Forum: General
January 18th 09, 01:06 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,565
cannot download files
Yes, I had a period recently when I probably would have started again, were
it not for wanting never again to have that particularly monkey on my back.
I think it was when the wintertime night sky...
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Forum: General
December 17th 08, 04:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Explorer.exe
vbg
You may have something there, and I probably am! If her status warrants a
doorman I certainly fill that role!
Best of the season to you, too.
Shane
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Forum: General
December 12th 08, 12:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Explorer.exe
Well, you're welcome. And I think that's what it was, though I actually was
about to ask that, but you kind of took the sale out of my wind. However, it
seems to me that in msconfig - if that's...
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Forum: General
December 11th 08, 07:26 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Explorer.exe
There I was about to ask if anyone knew semaphore, as my cat seems to be
telling me "ears", or possibly more specifically "2 ears", but for all I
know it might be like a signal beamed into outer...
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Forum: General
December 7th 08, 08:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,654
NTLDR not located....HELP
Yes, there are a number of possible ways.
If you can use a CDROM drive, as appears to be the case, then you can do it
all from a bootable cd. I'd offer to mail you one (or upload the .iso) only
with...
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Forum: General
November 13th 08, 03:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Vista + ME
Joan Archer wrote:
I have no problems with it in Vista g
You mean you've got it turned off, Joan?
If not, then you can't do much tinkering. Whereas that is almost all I do
do. I poked some...
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Forum: General
November 13th 08, 03:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Vista + ME
Parah Salin is back in Alaska hunting for terrorists w
I guess the GOP told her they were an endangered species?
I've heard that someone from the 'nix universe has helped to tame the
UAC...
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Forum: General
November 12th 08, 03:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Vista + ME
"Corday" wrote in message
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I'm tired of hearing Vista is the new ME (98 3rd edition?)
I forget who I read a day or two...
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Forum: General
November 10th 08, 06:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,227
Windows ME updates -- or not?
First off, you seem to regard 'security' updates as insignificant - however
maybe this is solely because you do not intend going online with Win Me. I
would still say that the machine should be...
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Forum: General
November 9th 08, 03:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,134
Replacement for Ad-Aware SE
NT4.0, like 95, is just about at the stage where it makes as much sense to
run either one of those as it does WFWG. Certainly, if one cares about
avoiding...
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Forum: General
November 9th 08, 02:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,134
Replacement for Ad-Aware SE
Yo, Figuertoa, east of Java! (sort of)
:-)
Heather wrote:
Hi Joanie.....
I have been trying out one called Malware Bytes. It found two really
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Forum: General
November 5th 08, 08:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,271
Open Office WinMe and Win98
Number 2 and 3 are the same. So, 2 or 3. You should still install the Java
Runtime - assuming you want to use Java - but I doubt if the old version
that runs in 9x is included and you should get it...
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Forum: General
October 31st 08, 11:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
"Heirloom" wrote in message
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Shane said, "I think a 350 is about the lowest capacity single you can
have
without
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Forum: General
October 31st 08, 12:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,675
Reinstalling Windows ME - How to Proceed?
Mart wrote:
Try the "Scan for updates" button just above the box/area where it
says that it is no longer supported.
It may not be 'supported' but the updates are still (currently)
available...
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Forum: General
October 31st 08, 12:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,486
Windows ME - Need Security Software
Indeed. Like IE7 in fact. Seems alright on Vista, questionable on XP (I have
one XP installation running IE6 and FF2 and another running IE7 and FF3. The
former is the day-to-day system and the...
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Forum: General
October 30th 08, 03:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,486
Windows ME - Need Security Software
AVG 7.5 still works, but supposedly not beyond the end of the year. Grisoft
brought out AVG 8.0 - which won't work in Win Me or any other 9x version -
and planned to stop support for 7.5 - which...
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Forum: General
October 26th 08, 12:03 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
Ha! Not surprising if I'm going on about compression *ration*! I've never in
my life confused ratio and ration and I certainly wasn't thinking *ration*
when I typed it - but unusually I ran the...
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Forum: General
October 25th 08, 01:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
Heather wrote:
He was half asleep when I asked him your question and he laughed and
said he did miss it.....lol. Haven't a clue what you two are talking
about!!
Being kicked up the arse by...
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Forum: General
October 25th 08, 12:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,139
Awhile back - CD startup problems
Corday wrote:
The guy who wrote CP/M got a ton of money on a buyout. He got into
motorcycles and started wearing "colors". Was in a bar with real Hells
Angels, got into a fight and was killed....
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 11:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!
Shane
Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
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Heather wrote:
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 07:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,288
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 10:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,288
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 09:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*. The
word Aerial comes to mind as...
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 09:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,675
Reinstalling Windows ME - How to Proceed?
Lynn Q wrote:
Hi there,
I have a 10-year-old system which has two hard drives and is otherwise
working fine. It's had a few upgrades along the way with more RAM
(now up to 200 MB (not up...
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Forum: General
October 24th 08, 01:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Norton
Basically, talking about the twins - which it sounds very much like what
your brother would have had, then, there was the 500 Dominator, the 600
Dominator, the 650 SS - and the 700 Atlas - which...
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