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Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 3 Hours 41 Minutes ago by: Paul

The value of the utility, is it includes a fair number of header files. It's better than having to manually figure it out. Paul

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 6 Hours 31 Minutes ago by: Java Jive

Well, on second thoughts, the above output is unnecessarily confusing, the part that really matters is: The leading comments in winerror.h explain this ... // 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 // 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 6 Hours 48 Minutes ago by: Java Jive

Thanks, looks useful. LOL!

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 7 Hours 30 Minutes ago by: pyotr filipivich

I realize that correlation is not causation, but when something happens when I click on "check mail", I'm inclined to figure that there is some kind of connection.

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 8 Hours 12 Minutes ago by: Paul

There's a utility for this. Err_6.4.5.exe https://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/2/432140e8-fb6c-4145-8192-25242838c542/Err_6.4.5/Err_6.4.5.exe SHA256 88739EC82BA16A0B4A3C83C1DD2FCA6336AD8E2A1E5F1238C085B1E86AB8834A 2,

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 9 Hours 55 Minutes ago by: Java Jive

Nonsense, see the file Include\WinError.h in Visual Studio.

Google Groups Archives for this newsgroup

Posted: 10 Hours 22 Minutes ago by: Newyana2

"pyotr filipivich" <phamp@mindspring.com> wrote | Yet again: blue screen of death when I try to fetch mail with | Eudora. | I usually find that I can get results looking up something like the first 3 parts of the error code. With each p

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 18 Hours 33 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

This was just posted on the Windows newsgroups, but it applies equally to those on these specialty newsgroups who search before they ask questions. *Google Groups Archives for this newsgroup* Paul wrote: Hi Paul, I often run a search

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 22 Hours 36 Minutes ago by: Paul

A recent change, that occurs to me, is if you recently clicked on Internet Explorer, the home page that Internet Explorer normally loads, is used as an "exploit" by Microsoft, and Microsoft "busts" Internet Explorer on purpose, as soon as

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Being old doesn't mandate the cause of the BSODs. Whas has often what? Crashed? If so, are you sure the crashes are caused by Eudora? You don't say if you are using the classic version of Eudora, or the Thunderbird fork (Eudora OSE)

Re: BSOD - only software change is Windows (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: Paul

Knowing what version of Eudora you are running would help. This is probably the old Eudora. Eudora 7.1.0.9 Version just before the OSE one ? EudoraOSE 1.0 (2010) Based on Thunderbird Tested with Win7. What a program was buil

BSOD - only software change is Windows

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Java Jive

You're probably not going to get much help without telling us the details displayed in the BSOD.

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: pyotr filipivich

Yet again: blue screen of death when I try to fetch mail with Eudora. A program which has not been updated in 10 or more years. Windows has, often, but not the mail program. Frustrating, to say the least. Sure 'nuff, there is a du

Re: Outlook For EMail (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 4 Hours ago by: Paul

I tried this Google search: ssl/tls for outlook 2007 And an answer I got was: Does Outlook 2007 support TLS? Old mail client such as Outlook 2007 is not able to send a mail via SSL/TLS Then another answer says: How d

Outlook For EMail

Posted: 5 Days 4 Hours ago by: BeeJ

On Windows 7 Pro (updated). I have Thunderbird set up for an Outlook and a Hotmail account working but slow. Just now installed Outlook 2007 I am trying to set up Outlook 2007 for those hoping that the eMail download updates will be fa

Posted: 6 Days 1 Hour ago by: Carlos E.R.

No, I do not see a global something for news. Each server aka account gets a separate entry on the left panel, with all the subscribed group on that server.

Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

But can't you have a 'global inbox' like you can for e-mail, so that all your articles from multiple servers are in one 'view'? (I use a global inbox for e-mail in Thunderbird, but do not use thunderbird for news.) I also use a loca

Posted: 6 Days 15 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

MS discontinued them and switched off the nntp server at MS - other servers still carried it. It was XP. news.solani.org has them, registration is free.

Posted: 6 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

When you have two computers, a WinXP one and a Win10 one, there is a good chance the News Agent is set up differently. When I copied my profile folder from WinXP to a later OS, that tends to keep your identifiers the same. But not all to

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

No, Thunderbird can not. You can define several accounts and each can have one server only. So you can not have one "usenet" account will all groups. In my case I can, because I use a local proxy server, which can talk to multiple ser

Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: James Tayler

Why does it beat you? You have told us before that "Just in case there's anyone here who doesn't know this, nymshifting is a certain mark of someone's being a troll. Trolls nymshift to try to escape from killfiles. But nymshifting is use

Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Sorry, I misunderstood. Beats me.

Posted: 7 Days 3 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <o67h1il1qbe8v3dm7p4brnni60hg7gi234@4ax.com>, Ken@invalid.news.com says... Paganini

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

Not you, Mayayana. Why does he have a new nym? [...]

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Thanks.

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Paul

Yes. See, new traffic. https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general But you can't get headers there. (It might require logging in and the function might still be disabled for all I know.) What read-only servers can

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

New nym? I've always been Ken Blake. I did and didn't find any. See the other message I sent moments ago.

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

So do I. I must have mistyped Microsoft when I did a search on it before posting. Sorry, and thanks.

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

But how many are getting new messages? If anyone can recommend a good group for MSMQ I'd welcome it.

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

It's also available on Windows XP, which is what Newyana2 (mainly) uses. (BTW, why the new nym?) Several such servers were mentioned in this (long) thread, but why not just look on 'your' server!? :-)

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Bill Bradshaw

I see all kinds of the microsoft.public.??? on news.individual.net.

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I think so too. In fact I think all (almost all?) newsreaders can Is he running Outlook Express? The last version of Windows to include it was Windows 98. I haven't seen a Microsoft newsgroup in years. Do you know any news server

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[Late response due to extended absence.] Newyana2 <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> wrote: I'm not sure, but I think that Outlook Express can have multiple news servers/accounts. If so, you can get the microsoft.public.* groups from some other

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

I don't know why he removed the microsoft.* groups - at the time, I was probably getting a tan on some Aussie beach :-) - but the name starting with microsoft is - or better: was - very relevant. Groups starting with a company or org

Posted: 8 Days 8 Hours ago by: AugustA

Hello Newyana2! ** On Sunday 19.03.23 - 09:01, Newyana2 wrote to : I concur. Rayban's decision is an enigma. Fidonet could be a fine alternative place. Many of the message areas are available via nntp. Here are few nntp feed optio

Posted: 8 Days 9 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"AugustA" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote | He missed alt.comp.os.windows-xp | | It's just getting ATM banking fraud messages. | It was only the microsoft.* groups he removed. I suppose that from a purist point of view they're not "official"

Posted: 8 Days 12 Hours ago by: Daniel65

Hmm! Was anybody deafened by the cheer that went up?? ;-P

Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Paul

No, no, they'll fire the staff... and leave it running. It's the high tech way, doncha know? Light a dumpster on fire, roll it down a hill... Where it stops, nobody knows. Paul

Posted: 8 Days 23 Hours ago by: AugustA

Hello Newyana2! ** On Thursday 16.03.23 - 07:57, Newyana2 wrote to : He missed alt.comp.os.windows-xp It's just getting ATM banking fraud messages.

Posted: 9 Days 2 Hours ago by: Michael Trew

That would be wonderful... that will take out most Usenet spam. I surely won't morn the AIOE spammers, either. ES is OK for a freebie, but I access most of my groups with block news. For text NG, that $4 block will last a life-time.

Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote | The microsoft.* groups ran for ten years past their best-before date. | | He could have removed them, at the time the (unsigned) rmgroup | came in on the wire. But he didn't. | The reason I said t

Posted: 11 Days 9 Hours ago by: Java Jive

Yes, probably that will be part of it. Recently another ng I subscribe to - even though it's almost, but not quite, dead - is receiving more drug spam than genuine posts, all of which are from gmail accounts via google groups. Tr

Posted: 11 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul

The microsoft.* groups ran for ten years past their best-before date. He could have removed them, at the time the (unsigned) rmgroup came in on the wire. But he didn't. I expect the problem was, there was some maintenance activity in 20

Posted: 11 Days 10 Hours ago by: Newyana2

OT News Server And Groupos

Posted: 12 Days 3 Hours ago by: BeeJ

Seems that nntp.aioe.org is now dead. What's up ? Seems that news-eternal-september has dropped many newsgroups including the beloved microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion Where now ?

OT Thunderbird eMail

Posted: 12 Days 3 Hours ago by: BeeJ

Win 7 Pro Latest Thunderbird. Downloading messages from GMail are fairly fast. Downloading messages from Hotmail are very slow. Any remedy ?

Re: Macros for Word (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 2 Hours ago by: Roger Mills

Make sure that Developer tab is shown on the ribbon. [If not, enable it in Office Button/Word options/Popular] If you then click on Developer you can see the Macro menu - for creating new macros or viewing a list of existing macros. Ma

Re: Macros for Word (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nil

On 10 Mar 2023, "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote in alt.windows7.general: Not able to check my own computer at the moment, but I recall that global macros are stored in the default template, NORMAL.DOT in that version. Ma

Macros for Word

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 19 Hours ago by: David E. Ross

Suddenly, a Word macro that I use frequently has disappeared. Does anyone know where Word 2007 stores its macros? I have backups for several weeks, but I do not know which file to retrieve from my backups to restore the macro.

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 1 Hour ago by: Michael Trew

I'm assuming that since you have a router separate from the modem, you don't sign into DSL or the like on your desktop of the old machine. Your router does that for you. If you have a wired Ethernet connection from the router, it is as

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 2 Hours ago by: NY

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message news:5cc5651468bffc625bf5fdf8c4427656@dizum.com... Ah, I was actually referring to your new Win 7 PC rather than your old Win XP one. I actually wrote the instructions by looking on my W

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Nomen Nescio

DEL I don't have that menu on my XP Pro (sp 3). The menus I have do have only have Set Up or Create choices. I went a few steps into each menu and did not come up with any simple Change setting for anything. The rest of the choices

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 19 Hours ago by: Nil

On 06 Mar 2023, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in alt.windows7.general: You will not affect the other computers on your network by connecting a new one. The worst that could happen is your new computer won't connect to the Inter

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: NY

About the only way that you could screw up the network is if the Win 7 PC is configured to use a static IP address which happens by sheer bad luck to be the same as the one that the router has handed out to your wife's PC. But it's unl

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nomen Nescio

DEL My XP setup is wired with ethernet cables. No wifi. I don't trust wireless for my home network. Too many smart troublemakers around. It seems I did find that I copied jpg's of all my network setups when I set it all up many,

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I can't be completely sure, of course, but as far as I'm concerned, "hooked up" mean it has to be ethernet. There's no hooking up with wireless. If it didn't, he would know he couldn't hook it up. I think all those assumptions are w

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: NY

"Nil" <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> wrote in message news:XnsAFBEA61F878C7nilch1@wheedledeedle.moc... A standard computer/network setup should just work, without any fuss at all. That's assuming that the Win 7 PC has an Ethernet card, is

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 22 Days ago by: NY

I agree. I can't think of anything that needs to be configured differently from the default settings on Win 7 compared with Win XP to allow the Win 7 PC to access the LAN. As long as TCP on the Win 7 is set to use DHCP to request an I

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nil

You don't give us all the details of your setup so I have to make some assumptions, namely that your old computer was hooked up to the router with an Ethernet cable, not wireless, that the computer has an Ethernet adapter installed an

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nomen Nescio

I guess I didn't state my question correctly. but thanks to all who answered my post. This is the situation - I will no longer have my XP computer hooked up to anything. It's got hardware problems and I don't want to spend any more do

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul

This setup is quite common. Combo boxes mean only making one "box" purchase, to gain four wired ports (and maybe a massive Wifi setup). +--------------+ -----| modem/router |----- IPV4 NAT client computer router Uses PPP

Re: Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 16 Hours ago by: Sjouke Burry

Certainly no. My desktop is XP Pro. My laptop is win 7 Both working fine.

Question about hooking up Win 7 to the modem & router

Posted: 22 Days 21 Hours ago by: KenW

Probably NO KenW

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 21 Hours ago by: Nomen Nescio

I want to take my Windows XP box offline and hook up my Windows 7 computer to my present modem and router. Am I going to have to reinstall the modem and router all over again for the Windows 7 computer? Are there other problems I should

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Yes, I know. I might even have a picture or two of you taken at summits. I have a lot of pictures from several summits. There's at least one other ex-MVP here, but I won't mention his name. If he wants to, he can identify himself as an

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 5 Hours ago by: Tim Slattery

I was an MVP for 10 years or so, and I couldn't agree more. We were never told to hype Microsoft products, we were being rewarded for helping people in the MS newsgroups (I didn't follow when they moved to web forums.) All - or at least

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Perhaps years ago. But nowadays, even with the plus sign, Google results can include pages that lack some, or occasionally all, of the search terms.

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

That's not a terrible thing to do, but it doesn't let you see responses from many non-MVPs (or ex-MVPs like me) who are also very knowledgeable and very helpful. And also not all MVPs are great. In particular, there was one MVP years

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

In all my years as an MVP, I never received such a directive, and I don't know any other MVP who did. I have always spoken my opinion directly--sometimes very critical (for example, of Edge), sometimes complimentary (for example, of Win

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Yes, with some of them, But they are not. To me, they do not represent Microsoft, and I usually ignore everything they post. Most of them are useless.

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

That's been my experience. When people are searching for something technical about MS software, particularly Office, I suggest including MVP in the search terms to give priority to articles by MVPs.

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 9 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote | | My experience with most was more so in the VB6 world years ago, of which many | were stellar. | Yes. And very generous with their time. Randy Birch even stopped by recently

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 9 Hours ago by: John C.

Although I've never posted a question to any of those MS forums, I do often search for answers in them. What I've most often observed is what you're describing. Quite often, the answer is provided by a non-MVP.

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 25 Days ago by: DanS

Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote in news:7h720id4tc97t4vabr8655vohqelbb7o70@4ax.com: I seem to recall that, though. But they appear to be in some official capacity, even if it doesn't state that specifically, that's the vibe one g

Re: microsoft public.windowsxp.general (thread)

Posted: 25 Days ago by: Ken Blake

Alas, yes. I am no longer an MVP, but I was from 2003 to 2020. And by the way, nobody is "from" Microsoft and also an MVP. Microsoft employees can not be MVPs. Two points: 1. There a number of Microsoft contractors (usually, but

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: DanS

"Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> wrote in news:trjjid$1i091$1@dont-email.me: From my experience, when I'm troubleshooting Windows, and a search hit is for a web forum at answers.microsoft.com, and the answer is from someone that pro

Posted: 25 Days 9 Hours ago by: John C.

Unfortunately, I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium on this system, so gpedit.msc isn't available. This is why I'm asking about accomplishing the task via command line (prompt). Heh. when I read your reply, I see that you were a

Posted: 25 Days 9 Hours ago by: John C.

First, thanks very much for replying. As for copying and pasting the commands, yes, the line break is ignored but the extra space isn't. This occurs in either a command prompt *or* in Windows PowerShell (right click to paste.) This probl

Posted: 26 Days 2 Hours ago by: Roger Mills

I think they are effectively the same - the line break will be ignored.

Posted: 26 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

You can see that each switch, has a value next to it, so visually the command looks reasonable. I checked my registry, and that isn't set. On a copy of Pro, you could use gpedit.msc to do that. The github example below, uses the same logi

Disabling LLMNR via command line