Pete_C

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  1. I used to have a red tabby Manx (Froggy) who would sneak under the bedcovers and suddenly start running back and forth along my leg and back as fast as she could. I called it Tunneling , really startling if you never experienced it before. Currently one of our cats will sneak in and bite the OLs toe and run off. Not sure why. Generally speaking , if the dogs need out, the senior female will jump on and off the bed a few times to get my attention (she is a hundred pound rottweiler lab), I learned that if I ignore her she will grab me with one paw and roll me out of bed. The german shepherd ta
  2. Try doing Ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager and choose File +> New Task Type Explorer.exe hit enter This should give you the windows gui. Basically, CCLeaner deleted a registry entry needed to load windows, and it is jamming up there. Hopefully this will let you load the gui, and restore the damage.
  3. Is either PC doing anything else? Do they both have fast processors and enough RAM and fast hard drives? All these items affect the maximum speed at which things can be transferred; IE they cannot be sent faster than they can be read and they cannot be recieved faster than they can be written. What about your antivirus and firewall: are they set to scan internal network traffic? If so , disable that scan and see if it helps.
  4. For IE that would be a global windows setting Right click desktop , choose properties, appearance, advanced I think the item in question is menu, may be title bar .
  5. Is it a magnifying glass I am reminded of quickview / quickview pro(Plus), which opens when you have a file format nothing else handles. ALL I seem to find is references to DOS and Linux versions but I had it on windows for years Ah here it is Quick View Plus http://www.avantstar.com/Products/Quick_Vi...iewPlusOverview http://club.coolmaps.com/product_review_qvpa.cfm I think it used to be bundled in Netscape , so having it in mozilla full is not impossible http://store.digitalriver.com/store/avants...ductID.59043000 They have free plugins of the basic QuickView integrated into Mozilla, and A
  6. With no spleen I know where you are coming from. I too am dealing with summertime flu. Today was really bad; migrane level headache, nausea, eyes blurry and hurt , skin hurts, joints hurt, back and neck ache. Took four aspirin and three advil (out of tylenol normally it is three aspirin two tylenol but am out of tylenol) before I remembered I had bought a bunch of Excedrin back and body . The aspirin helps with the fever , although it has been some time since I had a solid night sleep (fever dreams you know, sure to wake you enough to get the kidneys running again and have to wake up and
  7. Great tool Chuck. I thought I had uninstalled all my old java long time ago; but it found several files the uninstallers (and deleting folders) had missed. Definitely a must have in the old toolkit.
  8. Now that scares me. There have been to many instances of Windows Update misidentifying hardware and installing incorrect drivers causing serious problems. And the most common thing they misidentify is hard drive controllers. If you know for sure what driver it updated you may want to try a driver rollback. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/h...errollback.mspx
  9. Likewise I recommend leaving the recovery partition alone. The few GB of space you gain is negligible on a drive of that size and you may find that you need it down the line. What do you do if the image disk you made turns out to be corrupt, if it gets damaged, if it turns out not to work when you finally get around to trying it? What if it does not do what you think it will do , maybe everything comes back read only, maybe it does not come back. Then you wind up contacting the manufacturer and hoping they still support your machine and have a copy of the recovery disk they will sell you ;
  10. I'm against lower limits but, the point about DRIVING slower is an excellent one. I'm trying. Really. But it's a tough habit to break. At least now I don't get impatient when there's a slow driver in front of me. Instead of, "Why the ...?" I think, "I'm savin' gas!" I agree; not all vehicles get peak performance at 55MPH (My truck seems to get best mileage at about 70 , not 55. ), what about overdrive , modified performance chips etc; not to mention those whose living depends on travel. Time is money and they may be willing to pay for the extra gas if it means an extra delivery or se
  11. Yours do that to? Ours are pretty well trained, for the most part to paraphrase Sean Connery in "Red October" Two barks and two barks only One and only one member of the pack will come to the back door and face it directly and give two barks , then they lie down and wait. Only if they get no response in a reasonable time do they go to the bedroom window and repeat the proceedure. Any other barking pattern and we know that either someone is in the back alley, someone is walking a dog and has stopped in front of the house, a squirrel is throwing nuts at them, etc . Each has a unique pattern as
  12. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Tacitus That got me thinking about a bunch of Robert Heinlein quotes . When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure "good" government; it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things but want no part of the blame.
  13. The problem is the rapid rise of the cost of gas and diesel combined with the vastness of the country. The Rail system has drastically shrunk as reliance on trucks hauling freight over the interstate cut into profits and as a result our Rail system still primarily relies on Diesel locomotives. Instead of investing on rebuilding our infrastructure we have thrown away three trillion dollars on the war in Iraq and to make matters worse that money was borrowed from the Chinese rather than paid for by raising taxes and the debt continues to rise. We seriously need new leadership which takes i
  14. I tend to leave the TV on as background (The dogs like to watch cartoons , although I prefer Food Network) Currently Rachel Ray is cooking Salmon burgers with sour cream. What a waste of Salmon. I can see using canned Mackerel or Chum.
  15. I'll have to ask the OL when she finally gets up. She watches that kind of sick movie; and she gets into remembering trivial stuff like that. Silence Of The lambs was the only one I watched of that series and that only a couple times. I recall an episode of Diners Drive ins and Dives where they went to a Mexican joint in Austin or San Antonio run by a woman from Argentina where she made stove top enchiladas (as opposed to the ones you have to cook in the oven in a lasagne pan.). Basically as I remember it, you make the meat filling , take a corn tortilla and dip it into some hot enchila
  16. My bet is that once the issue was identified, they had a hotfix available which should already have been pushed to affected computers by windows update.
  17. Yep and then your ISP pays for access to a backbone and that backbone provider pays for access to other backbones etc. The whole internet is a shared network eventually so why worry about it? You have choices: DSL, Cable, Fiber, Wireless, Satellite. You weigh the cost versus performance and choose the one which meets your needs. You hope that when they sell you a package that they have taken into account the other customers which will eventually be sharing the connection and that you will get what you thought you would and they do not try imposing bandwidth caps and filters to limit you.
  18. Caught me on the machine I have 7-zip on rather than Izarc but it should work pretty much the same. You will go to the zip file and double click it or right click and choose open with Izarc. Then select the single file inside you want extracted and choose from the file menu to extract that file to another location (you can always extract them all to a single folder and then move them from there to where you want. http://www.izarc.org/tutorials.html
  19. Yeah; I put real crab , crawdads, and unshelled shrimp all in the category of a novelty you may try (and good at that) but not worth the time and space on the plate normally. It is pretty bad when you spend more time getting to the food than you do actually eating it. No I am not squeamish; I have no problem with the eyes on whole shrimp and crayfish (although the OL does) or other fish for that matter. When you go for em whole , then they deserve to be served straight up (like at a crab or crayfish boil) with other stuff on the side and plenty of room for the mess . Mussels; Usually I mi
  20. Maybe this will clear it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL In the early days, when you had ISDN (Individual Subscriber Digital Network) you had one pair for the Digital traffic and a separate pair of copper wires for the voice. DSLAM or digital subscriber line access multiplexer refers to using a single pair of copper wires to carry both your voice traffic and your digital stream. It does not refer to your sharing your connection (wire) with your neighbors. With DSL you have a dedicated copper wire connection to the Central Office or its equivalent (often an underground vault in your ne
  21. Remember that support of the OS is based on the release date of the Service pack. SP2 is nearing its end of mainstream support; so it is logical to push SP3 . Secondly there are some serious issues security wise which need addressing and SP3 gives a unified starting point. Why have multiple versions of patches one for XP no service packs, one for SP1, one for SP2 and another for SP3; especially since the older versions (no service pack and SP1) are no longer supported ? They try to accommodate those who refuse to change as long as possible (such as prolonging Outlook Express access to hotmai
  22. It turned out excellent. Those were some wonderfully sweet scallops. I could have eaten them just sauteed in butter, but I have to admit that in a cream sauce on pasta they are quite the treat. This week my favorite seafood purveyor (because they always have fresh top quality stuff) has Fresh Sea Scallops 20-30 o4 40-60 count at $4.99lb Prince Edward Ilse (Canadian) Farm raised mussels $1.99 lb Live Spanish Makcerel $1.79 a pound (they have tanks, with live catfish, tilapia, perch, and mackerel when available; you pick one out , they net it , and clean it for you then and there ). They also
  23. IZARC is a great free zip file manager http://www.izarc.org/ I am not really clear on what you are dealing with. DO you have a single zip file which when opened contains three files? Yes, you can select them individually and select extract selection and extract each one at a time. Or do you mean you have three separate zip files and combined they form the program when all are extracted to a single folder and you only want to extract the contents of one? Again there should be no problem extracting just what you want; but it may not be functional until all files are extracted and combined as n
  24. I prefer different browsers for different things. One thing I like about both Firefox and IE7 is that you can use Mcafee Site Adviser and / or WOT to give safety ratings of search results. It is much faster in Firefox than IE though http://www.mywot.com/ http://www.siteadvisor.com/ Then there are the things like stylish and no script and adblock in firefox which make it really great for forums and a lot of sites where you really do not want all the crap , but do not want everything blocked or want to be able to enable it quickly. I like Opera mainly for its image handling capability. There is
  25. They say that in Texas sometimes; but not in the summer. Generally speaking once the Central Texas High pressure dome forms it pushes all fronts off and away , those comming down from the north get swept off to the east and those comming up from the southwest get pushed north and those comming from the gulf get held down there. We did get a pop up shower yesterday evening; I even heard thunder in the distance but it was barely enough to wet the dust. Today looks like 101 with a heat index of 104.