[H] OE and extensions

2008-02-26 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have a computer that won't open .wmv extensions from inside OE (it says there is no file association) but if I save the file on the desktop, then it opens fine with a double click. So for some reason, OE is ignoring the file association. Anyone ever see this? T

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Al Anger
FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Is there any way to stop people from using OE? That's the real question. best, al

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:21 AM 16/03/2007, Al Anger wrote: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Is there any way to stop people from using OE? That's the real question. Upgrade to Vista and use Windows Mail? :) T

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread FORC5
it's the wife, not meI use Eudora fp At 06:21 AM 3/16/2007, Al Anger Poked the stick with: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Is there any way to stop people from using OE? That's the real question. best, al -- Tallyho ! ]:8)

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread FORC5
running vista business on my server, vista is not ready for prime time. backward compatibility sucks. Vista says it will not allow bad code to run is why but in the same sentence says when vista sp1 comes out it will change the whole kernel, must be bad code. :-} That said has some nice

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:21 AM 16/03/2007, FORC5 wrote: running vista business on my server, vista is not ready for prime time. backward compatibility sucks. Vista says it will not allow bad code to run is why but in the same sentence says when vista sp1 comes out it will change the whole kernel, must be bad

RE: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Greg Sevart
: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:56 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] OE ? At 11:21 AM 16/03/2007, FORC5 wrote: running vista business on my server, vista is not ready for prime time. backward compatibility sucks. Vista says it will not allow bad code to run is why but in the same

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Rick Glazier
From: Thane Sherrington Why they had to change the entire interface and rename all the control panel applets is beyond me. Arrogance, I would guess. Or total lack of interest in their customers. Call it change for the sake of change... The car manufacturers used to do that... I don't know

RE: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:11 PM 16/03/2007, Greg Sevart wrote: After using Vista at home for 3 months, I hate having to use XP at work. I like the new interface, the usability tweaks are great, and it just -looks- like a modern operating system again. On my hardware, Vista feels more responsive, too. That's

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Al Anger
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: give me an operating system that doesn't get in my way and I'm happy. XP does that - For an analogy, some like a car with 22 rims, euro tail lights, etc... None of which improves the car's performance. (to any significant degree) For my taste,

RE: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Greg Sevart
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:42 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] OE ? At 01:11 PM 16/03/2007, Greg Sevart wrote: After using Vista at home for 3 months, I hate having to use XP at work. I like the new interface, the usability tweaks

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Gary VanderMolen
I think if you have a premium graphics card, Vista is able to take more advantage of it than XP. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - Three different systems: X2 4800 with 4GB PC3200, 6600GT Core 2 Duo 3.2GHz with 4GB PC8500, 7900GS Core 2 Duo 3.6GHz with 4GB PC7200, X1900XT

RE: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Winterlight
That's not to say there aren't problems...VPN connectivity, the Control Panel redesign as you mentioned, and the driver situation (especially in Vista64 like I run). I'm optimistic that these issues will be resolved shortly. Greg I wouldn't count on the driver issues being resolved any time

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:05 PM 16/03/2007, Al Anger wrote: For my taste, something plain so I can blend in with the other fish and not attract the sharks (police). Heh heh. I like BlackBox for XP. Light and fast, and minimal replacement shell. http://www.bb4win.org/news.php I see BBLean, Xoblite, and

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
no. Al Anger wrote: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Is there any way to stop people from using OE? That's the real question. best, al

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
No, i think the reason is much more sinister than that, Thane. MS just wants to control the mind space of people for another five years. They can't do that with just a simple update to XP. They need something that looks and feels different, so that people can have something to spend time and

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Gary VanderMolen
$5000+ system? Heck, I have a $899 HP laptop on which Vista really flies! It has the Core 2 Duo T5200 processor with 1 GB RAM. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - No, i think the reason is much more sinister than that, Thane. MS just wants to control the mind space of people for

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Al Anger
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see BBLean, Xoblite, and Bluebox at http://www.bb4win.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.6 - which one are you using? BlackBox for Windows. http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/latest/Latest/0.0.92_Pack_Sep13.zip (September 13th, 2004 - no

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
oh yeah...but I was speaking of top end units, obviously. I did see a powerful HP desktop in sam's the other day with vista ultimate, 600 GB, 2 GB ram, a wad of other stuff, for $1800. Gary VanderMolen wrote: $5000+ system? Heck, I have a $899 HP laptop on which Vista really flies! It has

[H] OE ?

2007-03-15 Thread FORC5
is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? sometimes the cleanup crashes and stuff gets deleted and I have to restore from daily backups. I installed a patch from MS that makes bak files when this runs and as long as it does not crash all is well, restore from recycle bin.

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-15 Thread Joe User
Hello FORC5, Thursday, March 15, 2007, 7:31:08 PM, you wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Tools - Options - Maintenance Tab -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] OE ?

2007-03-15 Thread FORC5
no option to turn off thanks At 09:18 PM 3/15/2007, Joe User Poked the stick with: Hello FORC5, Thursday, March 15, 2007, 7:31:08 PM, you wrote: is there anyway to stop OE from asking to clean up mail boxes ? Tools - Options - Maintenance Tab -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the

[H] OE ?

2006-12-15 Thread FORC5
Every once in a while ( and a lot lately) OE asks to compact boxes and if I do in box goes bye bye. Anyway to turn off this annoyance ? Wife is the only one that uses OE, I use Eudora. Can not find any settings to get rid of this * feature * BTW there is not much there so not sure what it

Re: [H] OE ?

2006-12-15 Thread Rick Glazier\(Gmail\)
I get that message (constantly) when my empty HD space starts to get pretty small. This triggers before the similar system message warns me I HAVE to do something about it globally (while doing things in other programs...) Have you checked your empty HD space? (OR have you set HD quotas for

Re: [H] OE ?

2006-12-15 Thread FORC5
good thought but I'm 72% free. Drive is a 250gb in two partitions ( 200 and 50 ) I remember seeing a setting for that somewhere, I'll un check it and see. Thanks fp At 07:41 AM 12/15/2006, Rick Glazier\(Gmail\) Poked the stick with: I get that message (constantly) when my empty HD space starts

Re: [H] OE ?

2006-12-15 Thread Gary VanderMolen
OE6 will pop up the folder compaction request after it has been opened and closed 100 times. The only way to avoid it is to compact folders manually. I do the manual compaction about once a week, right after emptying the Deleted Items folder. Think of it as a necessary housekeeping chore, like

[H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have a machine with OE (yes, I know, but it's hard to convince the plebes) that won't display any mail. The mailboxes have mail in them (I imported then into Eudora to check) but no mail shows up in OE when I select a mailbox. When I'm selecting mailboxes, OE even shows 19 unread messages

Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? If the inbox gets really big, OE will get all kinds of unstable. OE holds some mbs in memory, though I can't remember which. I think the inbox is one, but there may be others. Thane Sherrington wrote: :: I have a machine with OE (yes, I know,

Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:49 PM 19/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? If it's that simple, I'm going to smack myself in the face with a stick. If the inbox gets really big, OE will get all kinds of unstable. OE holds some mbs in memory, though I can't remember

Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:49 PM 19/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? It's set to Show All Messages. No messages are shown. If I switch to Hide Read Messages, all the messages are shown. So you pointed me in the right direction, thanks. Do you know how to fix

Fixed - Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:12 PM 19/09/2006, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 02:49 PM 19/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? It's set to Show All Messages. No messages are shown. If I switch to Hide Read Messages, all the messages are shown. So you pointed me in the

Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It really sounds boogered up to mesorry. Thane Sherrington wrote: :: At 02:49 PM 19/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: ::: Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? :: :: It's set to Show All Messages. No messages are shown. If I switch :: to Hide Read Messages, all the messages are

Re: Fixed - Re: [H] OE weirdness

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thane Sherrington wrote: :: At 04:12 PM 19/09/2006, Thane Sherrington wrote: ::: At 02:49 PM 19/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Did you set the Views box to Show All Messages? ::: ::: It's set to Show All Messages. No messages are shown. If I switch ::: to Hide Read Messages, all the

[H] OE annoyance ?

2006-02-22 Thread FORC5
a friend is telling me when he forwards email that pictures do not forward, confirmed. Any ideas accepted. OE, I use Eudora. fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Lawyers: the larval form of politicians.

RE: [H] OE annoyance ?

2006-02-22 Thread Chris Reeves
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] OE annoyance ? a friend is telling me when he forwards email that pictures do not forward, confirmed. Any ideas accepted. OE, I use Eudora. fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Lawyers: the larval form of politicians.