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  1. WhiteTornado

    URL Shortcuts placed on desktop opens in small windows

    Hi linney, Appreciate your great links here, this solved it, I am using this small utility. Cheers!
  2. WhiteTornado

    URL Shortcuts placed on desktop opens in small windows

    Hi, This is Windows 2000, all updates current, IE 6, all settings brought back to default, when an URL located on the desktop is opened, the windows has to be enlarged as it is only 4 inches wide. I have looked in all the IE advance settings, folder options, I cannot see any settings that would...
  3. WhiteTornado

    I lost all the formulas in an excel file

    I found the original version of this file, uncorrupted and fully working. That's a relief! Right about the "if", I used VLOOKUP on that file, that worked great.
  4. WhiteTornado

    I lost all the formulas in an excel file

    Hi, I understand, fact is nothing was done to it, it was stored on my external drive, I also had backups on DVD, which I just looked at, all the formulas are gone as well. The sheet was not protected.
  5. WhiteTornado

    I lost all the formulas in an excel file

    Hi, I created an excel file a while back (several months) which had some great and long formulas with many "if" etc... To my surprise, my client trying to use this file today tells me that the file is no longer working. Originally I had one sheet on which I had several tables from which my...
  6. WhiteTornado

    Send to mail recipient not working in win 98

    Hi, This is Win98 second edition - all patched and updated. The oe is the email program set as the default in the IE. Everything else is working ok, net and mail, the only trouble is when I am on a picture and want to use the "sent to mail recipient" fonction, I am unable to get OE to start...
  7. WhiteTornado

    Invalid spanned file (522) Ghost 2003 Cannot open image

    Hi, Ghost was made of the primary partition of a 40Gb HDD on a Presario 2100. An external usb LG DVDRW drive was used to do so - reason was that the internal CDRW drive was not performing correctly. Using Ghost 2003 started from the floppy with usb 1.1 support added. I put the image on one...
  8. WhiteTornado

    Hangs at boot when USB external drive plugged in

    Hi and tks! I know that Legacy USB is not activated, the drive is jumpered as master within the USB enclosure. It is likely trying to boot from it as you say - I will get to see that machine in a few weeks now, I will check with FDISK, this is qa good idea. Cheers MC
  9. WhiteTornado

    Hangs at boot when USB external drive plugged in

    Hi, This is an MSI 850 Pro5 mobo with 256 Rambus, with Win2k. I just re-installed everything and while all seems operational, there is one issue remaining, which I actually have ran into in the past with other systems, but never found what was going on. When the 40GB external USB Maxtor HDD is...
  10. WhiteTornado

    Restoring MS Outlook data truobles

    Hi linny, Yes it does, thanks a lot , the third link was it. Everything was restored and the woman is happy, and SO AM I!!! :D
  11. WhiteTornado

    Restoring MS Outlook data truobles

    Hi, I had a Win ME station which was backed up on an other HDD, then win 2K was installed, then Ofice XP was reinstalled - the Win ME station had Office XP installed on it. Now, I want to restore all the folders. I imported the pst folder, took a while, then when I look at the address book, I...
  12. WhiteTornado

    System tryingto get into prolonged sleep mode

    Hi, This is a new problem, this station tries to go into sleep mode and this crashes apps that are rolling on that. Oddly, I have all the setting set as NEVER in the energy management settings. When this occurs, it takes some work to "wake" the station up. I have not changed anything...
  13. WhiteTornado

    Unable to install this NW printer

    Hi noellees1, tks for this tip - this is a great idea. 1101001100110101, to answer you, our printer is set with a static IP, I am not totally familiar with the install of Jet Direct - but I will foward your tip to the tech when he gets here. By the way, I finally was able to get to the printer...
  14. WhiteTornado

    Unable to install this NW printer

    Hi, We have been having a lot of troubles with our network over the last few days... Turned out the connexions on our patch panels were loosing their connexion. I rewired several of them straight to the switch and that solved several troubles. However, I have a Windows 98 station (I have my UPS...
  15. WhiteTornado

    Can't send messages from OE in Windows XP Pro

    Hi and thank you. I have gone through the steps to update the verisign. I have gone through the whole list, I tried to install the following patches: 813951 and 810847, both of them are asking to install the IE 6.0 SP1!! But I installed it twice. Now, I cannot see it installed in the...
  16. WhiteTornado

    Having to use CTL-Alt-Del after install of program

    Hi - thanks fir the tip and link. Oddly - I was not able to locate the advance tab as you mentioned, I then choose to apply the registry change, but the bloddy C-A-D screen still shows up...! cheers!
  17. WhiteTornado

    Having to use CTL-Alt-Del after install of program

    After an external soft company installed PC Anywhere on this machine, on the start up window I now have the Ctl Alt Del screen showing up!! It was not like that prior to that, this is Windows XP Pro and it we only needed to write the user name and passwd to get it. Now after PC Anywhere was...
  18. WhiteTornado

    Can't send messages from OE in Windows XP Pro

    Hi, Well, something I thought would be nothing to handle turns out to be really tricky! I have This comp in a peer to peer network - it is used as a server for a medical app. This issue is new by the way, the OE worked ok before - now, impossible to send messages from it. Other comps in the nw...
  19. WhiteTornado

    How to repair system file errors with a Raid 1-0?

    Hi, Youre right, I was unclear - it is raid 1. In order to learn a few things, I put two different drives and recreated the same environment and did various tests to see how things behaved. I saw in effect that I could run with only one drive. But, unfortunately I never was able to fix the...
  20. WhiteTornado

    hard disk repairing solution

    The software from OnTrack to recover data is the best solution. Cheers!

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