Today I had a message from my Win 7 computer

[XS11E]

But if you get that, where do you plug in your phone?
Bj

In the "power outlet", most new cars are adding them everywhere.

You can also buy "Y" connectors for lighter sockets.

Besides, why plug in your phone? Don't get a car charger, be like
Valinda Jo Elliott!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodeo–Chediski_Fire

The battery died in her cellphone, neither she or her boyfriend had a
charger so.... she burned 47 square miles of forest, 400 homes and cost
the taxpayers $43,100,000.00.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm on the US side of the pond and I don't believe any cars here have
them any more. What side are you, Gene? I had assumed that you were on
the US side also. The elimination of ash trays seems like a good idea,
but there is a downside. My part of Texas is in the midst of a terrible
drought--everything extremely dry--and we are experiences a very large
number of roadside fires caused by people using "nature's ash tray".
Allen

I was replying to J. P. Gilliver (John) (e-mail address removed), so
"this side" is the US.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

For the record, I've not had a full ash tray for over 20 years.

43 for me

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I haven't had a cigarette in 43 years now, but even back in the days
when I smoked, I never did that.

Coincidentally, I just cited the same number in a post in this thread. I
quit Mar 15, 1968. And I'm happy to have done so ]

 

[charlie]

I haven't had a cigarette in 43 years now, but even back in the days
when I smoked, I never did that.

Coincidentally, I just cited the same number in a post in this thread. I
quit Mar 15, 1968. And I'm happy to have done so ]

March 68 - - On the gun line, Vietnam, sailing close inshore up and down
the China Sea coast, launching 5" rockets, and very occasionally getting
a bit of light return fire. Return to Cam Rahn Bay, Re-Arm with a few
thousand more rockets, and do it all over again.

 

[Seum]

Hi Tia,

That was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

Wow! what a huge crowd of sleepwalkers, and only two awake

 

[Seum]

Windows 7 does not have a "Recovery Backup Wizard."

True, not as long as the miserly ADVENT is in the computer business.

Did you buy Windows 7 preinstalled, with no install disc?

Yup!

 

[Seum]

Perhaps Seum could

1) Take a screen snapshot, with the dialogs showing.
2) Post it on imageshack.us or other image hosting site.
Remembering to select "do not resize", so the image is not
altered by the hosting site.
3) Then post to USENET, with a link to the image.

In the same screenshot, it might also be possible to put up
a System control panel or System Information, something that
shows the version of Windows being used.

*******

Reasons for things to fail:

1) A service the software needs, isn't running or won't start.
And then the main software dies, when the dependency is not met.
2) Any number of registry related issues... Or file system
permissions... and so on.

Checking Event Viewer, would be a place to look, but it's like
"wading into a gravy lake, looking for quarters on the bottom".
You hardly ever get a quarter you can use.

*******

On my Acer laptop, with pre-installed Windows, it started prompting
me, within a couple days, to prepare a bootable "recovery console" CD.
That prompt comes from Microsoft. Another prompt comes from Acer,
suggesting I make a set of reinstall DVDs, which uses the hidden
partition on the hard drive. So those are examples of promptings
you can receive, when Windows 7 was pre-installed. I think I
ended up making a three DVD set, a "driver" DVD, and the recovery
console CD.

If you have a retail installer DVD, there is hardly a reason to
do any of that. As your installer DVD does all the same things
(it can boot to recovery console, or can be used to reinstall).
Windows can still put an icon in the notification area, warning
you that you haven't configured your Backup strategy yet. And
you can disable those notifications if you want. Especially
if you're using a third party backup method.

Paul

My BIG thanks to you again Paul. I will do as you say in the next day
or two. My Usenet is a Notusenet Please provide the URL.

I have had more problems with this Win 7 mess than in all the years I
have been using Win2K - 1999 to 2011.

Back soon

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

My BIG thanks to you again Paul. I will do as you say in the next
day or two. My Usenet is a Notusenet Please provide the URL.

Which URL? If you can post to this group (alt.windows.general), you have
Usenet. I've never used an image posting service, but a quick Google for
"image host" produced these, among others.

http://imageshack.us/
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/
http://tinypic.com/

 

[Tim Slattery]

Maybe that explains why I so frequently see smokers toss their butts
out the window. When the ashtray is no longer inside the car, the
whole area outside the car becomes the ashtray.

Smokers did that even when cars did had ashtrays. Too many smokers
think the whole world is their ashtray.

 

[Char Jackson]

Smokers did that even when cars did had ashtrays. Too many smokers
think the whole world is their ashtray.

I know. I didn't mean to imply that the "toss it out the window"
behavior had just started. Sadly, it's been going on ever since I can
remember.

 

[Allen]

43 for me

51 years 110 days for me. Also the lebgth of time since I have done any
yard work--but that's a different story.
Allen

 

[bj]

"Allen" wrote in message

43 for me

51 years 110 days for me. Also the lebgth of time since I have done any
yard work--but that's a different story.
Allen
======================================================

I feel like a johnny-come-lately -- 1/10/73 was my first day as a new
non-smoker (I prefer to say I became --again-- a non-smoker rather than "I
quit smoking")...
so...38 years & change.

I have a little framed needle-point no-smoking sign in my front hall.
I did the needlepoint but paid for the framing.
bj

 

[Ken Blake]

I haven't had a cigarette in 43 years now, but even back in the days
when I smoked, I never did that.

Coincidentally, I just cited the same number in a post in this thread. I
quit Mar 15, 1968. And I'm happy to have done so ]

Me too.

I can't remember the date, or even the month, but I did it twice that
year. The first time lasted about six weeks, and the second time 43
years (so far).

And that reminds me of what Mark Twain said: "Stopping smoking is
easy. I've done it a thousand times."

 

[Ed Cryer]

in message

51 years 110 days for me. Also the lebgth of time since I have done any
yard work--but that's a different story.
Allen
======================================================

I feel like a johnny-come-lately -- 1/10/73 was my first day as a new
non-smoker (I prefer to say I became --again-- a non-smoker rather than
"I quit smoking")...
so...38 years & change.

I have a little framed needle-point no-smoking sign in my front hall.
I did the needlepoint but paid for the framing.
bj

I quit about 7 years ago. I'd been trying for decades prior to that;
cutting down by degrees, changing brands etc. But then I got it in my
head to quit, and one night I tore up all the remaining packets I had
and prepared for a real fight with the devil. And it never came; I was
quite staggered at how easy it was to quit.

Ed

 

[Seth]

I quit about 7 years ago. I'd been trying for decades prior to that;
cutting down by degrees, changing brands etc. But then I got it in my head
to quit, and one night I tore up all the remaining packets I had and
prepared for a real fight with the devil. And it never came; I was quite
staggered at how easy it was to quit.

Ditto. When you're ready, you're ready. I'd quit (or gone on hiatus)
multiple times, all tough. Last year (last week made 1 year) I was just fed
up (right after Gov Paterson raised the per pack tax by $1.50 per pack) that
I threw a half full pack out the window (like I said, I was fed up) and that
was it.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ditto. When you're ready, you're ready. I'd quit (or gone on hiatus)
multiple times, all tough. Last year (last week made 1 year) I was just fed
up (right after Gov Paterson raised the per pack tax by $1.50 per pack) that
I threw a half full pack out the window (like I said, I was fed up) and that
was it.

Well, I'm breathing easier after seeing these replies.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I haven't had a cigarette in 43 years now, but even back in the days
when I smoked, I never did that.

Coincidentally, I just cited the same number in a post in this thread. I
quit Mar 15, 1968. And I'm happy to have done so ]

Me too.

I can't remember the date, or even the month, but I did it twice that
year. The first time lasted about six weeks, and the second time 43
years (so far).

And that reminds me of what Mark Twain said: "Stopping smoking is
easy. I've done it a thousand times."

I often quote that when I describe my process of quitting.

One example: I had been off the weed for six months when I was having a
fun at a party and bummed a cigarette, knowing I could handle just one.
Hah! Good lesson, though. When I finally quit (it was about six years
later), I understood that I am an addict and I knew what (not) to do.

 

[Allen]

Well, I'm breathing easier after seeing these replies.

An interesting thread! The number of people who can quote the exact date
is amazing. How many of those, when asked for their spouse's or
children's birthdays, wedding anniversary etc. will reply with (at best)
a brief pause.
Allen

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

An interesting thread! The number of people who can quote the exact
date is amazing. How many of those, when asked for their spouse's or
children's birthdays, wedding anniversary etc. will reply with (at
best) a brief pause.

I'm the opposite - I can't remember the exact date I quit, but I do
know my wife's birthday, our anniversary, and our children's birthdays
without even a brief pause. Of course, for the wife's birthday and
our anniversary, I've had over a quarter century of practice. If
nothing else, I've learned it is A Bad Thing(tm) to forget either...
;-)