Why Was My Thread Deleted?

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Your thread is still there. I have just read it.

Despite your lack of appreciation pf the merits of Event Viewer
lets look at it again. Look at the Reports in the system tab
since the last boot. Post copies of Error and Warning Reports
only in time sequence.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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All said:
Well, that's remarkable. A search of every single section of this forum
for
"Add/Remove" finds this thread, but not the other one.
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You've just found out why it's FAR FAR better to use a newsreader rather
than the clunky web interface. And it's not a "forum" - it's a Usenet
Newsgroup that just happens to have a web interface......

How to set up OE as a News reader:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164&product=oex
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm
 
I'd love to use Outlook Express but it won't re-install since my attempt to
re-install Paint sabotaged my system. All I wanted to do was re-install
Paint. The instructions say to check want you want to add. The instructions
are wrong. Whatever you don't check is removed, and in my case, permanently.
Click to expand...

This must be your first time with a computer?
 
p.s. apparently this is not clear but "to add" means to put something in
that wasn't there before. It can't mean "to keep" because you couldn't keep
it if it wasn't already there, and if it was already there, you couldn't add
it. So I wouldn't check a box that says "add" when I want to "keep" or "not
delete." If I didn't want to "keep" i.e. if I wanted "to remove" or "to
delete" I would check something called "remove" or perhaps "delete" because
only an idiot would design an interface where an un-checked "add" box means
the same as "delete" because "delete" is a semi-important operation, which an
interface designer would leave to chance and interpretation to only if he
was a drooling idiot or a Microsoft documentation writer, which appears to be
pretty much the same thing.
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Maybe you could have READ the instructions:

To ADD OR REMOVE a component, click the check box.....

So, it stands to reason that a "checked" box means you keep it, a
unchecked box means you don't want that component - as the boxes are
pre-checked with the already installed components, UNCHECKING them would
mean you want to "remove" them.
 
Leythos said:
To ADD OR REMOVE a component, click the check box.....

So, it stands to reason that a "checked" box means you keep it, a
unchecked box means you don't want that component - as the boxes are
pre-checked with the already installed components, UNCHECKING them would
mean you want to "remove" them.
Click to expand...



No, it stands to reason that a checked box will add OR remove the
component -- as the instructions read, quite plainly.

It says check to remove, not uncheck to remove. Checking and unchecking are
antonyms.

The instructions could say "To ADD, KEEP OR REMOVE a component, click the
check box....." but that's even stupider.

I notice this approach is not used when it comes to installing and
un-installing other programs. Imagine the havoc if you uninstalled some
program but didn't affirmatively indicate that you wanted to keep the rest
of your software, so that, in accord with the fatuous logic, it was all
promptly un-installed. That would be even stupider and I guess that was too
far for even Microsoft to go, so they had to be content with using their
bonehead logic only with regard to Windows components.
 
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