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Remove Filter  | Trying to restrict some share access on a simple network I made a syntax error or two, and googled net share and hidden share. This sort of thing came up many times: "to create a hidden share enter... net share concfg*C:\ /GRANT:username, FULL " ...and was touted as a hack! … |
| | Lately the cursor positioning has reverted to its earlier bad behaviour where it would float a position ahead of the insertion point. Now it seems to do it only when you go back over your work to correct, insert etc. Pestilential. I note, too, that multiple spaces in pasted items … |
| | Windows 8 is available for download as a release preview upgrade for people wishing to familiarise themselves, and test. Point: why should I get W8? I am using XP and yes, I know support falls over in two years, but I am very happy with what it does... it fills … |
| | Some tme ago the British chocolate manufacturer was bought by Kraft. Super sweet meets super bland. Anyway, Kraft being American and having too many corporate lawyers tried to copyright the Cadbury colour purple. They may have succeeded, I don't know, it wasn't the sort of news item you hung in …  |
| | I don't see code here, why is it being detected as such? Here is the post, all in a code box: There are a few things to tidy up, but first, some advice: there are a lot of items under MSCONFIG Startup and Services which have been disallowed (prevented from … |
| | More fun with Markdown. To denote all files, folders in H: drive one seems to have to type two backslashes, so: Typing H:\\* gives H:* in the post. and H:\\ \\* gives H:\\* And you wouldn't believe the fun I had typing that. What I had to type is totally … |
| | I see this sort of thing regularly. In the forum page a topic will be bumped up by a poster [name appearing to right]... you go to the post or topic and the bumper's post is just not there. An example, same in FF n Opera: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/windows-nt-2000-xp/threads/28182/password-recovery-on-windows-xp-home-sp2#post1835562  |
| | I'd like to respond to a poster, but i get a red warning about a code snippet being not correctly formatted. There is no code in my post, just some log references and a URL. This site... it's getting beyond me... i do not follow the reason for the parroting …  |
| | The last couple of days this site has been throwing "Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click here" whenever I try to enter the Microsoft Forums, also directly enter [url]http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/windows-nt-2000-xp/10[/url] I can circumvent it by logging into another forum and then navigating to the …  |
| | Is there a reason, perhaps related to the Opera browser, which keeps me logged in even after I perform the Log Out/All cookies cleared routine? |
| | I cannot see where else to post this so here it goes.... =The font size range is a bit too large. I find it very disagreeable. for my taste, the big is far too big. Sorry. =I cannot link from Microsoft Windows to Win NT/2000/XP. I can only get there … |
| | This post is to help a chap who pc'd me; I put it here in full to aid others. Nouveaunoise "hello there my name is conor i am from ireland and i have a problem with my comp. basically im an idiot and did something i knew i shouldnt have … |
| | Crunchie, how do I stop those sodding stupid smileys from disrupting the text..... that last reg repair line formats incorrectly if you copy it into notepad. Man, but those things really wee me off. "3389:TCP"= 3389:TCP:LocalSubNet:Disabled:@xpsp2res.dll,-22009 will copy incorrectly.  |
| | Now it is my turn to beg, plead ignorance..:) this one has me beaten, and i am tired of googling for a solution. I recently added a second SATA hd [my boot disk is also SATA, there are no IDE drives on my sys apart from my DVD combo on … |
| | I'm on a posting roll.... :) Why does Firefox [the clean mozilla versio] make my pc emit a highpitched buzz when it is loading? The noise is from the mobo, not the sys speaker [I think- anyway it does not emit from my soundsys... could it be the sys speaker?]... … |
| | My turn to pose a question. I just received a weird, unsolicited email. If you try to copy n paste it, u get underlying text appearing with the normally visible text... it only appears when you lclick and drag. A sample of a capture [top text only..]:_ "Market Makers and … |
| | I use Outlook Express as my mail client, and a POP3 interpreter YPOPS to give OE access to my Yahoo accounts. It works like a dream. But it's two clicks too many to open YPOPS and OE both, so i changed the OE shortcut to point to a .cmd file … |
| | to enhance the data safety and speed etc of my computer i have built about 8 partitons/logical drives on my 160GB hdd. now, the questions. you cannot move the My Documents folder from the boot partition { if you think u have, then u have only created a shortcut}. you … |
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