Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Joe User
One word: Opera -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Stan Zaske
01/23/2009 -0600, you wrote: Thought you IE6/7 users might be interested in this: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090123/tc_pcworld/microsofttodeliverfirstie8releasecandidatemonday Bino Gopal wrote: Eh, I've gotten pretty used to IE7; enough now that I don't miss it over IE6. B

Re: [H] Extend partition?

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Rick, Yes, I agree. The trial was NOT functional for me. I am not a *nix person at all (except that my NAS is *nix, but I do not dabble!) :) Anything "hard" is now avoided. After 40 years in this sphere, if "it" is not easy, I just go find another way... coding business is

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Stan, Interesting, but does not really blow my dress up! Duncan At 20:06 01/23/2009 -0600, you wrote: Thought you IE6/7 users might be interested in this: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090123/tc_pcworld/microsofttodeliverfirstie8releasecandidatemonday Bino Gopal wrote: Eh, I've g

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Stan Zaske
Thought you IE6/7 users might be interested in this: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090123/tc_pcworld/microsofttodeliverfirstie8releasecandidatemonday Bino Gopal wrote: Eh, I've gotten pretty used to IE7; enough now that I don't miss it over IE6. But I will say DO NOT instal

Re: [H] Extend partition?

2009-01-23 Thread Rick Glazier
I said this recently on another list. (Hope it wasn't here.) IF the trial version was fully functional, lots of people would just "borrow it" and not buy it... I'm not much of a Linux person, but I've used: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and found it a little similar to Acronis Partition Exper

[H] "target.lnk" files?

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Is there a way I can stop my LAN clients (XP) from creating these icons/files in the "My Network Places" global icon? I think these are reminders of where any given client goes to visit their LAN neighbors for moving/copying files and such. I do this a lot daily... I could be way wron

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
fp, THAT IS MY POLICY also..not to worry. Duncan At 17:37 01/23/2009 -0700, you wrote: I tell my family daily to NOT leave browser windows minimized, paranoid I guess. Seems like leaving a door unlocked to me but I may be wrong. fp At 03:32 PM 1/23/2009, DHSinclair Poked the stick

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread FORC5
I tell my family daily to NOT leave browser windows minimized, paranoid I guess. Seems like leaving a door unlocked to me but I may be wrong. fp At 03:32 PM 1/23/2009, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >Chris, >Thanks. OK. My habit is to open the browser when needed, do my business, >close brow

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Chris, Thanks. OK. My habit is to open the browser when needed, do my business, close browser, go about my business. I never have a browser OPEN all day (except for the radio audio streams I listen to daily!). There are the occasional "shopping" sessions! I am still having trouble with "t

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Bino Gopal
Yeah I prefer a minimialist approach too, and tabs are a must for me for browsing, so that's why IE7 > IE6. And it's exactly like Chris says; when the program you have open starts out by using 100 or so MB of mem, but then after opening multiple windows and or leaving them open for a while (which

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote: Bino, Let's just agree to disagree then. For me, IE7 just stinks, period. IE6sp1 is fine in either the W2K version or the XP version. Yes, I have been schooled, cajoled, prattled at, and scolded into certain necessary tricks to "harden" IE. Certainly not

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Bino, Let's just agree to disagree then. For me, IE7 just stinks, period. IE6sp1 is fine in either the W2K version or the XP version. Yes, I have been schooled, cajoled, prattled at, and scolded into certain necessary tricks to "harden" IE. Certainly not perfect, but so far so good. Then again,

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Bino Gopal
Eh, I've gotten pretty used to IE7; enough now that I don't miss it over IE6. But I will say DO NOT install IE8; the beta of that was horrible and I had to get rid of it (I was very glad they at least made rolling back fairly painless!). FF3 just has too many memory leak issues (these are from di

Re: [H] Message format in Outlook 2003

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks! This looks really good. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM, JRS wrote: > Check out this Outlook converter, only 60 bucks for a site license.. > > http://www.processtext.com/abcoutlk.html > > > > -- > JRS steinie**...@pacbell.net > Please remove **X** to reply... > > > Facts do not

Re: [H] Extend partition?

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
Sam, Yes I did solve the problem. I used PartitionMagic7. The partition(s) is/are happy and well. All is back to normal again. The Acronis trial-ware would only let me LOOK; but it would not let me DO anything. Thanks, Duncan At 09:27 01/23/2009 -0800, you wrote: Have you got this problem solv

Re: [H] Extend partition?

2009-01-23 Thread Sam Franc
Have you got this problem solved? Did you get Acronis? Sam DHSinclair wrote: Sam, Went and dl'd the trial copy of DD10 from Acronis. I do recognize the windows. Trouble is, the trial version will NOT let me do any of the basic operations! Even though the webpage indicates these operations

Re: [H] Message format in Outlook 2003

2009-01-23 Thread JRS
Check out this Outlook converter, only 60 bucks for a site license.. http://www.processtext.com/abcoutlk.html -- JRS steinie**...@pacbell.net Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. From: Steve T

Re: [H] Message format in Outlook 2003

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
A little bit of searching and I've found out that we're pretty much screwed. If we had Word 2003, we could use that as editor and do any conversion, since we've never upgraded, that's that. The whole idea of using rtf is to keep the email and attachment together. If you save as html, then you ha

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: This is a very interesting problem. I had something similar, but I ended up reformatting because of other problems. Anyway, I would be interested in how this is solved for future reference. If you use the reset IE settings button does that help? Al

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread DHSinclair
I am interested in this IE7 business also. I have been testing/using IE7 on my XP test machine. After a year of living with IE7, I have to say that I do not care for its' new format. I get lost quickly trying to drive IE7; so, I do not do much testing any longer. :) My remaining n

Re: [H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Naushad Zulfiqar
This is a very interesting problem. I had something similar, but I ended up reformatting because of other problems. Anyway, I would be interested in how this is solved for future reference. On Jan 23, 2009 7:07 PM, "Thane Sherrington" < tsh...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: I've got a machine

Re: [H] Message format in Outlook 2003

2009-01-23 Thread Joe User
Hello Steve, Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:20:32 AM, you wrote: > This is a question about a situation at my job. > The IT department does very strange things here. Stuff will work, > then they 'improve' it and then issue a workaround because things > don't work anymore. > Currently we are using

[H] IE7 problem

2009-01-23 Thread Thane Sherrington
I've got a machine which has IE7 installed (Help/About says IE7) but when I go to Windows Update it tells me that the browser I have isn't compatible, and that I should upgrade from IE5 to either IE6 or IE7. There is no IE7 uninstall in Add/Remove programs, and there is no %windir%\IE7 folder

[H] Message format in Outlook 2003

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
This is a question about a situation at my job. The IT department does very strange things here. Stuff will work, then they 'improve' it and then issue a workaround because things don't work anymore. Currently we are using Outlook 2003 SP3, mainly because IT got it free. It broke a few processe