Two questions

[Ken Blake]

This conversation with you is pointless. It reminds me of talking
to my mother who had senile dementia in her later years.
Bye.

Goodbye to you too. I've just added you to my killfile. Feel free to
also put me in yours, so neither of us will have to see messages from
the other again.

 

[Char Jackson]

Goodbye to you too. I've just added you to my killfile. Feel free to
also put me in yours, so neither of us will have to see messages from
the other again.

I had both of you pegged as positive contributors to the group. I
guess the two of you don't agree with me.

 

[Ken Blake]

I had both of you pegged as positive contributors to the group. I
guess the two of you don't agree with me.

Thanks. I had always though Dave-UK was a positive contributor too,
but he apparently just wants to hurl insults at me. I'm not interested
in arguing with him or trading insults with him (note that I didn't
say anything to about his apparently inheriting his mother's
dementia).

 

[Sunny Bard]

note that I didn't say anything to about his apparently
inheriting his mother's dementia

Until now ...

 

[Ken Blake]

Until now ...

On the contrary. If he did what I did to him, and suggested that he do
to me, he killfiled me and didn't see my message. *You* on the other
hand, reposted it by quoting my message, so he presumably got to see
it.

 

[Sunny Bard]

On the contrary. If he did what I did to him, and suggested that he do
to me, he killfiled me and didn't see my message. *You* on the other
hand, reposted it by quoting my message, so he presumably got to see
it.

Your message didn't claim you hadn't said it to him, looks like you
might have left out the operative word if that's what you intended.

 

[Dave]

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&

Thanks Ken,
I've used this one before, but forgot about it. Got it in my bookmarks now.
Dave

 

[Dave]

This might not be the answer you're looking for, but I have always
found it easiest to maintain my own archive for certain groups. That
way you can search to your heart's content.

Since you're starting from scratch, you'd have to decide how much
history you want, then download the posts back that far and continue
going forward. If your current Usenet provider doesn't have the
history you want, you could either buy a small block of Gigs at
Astraweb, for example, or perhaps use one of the many free trials that
the premium Usenet providers always offer. That would give you several
years worth of history, if not more.

Thanks, Char.

 

[Dave]

You could try searching all downloaded messages for keywords.
From the Edit menu (Alt-M to toggle the menu bar if you can't see it)
Find > message
Make sure it says alt.windows7.general in the 'Look in:' box and enter
any keywords in the Message box.

Can you remember the name of this rescue disk or the context in
which it was mentioned ?

It was a bootable, probably an ISO, with Windows utilities to repair,
restore and that kind of thing. Best I remember it was like Windows PE. One
of the regulars here developed it and posted the link a couple times.

 

[Ken Blake]

Thanks Ken,
I've used this one before, but forgot about it. Got it in my bookmarks now.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

 

[Dave]

I never called myself 'the OP'.
This conversation with you is pointless. It reminds me of talking
to my mother who had senile dementia in her later years.
Bye.

Ken and Dave-UK,
You are both positive posters, very knowledgeable and a tremendously
positive influence on this ng. Please don't let a small misunderstanding
like this come between you. Take a couple days to relax, get over this and
come back the better person for it, everyone in this ng will appreciate it.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Yes, yes--I know. In all probability you are right. My point was that
his message about what keys to press is *meaningless* if he doesn't
tell us what program he's talking about. He perhaps thinks that
because he's using Windows Live Mail to read newsgroups, there are no
other choices and that's what everyone else also uses. It's like
telling someone if he wants to make his television set louder, he
should press the button in the lower left corner of his remote
control.

Ken,
I'm using WLM, but I don't understand what your question is. Also, to
clarify yours and Dave-UK's posts, I usually do a delete on messages when it
gets to the point I have to scroll a lot to get through the threads to the
unread messages. If there's a way to keep those posts in a history without
having to view them all the time I'm not aware of it.
Dave

 

[Char Jackson]

Ken,
I'm using WLM, but I don't understand what your question is. Also, to
clarify yours and Dave-UK's posts, I usually do a delete on messages when it
gets to the point I have to scroll a lot to get through the threads to the
unread messages. If there's a way to keep those posts in a history without
having to view them all the time I'm not aware of it.
Dave

In most newsreaders, one of the common ways to keep a history on hand
is to mark the messages "Read" or "Old" (whatever WLM calls it), and
then to use a message view that hides the read/old messages. At some
point, even that will begin to get unwieldy, so I simply move old
messages to an archive folder that I've created for that purpose. Each
group that I wish to archive has its own archive folder, so when I
want to go back and search for something I can do it pretty easily.

 

[Dave-UK]

It was a bootable, probably an ISO, with Windows utilities to repair,
restore and that kind of thing. Best I remember it was like Windows PE. One
of the regulars here developed it and posted the link a couple times.

That may have been me.
This is one I'm currently messing about with:
BB-7PE_x64
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YLH4QQAS
It's based on the BB4Win shell (ISO, 365M/b).

This is an earlier effort:
Win7RescuePE10.zip Vista/Win7, (ISo, 280 M/b).
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HLLPGQPB
This will also be able to read XP systems.

 

[SC Tom]

It was a bootable, probably an ISO, with Windows utilities to repair,
restore and that kind of thing. Best I remember it was like Windows PE.
One of the regulars here developed it and posted the link a couple times.

Was it maybe Bart's PE? http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

 

[Dave]

In most newsreaders, one of the common ways to keep a history on hand
is to mark the messages "Read" or "Old" (whatever WLM calls it), and
then to use a message view that hides the read/old messages. At some
point, even that will begin to get unwieldy, so I simply move old
messages to an archive folder that I've created for that purpose. Each
group that I wish to archive has its own archive folder, so when I
want to go back and search for something I can do it pretty easily.

That sounds like a good solution. I'll read on that a little more and try to
implement it.
Thanks,
Dave

 

[Dave]

That may have been me.
This is one I'm currently messing about with:
BB-7PE_x64
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YLH4QQAS
It's based on the BB4Win shell (ISO, 365M/b).

This is an earlier effort:
Win7RescuePE10.zip Vista/Win7, (ISo, 280 M/b).
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HLLPGQPB
This will also be able to read XP systems.

That's the one, sorry I couldn’t remember you posted it.
Thanks again for the link and for your work.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Was it maybe Bart's PE? http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Tom,
I've used Bart's before on earlier versions of Windows, but the one I was
looking for is the one Dave-UK posted, he's done a lot of the setup work
already so it's a lot easier than building it from scratch.
Thanks,
Dave