little black boxes

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colin

somebody please help, everytime i try to open a programme
an ms dos type black box appears with the file name for
the programme in the blue bar and then won't open the
programme.i am running a brand new e machines computer.
 
colin said:
somebody please help, everytime i try to open a programme
an ms dos type black box appears with the file name for
the programme in the blue bar and then won't open the
programme.i am running a brand new e machines computer.
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If this is a brand new machine, why haven't you contacted Emachine's tech
support. You are well within the warranty period and this is their issue.
 
Eddie Grant said:
Please read through what you have just read and see if you would give any of
your time to answer that post.

It only takes a couple of seconds to add capitals and correct punctuation,
and makes things alot easier to read for the people who may be potentially
answering your question.

Also a little more info is always helpful.
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Eddie,
First, there is punctuation in there. Secondly, 'read through what you just
read'?? If you're actually meaning this towards the OP, then shouldn't have
that been, 'read through what you just wrote'? If you're going to
criticize, first be critical of your own writing!! Lastly, not everyone
that posts in here is a college or even high school graduate. This is a
public forum and everyone is allowed to ask questions in here even if they
don't know proper US English grammer/spelling/puncuation.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
I just guessed where the capitals should be and I understood it more or
less. Is it that difficult to put capitals in there, or imagine where they
should be while you are reading the post?
 
Mike said:
Eddie,
First, there is punctuation in there. Secondly, 'read through what
you just read'?? If you're actually meaning this towards the OP,
then shouldn't have that been, 'read through what you just wrote'?
If you're going to criticize, first be critical of your own writing!!
Lastly, not everyone that posts in here is a college or even high
school graduate. This is a public forum and everyone is allowed to
ask questions in here even if they don't know proper US English
grammer/spelling/puncuation.
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Where as I may not be perfect, or even close to it, even if they had guessed
at where the punctuation was themselves it would have made it look like they
had put at least some effort in to it, and maybe then more people would have
read it and bothered attempting to solve his problem.

Also it is always helpful to have more info than 'this happens why is it
doing it?'
 
Eddie Grant said:
Where as I may not be perfect, or even close to it, even if they had guessed
at where the punctuation was themselves it would have made it look like they
had put at least some effort in to it, and maybe then more people would have
read it and bothered attempting to solve his problem.

Also it is always helpful to have more info than 'this happens why is it
doing it?'
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So you are completely incapable of interpreting it for yourself? You can't
imagine where the capitals should be? Colin also did not say what you claim
he said. He stated exactly what's happening, "Everytime I try to open a
program an MS DOS type black box appears with the file name for the program
in the blue bar and then it won't open the program." I fixed the capitals,
puncuation and some spelling without changing much so you may be able to
comprehend it without to much strain on your brain. Do you understand now??
Just about the only other thing he could have mentioned is wether it's all
programs or just one program. If it's all programs, maybe he just didn't
think about mentioning it amongst his frustration at trying to resolve it.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
Mike said:
<snip>

Eddie's just being a lamer.
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Lamer? You must be gifted if you managed to work out what the OP had done
beforehand to the pc, e.g install any new software or hardware prior to the
problem, or whether it was an ongoing problem since they bought the pc.
 
Mike said:
So you are completely incapable of interpreting it for yourself? You
can't imagine where the capitals should be? Colin also did not say
what you claim he said. He stated exactly what's happening,
"Everytime I try to open a program an MS DOS type black box appears
with the file name for the program in the blue bar and then it won't
open the program." I fixed the capitals, puncuation and some
spelling without changing much so you may be able to comprehend it
without to much strain on your brain. Do you understand now?? Just
about the only other thing he could have mentioned is wether it's all
programs or just one program. If it's all programs, maybe he just
didn't think about mentioning it amongst his frustration at trying to
resolve it.
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Are you having problems reading and interpreting what I wrote now?
My example:

'this happens->why is it doing it?'

'Everytime I try to open a program an MS DOS type black box appears with the
file name for the program in the blue bar and then it won't open the
program.'-> Then he wants a response

See how it fits the example? No extra info was provided e.g if he had
installed anything previously, altered the registry, added hardware, removed
hard/software, installed an update, recently detected a virus (if any AV
programs were even installed), altered a shortcut to the program or was
trying to run an old DOS based program in XP.

See what I meant now?
 
Eddie Grant said:
Lamer? You must be gifted if you managed to work out what the OP had done
beforehand to the pc, e.g install any new software or hardware prior to the
problem, or whether it was an ongoing problem since they bought the pc.
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No, I just don't assume, as you do, that the OP was the one that caused the
problem. I'd say it's probably a virus that has affected the way
executables are launched, but I don't know for certain.

But just for you, I'll make sure that next time I post a problem in here
that I'll give you a detailed 10000 word post of everything I did on my
system for the past 2 years since it was first purchased. NOT!!!! Wow,
could you imagine how little would be accomplished in here if people were to
do as you suggest? It'd take quite awhile to read a post and then to
re-read again what the problem was after reading all the non-related
gibberish about how they configured outlook express and then received some
e-mails from their kids which they opened and saved the attached image of
thier grandson to their 'My Pictures' folder, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc... and on and on and on.... Not
everyone is going to know what could have effected their computer in a
negative manner and that they should mention it. That's why we post back
asking for more details. It's easier for us to do that than for the OP to
create the 10000 word post becasue we can ask for specific details that we
think could be related to the problem they are facing. GET THE POINT NOW?

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
Mike said:
No, I just don't assume, as you do, that the OP was the one that
caused the problem. I'd say it's probably a virus that has affected
the way executables are launched, but I don't know for certain.

But just for you, I'll make sure that next time I post a problem in
here that I'll give you a detailed 10000 word post of everything I
did on my system for the past 2 years since it was first purchased.
NOT!!!! Wow, could you imagine how little would be accomplished in
here if people were to do as you suggest? It'd take quite awhile to
read a post and then to re-read again what the problem was after
reading all the non-related gibberish about how they configured
outlook express and then received some e-mails from their kids which
they opened and saved the attached image of thier grandson to their
'My Pictures' folder, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc... and on and on and on.... Not everyone is
going to know what could have effected their computer in a negative
manner and that they should mention it. That's why we post back
asking for more details. It's easier for us to do that than for the
OP to create the 10000 word post becasue we can ask for specific
details that we think could be related to the problem they are
facing. GET THE POINT NOW?
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Why are you making so much effort to try to put across a near non existant
point?

I wasn't saying the OP should give his life story, just ONE OR TWO backup
details to start it off with, e.g whether they had downloaded something off
kazaa, then on the next restart this happened, or as I said earlier if they
had just installed something then it started happening.

Refer to this to see what I'm getting at:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
 
Mike Brearley said:
Then ask them!! Don't just criticize their puncuation and capatilization
and say "a little more info is always helpful". If they didn't know what
other info would be needed in the first place, how does you stating that
help in the least? Read through all the posts in here and tell me how many
you find that conform to that 'goodpost' page? Quite a few people that are
asking question in here, expecially those with an eMachine, don't know the
first thing about why their system is doing what it is doing and probably
didn't *intentionally* do anything to their system hence they'd be unable to
tell you what they did.

Also, the main point, which you obviously are incapable of comprehending
yourself, is that even though they didn't capatilize everything or use
proper punctuation, their post was still 100% comprehenable.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
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Oooops, you best yell at me know. I forgot to spell check my last post as
the goodpost page states you should. Where's the criticisms? I'm waiting
eagerly to hear them from you! LOL
 
Refer to this to see what I'm getting at:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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You best get on the ball and start criticizing some of the recent posts as
they are in the form you don't like 'this is what it's doing->how do I fix
it'. They also don't give all the info that one is suppose to give in a
'good post'. I'll be checking on them frequently to see what you say to the
OP.

LOL

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley
 
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