At 01:16 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote:
I apologise sincerely for any offence if you thought I was being
sarcastic at you! I should have said "type *just* the right
question into Google". You have to have a fairly twisted mind to
produce the answer you want at the first, or even fifty-first,
attempt. None of the 300-plus computer users that I support can do
this, or I'd be out of a job. Also when I said 'to save you the
trouble' that's exactly what I meant, it would have been quite rude
of me to just leave it at steps 1-3 when I had the answer on my
screen. But if I had just posted the answer without the method,
perhaps I would have been posing as some kind of super guru instead
of just someone who used Google to get the answer... modesty and
helpfulness, see, not bitterness and cheap shots at all.... :-)
Thanks, Bj. You are correct in that you really do have to twist your
mind to find what you need sometimes. I thought I was searching on
the right words but as you can see, I was wrong. I also assumed just
searching in the WinXP help files on my own computer would yield me
the answer - bzzzt - wrong answer, Deb!
I have been in tech support for about twenty years but frankly,
skill, knowledge, experience and training are only useful in about
5% of situations. Mainly I earn my living by switching equipment
off and back on again, and when that occasionally fails, typing
*just* the right question into Google / looking in *just* the right
place in the manual or help file... it's a rare gift, I mean a *rare* gift.
Erm, also, I must admit finding this one probably was more like the
fifty-first attempt, the first time I had to look for it...
I do appreciate the trouble you went to to find it for me.
I'm not going to mess w/this anymore. I just don't have the time and
after being totally locked out after my attempts - I'm now more on
the paranoid side of terrified of this happening again. It would
have been nice had the program that installed this given me the
option of setting it up this way - I'd have surely checked NO! It
has to be either the printer or the Wacom Pen Tab as this all
happened after that. I do remember something about MSN Messenger or
??? coming up but for the life of me can't remember what it was
now. I was just dumbfounded to have installed all of this, gone to
bed, got up - rebooted and suddenly there is was w/no warning. There
oughta be a law against software doing this but then I would imagine
they'd listen about as well as the spammers listen to the laws about
spamming and to the people who don't want it.
Deb
Bj
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] OT: ridding myself of the Windows Welcome screen
At 05:17 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:
The answer takes a bit of finding, you have to type just the right
question into Google.
Apparently, this was the problem. I had not worded my searches
correctly in the WinXP help files to find what you did. Nothing I
found in the help files had anything like this. I neglected to
mention that I did try the WinXP help files before posting. I did
not however, try Google. Thank you. I will try this.
:: Deb | PBC Web Design
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