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Post by mari on Feb 4, 2007 7:41:53 GMT -5
Two questions for the computer-geniuses (in case you’ll be able to understand my ‘no idea what I’m talking about’ rambling, you’ll see what I mean )First question: Does anybody know why in emails many punctuations signs often are substituted by such weird things like & #65 5 3 3 or & #8 217. It happens all the time with my emails and really annoys me. Can it be prevented and if so how? Second question: Ever since upgrading from Windows ME to XP (or whatever either of them is named ) I can only see seven opened windows at the task bar at the bottom of the screen. If I open more, instead of making the single window-signs smaller, Windows places them onto a second bar to which I have to switch by a back-forth task-thing, i. e. changing a one into two-click-move. No idea why this little additional click annoys me so much, but it does . I’m afraid nobody knows what I’m talking about, this is what happens when somebody with no computer-vocabulary in German tries in English . I usually have about six to eight Word-windows (obsessed with doing several things at once), plus a dictionary and library-page (plus the email-alert-thing of course ;D) and would like to have them all on one bar. I already activated the ‘don’t show inactive symbols’ (like ICQ, Gmail, Antivir etc)
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Post by Aerie on Feb 4, 2007 19:23:26 GMT -5
REILYNN- where are you? Some of this might be too tough for me and dzero.
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Post by Reilynn on Feb 4, 2007 19:26:42 GMT -5
I can answer the first one off the top of my head. It happens when someone sends you an e-mail using characters outside of the standard 127 ASCII character set. www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/docs/ascii.htmlTo an e-mail client not prepared to handle it. The worst offender I've found is the smart quotes (double quotes that slant left or right depending of if they start of end the quote) Depending on how you are reading the e-mail (web based e-mail, Outlook Express, ect..,) there may, but probably not, be a setting you can tweak to make them work. I have not been able to make yahoo and IE understand the extended ASCII character set. I wasn't annoyed enough by the issue to switch to Firefox or Opera (alternate web browsers.) I have never noticed gmail having that problem. I can send you an invite if you want. Second question: Dunno. Before I do any research I would like to be certain I am researching the correct version. Hit the windows key, then r (for run) then type in winver and then hit enter. Tell me exactly what it says. I would not mind a screen shot.
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Post by dzero on Feb 4, 2007 21:22:53 GMT -5
WOW Reilynn answered 3 minutes later . That's better customer service than anybody has ever gotten from dzero . ;D As for the problems? First one? I've always meant to ask somebody myself . The Second? If you're talking about what I think you're talking about . Then as far as I know it's just a change that they made with XP. I thought it was 5 windows open before it puts them all into a single bar . But I'm with you I liked it much better the old way . But I don't seem to have that many Windows open at the same time like I used too must be getting old .
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 5, 2007 0:04:45 GMT -5
Would putting my many M/L music videos in several folders instead of just one or two give more disk space/memory? Any help is welcome and apperciated.
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Post by dzero on Feb 5, 2007 11:02:23 GMT -5
Would putting my many M/L music videos in several folders instead of just one or two give more disk space/memory? Any help is welcome and apperciated. Technically it wouldn't give you more space or memory but it would help your PC run smoother. Puts less demand on the memory you do have. For most people with relatively new PC's this probably wouldn't be a problem but for someone who does all those Max/Logan videos I am going to assume they are taking up a lot of your HD. So yes putting into multiple folders or at least into sub folders would help .
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 5, 2007 12:26:38 GMT -5
Thanks for your help, dzero.
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Post by mari on Feb 5, 2007 16:33:07 GMT -5
Thaaaanks Reilynn, a huge virtual piece of my grandfather’s home made black forest cake is sailing your way. I can answer the first one off the top of my head. It happens when someone sends you an e-mail using characters outside of the standard 127 ASCII character set www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/docs/ascii.htmlTo an e-mail client not prepared to handle it. Aha, so not the sender but the recipient is the problem? (Except for sending the wrong characters in first place, but it’s kind of hard to avoid apostrophes in English) If so I receive messages with this weird signs in Gmail all the time. If you're talking about what I think you're talking about . I’m afraid we need a translator from Mari-speech to general English . Reylinn, just imagine explaining higher maths to a monkey when talking about computers with me. What I mean is that all the windows are next to each other on the taskbar and if I open to many there’s a second row taskbar ‘behind’. If I want to open a window of the second row I first have to click on a up/down button on the right of the taskbar to see the second row. (My second trial at explanating isn't really better than the first )I already deactivated “group similar elements". Before I do any research I would like to be certain I am researching the correct version. Hit the windows key, then r (for run) then type in winver and then hit enter. Tell me exactly what it says. I would not mind a screen shot. It says Windows XP professional Version 5.1 (Built2600.xclient.010817-1148 A screen shot . I assume taking a camera and photographing the screen isn’t the proper way of doing one.... Seriously I read the explanation of screenshots at Wikipedia and it seems to say I need a special program for doing them?
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Post by x318 on Feb 5, 2007 17:00:09 GMT -5
Ummmmmmmmm look at that heavenly creation.....I could eat all that right about now.
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Post by Reilynn on Feb 7, 2007 22:13:59 GMT -5
First - if you are running windows XP professional I am certain your hard drive is formated as NTFS, and it will not make much difference at all whether they are in one folder or many. POF the extra folders are just one more thing to put on the hard drive. Defrag overnight once every couple of months. I do not know why you can only see 7 opened windows. Obviously there is a limit on the number that will fit on the display and Windows will not automatically resize the taskbar. (If you increase your your screen resolution more than 7 may fit. How high you can go depends on your monitor and your graphics card.) Fun fact: If you put your taskbar on the left or right edge of the screen then it WILL widen it automatically!So that is ONE solution. Another would be to unlock it and drag it up so that it is 2 or 3 icons high rather than single rowed. My personal favorite is custom Taskbar Toolbars. - First put all the documents you want to work with in a folder.
- Right-click on any blank spot on the taskbar
- Select the Toolbars option then "New Toolbar ..."
- Select the folder that you want to have easy to work with
- Click OK.
Play! Questions? See www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/win_tray_toolbar_add.mspx?mfr=true
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Post by mari on Feb 25, 2007 21:44:41 GMT -5
Very late thanks for your tips, Reilynn. Meaningless rant about my laptop blacking out on me, alone two times this evening. Waaahh! Just a mean ‘whoosh’, then the the screen goes black and a horrified me is staring at it and hoping I thought of saving (but usually haven’t in the last ten minutes ), all because there must be a short-circuit where the power supply goes in (battery is dead anyway, and so far haven’t bought a new one because they’re so expensive)I would like to bang my head into the desk but in all likelihood that triggers just another blackout (in the laptop, not my head, though the latter is possible too)And something in these blackouts caused the laptop not to recognise my brand new USB memory stick anymore . Now the question: Can I change how often Words saves a document automatically and if so how?
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Post by Reilynn on Feb 25, 2007 22:49:32 GMT -5
Now the question: Can I change how often Words saves a document automatically and if so how? Yep. Piece of cake. Tools -> Options Click on the save tab. There will be a little check box Just use the up and down stuff to change the number of minutes between auto saves.
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Post by mari on Feb 26, 2007 18:18:27 GMT -5
Thaaanks, Reilynn!!!! Have adjusted it to save every minute which hopefully at least will prevent data loss, if I can’t stop the laptop from shorting out in first place. And you even solved another thing that was annoying me: How to remove smarttags . (They were claiming to know Logan’s address…. Pfff! )
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Post by shywriter on Feb 26, 2007 21:16:59 GMT -5
And you even solved another thing that was annoying me: How to remove smarttags . (They were claiming to know Logan’s address…. Pfff! ) NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!!Don't remove them!!!! What if they DO know?? I mean, Bill Gates is in Seattle, isn't he? And wasn't Logan forced to move after the mess of S2?? I wanna go to Loogie's house!!
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Post by mari on Feb 27, 2007 21:07:53 GMT -5
I wanna go to Loogie's house!! So you can get the Logan-photos you seemed to have promised to shoot for us over in Mia’s thread a while ago…? ;D Haha we gotta give Shy a few days to get them, she’s got a little traveling to do. I changed my request to video actually, figured I could snag a few frames and have them blown up if I want. I’m still waiting… ;D ;D
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