Not dumb at all - just unused to the requirements!

Glad we were able to point you in the right direction.
Good luck.
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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

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"bagger" wrote in message
...
thanks for the responses and answers.
1) i periodically check sys restore to make sure it's enabled.
2) that was the problem with the doc file. i had an embedded picture in
the
file, but NOT in jpeg format. Updating the file using a jpeg embedded pix
reduced the size from 7000Kbs to 500kbs. It transferred over the net much
faster.
told you i was dumb -

"Noel Paton" wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:42:34 -0400, "webster72n"
wrote:



"Noel Paton" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:09:05 -0700, bagger
wrote:

me, ie6,wd2000
1) notice sys res checkpoints appear back to January, many of them.
Is
this
correct?
2) how do i convert a wd2000 doc to a pdf file? Or a doc file of
7000kbs,
the most rapid way to send over the internet?
sorry for the dumb questions.
tia
System restore points will appear for as far back as there is space to
hold them - by default, SR creates a new point every 24hrs realtime,
when the computer has been idle for 2 minutes, even if there have been
no changes to the system. I'd limit the amount of space available to
SR to around 1GB or less (unless installing something large, like
Office) to free up space on the HD, as it will try to fill the 12% of
the C: drive that's reserved for it by default.

Sending Doc files over the Internet is best done in compressed format
(as a zip file). there's loads of 'dead' space in DOC files, which is
removed by zipping them. I suspect that 700KB will come down to less
than 70KB unless there's embedded jpegs.

And I suspect you mean to say: 7000 KB will come down to less than 700
KB....
(No big deal g). H.

Ooops! - yeah
(I'm sure I checked the numbers -but it was a hard day yesterday!)
Mind you - I have a hard time working out what sort of doc file might
get to 7MB without embedded jpegs!
At that - if there are embedded jpegs, it may be that just changing
the actual size of the pictures before embedding them will reduce the
file size - many get embedded at an unnecessarily high pixel-count,
either because the are resized after the embed, or because they use a
very high pixel/inch setting in the original, which is probably
unnecessary within the doc.
--
Noel Paton
www.crashfixpc.co.uk

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi