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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/5/2014 8:54 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:15:15 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:20:57 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. You can fax from your computer if it still has a modem in it. I haven't seen a built in modem that did not have fax capabilities since the 486 days. The problem is POTS modems are starting to disappear in newer machines. XP has fax support in the basic load but it is a bit clunky to use. I still have a W98 machine on my scanner that can fax. I suppose I'd have to have a scanner though. I don't. My wife has a little portable she uses for her scrapbooking, but I don't think my ID card would fold enough to get through the thing. I bought an inexpensive scanner a year ago. It's an Epson V330 and was $99. I choose it because in addition to doing up to 8.5" x 11" photos or documents, it also will do film negatives and 35mm slides. My sister and I were putting together an album of digital images taken from the slides that my parents had, dating back to the 1950's. It does a pretty decent job. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:01:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 8:51 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:06:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) No, Dick got it right. They're all back. OK that must be another "Vista" experience that Bill thought you needed to have. It's retained in Win 7 although the process is a little different. I haven't checked Win 8. It's just a simple option to either display all the icons on your desktop or not. With: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvbgi6zq2cxjt3w/with%20icons.jpg Without: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkg0qjl2wf3oebf/without%20icons.jpg It would seem unnecessary. Except for a few, most are placed there by the user, and if placed there during a program installation, they're easily removable. For my wife, it was a 'nightmare' when she lost all her icons (almost literally). She woke me about 1 AM, telling me she still couldn't fix the problem. I told her to wait until morning...we'd fix it. The next morning I right clicked everything I could think of, but somehow missed the 'Blank Spot'! Harry makes a good point about Windows though. I just fired up my other laptop that runs on Windows 7 Home Premium. I haven't used it since the end of October. There were over 30 "important" updates to download and install, a process that took about half an hour. All I was doing was looking for a picture that was on it for a project I am working on. I have noticed a great decline in the number of XP updates coming down the pike. Either it's mostly fixed, or MS has just given up. Or, maybe I shut the notification off - if that's possible. Maybe Apple just doesn't notify the user when its downloading and installing an update. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:07:11 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 8:54 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:15:15 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:20:57 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. You can fax from your computer if it still has a modem in it. I haven't seen a built in modem that did not have fax capabilities since the 486 days. The problem is POTS modems are starting to disappear in newer machines. XP has fax support in the basic load but it is a bit clunky to use. I still have a W98 machine on my scanner that can fax. I suppose I'd have to have a scanner though. I don't. My wife has a little portable she uses for her scrapbooking, but I don't think my ID card would fold enough to get through the thing. I bought an inexpensive scanner a year ago. It's an Epson V330 and was $99. I choose it because in addition to doing up to 8.5" x 11" photos or documents, it also will do film negatives and 35mm slides. My sister and I were putting together an album of digital images taken from the slides that my parents had, dating back to the 1950's. It does a pretty decent job. I used to have a nice Epson scanner, several years ago. It took up too much room. When we moved to Germanys a box containing all my slides, bayonet collection, and a few other collectibles was stolen. All the early Germany, Vietnam and Hawaii pictures were on slides. All gone. I'm sure someone wanted the bayonets. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/5/2014 9:16 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:01:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/5/2014 8:51 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:06:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't like the idea of playing with her Vista machine. That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard. Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box. I think your icons are gone tho. I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top. I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-) No, Dick got it right. They're all back. OK that must be another "Vista" experience that Bill thought you needed to have. It's retained in Win 7 although the process is a little different. I haven't checked Win 8. It's just a simple option to either display all the icons on your desktop or not. With: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvbgi6zq2cxjt3w/with%20icons.jpg Without: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkg0qjl2wf3oebf/without%20icons.jpg It would seem unnecessary. Except for a few, most are placed there by the user, and if placed there during a program installation, they're easily removable. For my wife, it was a 'nightmare' when she lost all her icons (almost literally). She woke me about 1 AM, telling me she still couldn't fix the problem. I told her to wait until morning...we'd fix it. The next morning I right clicked everything I could think of, but somehow missed the 'Blank Spot'! Harry makes a good point about Windows though. I just fired up my other laptop that runs on Windows 7 Home Premium. I haven't used it since the end of October. There were over 30 "important" updates to download and install, a process that took about half an hour. All I was doing was looking for a picture that was on it for a project I am working on. I have noticed a great decline in the number of XP updates coming down the pike. Either it's mostly fixed, or MS has just given up. Or, maybe I shut the notification off - if that's possible. Maybe Apple just doesn't notify the user when its downloading and installing an update. Beats me but I've never had to go though a reboot due to an update, if Apple automatically installs them. The only time I've rebooted the iMac was when I installed the current "Mavericks" OSX. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:46:54 -0500, KC wrote:
On 2/5/2014 1:15 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:20:57 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. You can fax from your computer if it still has a modem in it. I haven't seen a built in modem that did not have fax capabilities since the 486 days. The problem is POTS modems are starting to disappear in newer machines. XP has fax support in the basic load but it is a bit clunky to use. I still have a W98 machine on my scanner that can fax. We just have a Fax Machine... The new printer I got for Christmas does printing, copying, scanning and faxing. I should be in good shape. All we ever do is black and white. If we need a photo or color, we send it to Costco. There it's done in an hour or so. Haven't tried the WalMart service yet, but will give it a shot as it's much closer, and I can pick up some ammo if I need it !! |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:07:11 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/5/2014 8:54 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:15:15 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:20:57 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. You can fax from your computer if it still has a modem in it. I haven't seen a built in modem that did not have fax capabilities since the 486 days. The problem is POTS modems are starting to disappear in newer machines. XP has fax support in the basic load but it is a bit clunky to use. I still have a W98 machine on my scanner that can fax. I suppose I'd have to have a scanner though. I don't. My wife has a little portable she uses for her scrapbooking, but I don't think my ID card would fold enough to get through the thing. I bought an inexpensive scanner a year ago. It's an Epson V330 and was $99. I choose it because in addition to doing up to 8.5" x 11" photos or documents, it also will do film negatives and 35mm slides. My sister and I were putting together an album of digital images taken from the slides that my parents had, dating back to the 1950's. It does a pretty decent job. I did the same thing a few years ago. I went a bit more expensive and bought the Canon Canoscan 8800F. I was disappointed in the quality of my old 35mm slides from the early 80's. I remembered them as pretty good projected on a wall, but the Canon picked up every little imperfection. I believe I had paid about $280.00 at COSTCO for the flatbed scanner. |
Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On 2/5/2014 9:58 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:46:54 -0500, KC wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:15 AM, wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:20:57 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I've had companies want a fax of my military ID card. They wouldn't take a jpg. So I had to trudge down to UPS to get the fax sent. Only $1, but a pain in the butt. An excuse for a motorcycle ride though. You can fax from your computer if it still has a modem in it. I haven't seen a built in modem that did not have fax capabilities since the 486 days. The problem is POTS modems are starting to disappear in newer machines. XP has fax support in the basic load but it is a bit clunky to use. I still have a W98 machine on my scanner that can fax. We just have a Fax Machine... The new printer I got for Christmas does printing, copying, scanning and faxing. I should be in good shape. All we ever do is black and white. If we need a photo or color, we send it to Costco. There it's done in an hour or so. Haven't tried the WalMart service yet, but will give it a shot as it's much closer, and I can pick up some ammo if I need it !! Just a note.. Last year we tried Amazon for ink for our Brother Scanner/Printer/Copy/Fax/fix you a sandwich... printer. We paid 16 dollars for 20 cartridge, yup, less than a dollar a cartridge. We print a lot and have almost used all of them, ready for another order. Not one problem, not one issue with any of them or the printer so far.. Just noting it for you all... Just sayin'... |
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