Message disappeared?

[Guest]

I posted a message that the search accessory on this forum
finds, saying it was posted 25 March at 2:55 PM. But the
search routine doesn't show whether there are any replies,
and when I look for the page whose root messages are posted
that day (which is 15 at the moment), there's nothing
there. There's a message from Jus! about the blaster worm
that went up at 2:54, and the next one is from dano about
Mysterious "Temp Internet Files" at 3:09. (The original
message is below in case anyone can help.)

Sorry if this is some kind of newbie mistake but I'm
baffled. -- E. Brad


I have a small but vexing problem. I ran a presentation
from a CD-ROM (on the history of Boston's Scollay Square)
and somehow my C: drive has been relabeled. When I click
on My Computer, instead of a disk drive icon next to C: I
see the logo associated with the history program, and when
I double click on C:, instead of seeing the contents of the
drive, the program runs. If I remove the associated .EXE
file from the C:\ directory I just get a screen that asks
me where it should look for the file. I have tried
installing and then uninstalling the program from the CD,
with no change.

I can right click on the drive icon and click Open to see
the contents of C:\, so I'm not seriously inconvenienced.
I can use Explorer to display the contents in the normal
way (but explorer also shows the incorrect icon for the
drive). Everything in the device manager (including the
drive logo) appears normal.

How do I convince Windows XP that C: is my main hard drive,
not a CD-ROM with an autorun feature? Thanks for any tips.

 

[Guest]

P.S. I went back to see if this message was visible and
found it labeled three hours earlier than I sent it.
Apparently the world runs on Microsoft's time <g>. But
that led to a search for messages posted at 11:55 AM on
that date; no go. There's a message at 11:53 and another
at 12:04...

 

[Guest]

I found my own message, now listed as having been posted at
6:55 AM, seven hours earlier (and hence many pages away)
from the time of actual posting. Has anyone else seen
this? Does anyone know how it happens? Tnx. -- EBM

 

[PA Bear]

Your posting history using the web interface:

Your first post: Thursday, 25 Mar 2004 06:55:25 -0800

Your next post: *Saturday*, 27 Mar 2004 03:22:11 -0800

Your next post: *Saturday*, 27 Mar 2004 03:40:16 -0800

Your next post: *Sunday*, 28 Mar 2004 08:34:11 -0800

Your post to which I'm now responding: *Sunday*, 28 Mar 2004 08:37:27 -0800

UTC -0800 is Pacific Standard Time, default time zone reference when posting
from the web interface.

Try using an NNTP newsreader to access these MS newsgroups. It'll make much
more sense to you and should prove more manageable. Copy/paste the
following URL into an IE Addressbar and click on GO:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Using OE as your Newsreader
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resources.htm#setupmsnews
http://snipurl.com/4iru

PS: You should /not/ post your real email address in the newsgroups.
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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