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Forum: General January 18th 09, 01:06 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 32
Views: 6,567
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General December 17th 08, 04:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Posted By Shane
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
Forum: General December 12th 08, 12:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General December 11th 08, 07:26 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,618
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General December 7th 08, 08:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 14
Views: 3,654
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General November 13th 08, 03:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General November 13th 08, 03:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General November 12th 08, 03:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 14
Views: 3,534
Posted By Shane
Vista + ME

"Corday" wrote in message
...
I'm tired of hearing Vista is the new ME (98 3rd edition?)

I forget who I read a day or two...
Forum: General November 10th 08, 06:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 4
Views: 1,227
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General November 9th 08, 03:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 12
Views: 2,134
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General November 9th 08, 02:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 12
Views: 2,134
Posted By Shane
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
Forum: General November 5th 08, 08:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 4
Views: 1,271
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 31st 08, 11:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
Norton

"Heirloom" wrote in message
...
Shane said, "I think a 350 is about the lowest capacity single you can
have
without
...
Forum: General October 31st 08, 12:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,675
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 31st 08, 12:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 6
Views: 1,486
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 30th 08, 03:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 6
Views: 1,486
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 26th 08, 12:03 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 25th 08, 01:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 25th 08, 12:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 4
Views: 1,139
Posted By Shane
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....
Forum: General October 24th 08, 11:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
Norton

Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
...
Forum: General October 24th 08, 07:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 61
Views: 6,288
Posted By Shane
Can I get the ME install CD to only reformat the C partition, not the D?

chooses, before we can comment (or advise) further. It's just that we
could have saved a few column inches if Gumby's circumstances had
been made a little clearer in the first place.

Possibly....
Forum: General October 24th 08, 10:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 61
Views: 6,288
Posted By Shane
Can I get the ME install CD to only reformat the C partition, not the D?

Glad to see you have it back, Gumby. I'm not absolutely sure of what you did
but figure that is probably irrelevant.

If you want the DOS hack back, just unzip it to the C: drive again (followed
by...
Forum: General October 24th 08, 09:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 24th 08, 09:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 7
Views: 1,675
Posted By Shane
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...
Forum: General October 24th 08, 01:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Replies: 26
Views: 3,266
Posted By Shane
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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