Hello again, Wally says: "Harold, you have not said whether your flash drive works with your win 98 computer. Is your win 98 in a FAT 32 partition? If it is and your flash drive works with it then that shoots my theory up. The idea of zipping your files is to hide their attributes from the transfer medium. zipping/unzipping them is not going change any of their attributes. I have used this trick of using winzip to zip files with long file names, then transferring the zipped file with a DOS program. (DOS does not support long file names). When the zipped file is unzipped with winzip the long file names are preserved. --- Wally"
I never used this flash drive with Win 98 for three reasons: 1) I never heard of it until Compaq told me about it saying it is so much superior to any RW/CD's, 2) I don't think my Win 98 HP had a USB port, and 3) the RW/CD's worked fine with the old machine (it's only with this modern Win XP that I had this problem of copying files/folders into the CD and seeing them all have a "read only" attribute (consequently not allowing for any editing). Now I'm only using this flash drive. $60 at Staples isn't bad for a 1000mb (that's one gig, right?) backup that can be used like a floppy and can last indefinitely. Eventually I'll learn how to use this sonic program to eliminate that "read only" problem with CD's. BTW, (might require a different subject here) I'm not complaining about Win XP at all; it's a source of great joy; I must have reinstalled the system 6 times in two weeks just trying to get the knack of working with and backing up this Start menu. It's a new ballgame; the source of the Start menu is found in two different folders, and each folder has different contents (both folders are found in C:\Documents and Settings (All Users and Compaq_Owner), something 98 didn't have. In Win 98 whatever was on the Start menu was in one folder: C:\Windows\Start menu. It didn't allow for different users, so unless an entire family uses one computer and each member needs his/her own configured arrangement, it didn't matter. Same thing with "SentTo" and a few other often used tricks. In fact, here I thought I was getting so smart with the Registry and now I find that many of the regedit tricks do not work here in XP (or aren't even needed). It's like a man becomes an expert at making horseshoes and then there are no more horses. One time I copied the Start menus onto the desktop (thinking it was just a temporary copy) seeing if I could put the "backed up" Start menu on to avoid aagain configuring it. I'll never to that again; there was a folder on the desktop, and whatever I would name it, it couldn't be deleted. That's because "Start menu is part of the system" and cannot be deleted. I'd like to know if anyone can place a Start menu folder onto the desktop and then delete it. I think when I get familiar with all the many programs, applets, and idiosyncrasies in this system (forgetting those programs that I delete automatically), the system will go the way of 98 and again I'll be behind the times; that's the way it is in fast moving tech world --- Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
