Re: [CGUYS] Powerbook G3 keyboard

2008-11-03 Thread b_s-wilk
Kittens drink too much coffee too. I washed my white Mac keyboard a few months ago, after taking it apart; hung it in the greenhouse for 3 days to dry. Works fine now. Be careful: if you take your keyboard apart, it's really hard to get the space bar or other spring-loaded keys back on so

Re: [CGUYS] Powerbook G3 keyboard

2008-11-03 Thread Steve Rigby
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:25 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: Kittens drink too much coffee too. I washed my white Mac keyboard a few months ago, after taking it apart; hung it in the greenhouse for 3 days to dry. Works fine now. I had to wash my white Mac keyboard a while back, but I did not take it

Re: [CGUYS] cannot delete device from device manager

2008-11-03 Thread rlsimon
Dunno...the zip drive shows in disk management as a removable disk and functions properly. Today when booting the notice showed new device found and tried to install that tape controller again ...it failed and tape controller shows a bang in device manager but will not uninstall. -Original

[CGUYS] tweakui setting not sticky

2008-11-03 Thread rlsimon
when I set the winxphomesp3 using tweakui to boot automatically to one useraccount, it does so for a while and then returns to showing a choice of user accounts on the screen before proceeding ...how come? * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] tweakui setting not sticky

2008-11-03 Thread Tony B
That method has never worked. You must do this: A. To enable autologon and bypass XP's prompt to enter a username and password, perform the following steps: 1. Select Run from the Start menu. 2. Enter control userpasswords2 and click OK. 3. Select the Users tab. 4.

Re: [CGUYS] cannot delete device from device manager

2008-11-03 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
rlsimon Dunno...the zip drive shows in disk management as a removable disk and functions properly. Today when booting the notice showed new device found and tried to install that tape controller again ...it failed and tape controller shows a bang in device manager but will not uninstall.

Re: [CGUYS] cannot delete device from device manager

2008-11-03 Thread Richard P.
You might want to try download.com, which has a couple of utilities which supposedly will analyze for missing drivers. Richard P. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno...the zip drive shows in disk management as a removable disk and functions properly. Today

[CGUYS] New Chip Technology Poses Threat to Homeland Security

2008-11-03 Thread Mike Sloane
http://www.infopackets.com/news/government/2008/20081103_new_chip_technology_poses_threat_to_homeland_security.htm * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member

[CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Q. Fisher
I back up my Dell (runnung Vista) to a WD My Book 500 Gb External hard dive. With the changeover to Standard time, all the files on the External drive now show timestamps one hour later than all the files on my C drive. The time stamps on another backup drive (Maxtor) and on DVD's agree, so

Re: [CGUYS] cannot delete device from device manager

2008-11-03 Thread rlsimon
Dunno either ...tape drive controller shows bang and cannot be disabled or deleted and also shows no driver and cannot be rolled back or updated ...?? -Original Message- From: Wayne Dernoncourt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:40 PM To: rlsimon Cc: 'Computer

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Allen Firstenberg
Your Vista machine is probably using NTFS for its file system. Your external drive is probably using FAT32. NTFS handles DST correctly, while FAT32 does not. Solution is to upgrade the external drive to NTFS (or some other real file system). On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:30:24PM -0500, Q. Fisher

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Tony B
Why would this interfere with incremental backups? In an incremental, only *changed* files are supposed to be included. Besides, even if it depended on time instead of changes, just do one full backup. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Q. Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I back up my Dell

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Judy Cosler
how does one upgrade an external drive? what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a file system, but what is that? Allen Firstenberg wrote: Your Vista machine is probably using NTFS for its file system. Your external drive is probably using FAT32. NTFS handles DST correctly, while FAT32 does not.

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Snyder, Mark (IT CIV)
It is Microsoft's file system: New Technology File System. Remember Windows NT? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a file system, but what is that? * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Judy Cosler
but, i still don't understand. to me, a file system is Windows Explorer. so, obviously we're talking about different things! Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) wrote: It is Microsoft's file system: New Technology File System. Remember Windows NT? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- what is

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Dunford
what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a file system, but what is that? It's how the files are organized on the disk. In the PC world there are two primary file systems, FAT and NTFS. FAT is the older system; it uses somewhat less space and is OK for smaller drives, but for larger drives the newer

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Dunford
but, i still don't understand. to me, a file system is Windows Explorer. so, obviously we're talking about different things! The file system is what Windows Explorer explores. :) (Well, sorta. It explores other stuff too, but mainly you're looking at stuff that the file system has organized.)

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Windows Explorer is pretty much a GUI Graphical User Interface, enabling you to see things and access them. The true GUI is Windows XP or Leopard, or Linux, but they all use a GUI (windows explorer, gnome, and a number of otehrs as I do not know what apple calls theirs,) as a desktop to

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread Jeff Miles
Thanks for the input, but anymore productive answer then just get rid of it? Jeff M On Nov 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: An an iMac running OS-10.5.5, does anyone know how to shut off this Real Player download manager thing? Should never have allowed it to install in the first

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Tony B
You can determine the file system quickly by simply right clicking the driveProperties. But does anyone really ship these with FAT32? That would mean no files 2gb or (4?). If you have to convert: http://tinyurl.com/6m4gc7 http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Judy

Re: [CGUYS] 802.11N and Mac?

2008-11-03 Thread David K Watson
I have had a 1TB Time Capsule since June, and it works pretty well for me. I haven't had to use it to restore my MacBook, but I have used it a couple of times to rescue a file I had mistakenly deleted or otherwise messed up. I set it up to operate with user accounts for each member of my

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread Richard P.
Not sure what Real's Update Manager is but in Windows, Real Player has an option to turn off AutoUpdate. If this will help, it's: ToolsPreferencesAutomatic ServicesAutoUpdate, and then uncheck Automaticallydownload and Install important updates. Good luck. Richard P. An an iMac running

[CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread Alvin Auerbach
ClamXav 1.1.1 looked at Apple's Mail and found 2 incoming messages that were suspicious, and asked to delete them. I gave the okay, and the messages were moved to the computer's trash. However, the 2 messages are still listed in the Inbox. box. When I open them, they are blank - ghosts!

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread Jeff Miles
Thanks for the help, but update isn't it. I also have that function. It just checks for a newer version of Real Player. This thing seems to be a program within a program that saves all video to some folder whenever it sees some kind of tag (I'm assuming here) on a web page. I use a site

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread slogan2k1
What is your privacy setting? (Tools == Internet Options == Privacy).  Try medium-low. Do you have pop-ups blocked?   From: Jeff Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 6:33:34 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Real

Re: [CGUYS] battery replacement seems to have fixed audio problem

2008-11-03 Thread db
You need to be very careful about static electricity discharge when working inside a computer case. Leaving the CPU plugged in while turned off and grounding your hand to the power supply's case each time before you touch other internal electronics is a good approach. db Ranbo wrote: It

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread Richard P.
What version are you running? I see something that sounds promising in version 11.0.1 Build 949: Added a preference to the Downloader to enable/disable Advanced Video Detection.. Just a wild guess... Richard P. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Jeff Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread Jeff Miles
Thanks for both the ideas from you and slogin2k1. I did find something in Real Player preferences that was labeled web browsing something. It said it was for premium content. I guess they consider premium as adds? Anyway, I unchecked both under this section and will see if this solves the

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew Taylor
You might try moving all the messages out of the inbox into another local folder (you can always move them back if you want). With your inbox zeroed out, rebuild the mailbox. Use the web interface for your mail account to make certain the headers or entire messages are not still on the

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's allowable on someone else's machine. Alvin On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:17 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread David K Watson
You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand the inbox (click on the right-pointing triangle next to the inbox) and you should be able to rebuild each of the single account inboxes under the main inbox. If you rebuilt all your inboxes and all of your other mailboxes, you'll

Re: [CGUYS] Real Player download mngr.

2008-11-03 Thread David K Watson
Tom is right that RealPlayer/RealOne is an obnoxious piece of crud and shouldn't ever have been installed. If you insist on keeping it, start up Realplayer and disable the Enable web Downloading and Recording option. In Windows, this would be in the Preferences under the Tools menu, so for the

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Lewis
Alvin Auerbach sez: Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's allowable on someone else's machine. Alvin Download OnyX