Minor announcement.... ;)

"webster72n" wrote in message
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Too late for that, Steve, already extinguished the thing and went back
with Avast, which I like much better anyway. AVG kept telling me to
register, because my time was up. Might I have been downloading the wrong
version? It was supposed to be 'free'.


Quite possible?

Do not click the Premium options anywhere.

Get AVG Free AV from
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

Install AVG without the option to scan email, that choice is offered at the
point of Custom install.

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

On Feb 4, 4:00*pm, "Noel Paton" wrote:
Ah - I was wondering when the maruading Bear would appear!....good to BE
back!

Noel! Awesome! Glad to "hear" your sweet voice again. (Windows
ME?!!!) ;-)

Cheers and here's to happy days ahead from Malke.

Good job too, I answered your text and it said it failed to send then a few
minutes later it went, silly thing g

This is my first visit today and the groups gone mad now your back g still
got to finish reading the thread but as for Windows 7 I've played with it
for a while but there were a couple of things that I do that wouldn't work
in it and as the Beta is only valid until August and there's no way I can
buy it when it comes out, only just got Vista, I've decided to take it off
the machine and go back to Vista full time, although I'll keep watching the
forum I belong to with regards the system g

It's so good to have you back, lets hope it lasts you're expensive on mobile
when you're not on the same network g
Joan


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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I'm Baaaaaaack!


Noel

Well, we heard you were here so we had to be sure - and say Hi.

Now, I'll go back to the WLM and Win7 NGs. And DTS.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2009 in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000)

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Hi R.C.! all the old codgers are coming out of the woodwork, it seems!
gdr

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

"R. C. White" wrote in message
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Hi, Noel.

Welcome baaaack! ;)

You've been missed. And you've been worried about. It's good to see you
again!

RC

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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I'm Baaaaaaack!


Noel

wrote in message
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On Feb 4, 4:00 pm, "Noel Paton" wrote:
Ah - I was wondering when the maruading Bear would appear!....good to BE
back!

Noel! Awesome! Glad to "hear" your sweet voice again. (Windows
ME?!!!) ;-)

Cheers and here's to happy days ahead from Malke.

Hey - don't knock it! - ME was a great OS in its time...even if it suffered
from many of the same problems as Vista (but that's another story g)

How's life in elephant-land?

Luv

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

Hehe don't forget I'm still running one here alongside XP and Vista with a
short trial of Windows 7 g
Joan

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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On Feb 4, 4:00 pm, "Noel Paton" wrote:
Ah - I was wondering when the maruading Bear would appear!....good to BE
back!

Noel! Awesome! Glad to "hear" your sweet voice again. (Windows
ME?!!!) ;-)

Cheers and here's to happy days ahead from Malke.

Hey - don't knock it! - ME was a great OS in its time...even if it
suffered from many of the same problems as Vista (but that's another story
g)

How's life in elephant-land?

Luv

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

8 months life for an early Beta? - that's longer than usual, IIRC.... maybe
they want to get it right this time?

mobiles aren't the cheapest things around, but they do cut out the
line-rental!


--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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Good job too, I answered your text and it said it failed to send then a
few minutes later it went, silly thing g

This is my first visit today and the groups gone mad now your back g
still got to finish reading the thread but as for Windows 7 I've played
with it for a while but there were a couple of things that I do that
wouldn't work in it and as the Beta is only valid until August and there's
no way I can buy it when it comes out, only just got Vista, I've decided
to take it off the machine and go back to Vista full time, although I'll
keep watching the forum I belong to with regards the system g

It's so good to have you back, lets hope it lasts you're expensive on
mobile when you're not on the same network g
Joan


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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I'm Baaaaaaack!


Noel

"Mike M" wrote in message
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99% of those problems with Vista are selfinflicted, Mike, if not all
of them.
During my five-week tenure with this system I have found it is
'self-healing'.
Should something go wrong, it can easily fix itself with a little
help from the user.
WinME was good for it's time period, but Vista is a 'ton' better.
H.

Wow! An expert already. g Having used Vista for rather more than five
weeks, more like five years through the protracted beta and then
production I can assure you that it does have problems with 99% of those I
have encountered being with the OS rather than the user. Nevertheless for
a user using a single PC and running main stream apps then yes, Vista is
OK just as are and were XP, Win Me, etc. etc.

Mine was not to be an expert, but rather a user opinion, as you have
guessed, Mike.
Sorry to have created the wrong impression.
I still think it's better than 'OK', don't you? H.

--
Mike Maltby



webster72n wrote:

"Mike M" wrote in message
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Noel Paton wrote:

LOL!
we just about managed to make 3 inches yesterday.... and it all
melted today

Still lying pretty thickly (for London) here.

Thanks for thinking of Season 9 - I was wondering when it would
start.

9x01 aired 9 Oct and 9x12 (12 filling a disk) aired 29 Jan hence the
burn yesterday. g

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access
his machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you
played with it yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded
anyuthing yet apart from one of the 'client' builds, which I
haven't installed anywhere.
The deal with 3 is not too bad - £15 for 1 month/3GB or £25 for 7GB.
The dongle came preloaded with 12GB-worth of credit.

Seems expensive _until_ one remembers that you don't have to pay BT
monthly line rental that then makes the deal quite attractive
provided one keeps to reasonable limits.

I've been playing with w7 on and off and whilst I find it addresses
many of the problems that people find with Vista

99% of those problems with Vista are selfinflicted, Mike, if not all
of them.
During my five-week tenure with this system I have found it is
'self-healing'.
Should something go wrong, it can easily fix itself with a little
help from the user.
WinME was good for it's time period, but Vista is a 'ton' better.
H.


I haven't spent over much time with it. I had a bad initial
experience with beta 1 (I also had the earlier alpha M3) which took
9 hours or so to install on one box here. Long story and part of the
problem seems to have been due to the presence in the system of a
PlusCom sata caddy containing a drive although not being used as a
target for the install. After numerous abortive starts due to the
caddy, removing it solved that particular problem, I then found the
faffing around had initiated a bios controlled RAID verify (again
not the target of the install) which, since the raid is 2.1TB, took
a good few hours to complete. --
Mike

I still think it's better than 'OK', don't you?

No.
--
Mike Maltby



webster72n wrote:

Mine was not to be an expert, but rather a user opinion, as you have
guessed, Mike.
Sorry to have created the wrong impression.
I still think it's better than 'OK', don't you? H.

OMG, I feel like I'm back at my fortieth high school reunion! All because I
was browsing the DTS groups this AM, which I now do perhaps twice a month,
when I'm good, and found a recent question Noel Paton, which Mike Maltby
answered. In response, I'm led to the Google News accounts (for my first
adventure there), where Google lets me subscribe, but not post, at least not
today. Since my ancient WinME machine is retired now and not
internet-capable (yet), here I am under XP SP3, where I see most, if not
all, of the famous old MS WinME names, with whom I used to spend 2-12 hours
a day, seven days a week, during 2000-2006. Be still my beating heart!
Those times, when we all killed dragons daily, with our right hands, while
strangling trolls with any hands left over, were some of my most interesting
and enjoyable times. You were just great to me, and I miss you dearly.
People I meet today are simply astonished that I was a part of such
comradery, including a colleague in Tasmania, on the opposite side of our
planet. So I wish all of you an excellent new year, esp. Messrs. Noel Paton
and Mike Maltby, who were perhaps our best WinME commenters, among the dozen
or so regular significant contributors. I think of Alex Nichol almost every
month.

Best to everyone,
Jack E. Martinelli
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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8 months life for an early Beta? - that's longer than usual, IIRC.... maybe
they want to get it right this time?
[SNIP]
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Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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[SNIP]