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Forum: General October 24th 10, 06:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 28
Views: 2,635
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
Looks like Micro****'s news server is finally dead

and that’s a problem because?
(we knew it was coming)




"98 Guy" wrote in message ...

I don't know exactly when it happened (could have been yesterday,...
Forum: General May 31st 10, 04:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 13
Views: 15,604
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
tap, tap This thing working?

Greetings to all.

Never been much for giving (useable) advice, but have come to appreciate
this little area for help and insight to the workings of my ole ME op sys..

I started back in the day ...
Forum: General May 10th 10, 02:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 45
Views: 31,987
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
Is there still a free AV for ME?

Avast 4.8 still works on ME and does update several times a day..

RTS



"Smirnoff" wrote in message
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Is there still a free...
Forum: General May 2nd 10, 02:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 16
Views: 16,591
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
WinMe ie6 Browser

aman brother, you tell him..

RTS


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Forum: General March 3rd 10, 01:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 36
Views: 4,033
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
End Of Support For avast! 4.8

that seems to be the case.
I'm still getting updates to the def files 2-5 times a day..
RTS

"Jerry Martin" wrote in message
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Forum: General February 18th 10, 04:55 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 22
Views: 5,170
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
Free Antivirus Program for ME

Tks Webster72n,
It's not often I know enough about anything to comment about it, but glad
I could put forth personal info that could help..
(if all that makes any sense) ;-)

RTS



"webster72n"...
Forum: General February 16th 10, 03:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 22
Views: 5,170
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
Free Antivirus Program for ME

Greetings Webster72n,

FYI: the Avast I have on an old ME machine in the back room still
updates 3 or 4 times a day..
(according the def file dates it is indeed updating..)

RTS
Forum: General February 8th 10, 02:42 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Noel,
tks for the info, my isp has a habit of changing my url about every
3-4 months..
the pings will vary accordingly. I had a url last year that was so bad
I had to request...
Forum: General February 7th 10, 05:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,
your right I'm sure, I use the "tiny firewall" on the old ME's that plus
the router stopped all the problems I had been having when directly
connected..
(back in 2006 I had ...
Forum: General February 7th 10, 05:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Joan,
the win 7 so far seem like a real improvement over past MSN products..
I have notice some of the terms they use I have to look up in the old
book, to know what their talking...
Forum: General February 7th 10, 05:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Noel,
yep, we use AVG for years till they dropped ME, we then switched to
Avast (their still updating the old ME now)
after this NORTONS runs out, we'll most likely go back to one...
Forum: General February 7th 10, 04:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,
Correct, there is a way to allow LAN through the NORTON Firewall, but
I'll need to research the IP addresses to all the other machines and then
their individual names or...
Forum: General February 7th 10, 01:37 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,
Yep, first thing I found is NORTONS firewall has totally blocked all LAN
connections, NORTONS says there are 4 devices on the network but without
the IP address and...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 10:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,
I just purchased the "Dummies" book of win 7, so given enough time, I
hope I'll stumble upon the part I've been missing so far..

As I was telling Noel, I already have...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 10:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Tks Joan,
I'll add this link to my new computer help file..
As I was telling Noel, I just purchased the "Dummies" book and I hope
I'll find the over looked problem soon..
(the old brain...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 10:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Noel,
I just got back from a bookstore with a purchase I hope will help clear up
some of my dummieness..

"Windows 7 for Dummies"

It seems to have a pretty good section on...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 04:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,

the win 7 "see full map" windows says "windows cannot discover any
computer or device."

RTS

"Mike M" wrote in message...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 01:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings Mike,
yes sir, did all the network turn-on I could find, did restarts of both
win 7 and router just in case they need a reboot to setup.
tried it with a password and then ...
Forum: General February 6th 10, 12:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings,
Noel, no good with the networking, so far..
the ME's will see each other but neither will see the win 7, nor the win
7 see the ME's..
I've also added a vista to the mix but...
Forum: General February 4th 10, 09:11 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Tks Noel, I'll give it a try,

RTS

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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You need to set up the Win7 machine user with a...
Forum: General February 4th 10, 04:11 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 42
Views: 8,524
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
networking ME to win 7 via router

Greetings,
Got a win 7 machine last month and was hoping to network it with the older
ME machines (2 in current network).
However each attempt the win 7 machine asks for passwords and such...
Forum: General January 26th 10, 04:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 2
Views: 2,123
Posted By Rockytsquirrel
Windows 7 RAM Problem

along with what Mike M has just said, I was told and read else where that
win 7 won't show the ram in use by windows only whats remaining free. So by
that reasoning I'd guess that windows 7...
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