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Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is a strange question for computer help, but I am tearing my hair out over a very simple issue...I can't find the en dashes and em dashes in the Windows XP version. Anyone know where they are?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee: The codes are there but you have to use an alt-key combination to access them easily. Hold the alt key and type:

Code
Char
Name
0150
En Dash
0151
Em Dash

then release the alt key and the character should appear.

You can find these and may other codes in the chart HERE

Hope this helps.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh that is so cool, Dra! I always wanted to access all those colors and didn't know how!! Wow! Thank you!!!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you so much, Dra! Like Herckie, I have really wanted to know this information. Thanks a million!

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Dra! That's a handy little website for HTML. And, thanks for your response regarding Kazaa. I strongly suspected that would be the situation. I'll have to stay away from it as my PC system is too important to me to risk messing it up.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok,I have an odd thing going on,that was brought to my attention last night. I've noticed that when I read articles on some sites,lots of question marks show up in places they shouldn't be.
I posted a song I copied into Monkeyboy's folder. Last night I was told there are some sort of weird characters they see when looking at it. I don't see it at all!
Is this something in my settings?
Thanks for the help!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hippyt, it looks like you copied it into Word, possibly did some editing it, then copied it again from Word to post on the board. The odd characters are common when you have a different font set as the default in Word. It's best to edit messages in Notepad or Wordpad just before posting them. If you already have it in Word, try saving it as a plain text file before posting.

Your system is familiar with the fonts used so the strange characters may not show up for you.

Hope this helps.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Drah, in the facts thread i have this weird thing happening. All the posters' names, member status and join date show, but no messages. Refreshed a few times, to no avail. The archives work fine.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow,I went out to hubby's puter and looked at my post,totally weird!
I don't know,I just usually always copy on notepad. I never even use word.
Oh,well,thanks Dra!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele: Try holding your shift key while clicking on 'Refresh' - this forces the browser to request a complete fresh copy of the page and all graphics, etc. from the server. Without the shift, your browser may be reloading the partial page from the cache.

Hippyt: Sorry I wasn't able to help more.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Drah. Perhaps I already did inadvertently, because it is now back to normal. Shift and refresh, eh? Gotta try and remember that one.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's ok,Dra. That's the first time I've had that happen. Hopefully,it won't become a problem. Ok,weird off the wall question,could it have anything to do with having Thai language enabled? When the tsunami hit,I enabled Thai,so I could look at some of the websites. I just took it off,anyhoo,lol.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
just so long as you don't have thai food enabled. all that peanut sauce really junks up the keys on the keyboard.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<...wouldn't be surprised if a Thai Stick was involved...>

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<stomps the Sponge for Hippyt>

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 6:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They're just hilarious aren't they Juju?

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have 2 questions

#1 on my second computer I installed a card reader...I had to install the driver first...now when I start the computer it won't completely boot. I then did a step by step confirmation (btw using Win98) and I said for it not to load the drivers and it worked. Now I have restarted the computer and it starts booting and then I get a blank screen. I touched the keyboard a bit and I got this error.

An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted. Chang eh STACKS setting in your CONFIG>SYS file, and then try again

Can get some help on how to do this without screwing something else up..thanks

Last week Dra helped me network my 2 computers. I have my pictures uploaded from my digital camera on Second "Family" computer and I want to access these files from my "main" computer and cannot figure how to go and get this information from my hard drive. Thanks


Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Skootz: Here's some information that might help.

1) Some card reader devices require you to install the drivers before plugging the device into your computer. If you did this in reverse, the manual should tell you how to undo the problem and get the reader to work for you.

2) Open Windows Explorer on 'Main' and map the drive on 'Second' to a drive letter to use. Then click on that letter in the left-panel of Windows Explorer and locate the folder where your pictures are stored in the right panel. You can then either open the pictures directly or copy them to 'Main' by selecting any you want copied and drop them to a folder on 'Main'. (You may need to create the folder on 'Main' before trying to move them.)

Hope this helps.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Dra:

1. I installed the driver first (like the reader said - amazed me I actually read the directions first :-) ) I ended up today just uninstalling the "image mate" from the computer and it started up no problem. so will have to see what happens when I reinstall it again. I may wait until you are around and perhaps you could help me with it (doesn't have to be immediately because I got all the pictures off the card I wanted to get off for now.)

2. Thanks...Dra...I mapped it and found it. I guess I should of asked you what to do to actually access the drive. lol





Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
another question:

I tried it on the second and it didn't work????

I click my computer, map network and enter Drive "g" and then path is \\main\C$ and I get an error that says
the share name was not found be sure you typed it correctly




Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Skootz: Double check to be sure the share you created on 'Main' is still there and try again. (I thought you did that but I'm not sure now - could be the problem.) Are you having any trouble printing across the two computers? Especially from Second to Main? If no problems printing, then it should probably be just that the share name didn't stay for some reason.

Ktbb
Member

08-10-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm still having lots of problems with my comp, and wondering if anyone might be able to help. It is really slow. I have ran adaware, norton 2005 and spy bot and it is still slow. I've run spybot 8 times but it is not able to get rid of a few things and wonder if that is the problem. They are Wild Tangent(which I want to keep), Cosmi,Downloadware, DSO Exploit, Xupiter, and Xupiter.OrbitExplorer. No matter what I try they won't go away. Please help me if you can.
We have a p4 with windows xp.Thanks

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ktbb, until somebody more knowledgeable gets here, I will ask if you have already gone into Start>Control Panel>Add Remove Programs and looked to see if any of the programs are in there? If so, click on uninstall.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 10:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi, anyone around?

I used to have an iMac. Bought but never installed a scanner at the same time. Kept the very inexpensive scanner (Microtek SlimScan C3) as I thought I could hook it up to my PC. Just now seeing that the directions talk about a USB/hub which I don't need with my Dell. (After all these years, I am just getting it out of the box to install it! Somewhere along the line I lost or inadvertantly gave away the installation disk, though.)

I just connected up the parallel cable to the hard drive and plugged it in, then used Wizard to help me install/use it. It appears I have installed it correctly (I can see it in my control panel and I did run a troubleshooter test--which said it was working properly), but every time I try to scan something, I get an error message that says: "The current picture cannot be copied. Hit cancel or try again." Tried again, to no avail.

Now, I've changed the document from a small picture to a full-page ad, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Can it really be a scanner is only made to be used with a MAC and can't be adapted to my PC?

Help! And thanks!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ktbb: Have you tried using the deepscan instructions with AdAware that I posted in this thread a while back? In case you missed that post, here is the instructions again:

After downloading and installing the latest version of AdAware, run the program and use the 'Update' feature to get the latest definition files.
Next use the following guidelines for the most thorough scan possible:
  1. Click on the configuration Windows button.
  2. Click on Scanning, and choose the following settings to:
    • "Scan within archives"
    • "Scan active processes"
    • "Scan registry"
    • "Deepscan registry"
    • "Scan my IE Favorites for banned URL's"
    • "Scan my host's file"
  3. Then click on Tweaks, go to "Cleaning engine" and set it to:
    • "Automatically try to unregister objects prior to deletion"
    • "Let Windows remove files in use after reboot."
  4. Click on "Proceed" to save these Preferences.
  5. Click on the "Scan Now" button.
  6. Check and remove everything it finds.


You may also need to disable system restore in order for the cleaning programs (AdAware, Spybot, etc) to be able to completely remove some of the problems. To do this, follow the instructions published on the Symantec website HERE

Hope this helps.