From webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sat Aug 1 15:40:57 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:40:57 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up Message-ID: When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? Blanchard From jonpan at onlinehome.de Sat Aug 1 16:17:07 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:17:07 +0200 Subject: TSGL: videos break up References: <0MKsxo-1MXKTC36Pe-000QCT@mx.kundenserver.de> Message-ID: <71C7869DA35447B8B1F1C678374AAFC5@johnsp2> Usually more bandwidth needed... Faster PC, faster connection? John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Blanchard Warren To: list at tsgserver.com Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 PM Subject: TSGL: videos break up When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? Blanchard _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sat Aug 1 16:30:49 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:30:49 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <71C7869DA35447B8B1F1C678374AAFC5@johnsp2> References: <0MKsxo-1MXKTC36Pe-000QCT@mx.kundenserver.de> <71C7869DA35447B8B1F1C678374AAFC5@johnsp2> Message-ID: Thank you John. I have DSL. Is there a way to create more bandwith? At 04:17 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >Usually more bandwidth needed... Faster PC, faster connection? > >John >Od/G > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Blanchard Warren >To: list at tsgserver.com >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 PM >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to >wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? >Blanchard > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Sat Aug 1 16:45:16 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:45:16 -0700 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45D737AF1FDF403C8F9124DBD3F711B6@AcerPC> Jon is absolutely correct. The answer can be found by one of the following ... 1. How fast is your internet connection? If below 512 Mb/s the problem is probably bandwidth. It may be bandwidth if your internet connection is below 1.5 GB/s. This is not the problem if your videos files are already on your hard drive and are not being downloaded as you watch. 2. How fast is your CPU? If it is below 1 Ghz, that may be the problem. It could also be the problem if the computer is even faster if you are running several programs simultaneously. Check to see how many programs start with the computer. If you find several, you might want to consider disabling them at start and only start them when you actually need them. 3. How much memory are you running? If you are running XP and have only 256 MB, your computer may be running out of resources. If you are running Vista and have 1.5 GB or less, this may be the problem. Low memory along with a slow CPU (see above) may cause lots of problems with videos. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Blanchard Warren Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:41 PM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: videos break up When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? Blanchard _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From dogbert at earthlink.net Sat Aug 1 19:47:07 2009 From: dogbert at earthlink.net (Dogbert) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:47:07 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Get a faster CPU HBCanon Geneva, FL A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Blanchard Warren Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: videos break up When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? Blanchard _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sat Aug 1 20:36:20 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:36:20 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Message-ID: What is CPU and how do you get a faster one? At 07:47 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >Get a faster CPU >HBCanon >Geneva, FL > > >A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have >evolved from a simpler >system that worked just fine. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] >On Behalf Of >Blanchard Warren >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 >To: list at tsgserver.com >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to >wait for them to >continue. How can I correct this? >Blanchard > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sat Aug 1 20:36:47 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:36:47 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <45D737AF1FDF403C8F9124DBD3F711B6@AcerPC> References: <45D737AF1FDF403C8F9124DBD3F711B6@AcerPC> Message-ID: thank you At 04:45 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >Jon is absolutely correct. The answer can be found by one of the following >... > >1. How fast is your internet connection? If below 512 Mb/s the problem is >probably bandwidth. It may be bandwidth if your internet connection is below >1.5 GB/s. This is not the problem if your videos files are already on your >hard drive and are not being downloaded as you watch. > >2. How fast is your CPU? If it is below 1 Ghz, that may be the problem. It >could also be the problem if the computer is even faster if you are running >several programs simultaneously. Check to see how many programs start with >the computer. If you find several, you might want to consider disabling them >at start and only start them when you actually need them. > >3. How much memory are you running? If you are running XP and have only 256 >MB, your computer may be running out of resources. If you are running Vista >and have 1.5 GB or less, this may be the problem. Low memory along with a >slow CPU (see above) may cause lots of problems with videos. > >Russ Coover > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >Behalf Of Blanchard Warren >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:41 PM >To: list at tsgserver.com >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to >wait for them to continue. How can I correct this? >Blanchard > > >_______________________________________________ >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 Sun Aug 2 03:51:35 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:51:35 +0200 Subject: TSGL: videos break up References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net><000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <0MKreC-1MXP4J43aM-0000ym@mx.kundenserver.de> Message-ID: <3A33C273E6EE48D4B6B18901DAA2161A@johnsp2> CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Start by pressing the Windows key and the Pause key simultaneously. It should open under 'General'. If not, press the 'General' button. Under 'Computer' at the lower right there will be details of your CPU and memory. Let us know what it says there. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Blanchard Warren To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up What is CPU and how do you get a faster one? At 07:47 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >Get a faster CPU >HBCanon >Geneva, FL > > >A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have >evolved from a simpler >system that worked just fine. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] >On Behalf Of >Blanchard Warren >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 >To: list at tsgserver.com >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to >wait for them to >continue. How can I correct this? >Blanchard > > >_______________________________________________ >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 webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sun Aug 2 16:03:04 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:03:04 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <3A33C273E6EE48D4B6B18901DAA2161A@johnsp2> References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <0MKreC-1MXP4J43aM-0000ym@mx.kundenserver.de> <3A33C273E6EE48D4B6B18901DAA2161A@johnsp2> Message-ID: I did what you asked and a "System Properties" window opened to General. I don't know if the following is what you asked for: Pentium (R) 4cpu 2.8GHz 2.79GHz 512 MB of Ram. Blanchard At 03:51 AM 8/2/2009, you wrote: >CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Start by pressing the >Windows key and the Pause key simultaneously. It should open under >'General'. If not, press the 'General' button. >Under 'Computer' at the lower right there will be details of your >CPU and memory. Let us know what it says there. > >John >Od/G > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Blanchard Warren >To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:36 AM >Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up > > >What is CPU and how do you get a faster one? > > > >At 07:47 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: > >Get a faster CPU > >HBCanon > >Geneva, FL > > > > > >A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have > >evolved from a simpler > >system that worked just fine. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] > >On Behalf Of > >Blanchard Warren > >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 > >To: list at tsgserver.com > >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > > > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to > >wait for them to > >continue. How can I correct this? > >Blanchard > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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/ >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Aug 2 21:15:33 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:15:33 -0700 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net><000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon><0MKreC-1MXP4J43aM-0000ym@mx.kundenserver.de><3A33C273E6EE48D4B6B18901DAA2161A@johnsp2> Message-ID: <2C06BC821CA64C44B4BACF5EA7F1F735@AcerPC> Your CPU is adequate. You need more RAM. 512 MB of RAM is insufficient, even for XP, when you are running intensive video programs. Assuming you are running XP, at minimum you need 1 GB RAM (this might not be enough) and, if I were you, I'd get 2 GB. If you are running Vista, you need a minimum of 2 GB RAM for intensive video and I recommend 3 GB. Before you go to the store for your new RAM, be sure to find out what type of RAM your motherboard requires, and how much it will take. Download a program called SIW, it's free, at http://www.gtopala.com/ . Open it up and look under "Hardware" for "Memory". Click on it and in the right frame you will see a "Memory Summary" and below that, "Device Locator". Under "Device Locator", you will see "Memory Type". Note the type of memory you have presently. Go back to "Memory Summary" and note the number of Memory Slots you have, and the "Maximum Capacity". This should give you all the information you need. Example ... you have 4 Memory Slots and your computer has a Maximum Capacity of 4096 MBytes. From that you can see that the largest size RAM chip you can place in your computer is 1/4 of 4096 Mbytes or 1024 Mbytes. If you bought 4 of these chips, you'd be able to place the maximum amount of RAM in the machine. But if you can only afford 2 of the 1024 MB chips, you could use your present 512 MB and add the 2 1 GB chips (1024 MB = 1 GB) and have 2 1/2 GB of memory, which would be sufficient. Please note that you cannot just buy any RAM. The RAM you buy must be the same as what you found under "Memory Type" above. For example, the computer I am writing to you uses DDR2 (PC2-5300). Also, when you purchase your RAM, be sure to tell the salesperson whether or not you are using a Desktop or a Laptop. Desktop RAM and Laptop RAM are different sizes and have a different number of teeth. Good luck ... and if any of this doesn't make sense, take your computer to an expert and allow him or her to purchase and add the memory. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Blanchard Warren Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:03 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up I did what you asked and a "System Properties" window opened to General. I don't know if the following is what you asked for: Pentium (R) 4cpu 2.8GHz 2.79GHz 512 MB of Ram. Blanchard At 03:51 AM 8/2/2009, you wrote: >CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Start by pressing the >Windows key and the Pause key simultaneously. It should open under >'General'. If not, press the 'General' button. >Under 'Computer' at the lower right there will be details of your >CPU and memory. Let us know what it says there. > >John >Od/G > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Blanchard Warren >To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:36 AM >Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up > > >What is CPU and how do you get a faster one? > > > >At 07:47 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: > >Get a faster CPU > >HBCanon > >Geneva, FL > > > > > >A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have > >evolved from a simpler > >system that worked just fine. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] > >On Behalf Of > >Blanchard Warren > >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 > >To: list at tsgserver.com > >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > > > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to > >wait for them to > >continue. How can I correct this? > >Blanchard > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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/ >_______________________________________________ >Tech Support Guy Mailing List >http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From webmaster at debtstowealth.com Sun Aug 2 21:27:28 2009 From: webmaster at debtstowealth.com (Blanchard Warren) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:27:28 -0400 Subject: TSGL: videos break up In-Reply-To: <2C06BC821CA64C44B4BACF5EA7F1F735@AcerPC> References: <200908011541.1mxksj4fc3Nl34a0@mx-herron.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <000c01ca1302$62050940$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <0MKreC-1MXP4J43aM-0000ym@mx.kundenserver.de> <3A33C273E6EE48D4B6B18901DAA2161A@johnsp2> <2C06BC821CA64C44B4BACF5EA7F1F735@AcerPC> Message-ID: Thank Russ. I'll contact my computer guy. Blanchard At 09:15 PM 8/2/2009, you wrote: >Your CPU is adequate. You need more RAM. 512 MB of RAM is insufficient, even >for XP, when you are running intensive video programs. Assuming you are >running XP, at minimum you need 1 GB RAM (this might not be enough) and, if >I were you, I'd get 2 GB. If you are running Vista, you need a minimum of 2 >GB RAM for intensive video and I recommend 3 GB. > >Before you go to the store for your new RAM, be sure to find out what type >of RAM your motherboard requires, and how much it will take. Download a >program called SIW, it's free, at http://www.gtopala.com/ . Open it up and >look under "Hardware" for "Memory". Click on it and in the right frame you >will see a "Memory Summary" and below that, "Device Locator". Under "Device >Locator", you will see "Memory Type". Note the type of memory you have >presently. Go back to "Memory Summary" and note the number of Memory Slots >you have, and the "Maximum Capacity". This should give you all the >information you need. > >Example ... you have 4 Memory Slots and your computer has a Maximum Capacity >of 4096 MBytes. From that you can see that the largest size RAM chip you can >place in your computer is 1/4 of 4096 Mbytes or 1024 Mbytes. If you bought 4 >of these chips, you'd be able to place the maximum amount of RAM in the >machine. But if you can only afford 2 of the 1024 MB chips, you could use >your present 512 MB and add the 2 1 GB chips (1024 MB = 1 GB) and have 2 1/2 >GB of memory, which would be sufficient. Please note that you cannot just >buy any RAM. The RAM you buy must be the same as what you found under >"Memory Type" above. For example, the computer I am writing to you uses DDR2 >(PC2-5300). Also, when you purchase your RAM, be sure to tell the >salesperson whether or not you are using a Desktop or a Laptop. Desktop RAM >and Laptop RAM are different sizes and have a different number of teeth. > >Good luck ... and if any of this doesn't make sense, take your computer to >an expert and allow him or her to purchase and add the memory. > >Russ Coover > > >-----Original Message----- >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >Behalf Of Blanchard Warren >Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:03 PM >To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up > > >I did what you asked and a "System Properties" window opened to >General. I don't know if the following is what you asked for: >Pentium (R) 4cpu 2.8GHz >2.79GHz 512 >MB of Ram. > >Blanchard > >At 03:51 AM 8/2/2009, you wrote: > >CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Start by pressing the > >Windows key and the Pause key simultaneously. It should open under > >'General'. If not, press the 'General' button. > >Under 'Computer' at the lower right there will be details of your > >CPU and memory. Let us know what it says there. > > > >John > >Od/G > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Blanchard Warren > >To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > >Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:36 AM > >Subject: Re: TSGL: videos break up > > > > > >What is CPU and how do you get a faster one? > > > > > > > >At 07:47 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: > > >Get a faster CPU > > >HBCanon > > >Geneva, FL > > > > > > > > >A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have > > >evolved from a simpler > > >system that worked just fine. > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] > > >On Behalf Of > > >Blanchard Warren > > >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 15:41 > > >To: list at tsgserver.com > > >Subject: TSGL: videos break up > > > > > >When I listen to any video, Camtasia, etc. They breakup so I have to > > >wait for them to > > >continue. How can I correct this? > > >Blanchard > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >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/ > >_______________________________________________ > >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 wseehorn at earthlink.net Sun Aug 2 21:42:03 2009 From: wseehorn at earthlink.net (Willard Seehorn) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:42:03 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so that she can download & manipulate the images. I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, adjusting color/brightness &c. I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give her, but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the beginner) program. Ideas? Willard From ian at iarp.ca Sun Aug 2 21:44:41 2009 From: ian at iarp.ca (Ian Ramsey-Planck) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 21:44:41 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: Have you ever tried Picasa: http://www.google.ca/picasa/ . My grandmothers who's very computer illiterate finds it very easy to use, especially for printing and editing. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Willard Seehorn wrote: > My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. > > I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so that she > can download & manipulate the images. > > I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, > adjusting color/brightness &c. > > I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give her, > but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the beginner) > program. > > Ideas? > > Willard _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Thanks Ian R-P From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sun Aug 2 21:49:35 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:49:35 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: <4A76422F.8060409@gmail.com> Will, I have no specific recommendation but will just note that there are a number of online photo editing sites available now. Google around and see if anything looks interesting. I don't use any of them but I've occasionally seen some as I navigated the net. H Davis Willard Seehorn wrote: > My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. > > I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so > that she can download & manipulate the images. > > I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, > adjusting color/brightness &c. > > I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give > her, but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the > beginner) program. > > Ideas? > > Willard _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From leebunyard at comcast.net Sun Aug 2 23:47:57 2009 From: leebunyard at comcast.net (Lee Bunyard) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:47:57 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> I've used Picasa for simple cropping, editing, organizing, etc. ever since Google first released it. Nifty, simple little program that does the job. Lee in the Mountains of Northern California Ian Ramsey-Planck wrote: > Have you ever tried Picasa: http://www.google.ca/picasa/ . My grandmothers > who's very computer illiterate finds it very easy to use, especially for > printing and editing. > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Willard Seehorn wrote: > > >> My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. >> >> I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so that she >> can download & manipulate the images. >> >> I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, >> adjusting color/brightness &c. >> >> I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give her, >> but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the beginner) >> program. >> >> Ideas? >> >> Willard _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.41/2277 - Release Date: 08/02/09 05:56:00 > > From justin at whisperer.com.au Mon Aug 3 05:24:27 2009 From: justin at whisperer.com.au (The Computer Whisperer) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:24:27 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> Message-ID: <2852b8d40908030224q5f33e966ie502cc68a3ba9b9e@mail.gmail.com> What about Gimp? http://www.gimp.org/windows/ Apparently it's good 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) 2009/8/3 Lee Bunyard > I've used Picasa for simple cropping, editing, organizing, etc. ever since > Google first released it. Nifty, simple little program that does the job. > Lee in the Mountains of Northern California > > Ian Ramsey-Planck wrote: > >> Have you ever tried Picasa: http://www.google.ca/picasa/ . My >> grandmothers >> who's very computer illiterate finds it very easy to use, especially for >> printing and editing. >> >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Willard Seehorn > >wrote: >> >> >> >>> My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. >>> >>> I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so that >>> she >>> can download & manipulate the images. >>> >>> I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, >>> adjusting color/brightness &c. >>> >>> I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give >>> her, >>> but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the beginner) >>> program. >>> >>> Ideas? >>> >>> Willard _______________________________________________ >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: >> 270.13.41/2277 - Release Date: 08/02/09 05:56:00 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From stephen.marki at hotmail.com Mon Aug 3 06:57:35 2009 From: stephen.marki at hotmail.com (Stephen Marki) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:57:35 -0300 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: <2852b8d40908030224q5f33e966ie502cc68a3ba9b9e@mail.gmail.com> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> <2852b8d40908030224q5f33e966ie502cc68a3ba9b9e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Gimp is a little too advanced in my opinion for an elderly woman trying to use a computer. I mean it's kind of like giving a 10 year old Photoshop and saying "Go Nuts" Signed, Stephen Marki > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:24:27 +1000 > From: justin at whisperer.com.au > To: list at tsgserver.com > Subject: Re: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware > > What about Gimp? > > http://www.gimp.org/windows/ > > Apparently it's good > > > 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) > > > 2009/8/3 Lee Bunyard > > > I've used Picasa for simple cropping, editing, organizing, etc. ever since > > Google first released it. Nifty, simple little program that does the job. > > Lee in the Mountains of Northern California > > > > Ian Ramsey-Planck wrote: > > > >> Have you ever tried Picasa: http://www.google.ca/picasa/ . My > >> grandmothers > >> who's very computer illiterate finds it very easy to use, especially for > >> printing and editing. > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Willard Seehorn >> >wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> My 87 year old mother in law is getting into digital photography. > >>> > >>> I have an 2 - 3 year old laptop (with XP) I'm going to give her so that > >>> she > >>> can download & manipulate the images. > >>> > >>> I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, > >>> adjusting color/brightness &c. > >>> > >>> I'm aware of paint.net & will put it on the machine I'm going to give > >>> her, > >>> but I'm wondering if there isn't a better (at least for the beginner) > >>> program. > >>> > >>> Ideas? > >>> > >>> Willard _______________________________________________ > >>> Tech Support Guy Mailing List > >>> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: > >> 270.13.41/2277 - Release Date: 08/02/09 05:56:00 > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From nature-coast at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 10:09:49 2009 From: nature-coast at earthlink.net (Cyndi) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:09:49 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> Hi all, It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve myself...Yeah But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a new PC? :-) Message could not be displayed Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. From leximou at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 10:31:13 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:31:13 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4A76F4B1.6050502@earthlink.net> How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp files, log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is reaching full? If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking up space? When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and page file, when was pagefile last defragged? Lots of things to check... Lex Cyndi wrote: > Hi all, > It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve > myself...Yeah > > But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a > new PC? :-) > > > > Message could not be displayed > > Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying > this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and > try again. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From leximou at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 11:50:05 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:50:05 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4A77072D.4010509@earthlink.net> How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp files, log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is reaching full? If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking up space? When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and page file, when was pagefile last defragged? Lots of things to check... Lex Cyndi wrote: > Hi all, > It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve > myself...Yeah > > But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a > new PC? :-) > > > > Message could not be displayed > > Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying > this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and > try again. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From nature-coast at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 12:06:10 2009 From: nature-coast at earthlink.net (Cyndi) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:06:10 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <4A76F4B1.6050502@earthlink.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> <4A76F4B1.6050502@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4A770AF2.70706@earthlink.net> Thanks, Lex. I sent this on to her How do you cold boot? Is that reformatting? ~Cyndi~ God Bless the USA! Leximou wrote: > How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have > limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. > When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp > files, log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is > reaching full? > If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking > up space? > When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? > For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and > page file, when was pagefile last defragged? > > Lots of things to check... > > Lex > > Cyndi wrote: >> Hi all, >> It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve >> myself...Yeah >> >> But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a >> new PC? :-) >> >> >> >> Message could not be displayed >> >> Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying >> this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space >> and try again. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From deepend at tpg.com.au Mon Aug 3 12:04:13 2009 From: deepend at tpg.com.au (Don Penlington) Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:04:13 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Simple photo editing freeware In-Reply-To: References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> Message-ID: <4.3.2.20090804015817.00cd3e38@mail.tpg.com.au> Willard wrote: >I'm looking for a simple freeware program for the basics -- cropping, >adjusting color/brightness &c.>> Irfanview has been around for years, and is hard to beat for ease of use. Just open any image, go to "Image", then "Color corrections" and all the sliders are there, with a preview window so you can see the results as you make them. Cropping is as easy as drawing a line around the area, then Edit/Crop selection. http://www.irfanview.com/ I suggest, when installing it, allow the option to have Irfan take over all the graphic file associations. Don Penlington From leximou at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 12:34:41 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:34:41 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <4A770AF2.70706@earthlink.net> References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net> <4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> <4A76F4B1.6050502@earthlink.net> <4A770AF2.70706@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <4A7711A1.8010503@earthlink.net> Cold boot - turn the unit completely off, let sit for at least 30 seconds and then turn on. This, only if the unit is left on and running all the time....have little to go on here. Cyndi wrote: > Thanks, Lex. > I sent this on to her > How do you cold boot? Is that reformatting? > > ~Cyndi~ > God Bless the USA! > > > > Leximou wrote: >> How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have >> limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. >> When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp >> files, log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is >> reaching full? >> If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking >> up space? >> When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? >> For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and >> page file, when was pagefile last defragged? >> >> Lots of things to check... >> >> Lex >> >> Cyndi wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve >>> myself...Yeah >>> >>> But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a >>> new PC? :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> Message could not be displayed >>> >>> Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying >>> this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space >>> and try again. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 go2dieter at comcast.net Mon Aug 3 13:22:49 2009 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:22:49 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Fw: low memory or low disk space Message-ID: <357C7D20861045F08E9EF975436316F4@rhsbf6862da54a> Hi, Lex ... How much OE can hold is a question that even MS is unable to answer. To stay on the safe side, an MS tech once told me not to exceed 50 MB. Most of my friends begin saving at around 500 MB. My OE6 data volume is presently at 1.2 GB and is still going strong. I am cleaning and compressing regularly whenever it asks for it. I've been as high as 1.8 GB without any hiccups. I am running XP Pro with SP 1-2-3, 3 GB RAM, and 2x300 GB HD. I guess age of the components may play a part in how long OE is going to hold up. If you want to go big time and always live on the safe side, join the MS Outlook crowd in the OS system folder with an unlimited storage capacity. Good luck. Dieter Sacramento, CA (USA) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leximou" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: low memory or low disk space > How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have > limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. > When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp files, > log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is reaching > full? > If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking up > space? > When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? > For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and page > file, when was pagefile last defragged? > > Lots of things to check... > > Lex > > Cyndi wrote: >> Hi all, >> It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve >> myself...Yeah >> >> But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a new >> PC? :-) >> >> >> >> Message could not be displayed >> >> Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this >> message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try >> again. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Aug 3 13:25:34 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:25:34 +0200 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net><4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> <4A76F4B1.6050502@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1E4C29391FC342728A686E58BA8B1363@johnsp2> Be warned that if it should be OE that is overcrowded and causing the problem it may delete a whole lot of messages automatically. Recovering them is a real bind. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Leximou To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:31 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: low memory or low disk space How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp files, log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is reaching full? If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking up space? When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and page file, when was pagefile last defragged? Lots of things to check... Lex Cyndi wrote: > Hi all, > It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve > myself...Yeah > > But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a > new PC? :-) > > > > Message could not be displayed > > Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying > this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and > try again. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From leximou at earthlink.net Mon Aug 3 13:39:01 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:39:01 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Fw: low memory or low disk space In-Reply-To: <357C7D20861045F08E9EF975436316F4@rhsbf6862da54a> References: <357C7D20861045F08E9EF975436316F4@rhsbf6862da54a> Message-ID: <4A7720B5.4020001@earthlink.net> Thanks Dieter - I personally do not use OE or Outlook but have found on units that I work on, hitting the 1 gig mark tends to really mess things up. You indicate you compress and that is probably a good thing. Let's hope that all continues to work well for you. Getting back to the original problem, that Cindi had, uncontrolled and uncompressed storage, a hard drive still has finite space and my guess is that her friend's HD is strangled with such. Lex Dieter wrote: > Hi, Lex ... > > How much OE can hold is a question that even MS is unable to answer. > To stay on the safe side, an MS tech once told me not to exceed 50 > MB. Most of my friends begin saving at around 500 MB. My OE6 data > volume is presently at 1.2 GB and is still going strong. I am > cleaning and compressing regularly whenever it asks for it. I've been > as high as 1.8 GB without any hiccups. > > I am running XP Pro with SP 1-2-3, 3 GB RAM, and 2x300 GB HD. I guess > age of the components may play a part in how long OE is going to hold > up. If you want to go big time and always live on the safe side, join > the MS Outlook crowd in the OS system folder with an unlimited storage > capacity. > > Good luck. > > Dieter > Sacramento, CA (USA) > > > From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 3 20:49:15 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:49:15 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Message-ID: A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a trick on him. I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live disk. I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend wants the data on the computer. I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password appears to actually be on the hard drive. I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. Any ideas? From hdavis1 at gmail.com Mon Aug 3 21:07:22 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:07:22 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A7789CA.6020903@gmail.com> Find the errant youth and convince him (it has to be a boy) that his future well being depends on his ability to undo what he has done. H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It > requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is > a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a > trick on him. > > I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried > to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the > computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before > the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live > disk. > > I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend > wants the data on the computer. > > > > I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password > appears to actually be on the hard drive. > > I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried > various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. > > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 3 21:21:20 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:21:20 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <4A7789CA.6020903@gmail.com> References: <4A7789CA.6020903@gmail.com> Message-ID: <49D8413AB95C49E193596E04260AF57F@AcerPC> That would be the proper thing to do. However, evidently our fine Youth Pastor allows several at a time to use the computer. Of course, at present, none do. At present, I have not been able to find any good answer. Looks to me that a new hard drive will be soon be found on the computer. On it will be Ubuntu, or, perhaps Mint. The original OS was Vista Basic. One possibility ... what would happen if I flashed the BIOS? Would that change it back to the default which, I assume, does not have the hard drive password enabled? Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of H Davis Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:07 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Find the errant youth and convince him (it has to be a boy) that his future well being depends on his ability to undo what he has done. H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It > requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is > a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a > trick on him. > > I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried > to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the > computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before > the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live > disk. > > I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend > wants the data on the computer. > > > > I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password > appears to actually be on the hard drive. > > I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried > various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. > > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Aug 3 21:27:18 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:27:18 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <49D8413AB95C49E193596E04260AF57F@AcerPC> References: <4A7789CA.6020903@gmail.com> <49D8413AB95C49E193596E04260AF57F@AcerPC> Message-ID: <4A778E76.2070401@gmail.com> Russ, Can you put the original drive in the secondary position and boot from the Linux disk. This might allow you to examine the HDD without booting from it. H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > That would be the proper thing to do. However, evidently our fine Youth > Pastor allows several at a time to use the computer. Of course, at present, > none do. > > At present, I have not been able to find any good answer. Looks to me that a > new hard drive will be soon be found on the computer. On it will be Ubuntu, > or, perhaps Mint. The original OS was Vista Basic. > > One possibility ... what would happen if I flashed the BIOS? Would that > change it back to the default which, I assume, does not have the hard drive > password enabled? > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of H Davis > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:07 PM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Find the errant youth and convince him (it has to be a boy) that his > future well being depends on his ability to undo what he has done. > > H Davis > > Russell W. Coover wrote: > >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> > It > >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> > is > >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> > tried > >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> > the > >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> > before > >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> > live > >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> > friend > >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> > tried > >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ >> >> >> > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From michaelsweeden at comcast.net Mon Aug 3 21:36:52 2009 From: michaelsweeden at comcast.net (Michael Sweeden) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:36:52 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Russ: I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that some Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial number of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the password is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the registered owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a master password, but I don't know about Acer. Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a trick on him. I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live disk. I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend wants the data on the computer. I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password appears to actually be on the hard drive. I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From alan_mitchell at mindspring.com Tue Aug 4 08:40:47 2009 From: alan_mitchell at mindspring.com (Alan Mitchell) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:40:47 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2FCD9525C39E412AAE5C7B20CCABD485@DESKTOP> First recommendation is to determine if there is anything stored on the drive itself. One simple way to find out is to put the drive into an external enclosure (MicroCenter usually sells these for less than $20) and connect it to some other system using the USB cable. If you can see the drive with no problems, then your best bet would be to remove the CMOS battery, wait a while (yes, I know that few devices now use capacitors, but it's best to be safe), replace the battery and reboot with the drive in its normal position. If, when connecting the drive externally it still wants a password, then you'll need to take other actions. Alan -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a trick on him. I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live disk. I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend wants the data on the computer. I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password appears to actually be on the hard drive. I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From alshml at ptd.net Tue Aug 4 08:50:27 2009 From: alshml at ptd.net (Al) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:50:27 -0400 Subject: TSGL: low memory or low disk space References: <003201c9ed81$49376120$0401a8c0@number12> <4A765DED.1040300@comcast.net><4A76EFAD.9050501@earthlink.net> <4A77072D.4010509@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <07D39445DB9B4D34A3CE2525FB527B6E@albertc508ad4d> Could someone please explian how to perform the tasks mentioned. I'm not having any problems with my computer, not yet anyway, but it sounds like something I should do. Thanks, Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leximou" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:50 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: low memory or low disk space > How many messages in outlook express ? The email program does have > limitations and will eventually puke if that limit is reached. > When is the last time your friend's computer was cleaned of : temp files, > log files, bak files etc.? Could it be that the disk itself is reaching > full? > If running XP, how many restore points are sitting on the disk taking up > space? > When was the last time the registry was cleaned and compacted? > For that matter, when was the unit last cold booted to clear RAM and page > file, when was pagefile last defragged? > > Lots of things to check... > > Lex > > Cyndi wrote: >> Hi all, >> It's been awhile since I have had a problem I couldn't solve >> myself...Yeah >> >> But....One of my friends is getting this message. Is it time for a new >> PC? :-) >> >> >> >> Message could not be displayed >> >> Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this >> message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try >> again. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Tue Aug 4 10:12:53 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:12:53 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: Russ, Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might be of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! (A) HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password-hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). (B) At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD password. IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). (C) You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information similar to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ Included among the various links at the above page are (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page and going to http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2/ and (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other information as well. (D) "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 (E) http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop forum links at bottom of page (have not checked them) Probably not (F) but an interesting site: http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/help/solutions/bios_password.html Hope something helps. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sweeden" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Russ: > I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that > some > Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial > number > of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the > password > is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the > machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the > registered > owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a > master password, but I don't know about Acer. > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Russell W. Coover > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM > To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' > Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. > It > requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He > is > a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a > trick on him. > > I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I > tried > to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot > the > computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up > before > the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the > live > disk. > > I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my > friend > wants the data on the computer. > > > > I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password > appears to actually be on the hard drive. > > I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also > tried > various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. > > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 4 15:33:11 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:33:11 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <4A778E76.2070401@gmail.com> References: <4A7789CA.6020903@gmail.com><49D8413AB95C49E193596E04260AF57F@AcerPC> <4A778E76.2070401@gmail.com> Message-ID: I made the CD/DVD drive the first boot option ... it still asks for the Hard Drive Password and will not boot to even an Emergency Boot Disk or a Live Linux CD without the password. I then removed the Hard Drive, opened the BIOS, and there was nothing in the BIOS about the Hard Drive Password. I also found that I could then boot from the Emergency Boot Disk or any other Live CD. It is now obvious that the Hard Drive is accessed before even booting to a CD or DVD and that the password is on the Hard Drive and not in the BIOS (or CMOS). I'd guess that if I placed a different SATA Hard Drive in the Machine, I'd be able to place an operating system upon it without a password. The one thing I can't do is attempt to read the hard drive on another computer as the only 2 1/2 inch USB converter I have is for a 2 1/2 inch IDE drive. If I had my eyes, I might even drive down the hill and pick up an adapter today, but my doctor wanted to "look into your (my) eyes" this AM and partially blinded me. I'm having a tough enough time writing this email. So I cannot boot while the hard drive is connected to the computer and I cannot read the hard drive. I'm guessing I'll end up putting a different hard drive in the computer and have to place an Operating System upon it. Perhaps Acer will send me Vista Basic OEM disk, or I may dig out an old XP or even a Win 2K disk. Linux is a possibility, too. Life is fun! Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of H Davis Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:27 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ, Can you put the original drive in the secondary position and boot from the Linux disk. This might allow you to examine the HDD without booting from it. H Davis Russell W. Coover wrote: > That would be the proper thing to do. However, evidently our fine Youth > Pastor allows several at a time to use the computer. Of course, at present, > none do. > > At present, I have not been able to find any good answer. Looks to me that a > new hard drive will be soon be found on the computer. On it will be Ubuntu, > or, perhaps Mint. The original OS was Vista Basic. > > One possibility ... what would happen if I flashed the BIOS? Would that > change it back to the default which, I assume, does not have the hard drive > password enabled? > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of H Davis > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:07 PM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Find the errant youth and convince him (it has to be a boy) that his > future well being depends on his ability to undo what he has done. > > H Davis > > Russell W. Coover wrote: > >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> > It > >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> > is > >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> > tried > >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> > the > >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> > before > >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> > live > >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> > friend > >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> > tried > >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Tue Aug 4 15:34:43 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:34:43 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: <7FA4BE6934A54531972C3F7ECCFB016C@AcerPC> Looks like Acer is very much like Dell. I've written to Acer, but so far no answer. We'll see. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeden Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:37 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ: I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that some Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial number of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the password is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the registered owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a master password, but I don't know about Acer. Michael -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a trick on him. I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live disk. I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend wants the data on the computer. I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password appears to actually be on the hard drive. I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 4 15:43:24 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:43:24 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <2FCD9525C39E412AAE5C7B20CCABD485@DESKTOP> References: <2FCD9525C39E412AAE5C7B20CCABD485@DESKTOP> Message-ID: <41E9EDD723D640ED88DFD9F4D87BD42C@AcerPC> I've not yet been able to try the drive on another machine, but my best guess from what I've seen so far is that the drive will still require a password. And since when the drive is removed from the machine the BIOS has nothing in it about an HD password (when the drive is in the machine, the BIOS shows HDD password enabled and even a place to change it if you know the original password), I assume the CMOS has nothing to do with the problem. The one option I haven't yet tried is to flash the BIOS. I suspect it will not help ... but who knows? Still, I do not want to do this. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Alan Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:41 AM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password First recommendation is to determine if there is anything stored on the drive itself. One simple way to find out is to put the drive into an external enclosure (MicroCenter usually sells these for less than $20) and connect it to some other system using the USB cable. If you can see the drive with no problems, then your best bet would be to remove the CMOS battery, wait a while (yes, I know that few devices now use capacitors, but it's best to be safe), replace the battery and reboot with the drive in its normal position. If, when connecting the drive externally it still wants a password, then you'll need to take other actions. Alan -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. It requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He is a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a trick on him. I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I tried to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot the computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up before the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the live disk. I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my friend wants the data on the computer. I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password appears to actually be on the hard drive. I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also tried various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 4 17:36:01 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:36:01 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: Merna, I'm looking at everything you sent. "A" and "B" didn't work as the Hitachi hard Drive was not supported. For "C", the machine is a 3680, and the information did not work with this machine. "D" it is obvious it isn't a BIOS problem. The password really is on the HD. I was finally able to get the machine to boot to a live CD even with the hard drive attached. Unfortunately, the hard drive cannot be read using linux. I've tried various things using "The Ultimate Boot CD" including an option to delete HD Passwords. It required the password to delete it. And I tried other things using "Ultimate". Finally, I got permission from the owner to "wipe" the drive and I am using "Ultimate"'s "Bariks Boot and Nuke" to wipe the drive. So far ... pass 1 of 31 is running ... 00.18 % of that job is done. It looks like it's going to take a long time. I'll report back. Heck, by then I might even be able to see again (my eyes were dilated by my doctor this AM). Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Merna Bitter Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:13 AM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ, Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might be of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! (A) HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password -hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). (B) At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard is a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD password. IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). (C) You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information similar to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ Included among the various links at the above page are (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page and going to http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2 / and (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other information as well. (D) "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 (E) http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop forum links at bottom of page (have not checked them) Probably not (F) but an interesting site: http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de /english/help/solutions/bios_password.html Hope something helps. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sweeden" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Russ: > I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that > some > Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial > number > of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the > password > is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the > machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the > registered > owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a > master password, but I don't know about Acer. > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Russell W. Coover > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM > To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' > Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. > It > requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He > is > a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a > trick on him. > > I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I > tried > to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot > the > computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up > before > the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the > live > disk. > > I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my > friend > wants the data on the computer. > > > > I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password > appears to actually be on the hard drive. > > I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also > tried > various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. > > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 embitt at westnet.com.au Tue Aug 4 20:23:25 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:23:25 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: Russ, Armed with your model number, I looked around the Retrevo site a bit more. There are four User Guides / Manuals available for download at http://www.retrevo.com/support/Acer-3680-Laptops-manual/id/760ci853/t/2/ It's possible to "View All" the contents of each at that link. I did so and downloaded the third one ( for Acer 3680 / 5570 / 5580). I didn't find anything comparable to the information for model 6530 in my original (C) link. I'm not bothering to download any others as it's academic now as you are wiping the drive. However, if your friend doesn't have a manual for the machine, perhaps the link above will be helpful anyway. Retrevo's Product Fact Sheet for that model is at http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-3680-Laptops-review-manual/id/760ci853/t/1-2/ with various further links there. Another manual (same as one of the ones at the Retrevo link?) is at Acer at http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ (found by navigating through umpteen links -- I suppose that's to be expected with large companies with many products, but I have seen more friendly company sites). Hope your eyes are back to normal. Your doctor must look further into your eyes than my optometrist does into mine because I don't normally have a problem for more than a couple of hours after dilation. I'd be interested to know what, if anything, Acer tells you. Some of the links that I went to while Googling had very unflattering remarks about the company and its responses, or lack thereof, to individuals' problems. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell W. Coover" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Merna, > > I'm looking at everything you sent. "A" and "B" didn't work as the Hitachi > hard Drive was not supported. For "C", the machine is a 3680, and the > information did not work with this machine. "D" it is obvious it isn't a > BIOS problem. The password really is on the HD. > > I was finally able to get the machine to boot to a live CD even with the > hard drive attached. Unfortunately, the hard drive cannot be read using > linux. > > I've tried various things using "The Ultimate Boot CD" including an option > to delete HD Passwords. It required the password to delete it. And I tried > other things using "Ultimate". Finally, I got permission from the owner to > "wipe" the drive and I am using "Ultimate"'s "Bariks Boot and Nuke" to > wipe > the drive. So far ... pass 1 of 31 is running ... 00.18 % of that job is > done. It looks like it's going to take a long time. > > I'll report back. Heck, by then I might even be able to see again (my eyes > were dilated by my doctor this AM). > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Merna Bitter > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:13 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Russ, > > Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing > that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the > BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might > be > of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! > > > (A) > HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at > http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password > -hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ > (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). > > > (B) > At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard > is > > a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD > password. > IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password > can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and > re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, > please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at > http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). > > > (C) > You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information > similar > to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: > http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ > > Included among the various links at the above page are > (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page > and > > going to > > http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2 > / > and > (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop > Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html > > The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other > information as well. > > > (D) > "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" > http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 > > > (E) > http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop > forum > > links at bottom of page (have not checked them) > > > Probably not (F) but an interesting site: > http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de > /english/help/solutions/bios_password.html > > Hope something helps. > > Merna > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Sweeden" > To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > >> Russ: >> I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that >> some >> Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial >> number >> of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the >> password >> is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the >> machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the >> registered >> owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a >> master password, but I don't know about Acer. >> Michael >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of Russell W. Coover >> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM >> To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' >> Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password >> >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> It >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> is >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> tried >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> the >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> before >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> live >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> friend >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> tried >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 4 22:05:27 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:05:27 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: They use extremely bright lights for the photographs that they take, along with a yellow die that they add to make something within the eye easier to see. My problem is that I have bleeding within both eyes, along with a cyst directly in the center of my left eyes. They've lasered them both, but the bleeding seems to continue, though not as bad as before. The cyst seems to have become much smaller. But, I'm told, even with my present 20/30 vision, I will eventually lose my sight unless they can get the bleeding stopped. It's now been about 10 hours since dilation, and I'm no longer having any problem with brightness, but the right eye is still blurry. It better be better tomorrow, because I've promised my wife that I would go down the hill and pick up our granddaughter and bring her back up. It's about a 180 mile round trip (290 Km if you're not in the States), most in heavy Los Angeles area traffic, so I need to have good vision for that. Wow, is that Hard Drive wipe taking a long time! It's been running about 4 hours and 40 minutes and it's only about 2.18% done. If the process is linear, it will take about 214 hours to complete the job! I'm not sure I want to wait for almost 9 days to clear 80 GB. Evidently, it runs 31 passes over the hard drive. Maybe I could stop it after a few passes and see if the master password is erased. A reformat, and, hopefully I should be able to install something on it! Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Merna Bitter Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:23 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ, Armed with your model number, I looked around the Retrevo site a bit more. There are four User Guides / Manuals available for download at http://www.retrevo.com/support/Acer-3680-Laptops-manual/id/760ci853/t/2/ It's possible to "View All" the contents of each at that link. I did so and downloaded the third one ( for Acer 3680 / 5570 / 5580). I didn't find anything comparable to the information for model 6530 in my original (C) link. I'm not bothering to download any others as it's academic now as you are wiping the drive. However, if your friend doesn't have a manual for the machine, perhaps the link above will be helpful anyway. Retrevo's Product Fact Sheet for that model is at http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-3680-Laptops-review-manual/id/760ci853/t/1-2/ with various further links there. Another manual (same as one of the ones at the Retrevo link?) is at Acer at http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ (found by navigating through umpteen links -- I suppose that's to be expected with large companies with many products, but I have seen more friendly company sites). Hope your eyes are back to normal. Your doctor must look further into your eyes than my optometrist does into mine because I don't normally have a problem for more than a couple of hours after dilation. I'd be interested to know what, if anything, Acer tells you. Some of the links that I went to while Googling had very unflattering remarks about the company and its responses, or lack thereof, to individuals' problems. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell W. Coover" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Merna, > > I'm looking at everything you sent. "A" and "B" didn't work as the Hitachi > hard Drive was not supported. For "C", the machine is a 3680, and the > information did not work with this machine. "D" it is obvious it isn't a > BIOS problem. The password really is on the HD. > > I was finally able to get the machine to boot to a live CD even with the > hard drive attached. Unfortunately, the hard drive cannot be read using > linux. > > I've tried various things using "The Ultimate Boot CD" including an option > to delete HD Passwords. It required the password to delete it. And I tried > other things using "Ultimate". Finally, I got permission from the owner to > "wipe" the drive and I am using "Ultimate"'s "Bariks Boot and Nuke" to > wipe > the drive. So far ... pass 1 of 31 is running ... 00.18 % of that job is > done. It looks like it's going to take a long time. > > I'll report back. Heck, by then I might even be able to see again (my eyes > were dilated by my doctor this AM). > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Merna Bitter > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:13 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Russ, > > Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing > that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the > BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might > be > of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! > > > (A) > HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at > http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password > -hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ > (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). > > > (B) > At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard > is > > a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD > password. > IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password > can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and > re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, > please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at > http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). > > > (C) > You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information > similar > to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: > http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ > > Included among the various links at the above page are > (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page > and > > going to > > http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2 > / > and > (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop > Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html > > The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other > information as well. > > > (D) > "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" > http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 > > > (E) > http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop > forum > > links at bottom of page (have not checked them) > > > Probably not (F) but an interesting site: > http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de > /english/help/solutions/bios_password.html > > Hope something helps. > > Merna > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Sweeden" > To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > >> Russ: >> I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that >> some >> Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial >> number >> of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the >> password >> is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the >> machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the >> registered >> owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a >> master password, but I don't know about Acer. >> Michael >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of Russell W. Coover >> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM >> To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' >> Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password >> >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> It >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> is >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> tried >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> the >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> before >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> live >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> friend >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> tried >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From dogbert at earthlink.net Tue Aug 4 22:09:22 2009 From: dogbert at earthlink.net (Dogbert) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:09:22 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> Message-ID: <000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Good luck with the eye! I understand. I have some eye problems myself. HBCanon Geneva, Fl A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 22:05 To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password They use extremely bright lights for the photographs that they take, along with a yellow die that they add to make something within the eye easier to see. My problem is that I have bleeding within both eyes, along with a cyst directly in the center of my left eyes. They've lasered them both, but the bleeding seems to continue, though not as bad as before. The cyst seems to have become much smaller. But, I'm told, even with my present 20/30 vision, I will eventually lose my sight unless they can get the bleeding stopped. It's now been about 10 hours since dilation, and I'm no longer having any problem with brightness, but the right eye is still blurry. It better be better tomorrow, because I've promised my wife that I would go down the hill and pick up our granddaughter and bring her back up. It's about a 180 mile round trip (290 Km if you're not in the States), most in heavy Los Angeles area traffic, so I need to have good vision for that. Wow, is that Hard Drive wipe taking a long time! It's been running about 4 hours and 40 minutes and it's only about 2.18% done. If the process is linear, it will take about 214 hours to complete the job! I'm not sure I want to wait for almost 9 days to clear 80 GB. Evidently, it runs 31 passes over the hard drive. Maybe I could stop it after a few passes and see if the master password is erased. A reformat, and, hopefully I should be able to install something on it! Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Merna Bitter Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:23 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ, Armed with your model number, I looked around the Retrevo site a bit more. There are four User Guides / Manuals available for download at http://www.retrevo.com/support/Acer-3680-Laptops-manual/id/760ci853/t/2/ It's possible to "View All" the contents of each at that link. I did so and downloaded the third one ( for Acer 3680 / 5570 / 5580). I didn't find anything comparable to the information for model 6530 in my original (C) link. I'm not bothering to download any others as it's academic now as you are wiping the drive. However, if your friend doesn't have a manual for the machine, perhaps the link above will be helpful anyway. Retrevo's Product Fact Sheet for that model is at http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-3680-Laptops-review-manual/id/760ci853/t/1-2/ with various further links there. Another manual (same as one of the ones at the Retrevo link?) is at Acer at http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ (found by navigating through umpteen links -- I suppose that's to be expected with large companies with many products, but I have seen more friendly company sites). Hope your eyes are back to normal. Your doctor must look further into your eyes than my optometrist does into mine because I don't normally have a problem for more than a couple of hours after dilation. I'd be interested to know what, if anything, Acer tells you. Some of the links that I went to while Googling had very unflattering remarks about the company and its responses, or lack thereof, to individuals' problems. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell W. Coover" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Merna, > > I'm looking at everything you sent. "A" and "B" didn't work as the Hitachi > hard Drive was not supported. For "C", the machine is a 3680, and the > information did not work with this machine. "D" it is obvious it isn't a > BIOS problem. The password really is on the HD. > > I was finally able to get the machine to boot to a live CD even with the > hard drive attached. Unfortunately, the hard drive cannot be read using > linux. > > I've tried various things using "The Ultimate Boot CD" including an option > to delete HD Passwords. It required the password to delete it. And I tried > other things using "Ultimate". Finally, I got permission from the owner to > "wipe" the drive and I am using "Ultimate"'s "Bariks Boot and Nuke" to > wipe > the drive. So far ... pass 1 of 31 is running ... 00.18 % of that job is > done. It looks like it's going to take a long time. > > I'll report back. Heck, by then I might even be able to see again (my eyes > were dilated by my doctor this AM). > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Merna Bitter > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:13 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Russ, > > Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing > that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the > BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might > be > of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! > > > (A) > HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at > http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password > -hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ > (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). > > > (B) > At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard > is > > a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD > password. > IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password > can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and > re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, > please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at > http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). > > > (C) > You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information > similar > to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: > http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ > > Included among the various links at the above page are > (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page > and > > going to > > http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2 > / > and > (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop > Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html > > The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other > information as well. > > > (D) > "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" > http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 > > > (E) > http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop > forum > > links at bottom of page (have not checked them) > > > Probably not (F) but an interesting site: > http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de > /english/help/solutions/bios_password.html > > Hope something helps. > > Merna > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Sweeden" > To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > >> Russ: >> I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that >> some >> Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial >> number >> of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the >> password >> is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the >> machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the >> registered >> owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a >> master password, but I don't know about Acer. >> Michael >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of Russell W. Coover >> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM >> To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' >> Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password >> >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> It >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> is >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> tried >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> the >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> before >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> live >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> friend >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> tried >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 4 22:12:09 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:12:09 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password In-Reply-To: <000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> <000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Message-ID: <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Thanks, HB. And I wish you well, too. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Dogbert Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:09 PM To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Good luck with the eye! I understand. I have some eye problems myself. HBCanon Geneva, Fl A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 22:05 To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password They use extremely bright lights for the photographs that they take, along with a yellow die that they add to make something within the eye easier to see. My problem is that I have bleeding within both eyes, along with a cyst directly in the center of my left eyes. They've lasered them both, but the bleeding seems to continue, though not as bad as before. The cyst seems to have become much smaller. But, I'm told, even with my present 20/30 vision, I will eventually lose my sight unless they can get the bleeding stopped. It's now been about 10 hours since dilation, and I'm no longer having any problem with brightness, but the right eye is still blurry. It better be better tomorrow, because I've promised my wife that I would go down the hill and pick up our granddaughter and bring her back up. It's about a 180 mile round trip (290 Km if you're not in the States), most in heavy Los Angeles area traffic, so I need to have good vision for that. Wow, is that Hard Drive wipe taking a long time! It's been running about 4 hours and 40 minutes and it's only about 2.18% done. If the process is linear, it will take about 214 hours to complete the job! I'm not sure I want to wait for almost 9 days to clear 80 GB. Evidently, it runs 31 passes over the hard drive. Maybe I could stop it after a few passes and see if the master password is erased. A reformat, and, hopefully I should be able to install something on it! Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Merna Bitter Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:23 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password Russ, Armed with your model number, I looked around the Retrevo site a bit more. There are four User Guides / Manuals available for download at http://www.retrevo.com/support/Acer-3680-Laptops-manual/id/760ci853/t/2/ It's possible to "View All" the contents of each at that link. I did so and downloaded the third one ( for Acer 3680 / 5570 / 5580). I didn't find anything comparable to the information for model 6530 in my original (C) link. I'm not bothering to download any others as it's academic now as you are wiping the drive. However, if your friend doesn't have a manual for the machine, perhaps the link above will be helpful anyway. Retrevo's Product Fact Sheet for that model is at http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-3680-Laptops-review-manual/id/760ci853/t/1-2/ with various further links there. Another manual (same as one of the ones at the Retrevo link?) is at Acer at http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/ (found by navigating through umpteen links -- I suppose that's to be expected with large companies with many products, but I have seen more friendly company sites). Hope your eyes are back to normal. Your doctor must look further into your eyes than my optometrist does into mine because I don't normally have a problem for more than a couple of hours after dilation. I'd be interested to know what, if anything, Acer tells you. Some of the links that I went to while Googling had very unflattering remarks about the company and its responses, or lack thereof, to individuals' problems. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell W. Coover" To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:36 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > Merna, > > I'm looking at everything you sent. "A" and "B" didn't work as the Hitachi > hard Drive was not supported. For "C", the machine is a 3680, and the > information did not work with this machine. "D" it is obvious it isn't a > BIOS problem. The password really is on the HD. > > I was finally able to get the machine to boot to a live CD even with the > hard drive attached. Unfortunately, the hard drive cannot be read using > linux. > > I've tried various things using "The Ultimate Boot CD" including an option > to delete HD Passwords. It required the password to delete it. And I tried > other things using "Ultimate". Finally, I got permission from the owner to > "wipe" the drive and I am using "Ultimate"'s "Bariks Boot and Nuke" to > wipe > the drive. So far ... pass 1 of 31 is running ... 00.18 % of that job is > done. It looks like it's going to take a long time. > > I'll report back. Heck, by then I might even be able to see again (my eyes > were dilated by my doctor this AM). > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Merna Bitter > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:13 AM > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > Russ, > > Although most of what I read from Googling indicated that there is nothing > that can be done about a laptop's Hard Drive Password, as opposed to the > BIOS password with tricks like removing the battery, the following might > be > of interest and/or assistance. Pure Google, no experience! > > > (A) > HDD Unlock Wizard (drive is erased) mentioned at > http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/04/06/unlock-and-recover-hard-drive-password > -hard-disk-password-removal-tool/ > (where there is a download link to http://www.hddunlock.com/ ). > > > (B) > At http://www.hddunlock.com/ the following appears: "HDD Unlock Wizard > is > > a user-friendly application which allows you to easily remove HDD > password. > IDE and SATA hard disk drives are supported. Both User and Master password > can be removed. While unlocking, HDD Unlock Wizard will erase and > re-certify the drive. If you need unlocking which is safe to your data, > please use A-FF Repair Station" (with a link to that program at > http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ ). > > > (C) > You have not indicated which Acer, but perhaps there is information > similar > to this for the Acer 6530 for your model: > http://www.retrevo.com/r/23347ag900/32/Remove+HDD%2FBIOS+Utility/ > > Included among the various links at the above page are > (1) "Looking for a manual? Find it here..." near the top of the page > and > > going to > > http://www.retrevo.com/s/Acer-6530-Laptops-review-manual/id/23122ag709/t/1-2 > / > and > (2) "Related Links" in the righthand colum including "Acer Laptop > Manuals" at http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Acer-Laptop-manuals.html > > The http://www.retrevo.com/ site itself looks promising for other > information as well. > > > (D) > "Hack your Acer BIOS, save your 100bucks" > http://www.vietzon.com/red/?p=92 > > > (E) > http://forums.v3.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79818 with other Acer laptop > forum > > links at bottom of page (have not checked them) > > > Probably not (F) but an interesting site: > http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de > /english/help/solutions/bios_password.html > > Hope something helps. > > Merna > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Sweeden" > To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password > > >> Russ: >> I don't know about the notebook you're dealing with, but I do know that >> some >> Dell models have a hard drive password feature that stores the serial >> number >> of the hard drive and it's associated password in NVRAM, and if the >> password >> is lost, then the drive must be replaced with another drive to use the >> machine again. In the case of Dell, if you can prove you are the >> registered >> owner of the machine then Dell support can remedy the situation with a >> master password, but I don't know about Acer. >> Michael >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On >> Behalf Of Russell W. Coover >> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49 PM >> To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' >> Subject: TSGL: Acer Laptop Asking HDD Password >> >> A friend brought over an Acer Laptop for me to look at. It will not boot. >> It >> requests an HDD password. He said he never set one up on the computer. He >> is >> a church youth pastor and my guess is that one of the young ones pulled a >> trick on him. >> >> I went into the BIOS and, sure enough, it has HDD Password enabled. I >> tried >> to set the BIOS back to default, but that does not help. I tried to boot >> the >> computer to a live Linux disk, and the HDD Password message comes up >> before >> the disk can boot. Only by removing the Hard Drive can I boot with the >> live >> disk. >> >> I assume I could replace the hard drive with another, but I think my >> friend >> wants the data on the computer. >> >> >> >> I do not believe that resetting the CMOS will work since the password >> appears to actually be on the hard drive. >> >> I've written Acer, but, so far have not received an answer. I've also >> tried >> various possible passwords and, of course, that didn't work. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From Gmam1972 at aol.com Mon Aug 10 09:50:08 2009 From: Gmam1972 at aol.com (Gmam1972 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:50:08 EDT Subject: TSGL: email Message-ID: gmam1972 at aol.com Order Cool Catholic stuff online for Baptisms, First Communion, Weddings, etc. Click Here!!! (http://www.totallycatholic.com/cgi-bin/at/click.pl?id=386&url=http://www.totallycatholic.com) From Gmam1972 at aol.com Mon Aug 10 09:53:20 2009 From: Gmam1972 at aol.com (Gmam1972 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:53:20 EDT Subject: TSGL: I am traveling to Ireland and Italy. Message-ID: What do I need to access the internet in Ireland and Italy? I have a wireless connection on my computer... is there something I need to access the wireless in the hotels in Italy? The hotel does have a WiFi connection listed on it's brochure. From misterclever at hotmail.com Mon Aug 10 14:44:45 2009 From: misterclever at hotmail.com (Geoff Glave) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:44:45 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael> <000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Message-ID: I?m involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and hands out IP addresses ? The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub and then they?re served up an IP address from the router. Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won?t hand out IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won?t hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works fine again. The router?s not hugely burdened ? At most it might have a half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 From cosmiovh at lgisp.net Mon Aug 10 15:30:50 2009 From: cosmiovh at lgisp.net (Cosmio Von Hatten - Urban Networks) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:30:50 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Is the router hooked up to it's own jacks and own power? I encountered one issue that the failure on an adsl connection that was caused by the alarm as it was also hooked up to the phone line. So when they set it at 5pm it messed up the network. Cosmio Von Hatten Technical Consultant / Client Relations Urban Networks Inc. 4647 Hastings Street Burnaby BC V5C 2K6 Tel: (604) 439-8530 Fax: (604) 320-1607 Email: support at ubn.ca To further discuss this issue, please "Reply" to this message and do not modify the subject line. This electronic communication and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is privileged and confidential and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete this communication from your server. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Glave Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:45 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... I'm involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and hands out IP addresses - The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub and then they're served up an IP address from the router. Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won't hand out IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won't hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works fine again. The router's not hugely burdened - At most it might have a half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From alan_mitchell at mindspring.com Mon Aug 10 15:37:28 2009 From: alan_mitchell at mindspring.com (Alan Mitchell) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:37:28 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael><000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Message-ID: <5487E599432F447E96C12ABE19F8C6D1@DESKTOP> While this may not be our solution, it's a fairly simple and cost-free check. When I set up routers in some educational situations, I set the router to function as a DHCP only during certain hours. The organization was concerned about "drive-by" hookups and also about usage of their connection after hours so I had to both limit the number of connections and the hours of functionality. It's possible that somehow the option to disable the DHCP has been set. You can find out by accessing the router's admin screen and look for the DHCP settings. You may find that the function is time-limited. If not, then I don't have another idea unless the wireless "hub" is in reality a wireless "router" in which case the problem may lie in its settings rather than the main router. Which brings up another possible check. Most wireless routers permit you to turn off the "routing" functionality and operate as a hub. If that the case with this device, you might check to see if the routing functionality has been turned on. Alan -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Glave Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:45 PM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... I'm involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and hands out IP addresses - The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub and then they're served up an IP address from the router. Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won't hand out IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won't hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works fine again. The router's not hugely burdened - At most it might have a half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 10 17:11:01 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:11:01 -0700 Subject: TSGL: I am traveling to Ireland and Italy. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If your laptop accepts a wireless connection type 802.11b or 802.11g, you probably have everything you need right now. But I always carry at least 6 feet of Cat 5 network cable just in case they do not support wireless in the room you are in (actually, I carry 25 feet, but 6 should get you through just about anywhere ... I like the longer cord so that I can use my laptop anywhere in the room). Of course, if they do not support wireless or wired internet, you are out of luck. There are, however, Internet Cafes all over Europe. Be prepared to pay. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Gmam1972 at aol.com Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:53 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: I am traveling to Ireland and Italy. What do I need to access the internet in Ireland and Italy? I have a wireless connection on my computer... is there something I need to access the wireless in the hotels in Italy? The hotel does have a WiFi connection listed on it's brochure. _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 10 17:14:21 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:14:21 -0700 Subject: TSGL: email In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Gmam; This email list is not to be used for spam. Please do not make the mistake of doing this again or you will be banned. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Gmam1972 at aol.com Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:50 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: email ) _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 10 17:33:10 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:10 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael><000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Message-ID: It doesn't work evenings, eh? I suggest you fool it by taking the clock out of the room and leaving the lights on. That should do the trick ... And if that doesn't work, perhaps you might try the suggestions of Cosmio and Alan. I actually think they might be better than mine. Good Luck, Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Glave Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:45 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... I'm involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and hands out IP addresses - The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub and then they're served up an IP address from the router. Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won't hand out IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won't hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works fine again. The router's not hugely burdened - At most it might have a half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From stephen.marki at hotmail.com Mon Aug 10 23:55:27 2009 From: stephen.marki at hotmail.com (Stephen Marki) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:55:27 -0300 Subject: TSGL: email In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Exactly what I was going to say. That is the first time I have ever gotten "Spam" from this Signed, Stephen Marki > From: coover at fastmail.fm > To: list at tsgserver.com > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:14:21 -0700 > Subject: Re: TSGL: email > > Gmam; > > This email list is not to be used for spam. Please do not make the mistake > of doing this again or you will be banned. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Gmam1972 at aol.com > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:50 AM > To: list at tsgserver.com > Subject: TSGL: email > > ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Tue Aug 11 04:00:23 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:00:23 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Message-ID: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2> Hi all, My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? Thanks for any help. John Od/G From tbrandl2 at chello.at Tue Aug 11 15:02:08 2009 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:02:08 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 References: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2> Message-ID: <45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 11 17:05:10 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:05:10 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 In-Reply-To: <45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> References: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2> <45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> Message-ID: Firefox 3.5 ... two seconds to open ... 4 seconds before all three tabs I have set as my "home pages" are open! By the way, Firefox Version 3.6 Alpha 1 is now available. I have the executable, but haven't yet opened it. I do not use Firefox as my default browser, so I am in no hurry to do so, but will sometime, probably later today. You might want to take a look. I got it at fileforum.betanews.com. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Tilman Brandl Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:02 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 11 17:52:48 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:52:48 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Message-ID: <1BA7B1350DCC4A6E9A708240AB59DB18@AcerPC> While I have not tested 3.6 Alpha 1 extensively, after installation and a bit of websurfing, I have noticed no difference between it and version 3.5.2 which was previously installed. Of course, there are differences, but, so far, they haven't been noticeable. My recommendation - it seems to be safe, so try it if you want to test something new. If you are happy with the ways things are now, stay with whatever version you are now using until it is thoroughly tested and ready for prime time. I've read that Mozilla will be faster bringing out this version than it has been with others, so it shouldn't be long. Russ Coover From jonpan at onlinehome.de Wed Aug 12 05:43:47 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:43:47 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 References: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2> <45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> Message-ID: <9388464B8A9C4EB98DE189E15C15CC88@johnsp2> Hi Tilman, Cold start refers to starting FF for the first time after booting the PC. I don't store sessions, so no old ones are opened. Disabling all addons makes no difference. FF-safe mode 'cold starts' faster, which is how I came to the idea that Bookmarks could be the problem. I agree that the copy operation would probably leave the original bookmarks, so a useless move. Maybe I'll just be patient... Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Gr??e John ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:02 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From jonpan at onlinehome.de Wed Aug 12 05:47:17 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:47:17 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 References: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2><45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> Message-ID: <355A3B6F96CB41B090E919A05A84A150@johnsp2> Hi Russ, I open to a blank page and no restored tabs. It's only the first time opening after re-booting the PC that it takes so long. I've heard that the only difference with build 3.6.?1 is a few new buttons. Installing now might disable some addons. Cheers, John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Russell W. Coover To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List' Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:05 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Firefox 3.5 ... two seconds to open ... 4 seconds before all three tabs I have set as my "home pages" are open! By the way, Firefox Version 3.6 Alpha 1 is now available. I have the executable, but haven't yet opened it. I do not use Firefox as my default browser, so I am in no hurry to do so, but will sometime, probably later today. You might want to take a look. I got it at fileforum.betanews.com. Russ Coover -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Tilman Brandl Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:02 PM To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From tbrandl2 at chello.at Wed Aug 12 12:39:41 2009 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:39:41 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 References: <86C7B9B11CD04BA9A9355FB6CA258B94@johnsp2><45CBCE34FAC74F57B7100E71D62185F4@til4200> <9388464B8A9C4EB98DE189E15C15CC88@johnsp2> Message-ID: <7FD8B2937CED4726B78C00BB3238FFE9@til4200> Jon, > Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Thanks for the tip. I'm anyway using a German keyboard so don't have problems with typing ???? etc. Only sometimes I make it oe ue etc. - this is thought for those that do not get the umlaut characters displayed correctly. Depends on the machine's (?) and certainly on each person's email client's settings, I think. I got used to do so while communicating with a distant Australian cousin who had that problem. Probably not necessary with most other people. Re. FF, I still think you could test it with an empty bookmarks folder. Otherwise I would visit the FF forums (fora) where there are more experienced users around. Cheers Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi Tilman, Cold start refers to starting FF for the first time after booting the PC. I don't store sessions, so no old ones are opened. Disabling all addons makes no difference. FF-safe mode 'cold starts' faster, which is how I came to the idea that Bookmarks could be the problem. I agree that the copy operation would probably leave the original bookmarks, so a useless move. Maybe I'll just be patient... Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Gr??e John ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:02 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G From go2dieter at comcast.net Wed Aug 12 13:40:01 2009 From: go2dieter at comcast.net (Dieter) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:40:01 -0700 Subject: TSGL: German Umlaut Keys Message-ID: To find the keys for German Umlauts and other special characters and symbols, may I recommend the tiny free program of ... http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ ... Here you will find anything your heart desires and requires. Ciao, Dieter (Norcal) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:39 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Jon, > Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Thanks for the tip. I'm anyway using a German keyboard so don't have problems with typing ???? etc. Only sometimes I make it oe ue etc. - this is thought for those that do not get the umlaut characters displayed correctly. Depends on the machine's (?) and certainly on each person's email client's settings, I think. I got used to do so while communicating with a distant Australian cousin who had that problem. Probably not necessary with most other people. Re. FF, I still think you could test it with an empty bookmarks folder. Otherwise I would visit the FF forums (fora) where there are more experienced users around. Cheers Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi Tilman, Cold start refers to starting FF for the first time after booting the PC. I don't store sessions, so no old ones are opened. Disabling all addons makes no difference. FF-safe mode 'cold starts' faster, which is how I came to the idea that Bookmarks could be the problem. I agree that the copy operation would probably leave the original bookmarks, so a useless move. Maybe I'll just be patient... Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Gr??e John ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:02 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From jonpan at onlinehome.de Sat Aug 15 03:33:18 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:33:18 +0200 Subject: TSGL: German Umlaut Keys References: Message-ID: <23BD119ACBA84AD2B753F77DF272FD95@johnsp2> Thanks for the tip, Dieter. Nice programme and I've downloaded it. At the moment, I'm so used to the number key combinations that I'll stick to them until something goes wrong! Best wishes, John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Dieter To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:40 PM Subject: TSGL: German Umlaut Keys To find the keys for German Umlauts and other special characters and symbols, may I recommend the tiny free program of ... http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ ... Here you will find anything your heart desires and requires. Ciao, Dieter (Norcal) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:39 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Jon, > Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Thanks for the tip. I'm anyway using a German keyboard so don't have problems with typing ???? etc. Only sometimes I make it oe ue etc. - this is thought for those that do not get the umlaut characters displayed correctly. Depends on the machine's (?) and certainly on each person's email client's settings, I think. I got used to do so while communicating with a distant Australian cousin who had that problem. Probably not necessary with most other people. Re. FF, I still think you could test it with an empty bookmarks folder. Otherwise I would visit the FF forums (fora) where there are more experienced users around. Cheers Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi Tilman, Cold start refers to starting FF for the first time after booting the PC. I don't store sessions, so no old ones are opened. Disabling all addons makes no difference. FF-safe mode 'cold starts' faster, which is how I came to the idea that Bookmarks could be the problem. I agree that the copy operation would probably leave the original bookmarks, so a useless move. Maybe I'll just be patient... Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Gr??e John ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:02 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi John, is this a new effect or something that's going on since your first session? Also, not quite clear what you mean by "to cold start". Loading time IMO could depend on how many tabs were open in FF at the end of the last session. But I've just checked my own last session which opens quickly with some 78 tabs open - some of them of course take some time to load again. Anyway - my new version 3.0.13 needs some 5 secs to load, with most of the tabs tabs taking their own time getting fully loaded thereafter. With a single tab it's less than 5 seconds ... There is an option to load a whole FF session with several different windows - this of course may need more time depending on the number of windows and tabs to load. As to bookmarks, I guess that you could temporarily rename or move off to a different place your bookmarks folder, replacing it with an empty one. > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? >From Firefox? Or any other program ... ? Generally from my understanding 'exporting' would mean copying and thereby translating into a different format. Like exporting messages or addresses from an email client or such. I'm not aware of any 'exporting' options that would move the respective items leaving their current place empty. Schoene Gruesse Take care Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "ListTSG" Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:00 AM Subject: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 > Hi all, > > My Firefox is still taking 17 secs or so to cold start. Having disabled all Addons and found that FF-SafeMode cold starts faster, I now suspect the cause is the huge number of bookmarks I have. > > Does anybody know if loading Bookmarks can be temporarily disabled? > > If I export to HTML, is this a 'copy' or a 'move to' operation? > > Would re-naming places.sqlite do the trick? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > Od/G _______________________________________________ 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 Sat Aug 22 03:13:29 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:13:29 +1000 Subject: TSGL: character keys and German info (was German Umlaut Keys) References: <23BD119ACBA84AD2B753F77DF272FD95@johnsp2> Message-ID: (A) http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ Earlier this year I was attempting to communicate with a government organisation in Austria. I wrote to it (airmail) in English and received a reply (airmail) in German. I emailed asking if they could reply in English as I could not understand what they had said, and I received an email reply -- again in German. The two years of German that I studied half a century ago did not qualify me to correspond in that language, and I could understand only a dozen words or so from the first letter. I tried a few online translation sites (normally free machine translations up to a maximum of so-many characters, with human translation available for a price) and ran into the problem of not only the umlaut but the "double s" in the email from Austria. Problem solved by using http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ which I found during that exercise. (For anyone who's interested in how stories end, this one has not yet ended. However, I eventually received an email in English telling me that they had previously replied on 29th May by post in English. That letter has still not arrived in Australia. It has either gone astray in the mail or was sent by surface mail.) Special characters and symbols are also available online at http://www.systranet.com/ -- click on the first of the five picture symbols to the right of the word "Options" to open and close the characters/symbols available for copying and pasting when requesting a machine translation there (one of the sites I tried for that purpose). If for nothing else than to save your vision, the http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ site is obviously far superior; but it's nice to have an alternative in case copypastecharacter is down. To have the benefit of using http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ when not online, I have saved the web page to my hard drive: File Save As ... Save as type Web Archive, single file (*.mht) (B) http://www.germancorner.com/ I was going to post the (A) link above when John, Tilman, and Dieter wrote about the umlaut. Computer problems prevented my doing so. Today I found this (B) link while surfing and figured I might as well post both. There is a potential treasure trove of information at the http://www.germancorner.com/info/ page. I say "potential" because the "Hear the National Anthems" boxes at the top of the /info/ page do not work and there are older copyright dates on the bottom of the sublinks that do work. Those working sublinks contain a lot of information and downloads (including fonts and spellcheckers). I also found the http://www.germancorner.com/education/index.html (one of the sublinks from the /info/ page) and its sublinks very interesting. Assuming that TSGL is still alive, as John's message of 15th August below is the last one I have received, I hope these sites are of assistance to some of you. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:33 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: German Umlaut Keys Thanks for the tip, Dieter. Nice programme and I've downloaded it. At the moment, I'm so used to the number key combinations that I'll stick to them until something goes wrong! Best wishes, John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Dieter To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:40 PM Subject: TSGL: German Umlaut Keys To find the keys for German Umlauts and other special characters and symbols, may I recommend the tiny free program of ... http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ ... Here you will find anything your heart desires and requires. Ciao, Dieter (Norcal) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:39 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Jon, > Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is > alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Thanks for the tip. I'm anyway using a German keyboard so don't have problems with typing ???? etc. Only sometimes I make it oe ue etc. - this is thought for those that do not get the umlaut characters displayed correctly. Depends on the machine's (?) and certainly on each person's email client's settings, I think. I got used to do so while communicating with a distant Australian cousin who had that problem. Probably not necessary with most other people. Re. FF, I still think you could test it with an empty bookmarks folder. Otherwise I would visit the FF forums (fora) where there are more experienced users around. Cheers Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 Hi Tilman, Cold start refers to starting FF for the first time after booting the PC. I don't store sessions, so no old ones are opened. Disabling all addons makes no difference. FF-safe mode 'cold starts' faster, which is how I came to the idea that Bookmarks could be the problem. I agree that the copy operation would probably leave the original bookmarks, so a useless move. Maybe I'll just be patient... Tip: to get ? on the US int. keyboard, use alt with number keys 148, ? is alt with 129 and ? is alt with 132 ? alt+225 Gr??e John ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:02 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox 3.5 (balance snipped by Merna 2009.08.22 -- not relevant to umlaut keys or German) From embitt at westnet.com.au Sat Aug 22 23:58:03 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:58:03 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California References: <20090719000139.RHKG4885.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Message-ID: Posted here because of picture and remarks on Don Penlington's site about the Chinese retailer in Kuala Lumpur from whom he purchased parts for his new computer. "Starting with what is considered by most to be the dawn of modern computing, the abacus, the exhibits are truly something to behold." (Quote extracted from http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/the-computer-history-museum-an-amazing-trip-through-time/ which is an interesting article -- if I were near it, I'd visit the museum.) Merna From misterclever at hotmail.com Mon Aug 24 12:05:54 2009 From: misterclever at hotmail.com (Geoff Glave) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:05:54 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael><000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon> <892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Message-ID: Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Weirdly, the problem just corrected itself, with no intervention whatsoever. Oh well, silly gremlins again. ---------------------------------------- > From: coover at fastmail.fm > To: list at tsgserver.com > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:10 -0700 > Subject: Re: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... > > It doesn't work evenings, eh? I suggest you fool it by taking the clock out > of the room and leaving the lights on. That should do the trick ... > > And if that doesn't work, perhaps you might try the suggestions of Cosmio > and Alan. I actually think they might be better than mine. > > Good Luck, > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Geoff Glave > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:45 AM > To: list at tsgserver.com > Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... > > > I'm involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort > has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. > > The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and > hands out IP addresses - The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub > and then they're served up an IP address from the router. > > Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has > developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won't hand out > IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won't > hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works > fine again. The router's not hugely burdened - At most it might have a > half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. > > Any suggestions? > _________________________________________________________________ > More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it > simple. > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive email from all of your webmail accounts. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671356 From coover at fastmail.fm Mon Aug 24 15:17:56 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:17:56 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... In-Reply-To: References: <26FE2D51676A4F1181F8B8C4EC3F932E@michael><000001ca1571$bf9cc310$0201a8c0@hbcanon><892EA78368994F47B3C7B28866081D4F@AcerPC> Message-ID: <6E6980912DA9434E9D7D4540AF458AB6@AcerPC> Evidently, taking out the clock worked? I knew it! -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Glave Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:06 AM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: Re: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Weirdly, the problem just corrected itself, with no intervention whatsoever. Oh well, silly gremlins again. ---------------------------------------- > From: coover at fastmail.fm > To: list at tsgserver.com > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:10 -0700 > Subject: Re: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... > > It doesn't work evenings, eh? I suggest you fool it by taking the clock out > of the room and leaving the lights on. That should do the trick ... > > And if that doesn't work, perhaps you might try the suggestions of Cosmio > and Alan. I actually think they might be better than mine. > > Good Luck, > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On > Behalf Of Geoff Glave > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:45 AM > To: list at tsgserver.com > Subject: TSGL: Router won't hand out IPs in the evening... > > > I'm involved in the management of a small network at a resort. The resort > has a wireless hub connected (via Cat5) to a Linksys consumer grade router. > > The router is plugged into an ADSL connection and handles DHCP requests and > hands out IP addresses - The wireless clients connect to the wireless hub > and then they're served up an IP address from the router. > > Everything used to work fine, but as of a week or two ago the system has > developed a weird fault whereby in the evenings, the router won't hand out > IP addresses. It works fine during the day, but by the evening it won't > hand out IPs. The only solution is to power-cycle the router, then it works > fine again. The router's not hugely burdened - At most it might have a > half-dozen clients connected to it at any given time. > > Any suggestions? > _________________________________________________________________ > More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it > simple. > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive email from all of your webmail accounts. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671356 _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From dmack9185 at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 08:13:36 2009 From: dmack9185 at gmail.com (Dmack9185) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:13:36 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet Message-ID: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> Hi All, I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the 90W AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. Thanks, Dinah Dinah McNamara *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* "Helping you take control of your technology" dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com From Engineman1 at aol.com Thu Aug 27 15:54:10 2009 From: Engineman1 at aol.com (Engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:54:10 EDT Subject: TSGL: USB Message-ID: Several months ago I bought 2.0 USB cards and installed them in my two desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. Several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message saying that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop or the other desktop I don't get this warning and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when plugging in any other USB device into the Compaq. This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device and a 40 GB external drive. It's not a serious problem but I'm wondering where my trouble lies? Engineman From golddave at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 18:13:43 2009 From: golddave at gmail.com (David Goldstein) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:13:43 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? Message-ID: My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? Thanks, Dave From tbrandl2 at chello.at Thu Aug 27 19:37:51 2009 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:37:51 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> Dinah, since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... The power adapter does have different jobs: 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no need to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can draw more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt it). re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the charging current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet of the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can deliver - the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand of the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this ... Hope this helps Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmack9185" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > Hi All, > > I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell > battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote > included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the 90W > AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell > battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. > > Thanks, > > Dinah > > Dinah McNamara > > *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* > > "Helping you take control of your technology" > > dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com > From tbrandl2 at chello.at Thu Aug 27 20:01:36 2009 From: tbrandl2 at chello.at (Tilman Brandl) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:01:36 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? References: Message-ID: <4059170DC32D47C3934050E748480F56@til4200> Dave, "...Outlook Express is obviously very long in the tooth" OE doesn't get support from MS anymore, therefore I'm pondering about a change myself. After reading several accounts on the web re. this question, I'll probably switch to Thunderbird soon myself. There you can have more than one profile, exactly what you need, I think, and they are similar to the identities in OE (I've used 2 ids myself in OE for years). I've done the switch from Windows Mail to Thunderbird on my Vista notebook recently out of sheer necessity since WM stopped working and couldn't be revived. It'll take getting used to, but it looks like I'll be able to live with it. Good luck Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goldstein" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:13 AM Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? > My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity > feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature > enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access > different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every > time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long > in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to > replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the > Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live > Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? > > Thanks, > Dave From Trio200 at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 20:04:46 2009 From: Trio200 at gmail.com (Trio200) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:04:46 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would remember multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied text in the clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy some text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a web site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it (but each clip deletes the previous one) Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy everything and remember them for future use? Thanks Bob From nature-coast at earthlink.net Thu Aug 27 20:13:40 2009 From: nature-coast at earthlink.net (Cyndi) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:13:40 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? In-Reply-To: <4059170DC32D47C3934050E748480F56@til4200> References: <4059170DC32D47C3934050E748480F56@til4200> Message-ID: <4A972134.8000006@earthlink.net> I have used Thunderbird for years and like it well. I also like Office Outlook. ~Cyndi~ Tilman Brandl wrote: > Dave, > > "...Outlook Express is obviously very long in the tooth" > OE doesn't get support from MS anymore, therefore I'm pondering about a change myself. After reading several accounts on the web re. this question, I'll probably switch to Thunderbird soon myself. There you can have more than one profile, exactly what you need, I think, and they are similar to the identities in OE (I've used 2 ids myself in OE for years). > > I've done the switch from Windows Mail to Thunderbird on my Vista notebook recently out of sheer necessity since WM stopped working and couldn't be revived. It'll take getting used to, but it looks like I'll be able to live with it. > > Good luck > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Goldstein" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:13 AM > Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? > > > >> My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity >> feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature >> enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access >> different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every >> time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long >> in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to >> replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the >> Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live >> Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > From shyamalg at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 20:16:15 2009 From: shyamalg at gmail.com (Shyamal Gupta) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:16:15 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: <27e0929d0908271716w3fba0d68r8129ad1ec27d9c7c@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Trio200 wrote: > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? Bob Have been using 3D Clipboard (http://www.3dclipboard.net/) for years now. I need to work extensively with it, and it works great for me. Very small program, without any fancy bells and whistles. Saves only as plain text (which means one can use it to remove formatting from something, for instance, copied from a web page). -- Shyamal Gupta New York, NY From shyamalg at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 20:24:00 2009 From: shyamalg at gmail.com (Shyamal Gupta) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:24:00 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: <27e0929d0908271724o44ff3590gada061f6f76c9f30@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Trio200 wrote: > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? Forgot to mention this -- if you decide to use 3D Clipboard, it's probably better to use version 1.0.7 beta rather than tthe 1.2 beta. The latter gave me some problems, so I went back to the earlier version. Also, you'll need to install the VB runtimes. It's no problem at all, and 3D Clipboard works excellently for me both on XP and Vista. The author, Vince Valenti, seems to have given up working on the program any further. Pity -- it's excellent ! I'd pay for it any day. As it is, it's freeware now. -- Shyamal Gupta New York, NY From hdavis1 at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 20:40:35 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:35 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A972783.7090901@gmail.com> Dave, Thunderbird (free) supports multiple identities but since I don't use the feature don't really feel qualified to comment further. I'll point you to this FAQ and hope someone with more experience will join in. H Davis David Goldstein wrote: > My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity > feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature > enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access > different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every > time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long > in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to > replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the > Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live > Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? > > Thanks, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From harleys at eastlink.ca Thu Aug 27 21:25:39 2009 From: harleys at eastlink.ca (Sanford House) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:25:39 -0300 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> Message-ID: <2035405897C04B03ADCC83D507C1DDFC@SHCCTowerP4dualcore> Just to add what I know about 65w & 90w used for a Compaq laptop. The 65w acadapter is used for a Compaq EVO P4 laptop and the 90watt ac adapter is used for a docking station for plugging in to the Compaq evo P4 laptop since it must require more capacity to run more options. The IBM may or may not be a similar thing. Harley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Brandl" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:37 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > Dinah, > > since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... > > The power adapter does have different jobs: > 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery > 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off > 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time > > re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no need > to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can > draw more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of > power-hungry periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage > (I doubt it). > > re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the > original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W > adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the > charging current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the > data sheet of the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in > amps (or the power in Watts), then compare it with the current the > adapters can deliver - the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else > ask the supplier. > > re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The > original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand > of the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack > means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. > But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this > ... > > Hope this helps > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dmack9185" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM > Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > > >> Hi All, >> >> I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell >> battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote >> included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the >> 90W >> AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell >> battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dinah >> >> Dinah McNamara >> >> *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* >> >> "Helping you take control of your technology" >> >> dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From hdavis1 at gmail.com Thu Aug 27 21:43:46 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:43:46 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet In-Reply-To: <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> Message-ID: <4A973652.4000706@gmail.com> Dinah, First let me say that I have never owned a laptop but.... I suspect the wattage rating of the power adapter (PA) was originally determined by the maximum power required by the computer plus the maximum power required by the charging circuits for the battery. The charging circuits would probably be designed to charge at a high rate initially tapering off to some maintenance rate when the battery is fully charged. This charging profile also probably would be designed to fully charge a dead battery in a given maximum time. All of these requirements would determine the power requirement of the charger. Please note that power is the _rate_ at which energy is delivered to the battery and computer. If you change the battery to one that has 2 more cells (8 vs 6) the adapter has to deliver 1/3 more energy (8/6=1.33) to the battery in order to charge the battery _in the same amount of time_. This means the adapter needs to have a power rating about 1/3 higher (considering only the charging requirement, not the computer). The 95 watt charger has a power rating about 46% higher than the 65 watt unit. Since the total load on the charger includes the computer also the arithmetic would show that the percentage increase necessary would be less than 33% so the 95 watt charger is more than sufficient. The details, as my professors were so fond of saying, are left as an exercise for the student. I suspect that the 95 watt size wasn't determined based on the requirements of your particular computer. I think it's likely that there are only a few sizes of adapters that suffice for these two common conditions; 6 cells or 8 cells plus the load from a typical large, peripheral laden laptop. So, I'd go with the 95 watt adapter. I suspect the 65 watt units would work fine with the possible lengthening of charging time. I say that because I think the 65 watt units are probably also used on a lot 6 cell laptops where the computer itself draws much more power than yours. Therefore I suspect that the 65 watt unit is very comfortably large for your tablet PC and would handle the extra charging requirement easily. However, it's possible that the increased charging requirement might be more than the 65 watt units can provide which might have some negative effects inside of the computer; reduced power supply voltages primarily. It's impossible to tell without a very detailed knowledge of the circuitry. But.... if you like to live on the edge, try the 65 watt units for a while, especially if you already have them. H Davis Tilman Brandl wrote: > Dinah, > > since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... > > The power adapter does have different jobs: > 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery > 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off > 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time > > re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no need to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can draw more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt it). > > re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the charging current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet of the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can deliver - the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. > > re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand of the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. > But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this ... > > Hope this helps > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dmack9185" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM > Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > > > >> Hi All, >> >> I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell >> battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote >> included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the 90W >> AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell >> battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dinah >> >> Dinah McNamara >> >> *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* >> >> "Helping you take control of your technology" >> >> dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From jonpan at onlinehome.de Fri Aug 28 04:21:43 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:21:43 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> Message-ID: Some thoughts: Rechargeable cells have a lower voltage than the corresponding non-rechargeables. Maybe it wasn't enough. If upgrading to 8 cells increased the supply voltage, then the device would take more current. This means more power is required. With these assumptions I would choose the 90 Watt supply. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Tilman Brandl To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:37 AM Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet Dinah, since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... The power adapter does have different jobs: 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no need to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can draw more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt it). re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the charging current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet of the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can deliver - the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand of the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this ... Hope this helps Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmack9185" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > Hi All, > > I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell > battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote > included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the 90W > AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell > battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. > > Thanks, > > Dinah > > Dinah McNamara > > *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* > > "Helping you take control of your technology" > > dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com > _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From jonpan at onlinehome.de Fri Aug 28 04:27:06 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:27:06 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Bob, I find YC excellent and irreplaceable. When your problem occurs, go to Tools/Reconnect to clipboard and the selection will be accepted. I hear a sound when it is successful, so it's easy to know. I can't, however, explain why that's started to happen now and then. John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Trio200 To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:04 AM Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would remember multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied text in the clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy some text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a web site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it (but each clip deletes the previous one) Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy everything and remember them for future use? Thanks Bob _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From leximou at earthlink.net Fri Aug 28 09:07:08 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:07:08 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? Message-ID: <9315982.1251464829358.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Calypso is a great email client that allows for independent login and ease of back-up. It is no longer supported but is available (email me and I can steer you to a link). I have run it through WinXP SP3, but have not tried it on either Vista or Win7 yet. If there is an interest I can load it to see if it runs there. Lex > >David Goldstein wrote: >> My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity >> feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature >> enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access >> different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every >> time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long >> in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to >> replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the >> Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live >> Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 dmack9185 at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 09:51:11 2009 From: dmack9185 at gmail.com (Dmack9185) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:51:11 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet In-Reply-To: References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> Message-ID: <9008cb260908280651i4423ef03wc9219f522fb66a81@mail.gmail.com> Well that's' what I thought.... No clear picture for deciding. We went with the 8 cell battery to get longer battery life for the Tablets. I am thinking that as long as the 65W will recharge battery I don't think need to upgrade to 90W. Thanks for responses. I enjoy reading this list. Often I will run across similar issue discussed here and be a head of the game for having read about it here. ~dinah On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Jon wrote: > Some thoughts: > > Rechargeable cells have a lower voltage than the corresponding > non-rechargeables. Maybe it wasn't enough. > > If upgrading to 8 cells increased the supply voltage, then the device would > take more current. > This means more power is required. > > With these assumptions I would choose the 90 Watt supply. > > John > Od/G > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tilman Brandl > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:37 AM > Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > > > Dinah, > > since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... > > The power adapter does have different jobs: > 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery > 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off > 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time > > re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no need > to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can draw > more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry > periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt it). > > re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the > original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W > adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the charging > current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet of > the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the > power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can deliver - > the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. > > re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The > original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand of > the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack > means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. > But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this > ... > > Hope this helps > Tilman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dmack9185" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM > Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 cell > > battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote > > included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the > 90W > > AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 cell > > battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dinah > > > > Dinah McNamara > > > > *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* > > > > "Helping you take control of your technology" > > > > dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From dogbert at earthlink.net Fri Aug 28 10:19:54 2009 From: dogbert at earthlink.net (Dogbert) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:19:54 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? In-Reply-To: <9315982.1251464829358.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <9315982.1251464829358.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <001301ca27ea$9d8414f0$0201a8c0@hbcanon> OUTLOOK has always supported multiple profiles. HBCanon Geneva, FL HBCanon The current presidency is an Obamination . -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Leximou Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 09:07 To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Subject: Re: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? Calypso is a great email client that allows for independent login and ease of back-up. It is no longer supported but is available (email me and I can steer you to a link). I have run it through WinXP SP3, but have not tried it on either Vista or Win7 yet. If there is an interest I can load it to see if it runs there. Lex > >David Goldstein wrote: >> My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity >> feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature >> enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access >> different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails >> every time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very >> long in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email >> clients to replace it. However I have not seen any that has a >> feature like the Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's >> successor Windows Live >> Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 hasanat at sparkbd.net Fri Aug 28 11:15:24 2009 From: hasanat at sparkbd.net (A Hasanat Khan) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:15:24 +0600 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com><069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> <9008cb260908280651i4423ef03wc9219f522fb66a81@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <859670C2F463472D843071591C35B6C2@micron> Before you sign off, here is another reply. The 90W will charge quicker. That's all. Both will charge. The cells are in parallel, not series. They have the same voltage, but the 90W will give more current to charge quicker. Hasanat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmack9185" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:51 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > Well that's' what I thought.... No clear picture for deciding. We went > with > the 8 cell battery to get longer battery life for the Tablets. I am > thinking > that as long as the 65W will recharge battery I don't think need to > upgrade > to 90W. > > Thanks for responses. I enjoy reading this list. Often I will run across > similar issue discussed here and be a head of the game for having read > about > it here. > > ~dinah > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Jon wrote: > >> Some thoughts: >> >> Rechargeable cells have a lower voltage than the corresponding >> non-rechargeables. Maybe it wasn't enough. >> >> If upgrading to 8 cells increased the supply voltage, then the device >> would >> take more current. >> This means more power is required. >> >> With these assumptions I would choose the 90 Watt supply. >> >> John >> Od/G >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Tilman Brandl >> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:37 AM >> Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet >> >> >> Dinah, >> >> since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... >> >> The power adapter does have different jobs: >> 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery >> 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off >> 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time >> >> re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no >> need >> to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can >> draw >> more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry >> periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt >> it). >> >> re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the >> original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W >> adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the >> charging >> current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet >> of >> the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the >> power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can >> deliver - >> the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. >> >> re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The >> original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand >> of >> the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack >> means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. >> But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this >> ... >> >> Hope this helps >> Tilman >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dmack9185" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM >> Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet >> >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 >> > cell >> > battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote >> > included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the >> 90W >> > AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 >> > cell >> > battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Dinah >> > >> > Dinah McNamara >> > >> > *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* >> > >> > "Helping you take control of your technology" >> > >> > dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2519 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From golddave at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 11:33:51 2009 From: golddave at gmail.com (David Goldstein) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:33:51 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? In-Reply-To: <001301ca27ea$9d8414f0$0201a8c0@hbcanon> References: <9315982.1251464829358.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <001301ca27ea$9d8414f0$0201a8c0@hbcanon> Message-ID: Calypso won't work because I want something that's supported (in case security issues come up that need to be patched). Outlook is also not an option because (a) I want something more lightweight and (b) don't want to pay for MS Office. Looks like Thunderbird is the best suggestion so far. I'll install it to a secondary machine and see if it works for me. I'm still open for other suggestions. Thanks, Dave On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Dogbert wrote: > OUTLOOK has always supported multiple profiles. > HBCanon > Geneva, FL > > > HBCanon > The current presidency is an Obamination . > > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Leximou > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 09:07 > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Subject: Re: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? > > Calypso is a great email client that allows for independent login and ease of back-up. It > is no longer supported but is available (email me and I can steer you to a link). I have > run it through WinXP SP3, but have not tried it on either Vista or Win7 yet. If there is > an interest I can load it to see if it runs there. > > Lex > > >> >>David Goldstein wrote: >>> My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity >>> feature in Outlook Express for many years. ?The Identity feature >>> enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access >>> different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails >>> every time we check our own email. ?Outlook Express is obviously very >>> long in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email >>> clients to replace it. ?However I have not seen any that has a >>> feature like the Identity feature. ?(It was removed from OE's >>> successor Windows Live >>> Mail.) ?Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dave >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From dmack9185 at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 12:21:05 2009 From: dmack9185 at gmail.com (Dmack9185) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:21:05 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet In-Reply-To: <859670C2F463472D843071591C35B6C2@micron> References: <9008cb260908260513if10057fyb18e3187589ecf90@mail.gmail.com> <069EC01AF8E946E9A4A18046138F7BF7@til4200> <9008cb260908280651i4423ef03wc9219f522fb66a81@mail.gmail.com> <859670C2F463472D843071591C35B6C2@micron> Message-ID: <9008cb260908280921o73b87697gab2d1f15f3c42330@mail.gmail.com> The time to recharge the battery is not deciding factor. We use a charged battery swap model. We have 13 tablets in use, this is the 14th one and I was concerned that it needed a different wattage power adapter and then was thinking hmmmn will that help those we already use? I will am thinking staying uniform with the power adapters if both will work and the only advantage is charges battery quicker. Dinah On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, A Hasanat Khan wrote: > Before you sign off, here is another reply. The 90W will charge quicker. > That's all. Both will charge. The cells are in parallel, not series. They > have the same voltage, but the 90W will give more current to charge quicker. > > Hasanat > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmack9185" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:51 PM > > Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet > > > Well that's' what I thought.... No clear picture for deciding. We went >> with >> the 8 cell battery to get longer battery life for the Tablets. I am >> thinking >> that as long as the 65W will recharge battery I don't think need to >> upgrade >> to 90W. >> >> Thanks for responses. I enjoy reading this list. Often I will run across >> similar issue discussed here and be a head of the game for having read >> about >> it here. >> >> ~dinah >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Jon wrote: >> >> Some thoughts: >>> >>> Rechargeable cells have a lower voltage than the corresponding >>> non-rechargeables. Maybe it wasn't enough. >>> >>> If upgrading to 8 cells increased the supply voltage, then the device >>> would >>> take more current. >>> This means more power is required. >>> >>> With these assumptions I would choose the 90 Watt supply. >>> >>> John >>> Od/G >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Tilman Brandl >>> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List >>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:37 AM >>> Subject: Re: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet >>> >>> >>> Dinah, >>> >>> since there was no answer sofar to your question, let me try ... >>> >>> The power adapter does have different jobs: >>> 1 providing power for the thinkpad if running w/o battery >>> 2 loading the battery with the thinkpad off >>> 3 running the thinkpad + loading an empty battery at the same time >>> >>> re. #1 there should be no difference to what was needed before, so no >>> need >>> to have more power, i.e. 90 W. 90 Watt instead of 65 means that you can >>> draw >>> more current at a fixed voltage. Only if you have a lot of power-hungry >>> periphery recently attached, you might need the added wattage (I doubt >>> it). >>> >>> re. #2 If the battery pack - as I assume - is approved for use with the >>> original thinkpad, it should also get enough power from the original 65W >>> adapter without overstraining it. But generally this depends on the >>> charging >>> current the new battery pack draws. Best would be to check the data sheet >>> of >>> the new battery, it might give you the current it draws in amps (or the >>> power in Watts), then compare it with the current the adapters can >>> deliver - >>> the original 65 W might give you enough. Or else ask the supplier. >>> >>> re #3: I'm not sure how modern systems cope with this situation. The >>> original power adapter should be capable of handling the combined demand >>> of >>> the Thinkpad running + loading the battery. Unless the new battery pack >>> means higher demand on your adapter's output (in amperes) - see #2. >>> But maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I can throw some light on this >>> ... >>> >>> Hope this helps >>> Tilman >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dmack9185" >>> To: >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:13 PM >>> Subject: TSGL: Power Adapters for 8 cell battery\ Lenono x200 Tablet >>> >>> >>> > Hi All, >>> > >>> > I am in servicing 2 Thinkpad X200 tablets. They were upgraded to a 8 > >>> cell >>> > battery. When I requested a quote for extra power adapters the quote >>> > included a 65W or 90W adapter. Is there a significant reason to get the >>> 90W >>> > AC adapter rather than the 65W. Original build of the laptops had 6 > >>> cell >>> > battery and came with the 65W AC adapter. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > >>> > Dinah >>> > >>> > Dinah McNamara >>> > >>> > *InterSource Computer Services, Inc.* >>> > >>> > "Helping you take control of your technology" >>> > >>> > dmcnamara at intersourcecs.com >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 2519 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > -- Lovely Lines, ~dinah From edlynn at usa.com Fri Aug 28 15:19:54 2009 From: edlynn at usa.com (edgar sternstein) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:19:54 -0500 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program Message-ID: <20090828191954.BB97BCD80FB@ws1-4a.us4.outblaze.com> I used to use Clipboard Diary, but my need faded. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shyamal Gupta" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Subject: Re: TSGL: Clipboard program Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:24:00 -0400 On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Trio200 wrote: > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? Forgot to mention this -- if you decide to use 3D Clipboard, it's probably better to use version 1.0.7 beta rather than tthe 1.2 beta. The latter gave me some problems, so I went back to the earlier version. Also, you'll need to install the VB runtimes. It's no problem at all, and 3D Clipboard works excellently for me both on XP and Vista. The author, Vince Valenti, seems to have given up working on the program any further. Pity -- it's excellent ! I'd pay for it any day. As it is, it's freeware now. -- Shyamal Gupta New York, NY _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From leebunyard at comcast.net Fri Aug 28 19:21:34 2009 From: leebunyard at comcast.net (Lee Bunyard) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:21:34 -0700 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A98667E.6030804@comcast.net> I've been using a free multi-clipboard program called M8Clipboard for years and it works great. The free version only stores up to 30 clipboard items but I've never needed it for more than that so it works fine for me. They also have a paid version which does a lot more but I haven't tried that. Check it out at the website below. Lee in the Mountains of Northern California http://m8software.com/ ******************************************************************************** Trio200 wrote: > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would > remember multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied > text in the clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. > > So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy > some text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a > web site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it > (but each clip deletes the previous one) > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? > > Thanks > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.71/2331 - Release Date: 08/28/09 06:26:00 > > From embitt at westnet.com.au Sat Aug 29 22:01:19 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:19 +1000 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? References: Message-ID: <8183CB1AFC9B428B80B67D34D7AD55D3@number15> For info about "Mail clients in Vista and Windows 7" go to http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36767 which includes the following link to program for creating identities in Windows Mail: http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx -- its home page http://www.oehelp.com/ has other programs including DBXtract, which I have used successfully in the past when my OE was corrupted. Merna ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goldstein" To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:13 AM Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? > My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity > feature in Outlook Express for many years. The Identity feature > enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access > different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every > time we check our own email. Outlook Express is obviously very long > in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to > replace it. However I have not seen any that has a feature like the > Identity feature. (It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live > Mail.) Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? > > Thanks, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From Engineman1 at aol.com Sat Aug 29 22:26:16 2009 From: Engineman1 at aol.com (Engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:26:16 EDT Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) Message-ID: I sent this several days ago but got no replys. I wonder if it went out? Several months ago i bought 2.0 USB cards and in stalled them in my two desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message saying that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop I don't get this warning and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when plugging in any other USB device into the Compaq. This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device and a 40 GB external drive. I'm wondering where my trouble lies? From hdavis1 at gmail.com Sat Aug 29 22:45:16 2009 From: hdavis1 at gmail.com (H Davis) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:45:16 -0400 Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A99E7BC.8000607@gmail.com> Hi Engineman, I did see your original post but didn't have much to suggest. On the USB 2 cards I've installed you have to plug any device you want to operate at that speed directly into the connectors that are on the card itself. If your OS is old enough, Windows 98 I think, you may also need to install a driver for the card. Maybe someone else can remember some of the details. Sometimes it's easier to buy a new machine Engineman. H Davis Engineman1 at aol.com wrote: > I sent this several days ago but got no replys. > I wonder if it went out? > > Several months ago i bought 2.0 USB cards and in stalled them in my two > desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. > several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. > When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message saying > that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. > When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop I don't get this warning > and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. > What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when plugging > in any other USB device into the Compaq. > This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device > and a 40 GB external drive. > I'm wondering where my trouble lies? > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > -- H Davis hdavis1 at gmail.com From embitt at westnet.com.au Sat Aug 29 23:44:37 2009 From: embitt at westnet.com.au (Merna Bitter) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:44:37 +1000 Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) References: Message-ID: Hi, Engineman. I've been away for a couple of days and only collected emails a few hours ago. The TSGL ones started with your original post, followed by a flurry of activity about the other subjects posted since then. Perhaps the lack of replies was because of lack of information? I know when I read your first email, I had lots of questions in my mind. You have not indicated your operating system or any model details about your various pieces of hardware (Compaq, Cavalry, Toshiba, camera, printer, GPS device, 40 GB external drive). You have said that the two desktop PCs date back to 2003 and that the Toshiba laptop is two years old. Is all of the other hardware older or newer? What role do their respective ages play in relation to the two USB versions? What is your driver situation? You said you installed the 2.0 USB cards "in my two desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1." You indicated you get the message from the Compaq desktop but not the Toshiba laptop, but you have not said what happens with the second desktop (or what make or model the second desktop PC is). Do you get the same message if you plug the Cavalry external hard drive into that second desktop PC? Googling "Compaq" + "desktop" + "USB" + "external hard drive" produced 3,170,000 English pages at http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Compaq%22+%2B+%22desktop%22+%2B+%22USB%22&meta=lr%3Dlang_en&aq=f&oq= The first result when I searched was to http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00820197&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en ("HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Troubleshooting USB Connections in Windows Vista") I'm presuming that as you have indicated these are older computers, you are NOT running Vista. However, this paragraph from the hp10025 link might apply to other systems: "Where can I find the driver that upgrades my USB 1.0/1.1 ports to USB 2.0? If you have upgraded your computer to Windows Vista, you will not find a driver upgrade to update USB hardware from 1 to 2. USB 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 refer to hardware specifications - not software. However, if you are receiving PC messages stating that you should connect your USB 2.0 device into a high speed USB port and you know that you have a USB 2.0 port on your computer, there are certain USB controller upgrades that have been made available through Microsoft Windows Update that can better enable USB 2.0 on your computer. To get these updates use the following steps:" If your OS is not Vista, the "following steps" referred to will probably not help you. On the assumption that you are running XP, I did a Google site search for "Troubleshooting USB Connections" + Windows XP" site:h10025.www1.hp.com that produced twenty-five English pages at http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZEZ_en-GBAU337AU338&num=50&q=%22Troubleshooting+USB+Connections%22+%2B+Windows+XP%22+site%3Ah10025.www1.hp.com&meta=lr%3Dlang_en The first result is http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=bph05956 ("HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Troubleshooting USB Connections in Windows 98, ME, and XP" which includes the following under the paragraph "How do I update my USB driver?" "NOTE: Many older HP computers do not support USB 2.0. In order to support USB 2.0, the motherboard must have USB hardware and a chipset that supports the 2.0 standard. If the device is a USB 2.0 device, and the port is not USB 2.0 compliant, the USB device may still work, but at the reduced transfer rates of USB 1.0 or 1.1." The information on that page about updating drivers for XP might help you. NOTE THAT there is a lot of other information on that page that might help you but that I have not bothered to copy/paste here. Googling the exact message you are receiving, word for word, might help you. You might find more information by searching (both a general Google search and a Google site search at h10025.www1.hp.com) with your specific PC model and the specific message you are receiving. As computer hardware is not my "thing," perhaps my search terms were not what they should have been. If so, will the hardware (or other) experts please correct or amend what I've posted here. Merna P.S. I only started my searching and this reply after reading your follow-up email (which I collected later). I have now checked again and see that H. Davis has posted a response. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:26 PM Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) >I sent this several days ago but got no replys. > I wonder if it went out? > > Several months ago i bought 2.0 USB cards and in stalled them in my two > desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. > several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. > When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message > saying > that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. > When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop I don't get this warning > and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. > What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when > plugging > in any other USB device into the Compaq. > This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device > and a 40 GB external drive. > I'm wondering where my trouble lies? > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From coover at fastmail.fm Sun Aug 30 00:07:46 2009 From: coover at fastmail.fm (Russell W. Coover) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:07:46 -0700 Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4821C8A6A9EF4D8F8978B3B3A7B27CD7@AcerPC> I saw your original email, but had no answer. But I am wondering if those "2003" desktops are XP, and, if so, what service pack has been installed. If I remember correctly, XP itself did not have native 2.0 USB support, and that one of the Service Packs, probably SP1 added it. If that is the case, and you haven't upgraded your Service Packs, that is probably the problem. In any case, Microsoft has prepared a "Help and Support" article on this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329632 . Hope this helps. Russ -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On Behalf Of Engineman1 at aol.com Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:26 PM To: list at tsgserver.com Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) I sent this several days ago but got no replys. I wonder if it went out? Several months ago i bought 2.0 USB cards and in stalled them in my two desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message saying that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop I don't get this warning and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when plugging in any other USB device into the Compaq. This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device and a 40 GB external drive. I'm wondering where my trouble lies? _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ From golddave at gmail.com Sun Aug 30 10:17:22 2009 From: golddave at gmail.com (David Goldstein) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:17:22 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? In-Reply-To: <8183CB1AFC9B428B80B67D34D7AD55D3@number15> References: <8183CB1AFC9B428B80B67D34D7AD55D3@number15> Message-ID: I've read some reviews of WMID. It appears that it works fine for some people but not for others and messes with some of Windows Live Mail's functionality. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble it's given some people. - Dave On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Merna Bitter wrote: > For info about "Mail clients in Vista and Windows 7" go to > http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36767 which includes the following link > to program for creating identities in Windows Mail: > http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx -- its home page > http://www.oehelp.com/ has other programs including DBXtract, which I have > used successfully in the past when my OE was corrupted. > > Merna > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goldstein" > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:13 AM > Subject: TSGL: Email Client Suggestions? > > >> My wife and I share a computer and have been using the Identity >> feature in Outlook Express for many years. ?The Identity feature >> enables us to maintain two (or more) separate profiles that access >> different email accounts so that we don't see each others emails every >> time we check our own email. ?Outlook Express is obviously very long >> in the tooth and from time to time I consider other email clients to >> replace it. ?However I have not seen any that has a feature like the >> Identity feature. ?(It was removed from OE's successor Windows Live >> Mail.) ?Anyone know of any email clients that have a similar feature? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech Support Guy Mailing List >> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From Trio200 at gmail.com Sun Aug 30 10:57:52 2009 From: Trio200 at gmail.com (Trio200) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:57:52 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A9A9370.6020209@gmail.com> Hi Jon I retried Yankee Clipper but my version doesn't have "Tools/ Reconnect" as an option. What version are you using? Thanks Jon wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I find YC excellent and irreplaceable. When your problem occurs, go to Tools/Reconnect to clipboard and the selection will be accepted. I hear a sound when it is successful, so it's easy to know. I can't, however, explain why that's started to happen now and then. > > John > Od/G > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Trio200 > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:04 AM > Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program > > > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would remember > multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied text in the > clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. > > So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy some > text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a web > site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it (but > each clip deletes the previous one) > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? > > Thanks > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > From Trio200 at gmail.com Sun Aug 30 10:58:45 2009 From: Trio200 at gmail.com (Trio200) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:58:45 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: <4A98667E.6030804@comcast.net> References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> <4A98667E.6030804@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4A9A93A5.2080209@gmail.com> Hi All Thanks for all the Clipboard suggestions. Will try them to see which ones fit my needs. Bob From nature-coast at earthlink.net Sun Aug 30 17:03:55 2009 From: nature-coast at earthlink.net (Cyndi) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:03:55 -0400 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program In-Reply-To: <4A9A93A5.2080209@gmail.com> References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> <4A98667E.6030804@comcast.net> <4A9A93A5.2080209@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A9AE93B.40807@earthlink.net> I just D/L M8 Clipboard and it's working great. I do have to turn it off when I do graphics, but otherwise it is a very good program. ~Cyndi~ Police officers... Guardians by choice...Heroes by chance God Bless the USA! Trio200 wrote: > Hi All > > Thanks for all the Clipboard suggestions. Will try them to see which > ones fit my needs. > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > From jonpan at onlinehome.de Mon Aug 31 05:14:41 2009 From: jonpan at onlinehome.de (Jon) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:14:41 +0200 Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program References: <4A971F1E.2060105@gmail.com> <4A9A9370.6020209@gmail.com> Message-ID: Yankee Clipper X, Version 0.9.9.9 John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Trio200 To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Clipboard program Hi Jon I retried Yankee Clipper but my version doesn't have "Tools/ Reconnect" as an option. What version are you using? Thanks Jon wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I find YC excellent and irreplaceable. When your problem occurs, go to Tools/Reconnect to clipboard and the selection will be accepted. I hear a sound when it is successful, so it's easy to know. I can't, however, explain why that's started to happen now and then. > > John > Od/G > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Trio200 > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:04 AM > Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program > > > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would remember > multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied text in the > clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. > > So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy some > text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a web > site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it (but > each clip deletes the previous one) > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? > > Thanks > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > 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 leximou at earthlink.net Mon Aug 31 10:18:41 2009 From: leximou at earthlink.net (Leximou) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:18:41 -0400 Subject: TSGL: USB (resent) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A9BDBC1.5060209@earthlink.net> Go into your control panel and then into system. and device manager. Scroll to the bottom of the list to the USB listing and click the plus in front of the heading to expand the contents. Look for a line item indicating the presence of an 'Enhanced' usb controller. If it is not there, you will have to find drivers for the USB 2.0 PCI card you installed. If all the other items you have plugged in are older and still running on the old USB 1.0 standard, you would not get a warning... Lex Engineman1 at aol.com wrote: > I sent this several days ago but got no replys. > I wonder if it went out? > > Several months ago i bought 2.0 USB cards and in stalled them in my two > desktop PC's dating back to 2003 which originally had USB version 1. > several weeks ago I bought a 1 TB Cavalry external hard drive. > When I plug it in to one of the desktops (a Compaq) I get a message saying > that the device can perform faster if used with a 2.0 USB connection. > When I plug it into my 2 yr old Toshiba laptop I don't get this warning > and file transfers seem to go a lot faster. > What is even more confusing is that I don't get this warning when plugging > in any other USB device into the Compaq. > This includes a camera, a 4 in one printer with card reader, a GPS device > and a 40 GB external drive. > I'm wondering where my trouble lies? > _______________________________________________ > Tech Support Guy Mailing List > http://www.tsgserver.com/list/ > > From Engineman1 at aol.com Mon Aug 31 13:40:01 2009 From: Engineman1 at aol.com (Engineman1 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:40:01 EDT Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program Message-ID: I have Yankee Clipper III version 1.0.4.3 It does not have "reconnect". Every so often it quits on me and I have to reinstall. Where can I get this version? Engineman In a message dated 8/31/2009 2:15:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jonpan at onlinehome.de writes: Yankee Clipper X, Version 0.9.9.9 John Od/G ----- Original Message ----- From: Trio200 To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: Re: TSGL: Clipboard program Hi Jon I retried Yankee Clipper but my version doesn't have "Tools/ Reconnect" as an option. What version are you using? Thanks Jon wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I find YC excellent and irreplaceable. When your problem occurs, go to Tools/Reconnect to clipboard and the selection will be accepted. I hear a sound when it is successful, so it's easy to know. I can't, however, explain why that's started to happen now and then. > > John > Od/G > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Trio200 > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:04 AM > Subject: TSGL: Clipboard program > > > For the past year or so, I've been experiencing some curious behavior. > > I was using Yankee Clipper for a clipboard program that would remember > multiple clips. At times, it would not place the copied text in the > clipboard, even if the Microsoft clipboard copied it. > > So I changed to Clipmagic and it does the same thing. It will copy some > text selections and not copy other text selections (usually off a web > site or from an email). Again the microsoft clipboard will copy it (but > each clip deletes the previous one) > > Is there a better freeware clipboard program out there that will copy > everything and remember them for future use? > > Thanks > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ Tech Support Guy Mailing List http://www.tsgserver.com/list/