to run. > However, > when I ran it, the "Help" button did not work -- perhaps because I have > not > registered it with the manufacturer. So I had to play around with it a > bit > (hoping I wasn't damaging Eric's computer). > > It's also available at the manufacturer's site -- go to > http://www.diskinternals.com/ and click on the "Downloads" link at the top > of the page. That will take you to a list of products -- the freeware > ones > including "DiskInternals Address Book Recovery" are at the bottom of the > list. > > (snipped) > > One thing I did notice is that the name "Ida Portella" has an empty space > in > front of it -- instead of looking like this: > Eric Bitter > Ida Portella > > it looks like this: > Eric Bitter > Ida Portella > > I wouldn't have noticed that space except for two things: > > (a) I don't know when you added her name and details to your address > list > or tried to send an email to her. The space in front of her name may have > nothing to do with what caused the problem, but it also might have if it > caused OE to look at it as an invalid address. I noticed the space > because > the addresses from the recovery started with hers and then proceeded > alphabetically from A onwards. The reason hers was first was because of > the > basic rule of filing -- "nothing before something" -- because there was a > space (nothing) in front of her name, her name/address comes before the > "A" > details instead of in the "I" details where it belongs. > > (b) In the surfing and reading I did today with results from searching > Google for > "corrupted Address Book" + "Outlook Express" > there was a mention somewhere about "unexpected character, line 1, > position > 1" (or something like that -- perhaps "unrecognised character, line 1, > position 1"). At the time I wondered if I could somehow get into the > Address Book file and change/delete the character at line 1, position 1. > > When I saw that space in front of her Ida Portella, I thought of "line 1, > position 1." Again, I might be wrong. However, if I'm right and you > don't > fix that name, you might wind up with a corrupted Address Book again. > > *** end of info sent to our friend *** > > Good luck with solving your OE problem, whatever the cause is. > > Merna > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tilman Brandl" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:20 PM > Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > > > Hi Dieter, > >>What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and Defaults >> and where do I find them? > > Ok, so let me try: > > ***** Before you begin - BEWARE: Possibly depending on how your PC is set > up, removing OE from the Windows installation and putting it back later > COULD sever your OE database with all your emails from the program, or > even > destroy it. If I'm not mistaken, OE on re-install creates a new basic set > of > dbx-files, which could overwrite (some of) your own set of folders. If you > still want to try this, PLEASE by all means make a BACKUP up of your > data - > just copy that whole OE-folder plus content to somewhere else, before you > start. If that folder is not simply named /Outlook Express (it's not here > on > my PC), you can identify the folder and it's location by searching for > files > with dbx-extensions. Later, after re-install, you can tell OE from under > Tools | Options where your OE saving location can be found, or you could > even copy your existing dbx-files (=content of that whole folder) back > into > the new folder, with OE closed ***** > > ***** One more thing to consider: Re-installing OE could make your account > details and also any rules you've set up vanish (I'm not sure if this > happens necessarily, but I've seen it happen myself. There are methods to > backup these details too, but that's a little bit more complicated. Just > ask > here if you have a lot of accounts and/or rules and still want to proceed > ***** > > Ok, if all this wasn't too intimidating, let's begin. Click on Start > (bottom > lefthand side on desktop taskbar) or press the WIN-key (often the second > key > on a keybord from the left, bottom row) and then click on 'Set Program > Access and Defaults' (could be a bit different depending on whether you > have > the classic menues or not.) > > In the window that opens, select 'Windows components...' (or similar) > from > the lefthand vertical menu, here it's the 3rd option from the top. > > A dialog (1) will pop up showing all elements of Win XP, with a vertical > scrollbar to the right. Scroll down till you see 'Outlook Express' with a > lil box to it's left. Unmark that box (should be empty afterwards). Now > click the 'Continue' button. A new small dialog should pop up, here click > Finish (or such). Then click Ok to close the original dialog (1). > > You will not have OE any longer. > > I would reboot at this point. Afterwards you can go back to dialog (1) > checkmarking OE again, then close dialogs like before. You should now have > a > new OE working on your machine. > > If you run into problems with your old email database (*.dbx files in OE > folder), please let us know. As long as you have backed up/copied away > your > original OE-database, things can be rstored to work like before - and > hopefully better than this. If you somehow botch up this step, your email > messages will be gone forever. > > As to knowing little.... that just depends on the field and the level, so > you're anyway not alone ..... ;-/) > > Tilman > (sending this without any guarantee...) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dieter" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:51 AM > Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize > > >> Tilman, >> >> Thanks for your help. Could you please be a little more specific > concerning >> the last paragraph. I don't think I understand what it is you are >> suggesting. What is meant by Main Menu and Set Program Access and > Defaults >> and where do I find them? I finally realize how little I know. >> >> Dieter >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tilman Brandl" >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:15 PM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize >> >> >>> Dieter, >>> >>> Don has already answered the preview pane question. >>> >>> As to the rest: While my OE is in German, it should be quite the same as >>> yours. So I guess you have an icon titled 'Create Mail'. Is there a >>> dropdown arrow beside it (triangular arrow pointing down), offering >>> different stationery to create an email? If yes, you might try any of >>> these options, or the 'None' or 'No stationery' option' to make clear if >>> there's any of this icon's functions working. >>> >>> The workaround of course is using Files | New ... (or what it's named) >>> from the menu. Does this work? >>> >>> Something else: If all fails, you might try accessing the windows setup >>> from the main menu (Set Program Access and Defaults). There you can > remove >>> the mark with OE, it should get uninstalled now (I would reboot >>> afterwards). Add a checkmark for OE again after reboot, and see whether >>> things have improved. >>> >>> Good luck >>> Tilman >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dieter" >>> To: >>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:29 PM >>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not open and maximize >>> >>> >>>> Hi, Folks ... >>>> >>>> Now that I have the right terminology, let me state my problem: My >>>> Outlook >>>> Express Preview Window does not open and maximize. This has nothing to >>>> do >>>> with resizing and/or dragging a small window to make it larger. >>>> Simultaneously, my OE Create Mail icon does not open either, These two >>>> problems appear to be interrelated. >>>> >>>> Dieter >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Don Searles" >>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:56 PM >>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dieter >>>>> >>>>> In OE go to View>Layout>Preview Pane, then uncheck "Show Preview >>>>> Pane". >>>>> >>>>> Don. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, Folks ... >>>>> >>>>> I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. My problem concerns the >>>>> standard >>>>> maximization of the mail windows. Whenever my mail comes in, it goes >>>>> directly to the Inbox, where it is displayed small (about half bottom >>>>> page). >>>>> By double-clicking the mail, it maximizes (enlarges) over the entire >>>>> mail >>>>> window. One can also maximize the Inbox mail page by going the > >>>>> right >>>>> click > open route. This maximization does not work. To maximize my >>>>> mail >>>>> page, I have to go a right-clicking twice route of the bottom >>>>> minimized >>>>> windows. >>>>> >>>>> This maximization has nothing to do with dragging a page. >>>>> >>>>> My second problem, which appears to run concurrent, is that my Create >>>>> Mail >>>>> (New Message) will not open whenever I click on it. Whenever one >>>>> problem >>>>> works, the other one works also, meaning these 2 problems seems to be >>>>> interconnected. To open my Create Mail, I have to go a similar route > by >>>>> right-clicking twice the bottom minimized window. >>>>> >>>>> I have done an XP Repair Install, but to know avail. Apparently, this >>>>> problem is not related to my XP Operating System with Outlook Expresss >>>>> 6.0, >>>>> but rather to some quirky setting which may have slipped. >>>>> >>>>> Dieter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "EdlynnUSA" >>>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" >>>>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:04 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Dieter - >>>>>> >>>>>> I asked the same question a few days ago. They told me NOT to use the >>>>>> maximizer box upper right. >>>>>> >>>>>> Manually drag the screen to the size you wold want, hoizontally, >>>>>> vertically, >>>>>> and diagonally. Keep holding down the left mouse key and "X" out of > the >>>>>> program. Reboot and then OE will open in the size you left it. >>>>>> >>>>>> ED >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Dieter" >>>>>> To: >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:45 PM >>>>>> Subject: TSGL: OE windows will not maximize >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> My OE6 incoming mail windows will no longer maximize when double >>>>>>> clicked. >>>>>>> What I have to do is manually maximize the box in the upper right > hand >>>>>>> corner and then maximize the bottom OE6 toolbar entry. I am using >>>>>>> XP/Pro/SP1+2. Should I run an XP Repair Install? >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1810 - Release Date: > 2008-11-24 > 2:36 PM > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1812 - Release Date: 11/25/2008 7:53 PM From tbrandl2 at chello.at Fri Nov 28 10:01:09 2008 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:01:09 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ References: <963903.5057.qm@web62402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000701c9516a$2ac8dd80$0201a8c0@til4200> Henry, nobody around here seems to know an answer. The correct answer might depend on the theme you are using - I for one e.g. don't have the dropdown you describe, unless you mean the 'left click' at the Back icon (I don't think you would want to get rid of this one?). Have you tried the Firefox support forum yet? Or the homepage of the theme-designers? http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1 Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Stevenson" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:25 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ I have trie unsuccessfully to remove the DROP DOWN history list from the new Firefox 3.0 and have been unable to do it. I have gone in the removed history in the usual methods but it does not loose the drop down. Has anyone figured out how to do this? Remove the drop down history list? Thanks, Henry From wseehorn at earthlink.net Fri Nov 28 11:04:04 2008 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:04:04 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Hardware question Visioneer 8920 scanner In-Reply-To: <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> I inherited this unit. It's complete except for the power supply. Visioneer's web site doesn't specify what power requirements are for the unit. The plug does show where ground should be, but it doesnt give any voltage/amperage requirements. If anyone has one of these and could check their power brick & let me know what I should get at Radio Shack I'd appreciate it. Willard From ian at iarp.ca Fri Nov 28 11:30:18 2008 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:30:18 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Hardware question Visioneer 8920 scanner In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: http://orders.visioneer.com/category.jsp?category=SPARES8920 Taking a look on eBay i believe it's cheaper through the site above. Taking a look at this auction, they have power listed. http://cgi.ebay.ca/12V-AC-DC-adapter-for-Visioneer-OneTouch-8920-Scanner_W0QQitemZ260116616305QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Willard Seehorn wrote: > I inherited this unit. It's complete except for the power supply. > Visioneer's web site doesn't specify what power requirements are for the > unit. The plug does show where ground should be, but it doesnt give any > voltage/amperage requirements. If anyone has one of these and could check > their power brick & let me know what I should get at Radio Shack I'd > appreciate it. > > Willard _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P From nortnarg at gmail.com Fri Nov 28 11:48:37 2008 From: nortnarg at gmail.com (Ron Grant) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:48:37 -0600 Subject: TSGL: Hardware question Visioneer 8920 scanner In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <15ffb59c0811280848o62d76cf6i84f5bcf376ecf4b1@mail.gmail.com> On the manual it has these specs for the power supply requirements Power supply. I found this from the .pdf manual on the last page before the index. So if you have the proper polarity, and plug size (maybe take the scanner to store) you are set! Input voltage/frequency 100 Vac, 50/60 Hz (Japan) 120 Vac, 60 Hz (North America) 230 Vac, 50 Hz (Europe) Output voltage/watt 12 V DC, 15 watt maximum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Willard Seehorn wrote: > I inherited this unit. It's complete except for the power supply. > Visioneer's web site doesn't specify what power requirements are for the > unit. The plug does show where ground should be, but it doesnt give any > voltage/amperage requirements. If anyone has one of these and could check > their power brick & let me know what I should get at Radio Shack I'd > appreciate it. > > Willard _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From wseehorn at earthlink.net Fri Nov 28 12:01:33 2008 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:01:33 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Hardware question Visioneer 8920 scanner In-Reply-To: <15ffb59c0811280848o62d76cf6i84f5bcf376ecf4b1@mail.gmail.co m> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> <15ffb59c0811280848o62d76cf6i84f5bcf376ecf4b1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20081128120110.01f5f8c8@pop.earthlink.net> Thanks. I'll have to order the manual too.. Willard At 11:48 AM 11/28/2008, you wrote: >On the manual it has these specs for the power supply requirements >Power supply. I found this from the .pdf manual on the last page before the >index. >So if you have the proper polarity, and plug size (maybe take the scanner to >store) you are set! > >Input voltage/frequency 100 Vac, 50/60 Hz (Japan) >120 Vac, 60 Hz (North America) >230 Vac, 50 Hz (Europe) >Output voltage/watt 12 V DC, 15 watt maximum >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Willard Seehorn >wrote: > > > I inherited this unit. It's complete except for the power supply. > > Visioneer's web site doesn't specify what power requirements are for the > > unit. The plug does show where ground should be, but it doesnt give any > > voltage/amperage requirements. If anyone has one of these and could check > > their power brick & let me know what I should get at Radio Shack I'd > > appreciate it. > > > > Willard _______________________________________________ > > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From jonpan at onlinehome.de Fri Nov 28 12:03:29 2008 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (jonpan) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:03:29 +0100 Subject: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ References: <963903.5057.qm@web62402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <000701c9516a$2ac8dd80$0201a8c0@til4200> Message-ID: Henry, You could try going to about:config. Enter history in the filter, then look at browser.history.show sessions true or false browser.sessionhistory.max_entries maybe set this to 1 or 0 Haven't had time to test this but hope it will be helpful. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 4:01 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ Henry, nobody around here seems to know an answer. The correct answer might depend on the theme you are using - I for one e.g. don't have the dropdown you describe, unless you mean the 'left click' at the Back icon (I don't think you would want to get rid of this one?). Have you tried the Firefox support forum yet? Or the homepage of the theme-designers? http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1 Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Stevenson" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:25 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Mozilla FireFox Version 3.+ I have trie unsuccessfully to remove the DROP DOWN history list from the new Firefox 3.0 and have been unable to do it. I have gone in the removed history in the usual methods but it does not loose the drop down. Has anyone figured out how to do this? Remove the drop down history list? Thanks, Henry _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From nortnarg at gmail.com Fri Nov 28 14:43:58 2008 From: nortnarg at gmail.com (Ron Grant) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:43:58 -0600 Subject: TSGL: Hardware question Visioneer 8920 scanner In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20081128120110.01f5f8c8@pop.earthlink.net> References: <491CE557.6040600@gmail.com> <119044C4DB5441C598305CD064F41645@johnsp2> <491E3E45.2050401@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081128110028.01f8fb58@pop.earthlink.net> <15ffb59c0811280848o62d76cf6i84f5bcf376ecf4b1@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20081128120110.01f5f8c8@pop.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <15ffb59c0811281143x1e95d4fev605b6a3d7c7ae944@mail.gmail.com> You can download the manual here. http://support.visioneer.com/manuals/8900/ENU/8920Install.OT3.EN.pdf Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Willard Seehorn wrote: > Thanks. I'll have to order the manual too.. > > Willard > > > > At 11:48 AM 11/28/2008, you wrote: > >> On the manual it has these specs for the power supply requirements >> Power supply. I found this from the .pdf manual on the last page before >> the >> index. >> So if you have the proper polarity, and plug size (maybe take the scanner >> to >> store) you are set! >> >> Input voltage/frequency 100 Vac, 50/60 Hz (Japan) >> 120 Vac, 60 Hz (North America) >> 230 Vac, 50 Hz (Europe) >> Output voltage/watt 12 V DC, 15 watt maximum >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Willard Seehorn > >wrote: >> >> > I inherited this unit. It's complete except for the power supply. >> > Visioneer's web site doesn't specify what power requirements are for the >> > unit. The plug does show where ground should be, but it doesnt give any >> > voltage/amperage requirements. If anyone has one of these and could >> check >> > their power brick & let me know what I should get at Radio Shack I'd >> > appreciate it. >> > >> > Willard _______________________________________________ >> > Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From annandchuck at yahoo.com Fri Nov 28 22:26:12 2008 From: annandchuck at yahoo.com (Chuck Neuenschwander) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:26:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: TSGL: email recipient limits In-Reply-To: <48E68280.5060407@gmail.com> Message-ID: <488872.52285.qm@web110213.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> hi this may be the wrong list to ask, but maybe someone can give me direction..... I would like to send out a weekly email newspaper, no attachments,? to 250 local residents. Tried to set up in Yahoo Free, but ran into problems with size of recipient lists, and max. number of emails per hour. Any ideas on where I can set this up, hopefully free? thanks, chuck From hdavis1 at gmail.com Fri Nov 28 22:38:57 2008 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:38:57 -0500 Subject: TSGL: email recipient limits In-Reply-To: <488872.52285.qm@web110213.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <488872.52285.qm@web110213.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4930B951.8080106@gmail.com> Chuck, You might be able to use g-mail. There's some discussion at here indicating you can send up to 500 messages. Search their help section for more. Another way might be to break the list up into smaller groups and send it a couple of times to different groups. H Davis Chuck Neuenschwander wrote: > hi > this may be the wrong list to ask, > but maybe someone can give me direction..... > > I would like to send out a weekly email newspaper, no attachments, to 250 local residents. > Tried to set up in Yahoo Free, but ran into problems with size of recipient lists, > and max. number of emails per hour. > > Any ideas on where I can set this up, hopefully free? > > thanks, chuck > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com