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1551.	Solve : Mouse scroll wheel malfunctioning?
Answer» My webpage keeps scrolling up and down RANDOMLY and this stops only when I plug out the USB cord connecting the mouse to my laptop. I still have control over the scroll wheel but I cannot stop it from scrolling randomly. This is not a problem with my browser because this also AFFECTS things like the volume meter, weapon changes in VIDEO games. I have tried connecting the mouse to other ports with no success. Please help Please do not post the same question more than once. I'm locking this thread.

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1552.	Solve : sending in outlook?
Answer» USING WIN 8 with MS outlook 2010. Problem with outlook. Receive all messages but all send messages go to OUTBOX. Using Comcast as mail . Problem started 2 days ago, out of the blue. Everything was working. How to fix OUTGOING messages Thanks.Do a Send/Receive and observe PROGRESS, NOTING messages. Check with Comcast customer services.

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1553.	Solve : Excel 'if' statement.?
Answer» Hey Guys, I have an issue that NEEDS to be addressed. I have a worksheet with 380 rows of yes/no questions. I need to summarize the yes no answers on SHEET 2. What I want to do is list the questions, (in an organized fashion) That have been answered with a 'no'. BTW, Macros are not an OPTION! Thanks for any help, CalicoWhy not just sort on the "no" column? Have tried an Auto-filter? On the Data, click on filter. It will set your top row with options to filter. Select your column and filter to no or yes. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 22, 2013, 07:53:11 AM Have tried an Auto-filter? ... which is a way of sorting. Very useful tool.

1553.

Solve : Excel 'if' statement.?

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Hey Guys,
I have an issue that NEEDS to be addressed. I have a worksheet with 380 rows of yes/no questions. I need to summarize the yes no answers on SHEET 2. What I want to do is list the questions, (in an organized fashion) That have been answered with a 'no'. BTW, Macros are not an OPTION!
Thanks for any help,
CalicoWhy not just sort on the "no" column? Have tried an Auto-filter? On the Data, click on filter. It will set your top row with options to filter. Select your column and filter to no or yes. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 22, 2013, 07:53:11 AM

Have tried an Auto-filter?

... which is a way of sorting. Very useful tool.

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1554.	Solve : can not print from paint?
Answer» Greetings, windows 7 home premium. For years if I wanted to print a screenshot - PrtScn, copy to paint, change layout to landscape and FIT to 1 by 1. and it is not working for me (only getting about a 1/4 of the picture) Is there something different about paint in Win 7? I've had this computer for 2 years and thought for sure I had USED this method before, or was that for XP ? Thanks.You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. Quote from: glathem40 on November 18, 2013, 08:48:55 AM Is there something different about paint in Win 7? Not as far as this technique is concerned. It should work. Sorry, I do not know what the problem is. However, you could use the Snipping Tool in Windows 7. You can find it in Accessories in the Programs Menu. It's a very handy tool for capturing screen prints. You can save the image from Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is more flexible in selecting selecting the area you capture. If you still want to crop or modify the image, you can open it in Paint to do that. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 18, 2013, 09:28:45 AM You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. I don't believe canvas size is an issue here. Paint should accept any size screen print regardless of the size of the canvas when Paint is opened. Actually canvas SETTINGS have a lot to do with it. Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Other programs such as Paint.net do not make these assumptions and ask if you would like to adjust during a paste. Lets say the default canvas setting is 800x600 and the users screen setting is 1920x1080, when pasting the full screen would not fit into the canvas. Now the easy way to test this before moving onto other solutions, is to paste into Wordpad which by default reduces any clipboard object to fit within its pages. Allowing us to make sure we are getting full copies to the clipboard. REMEMBER this would be a troubleshooting process.Chris, I hear your reasoning and it's logical but Paint simply does not work that way. I presume we have the same concept of the canvas; it's the drawing area when you open Paint. You cannot use any of Paint's drawing tools outside of the canvas area. But, when doing a screen capture, Paint accepts the image pasted into it, regardless of how large the image is, regardless of whether that image is larger than the canvas size when a new Paint window was opened. In other words, Paint enlarges the canvas to fit the pasted image. This adjusted canvas size is temporary. If you save that pasted image to a file, close Paint, and reopen it, the canvas size reverts back to its size before that pasting of a larger image into it. Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 19, 2013, 06:25:24 AM Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Think about what you just said, Does it make sense? In effect, you're saying that the user must determine the size of an image before pasting it into Paint to be sure that part of their image does not get cut off. Fortunately, that is not necessary, as I explained above. Quote Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. No, it does not. The default canvas size is, I'm sure, the same on any new Windows system with default settings. But, even if the size on new machines is varied for some reason, it is irrelevant to the issue here since Paint accepts whatever size image is pasted into it, regardless of the canvas size immediately before the paste action. Thanks for the responses (sorry for the delay). The size of the image on the screen is really not the issue, what I want to do is simply print a screen shot (regardless of the size of the image on the screen at that time). I know that there are plenty of programs, ways ect. print a screen shot, but I really wanted to paste this image into paint because I wanted to add a word balloon to the image. The problem is properly printing the image. The method to print the image that I described in my first POST has worked for me for years ( I know on XP but i'm not sure about win 7). Thanks and Cheers !Let's clarify a point that I thinks clarification? Are you talking printing on paper? If so, what size sheets?

1554.

Solve : can not print from paint?

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Greetings,
windows 7 home premium. For years if I wanted to print a screenshot - PrtScn, copy to paint, change layout to landscape and FIT to 1 by 1. and it is not working for me (only getting about a 1/4 of the picture) Is there something different about paint in Win 7? I've had this computer for 2 years and thought for sure I had USED this method before, or was that for XP ? Thanks.You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture. Quote from: glathem40 on November 18, 2013, 08:48:55 AM

Is there something different about paint in Win 7?

Not as far as this technique is concerned. It should work. Sorry, I do not know what the problem is. However, you could use the Snipping Tool in Windows 7. You can find it in Accessories in the Programs Menu. It's a very handy tool for capturing screen prints. You can save the image from Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is more flexible in selecting selecting the area you capture. If you still want to crop or modify the image, you can open it in Paint to do that.

Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 18, 2013, 09:28:45 AM

You are probably pasting a picture to large for canvas size. Try pasting in Wordpad to see if you get the entire picture.

I don't believe canvas size is an issue here. Paint should accept any size screen print regardless of the size of the canvas when Paint is opened. Actually canvas SETTINGS have a lot to do with it. Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds. Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner. Other programs such as Paint.net do not make these assumptions and ask if you would like to adjust during a paste. Lets say the default canvas setting is 800x600 and the users screen setting is 1920x1080, when pasting the full screen would not fit into the canvas. Now the easy way to test this before moving onto other solutions, is to paste into Wordpad which by default reduces any clipboard object to fit within its pages. Allowing us to make sure we are getting full copies to the clipboard. REMEMBER this would be a troubleshooting process.Chris, I hear your reasoning and it's logical but Paint simply does not work that way. I presume we have the same concept of the canvas; it's the drawing area when you open Paint. You cannot use any of Paint's drawing tools outside of the canvas area. But, when doing a screen capture, Paint accepts the image pasted into it, regardless of how large the image is, regardless of whether that image is larger than the canvas size when a new Paint window was opened. In other words, Paint enlarges the canvas to fit the pasted image.

This adjusted canvas size is temporary. If you save that pasted image to a file, close Paint, and reopen it, the canvas size reverts back to its size before that pasting of a larger image into it.

Quote from: Chrisxs5 on November 19, 2013, 06:25:24 AM

Also Paint does not ask any canvas size questions when pasting from the clipboard, it assumes that you have already set the size in which you need and then places your paste into the top left corner.

Think about what you just said, Does it make sense? In effect, you're saying that the user must determine the size of an image before pasting it into Paint to be sure that part of their image does not get cut off. Fortunately, that is not necessary, as I explained above.

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Canvas settings for the program can vary depending on individual machines and Windows install builds.

No, it does not. The default canvas size is, I'm sure, the same on any new Windows system with default settings. But, even if the size on new machines is varied for some reason, it is irrelevant to the issue here since Paint accepts whatever size image is pasted into it, regardless of the canvas size immediately before the paste action. Thanks for the responses (sorry for the delay). The size of the image on the screen is really not the issue, what I want to do is simply print a screen shot (regardless of the size of the image on the screen at that time). I know that there are plenty of programs, ways ect. print a screen shot, but I really wanted to paste this image into paint because I wanted to add a word balloon to the image. The problem is properly printing the image. The method to print the image that I described in my first POST has worked for me for years ( I know on XP but i'm not sure about win 7). Thanks and Cheers !Let's clarify a point that I thinks clarification? Are you talking printing on paper? If so, what size sheets?

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1555.	Solve : 7-zip Cannot Compress?
Answer» I have got the first billion digits of pi in .txt FORMAT. It is 1.5 GB big. I'm planning on sharing it on the internet, but I don't want to put a 1.5 GB text file up there. So, I tried to compress it using 7-zip. Unfortunately, 7-zip failed to compress it...it came up with a message: "system cannot allocate the required amount of memory." Is there any WAY to fix this problem? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!Seems to be a common problem faced by many people. Found a link you might wanna see. Among COMPRESSION tools, 7-zip is unusually hard on memory. Anyhow, why bother, when it is already being shared? You are only going to hammer your upload and web storage when a big research place has already done it. Also, if I want 1 billion places of pi, I (presumably) want to be able to trust they are the right ones, (OK I know 3.141592653 already) so where do I go, MIT or some guy on the web I never heard of? Uncompressed (1 GB) at MIT (Folks, don't click on this link in a browser unless you have a lot of time on your hands... right click and choose Save as...) http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt 7-zip compressed (490 MB) http://micronetsoftware.com/pi_day/pi/pi.7z I have downloaded the uncompressed text and using WinRAR (64-bit version) "best" compression setting I compressed it in 13 minutes and got a smaller file size than the 7-zip archive at Micronet... 1,000,000,002 pi-billion.txt 514,753,983 pi.7z 434,964,971 pi-billion.rar If I had to use 7-zip I would probably use some method of splitting the original file into chunks, or maybe if you ask 7-zip to split the archive you can reduce the memory hit? Your figure of 1.5 GB for the plain text file seems a bit big.Using a very simple method you can reduce a billion digits to about 500 million bytes with little effort. A single decimal digit only needs 4 bits to represent its value. If reduced to binary as a very looooong integer would take even less. About 333 million bytes. Forget the decimal point. We all know the first three digits are 3.14 anyway.At the moment, I am trying to compress the 1-billion-place text file using 7-zip "ultra" compression, splitting the archive into 100 MB chunks. It estimates 35 minutes to completion, and Process Explorer's memory figure ("working set") has stabilised at 682 MB. I can imagine 7-zip would be not the compression tool of choice if RAM was limited. WinRAR never went over 300 MB. Time to complete has gone up to 48 minutes... [EDIT] it took 49 minutes... 4 files created 100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.001 100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.002 100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.003 100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.004 40,941,343 pi-billion.7z.005Is the nonobjective speed or size? If you want speed and size, do it in machine code (assembly) by hand. This is a one-time thing. Right? so you make a specific ASM program t o do it once. The output will be a self-extracting EXE file that prints to the output device. Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 13, 2013, 11:07:20 PM Is the nonobjective speed or size? The objective was reduced size, for web sharing. Time taken to compress is not, I think, an issue. This approach might be fun: With curl.exe http://curl.haxx.se/ you can download a range of pi digits so if you want to examine them you don't even need the billion digit file to be stored locally. Store the first 10 digits of Pi in pi-10-digits.txt (the start character is 2 because the first character of the file is the decimal point) curl -o pi-10-digits.txt -r 2-11 http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt result: 1415926535 Store the 50 digits of Pi starting at the 70th digit in pi-50-digits-from70.txt curl -o pi-50-digits-from-70.txt -r 71-121 http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt result: 406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647 Salmon Trout, you are beyond brilliant! How do you find such things? Are you riving inside of Google?Came back, and saw all these great, helpful replies.....thanks very much. And Salmon Trout, the curl.exe was very INTERESTING! Thanks!You can use curl.exe to get a range of bytes (or in this case, characters) from a local file. You have to convert the file path to a file url starting file:/// and using forward slashes instead of backslashes: From the local file D:\Pi\pi-billion.txt, create a text file with the first 10 digits of Pi (the start character is 2 because the first character of the file is the decimal point): curl -o pi-10-digits.txt -r 2-11 file:///d:/pi/pi-billion.txt Thus you see that curl.exe can be used as a local file splitter. I found a pi calculator program for Windows by Fabrice Bellard http://www.bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/tpi-0.9.3-win.zip I calculated the first billion places of Pi on my home PC (AMD Phenom II 945, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit) and it took 1 hour 4 minutes. I chose to limit RAM usage to 1 GB and also to store some of the intermediate results on disk rather than keep them in RAM. If I had gone for the all-RAM option it would have been a lot quicker but the PC would have been quite slow at doing other tasks. I compared the first million digits of my CALCULATION with the first million of the MIT billion digit file and they are the same. Next: compare the full billion. Of course it won't prove that either set is "right"... Pi' are round...

1555.

Solve : 7-zip Cannot Compress?

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I have got the first billion digits of pi in .txt FORMAT. It is 1.5 GB big. I'm planning on sharing it on the internet, but I don't want to put a 1.5 GB text file up there. So, I tried to compress it using 7-zip. Unfortunately, 7-zip failed to compress it...it came up with a message: "system cannot allocate the required amount of memory."
Is there any WAY to fix this problem? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!Seems to be a common problem faced by many people. Found a link you might wanna see. Among COMPRESSION tools, 7-zip is unusually hard on memory. Anyhow, why bother, when it is already being shared? You are only going to hammer your upload and web storage when a big research place has already done it. Also, if I want 1 billion places of pi, I (presumably) want to be able to trust they are the right ones, (OK I know 3.141592653 already) so where do I go, MIT or some guy on the web I never heard of?

Uncompressed (1 GB) at MIT

(Folks, don't click on this link in a browser unless you have a lot of time on your hands... right click and choose Save as...)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt

7-zip compressed (490 MB)

http://micronetsoftware.com/pi_day/pi/pi.7z

I have downloaded the uncompressed text and using WinRAR (64-bit version) "best" compression setting I compressed it in 13 minutes and got a smaller file size than the 7-zip archive at Micronet...

1,000,000,002 pi-billion.txt
514,753,983 pi.7z
434,964,971 pi-billion.rar

If I had to use 7-zip I would probably use some method of splitting the original file into chunks, or maybe if you ask 7-zip to split the archive you can reduce the memory hit?

Your figure of 1.5 GB for the plain text file seems a bit big.Using a very simple method you can reduce a billion digits to about 500 million bytes with little effort. A single decimal digit only needs 4 bits to represent its value. If reduced to binary as a very looooong integer would take even less. About 333 million bytes. Forget the decimal point. We all know the first three digits are 3.14 anyway.At the moment, I am trying to compress the 1-billion-place text file using 7-zip "ultra" compression, splitting the archive into 100 MB chunks. It estimates 35 minutes to completion, and Process Explorer's memory figure ("working set") has stabilised at 682 MB. I can imagine 7-zip would be not the compression tool of choice if RAM was limited. WinRAR never went over 300 MB.
Time to complete has gone up to 48 minutes... [EDIT] it took 49 minutes... 4 files created

100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.001
100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.002
100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.003
100,000,000 pi-billion.7z.004
40,941,343 pi-billion.7z.005Is the nonobjective speed or size?
If you want speed and size, do it in machine code (assembly) by hand. This is a one-time thing. Right? so you make a specific ASM program t o do it once. The output will be a self-extracting EXE file that prints to the output device.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 13, 2013, 11:07:20 PM

Is the nonobjective speed or size?

The objective was reduced size, for web sharing. Time taken to compress is not, I think, an issue.
This approach might be fun:

With curl.exe http://curl.haxx.se/ you can download a range of pi digits so if you want to examine them you don't even need the billion digit file to be stored locally.

Store the first 10 digits of Pi in pi-10-digits.txt (the start character is 2 because the first character of the file is the decimal point)

curl -o pi-10-digits.txt -r 2-11 http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt

result:

1415926535

Store the 50 digits of Pi starting at the 70th digit in pi-50-digits-from70.txt

curl -o pi-50-digits-from-70.txt -r 71-121 http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt

result:

406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647

Salmon Trout, you are beyond brilliant!
How do you find such things?
Are you riving inside of Google?Came back, and saw all these great, helpful replies.....thanks very much. And Salmon Trout, the curl.exe was very INTERESTING! Thanks!You can use curl.exe to get a range of bytes (or in this case, characters) from a local file. You have to convert the file path to a file url starting file:/// and using forward slashes instead of backslashes:

From the local file D:\Pi\pi-billion.txt, create a text file with the first 10 digits of Pi (the start character is 2 because the first character of the file is the decimal point):

curl -o pi-10-digits.txt -r 2-11 file:///d:/pi/pi-billion.txt

Thus you see that curl.exe can be used as a local file splitter.

I found a pi calculator program for Windows by Fabrice Bellard http://www.bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/tpi-0.9.3-win.zip

I calculated the first billion places of Pi on my home PC (AMD Phenom II 945, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit) and it took 1 hour 4 minutes. I chose to limit RAM usage to 1 GB and also to store some of the intermediate results on disk rather than keep them in RAM. If I had gone for the all-RAM option it would have been a lot quicker but the PC would have been quite slow at doing other tasks.

I compared the first million digits of my CALCULATION with the first million of the MIT billion digit file and they are the same.
Next: compare the full billion. Of course it won't prove that either set is "right"...
Pi' are round...

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1556.	Solve : Visual Equalizer that follows the audio that plays from youtube.?
Answer» The title says most of it, i've been looking all over for a SOFTWARE that i can play in the background, an visual equalizer that follows the audio that PLAYS from Youtube. Have anyone heard about such a program?You could try this program: http://www.morphyre.com/ After a quick Google SEARCH, it looks as though there are a few programs that do this - but the full features are not FREE. Here is another one (that is not free): http://www.soundspectrum.com/aeon/about.html

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1557.	Solve : backup many files using multiple blank dvds?
Answer» i would like to backup all the files that we have on the computer. we have many blank dvds so we will use them for backup. each blank dvd is 4.7gigs in capacity. the total files to be backed up is more than 20gigs. i want to preserve the way they are arranged. i want to know what software can i use so i just tell it to backup a certain set of files and i just have to insert the blank dvd, NEXT dvd, then the next till the all files are backed up.You need a burner utility that spans discs such as the one suggested at this google hit: http://www.howtogeek.com/76264/how-to-burn-data-across-multiple-dvd-or-cd-discs/ This INFO is old and may or not still be the same for the software used. Here is good list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_software Also, here are a few I know about. EaseUS Todo Backup Free Macrium Reflect Free DriveImage XML I believe all terse have a spanning FEATURE built-in. You will need to Google to find the right link. Be Careful! , some software downloads sites have gone postal, they will attack you while offending free software. IMHO you should only use TOP quality DVDs. EDIT: You may want to look at what Nero now offers. It is free to try, but after 15 days you have to buy it. Nero has a good reputation. Nero BackItUp 12 trial wonderful. thanks given.

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1558.	Solve : Blue Lines on left side of emails - how to remove?
Answer» I RECEIVE emails with blue lines on the left side. They seem impossible to remove. One person thinks they come from AOL. Does anyone know anything about this? Quote I receive emails with blue lines on the left side. Blue lines where, in the email?I belong to a few informal groups that forward jokes etc. to other members. MANY of the emails I receive have blue lines on them. On the Left side. I have spent an inordinate amount of effort trying to get rid of them and they won't go away when I try to forward the email. Should I include one? I presume I can add an attachement here. You mean vertical lines, right? I THINK you'll find your solution here: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6638_102-0.html?forumID=15&threadID=267150&messageID=2601575Thanks, Mr/Ms. Soy. However, I use Outlook and cannot find a similar link/checkbox/option to the one in the Cnet forum thread. I wonder where these blue lines come from? How do they get there? Are they table or section borders? Thanks. Those marks get there due to SETTINGS in the senders email client. For example, with Windows Mail (Windows Vista), this setting is shown in this screen print: Outlook Express has the same setting. I found a setting in Outlook 2007 that would enable the feature. Apparently, the default setting upon installation of Office is Disable. If you WANT to know where the setting is in Outlook, let me know. I have Outlook 2003 on another ccmputer. Quote Are they table or section borders? I'm not sure of the exact technical classification, but I see I can remove them by going into the Source view in Windows Mail and removing some code lines. On AOL, to rid your e mails of the blue lines on the left side do this: Go to "SETTINGS " on your AOL toolbar at the top of your screen. Once you have clicked into settings, click ok " A to Z, " or " Show ALL Categories. " Click on " e Mail Settings. " A screen will come up. Look at the very bottom of that screen. The last option. There are 3 options, with three circles. Click the CIRCLE that says " None. " Then click " Save." Log off of AOL. Log back onto AOL. Now, when you forward an e mail, the blue lines will be gone. This works on ALL Versions of AOL. Now, if you could only get everyone else on AOL to do the same thing, there wouldn't be ANY blue lines. Hope this helps. ~S~They haven't been back in 5 Years...

1558.

Solve : Blue Lines on left side of emails - how to remove?

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I RECEIVE emails with blue lines on the left side. They seem impossible to remove. One person thinks they come from AOL. Does anyone know anything about this? Quote

I receive emails with blue lines on the left side.

Blue lines where, in the email?I belong to a few informal groups that forward jokes etc. to other members. MANY of the emails I receive have blue lines on them. On the Left side. I have spent an inordinate amount of effort trying to get rid of them and they won't go away when I try to forward the email. Should I include one? I presume I can add an attachement here. You mean vertical lines, right? I THINK you'll find your solution here: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6638_102-0.html?forumID=15&threadID=267150&messageID=2601575Thanks, Mr/Ms. Soy. However, I use Outlook and cannot find a similar link/checkbox/option to the one in the Cnet forum thread. I wonder where these blue lines come from? How do they get there? Are they table or section borders? Thanks. Those marks get there due to SETTINGS in the senders email client. For example, with Windows Mail (Windows Vista), this setting is shown in this screen print:

Outlook Express has the same setting.

I found a setting in Outlook 2007 that would enable the feature. Apparently, the default setting upon installation of Office is Disable. If you WANT to know where the setting is in Outlook, let me know. I have Outlook 2003 on another ccmputer.

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Are they table or section borders?

I'm not sure of the exact technical classification, but I see I can remove them by going into the Source view in Windows Mail and removing some code lines. On AOL, to rid your e mails of the blue lines on the left side do this: Go to "SETTINGS " on your AOL toolbar at the top of your screen. Once you have clicked into settings, click ok " A to Z, " or " Show ALL Categories. " Click on " e Mail Settings. " A screen will come up. Look at the very bottom of that screen. The last option. There are 3 options, with three circles. Click the CIRCLE that says " None. " Then click " Save." Log off of AOL. Log back onto AOL. Now, when you forward an e mail, the blue lines will be gone. This works on ALL Versions of AOL. Now, if you could only get everyone else on AOL to do the same thing, there wouldn't be ANY blue lines. Hope this helps.
~S~They haven't been back in 5 Years...

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1559.	Solve : Sync Toy problems?
Answer» After having my computer in MALWARE removal in December, I decided I needed to get serious about backing up my data. I don't have external media, but I do have sufficient storage available on the different computers' hard drives on my LAN. I thought Sync Toy would be the ideal solution to sync folders such as My Documents, My Videos, etc. It ran well the first time I tried it, but when I came back to keep my folder sync up to date, I got almost entirely errors, mostly with messages like, "Unable to CREATE item, file already exists". When the program started to run, it said it was analyzing for changes and compiling a list of files to copy. So I don't understand why it would try to copy files that already exist. So now I have no confidence that the new files were actually copied to the backup location. Any IDEAS? Is there another program I should be using to do this? Thanks.The Sync Toy is a utility available free from Microsoft. A Google search shows other have problems with it. Here a link to the social network Microsoft. They say there is no easy workaround from the issue discussed. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/synctoy/threads Here is the most recent item found http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/synctoy/thread/9a93d0c0-bc45-4f42-864d-00fc41ce33be Perhaps you may wish to use another free sync program. Thanks Geek-9pm. I was afraid it would be something like that. I searched CNET and found a couple that seem AWKWARD and difficult to use. I was hoping someone would know what is the best software that people are using these days.SyncBack offers a Free version...worth a looksee.Thanks Patio. I see it has a 5 star review from CNET, so it may be just what I'm looking for. I don't know why something so obviously preferred didn't come up in my last search at CNET. I waded through 10 or 20 pages of programs and didn't see anything outstanding.CNET suxx... But let us know how it goes... Generally for Freeware i usually scan majorgeeks, softforge and others.I recently installed Allway Sync. Since I haven't USED it much yet, all I can say is that the initial synchronizing between a computer and an network hard drive went fine. Some user reviews at http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/Allway_Sync/Allway_Sync.html, for what they're worth. Quote from: patio on May 18, 2010, 02:55:34 PM SyncBack offers a Free version...worth a looksee. I'm only a little late getting back to you! The reason is that I found Windows Live Mesh met my needs. But when Live Mesh was discontinued, I didn't want to use SkyDrive as they intended, so I went back to your SyncBack suggestion. I did use it for a while. Live sync is not available in the free version. I used it successfully in the mirror function, but that was not as useful because if I had to do something in the secondary computer, it wouldn't pick it up in the primary computer. So I had to do a workaround to save it in the public folder and manually pick it up when I went back to the other computer. I switched to FreeFileSync now, which is nearly the same user interface, but is completely free with all the features. I just installed it, so we will see how it works out.

1559.

Solve : Sync Toy problems?

Answer»

After having my computer in MALWARE removal in December, I decided I needed to get serious about backing up my data.

I don't have external media, but I do have sufficient storage available on the different computers' hard drives on my LAN.

I thought Sync Toy would be the ideal solution to sync folders such as My Documents, My Videos, etc.

It ran well the first time I tried it, but when I came back to keep my folder sync up to date, I got almost entirely errors, mostly with messages like, "Unable to CREATE item, file already exists".

When the program started to run, it said it was analyzing for changes and compiling a list of files to copy. So I don't understand why it would try to copy files that already exist.

So now I have no confidence that the new files were actually copied to the backup location.

Any IDEAS? Is there another program I should be using to do this?

Thanks.The Sync Toy is a utility available free from Microsoft.

A Google search shows other have problems with it.
Here a link to the social network Microsoft. They say there is no easy workaround from the issue discussed.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/synctoy/threads

Here is the most recent item found
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/synctoy/thread/9a93d0c0-bc45-4f42-864d-00fc41ce33be

Perhaps you may wish to use another free sync program.

Thanks Geek-9pm.

I was afraid it would be something like that.

I searched CNET and found a couple that seem AWKWARD and difficult to use.

I was hoping someone would know what is the best software that people are using these days.SyncBack offers a Free version...worth a looksee.Thanks Patio.

I see it has a 5 star review from CNET, so it may be just what I'm looking for.

I don't know why something so obviously preferred didn't come up in my last search at CNET. I waded through 10 or 20 pages of programs and didn't see anything outstanding.CNET suxx...
But let us know how it goes...

Generally for Freeware i usually scan majorgeeks, softforge and others.I recently installed Allway Sync. Since I haven't USED it much yet, all I can say is that the initial synchronizing between a computer and an network hard drive went fine. Some user reviews at http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/Allway_Sync/Allway_Sync.html, for what they're worth. Quote from: patio on May 18, 2010, 02:55:34 PM

SyncBack offers a Free version...worth a looksee.

I'm only a little late getting back to you! The reason is that I found Windows Live Mesh met my needs. But when Live Mesh was discontinued, I didn't want to use SkyDrive as they intended, so I went back to your SyncBack suggestion. I did use it for a while. Live sync is not available in the free version. I used it successfully in the mirror function, but that was not as useful because if I had to do something in the secondary computer, it wouldn't pick it up in the primary computer. So I had to do a workaround to save it in the public folder and manually pick it up when I went back to the other computer. I switched to FreeFileSync now, which is nearly the same user interface, but is completely free with all the features. I just installed it, so we will see how it works out.

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1560.	Solve : can backup/restore usb drive transfer problem to remanufactered computer??
Answer» I had to send my Gateway SX2110 WIn8 back to Gateway for "software issues". I made a backup/restore usb drive before I mailed it in. I just GOT it back, and I'm worried that it will transfer the software problems ONTO the remanufactured COMPUTER. Is it possible? If so, how do I get the files I NEED off of the usb? Simply plugging it in won't transfer any "trouble" files...they would have to be opened on the new PC for that to happen... 2 things to consider:: you can run scans of all your protection apps on the backups beforehand...and ALSO be very selective what you copy back over to the new PC and you should be OK. NOTE: Programs cannot be copied back and expect to work...just files you need such as pics music etc.

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1561.	Solve : DOS based data to Windows 7?
Answer» I am trying to export or somehow transfer customer history from an old DOS program called CMS (Contractor Management Systems) into a new business software (As yet to be decided). Any suggestions on how to do so without hiring someone to do time consuming data re-entry? I have been told to re-enter all the data into EXCEL because then that should import easily into the new software. The problem is that we have customer HISTORIES that go back twenty years and that includes every service we have provided over the years. Is there a fast way to export the DOS programs data in to EXCEL or will we have to have someone manually re-enter the data into EXCEL?Will the old CMS program export to any type of file such as text (.txt) or CSV (.CSV), or any other? Excel can import a variety of file types. The problem I am having with the DOS based CMS program is that I can not find any place in the program with the option to "Save As", or "Send To" or anything of that nature. It is completely odd to me that there doesn't seem to be any way to take any of the CMS customer files and save them or send them anywhere. The company which designed the software went out of business back around 2001 so I can't even find a contact to ask about this situation. I wish I could find out how to save the database as .txt or as a csv file for Excel.What is the name of the DOS-based CMS program? There are database programmers out there who might be ABLE to do this, for a fee.The program, CMS, stands for Contractor Management Systems. It's a business management software that has been used since the early 80s by the company I just began working for. They want to get a new software to manage the business and I was given the awesome task of choosing one. Now I have to figure out how to get 30+ years of customer service history from CMS to whichever new software I decide upon. The business had CMS running on 3 office computers with 1 of those computers being the primary. That computer hasn't worked for a few years so they have been running CMS off of the other 2 computers. The whole situation is a mess. I know that we can have someone do time consuming data re-entry into Excel and then transfer those files into a new software without trouble but I don't want to commit to doing that tedious process until I have exhausted my SEARCH for a way to export the info out of CMS.Can you browse files, VIA Windows Explorer or a Command Prompt screen, in the directory(ies) where you believe the CMS data would be stored? If you could identify the data files of CMS, you could try opening or importing them with Excel or Access (database). For this purpose, copying the file to a different location and using the copy for testing might be advisable. If all else fails, could you print the database and OCR the sheets?Or change the MS-DOS program's printer from LPT1: to a file (.PRN type probably) and print the database? That is definitely one option that I have considered. I did find a feature in the CMS program that allows you to use a copy window to paste portions of the screen to a windows clipboard. Not tremendous progress but it's a start. BTW nice Breaking Bad reference Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 12:16:45 PM BTW nice Breaking Bad reference I thought it was the best thing on TV and it was, but now it's over I am watching Mad Men (I am up to Season 2 episode 7) Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 09:30:02 AM The problem I am having with the DOS based CMS program is that I can not find any place in the program with the option to "Save As", or "Send To" or anything of that nature. This isn't surprising, most Business software didn't have such features integrated into it- eg. My company has a ancient THEOS-based product that has been used since the 80's as well, and is in fact still active. We are only now moving to a Windows-based system in order to "modernize" the product (and move away from THEOS). It has no export capability in the original software, we had to write the appropriate export/import to get started on the Windows version. In your case, The program might use a standard format; but it's also possible their data files are in their own format. If you are very lucky, they might use ISAM database files- if so there are numerous products that can read the data and import it into other database formats. Quote It is completely odd to me that there doesn't seem to be any way to take any of the CMS customer files and save them or send them anywhere. This didn't become a common feature until much later. Programs typically tried to avoid making it easy to switch to any competitor product. Quote I wish I could find out how to save the database as .txt or as a csv file for Excel. I would suggest not using Excel. Excel is not a database program- it is a spreadsheet. If you have 20+ years of data it might not work anyway. The bigger problem is that even if you export the data from the old system to some general format, or even a modern database, it still isn't very useful, because it's unlikely that the new system will understand the layout of the database, so there would still be extensive rework needed to move it to the new format. The vendor you choose for the new product may be able to assist with this. Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 12:16:45 PM I did find a feature in the CMS program that allows you to use a copy window to paste portions of the screen to a windows clipboard. That is a feature of Windows, actually. Basically, here is what I would suggest: 1. Find out where the program is STORING it's data files. 2. Determine what kind of files they are. If you share some of the filenames you find, we may be able to help determine the format being used. 3. Cross your fingers that it's not proprietary. Some products used completely undocumented data file formats that only the company knew the details of. 4.If it's a format that is interchangable, such as ISAM, which was a common database format for DOS programs, you should be able to find a importer or exporter that can move that ISAM data into another database. If it's proprietary, you're in a pickle. You'd need to get something custom programmed to convert from that format.It might be possible to analyse the database file format e.g. in a hex editor and see if it can be exported, but that is paid-for programmer territory really. One thing - old MS-DOS machines don't last for ever - it might be wise to back up the database to a hard drive made in this millenium or at least one set of DVD-Rs Oh how I wish that were possible Salmon. The computers the company has CMS running on are from before the days of DVD-R, and they barely have CD-Rom. One of the computers is operating Windows 98 SE and the other is running Windows 95. I can't believe they let the system get this far behind and are only now thinking about updating to this millenium. Since they have tasked you with this project i think it's time to present the alternative solutions that have been suggested...and ask them to open their checkbook... Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 01:05:22 PM Oh how I wish that were possible Salmon. CD and DVD burners work on Windows 95 and 98. (or, at least on 98). So which is more important- the data, or the $40-$50 a DVD Burner would cost?

1561.

Solve : DOS based data to Windows 7?

Answer»

I am trying to export or somehow transfer customer history from an old DOS program called CMS (Contractor Management Systems) into a new business software (As yet to be decided). Any suggestions on how to do so without hiring someone to do time consuming data re-entry? I have been told to re-enter all the data into EXCEL because then that should import easily into the new software. The problem is that we have customer HISTORIES that go back twenty years and that includes every service we have provided over the years. Is there a fast way to export the DOS programs data in to EXCEL or will we have to have someone manually re-enter the data into EXCEL?Will the old CMS program export to any type of file such as text (.txt) or CSV (.CSV), or any other? Excel can import a variety of file types. The problem I am having with the DOS based CMS program is that I can not find any place in the program with the option to "Save As", or "Send To" or anything of that nature. It is completely odd to me that there doesn't seem to be any way to take any of the CMS customer files and save them or send them anywhere. The company which designed the software went out of business back around 2001 so I can't even find a contact to ask about this situation. I wish I could find out how to save the database as .txt or as a csv file for Excel.What is the name of the DOS-based CMS program? There are database programmers out there who might be ABLE to do this, for a fee.The program, CMS, stands for Contractor Management Systems. It's a business management software that has been used since the early 80s by the company I just began working for. They want to get a new software to manage the business and I was given the awesome task of choosing one. Now I have to figure out how to get 30+ years of customer service history from CMS to whichever new software I decide upon. The business had CMS running on 3 office computers with 1 of those computers being the primary. That computer hasn't worked for a few years so they have been running CMS off of the other 2 computers. The whole situation is a mess. I know that we can have someone do time consuming data re-entry into Excel and then transfer those files into a new software without trouble but I don't want to commit to doing that tedious process until I have exhausted my SEARCH for a way to export the info out of CMS.Can you browse files, VIA Windows Explorer or a Command Prompt screen, in the directory(ies) where you believe the CMS data would be stored? If you could identify the data files of CMS, you could try opening or importing them with Excel or Access (database). For this purpose, copying the file to a different location and using the copy for testing might be advisable. If all else fails, could you print the database and OCR the sheets?Or change the MS-DOS program's printer from LPT1: to a file (.PRN type probably) and print the database?
That is definitely one option that I have considered. I did find a feature in the CMS program that allows you to use a copy window to paste portions of the screen to a windows clipboard. Not tremendous progress but it's a start.

BTW nice Breaking Bad reference Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 12:16:45 PM

BTW nice Breaking Bad reference

I thought it was the best thing on TV and it was, but now it's over I am watching Mad Men (I am up to Season 2 episode 7)
Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 09:30:02 AM

The problem I am having with the DOS based CMS program is that I can not find any place in the program with the option to "Save As", or "Send To" or anything of that nature.

This isn't surprising, most Business software didn't have such features integrated into it- eg. My company has a ancient THEOS-based product that has been used since the 80's as well, and is in fact still active. We are only now moving to a Windows-based system in order to "modernize" the product (and move away from THEOS). It has no export capability in the original software, we had to write the appropriate export/import to get started on the Windows version.

In your case, The program might use a standard format; but it's also possible their data files are in their own format. If you are very lucky, they might use ISAM database files- if so there are numerous products that can read the data and import it into other database formats.

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It is completely odd to me that there doesn't seem to be any way to take any of the CMS customer files and save them or send them anywhere.

This didn't become a common feature until much later. Programs typically tried to avoid making it easy to switch to any competitor product.
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I wish I could find out how to save the database as .txt or as a csv file for Excel.

I would suggest not using Excel. Excel is not a database program- it is a spreadsheet. If you have 20+ years of data it might not work anyway.

The bigger problem is that even if you export the data from the old system to some general format, or even a modern database, it still isn't very useful, because it's unlikely that the new system will understand the layout of the database, so there would still be extensive rework needed to move it to the new format. The vendor you choose for the new product may be able to assist with this.

Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 12:16:45 PM

I did find a feature in the CMS program that allows you to use a copy window to paste portions of the screen to a windows clipboard.

That is a feature of Windows, actually.

Basically, here is what I would suggest:

1. Find out where the program is STORING it's data files.
2. Determine what kind of files they are. If you share some of the filenames you find, we may be able to help determine the format being used.
3. Cross your fingers that it's not proprietary. Some products used completely undocumented data file formats that only the company knew the details of.

4.If it's a format that is interchangable, such as ISAM, which was a common database format for DOS programs, you should be able to find a importer or exporter that can move that ISAM data into another database.

If it's proprietary, you're in a pickle. You'd need to get something custom programmed to convert from that format.It might be possible to analyse the database file format e.g. in a hex editor and see if it can be exported, but that is paid-for programmer territory really. One thing - old MS-DOS machines don't last for ever - it might be wise to back up the database to a hard drive made in this millenium or at least one set of DVD-Rs

Oh how I wish that were possible Salmon. The computers the company has CMS running on are from before the days of DVD-R, and they barely have CD-Rom. One of the computers is operating Windows 98 SE and the other is running Windows 95. I can't believe they let the system get this far behind and are only now thinking about updating to this millenium. Since they have tasked you with this project i think it's time to present the alternative solutions that have been suggested...and ask them to open their checkbook... Quote from: jupiterzeus on November 14, 2013, 01:05:22 PM

Oh how I wish that were possible Salmon.

CD and DVD burners work on Windows 95 and 98. (or, at least on 98). So which is more important- the data, or the $40-$50 a DVD Burner would cost?

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1562.	Solve : no IE9 shortcut on desktop?
Answer» hello all, i'm running windows7 professional, 64bit. there is no shortcut on my DESKTOP for ie9. i have QUESTIONED google on how to put it on my desktop, but none of the links work. (i do have one in the lower tray w/ the start icon.) help, please ?http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140443hello ALAN, that was one of the first sites i tried and it didn't work, but thank you for trying. i ENDED up going to logmein123.com and having them fix it. thank you.

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1563.	Solve : Messed up internet connection?
Answer» I MESSED up internet connection on my Toshiba Satellite* L305-S5919 computer while uninstalling SOFTWARE. HELP!!! PLEASE explain IN DETAIL what the exact problem is and what you did to cause it.

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1564.	Solve : LARGE LETTERS/NUMBERS?
Answer» hello all, i just installed a new vga cable and ALL the LETTERS and NUMBERS are the size of; after USING F8 to "start in safe mode". the icons on my DESK top are the same, except that two are missing strictly because of their size. what happened ? thank you, myming Quote ALL the LETTERS and NUMBERS are the size of; ...size of what?the size of the leters/numbers when you are in "safe mode". or maybe i should say LARGE "font size"...Do you mean the resolution has changed? Everything changes "size" on different resolutions. In Windows 7, you can right click the desktop, and choose Screen Resolution in the menu. Mine has a "Recommended" resolution of 1920 x 1080. If not that, do you mean just the desktop icon size? In Windows 7 you can right click the desktop, and hover over the View option in the menu. It lets you choose Large, Medium or Small desktop icons. Hope this helps! Quote the size of the leters/numbers when you are in "safe mode". That's normal in safemode as the native resolution of a GPU chip or dedicated card will only run or is available in normal mode. Safemode is only provided for troubleshooting software problems. Quote from: jason2074 on March 17, 2013, 06:46:50 PM That's normal in safemode as the native resolution of a GPU chip or dedicated card will only run or is available in normal mode. Safemode is only provided for troubleshooting software problems. I understood him to mention safe mode only to DESCRIBE how text looked on his screen, not that he was actually using safe mode. I think we NEED some clarification from miming on this point.

1564.

Solve : LARGE LETTERS/NUMBERS?

Answer»

hello all,

i just installed a new vga cable and ALL the LETTERS and NUMBERS are the size of;
after USING F8 to "start in safe mode".
the icons on my DESK top are the same, except that two are missing strictly because of their size.

what happened ?

thank you,
myming Quote

ALL the LETTERS and NUMBERS are the size of;

...size of what?the size of the leters/numbers when you are in "safe mode".

or maybe i should say LARGE "font size"...Do you mean the resolution has changed? Everything changes "size" on different resolutions.

In Windows 7, you can right click the desktop, and choose Screen Resolution in the menu. Mine has a "Recommended" resolution of 1920 x 1080.

If not that, do you mean just the desktop icon size? In Windows 7 you can right click the desktop, and hover over the View option in the menu. It lets you choose Large, Medium or Small desktop icons.

Hope this helps! Quote

the size of the leters/numbers when you are in "safe mode".

That's normal in safemode as the native resolution of a GPU chip or dedicated card will only run or is available in normal mode. Safemode is only provided for troubleshooting software problems. Quote from: jason2074 on March 17, 2013, 06:46:50 PM

That's normal in safemode as the native resolution of a GPU chip or dedicated card will only run or is available in normal mode. Safemode is only provided for troubleshooting software problems.

I understood him to mention safe mode only to DESCRIBE how text looked on his screen, not that he was actually using safe mode. I think we NEED some clarification from miming on this point.

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1565.	Solve : Giveaway of the Day - Paragon Partition Manager 12 Home Special Edition (English?
Answer» Get the original! Paragon SOFTWARE’s advanced partitioning tools help you completely control and manage your hard disks! With growing hard drive CAPACITY, the need to REASONABLY split up the space is more IMPORTANT than ever. This easy-to-use partitioning tool is ideal for re-structuring your hard DISK for optimal and effective data storage. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/There is no Paragon Partition Manager on the link you provided. Its showing MunSoft Data Recovery Suite.Because the site's offerings are for a 24 hour period only... If you snooze...you lose.

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1566.	Solve : Virtual PC 2007, no longer working in Windows 7 Home Premium?
Answer» This is kind of interesting to me, because I installed Virtual PC 2007 to this Windows 7 Home Premium system a while back and it was running fine. I remember a blat that this is not supported for Windows 7 when I first installed it and got around this by installing using reverse XP COMPATIBILITY mode. Then ran it with no problems for months. Then about 6 months or longer WENT by in which i DIDNT need to test anything in the virtual environments and I needed to test some software last night before using it on a real machine and to my surprise I got a message that Virtual PC 2007 is no longer supported by Windows 7. Tried to get it to run in reverse compatibility mode and it comes up with the blat and closes. Went to Microsofts website hoping they would have a fix for this and sure enough Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is for XP and Vista only! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24439 Thinking that a Windows Update killed off VPC 2007 on this system. Nothing else could explain it breaking like this, when it use to run with no problems. Still waiting for the update that tries to kill off my desktop gadgets Has anyone else hit this problem, and if so is there something better than Virtual PC 2007 out there for free or inexpensively that works with Windows 7 that will mount my already created VHD test environments, and be able to create NEW ones with just like VPC 2007 or better? VMWare...Don't know what "Reverse Compatibility mode" is. Nor am I familiar with these "blats" that are evidently a core part of Windows. Anyway, Windows Update probably installed "Windows Virtual PC" for whatever reason. The "blat" (by which I assume you mean the "This Program is blocked" dialog) only shows when Windows Virtual PC is installed. You can remove it through programs and Features. You will have to actually uninstall it from the "Installed Updates" feature.BC_Programmer Quote Don't know what "Reverse Compatibility mode" is. Nor am I familiar with these "blats" that are evidently a core part of Windows.. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10436/using-program-compatibility-mode-in-windows-7/ Quote Anyway, Windows Update probably installed "Windows Virtual PC" for whatever reason. The "blat" (by which I assume you mean the "This Program is blocked" dialog) only shows when Windows Virtual PC is installed. You can remove it through programs and Features. You will have to actually uninstall it from the "Installed Updates" feature. I manually installed Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and forced it to install via the compatibility mode in Windows 7 when originally it did not want to install. Sometime between the last time that I used it and attempted to use it last night it seems as it broke and my assumption is that a Microsoft Update broke it with no proof to point the finger at Microsoft for breaking it, but its an educated guess GIVEN the nature of the failure and message. Blat = Message is "Virtual PC 2007 is not supported on this version of Windows" and gives me a check online for a solution option. To where there is no solution for Windows 7. Patio I was thinking I was going to have to go with VMware or VirtualBox, however from what I have read they do not play well with VHD's created under VPC2007, and I would probably have to create new ones. Was hoping to not have to recreate them, but if thats what I have to do, then thats what I have to do. I do have a Windows XP Pro machine that can run these VHD's for testing, with no problems and maybe from now on, I will have to run the already created virtual environments on that lesser powerful dual-core with just 2GB RAM vs my more powerful Win 7 system with the Athlon II x4. Quote from: DaveLembke on March 22, 2013, 06:17:13 PM BC_Programmer http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10436/using-program-compatibility-mode-in-windows-7/ I know what Program Compatibility Modes are. I am unfamiliar with "Reverse" Compatibility Modes. I was part stabbing at the fact that there is no such thing; I had an idea what you meant but clarity is always a bit important... Quote I manually installed Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and forced it to install via the compatibility mode in Windows 7 when originally it did not want to install. Sometime between the last time that I used it and attempted to use it last night it seems as it broke and my assumption is that a Microsoft Update broke it with no proof to point the finger at Microsoft for breaking it, but its an educated guess given the nature of the failure and message. Blat = Message is "Virtual PC 2007 is not supported on this version of Windows" and gives me a check online for a solution option. To where there is no solution for Windows 7. Windows Virtual PC and Virtual PC are two separate products. If Windows Virtual PC is installed (and it was pushed as part of WU at some point), you will get that message from Windows when you run Virtual PC.

1566.

Solve : Virtual PC 2007, no longer working in Windows 7 Home Premium?

Answer»

This is kind of interesting to me, because I installed Virtual PC 2007 to this Windows 7 Home Premium system a while back and it was running fine. I remember a blat that this is not supported for Windows 7 when I first installed it and got around this by installing using reverse XP COMPATIBILITY mode. Then ran it with no problems for months.

Then about 6 months or longer WENT by in which i DIDNT need to test anything in the virtual environments and I needed to test some software last night before using it on a real machine and to my surprise I got a message that Virtual PC 2007 is no longer supported by Windows 7. Tried to get it to run in reverse compatibility mode and it comes up with the blat and closes. Went to Microsofts website hoping they would have a fix for this and sure enough Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is for XP and Vista only!

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24439

*Thinking that a Windows Update killed off VPC 2007 on this system. Nothing else could explain it breaking like this, when it use to run with no problems. *Still waiting for the update that tries to kill off my desktop gadgets

Has anyone else hit this problem, and if so is there something better than Virtual PC 2007 out there for free or inexpensively that works with Windows 7 that will mount my already created VHD test environments, and be able to create NEW ones with just like VPC 2007 or better?
VMWare...Don't know what "Reverse Compatibility mode" is. Nor am I familiar with these "blats" that are evidently a core part of Windows.

Anyway, Windows Update probably installed "Windows Virtual PC" for whatever reason. The "blat" (by which I assume you mean the "This Program is blocked" dialog) only shows when Windows Virtual PC is installed. You can remove it through programs and Features. You will have to actually uninstall it from the "Installed Updates" feature.BC_Programmer

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Don't know what "Reverse Compatibility mode" is. Nor am I familiar with these "blats" that are evidently a core part of Windows..

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10436/using-program-compatibility-mode-in-windows-7/

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Anyway, Windows Update probably installed "Windows Virtual PC" for whatever reason. The "blat" (by which I assume you mean the "This Program is blocked" dialog) only shows when Windows Virtual PC is installed. You can remove it through programs and Features. You will have to actually uninstall it from the "Installed Updates" feature.

I manually installed Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and forced it to install via the compatibility mode in Windows 7 when originally it did not want to install. Sometime between the last time that I used it and attempted to use it last night it seems as it broke and my assumption is that a Microsoft Update broke it with no proof to point the finger at Microsoft for breaking it, but its an educated guess GIVEN the nature of the failure and message.

Blat = Message is "Virtual PC 2007 is not supported on this version of Windows" and gives me a check online for a solution option. To where there is no solution for Windows 7.

Patio

I was thinking I was going to have to go with VMware or VirtualBox, however from what I have read they do not play well with VHD's created under VPC2007, and I would probably have to create new ones. Was hoping to not have to recreate them, but if thats what I have to do, then thats what I have to do.

I do have a Windows XP Pro machine that can run these VHD's for testing, with no problems and maybe from now on, I will have to run the already created virtual environments on that lesser powerful dual-core with just 2GB RAM vs my more powerful Win 7 system with the Athlon II x4.

Quote from: DaveLembke on March 22, 2013, 06:17:13 PM

BC_Programmer
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10436/using-program-compatibility-mode-in-windows-7/

I know what Program Compatibility Modes are. I am unfamiliar with "Reverse" Compatibility Modes. I was part stabbing at the fact that there is no such thing; I had an idea what you meant but clarity is always a bit important...

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I manually installed Virtual PC 2007 SP1, and forced it to install via the compatibility mode in Windows 7 when originally it did not want to install. Sometime between the last time that I used it and attempted to use it last night it seems as it broke and my assumption is that a Microsoft Update broke it with no proof to point the finger at Microsoft for breaking it, but its an educated guess given the nature of the failure and message.

Blat = Message is "Virtual PC 2007 is not supported on this version of Windows" and gives me a check online for a solution option. To where there is no solution for Windows 7.

Windows Virtual PC and Virtual PC are two separate products. If Windows Virtual PC is installed (and it was pushed as part of WU at some point), you will get that message from Windows when you run Virtual PC.

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1567.	Solve : How do I make a cutter/plotter work on my computer??
Answer» Hi, I came across this "Rabbit 1360, Cutting/Plotter that was very cheap so I bought it. It has all the cables and a micro CD that I thought was the drivers to INSTALL it but it has no user manual in the box. Now I know very little about the whole set up, except that others I've seen using these things USE programs like MS Word for text, Artcut, is a very popular program and Coreldraw for pictures. Long story short, the cd didnt seem to be the drivers for it and I dont know how to add it to the computer. Do I add it as a printer and see if I can try to send an image to it to print (cut the vinyl)? When the computer starts up a screen asks for the drivers or search for drivers everytime but I still havent found anything to add it to the computer. I've had the little CD in the drive so that it can search it for the drivers but no joy yet. I joined a lot of forums to start scouring the planet for information. So THATS my next move.The mini-CD is indeed the drivers...open it in Explorer and list what the contents are... PS...LOOK at it using the CD drive you have that's working...not the other one.How to use with Coreldraw: (you need drawing software) http://www.signtools4.com/Rabbit_HX-1360.htm File extension ECD (CoCut Plotter printer driver) http://www.cocut.com/driver/download/neu/Hengxing.ECD Product information: http://highlightelectronics.com.au/products.php?product=Rabbit-HX1360-Vinyl-Cutting-Plotter which says: Quote Package Includes HX1360 cutting plotter machine Power cable and fuse USB2 cable RS232 serial cable Metal floor standing frame Pen holder and one ball pen Blade holder and three blades Plotter dust cover Cutter operation manual Artcut user manual USB driver CD (Coreldraw driver is also on the CD) Artcut 2009 software CD Vinyl feeding shaft Screws & assemble tool

1567.

Solve : How do I make a cutter/plotter work on my computer??

Answer»

Hi, I came across this "Rabbit 1360, Cutting/Plotter that was very cheap so I bought it.

It has all the cables and a micro CD that I thought was the drivers to INSTALL it but it has no user manual in the box.

Now I know very little about the whole set up, except that others I've seen using these things USE programs like MS Word for text, Artcut, is a very popular program and Coreldraw for pictures.

Long story short, the cd didnt seem to be the drivers for it and I dont know how to add it to the computer.
Do I add it as a printer and see if I can try to send an image to it to print (cut the vinyl)?

When the computer starts up a screen asks for the drivers or search for drivers everytime but I still havent found anything to add it to the computer.
I've had the little CD in the drive so that it can search it for the drivers but no joy yet.

I joined a lot of forums to start scouring the planet for information. So THATS my next move.The mini-CD is indeed the drivers...open it in Explorer and list what the contents are...
PS...LOOK at it using the CD drive you have that's working...not the other one.How to use with Coreldraw: (you need drawing software)
http://www.signtools4.com/Rabbit_HX-1360.htm

File extension ECD (CoCut Plotter printer driver)
http://www.cocut.com/driver/download/neu/Hengxing.ECD

Product information:
http://highlightelectronics.com.au/products.php?product=Rabbit-HX1360-Vinyl-Cutting-Plotter
which says:
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Package Includes

HX1360 cutting plotter machine
Power cable and fuse
USB2 cable
RS232 serial cable
Metal floor standing frame
Pen holder and one ball pen
Blade holder and three blades
Plotter dust cover
Cutter operation manual
Artcut user manual
USB driver CD (Coreldraw driver is also on the CD)
Artcut 2009 software CD
Vinyl feeding shaft
Screws & assemble tool

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1568.	Solve : No sound in playback.?
Answer» Hello someone please help. After recording from a USB capture device (DU-CV USB capture device using windows movie maker line in from TV) there was no audio in the recording when I playback the recording, although the video is OK. I COULD hear the sound from the speaker when doing the recording. when playing movies and other it is normal. For INFORMATION my on-board chipset (sound) seem faulty, there was no sound from my speaker. Now I have installed PCI sound card and the sound is OK now. Hope you pal's can help. My OS. XP Pro. SP3. Thanks.

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1569.	Solve : Would Appreciate Help to Recover Deleted Files?
Answer» I had a flash drive with .PDF files among others on it. Once I inserted the drive, the compuer would ask me whether or not I wanted to scan the drive because some errors were found. I chose not to scan it. The drive opened fine. But the next time I inserted the drive and chose not to scan it, the drive opened but half the files were gone. To recover the files, I was recommended to use "virtual Lab" recovery software. This program scanned the drive and found some files and saved them into a folder called "Raw Files". Inside of it there are several folders. One of them is of interest to me as it is called Adobe Acrobat Documents There are .pdf files and they probably are the ones I am looking for but when try to OPEN them with the Adobe Acrobat reader, the MESSAGE says that they cannot be opened because "they were either not supported or, damaged, for example, sent in e-mail and incorrectly decoded" My QUESTION: is there anything that could be done to bring these files back to life at this point? E.g. re-docode them, so they are decoded correctly? Thanks!Simple answer is" No" You have already used a software program to recover some files. That may be as much as you can do. In theory, flash drives are supposed to be very reliable. But many users report they fail more often than they shooed. IMHO the best WAY to store files is on a good quality eternal drive. Prices vary.Try Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva If that can't get them, they're probably lost. In the future, make sure you use the "safely remove hardware" function of Windows to release the drives and not just pull it out. Pulling it out without doing this can result in the loss of data if the drive is still in use.

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1570.	Solve : Old Encryption Software which adds .cry extension - what was it??
Answer» I have a load of files encrypted on a piece of free encryption software on an old defunct computer. The software was created I THINK, by American University Students and displayed as a yellow padlock. You could set the level of encryption and also SECURE delete files. Right Clicking the file also brought up the program as an option. The password encrypted any file (or groups of files) leaving the file name(s) the same - but ADDING .cry to the name i.e. picture.jpg.cry or letter.doc.cry I cannot for the life of me remember the software name. They stopped supporting it several years ago, so you could still decrypt but no longer encrypt. In fact, if you changed the computer date you could still encrypt as well. The developers asked for donations (by cheque) and after a period of time your free subscription expired and you needed to download it again. It was very popular in its time and I SEEM to remember it had several reviews. Anyone help at all?!FarCry... Chrysis...etc... GAME backups.

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1571.	Solve : Banking Program For Website?
Answer» I am not talking about an actual bank. I am talking more like virtual currency. This WAY on my website I could have a program SETUP where I can give money and take money. I could give bills that the people could pay with their virtual currency. Basically I could setup a virtual store. I have seen this done and there is a video that shows it. However, I do not know what type of program was USED to create this. PLEASE, if you do not know what I am talking about please skip to... 3:49 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnmhr36cg0

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1572.	Solve : Software install?
Answer» I have had this software installed in a previous PC and need to INSTALL on my new PC. www.allaboutfamily.com/sisk I am having trouble, I have shut down the webroot and windows defender. I have run as administrator. I have done EVERYTHING I camn think of. I have ATTACHED some screenshots. Windows 8 Webroot Security Thanks [recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]I'd contact http://www.interactivesoftwaresolutions.com/sc/contact/index.php to SEE if they have any known issues with Windows 8, and solutions.

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1573.	Solve : deleted a program and it's not in recycle bin?
Answer» I UNINSTALLED a program and it's not in the RECYCLE bin. How can I restore it? Windows 7From your backup. When you un install a program a numbers of changes are made., some are not reversible. Uninstalled programs do not go into the recycle bin. As Geek noted above, there are a number of registry changes that accompany the uninstall process. You NEED to either reinstall the program or use System Restore if you don't have an existing backup. In the future you MIGHT want to start using Disc Imaging software on a regular basis - something I think ALL users should do.

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1574.	Solve : Operating issues?
Answer» Some LINKS I click on will not respond, others will. This just started about 3-4 DAYS ago. Do not know if related, but I keep having trouble with my Kodak printer not communicating WIRELESS. The same situation happened two years ago and a friend wiped whole laptop clean and reinstalled everything, then worked fine. Do not want that again! Windows 7 on HP. Any help is appreciated. BTW, I tried to search this topic but when I clicked on search, or hit enter, it would not respond. Using CA security and windows firewall. Not sure where to find service pack info??? Also, ran WinUtilities free VERSION which did not help.

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1575.	Solve : folder is not opening!?
Answer» hi, I had set a password to my .rar folder and then my computer was not WORKING properly so my BROTHER re booted it. but now when I enter the password to open the folder it says in WINRAR DIAGNOSTIC message: "CRC failed in the encrypted file correction.rar. Corrupt file or wrong password" I don't know why its not working even the password is correct. Do u know how to remove the password option from this folder or how can I open my folder. Thanks in advance Read this post. http://www.passwordunlocker.com/knowledge/remove-rar-password.html

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1576.	Solve : Excel 2010, increasing multiple formula areas?
Answer» I am working with an Excel 2010 file and am not sure how to approach my problem. Example: Cell A1 has the formula =SUM(B1:B3). Cell A2 has the formula =SUM(C1:C3). Increase the formula AREA for A1 and A2 to include B4 and C4 respectively. Then include B5 and C5, and so on. What I need is a way to adjust both formulas on an ongoing basis while only EDITING one cell each time. In reality, I am working with 50+ SUM() formulas, spread all over a worksheet, pulling data from multiple sheets, and that need to be updated on a monthly basis. This makes clicking on each formula and increasing the last value (X1:X#) by 1 very tedious and time consuming. If someone can explain how to approach the simple example above, I should be able to apply it to my specific situation. I will be extremely grateful to anyone that can help in this regard. Thank you.Empty cells count as 0 for the sum formula last I checked, so you can probably just use B1:B100, C1:C100, etc. and not have to update it for another 100 months or so. Ranges also auto-expand in some cases, so if you right-click -> insert column before the last column in your range, you can see if the formula has automatically expanded by one column.To sum a column in Excel you can use the SUM formula e.g. =SUM(C1:C25) with the final cell row number (25 here) being the bottom-most cell that is to be included. As you note as the lowest cell keeps moving down you have to change that number e.g. from 25 to 26, 27 etc. Alternatively as Technogeek noted you can just MAKE the number so big* that you will never need to change it (or not for a long time). But if the sum range starts at row 1, and you want the sum of the whole column, you can just use the column letter in the formula e.g. in our case =SUM(C:C) noting that this formula will give a circular reference if it is itself in column C. I just noticed that if you enter =SUM(C1:C65536) in Excel 2003 it gets changed by Excel to =SUM(C:C) anyway. 65536 is the maximum number of rows in Excel 2003. It is 1048576 in Excel 2007 onwards so if you try that higher number in Excel 2010 you should find the same thing happening. Of course if the first cell row in the sum range is not 1 you will have to state the row numbers explicitly but you can still make the final cell the highest number possible for your Excel version. (I think there might be problems - #NAME? errors - using numbers 65537 and up if the spreadsheet was opened in older Excel versions like 2003) It is probably more concise to say that typing a cell range C:C in a formula is equivalent to typing C1:Cmax where max* is the maximum number of rows in your Excel version.You could include the OFFSET and COUNTA functions in your formula. For example, in A1 and A2, respectively, enter: Code: [Select]=SUM(OFFSET(B1,0,0,COUNTA(B:B),1)) =SUM(OFFSET(C1,0,0,COUNTA(C:C),1)) TechnoGeek and Salmon Trout, thank you, but that will not work. Let me clarify what I am doing. I am running year to year comparisons of attendance at my organization for year to date, updated monthly. So for example, I am comparing data from January to February of 2013 with data from January to February for 2012, 2011...1997. At the end of March I need to change this it be a comparison of January to March for all the relevant years. All the data from previous years is already entered in the spreadsheets. I am working on macros to decrease the time it takes to update these comparisons. What I don't know how to do is make a macro that increases the formula area by 1 cell so that I can change my monthly comparisons with the click of a button. If we go back to my original example: Quote Example: Cell A1 has the formula =SUM(B1:B3). Cell A2 has the formula =SUM(C1:C3). Increase the formula area for A1 and A2 to include B4 and C4 respectively. Then include B5 and C5, and so on. What I need is a way to adjust both formulas on an ongoing basis while only editing one cell each time. Pretend that cells B4:B12 and C4:C12 are not empty. They already have data in them that I just do not want to have included in the formula yet. Oldun; I tried your formulas, but either they are an extension of what TechnoGeek and Salmon Trout were saying, or I am missing something. If this formula can accomplish what I described above, let me know and I will play around with it some more. Thank you for all your help!As you are expanding the range based on the current month, try this: 1. Select Define Name, enter a name for column B (e.g. ColB), and in the Refers to box, enter: '=OFFSET($B$1,0,0,MONTH(TODAY()),1)' without quotes 2. Repeat 1 above for column C, changing the name (e.g. ColC) and the formula (change $B$1 to $C$1) 3. In A1 of the worksheet, enter: '=SUM(ColB)' without quotes. In A2, enter: '=SUM(ColB)' without quotes. That looks good! But is there a way to lock the date in place? Each month I need to have a saved copy with data up to that point that won't change if I open it later.Instead of MONTH(TODAY()), use MONTH($R$C), where $R$C is a cell you choose to contain the date in question.

1576.

Solve : Excel 2010, increasing multiple formula areas?

Answer»

I am working with an Excel 2010 file and am not sure how to approach my problem.

Example:
Cell A1 has the formula =SUM(B1:B3). Cell A2 has the formula =SUM(C1:C3). Increase the formula AREA for A1 and A2 to include B4 and C4 respectively. Then include B5 and C5, and so on. What I need is a way to adjust both formulas on an ongoing basis while only EDITING one cell each time.

In reality, I am working with 50+ SUM() formulas, spread all over a worksheet, pulling data from multiple sheets, and that need to be updated on a monthly basis. This makes clicking on each formula and increasing the last value (X1:X#) by 1 very tedious and time consuming. If someone can explain how to approach the simple example above, I should be able to apply it to my specific situation. I will be extremely grateful to anyone that can help in this regard. Thank you.Empty cells count as 0 for the sum formula last I checked, so you can probably just use B1:B100, C1:C100, etc. and not have to update it for another 100 months or so. Ranges also auto-expand in some cases, so if you right-click -> insert column before the last column in your range, you can see if the formula has automatically expanded by one column.To sum a column in Excel you can use the SUM formula e.g. =SUM(C1:C25) with the final cell row number (25 here) being the bottom-most cell that is to be included.

As you note as the lowest cell keeps moving down you have to change that number e.g. from 25 to 26, 27 etc.

Alternatively as Technogeek noted you can just MAKE the number so big* that you will never need to change it (or not for a long time).

But if the sum range starts at row 1, and you want the sum of the whole column, you can just use the column letter in the formula e.g. in our case =SUM(C:C) noting that this formula will give a circular reference if it is itself in column C.

*I just noticed that if you enter =SUM(C1:C65536) in Excel 2003 it gets changed by Excel to =SUM(C:C) anyway. 65536 is the maximum number of rows in Excel 2003. It is 1048576 in Excel 2007 onwards so if you try that higher number in Excel 2010 you should find the same thing happening.

Of course if the first cell row in the sum range is not 1 you will have to state the row numbers explicitly but you can still make the final cell the highest number possible for your Excel version. (I think there might be problems - #NAME? errors - using numbers 65537 and up if the spreadsheet was opened in older Excel versions like 2003)

It is probably more concise to say that typing a cell range C:C in a formula is equivalent to typing C1:Cmax where max is the maximum number of rows in your Excel version.You could include the OFFSET and COUNTA functions in your formula.
For example, in A1 and A2, respectively, enter:
Code: [Select]=SUM(OFFSET(B1,0,0,COUNTA(B:B),1))
=SUM(OFFSET(C1,0,0,COUNTA(C:C),1))
TechnoGeek and Salmon Trout, thank you, but that will not work. Let me clarify what I am doing.

I am running year to year comparisons of attendance at my organization for year to date, updated monthly. So for example, I am comparing data from January to February of 2013 with data from January to February for 2012, 2011...1997. At the end of March I need to change this it be a comparison of January to March for all the relevant years. All the data from previous years is already entered in the spreadsheets. I am working on macros to decrease the time it takes to update these comparisons.

What I don't know how to do is make a macro that increases the formula area by 1 cell so that I can change my monthly comparisons with the click of a button.

If we go back to my original example:

Quote

Example:
Cell A1 has the formula =SUM(B1:B3). Cell A2 has the formula =SUM(C1:C3). Increase the formula area for A1 and A2 to include B4 and C4 respectively. Then include B5 and C5, and so on. What I need is a way to adjust both formulas on an ongoing basis while only editing one cell each time.

Pretend that cells B4:B12 and C4:C12 are not empty. They already have data in them that I just do not want to have included in the formula yet.

Oldun; I tried your formulas, but either they are an extension of what TechnoGeek and Salmon Trout were saying, or I am missing something. If this formula can accomplish what I described above, let me know and I will play around with it some more.

Thank you for all your help!As you are expanding the range based on the current month, try this:

1. Select Define Name, enter a name for column B (e.g. ColB), and in the Refers to box, enter:
'=OFFSET($B$1,0,0,MONTH(TODAY()),1)' without quotes
2. Repeat 1 above for column C, changing the name (e.g. ColC) and the formula
(change $B$1 to $C$1)
3. In A1 of the worksheet, enter:
'=SUM(ColB)' without quotes. In A2, enter: '=SUM(ColB)' without quotes.
That looks good! But is there a way to lock the date in place? Each month I need to have a saved copy with data up to that point that won't change if I open it later.Instead of MONTH(TODAY()), use MONTH($R$C), where $R$C is a cell you choose to contain the date in question.

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1577.	Solve : YouTube/F'book X-reference Links?
Answer» So, I have a YOUTUBE channel, and a Facebook site, so if I post a video on YouTube, then post it on my Facebook site I'm thinking there's no reason on YouTube to REFER PEOPLE to my F'book site since it originates from YouTube? THANKS, KC

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1578.	Solve : AVG vs Mcafee vs Norton vs Kaspersky?
Answer» I tried many ANTIVIRUS and today i want to see everyone else's opinion on what is the best antivirus out of them You can draw your own conclusions by reading this.kaspersky is my favorite. AVG REMOVES all the .exe files.Clearly you can ignore the above post by janimanMy Vote is "Other" for myself... I have been using Microsoft Security Essentials without any problems on NUMEROUS systems. But if a corporate network etc, I'd go with Norton, since if your the guru of a corporate network and the company has plenty of money to pay for protection, you might as well buy licenses with Norton for all systems. I wouldnt want to be using MS Security Essentials on a corporate network for free and having to explain to my boss why it didnt catch a zero-day attack, and Norton may have caught it sooner etc and even though we saved $15,000, now we have a greater mess potentially in excess of $15,000 in damages. But for my own personal use, I am also not at high risk for infection because my COMPUTER habits and knowledge avoid trouble. I dont download content frequently from questionable sources as someone doing so may want to have something better than MS Security Essentials etc. I also know what to do when you get to a web page that pops up with flash the fake PANIC - your infected with 401 viruses click here to GIVE us your credit card number etc as many have likely seen and some have gotten suckered into giving their credit card info for false virus's. And if a computer user was really smart and had a spare computer, they would have a computer used as a quarantine area before running software etc on the important computer etc. I like to test software in virtual environments on my beater box before implementing free software to my main system if there is not enough feedback online as to if its good or junk. I will install the legally freeware, test it, and if its what I need and clean of virus's etc, I will perform an uninstall and reboot the virtual environment. I then will go back into this virtual system and make sure the uninstaller is clean of leaving problems. There are so many free programs out there that have troubled uninstallers that I have implemented this on questionable programs. And best of all if the program makes a mess, the cleanup is simply to shutdown the virtual system on the live physical system and delete the virtual hard drive file. Then copy a new copy of it from the master location of virtual systems to this test folder and then link the virtual system to Virtual PC 2007 and its ready for the next program test subject.I'm using avast! Free Antivirus on my Windows 7 system.

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1579.	Solve : f.lux - On dual monitor system, make work on only 1 monitor??
Answer» Sorry for the long subject, not sure how to summarize this. I have recently started using f.lux, and I love it. But is there a way to restrict it to only one monitor? I run Windows 7 Ultimate. I have two screens, and would like to restrict f.lux to only "running" for my main monitor. This way I can do colour sensitive work on my secondary monitor. I tried to find a support forum for f.lux but couldn't. Thanks for any help!I've NEVER heard of f.lux. What is it? Where is their website?http://stereopsis.com/flux/ It's basically a tool that dims your monitor and adjusts the white balance according to the time of day due to some experimental evidence SHOWING that exposure to EXCESSIVE LEVELS of blue light at night may disrupt sleep patterns. When I used f.lux I remember that it left hardware-accelerated windows untouched, like VLC media player with graphics acceleration turned on. Don't hesitate to drop a comment/question here; http://stereopsis.com/flux/faq.html Quote if you don't find what you need, leave a comment below Thanks for responding so quickly, Soybean and Transfusion. I SUBMITTED a comment to their site, but am not sure how long any reply may take or even if someone will reply. I was hoping someone here may have used it or knew how to make it "active" for only one monitor, but if not, that is okay. Transfusion is correct in the website and explanation. Thanks!

1579.

Solve : f.lux - On dual monitor system, make work on only 1 monitor??

Answer»

Sorry for the long subject, not sure how to summarize this.

I have recently started using f.lux, and I love it. But is there a way to restrict it to only one monitor?

I run Windows 7 Ultimate. I have two screens, and would like to restrict f.lux to only "running" for my main monitor. This way I can do colour sensitive work on my secondary monitor.

I tried to find a support forum for f.lux but couldn't.

Thanks for any help!I've NEVER heard of f.lux. What is it? Where is their website?http://stereopsis.com/flux/ It's basically a tool that dims your monitor and adjusts the white balance according to the time of day due to some experimental evidence SHOWING that exposure to EXCESSIVE LEVELS of blue light at night may disrupt sleep patterns.

When I used f.lux I remember that it left hardware-accelerated windows untouched, like VLC media player with graphics acceleration turned on.
Don't hesitate to drop a comment/question here; http://stereopsis.com/flux/faq.html
Quote

if you don't find what you need, leave a comment below

Thanks for responding so quickly, Soybean and Transfusion. I SUBMITTED a comment to their site, but am not sure how long any reply may take or even if someone will reply.

I was hoping someone here may have used it or knew how to make it "active" for only one monitor, but if not, that is okay.

Transfusion is correct in the website and explanation. Thanks!

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1580.	Solve : Startup Repair occurs on boot?
Answer» Following an automatic windows 7 update when I turned off my PC, I am constantly getting Startup Repair loading whenever I turn it back on. When I turn my PC on, it comes up in white text that windows is loading the files, and as soon as it reaches the Microsoft Corporations screen, it goes into the startup repair. Startup repair gives me the following information, however fixes nothing: Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 03: unknown Problem Signature 04: 21200286 Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover Problem Signature 06: 30 Problem Signature 07: CorruptFile OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 I have tried booting it in safe mode, however it takes me straight over to startup repair. I have also tried to do a system restore, however it fails giving me the message: System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and settings were not changed. Details: System Restore failed to extract the original copy of the directory from the restore point. Source: %SystemRoot\registration Destination: ComPlusStaging Also, I did take a look round command prompt and attempted a few tutorials using the chkdsk COMMANDS, and my hard drive is 'Healthy' and 'Online'. I'm currently WORKING on trying to get another windows 7 disk, but in the meanwhile, can I do ANYTHING without it?Did you run chkdsk /x /r as was suggested over in Chat ? ? If so what were the results ? ?'The type of file system is NTFS Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.'To run checkdisk, right-CLICK on a command prompt icon and open as administrator. In the command prompt window type: chkdsk /r (then press ENTER). You'll be told the disk is in use and asked if you want to run checkdisk on the next boot. Say yes, exit the command prompt window, and reboot.From the system recovery bit I can access command prompt, but I cannot right click it. I am logged in as an administrator as to do system recovery options, it requires this. But it still gives that same message.Sorry - I missed the fact you can't log in. Please do the following: Hard Drive Diagnostics: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 (or http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28744&hl=hard+drive+diagnostic) Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive. Depending on the program, it'll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD. If downloaded file is of .iso type, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), to make the CD bootable. For Toshiba drives, see here: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=ServicesSupport/FujitsuDrivesUSandCanada/SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic Just FOUND out that my mother unplugged it halfway through an automatic update. Should I just concentrate on finding the disk, as I'm pretty sure that's the fix now.Did you try "Last Known Good Configuration"?Yeah, that also goes straight to Startup Repair.Then yes, unless there is a recovery option / partition on your system you need a Windows 7 disc and you may be relegated to a new install.

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1581.	Solve : softwear won't open?
Answer» Everything i download a software it would download then when i want to open it , it says Microsoft cannot open it because it does not have the program to open it for example i downloaded backtrack and it wont open but it will extract the files. PLEASE help !All software or just one? What is new or different since the last time everything WORKED properly (ie, new hw, new SW, virus, error, etc)? Are you able to open all other programs and files normally? And what is the name of the file you are trying to open?mostly all i downloaded "backtrack 5" and it downloaded but when i wanted ti install it all it did was extract the files and couldn't open it It's Linux app from what i can see... Quote from: patio on November 12, 2012, 11:18:25 AM It's Linux app from what i can see... Actually, it's a Linux distro, not just an application. It's meant for security testing. Movarind, did you download the 7z archive (VMWare version) or ISO version of Backtrack? What is your intention with it? Do you understand what you've downloaded and what it's meant for and how to use it? What are you trying to ACCOMPLISH with it?quaxo yes i do i know little of c++ HTML python java m using this to learn on computer hacking so why doesn't it want to open its not only this program Quote from: movarind on November 15, 2012, 05:27:45 AM using this to learn on computer hacking Sorry, red flag there. We don't help with things like that.

1581.

Solve : softwear won't open?

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Everything i download a software it would download then when i want to open it , it says Microsoft cannot open it because it does not have the program to open it for example i downloaded backtrack and it wont open but it will extract the files. PLEASE help !All software or just one?

What is new or different since the last time everything WORKED properly (ie, new hw, new SW, virus, error, etc)?

Are you able to open all other programs and files normally?

And what is the name of the file you are trying to open?mostly all i downloaded "backtrack 5" and it downloaded but when i wanted ti install it all it did was extract the files and couldn't open it It's Linux app from what i can see... Quote from: patio on November 12, 2012, 11:18:25 AM

It's Linux app from what i can see...

Actually, it's a Linux distro, not just an application. It's meant for security testing.

Movarind, did you download the 7z archive (VMWare version) or ISO version of Backtrack? What is your intention with it? Do you understand what you've downloaded and what it's meant for and how to use it? What are you trying to ACCOMPLISH with it?quaxo yes i do i know little of c++ HTML python java m using this to learn on computer hacking so why doesn't it want to open its not only this program Quote from: movarind on November 15, 2012, 05:27:45 AM

using this to learn on computer hacking

Sorry, red flag there. We don't help with things like that.

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1582.	Solve : spreadsheet vs mysql (or similar)??
Answer» Which is the program I should work with? Is my main question. I'm on LinuxMint and have LibreOffice's Calc and Base (similar to Excel and Access). I play music and have some 2000 titles ot tunes in a spreadsheet, together with "which KEY they're in, which PLAYALONG-CD I have, COMPOSER, which BAND(s) do I play them with" and so on; some 25 columns. I'm familiar with basic filtering in spreadsheets, but wonder how sophisticated can I get with searches or queries? If want to do things like: "look up all TITLES in the KEY OF of C-minor PLAYED BY band-X and for which there exists a PLAYALONG plus SHEETMUSIC" Should I somehow EXPORT the spreadsheet to Base? Or simply stick to Calc (will TurningTables be a solution, for instance?) Have you EVER used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there. A DATABASE would be useful to you if you need to create multiple different views (queries) of your data, track composers or bands in separate tables and do lookups on that information, or if you need to generate and save reports for later use. Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 08:22:21 AM Have you ever used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there. A database would be useful to you if you need to create multiple different views (queries) of your data, track composers or bands in separate tables and do lookups on that information, or if you need to generate and save reports for later use. Thanks. Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be. Looks like quite a learning curve ahead of me Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 09:13:47 AM Thanks. Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be. Looks like quite a learning curve ahead of me If only excel had a 'save filter as new view' button Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 10:01:03 AM If only excel had a 'save filter as new view' button or... if only LibreOffice Base had more elaborate documentation in detail, or even better, a printed book See Here... I've also seen books at the local Library but i don't have a listing... Quote from: patio on December 07, 2012, 10:33:48 AM See Here... I've also seen books at the local Library but i don't have a listing... I looked at that address before; there's books on all LibreOffice things except for Base... I also heard rumour they don't even have a developper for Base, at present. Finding it at the local library seems unlikely, as a web search didn't show any existing books on Base. Maybe I should consider switching to OpenOffice - in fact, I'll search right now whether they have better documentation on their version of DB-software (I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc) Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:43:22 AM I looked at that address before; there's books on all LibreOffice things except for Base... I also heard rumour they don't even have a developper for Base, at present. Finding it at the local library seems unlikely, as a web search didn't show any existing books on Base. Maybe I should consider switching to OpenOffice - in fact, I'll search right now whether they have better documentation on their version of DB-software (I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc) LibreOffice basically is OpenOffice -- LibreOffice was the open-source fork of OpenOffice when Sun was bought by Oracle. Some people (some of them main OO developers) left the company to work on LibreOffice, so it's more up-to-date than OpenOffice in many areas.There are tons of Base resources out there ...including the OO and Libre' Forums. Quote from: patio on December 07, 2012, 10:54:38 AM There are tons of Base resources out there ...including the OO and Libre' Forums. I was just WONDERING about that - LibreOffice and OpenOffice both call it "Base", so I'm guessing a book on OO's Base would be valid for most of LibreOffice"s "Base" as well...? EDIT: hadn't seen that Technogeek already SAID something on this :-) Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:57:16 AM I was just wondering about that - LibreOffice and OpenOffice both call it "Base", so I'm guessing a book on OO's Base would be valid for most of LibreOffice"s "Base" as well...? Like I said earlier, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. So yes, most documentation that applies to one will apply to the other. Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 10:58:25 AM Like I said earlier, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. So yes, most documentation that applies to one will apply to the other. You missed my "edit" just like I missed your earlier post before "Missed it by THAT much".... Maxwell Smart..... Couldn't resist..... Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 08:22:21 AM Have you ever used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there. You never resplied to this. Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:43:22 AM (I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc) Database. Quote from: soybean on December 08, 2012, 06:27:02 PM You never resplied to this. ... Database. I sort of implied it, but indeed not very explicitly (at all ), when I said "Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be." A way to save settings for a report is something I can't do with Autofilter. Term "Database" is saved in the grey cells, thanks

1582.

Solve : spreadsheet vs mysql (or similar)??

Answer»

Which is the program I should work with? Is my main question.

I'm on LinuxMint and have LibreOffice's Calc and Base (similar to Excel and Access).
I play music and have some 2000 titles ot tunes in a spreadsheet, together with "which KEY they're in, which PLAYALONG-CD I have, COMPOSER, which BAND(s) do I play them with" and so on; some 25 columns.
I'm familiar with basic filtering in spreadsheets, but wonder how sophisticated can I get with searches or queries?

If want to do things like:
"look up all TITLES in the KEY OF of C-minor PLAYED BY band-X and for which there exists a PLAYALONG plus SHEETMUSIC"

Should I somehow EXPORT the spreadsheet to Base?
Or simply stick to Calc (will TurningTables be a solution, for instance?)
Have you EVER used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there.

A DATABASE would be useful to you if you need to create multiple different views (queries) of your data, track composers or bands in separate tables and do lookups on that information, or if you need to generate and save reports for later use. Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 08:22:21 AM

Have you ever used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there.

A database would be useful to you if you need to create multiple different views (queries) of your data, track composers or bands in separate tables and do lookups on that information, or if you need to generate and save reports for later use.

Thanks. Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be. Looks like quite a learning curve ahead of me Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 09:13:47 AM

Thanks. Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be. Looks like quite a learning curve ahead of me

If only excel had a 'save filter as new view' button Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 10:01:03 AM

If only excel had a 'save filter as new view' button

or... if only LibreOffice Base had more elaborate documentation in detail, or even better, a printed book See Here...

I've also seen books at the local Library but i don't have a listing... Quote from: patio on December 07, 2012, 10:33:48 AM

See Here...

I've also seen books at the local Library but i don't have a listing...

I looked at that address before; there's books on all LibreOffice things except for Base...
I also heard rumour they don't even have a developper for Base, at present.

Finding it at the local library seems unlikely, as a web search didn't show any existing books on Base.
Maybe I should consider switching to OpenOffice - in fact, I'll search right now whether they have better documentation on their version of DB-software (I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc) Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:43:22 AM

I looked at that address before; there's books on all LibreOffice things except for Base...
I also heard rumour they don't even have a developper for Base, at present.

Finding it at the local library seems unlikely, as a web search didn't show any existing books on Base.
Maybe I should consider switching to OpenOffice - in fact, I'll search right now whether they have better documentation on their version of DB-software (I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc)

LibreOffice basically is OpenOffice -- LibreOffice was the open-source fork of OpenOffice when Sun was bought by Oracle. Some people (some of them main OO developers) left the company to work on LibreOffice, so it's more up-to-date than OpenOffice in many areas.There are tons of Base resources out there ...including the OO and Libre' Forums. Quote from: patio on December 07, 2012, 10:54:38 AM

There are tons of Base resources out there ...including the OO and Libre' Forums.

I was just WONDERING about that - LibreOffice and OpenOffice both call it "Base", so I'm guessing a book on OO's Base would be valid for most of LibreOffice"s "Base" as well...?
EDIT: hadn't seen that Technogeek already SAID something on this :-) Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:57:16 AM

I was just wondering about that - LibreOffice and OpenOffice both call it "Base", so I'm guessing a book on OO's Base would be valid for most of LibreOffice"s "Base" as well...?

Like I said earlier, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. So yes, most documentation that applies to one will apply to the other. Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 10:58:25 AM

Like I said earlier, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. So yes, most documentation that applies to one will apply to the other.

You missed my "edit" just like I missed your earlier post before "Missed it by THAT much"....

Maxwell Smart.....

Couldn't resist..... Quote from: TechnoGeek on December 07, 2012, 08:22:21 AM

Have you ever used AutoFilter? (In libreoffice I think it's Data -> Filter -> AutoFilter, something similar at least). It sounds exactly like what you're looking for there.

You never resplied to this.

Quote from: straffetoebak on December 07, 2012, 10:43:22 AM

(I don't know what one would call programs like Access, Base etc)

Database. Quote from: soybean on December 08, 2012, 06:27:02 PM

You never resplied to this. ...
Database.

I sort of implied it, but indeed not very explicitly (at all ), when I said "Saving for later use is definitely a plus, so database it'll be."
A way to save settings for a report is something I can't do with Autofilter.

Term "Database" is saved in the grey cells, thanks

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1583.	Solve : Where does Realplayer put my files??
Answer» HI I have downloaded some .WMV files using the new version of Realplayer but cannot find them anywhere! I have changed the default place-to-download in the dialog box on the Downloader APPLICATION but they don't end up there either. I am running WINDOWS 7; PLEASE assist!

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1584.	Solve : I need help using Sysprep.?
Answer» Hi I am working in an environment with wds/mdt 2012 setup for deploying images( I was using clonezilla before as imaging software). I want to sysprep and capture the image of a reference computer imaged by clonezilla then UPLOAD it to mdt to deploy later. There is only one PROBLEM, sysprep always fail when I run it. I can capture the image without running sysprep, REDEPLOY it and it run just fine. I checked in the registry and the image state say complete which indicate that the image has been sysprep before, EVEN though I did not run sysprep on the image. Can i keep using the capture image without running sysprep or do I need to run sysprep againTry it with a Macrium Reflect image...ALSO Free....

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1585.	Solve : Java installed but doesnot show...?
Answer» Tried to reach my bank which is using java applet. But the applet doesnt show....checked bank ID, no java??!!!! Checked C:\ and yes java there....uninstalled and re-installed, yes I have java and no cant get into my bankaccount...have this jre1.7.0_09 DELL 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM (yes i know :-(), IE8 and Chrome....MS Essentilas and Superantispyware, machine clean... what now? Contact your bank (by telephone) and tell them the problem you are having and they should be able to help you.truenorthand you state being "guru"? dont come with the first obvious, please, give some credit to my intelligence...the problem is on my PC, thats why I ask the experts here because, NOBODY else good give a helping hand, thats why you guys call yourself "HOPE"... Sorry i could not read your mind and/or help you.goodluck,truenorth Quote from: Peterwolfe on December 16, 2012, 10:53:56 PM and you state being "guru"? dont come with the first obvious, please, give some credit to my intelligence...the problem is on my PC, thats why I ask the experts here because, nobody else good give a helping hand, thats why you guys call yourself "HOPE"... It's always disconcerting to me when people looking for help all of a sudden decide to adopt a condescending and negative tone towards people that are trying to help... All of us here are Volunteers and give up our TIME and expertise for nothing although the sentiments of gratitude we get sparingly as they are make it all worthwhile. For your information truenorth's suggestion was not only valid and a good idea it was also what i would have suggested to check first had it been me... Reason being on secure websites if they make a change to their webpage they arent going to publicly post that info ....nor are they going to contact you buy e-mail as Banking Instutions will NEVER contact a customer via e-mail...they simply don't do things that way for security reasons. So bottom line here is if you find the assistance here lacking or inferior to your standards there's a whole web out there to explore...feel free to do so... BTW After a quick check i see you had the same issue 2 Years ago...and pretty much somewhat the same attitude... Here... Best of LUCK finding a solution. patio. Installing Java does not usually install the Java Plugin for all browsers. It also doesn't install to the root directory of C:. And now we watch as it is REVEALED that they actually need javascript...patio, Very well put. I too could have mentioned your rational (from personal experience with this very phenomenon) which was resolved through the very suggestion i made. However as you point out the attitude of the O/P inclined me to just be rid of him.truenorth

1585.

Solve : Java installed but doesnot show...?

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Tried to reach my bank which is using java applet. But the applet doesnt show....checked bank ID, no java??!!!! Checked C:\ and yes java there....uninstalled and re-installed, yes I have java and no cant get into my bankaccount...have this jre1.7.0_09

DELL 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM (yes i know :-(), IE8 and Chrome....MS Essentilas and Superantispyware, machine clean...

what now? Contact your bank (by telephone) and tell them the problem you are having and they should be able to help you.truenorthand you state being "guru"? dont come with the first obvious, please, give some credit to my intelligence...the problem is on my PC, thats why I ask the experts here because, NOBODY else good give a helping hand, thats why you guys call yourself "HOPE"... Sorry i could not read your mind and/or help you.goodluck,truenorth Quote from: Peterwolfe on December 16, 2012, 10:53:56 PM

and you state being "guru"? dont come with the first obvious, please, give some credit to my intelligence...the problem is on my PC, thats why I ask the experts here because, nobody else good give a helping hand, thats why you guys call yourself "HOPE"...

It's always disconcerting to me when people looking for help all of a sudden decide to adopt a condescending and negative tone towards people that are trying to help...

All of us here are Volunteers and give up our TIME and expertise for nothing although the sentiments of gratitude we get sparingly as they are make it all worthwhile.

For your information truenorth's suggestion was not only valid and a good idea it was also what i would have suggested to check first had it been me...
Reason being on secure websites if they make a change to their webpage they arent going to publicly post that info ....nor are they going to contact you buy e-mail as Banking Instutions will NEVER contact a customer via e-mail...they simply don't do things that way for security reasons.
So bottom line here is if you find the assistance here lacking or inferior to your standards there's a whole web out there to explore...feel free to do so...

BTW After a quick check i see you had the same issue 2 Years ago...and pretty much somewhat the same attitude...
Here...

Best of LUCK finding a solution.
patio.

Installing Java does not usually install the Java Plugin for all browsers.

It also doesn't install to the root directory of C:.

And now we watch as it is REVEALED that they actually need javascript...patio, Very well put. I too could have mentioned your rational (from personal experience with this very phenomenon) which was resolved through the very suggestion i made. However as you point out the attitude of the O/P inclined me to just be rid of him.truenorth

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1586.	Solve : Microsoft Excel 2010?
Answer» I have a spreadsheet that I want to print out onto an A4 page. How do I enlarge the spreadsheet to fit into the A4 page please? In 2007 its- Goto Print / Print Preview / Page Set-up / Click 'Fill to page' not SURE how different it will be in 2010Go to File, Page Setup, then click page tab Click "fit to" In the first box beside "fit to", enter 1 - for one page WIDE. In the second box beside "fit to", delete that number so you are not limited in pages. You can also do it by percentage, which is just above the "fit to" AREA. I would start shrinking size by 10%, then work from there (i.e. SHRINK worksheet by 10% to go from 100% to 90%. If that is too much, do 5% - 100% to 95%, and work that WAY until you get it to fit manually)

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1587.	Solve : I updated Java but checking the version on the site doesn't work (FireFox)?
Answer» I just updated Java to Version 7 Update 10 on FireFox 17.0.1 But when I go to the Java website to check the version on my computer... it says... "Something is wrong. Java is not working." My FireFox then has this little pop-up at the top that says something about a missing plugin. I've tried reinstalling it and I even tried uninstalling it and installing Java 7 Update 10 again. It didn't work and I'm still having the same problem. Java updated fine and the site check worked fine on my Window 7 laptop. This issue is occurring on my Windows Vista desktop. Can someone please help me out here and help me resolve this issue? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. P.S.: I already tried installing this so-called 'missing plugin' when the thing popped up on my FireFox but then it said the plugin failed to install. I suppose the problem could be either the firefox browser or the Vista O/S. Have you considered using another browser and trying the Java upgrade?That might point to the source of the conflict.truenorth Quote from: truenorth on December 19, 2012, 07:14:55 AM I suppose the problem could be either the firefox browser or the Vista O/S. Have you considered using another browser and trying the Java upgrade?That might point to the source of the conflict.truenorth No because I like FireFox.OK,truenorthAnyone else? I don't want to get virus just because Java isn't working with FireFox on my desktop computer. Quote from: AlwaysScrewed on December 19, 2012, 03:51:01 PM Anyone else? I don't want to get virus just because Java isn't working with FireFox on my desktop computer. Java not working or being disabled decreases any possible attack surface. You are quite a bit safer with Java disabled in your browsers than the other way around. Is there a specific reason that you want to have Java enabled and working, or is this just a case of thinking it is a good practice to do so? Personally I don't use any sites that use Java, so I typically have it universally disabled in all my browsers, or simply don't install the plugin. If you want to get Java working in your browser, though, you should try uninstalling all Java items in Add/Remove, then install Java from here. Most web searches for installing Java from what I can tell lead to Java.com, but it wants to install using some weird installer thing and I have no idea what it does or does not contain. What you want is the Runtime environment. If you are running a 64-bit system, you will want to install the 32-bit version first. Firefox doesn't have an official 64-bit version so you need a 32-bit Java installation for it to use it. Hmm... well... I haven't had any issues so far since java isn't working with my browser now. Okay. I'll just live without it until either the next java update or until I come across a situation where I actually need it. I may either create another new topic or just bump this if this ends up being the case. Thanks for the help though. Quote Java not working or being disabled decreases any possible attack surface. You are quite a bit safer with Java disabled in your browsers than the other way around. THANK you BC. I'm sure this is not news to people in the know, but I've read so many times that you should always keep Java updated and when you update Oracle tells you "(EXPONENTIAL)Billion devices use Java". One gets the impression that it is necessary to stay connected. Quote from: glathem40 on December 20, 2012, 10:49:30 AM Thank you BC. I'm sure this is not news to people in the know, but I've read so many times that you should always keep Java updated and when you update Oracle tells you "(exponential)Billion devices use Java". One gets the impression that it is necessary to stay connected. I keep the Java plugin disabled unilaterally, and I don't recall any instance where it stopped me from using a website. Java Applets have been mostly replaced by improvements in the rest of the web, such as HTML5, Javascript, and so forth, which can largely replace the functionality of a Java applet. Of course on the flip side, we do have the Java runtime itself, which is used by some desktop applications outside the browser. I do have that installed; It's just the browser plugins I keep disabled. Not really for security reasons but more because I find it to be a pain in the censored- the security improvements are a nice side-effect, though. Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 20, 2012, 07:09:17 PM I keep the Java plugin disabled unilaterally, and I don't recall any instance where it stopped me from using a website. Java Applets have been mostly replaced by improvements in the rest of the web, such as HTML5, Javascript, and so forth, which can largely replace the functionality of a Java applet. Of course on the flip side, we do have the Java runtime itself, which is used by some desktop applications outside the browser. I do have that installed; It's just the browser plugins I keep disabled. Not really for security reasons but more because I find it to be a pain in the censored- the security improvements are a nice side-effect, though. Definite agreement here. I actually keep Java (and also Unity Player) disabled. Java is rarely used on the web anymore, and when I do need it (again, not often) I can just go re-enable it. All the media-related plugins I have enabled are Flash (so ubiquitous it is necessary to keep enabled), Shockwave (for a certain online CLASS I'm taking) and the Chrome PDF viewer.I just got the Java update to Version 7 Update 10 after reading this discussion, even though I just installed Version 7 Update 9 two days ago. But, I thought I'd test this on my laptop running Windows Vista and Firefox 17.0.1 since you have the same OS and version of Firefox. Just before updating, I opened Firefox and went to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version. It confirmed I had Java Version 7 Update 9. To get the update to version 10, I opened the Java control panel from Windows Control Panel and initiated the update. I then opened Firefox and went to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version again to verify. This time, it simply would not confirm that I had Java installed. I clicked on Tools (on Firefox menu) and selected Add-ons. Next, I selected Plugins on the left column since it was not already selected when I opened the Add-ons panel. I saw that the Java plugin was disabled. So, apparently, Firefox or Java disabled the plugin during installation of Java Version 7 Update 10. I enabled the plugin, CLOSED Firefox, reopened it, went again to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version. This time, the verifcation procedure confirmed Java was working in Firefox. However, I'm going to disable it since, like other forum members have said, I rarely encounter a website that uses it. Also, the Firefox panel for plugins shows a warning in small gold text above the Java plugin; it says "Java (TM) Platform SE 7 U5 is know to cause security or reliability issues." Next to this text is a link title "More information". It leads to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p134. That link refers to update versions 6 and below, so I'm not sure why it would be displayed in connection with later update versions.

1587.

Solve : I updated Java but checking the version on the site doesn't work (FireFox)?

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I just updated Java to Version 7 Update 10 on FireFox 17.0.1

But when I go to the Java website to check the version on my computer... it says...

"Something is wrong. Java is not working."

My FireFox then has this little pop-up at the top that says something about a missing plugin.

I've tried reinstalling it and I even tried uninstalling it and installing Java 7 Update 10 again.

It didn't work and I'm still having the same problem.

Java updated fine and the site check worked fine on my Window 7 laptop.

This issue is occurring on my Windows Vista desktop.

Can someone please help me out here and help me resolve this issue? I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

P.S.: I already tried installing this so-called 'missing plugin' when the thing popped up on my FireFox but then it said the plugin failed to install.

I suppose the problem could be either the firefox browser or the Vista O/S. Have you considered using another browser and trying the Java upgrade?That might point to the source of the conflict.truenorth Quote from: truenorth on December 19, 2012, 07:14:55 AM

I suppose the problem could be either the firefox browser or the Vista O/S. Have you considered using another browser and trying the Java upgrade?That might point to the source of the conflict.truenorth

No because I like FireFox.OK,truenorthAnyone else?

I don't want to get virus just because Java isn't working with FireFox on my desktop computer. Quote from: AlwaysScrewed on December 19, 2012, 03:51:01 PM

Anyone else?

I don't want to get virus just because Java isn't working with FireFox on my desktop computer.

Java not working or being disabled decreases any possible attack surface. You are quite a bit safer with Java disabled in your browsers than the other way around.

Is there a specific reason that you want to have Java enabled and working, or is this just a case of thinking it is a good practice to do so? Personally I don't use any sites that use Java, so I typically have it universally disabled in all my browsers, or simply don't install the plugin.

If you want to get Java working in your browser, though, you should try uninstalling all Java items in Add/Remove, then install Java from here. Most web searches for installing Java from what I can tell lead to Java.com, but it wants to install using some weird installer thing and I have no idea what it does or does not contain. What you want is the Runtime environment. If you are running a 64-bit system, you will want to install the 32-bit version first. Firefox doesn't have an official 64-bit version so you need a 32-bit Java installation for it to use it.

Hmm... well...

I haven't had any issues so far since java isn't working with my browser now.

Okay. I'll just live without it until either the next java update or until I come across a situation where I actually need it.

I may either create another new topic or just bump this if this ends up being the case.

Thanks for the help though.

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Java not working or being disabled decreases any possible attack surface. You are quite a bit safer with Java disabled in your browsers than the other way around.

THANK you BC. I'm sure this is not news to people in the know, but I've read so many times that you should always keep Java updated and when you update Oracle tells you "(EXPONENTIAL)Billion devices use Java". One gets the impression that it is necessary to stay connected. Quote from: glathem40 on December 20, 2012, 10:49:30 AM

Thank you BC. I'm sure this is not news to people in the know, but I've read so many times that you should always keep Java updated and when you update Oracle tells you "(exponential)Billion devices use Java". One gets the impression that it is necessary to stay connected.

I keep the Java plugin disabled unilaterally, and I don't recall any instance where it stopped me from using a website. Java Applets have been mostly replaced by improvements in the rest of the web, such as HTML5, Javascript, and so forth, which can largely replace the functionality of a Java applet.

Of course on the flip side, we do have the Java runtime itself, which is used by some desktop applications outside the browser. I do have that installed; It's just the browser plugins I keep disabled. Not really for security reasons but more because I find it to be a pain in the *censored*- the security improvements are a nice side-effect, though. Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 20, 2012, 07:09:17 PM

I keep the Java plugin disabled unilaterally, and I don't recall any instance where it stopped me from using a website. Java Applets have been mostly replaced by improvements in the rest of the web, such as HTML5, Javascript, and so forth, which can largely replace the functionality of a Java applet.

Of course on the flip side, we do have the Java runtime itself, which is used by some desktop applications outside the browser. I do have that installed; It's just the browser plugins I keep disabled. Not really for security reasons but more because I find it to be a pain in the *censored*- the security improvements are a nice side-effect, though.

Definite agreement here. I actually keep Java (and also Unity Player) disabled. Java is rarely used on the web anymore, and when I do need it (again, not often) I can just go re-enable it. All the media-related plugins I have enabled are Flash (so ubiquitous it is necessary to keep enabled), Shockwave (for a certain online CLASS I'm taking) and the Chrome PDF viewer.I just got the Java update to Version 7 Update 10 after reading this discussion, even though I just installed Version 7 Update 9 two days ago. But, I thought I'd test this on my laptop running Windows Vista and Firefox 17.0.1 since you have the same OS and version of Firefox.

Just before updating, I opened Firefox and went to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version. It confirmed I had Java Version 7 Update 9. To get the update to version 10, I opened the Java control panel from Windows Control Panel and initiated the update. I then opened Firefox and went to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version again to verify. This time, it simply would not confirm that I had Java installed. I clicked on Tools (on Firefox menu) and selected Add-ons. Next, I selected Plugins on the left column since it was not already selected when I opened the Add-ons panel. I saw that the Java plugin was disabled. So, apparently, Firefox or Java disabled the plugin during installation of Java Version 7 Update 10. I enabled the plugin, CLOSED Firefox, reopened it, went again to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp and clicked the button for Verify Java version. This time, the verifcation procedure confirmed Java was working in Firefox.

However, I'm going to disable it since, like other forum members have said, I rarely encounter a website that uses it. Also, the Firefox panel for plugins shows a warning in small gold text above the Java plugin; it says "Java (TM) Platform SE 7 U5 is know to cause security or reliability issues." Next to this text is a link title "More information". It leads to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p134. That link refers to update versions 6 and below, so I'm not sure why it would be displayed in connection with later update versions.

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1588.	Solve : Export data from Outlook Mail 2007 to XLS.?
Answer» I get 100's of outlook attachments in an email from my vendors. I need to save those on a folder in my desktop and then open each to check for data. Is it possible to export data from them to an excel / CSV and make a list instead of opening each file? Please help!More info might be HELPFUL. What type of file are the attachments? Do they all have the same layout? For example, if they are Excel files, do they all have the same columns of data, with the same column titles, on the same sheet? Those are all Outlook 2007 emails that were returned for not reaching the person they were sent to. Required fields: Name Recipients email Domain name of the company extracted from recipient email and showing it as www.abc.com Date of delivery Date of failure / bounce Sender email All other relevant text Thanks!Again, what type of file are the attachments? Your last reply said nothing about attachments. Emails that were returned for not reaching the person they were sent to does not indicate an attachment. Are you trying to CAPTURE all the invalid email addresses related to these returned emails? The attachements are outlook emails they cound not be deliverd or bounced. Sorry, if I wasn't clear. What happens is that I receive the outlook emails as an attachments for all Out of office, techincal error emails as attachment in email. I need to capture the details from those Outlook mail items received as attachments in a spreadsheet. Hope this makes it more clear. Thanks!Well, I don't know how you can do that in the streamlined manner you want to do it. So, I hope someone may have a suggestion. I do have Outlook 2007; I'll post here again if I DISCOVER a way to do this. If they set you up with a dedicated account for each account i believe you can have only selected bounced email notifications forwarded to you.I get only bouncebacks as Outlook emails as attachments via email. I need to export data from them to xls. I gather you're working with a large number of emails. Right? Otherwise, i.e. for PERSONAL emails or a small number of emails, I don't think this would be a very significant problem; you could just solve the issue for any instance where you discovered an invalid email address and the problem would be very limited in scope. So, again, you seem to be working with a large number of emails. In your original post, you said, "I get 100's of outlook attachments in an email from my vendors." So, you have 100's of vendors for which you do not have a valid email address? Quote from: ilikeideas on December 13, 2012, 11:20:24 PM I get only bouncebacks as Outlook emails as attachments via email. I need to export data from them to xls. I was just trying to think outside the box...

1588.

Solve : Export data from Outlook Mail 2007 to XLS.?

Answer»

I get 100's of outlook attachments in an email from my vendors. I need to save those on a folder in my desktop and then open each to check for data. Is it possible to export data from them to an excel / CSV and make a list instead of opening each file?

Please help!More info might be HELPFUL. What type of file are the attachments? Do they all have the same layout? For example, if they are Excel files, do they all have the same columns of data, with the same column titles, on the same sheet?
Those are all Outlook 2007 emails that were returned for not reaching the person they were sent to.

Required fields:

Name
Recipients email
Domain name of the company extracted from recipient email and showing it as www.abc.com
Date of delivery
Date of failure / bounce
Sender email
All other relevant text

Thanks!Again, what type of file are the attachments? Your last reply said nothing about attachments. Emails that were returned for not reaching the person they were sent to does not indicate an attachment.

Are you trying to CAPTURE all the invalid email addresses related to these returned emails? The attachements are outlook emails they cound not be deliverd or bounced.

Sorry, if I wasn't clear. What happens is that I receive the outlook emails as an attachments for all Out of office, techincal error emails as attachment in email.

I need to capture the details from those Outlook mail items received as attachments in a spreadsheet.

Hope this makes it more clear.

Thanks!Well, I don't know how you can do that in the streamlined manner you want to do it. So, I hope someone may have a suggestion. I do have Outlook 2007; I'll post here again if I DISCOVER a way to do this. If they set you up with a dedicated account for each account i believe you can have only selected bounced email notifications forwarded to you.I get only bouncebacks as Outlook emails as attachments via email. I need to export data from them to xls. I gather you're working with a large number of emails. Right? Otherwise, i.e. for PERSONAL emails or a small number of emails, I don't think this would be a very significant problem; you could just solve the issue for any instance where you discovered an invalid email address and the problem would be very limited in scope. So, again, you seem to be working with a large number of emails. In your original post, you said, "I get 100's of outlook attachments in an email from my vendors." So, you have 100's of vendors for which you do not have a valid email address? Quote from: ilikeideas on December 13, 2012, 11:20:24 PM

I get only bouncebacks as Outlook emails as attachments via email. I need to export data from them to xls.

I was just trying to think outside the box...

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1589.	Solve : realplayer corruption?
Answer» Any advice? I get the MESSAGE 'the realplayer library database is corrupted and now needs to restart'... some files come up but nothing happens and I don't SEE any place to go from there. I've deleted and reinstalled RP but not the library. I HATE to LOOSE all my files. I did move them to the external HD but aren't they still corrupted? from where I can then delete the library and reinstall RP but I'm just wondering if there is another way around this. I can't open RP or the DOWNLOADER from any location at all because I get this message.

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1590.	Solve : Converting a .jpg file to .bin?
Answer» Hello. I was wondering if I could pick the brains of those QUITE substantially more EXPERIENCED that I am. I have an application that only works with .bin proprietory files. In order for me to USE the application I need to convert images in .jpg format, and convert them to the .bin format that the application understands. Is this possible, and if so, how do I do it? Thank you for your time and trouble.What application is this and what exactly are you trying to accomplish? JPG is an image format. BIN is generally not. The BIN extension usage differs from program to program, most commonly it's a CD image (like an ISO) or a VIDEO FILE. You're going to have to be more specific as to what you're doing.

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1591.	Solve : Excel corruption?
Answer» I have been using Excel 2000 with Windows98SE for years. Suddenly over the past two days, the editing features have been corrupted. For example, if I click on a cell to START to Copy a block, the formula in the cell comes up. If I press Enter the formula disappears and I can then click on the cell to carry out the Copy. Another example, I clicked on a cell then Cut, another cell then Paste. The Cut worked but the Paste did not. When an out of memory notice came up on the screen, I moved a number of sheets to another workbook. EXITING Excel and rebooting the computer has not cleared these problems. I have been to Help to see whether there was a restore feature that I should use but could not find anything that was useful.Have you ran a memory test or hard drive test?I have just run Search and Repair in Excel Help. That did not change the situation. I get a message on the screen ANALYS32.XLL cannot be assessed. I will try and sort out if that is causing the problem. It refers to Microsoft help so I will chase that up. How do I carry out a memory test?some computers have it in there bios or you could use something like Hiren's BootCD I will download and run Memetest86 if memory appears to be the Excel problemMemory ISSUES in Win98 are from the OS mostly...I have got over this problem by taking the advice of The Office Experts on EXCEL with respect to EDIT the Registry. The regedit program took me to 'excel' which I renamed 'oldexcel'. The copying and other problems disappeared but I had to rejuvenate the File list. Thanks for the suggestions.

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1592.	Solve : Backing Up Outlook 2010?
Answer» I am useing a Sony Vaio Laptop with Windows 7 Professional 64Bit. 6 GIG of Ram and sufficient Hard Drive Space. I have Microsoft Office 10 Installed on My Vaio. When I try to Back Up my Outlook .pst files, starting at the top of the Tree, PERSONAL Folders, I receive the attached error message. I have restarted Outlook numerous times, I have download .pst file software cleaner and error checked. Do ANYONE know how I should proceed, with out re-installing Office, (I don't have the disk with me.)?? Thanks, SBE. [year+ OLD attachment deleted by ADMIN]Just close outlook and manually copy the .pst file to wherever you like.

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1593.	Solve : Outlook - Google Sync Issue?
Answer» Hi All, Need some assistance. I’ve a Google mailbox that I synced with Outlook 2007. Everything seemed to work well till the time I synced it only with my office system. However, I also synced it with my HOME PC but never used it, but then when I did this weekend I only got emails on the one which was at home. These did not get downloaded on my office PC and I’m all lost. I don’t really know how to deal with it, but as a precautionary measure would like to do away with the Outlook I synced on my home PC, so that I get all MAILS on my "ALL IMPORTANT" office PC. Please advise. Apparently, you don't understand how email clients, i.e. email programs such as Outlook, work with POP3 email. And, I suspect you have no clue what I mean by POP3 email. Since you want to receive all emails on your office computer, you need to set Outlook at home to "leave messages on the server". What is happening now is that when either of the two computers DOWNLOADS messages to Outlook, the messages are then deleted from the mail server and are no longer available on the Internet and are no longer downloadable to some other computer. Alternatively, if you can access this email account via web browser, doing so at home would provide a way for you to view mail at home without interferring with the downloading of messages to Outlook on the office PC. But, of course, under the present scenario, this method of VIEWING mail will only show the mail not yet downloaded to Outlook on the office PC. If you really want, and are authorized at the office, to change email account configuration, you could change from POP3 to IMAP mail. For a reference on IMAP vs. POP3, see http://www.upperhost.com/pop3imap.htm

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1594.	Solve : Office 2007 key doesn't work with 2010?
Answer» Hi, I just got a new laptop and I need to get Office. My FRIEND has an extra COPY of Office 2007 and he sent me the product key. I have a 2010 free trial, but since the key is for 2007, it doesn't work. I can't find a download for 2007 on Microsoft's website. Is 2007 still available? If so, where can I get it? Thanks!You could try eBay.. Quote from: Quantos on December 10, 2012, 09:43:55 AM You could try eBay.. I already have a key (yes, it's legit) , so I don't really want to spend LOTS of money on new software. Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:50:35 AM I already have a key (yes, it's legit) , so I don't really want to spend lots of money on new software. The key you received from your friend is for Office 2007, not 2010. This is clearly indicated by the fact the key didn't work for you when you attempted to USE it with the 2010 free trial. You can't just take a product key from any version of Office and use it with another version. Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:25:06 AM My friend has an extra copy of Office 2007 and he sent me the product key. If your friend really has an extra copy of Office 2007, then he/she should provide it (the sofware) to you, not just the key for it. If your friend does not want to do that, then I'd say they don't really have "an extra copy". Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:50:35 AM ... so I don't really want to spend lots of money on new software. Then, then try the free LibreOffice. Well stated soybean... On that note...Topic Closed.

1594.

Solve : Office 2007 key doesn't work with 2010?

Answer»

Hi, I just got a new laptop and I need to get Office. My FRIEND has an extra COPY of Office 2007 and he sent me the product key. I have a 2010 free trial, but since the key is for 2007, it doesn't work. I can't find a download for 2007 on Microsoft's website. Is 2007 still available? If so, where can I get it?

Thanks!You could try eBay.. Quote from: Quantos on December 10, 2012, 09:43:55 AM

You could try eBay..

I already have a key (yes, it's legit) , so I don't really want to spend LOTS of money on new software. Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:50:35 AM

I already have a key (yes, it's legit) , so I don't really want to spend lots of money on new software.

The key you received from your friend is for Office 2007, not 2010. This is clearly indicated by the fact the key didn't work for you when you attempted to USE it with the 2010 free trial. You can't just take a product key from any version of Office and use it with another version.

Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:25:06 AM

My friend has an extra copy of Office 2007 and he sent me the product key.

If your friend really has an extra copy of Office 2007, then he/she should provide it (the sofware) to you, not just the key for it. If your friend does not want to do that, then I'd say they don't really have "an extra copy".

Quote from: Cheezey on December 10, 2012, 09:50:35 AM

... so I don't really want to spend lots of money on new software.

Then, then try the free LibreOffice. Well stated soybean...

On that note...Topic Closed.

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1595.	Solve : Reinstall to Factory Condition?
Answer» I had to reinstall my COMPUTER to Factory condition. Every THING WENT alright. Then after installing all the updates,is when I started having trouble. Now every time I boot up,I get a message saying installing Windows,do not turn off machine. It does it every time I Boot Up.Then it will WORK alright. Any help would be appreciated. Thank YouMore INFO needed... windows version and computer model

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1596.	Solve : sync sms texts from phone to tablet?
Answer» I've LOOKING for a application that will transfer my text messages from my android phone to my Android TABLET SAVE them 2 MICRO SD more internal MEMORY

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1597.	Solve : JitBit Easy Macro Creator - Playback faster than recorded keyboard/mouse?
Answer» I have been using this JitBit Easy Macro Recorder http://www.jitbit.com/macro-recorder/ for about 6 YEARS now on slower ( Pentium 4 -> Core 2 Duo ) computers to run quick to create and use automated keyboard/mouse routines. Decided to run this software on my faster Windows 7 system with Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz CPU and 4GB RAM, and I have noticed that there is a slight issue with playback of the macro EXE EXECUTING slightly faster than the actions recorded. Went to their website and downloaded newer version and tried that and still same issue. Maybe I just need to run this automation on my slower CPU systems. FIGURED I'd check to see if anyone else has used this software and ran into same issues with rate of macro instruction execution? Currently using it to automate a very redundant portion of an online game on facebook. I dont have 2 hrs a day to burn up the (energy) in dedundant fighting in the game to convert it to other forms of value within the game so I have a batch file that performs a ping ( for 5 sec delay ) then starts the macro.exe over and over again until the energy is used up. I then can COME back to my computer later in the day and use the ( money/skill credit ) to strengthen my army and become powerful and conquer the virtual realm as a heavy hitter. This then only requires less than 30 minutes of game play vs 3 hrs at the computer daily to enjoy the better aspects of the game vs the boring grinding. ( Yes this could be considered cheating, but it doesnt give me any advantage over the other players other than not having to waste time out of my day in the grind portion of it. My time is valuable to me..LOL) Maybe i should try running that macro in XP compatability, but I think it has to do with the CPU being too fast. BUT I thought there should be a real-time timer that should keep it all in sync no matter the speed of the computer. Many years ago before real-time timers the faster the computer the faster the program executed such as games that would start and Pac-Man ghosts would immediately catch Pac-Man upon starting an 8088 8-bit DOS game on a 486DX33Mhz. Quote BUT I thought there should be a real-time timer that should keep it all in sync no matter the speed of the computer. Many years ago before real-time timers the faster the computer the faster the program executed such as games that would start and Pac-Man ghosts would immediately catch Pac-Man upon starting an 8088 8-bit DOS game on a 486DX33Mhz. That wasn't quite how it worked. the original IBM PC did have a rather accurate Real Time Clock. Obviously the main flaw of it being that it was reset; but the timer was still accurate and didn't differ between systems. It is actually an issue with how the games were programs. Programmers usually only testedo n one machine, so if it was too fast, they just stuck a loop that executed an arbitrary number of times until the speed was reasonable. Of course on later machines, those loops were often inconsequential, and the entire thing ran far faster than desired. eg. even then the programmers could have programmed it to only ever run the game at a maximum of, say, 30 fps, but instead they designed it to perform, say, 50000 empty loops each game "tick". This worked to make the game playable on the machines they tested it on, but new machines executed all instructions faster and those 50,000 empty loops that cause a 50ms "delay" to make the game playable would become shorter and shorter until within maybe 2 CPU generations it was essentially gone. However, turning to this programs issues. Normally, the way a recorder of this sort would work is typically to record Actions, and then play them back. This is naturally kind of obvious... but the way this works is dependent on the Win32 API Function, SendInput. SendInput basically takes a group of events. These events include information, such as the specific time of the event. HOWEVER: One caveat of the API is that, while many "Recorder" programs seem to think so, the SendInput API does not "delay" any input. In fact, Every single message is posted to the active WINDOW or where needed (faked mouse movements, keyboard information, etc) the "time" information is send as part of the message, but very few applications really care about that. To add to that, a lot of Recorder Programs use a direct offset (for example, their first input might have 0 as the time field, the next 500, etc.) but the time field is actually the complete time of the event. Depending on the program, playback might be faster because the application is using the older "idle loop" method, and was really only tested on one or a few machines on which it works properly. Thanks BC for the info. I remember adding loops in Basic many years ago to slow down some feaures of games etc where you wanted to see the transition of movement vs a flash across the screen etc, so that for example my first game I ever made in 1987 called Lunar Escape showed an "A" as a ship land on a moon made up with a bunch of "" in a circle formation to be as simple as can be as ASCII before I learned how to play with sprites etc when taking Basic in high school in 1990 and tapping the teacher foreverything they could share with me on Basic until I exhausted everything they could teach me and moved on from there to my own research to learn more. Digging online I found some interesting info regarding timers and multicore CPU's such as: Quote On Windows machines you can use QueryPerformanceCounter() and QueryPerformanceFrequency() to get accurate timing. Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results.* from: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/128902-keeping-program-running-constant-speed.html My CPU is an AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz .... so the mention about "Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results." Was rather interesting as for all other systems I have used the software on in the past have been Intel CPU's or single-core AMD's like Athlon XP 2800+ and Sempron 145 But as far as Real-Time Timers, it was my understanding that programmers used for time sensitive programs like games etc starting in the mid to late 1990's, what were almost like checkpoints in the programming in relation to system time in seconds to keep programs at bay to run at what could be perceived as a constant to the eye with dynamic cpu cycle wasting loops (or) dynamic sleep duration timers that can be adjusted to ms precision on the fly so that the same game runs at the same speed no matter if its a C++ created program run on a Pentium II 450Mhz or a Core i7. ( But eventually, I could see you reaching even with a dynamic delay a limit to how much you can continue to slow a program among ever faster hardware, especially as the OS will continue to move forward to support the hardware and eventually you would reach a point of incompatability for lack of supporting DLL's etc. ) I suppose what program was ever intended to last forever...LOL ( Maybe Real-Time Timer is the incorrect statement for programs that run at the same rate among different hardware...) I am going to contact JitBit and see what they suggest to keep it running at the same rate as recorded if the XP compatability mode doesnt cure it. And until the rate of execution can stay at a constant and not run faster than originally recorded, I do have an older 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo that it runs fine on and can use that. Quote from: DaveLembke on November 27, 2012, 03:36:36 AM Thanks BC for the info. I remember adding loops in Basic many years ago to slow down some feaures of games etc where you wanted to see the transition of movement vs a flash across the screen etc, so that for example my first game I ever made in 1987 called Lunar Escape showed an "A" as a ship land on a moon made up with a bunch of "" in a circle formation to be as simple as can be as ASCII before I learned how to play with sprites etc when taking Basic in high school in 1990 and tapping the teacher foreverything they could share with me on Basic until I exhausted everything they could teach me and moved on from there to my own research to learn more. Yes. That is what I mean. And, to be honest, that is the wrong way to do it, and it was the wrong way to do it then as well. a better way would be to implement a delay. for example, we could have this one. This is probably not runnable since I don't 100% remember everything about the old BASIC. I'm not sure if the older BASIC supported SCREEN 13 (320x240 with 256 colour) either. Code: [Select]50 CURRX% = 0 75 CURRY% = 120 80 SCREEN 13 100 REM --START OF GAME LOOP-- 150 CLS 200 CIRCLE (CURRX%,CURRY%),80 300 CURRX% = (CURRX%+1) MOD 320,120 400 REM Fake 'Timer' to slow down 500 I=0 600 IF I=1000 GOTO 100 700 I=I+1 800 GOTO 400 This (probably doesn't work, but let's assume it does for the sake of argument) would move a circle from the left side of the screen to the right side. The actual rate would be timing dependent. This is, basically, Wrong. You won't see anything at all on anything faster than a 8088 with that delay, so you would either need some sort of freaky database to find out how fast each machine is, calculate it using some weird algorithm, or just give up and let your programs remain unrunnable and open the market for products like MoSlo. Alternatively, you could use TIMER: Code: [Select]50 CURRX% = 0 75 CURRY% = 120 80 SCREEN 13 100 REM --START OF GAME LOOP-- 150 CLS 200 CIRCLE (CURRX%,CURRY%),80 300 CURRX% = (CURRX%+1) MOD 320,120 400 TIMESTART=TIMER 500 IF TIMER-TIMESTART > (1/20) THEN GOTO 100 600 GOTO 500 Again, untested, dunno if it works, etc. Basically this just uses the TIMER function, which uses the computer's built in RTC. maybe 10 percent of games written back then actually used this approach; most of them, sadly, used the "just have an idle loop" method. Others took the idle loop method and have weird algorithms to get the delay to something that will work on the machine, these often crash with Divide Overflow errors on faster machines, since they usually rely on getting the time it takes to perform a certain number of iterations and use that as a divisor, of course on fast machines the difference can actually be zero. Quote My CPU is an AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz .... so the mention about "Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results."* The problem is a result of some Power Management feature of the Athlon. I'm not 100% and this is mostly a guess (educated or not, take your pick ), but the process for using the function is to use QueryPerformanceFrequency, and then use QueryPerformanceCounter. However, it's possible that the program/thread is running on a core that is "speedstepped" down (or whatever the AMD tech is called); this results in the Frequency being lower, since it's clocked down. But then in the meantime, the program might be switched to the other core after a context switch, so QueryPerformanceCounter() is run on the other one; this results in odd results, because you are practically trying to compare the timing and clock frequency values for two cores, and they aren't necessarily running at the same clock speed. I don't think this is a problem for later AMD CPUs or Intel CPUs. Quote But as far as Real-Time Timers, it was my understanding that programmers used for time sensitive programs like games etc starting in the mid to late 1990's, what were almost like checkpoints in the programming in relation to system time in seconds to keep programs at bay to run at what could be perceived as a constant to the eye with dynamic cpu cycle wasting loops (or) dynamic sleep duration timers that can be adjusted to ms precision on the fly so that the same game runs at the same speed no matter if its a C++ created program run on a Pentium II 450Mhz or a Core i7. ( But eventually, I could see you reaching even with a dynamic delay a limit to how much you can continue to slow a program among ever faster hardware, especially as the OS will continue to move forward to support the hardware and eventually you would reach a point of incompatability for lack of supporting DLL's etc. ) I suppose what program was ever intended to last forever...LOL BSD still contains large portions of the original UNIX codebase and it still works. I know you mean this in jest, but the "It works now" attitude is actually the reason for a lot of problems in the software industry. For example the original decision to use only 2 digits in the year was made when the year 2000 was the distant future. Quote ( Maybe Real-Time Timer is the incorrect statement for programs that run at the same rate among different hardware...) They run at the same rate because they use the System's RTC. Rather than waiting, say, 1000 iterations, they actually wait 1/20'th of a second (or whatever). For example, you can run the DOS version of DOOM on a modern PC (booting into DOS mode), and it will not run faster than 30fps. The game is capped to never run faster than 30 fps, and if it runs slower than 30fps, timing still works; eg at 15fps gameplay isn't half speed, but rather you simply have fewer frames per second. Much like games today. (well, most games today). Quote I am going to contact JitBit and see what they suggest to keep it running at the same rate as recorded if the XP compatability mode doesnt cure it. And until the rate of execution can stay at a constant and not run faster than originally recorded, I do have an older 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo that it runs fine on and can use that. If you are using a multi-core machine, you might try disabling any power saving CPU features. That is what causes the issue (I think) with the AMD CPUs mentioned, so it might still be a problem with modern machines.Thanks BC for getting down to the specifics and taking the time to code up old basic for example purposes. I very rarely work with old Basic anymore as for C++ for stand alone programs and perl for quick scripts has been my current choice of language or scripting. Going to try the disabling of the power saving CPU features and see what happens. I know this is enabled because I have a desktop gadget that shows the CPU status of cores, memory use, and clock rate and it doesnt run at 2600Mhz all the time, but speed-stepped to slower to like 800Mhz when idle with Win 7. For the fact that the stepping changes on the fly from 800Mhz, 1200Mhz, 1600Mhz, 2600Mhz ( or some similar stepped rates ). I never even thought about the speed-stepping as part of the equation that could influence the execution of the macros timing. Was thinking that if it calls for more processing power it gets what it wants without starving for CPU cycles or being fead too many. Just like the other processes on the fly get what they need for processing power to get the job done quick and then go back to a processing crawl until summoned again to crunch something else. In the meantime I created a quick macro in relation to that game on my netbook running Atom D510 dual core 1.66Ghz with 1GB Ram and Windows XP Home SP3 and everything is running at the correct speed in relation to the rate at which it was recorded at. The only thing that was almost a problem was accessing everything within that small 10.1" display without adding scroll up/down to the routine. Found a position that worked and marked an index card to the browsers scroll down slider bar position of Firefox for proper alignment for the next time the macro is run, the point and click routines line up with the objects on the screen in the game that it has to select/target. While some people would probably just move to another computer that behaves such as the netbook. I am still going to see if shutting off the CPU power saving features fixes it in case there is an application that needs the more powerful CPU in the future, I might then have a solution for it in which it behaves. And then when the project is done, re-enable the power saving CPU functions so its not running idle at 2.6Ghz and creating unnecessary heat and power consumption.

1597.

Solve : JitBit Easy Macro Creator - Playback faster than recorded keyboard/mouse?

Answer»

I have been using this JitBit Easy Macro Recorder http://www.jitbit.com/macro-recorder/ for about 6 YEARS now on slower ( Pentium 4 -> Core 2 Duo ) computers to run quick to create and use automated keyboard/mouse routines.

Decided to run this software on my faster Windows 7 system with Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz CPU and 4GB RAM, and I have noticed that there is a slight issue with playback of the macro EXE EXECUTING slightly faster than the actions recorded.

Went to their website and downloaded newer version and tried that and still same issue. Maybe I just need to run this automation on my slower CPU systems. FIGURED I'd check to see if anyone else has used this software and ran into same issues with rate of macro instruction execution?

Currently using it to automate a very redundant portion of an online game on facebook. I dont have 2 hrs a day to burn up the (energy) in dedundant fighting in the game to convert it to other forms of value within the game so I have a batch file that performs a ping ( for 5 sec delay ) then starts the macro.exe over and over again until the energy is used up. I then can COME back to my computer later in the day and use the ( money/skill credit ) to strengthen my army and become powerful and conquer the virtual realm as a heavy hitter. This then only requires less than 30 minutes of game play vs 3 hrs at the computer daily to enjoy the better aspects of the game vs the boring grinding.

( Yes this could be considered cheating, but it doesnt give me any advantage over the other players other than not having to waste time out of my day in the grind portion of it. My time is valuable to me..LOL)

Maybe i should try running that macro in XP compatability, but I think it has to do with the CPU being too fast. BUT I thought there should be a real-time timer that should keep it all in sync no matter the speed of the computer. Many years ago before real-time timers the faster the computer the faster the program executed such as games that would start and Pac-Man ghosts would immediately catch Pac-Man upon starting an 8088 8-bit DOS game on a 486DX33Mhz.

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BUT I thought there should be a real-time timer that should keep it all in sync no matter the speed of the computer. Many years ago before real-time timers the faster the computer the faster the program executed such as games that would start and Pac-Man ghosts would immediately catch Pac-Man upon starting an 8088 8-bit DOS game on a 486DX33Mhz.

That wasn't quite how it worked. the original IBM PC did have a rather accurate Real Time Clock. Obviously the main flaw of it being that it was reset; but the timer was still accurate and didn't differ between systems.

It is actually an issue with how the games were programs. Programmers usually only testedo n one machine, so if it was too fast, they just stuck a loop that executed an arbitrary number of times until the speed was reasonable. Of course on later machines, those loops were often inconsequential, and the entire thing ran far faster than desired.

eg. even then the programmers could have programmed it to only ever run the game at a maximum of, say, 30 fps, but instead they designed it to perform, say, 50000 empty loops each game "tick". This worked to make the game playable on the machines they tested it on, but new machines executed all instructions faster and those 50,000 empty loops that cause a 50ms "delay" to make the game playable would become shorter and shorter until within maybe 2 CPU generations it was essentially gone.

However, turning to this programs issues.

Normally, the way a recorder of this sort would work is typically to record Actions, and then play them back. This is naturally kind of obvious... but the way this works is dependent on the Win32 API Function, SendInput. SendInput basically takes a group of events. These events include information, such as the specific time of the event.

HOWEVER: One caveat of the API is that, while many "Recorder" programs seem to think so, the SendInput API does not "delay" any input. In fact, Every single message is posted to the active WINDOW or where needed (faked mouse movements, keyboard information, etc) the "time" information is send as part of the message, but very few applications really care about that. To add to that, a lot of Recorder Programs use a direct offset (for example, their first input might have 0 as the time field, the next 500, etc.) but the time field is actually the complete time of the event.

Depending on the program, playback might be faster because the application is using the older "idle loop" method, and was really only tested on one or a few machines on which it works properly.

Thanks BC for the info.

I remember adding loops in Basic many years ago to slow down some feaures of games etc where you wanted to see the transition of movement vs a flash across the screen etc, so that for example my first game I ever made in 1987 called Lunar Escape showed an "A" as a ship land on a moon made up with a bunch of "*" in a circle formation to be as simple as can be as ASCII before I learned how to play with sprites etc when taking Basic in high school in 1990 and tapping the teacher foreverything they could share with me on Basic until I exhausted everything they could teach me and moved on from there to my own research to learn more.

Digging online I found some interesting info regarding timers and multicore CPU's such as:

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On Windows machines you can use QueryPerformanceCounter() and QueryPerformanceFrequency() to get accurate timing. Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results.

from: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/128902-keeping-program-running-constant-speed.html

My CPU is an AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz .... so the mention about "Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results."
Was rather interesting as for all other systems I have used the software on in the past have been Intel CPU's or single-core AMD's like Athlon XP 2800+ and Sempron 145

But as far as Real-Time Timers, it was my understanding that programmers used for time sensitive programs like games etc starting in the mid to late 1990's, what were almost like checkpoints in the programming in relation to system time in seconds to keep programs at bay to run at what could be perceived as a constant to the eye with dynamic cpu cycle wasting loops (or) dynamic sleep duration timers that can be adjusted to ms precision on the fly so that the same game runs at the same speed no matter if its a C++ created program run on a Pentium II 450Mhz or a Core i7. ( But eventually, I could see you reaching even with a dynamic delay a limit to how much you can continue to slow a program among ever faster hardware, especially as the OS will continue to move forward to support the hardware and eventually you would reach a point of incompatability for lack of supporting DLL's etc. ) I suppose what program was ever intended to last forever...LOL
( Maybe Real-Time Timer is the incorrect statement for programs that run at the same rate among different hardware...)

I am going to contact JitBit and see what they suggest to keep it running at the same rate as recorded if the XP compatability mode doesnt cure it. And until the rate of execution can stay at a constant and not run faster than originally recorded, I do have an older 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo that it runs fine on and can use that. Quote from: DaveLembke on November 27, 2012, 03:36:36 AM

Thanks BC for the info.

I remember adding loops in Basic many years ago to slow down some feaures of games etc where you wanted to see the transition of movement vs a flash across the screen etc, so that for example my first game I ever made in 1987 called Lunar Escape showed an "A" as a ship land on a moon made up with a bunch of "*" in a circle formation to be as simple as can be as ASCII before I learned how to play with sprites etc when taking Basic in high school in 1990 and tapping the teacher foreverything they could share with me on Basic until I exhausted everything they could teach me and moved on from there to my own research to learn more.

Yes. That is what I mean. And, to be honest, that is the wrong way to do it, and it was the wrong way to do it then as well. a better way would be to implement a delay. for example, we could have this one. This is probably not runnable since I don't 100% remember everything about the old BASIC. I'm not sure if the older BASIC supported SCREEN 13 (320x240 with 256 colour) either.

Code: [Select]50 CURRX% = 0
75 CURRY% = 120
80 SCREEN 13
100 REM --START OF GAME LOOP--
150 CLS
200 CIRCLE (CURRX%,CURRY%),80
300 CURRX% = (CURRX%+1) MOD 320,120
400 REM Fake 'Timer' to slow down
500 I=0
600 IF I=1000 GOTO 100
700 I=I+1
800 GOTO 400

This (probably doesn't work, but let's assume it does for the sake of argument) would move a circle from the left side of the screen to the right side. The actual rate would be timing dependent. This is, basically, Wrong. You won't see anything at all on anything faster than a 8088 with that delay, so you would either need some sort of freaky database to find out how fast each machine is, calculate it using some weird algorithm, or just give up and let your programs remain unrunnable and open the market for products like MoSlo.

Alternatively, you could use TIMER:

Code: [Select]50 CURRX% = 0
75 CURRY% = 120
80 SCREEN 13
100 REM --START OF GAME LOOP--
150 CLS
200 CIRCLE (CURRX%,CURRY%),80
300 CURRX% = (CURRX%+1) MOD 320,120
400 TIMESTART=TIMER
500 IF TIMER-TIMESTART > (1/20) THEN GOTO 100
600 GOTO 500

Again, untested, dunno if it works, etc. Basically this just uses the TIMER function, which uses the computer's built in RTC. maybe 10 percent of games written back then actually used this approach; most of them, sadly, used the "just have an idle loop" method. Others took the idle loop method and have weird algorithms to get the delay to something that will work on the machine, these often crash with Divide Overflow errors on faster machines, since they usually rely on getting the time it takes to perform a certain number of iterations and use that as a divisor, of course on fast machines the difference can actually be zero.

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My CPU is an AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz .... so the mention about "Note that on dual-core AMDs you will also need to use SetThreadAffinityMask() or risk getting some strange results."

The problem is a result of some Power Management feature of the Athlon. I'm not 100% and this is mostly a guess (educated or not, take your pick ), but the process for using the function is to use QueryPerformanceFrequency, and then use QueryPerformanceCounter. However, it's possible that the program/thread is running on a core that is "speedstepped" down (or whatever the AMD tech is called); this results in the Frequency being lower, since it's clocked down. But then in the meantime, the program might be switched to the other core after a context switch, so QueryPerformanceCounter() is run on the other one; this results in odd results, because you are practically trying to compare the timing and clock frequency values for two cores, and they aren't necessarily running at the same clock speed. I don't think this is a problem for later AMD CPUs or Intel CPUs.

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But as far as Real-Time Timers, it was my understanding that programmers used for time sensitive programs like games etc starting in the mid to late 1990's, what were almost like checkpoints in the programming in relation to system time in seconds to keep programs at bay to run at what could be perceived as a constant to the eye with dynamic cpu cycle wasting loops (or) dynamic sleep duration timers that can be adjusted to ms precision on the fly so that the same game runs at the same speed no matter if its a C++ created program run on a Pentium II 450Mhz or a Core i7. ( But eventually, I could see you reaching even with a dynamic delay a limit to how much you can continue to slow a program among ever faster hardware, especially as the OS will continue to move forward to support the hardware and eventually you would reach a point of incompatability for lack of supporting DLL's etc. ) I suppose what program was ever intended to last forever...LOL

BSD still contains large portions of the original UNIX codebase and it still works. I know you mean this in jest, but the "It works now" attitude is actually the reason for a lot of problems in the software industry. For example the original decision to use only 2 digits in the year was made when the year 2000 was the distant future.
Quote

( Maybe Real-Time Timer is the incorrect statement for programs that run at the same rate among different hardware...)

They run at the same rate because they use the System's RTC. Rather than waiting, say, 1000 iterations, they actually wait 1/20'th of a second (or whatever).

For example, you can run the DOS version of DOOM on a modern PC (booting into DOS mode), and it will not run faster than 30fps. The game is capped to never run faster than 30 fps, and if it runs slower than 30fps, timing still works; eg at 15fps gameplay isn't half speed, but rather you simply have fewer frames per second. Much like games today. (well, most games today).

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I am going to contact JitBit and see what they suggest to keep it running at the same rate as recorded if the XP compatability mode doesnt cure it. And until the rate of execution can stay at a constant and not run faster than originally recorded, I do have an older 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo that it runs fine on and can use that.

If you are using a multi-core machine, you might try disabling any power saving CPU features. That is what causes the issue (I think) with the AMD CPUs mentioned, so it might still be a problem with modern machines.Thanks BC for getting down to the specifics and taking the time to code up old basic for example purposes. I very rarely work with old Basic anymore as for C++ for stand alone programs and perl for quick scripts has been my current choice of language or scripting.

Going to try the disabling of the power saving CPU features and see what happens. I know this is enabled because I have a desktop gadget that shows the CPU status of cores, memory use, and clock rate and it doesnt run at 2600Mhz all the time, but speed-stepped to slower to like 800Mhz when idle with Win 7. For the fact that the stepping changes on the fly from 800Mhz, 1200Mhz, 1600Mhz, 2600Mhz ( or some similar stepped rates ). I never even thought about the speed-stepping as part of the equation that could influence the execution of the macros timing. Was thinking that if it calls for more processing power it gets what it wants without starving for CPU cycles or being fead too many. Just like the other processes on the fly get what they need for processing power to get the job done quick and then go back to a processing crawl until summoned again to crunch something else.

In the meantime I created a quick macro in relation to that game on my netbook running Atom D510 dual core 1.66Ghz with 1GB Ram and Windows XP Home SP3 and everything is running at the correct speed in relation to the rate at which it was recorded at. The only thing that was almost a problem was accessing everything within that small 10.1" display without adding scroll up/down to the routine. Found a position that worked and marked an index card to the browsers scroll down slider bar position of Firefox for proper alignment for the next time the macro is run, the point and click routines line up with the objects on the screen in the game that it has to select/target.

While some people would probably just move to another computer that behaves such as the netbook. I am still going to see if shutting off the CPU power saving features fixes it in case there is an application that needs the more powerful CPU in the future, I might then have a solution for it in which it behaves. And then when the project is done, re-enable the power saving CPU functions so its not running idle at 2.6Ghz and creating unnecessary heat and power consumption.

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1598.	Solve : Transfer a file with current date?
Answer» Hi, I would like to inform that I am using two machines with save data on regular basis. I want to transfer the latest file of each day to a new directory of the same computer. Could SOMEONE please help me that how can I automatically copy the new file to another directory. I am novice in using batch file so if please anybody provide a batch file for this purpose I will be highly thankful. You could easily use something like this: CODE: [Select]ECHO OFF TITLE Organizer 0.1b SET PRE=%DATE:/=-% && SET TODAY=%PRE:~4,10% SET DIR=%CD% REM Replace FILENAME. with whatever is appropriate. Try to keep you selection as small as possible. REM Don't use too MANY wildcards. Something like " .txt, or %TODAY%.* can work just fine. XCOPY %DIR%\FILENAME. %DIR%\%TODAY%\. /F /I REM This will search it's home directory, and find all files that were modified or created today. REM Then, it will copy them to a folder with today's date as the name. I tested it on a directory with 12 files. 6 were created today, and the others are older. If you want this to RUN automatically each night, that is also possible. But as is, you can just set it up as needed, and double-click it nightly.

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1599.	Solve : MyMailList - ?Changing Font size on Mailing Labels?
Answer» Recently I installed MyMailList &AMP; Postage Saver Delux program on my computer, and I've been trying to figure out how to change the Font size that actually prints on Small Mailing Labels. I can get it to change the Font & Font size in the Data form, however, that information doesn't seem to transfer to the label that gets printed. It looks LIKE it is about a Font size 8 or 9 which leaves plenty of room on the labels for a larger size that would be easier to read. I've looked through the book that came with the program and I can't find anything. I tried going on line for help and apparently the program needs JAVA, which I have, but apparently it isn't recognizing it and keeps trying to make Internet EXPLORER my default browser. I use Firefox. Thank youI'm not familiar with MyMailList & Postage Saver Deluxe. So, I'll ask, do you have Microsoft Word on your computer? Yes, I've got Office Home & Student 2007.Well, you can create, and save, mailing labels with Word. To open a template for labels, open Word and click the Office Start Orb (the round icon in the upper left corner) and click New. In the New Document panel that OPENS, you'll see a list of templates in the left column. Click Labels and then click Mailing and shipping labels. Make the appropriate selection on the next screen and proceed. If you have a label package such as Avery 8160, you can choose a template that's designed to work that product. Edit: Since you have Excel, entering names and addresses in to Excel and then APPLYING a technique called Mail Merge can be used to print the labels from Word based on the contacts list in Excel. I am not that familiar with using Excel. Where would I go to make an Address List in Excel? I've checked the online instructions and it just says to make a mailing list to merge with Word, but it did say "how" or where to go to do it. Thank youMail Merge using Excel was merely a suggestion. You can create labels directly in Word. Edit: If you have a large number of addressees and you occasionally need to add or delete addressees, or change elements of the list for certain addressees, using Excel and the Mail Merge technique can be a real productivity booster. Here's a excellent video showing how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmSFEpVgPQThank you, I will check out the video. You've been very helpful.

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Answer» Where can I find a FREEWARE,for Print ENVELOPES? Thank YOUYOUR printer software should contain that.truenorthAlso, if you have MICROSOFT Word, it has print settings for envelopes.Thanks to all who answered

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