"Mark Conrad" wrote in message ... In article , andy t wrote: Now I'm not putting any more bees in my vocabulary no matter how many more variations you put on screen You should put your head up your ass where it belongs. Just FYI.

I want an external hard drive at least 1TB in capacity. I have been reading the reviews and they are all over the place. Some professional reviewers rate some of them very good but individual users rate them from excellent to poor (on the same drive). Some say thet're quiet and some say they're noisy. Most users say their drive broke down either out of the box or within one to three months. I...

How can I check if my Windows Vista is activated or not?

My question is related to Windows 7. I post here as I don't see any more specific newsgroup... I configured the desktop theme as Windows Classic with a white solid background. I see the text under the desktop icons as white shadowed. How can I configure the text under icons to be simply black, wihtout any shadow? I see the same problem even using other desktop background solid colors... What...

I am using Symantec end point protection antivirus program that seems to conflict with Windows Defender. Can someone advise me how to disable it as Symantec antivirus cannot enable fully. Thanks!

Mark Conrad wrote: mmarkoe wrote: a very civil on-subject post. Hi Marty, refreshing to hear from someone like you who does not engage in personal attacks. Only when he is spamming without resistance. Marty/Martin Markoe usually does not engage in direct personal attacks, he uses sock puppets for that.

"Mark Conrad" wrote in message ... In article , andy t wrote: Well that makes us kind of even, doesn't it.

Mark Conrad wrote: Stan Starinski China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo wrote: Well, Conrad is promoting Dragon Naturally Speaking, not WSR Actually, I promote all modern general-purpose speech recognition app, including WSR, DNS, MacSpeech.

I just bought a new laptop and the sales guy tells me I cant use my existing MS Office 2003 software from my XP machine on the new Vista laptop, can anyone confirm this it true. I find confusing arguments for and against

Hi, where di I find the Startup menu in Windows 7? -- Thank you for your help, Erik W7 x64

Around the time I recieved the new updates today, the edges on my windows started blinking. It also effects text boxes. Everytime it blinks, whether or not I have a window open, it closes my start menu when I try to use the search bar. It also stops me when I am trying to select a bunch of files or applications. Is there anyone else with this problem, or knows how to fix it.

As part of my research into the event viewer not starting, system restore did not work proprtly either. I think I read somewhere where SR depends on the event viewer. Is your event viewer working? -- JoeJoe2

In article , andy t wrote: on about by keeping on saying "document scanning feature." I believe I know what you are on about now. I believe what you are referring to is the feature in 'Speech Properties' within the 'Advanced speech options' section of 'Speech Recognition' in the control panel. If this is what...

I normally set up my taskbar two rows in heighth with the quick launch icons on the far left. This leaves the middle section for the "open tabs". I recently did a clean reinstall (restored an image) and somewhere in that process or the ensuing windows updates, the taskbar layout got all screwed up and I am unable to make it right. This is what is there now (with the task bar unlocked so...

I try to set the folder view of the DVD rom drive to large icons, but it always reverts back to detail view. Where can I go in the registry to make my change permanent. The "apply to folders" folder view button seems to have no affect. Hope you can find a fix for me!

I absolutley cannot believe this.... Can anyone from Microsoft please justify the logic here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not know much about Vista, but her is the scenario... A neighbor of mine calls and says their computer will not update to Vista SP1 from the Windows update.... No, that cannot be right I say.... I'll be right over....

Hi, From win7pro I need to run a 3rd party file synch application (mysynch.exe) from a vbs script invoked from a domain GPO's User Logoff Script folder. Is the user has selected Shut Down instead of Log Off, the script would actually run when windows has started the process of shutting down. Hence I wonder how to call mysynch.exe from my vbs script ensuring that windows waits until this...

I got a pretty big problem here, or I think it's big because I can't find a solution to it what so ever. So here's what's going on, I'll just mention my issues, if you need to know what happened that triggered this I'll explain the whole virus problem. So as of now, nothing on my computer that I'm aware of can connect to the internet/or update except Firefox. All my AV programs fail to connect...

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide, and sorry in advance for the tome. I have searched the forum but have been unable to find an issue closely related to mine as far as I can tell. PC: I have a stock Dell Dimension DXPO61, 3GB Memory (RAM) (I did add 2GB when I bought it May 2007): Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz, 250GB drive with 144GB free, 32-bit Operating System (Vista...