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Chris B
AskWoody PlusNo change to the default printer, so that was not the cause. However, since the problem has gone away, it is probably right to move on to another problem, at least until it reappears. Thanks for your help.
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusNo change to the default printer, so that was not the cause. However, since the problem has gone away, it is probably right to move on to another problem, at least until it reappears. Thanks for your help.
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusI had checked this tab, and it was already set to Arial. However, when I went back into Access following your reply the print font was back to Arial, as it should have been, without me making any changes. Beats me why – I guess I put it down to one of Bill’s little jokes.
Thanks
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusI had checked this tab, and it was already set to Arial. However, when I went back into Access following your reply the print font was back to Arial, as it should have been, without me making any changes. Beats me why – I guess I put it down to one of Bill’s little jokes.
Thanks
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks for the tip, Mary. it did indeed solve my problem.
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks for the tip, Mary. it did indeed solve my problem.
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks for the pointer, Mary. (I guess I should have found the KB article myself.) I will try this workaround, but it is nice of them, two iterations of IE6 security patches on, to have left this kludge unrecified!
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks for the pointer, Mary. (I guess I should have found the KB article myself.) I will try this workaround, but it is nice of them, two iterations of IE6 security patches on, to have left this kludge unrecified!
Chris
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusMy son is trying to backup the data only, not a full disk image nor a system restore. The problem with WinZip is that it is very cumbersome if you want to backup only some of a large folder in order to fit onto a CD. Specifically, I want to back up all of My Documents, except the music folder, plus the Outlook files. Replicator might do the job, but as far as I can see it does not have compression. And yes – he gets skinned if his antivirus etc is not up to date!
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks – I will have a look at Replicator
Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusWhat a difference one small and obscure checkbox makes. This time, I tackled the Delete Files task through Internet Options/General/Delete files, and there I found a box (unchecked by default) saying “Delete offline content”. This option does not seem to exist in Disk Cleanup in Exporer. When I selected it, the remaining 44000 files were deleted and the directory structure in Content.IE5 was removed (although of course it started to build again when I went on line). My system has started to perform better.
Why IE should keep all these Offline Content files separate and invisible, what they are and why they should be so difficult to delete is a mystery to me. It is not specific to that upgraded setup either – I found the same syndrome on my main production machine running W98SE and IE5.5, but since that is a faster machine, it had not become a problem.
Many thanks Lief and Charlotte for your help.Chris
Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A -
Chris B
AskWoody PlusThanks – I will try the delete tomorrow (weather too nice today – presumably the same in Bucks)
I feel suitably chastened about my defrag habits…. my only defense is that I have to kill everything running in the background under W98…Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusAs far as I can see, there are no differences in file locations between IE5 and Explorer. If I view files under IE5, I see the same files as I see in Explorer, but these are not the offending files – I only see the cookies and the few files created since I did the clean-out yesterday. It is just under the Folder Properties function that I see evidence of the large number of files (not the files themselves), and the time taken to access the folder first time (or the properties) tells me that it is not lieing.
The Internet temp folder contains one subfolder (Content.IE5) which has 28 subfolders with gobbledygook names. It does not matter which folder I look at, I see the same roughly 200-300 files.
The last defrag that I did was 5 months ago, but that did not cure the problem then, so I do not think it would help now. (With 2,000,000 cluster, it is not a short task).
I also think that the files are old ones (??IE4??) but cannot for the life of me find them.Chris
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Chris B
AskWoody PlusW98 1st edition.
I’ve tried the W98 equivalent of disc cleanup (in this case, via Internet Options) and cleared all temporary internet files.
I also cut the size for internet temp files from 251MB to 1MB and returned it to 251MB.
Despite all this, the system runs far more slowly than it used to a while ago. One of the reasons is there are quite a lot of applications on it (thanks in part to teenage sons), but if I look at the Internet temporary files in Windows Exporer, it takes quite a while to open the folder and, as I mentioned, the folder properties says that there are 44000 files and change in it – hence my suspicion that this is another cause of slow running. Also Settings takes quite a while to come up – the Torch searches for a bit.
Hope this helps.Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A
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