JDoors
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Wow, some nice luxury features there; Countertops, flooring, etc. I lived in a luxury complex a long time ago (more than twenty years) and it was nowhere NEAR as nice.
On the other hand, my first apartment was no bigger than the living room in my current home.
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The options dialog box breaks things down more along the lines of what is found ON the disk. There is, as far as I can find, no way to specify, "Don't do anything with THIS PARTICULAR disk." Here are the options I have:
Audio CD <options>
Enhanced Audio CD <options>
DVD Movie <options>
Enhanced DVD Movie <options>
Software and Games <options>
Pictures <options>
Video Files <options>
Audio Files <options>
Blank CD <options>
Blank DVD <options>
Blank BD <options>
Mixed Content <options>
Blu-ray Disk Movie <options>
DVD-Audio <options>
Video CD <options>
"Mixed Content" seems to be one possibility, but then ANY disk I plug in that has mixed content won't ask me what I want to do with that disk. Is that my only option? Is there something I'm missing?
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Windows 7 64-bit
I have one of those external USB-powered drives mainly meant to be used for backups (which is what I'm using it for).
When my computer goes to "sleep" then wakes, the AutoPlay dialog box opens asking me what I want to do with that drive. I don't want to "do" anything, backups are set to automatic.
The AutoPlay settings have tons of options for every kind of media you can imagine, but no particular option to turn off the dialog box for hard drives. Plug in a CD? Tons of options. Music on a drive? Options. Blu-Ray disk? No options (I don't have a BR player -- Ha! Gotcha!).
So is there a way to disable that dialog box for a single hard drive? I plug others in (generally thumb-drives) and I often DO want that dialog box for those, so if there's a way to turn it off completely, that's not really ideal. Just the one drive.
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I have a sister-in-law who lives in L.A. She'd never been to Chicago and when she visited she went on and on and on about how lucky we are to have a logical and well planned public transit system. She managed to go everywhere from day one, see all the sites, by herself, using public transit. I lived in Chicago but even I didn't know how to get around that well!
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Man, you push ONE wrong button ...
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Jesus. Unwrappiing Christmas presents must take you 'til New Year's day!
Love that album -- but don't care for vinyl (despite having an extensive collection, I never listen to 'em).
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You didn't say what browser, but for IE, and for some odd reason, it "remembers" the SECOND open browser size as the default. That's why we've said open TWO browser windows, set them to max, then close them. The second one you close should be remembered as your default size.
If at any time after that you have a second open window and close it, say for a popup from some site, it may "remember" THAT as your new default size. It's rather infuriating 'til you get the hang of the workaround: Opening a second window, sizing it, and closing it. Shouldn't be necessary just to set the default window size, but it's been that way for a long time.
Other browsers, I have no idea.
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It's something that needs "attention." When I switched to Windows 7 I had the same thing, it was McAfee. Every time it checked something, the taskbar "blinked." Switched to another security software suite (for other reasons) and it no longer happens (or has become so subtle I no longer notice it).
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Just a reminder not to be mislead into thinking you CAN'T use XP any more. It will just have far fewer updates.
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Could it be you are using the word "maximize" in a way that we are mis-understanding?
Do you mean getting your BROWSER to maximize? (That's what I thought you meant.)
Or, do you mean getting the BT WEBSITE to fill the entire width of your browser window?
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Hope they knock that bug outta you ASAP! Best wishes.
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I'd try, after maximizing the first window with BT, opening a SECOND window of BT and maximize that too. Close them both and your system should "remember" that ANY window should be maximized.
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You cannot fight fate!
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Oh thank goodness. The crashes were just normal Windows behavior then.
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Using the money that backs the bonds for other purposes isn't uncommon either.
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A bond is a promise to pay a certain amount of money back at some point in the future. There is no "money" in the fund.
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Well Marty, as I said, I switched just for the heck of it when it came out, and I am absolutely convinced it's a better search engine than Google.
Have you ever had to go to more pages in a Google search? I have, plenty of times. Bing? Not yet (yesterday I came close to having to go to page two, but I was looking for "every" instance of a search phrase, not one result in particular).
Though, as I said, when I do image searches I do go beyond the first results (as I always had to do in Google), but Bing shows ALL the result on one page, as you scroll down it just displays more images. There IS no "page 2" in image searches with Bing, and I prefer that FAR more than next page, next page, next page, next page, etc. with Google.
Then there's the whole IE8 thing where you hover over a result and you get a small display of that page without having to actually GO there -- I often get just the right additional information I was looking for, without ever going to the page.
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Do you know what's IN those "funds?" Government bonds.
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I was watching television and one of those Bing! ads came on, you know the ones, where someone says something benign, and other people take that word or phrase and start going off on completely irrelevant tangent; Son, "Dad, can I borrow the car? Dad, "Father's day gifts and a reasonable price!" Mom, "Stockmarket prices have been ... " Sister, "Learn marketable skills at ..." Son, thinking, "What does all this have to do with my question?"
Got me to thinkin', what HAS my experience with Bing! been? I switched over to it completely when it went live as a kinda-sorta experiment, just to try something new. You know what came to my mind? That I never, since the day it came out, have had to go to "Page 2." Try as I might at that time, I couldn't even think of what the page turning tool looks like. "Where is it? What's it look like?" I do not at this minute know how to go to page two, I've never HAD to.
I must ALWAYS get the results I'm looking for on the first page, and now that I think of it, in the first few results. I barely remember looking further down the page. I do remember looking at all the results on page one, but it's so rare I actually remember the times it's happened.
With Google I remember going, sometimes, up to page ten (a number I chose at random to indicate a completely failed search), before I gave up and tried another search. I've reset the search parameters with Bing!, but it's when I don't get the results in the first few returns, and the second search almost always gives me what I needed.
I don't recall how long it's been around, but ... I'm satisfied.
That's WEB search, image search is similar to Google, pages and pages, but I'm probably looking for something other than "one" definitive result for images.
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Well, at least the P.O. has taken some kind of action, it's now allowed to raise rates annually, which you know not only will they do, but they need to do (no, I don't like paying more, but even a dollar to send a letter across the country is still a deal compared to elsewhere). That their volume has decreased by over ten percent when everything else is at that level of disfunction or worse is less indictment of their business than an indication of the level of decline in the economy as a whole.
All the talk about "robbing" funds from one source to use elsewhere is B.S. Those programs aren't set up as "funds," there are no "funds" to rob, they use financial accounting trickery that allows the money to be used elsewhere, and you can bet it has been used elsewhere, for a long, long time, like decades.
The war on poverty wasn't designated a "homeless" program. There are far fewer people living in abject squallor than then, though much of that can be attributed to growth in general. There may be even more homeless now than then, but that's what you get when you close down facilities that provided mental health treatment and kick criminals out onto the street due to a lack of funding and space.
The debate over TARP isn't solely about how much it cost or whether or not it will be repaid or when. And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't TARP a Bush program that Obama extended? How it's a right-wing vs left-wing issue I'm not sure ... except that for some people EVERYTHING is a right-wing vs left-wing issue.
SOME Japanese autos are made here (however, many of the most expensive assemblies, like engines, are sourced elsewhere), but Toyota, for example, the company that benefited the most from CFC, imports around half of their cars. Honda imports around thirty percent, others import most or even all of their cars. Not that that really matters any more as many American models are not made within the borders of the United States anyway.
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You'd be LUCKY if that's ALL a ticked off nurse did to you!
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You reminded me of one of the main reasons I switched, McAfee. I haven't had any problems with McAfee for several years now (there was a time when updates would crash), but ... I thought it was about time I started using a free solution, so I thought I'd at least give MSSE a try.
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Sure the USPS is good... for us. They still lost over a billion this year. I'd call that broken... This article also failed to mention Amtrak.
No problem, the taxpayer will continue to prop up all of Washington's failures. Think about it, the bigger gub'ment gets the smaller your paycheck gets... But not to worry, Auntie Pelosi, and Uncles Franks and Reid will take care of you.
One thing that'd help is if the people who MAKE the laws, had to abide by them. Guess who has their own post office, with their own postage meters, pricing, special handling, etc. And guess who won't have to use the health care system being foisted upon us. Or social security. Or, well, practically any laws whatsoever.
If they HAD to abide by the laws they pass, things'd be very, very different.
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Well, I'd take issue with the Post Office being broken. The butt of jokes, sure, but all my letters get delivered and I receive all my mail, and at a reasonable cost.
The takeover of the health care industry is a done deal as far as I can tell, might as well get used to it.
New external drive, AutoPlay insists on a dialog box on wakeup
in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP
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Those instructions don't work for me, I don't get the "Programs" search results. If I try the "Run" command it replies that program is not found.
Not sure that's what I need as it appears to turn off ALL disks of one kind, I'm wonderin' if I can turn off Autoplay just for this one drive that I want to leave plugged in.