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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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My PC problems ought to be at an end. I am busy installing software on a bright and shiny new toy that I bought with no operating system or any other bells and whistles. About 6 hours more installation work to go.
Problems at the start all right, but those seem to be going away. I, of course, do not know what I am doing with computers!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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This has been the computer hassle week from hell for me, too.
My system is new, still under warrenty after only 2 months. But a friend tried to set me up to burn CD's and transfer cassette tape music to the pc and then also to CD's. Ended up having to take the whole thing into the shop to replace the CD writer...and one repair guy backed up my system using an obscure (British, he said) file extension called "pst" which I now can't open or access...and somehow or other he also managed to delete my address book, which it looks like I'll have to rte-build from scratch...UGH
Anybody know how to open a pst file extension?
And I still have to learn Nero for burning CD's as well as install another softwear thing for the cassette tapes...
Sheesh, what a week...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Registered: March 2012
Messages: 2344
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My week has simply been horrid as well with my having, too, endured that ubiquitos "Upgrade from Hell".
What has been so puzzling to me is that it should not have been so, with my merely doing, to my Server, what I had already done on more than one earlier occasion with exactly the same hardware.
With the release of Windows'2000 Service Pack 4, Windows'2000 now supports 512 Byte, and 1 Kilo-byte "Cluster-sizes" under FAT32. Previously only clusters of 2 Kilo-bytes and higher were supported under Service Pack 3, and 4 Kil0-bytes and higher under Service Pack 2. My hard-disks had previously been migrated to 2 Kilo-byte clusters, and I now wanted to take advantage of the much smaller 1 Kilo-byte cluster to gain the absolute best possible disk-space utilization for the disks; hence my "Upgrade", and the recent nightmare.
All because I had taken the notion that I wanted to restore the "Active Desktop" Channels which Microsoft in their greater wisdom decided I didn't really want, or need (after they themselves had apparently abandoned them), and therefore without any warning, or prompting Windows'2000 - and presumably Windows'XP - simply deletes all files related to the service, with Microsoft Technical Support refusing to tell how to reactivate them (once deleted) because they are no-longer supported. This of course is totally aside from the fact that I like, and use, them, and wanted them back!
Oh well, so much for good customer relations.
Incidentally, I do have them blessedly restored, and most things are now functioning as before; but, it was a road not easily taken.
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Hi David. I don't know much more than you about Microsoft stuff, but I do know that the MS Mail archive file has a pst extension also. You might be able to access the files through MS Outlook (the mail application). Or you could try to open it and when the system asks which application you want to use to open it, indicate notepad. That usually will except strange formats pretty easily.
I am working on Chapter 35. Will get it to you soon.
Hugs, Charlie
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So here Man and I are, him trying to get me ready to go out for the big Loy Kratong festival, which is a bigger event than New Year in these here parts. Meanwhile, I am all pissy since I still had not figured out what happened to my address book.
So a friend of ours was here, pretty computer savvy guy, going out with us to the big celebration on the river. Of course I have to ask him to take a look, and he's scratching his head, too. Couldn't find it anywhere, so we tried Charlie's suggestion of opening that strange "pst file extension" with wordpad. Nope. 6,000 kbs of squiggles and numbers and doodads like that.
Man says, "Get over it...get dressed...you WILL come out with me and have a good time, or I'll kill you..." Well, the equivalent in Thai, anyhow.
So I delete the huge useless "pst back-up file" thingie, and then just check one more time for new emails before shutting down (you know how that is, right?), sighing about having to re-do all my addresses tomorrow.
And there it was. The address book is now back, in it's original place, complete and intact.
Strange shit, or what?
Anybody care to explain this?
And now I MUST go out to the celebration, along with 6 million other Bangkokians.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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On fire! |
Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
Messages: 1179
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But hopefully those problems are at an end, for both of us. Although I bought a new puter last spring, it has been acting up quite a bit. I haven't had access to my CD Rom or floppy disk drives for a couple of months now. So I ordered a notebook form Dell. It arrived last night. I'll be installing software and connecting it to the internet this weekend and fine tuning it for some time to come, but I'm hoping my problems will soon be over.
Think good thoughts,
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Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
Messages: 1179
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sometimes it's just better to accept those little "gifts" than to try and figure them out.
{{HUGS}}
Think good thoughts.
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I really hope that this works for you - after all the angst!!
Hugs {{{timmy}}} Mike
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words
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