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Or, better yet, going Heuriger. Well, hello neighbor !

I reread the thread you recommended. You and Mark are right, of course, with respect to leaving the Registry alone. On the other side, many uninstalls do nothing else than deleting icons and some files. I looked at Reg. Healer and it seemed to be OK, since it lists the invalid paths and leaves to you the decision of changing, deleting or leaving them in place. Practically, it’s the same thing as doing the whole cleaning manually, only faster. But perhaps I’ll better dust from now on the bookshelves when I’m seized by the irresistible compulsion to clean my house.

When I start IE, it has the focus. F6 takes me to the address bar and back to nowhere.

Thank you for the munka,
Oana

Or, better yet, going Heuriger. Well, hello neighbor !

I reread the thread you recommended. You and Mark are right, of course, with respect to leaving the Registry alone. On the other side, many uninstalls do nothing else than deleting icons and some files. I looked at Reg. Healer and it seemed to be OK, since it lists the invalid paths and leaves to you the decision of changing, deleting or leaving them in place. Practically, it’s the same thing as doing the whole cleaning manually, only faster. But perhaps I’ll better dust from now on the bookshelves when I’m seized by the irresistible compulsion to clean my house.

When I start IE, it has the focus. F6 takes me to the address bar and back to nowhere.

Thank you for the munka,
Oana

Thank you, I’m tempted to say something boastful about great minds meeting in great forums but I won’t. Just before reading your post I put Mark’s solution (Address Bar in Taskbar) into use – as a workaround.
But the cursor not coming up automatically in Google still annoys me. I’d really like to know what setting controls it.

Thank you, I’m tempted to say something boastful about great minds meeting in great forums but I won’t. Just before reading your post I put Mark’s solution (Address Bar in Taskbar) into use – as a workaround.
But the cursor not coming up automatically in Google still annoys me. I’d really like to know what setting controls it.

It din’t occur to me to look there, because IE is the only application where this happens. Word, Excel, Notepad etc. all display a blinking cursor when opened.

It din’t occur to me to look there, because IE is the only application where this happens. Word, Excel, Notepad etc. all display a blinking cursor when opened.

Well, I was rather thinking about then, not about now.

“Queen Anne Exchequer Standard Wine Gallon”, “Imperial System Capacity Standards”, “George III Standard Avoirdupois Cup Weights”: don’t they call to mind grandeur and Empire ?

But perhaps the American Marine was more tight-fisted than the British when it came to beer and rum rations for seamen .

Oana, :J (smiling with a non-graphic tongue in cheek)

Well, I was rather thinking about then, not about now.

“Queen Anne Exchequer Standard Wine Gallon”, “Imperial System Capacity Standards”, “George III Standard Avoirdupois Cup Weights”: don’t they call to mind grandeur and Empire ?

But perhaps the American Marine was more tight-fisted than the British when it came to beer and rum rations for seamen .

Oana, :J (smiling with a non-graphic tongue in cheek)

You can download TweakUI here. Install it, run it, go to Logon > Unread mail and uncheck “Show unread mail on Welcome screen” in the right pane.

You can download TweakUI here. Install it, run it, go to Logon > Unread mail and uncheck “Show unread mail on Welcome screen” in the right pane.

On the other side, if you don’t need it, you can disable it very easily with TweakUI.

On the other side, if you don’t need it, you can disable it very easily with TweakUI.

By the way, what would 2002 be? Whistler ?

I assumed that Error Checker was run on an NTFS partitioned disk. In this case, the old chkdsk is used, and the Event Viewer shows you the results in a more “user-friendly” style (see Attachment, right pane). You can run it also from the command prompt, by typing chkdsk c: /f or, if you want the results written to a file, chkdsk c: /f > c:chkdsk.txt.

Scandisk was used in Windows98 on FAT32-partitioned disks, where scandisk.ini let you choose if you wanted a log file and even customize scandisk.log, by setting SaveLog = Append (appending the log to the previous log, if any), SaveLog = Off (thus not saving the repair log) or SaveLog = Overwrite (replacing the previous log with the new log).

Hope I didn’t confuse you, I’m pretty much confused myself as it’s way past my bedtime,
Oana

By the way, what would 2002 be? Whistler ?

I assumed that Error Checker was run on an NTFS partitioned disk. In this case, the old chkdsk is used, and the Event Viewer shows you the results in a more “user-friendly” style (see Attachment, right pane). You can run it also from the command prompt, by typing chkdsk c: /f or, if you want the results written to a file, chkdsk c: /f > c:chkdsk.txt.

Scandisk was used in Windows98 on FAT32-partitioned disks, where scandisk.ini let you choose if you wanted a log file and even customize scandisk.log, by setting SaveLog = Append (appending the log to the previous log, if any), SaveLog = Off (thus not saving the repair log) or SaveLog = Overwrite (replacing the previous log with the new log).

Hope I didn’t confuse you, I’m pretty much confused myself as it’s way past my bedtime,
Oana

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And why are American pints and gallons smaller than Imperial?

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