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    Can we reset or reinstall the whole networking thing?

    I have been having problems with lan connections to the router on a machine for some time. sometimes boot and all is good. othertimes boot and no connection and othertimes boot and connection 'no...
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    not there right now so can't do it but will do...

    not there right now so can't do it but will do it. meanwhile I can report that yes, there's said to be dns issues. got a report from somewhere somewhere along the line: dns server not responding. ...
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    another computer on the same lan. i should have...

    another computer on the same lan. i should have spelled that out. the lan is okay, the router is okay, everything is okay but that win10 machine just gone flaky. like it WAS okay. it's not like...
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    What's wrong - No Internet But Yes, Internet.

    all the apps on firefox - and opera - report they cannot find the internet.

    the network/wifi thing in the bottom right corner reports a valid connection, no problem.

    I'm using 8.8.8.8 and...
  5. Thread: Font Problem.... any way to reset? by abrogard
    Forum: General Support
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    Yep. I've been trying that sort of thing and...

    Yep. I've been trying that sort of thing and looks like I've got a fix.

    Right now I have English with Aussie keyboard and English with US keyboard.


    this is english australia with '...
  6. Thread: Font Problem.... any way to reset? by abrogard
    Forum: General Support
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    Font Problem.... any way to reset?

    This is a new win10 install and it seems to have come with a built in problem.

    When I try to put single quotes I get a screw up. Various things happen like the first one does not appear when I...
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    Yep, thanks guys. I used win7, kinda, until a...

    Yep, thanks guys. I used win7, kinda, until a few months ago. This linux machine I am on now was my wife's machine. It is an old optiplex 760. I had win7 on it for her for years. It did stirling...
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    Don't know what a 'slic' table is but I guess...

    Don't know what a 'slic' table is but I guess it's perhaps an inbuilt oem licence?

    Whatever, I'm beginning to think it might be useful to have a win7 box standing by as a curiosity at least. And...
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    Well I'd rather not have to reveal this but the...

    Well I'd rather not have to reveal this but the drive was not plugged in.

    It's not quite as embarrassing as it sounds - or maybe it is worse. They are old drives and when I found them I didn't...
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    Thank you Marie and S1W2. Good news. I'll see...

    Thank you Marie and S1W2. Good news. I'll see if I can do a new win7 install then. I only need it long enough to see if the drives appear and to then move stuff off them if there's anything I want....
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    Can I run a win7 simulator or something?

    All our old win7 etc. boxes are long dead and gone. I've not even got a record of their windows licence numbers.
    And now I got two Seagate srd00f2 2T external expansion drives which can't be seen by...
  12. Thread: PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor by abrogard
    Forum: Software and Apps
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    That's right. That's exactly what I thought....

    That's right. That's exactly what I thought. Gratuitous.
    Whereas your contribution was of course completely necessary and informative, contributing immensely and bringing us all closer to...
  13. Thread: PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor by abrogard
    Forum: Software and Apps
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    Well all of that looks to me like gratuitous near...

    Well all of that looks to me like gratuitous near ad hominem. I just don't see the point of it. And the assertions it makes are debatable in any case. I don't come here for that kind of crap.
    ...
  14. Thread: PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor by abrogard
    Forum: Software and Apps
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    Thanks for that. You're right. Might be all I...

    Thanks for that. You're right. Might be all I need.

    You'd call Yahoo mail's editor a word processor?

    I'd like to coin a phrase, a name: 'text manager' perhaps.

    There's probably an app...
  15. Thread: PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor by abrogard
    Forum: Software and Apps
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    Thanks for that. Haven't tried it yet but I will....

    Thanks for that. Haven't tried it yet but I will. I take it that it loads up, pops up super quite like notepad or something.. not like MS Word or Libre ? Because I have them of course. I'm looking...
  16. Thread: PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor by abrogard
    Forum: Software and Apps
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    PLease: Quick/Easy/Free Text Editor

    Believe it or not I've been hunting for two days. Tried heaps. had Gpt helping me even.

    Not a code editor. A text editor.

    Mainly I just want something that comes up as quickly as notepad ( or...
  17. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    Yes I was wondering how it happened. I have no...

    Yes I was wondering how it happened. I have no clue. Perhaps a badly behaved MS update?
  18. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    Well I'd like to thank everyone for their help -...

    Well I'd like to thank everyone for their help - thank the thread, so to speak, but that doesn't seem to be an option? So on the basis that it was your 'driveclean' tip that led to the 'automount'...
  19. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    Hot Damn ! It mounted a USB drive and issued...

    Hot Damn ! It mounted a USB drive and issued drive letter D: - which a minute ago was the thumbdrive which I removed to allow the insertion of the USB drive. Then I put the thumbdrive in another...
  20. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
    Replies 18 Views 1,719

    Thanks for that. Very interesting site. Well I...

    Thanks for that. Very interesting site. Well I did the thing and it cleaned up many things. But plugging one of the USB drives in caused the beep, beep, beep again. Plugging the thumbdrive in...
  21. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
    Replies 18 Views 1,719

    Yep. Thanks for that. It is helpful. Increases...

    Yep. Thanks for that. It is helpful. Increases my knowledge. :)
  22. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    No I don't know much about windows behaviour in...

    No I don't know much about windows behaviour in regard to hot swapping. We can influence it? I didn't know. Perhaps I should know more about that? But the hot swapping of the USB sticks doesn't...
  23. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    I just tried. It allocated E: and it reads okay....

    I just tried. It allocated E: and it reads okay.

    However the 'quick access' part of the win explorer pane shows E: with a query but down in 'this pc' part of the pane it shows it as normal. if...
  24. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
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    Maybe you are referring to your post where you...

    Maybe you are referring to your post where you queried if there was anything in common etc. ? I was waiting until I got an opportunity to try the drives on another machine.

    I've now done that. ...
  25. Thread: External USB Drives Not Recognised. by abrogard
    Forum: Drivers and Hardware
    Replies 18 Views 1,719

    Good idea and interesting. I had 221 entries. ...

    Good idea and interesting. I had 221 entries. Cleared them out. Unfortunately doesn't seem to have fixed it. Perhaps I should not have hoped it would given that thumb drives are recognised? I...
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