Forum: General Discussion
24 Mar 2012
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Forum: General Discussion
24 Mar 2012
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,005 List of Path Abbreviations: %whatever% Thingies
Does anyone know where I can find a list of valid path abbreviations? I'm referring to the abbreviations between percent signs such as %programdata% = C:\ProgramData that one can use in defining...
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Forum: General Discussion
18 Mar 2012
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,290 Thanks, Maguscreed
Wow! That was fast. Thanks for the answer. As I run as administrator I blow right past the password business. My only question now is why some installers are NOT under user account control?
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Forum: General Discussion
18 Mar 2012
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Forum: General Discussion
10 Mar 2011
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Views: 1,281 Found answer to problem
After right-click on Start orb | Properties | Start menu | Customise | Use default settings | OK | OK, my hover icons came back. After some experimentation with the customise feature it appears that...
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Forum: General Discussion
09 Mar 2011
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Views: 1,281 Right side start menu icons
Used to be, when I hovered over items on the right side of the start menu there was an changing icon at the top of the menu. Somehow in my fiddling I have disabled that and no icons now appear at...
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Forum: General Discussion
07 Mar 2011
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,664 Thanks, Shawn
Current item in Startup folder didn't show in any of the registry run entries. I ran out of time to deal with this problem and rolled the system back to mid-February via a full backup. Startup...
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Forum: General Discussion
06 Mar 2011
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,664 Thanks for your suggestion. I have used the...
Thanks for your suggestion. I have used the program, Autoruns, for the same purpose. It shows both instances of Thunderbird originating in the startup folder. If I kill (uncheck box) either one it...
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Forum: General Discussion
05 Mar 2011
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,664 Startup folder gives double instances
Just ran into a curious glitch in my Win7. Whatever I put into my startup folder is started twice upon booting. If I put a shortcut to Thunderbird in the startup folder, the next time I boot two...
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Forum: Installation & Setup
12 Feb 2011
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Replies: 0
Views: 939 Installing Win7 on (not from) a Flash Drive
Now that flash drives are available in sizes up to 128 GB it seems feasible to install Windows directly on such a drive, except that the installer setup does not recognize flash drives. I understand...
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