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why no Windows 7 account or folder here yet?

Ritter197 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:31:21 GMT

Ritter197 wrote this, with guidance from inner voices:

> why no Windows 7 account or folder or category here yet?
> This is MS and they do not have Anything here about Win7?

Because they made a web based forum, no Win7 group on
microsoft.public.windows

There is an alt.windows7.general, but I don't think msnews(or whatever the
standard server is for Windows Live Mail) has alt groups.

You would need to add a new server, plenty are free.
news.x-privat.org is an example (all you need is to register).

Here are some others
http://www.xmarks.com/site/news.aioe.org/

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Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.

old mail

Bill Walsh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:59 GMT

Hi Bill,

If you are using a 32-bit Vista, thən you might also see if the free
program "Unlocker" may be able to allow you to delete it.

-=-

"Bill Walsh" wrote:

> In the folder "indexed file locations" there are a lot of old emails I
> thought were deleted from my system. When I try to delete one of them, there
> is no option for delete in the menu. How can I get rid of the old emails as
> none of them have any importance to me? Thanks..BW
>
> .
>

How to identify disk IO intensive process?

james — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Hi,

Process monitor:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"james" wrote in message
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>I was playing a simple board game backgammon (no disk IO, no net traffic)
>while my hard drive suddenly start to have a flurry of activity like a
>virus scanner is running or something.
>
> During this time, the system is sluggish. When I ctrl-alt-del nothing
> happens for half a minute and then an error dialog box something about
> login ID. The screen stopped refreshing for another few seconds, then I
> ctrl-alt-del again and this time got the task manager.
>
> I closed all apps and killed many processes I can see, but still the disk
> activity goes on. There are only about 8 process left -- window explorer,
> taskmgr.exe, taskeng.exe, rundll32.exe, ...
>
> All processes except idle has 0% cpu time.
>
> I have also turned off auto update, turned off auto virus scanning, etc.
> I unplugged network cable, I logged off -- no help.
>
> I logged back on. After a few more minutes the activities stopped.
>
> This is driving me mad. I don't like the hard drive having a lot of
> activity when I'm not initiating any disk IO.
>
> Is there a tool that would tell me what process (could be a hidden one) is
> generating the disk IO next time it happens?
>

Vista 64 Not Responding

neil154 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:44:01 GMT

Sometimes a wireless mouse/keyboard will act as such. If a blue tooth
device, move the receiver to a USB port on the front of the computer. Or,
get a short USB extension cable and have the receiver sitting on your desk
close to the mouse pad.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

"neil154" wrote in message
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>I am using Vista 64 with all of the latest updates and the machine is only5
> months old with 4 gig of ram and plenty of empty space on the hard drive.
> I
> am getting the "not responding" from Vista numerous times. It does not
> appear all of the time and I can get it after a fresh boot and sign in or
> after I have used system for quite a while. The not responding will
> eventually go away but it can take sometimes almost a minute or so. I get
> it
> in numerous applications and I have paired down the programs which
> automatically start on boot.
>
> Does anyone know why I am getting this and how to fix it?

Side-by-side configuration incorrect for 5 programs

soupdragon90 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:45:03 GMT

System Restore.

That's what it's there for. Next time don't ignore the warnings about not
shutting down the computer while updates are in progress.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"soupdragon90" wrote in message
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>
> Hi there, I am having some major trouble with this right now, I am
> getting this annyoing error for 5 programs:
>
> Audacity
> MSN
> AIM
> Yahoo Messenger
> RegistryBoost ( I had JUST downloaded this to try and fix this error!
> :mad::cry:)
>
> The first 4 I use a lot, MSN and Yahoo I always use during work to see
> if any new emails pop up, I use Audacity to edit music, and now with
> this error, I can't chat or edit music.
>
> I think this may have to do with it:my laptop was trying to update
> yesterday when it was shutting down, but it was doing nothing. So I shut
> it off, hoping that I could try again and it had to undo the
> configurations it had just made, and I think that may have broken those
> 4 programs. How do I fix this? Being able to know when I get emails,
> chatting with my friends, and editing music are the things I do the most
> on this laptop, and not being able to do so worries and frustrates me.
>
>
> --
> soupdragon90

Mouse Lazy

Brenda J. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:46 GMT

Sometimes a wireless mouse/keyboard will act as such. If a blue tooth
device, move the receiver to a USB port on the front of the computer. Or,
get a short USB extension cable and have the receiver sitting on your desk
close to the mouse pad.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

"Brenda J." wrote in message
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> Have Vista Home Premium, Dell computer, Microsoft cordless mouse. I am
> having problems with my mouse being non-responsive at times. This happens
> everywhere from the internet to shut down. The mouse just fails to work
> for several clicks. I had wondered if this could be due to my SLOW
> dial-up service but then what does that have to do with shutting the
> computer down? The cordless mouse is seeing its receiver and batteries are
> fine.
>
> Brenda
>

Windows XP Home Lockup & shutdown problem.

Archquark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:04:26 GMT

No problem. I see your post in the other NG now. It should net some
responses.

Q

--->
> Thanks Questor I use Vista so had inadvertendly placed question in Vista
> forum.
>
> "Questor" wrote in message
> news:en8Ms9sZKHA.1648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> --->
>>> A friend who has Windows XP Home running on his machine has had
>>> several problems in the past week with lockups and not shutting down.
>>> He has run Chkdsk and no errors were found. He ran his virus checker
>>> ( Avast ) and again no errors were found. He used the Restore program
>>> and successfully restored his computer which resulted in the lockups
>>> while running from occurring again, but his computer will now not
>>> shutdown. He reverts to shutting it down manually, which I explained
>>> can cause more problems.
>>> I told him he should have tried the safe mode option to restart in
>>> the last good configuration first but at that point he had already
>>> used Restore. I have e-mailed him the Microsoft article:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/308029.
>>> Is there any other things he could try?
>>> I will attempt to try and help him today and any constructive
>>> instruction would be appreciated.
>>
>> There are several good ideas here, but you might want to ask this
>> question in the XP newsgroup also:
>>
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
>>
>> Questor
>

Unable to delete folder with too long name

sunil — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:54:11 GMT

Hi, Sunil.

Even though we don't usually see it, each file/folder with a Long File Name
(LFN) also has a computer-created Short File Name (SFN), also referred to as
an 8.3 filename, since it is limited to 8 characters plus and optional
extension of up to 3 characters. (This goes back in computer history to
MS-DOS and before.)

To see the 8.3 filename of your folder, open a Command Prompt and enter:
Dir /x

That command should present the usual listing of all the files and folders
in that directory, as with the plain Dir command. But the /x switch will
create an additional column, before the LFN, showing the SFN for any file or
folder whose LFN does not also meet the 8.3 requirements. Perhaps there is
a space or other "illegal" character in the filename. The SFN for a LFN
will probably have 6 characters, followed by ~1, or some other digit.

Use the Del or RD command with that SFN to delete your file or remove your
folder. Using RD /s for the top-level folder should remove that whole
directory tree.

(As always in a Command Prompt window, type the name of any command followed
by /? to see all the switches and parameters available with that command,
such as: Dir /? )

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"sunil" wrote in message
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> Dear Sir,
>
> Eclipse has created folder inside folder recusively. Now I am not able to
> delete this folder using neither 'Windows Explorer' nor using command
> prompt using RMDIR/S.
> It tells names of folder is too long.
>
> Pleasew help me in how to delete it.
>
> Regards,
> Sunil

Defrag.exe in Windows Vista Dos window STILL running!

Gil Tennant — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:56:01 GMT

Stopped it with Ctrl-C, anyway.. Seemed to end appropriately after a short
pause and a confirmation that I had initiated to end it.

Thanks.

Used Auslogics Disk Defrag - completed in 14 minutes! (versus 12 hours and
still going, with Windows Defrag.exe... :( )
--
Gil Tennant

SCANNING

Bill Walsh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:43 GMT

"Bill Walsh" wrote in message
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> Anyone know how to convert a scanned document to Open Office/ Or save the
> scan to Works Word Processor that can be edited afterward? I've tried PDF
> but can't edit. The scan also looks a little fuzzy. Can I make the scan
> sharper? Using a HP all in one printer, copier,fax machine.

As already noted you need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software.
A straight scan is an image - a picture.
You have to "scan" it through OCR or to a PDF and then OCR the PDF.

Do a google on "Free OCR Software" and choose and experiment until you find
one you like.
Spend a couple of bucks and buy something like OmniPage and PaperPort if
you're going to be doing much of this type of activity.
Geo.

Windows 7 & Office 2007

Nick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:01 GMT

"Nick" wrote in message
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> I don't know the best place to post this question.
>
> I have Windows 7 and Office 2007
> GPO - Redirected "Documents" folder to SBS2008 share
> Browsing and saving to My Documents for some users takes a long time.
>
> A user may try to save a 1 page word document. It sometimes take 2 mintues
> to save it. This is not and has never been a problem on XP or Vista
> machines.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated

What anti-virus program are you running? We had a similar problem
with Norman (not Norton) when saving to a network drive. We had
to turn off the on-access scanner. Finally I ditched Norman and installed
MS Security Essentials and we now have no problem.

Tom Lake

Failed Updates

Larry M. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:21:20 GMT

Sorry, been away for a few days. I don't know why, but that seemed to work.
Thanks

"TaurArian" wrote in message
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> Larry M. wrote:
> :: Ok I usually have no problems installing updates. But today for some
> :: reason the 4 IMPORTANT Updates fail to install.
> :: I do not get a clear error msg. And they do not how as installed so
> :: they can't be uninstalled. These all seem to be Office 2007
> :: related. KB975960, 974561, 973704, & 973593. They failed this morning
> :: despite rebooting. And then I was prompted again this afternoon.
> :: They failed again. Anyone have any ideas. Is there a bug in the
> :: updates? I tried w/NAV off as well.
> :: PC is a Vitsa32 Bus. Ed machine w/Office 2k7.
> ::
> :: TIA for any help.
>
>
> Locate the updates here:
> ie -
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...typ e=s_basic
> Then download and install each one manually.
> Known problem, associated with 0x646
>
> --
>
> TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2010 - Update Services
> http://taurarian.mvps.org
> ======================================
> Disclaimer: The information has been posted "as is" with no warranties
> or guarantees and doesn't give any rights.
>
>
>

Cannot delete folders - Vista Home Premium

XXX — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:33:10 GMT

Could have downloaded knoppix or ubuntu, booted the disk and deleted
everything. Pretty easy and a -very- handy tool.

--
CrucialHoax

Browser window resizes

Hans B — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:19:01 GMT

Thank you.
I'll try and hope for the best
/Hans

"Questor" wrote:

> --->
> > Hi,
> > I have Windows Vista Home Premium Edition on my laptop.
> > When I browse, using Internet Explorer, the pane successively becomes
> > smaller. Every time I click, the lower border moves upwards a bit and after a
> > while only a narrow stripe remains. Very annoying!
> > Why does this happen?
> > What can I do to get rid of this annoying behaviour?
>
> I am not overly familiar with IE, but have you looked at the checkboxes
> under Browsing at Tools -> internet options -> Advanced?
>
> In Firefox, there are also checkboxes associated with Javascript in
> Options -> Content -> Enable Javascript -> Advanced
>
> Questor
> .
>

Browsing window resizes

Hans B — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:51:01 GMT

I have Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition in my laptop.
When I browse the window succesively becomes smaller.
Every time I click, the lower border moves upwards a bit and after a while
the window is just a narrow stripe. Terribly annoying!
This does not happen for all web sites, only for some.
Why does this happen?
What can I do?