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Paul in Houston TX
Cool! Downloaded and will install later this week
to try it out!
Cool! Downloaded and will install later this week
to try it out!
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Paul in Houston TX
Jackson said:
It works for me with 7:
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:
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BillW50
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If you are using Avast6 AV (free edition), it complains if you change OE
ports (or other applications) to a SSL one. As it states that it cannot
scan incoming and outgoing if your application is using a secured port.
And it states that Avast can handle the SSL connection itself and to
allow Avast to do this instead of your email / newsgroup reader. Avast
also allows you to set it to butt out and to mind its own business if
you would like.
Paul said:
If you are using Avast6 AV (free edition), it complains if you change OE
ports (or other applications) to a SSL one. As it states that it cannot
scan incoming and outgoing if your application is using a secured port.
And it states that Avast can handle the SSL connection itself and to
allow Avast to do this instead of your email / newsgroup reader. Avast
also allows you to set it to butt out and to mind its own business if
you would like.
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Char Jackson
It makes no sense to me to scan Usenet traffic and email traffic.
What's the point?
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Johannes A Van KootenIN THE UK SINCE LATE 80s
"BillW50" wrote in message
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it also depends on your internet service provider, some do not allow
newsgroups through oe
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Paul said:
it also depends on your internet service provider, some do not allow
newsgroups through oe
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BillW50
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What? Why? Way back in the old dialup days and when ISP was a bit pricy.
I got a cheap ma and pop ISP who was a guy who ran it from his basement
on Linux. And whenever I checked email from OE, his servers locked up.
He actually called me up one day and demanded that I stopped using
Windows because it would lock up his Linux servers. And I told him it
wasn't my problem and hung up on him. ;-)
But I know of nobody else who can tell you what programs you can use or
not. I could see somebody saying they don't support OE or something. And
if it doesn't work, then tough. But that is as far as I can see it go.
Johannes said:
What? Why? Way back in the old dialup days and when ISP was a bit pricy.
I got a cheap ma and pop ISP who was a guy who ran it from his basement
on Linux. And whenever I checked email from OE, his servers locked up.
He actually called me up one day and demanded that I stopped using
Windows because it would lock up his Linux servers. And I told him it
wasn't my problem and hung up on him. ;-)
But I know of nobody else who can tell you what programs you can use or
not. I could see somebody saying they don't support OE or something. And
if it doesn't work, then tough. But that is as far as I can see it go.
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BillW50
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Yeah I don't get it either. As the real-time AV scanner just stops any
malware in its list from executing anyway. I also don't see the point of
Windows security updates either for the same reason. As so what if
malware can use a bug to get on your system. It's totally harmless if it
doesn't get executed. And whenever it tries, it gets nailed by the AV
anyway.
Char said:
Yeah I don't get it either. As the real-time AV scanner just stops any
malware in its list from executing anyway. I also don't see the point of
Windows security updates either for the same reason. As so what if
malware can use a bug to get on your system. It's totally harmless if it
doesn't get executed. And whenever it tries, it gets nailed by the AV
anyway.
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Nil
I'm sure that's not true. There's no practical way for an ISP to know
what newsreader you are using, and there's no reason for them to care
even if they did.
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Mayayana
| it also depends on your internet service provider, some do not allow
| newsgroups through oe
|
The only way I can even imagine that being possible
would be via DNS resolution or via ISP-hosted newsgroups.
DNS is basically the online phone book. When you go to
a URL a DNS server tells you the actual address in the
form of a numeric IP address.
Most ISPs provide free DNS resolution. The IP for it is
what they tell you to enter in your Network Connection
window. (Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -> Properties.)
That can be a problem with sleazy ISPs because they
control your address resolution. And many will hijack
404 pages to show you ads instead. Some might even
cache pages and serve them to you out of their stash.
You can set any valid DNS server to use. There are sites
online where it can be researched. I'm using Level3 because
they seem to be among the fastest. 4.2.2.5 and 4.2.2.6
But there are lots of options.
For newsgroups, there are some free ones. I'm using
http://eternal-september.org/
It looks like your ISP is Virginmedia and you're using
their newsgroup connection? You don't have to do
that. You can just change the settings in your news
reader. (If Windows Live Mail is online webmail then by
all means get yourself a real newsreader. There's no reason
to put up with webpage-copied newsgroups. Usenet
was not designed for that.)
| newsgroups through oe
|
The only way I can even imagine that being possible
would be via DNS resolution or via ISP-hosted newsgroups.
DNS is basically the online phone book. When you go to
a URL a DNS server tells you the actual address in the
form of a numeric IP address.
Most ISPs provide free DNS resolution. The IP for it is
what they tell you to enter in your Network Connection
window. (Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -> Properties.)
That can be a problem with sleazy ISPs because they
control your address resolution. And many will hijack
404 pages to show you ads instead. Some might even
cache pages and serve them to you out of their stash.
You can set any valid DNS server to use. There are sites
online where it can be researched. I'm using Level3 because
they seem to be among the fastest. 4.2.2.5 and 4.2.2.6
But there are lots of options.
For newsgroups, there are some free ones. I'm using
http://eternal-september.org/
It looks like your ISP is Virginmedia and you're using
their newsgroup connection? You don't have to do
that. You can just change the settings in your news
reader. (If Windows Live Mail is online webmail then by
all means get yourself a real newsreader. There's no reason
to put up with webpage-copied newsgroups. Usenet
was not designed for that.)
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Char Jackson
+1
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Paul
Mayayana said:
ISPs don't like to run their own news servers, because then
they have to deal with complaints from the public.
Instead, they offer two options. They tell you up front, to
buy service from a third party (that's my ISP, cheapskates).
Or, the ISP rebrands a Highwinds server for their own usage. Highwinds
does the support, and the ISP has next to nothing to do with it.
And the ISPs like that, as then the complaints resolution is
not on their shoulders.
Doing a quick search, Virginmedia has used a couple different
third party providers, in recent years.
Being a third party, you can probably connect with anything
you want. Unless some form of web-based-only (newssync) service has
been cooked up (HTTP only). You would need to see
a list of ports and protocols supported. Lots of the
newsserver outfits, put this kind of info on their web page.
http://www.aioe.org
nntp.aioe.org which opens the following ports:
* 119 (Plain Text and TLS) <--- original port, unencrypted.
* 563 (SSL Only) <--- Encrypted so third parties
* 443 (SSL Only) <--- cannot snoop.
* 22 (SSL Only)
* 80 (Plain Text and TLS) <--- used to bypass corporate filters
for USENETting at work.
The instructions on this page, are no different than setting up
another client. So I don't interpret this to be limited to OE.
They're using OE as an example. Thunderbird or Forte Agent or
some other tool would also be candidates.
http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/newsgroups/setting-up-outlook-express-exntl.php
http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/newsgroups/setting-up-outlook-express-exntl-2.php
Where at least some people get stuck, is at the "Authentication" setting.
You have to know whether the service uses a "Username/Password" pair
when you first start using the service. The news reader program
may have a tick box that says "Request Authentication". In other
words, the server doesn't come right out and ask for it. And yet,
without those steps, you can't get a proper newsgroup list or
post things. If you've been given a username/password, or
told to use some Virginmedia username/password that is used
for other services there, you may need to configure the
news reader program for that as well.
Paul
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Mayayana
| I wasn't aware that Search Everything doesn't do FAT 32.
That seems odd. I always install XP to FAT32 when
possible. Doesn't search FAT32 and doesn't find text
inside a file. ....Even Windows search is a bit better
than that. I do like their names, though: Everything,
by Voidtools.
That seems odd. I always install XP to FAT32 when
possible. Doesn't search FAT32 and doesn't find text
inside a file. ....Even Windows search is a bit better
than that. I do like their names, though: Everything,
by Voidtools.
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Char Jackson
Results are completely missing for some drives, suggesting you
probably forgot to include those drives in Everything's search
database.
C
Char Jackson
FAT32? That explains it.
My life would be very different, and very difficult, without NTFS.
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michael
In case anyone stumbles onto this thread looking for an answer, I did a "Repair Install" using the steps on this web page. My system is working fine now.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
Mike
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
Mike
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BillW50
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Can I ask why not? And before you answer, have you ever had FATxx trash
your files?
Menno said:
Can I ask why not? And before you answer, have you ever had FATxx trash
your files?
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Paul
BillW50 said:
"Permissions" are the main reason people don't like NTFS.
As far as journaling and the resulting improvement in robustness,
they'd probably like that part of NTFS.
Paul