Auto Play and Windows Explorer settings

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Lynn

Having recently been "migrated" to Windoze XP (my initial
feeling is that the XP is it's rating, eXtremely Poor),
I'm hit with some of Macro$carf's "improvements". I know
that it is one of the slowest of the OS's Bill and Co.
have dumped on us.

First I have a couple of small portable USB hard drives
that I routinely take between my laptop at home and the
desktop at work. Though I have gone to the 'help(less)'
and done what it says, each time I plug the drive back
into the XP machine, the Autoplay runs and unless I cancel
it out, tells me the drive has such and such type files
what do I want to do with them. When this appears, I
naturally select 'take no action' and check the apply all
the time box (not that it helps).

Next I go to Windows Explorer and "try" to set my
preferences for folder views. Yep you guessed it,
Macro$carf knows what is best and my settings are
consistently overwritten by Macro$carf defaults. Even
when I click on the apply this to all folders.

I've run a small NT network (ten computers) in the past,
so I don't consider myself a computer illiterate (though
Macro$carf tends to treat me as one).

I also refuse to pay Macro$carf to tell them how shoddy
their products are. That's just adding insult to injury.
So I'll vent on the newsgroups. I know that when I see
their new commercials telling me it is my "potential
(being impeded)" by their "passion" to tell me what I want
and not what I need.
 
| "Lynn" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message | <SNIP> Windoze XP <SNIP>
| XP is it's rating, eXtremely Poor), <SNIP>
| Macro$carf's "improvements". <SNIP>
| Bill and Co. have dumped on us. <SNIP>
| Macro$carf knows what is best <SNIP>
| overwritten by Macro$carf defaults. <SNIP>
| Macro$carf tends to treat me as one). <SNIP>
| Macro$carf <SNIP> shoddy their products
| So I'll vent on the newsgroups. <SNIP>

I do believe you selected the incorrect newsgroup.
Maybe try:

alt.microsoft.sucks
alt.destroy.microsoft
alt.microsoft.crash.crash.crash

Some Microsoft Bashing Computer Humor:

BBspot - Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan
http://bbspot.com/news/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

BBspot - Linux Kernel Delayed By Microsoft's Army of
Evil Monkeys
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/MS_Linux_delay.html

----- Begin Original Message -----
From: "Ovidiu Popa" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:24:03 +0200
Subject: Re: Microsoft Stinks!!! They are a SCAM!!
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion
References: <#[email protected]>
Organization: IMT
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3
Message ID: http://www.google.com/groups?&as_umsgid= 01bd12c2$7f5871a0$a55ce2c1@moonlight

Hi Kenneth,

For those of you that feel a deep unsatisfaction on Windows
GPF messages, here are some crash messages I encountered
on various computers/OS. Have fun, and remember that
(IMHO) there's no perfect OS/software as nothing is perfect
on this world.

[AMIGA 500]
"Guru meditation error"
A kind of GPF, sometimes the system locks after this.

[IBM 370 Mainframe]
"Disaster"
Memory dump follows.

[Data General 1157 AOS/VS]
"I don't eat raisins"
Sometimes when trying to spool a print job.

[Linux, Ultrix, AIX]
"Panic"
Sometimes have to go to another workstation and kill processes after this.

[Some BIOS]
"Keyboard failure. Press F1 to resume"
No comments.

[And, of course, back to the old MS Windows]
"Something bad has happened which has no error message. Please restart your
computer."

--
Bye,
DON'T GIVE UP UNTIL MALLOC DOES

dr. Ovidiu Popa

----- End Original Message -----

Q209354 - HOWTO
http://www.altgeek.org/methuselah/rtfm/
 
Despite my slamming of Windoze, there were serious
questions in the post.

1. Is there a way to permanently turn off auto play in
XP? If not that, is there a way to make XP actually do
what is says it will do and NOT run autoplay every time I
plug my USB drive(s) (if you count the flash drives and
memory card reader) back in.
2. Is there a way to ensure ALL folders open using the
parameters I've set in the folder view and not what some
(deleted) at Macro$carf has determined I need to see it in
(for example the My Pictures folder always opens in Icons
mode despite the setting that all folders are to open in
Details mode).

The snide comments

1. Express my displeasure and frustration. I agree there
is no perfect OS (or anything else for that matter. Even
Mary Poppins is only "practically perfect")
2. Kept me from being profane (i.e., questioning the
pedigree of various programmers ancestors, in a more
concise and less subtle manner).

-----Original Message-----
| "Lynn" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message [email protected]
| <SNIP> Windoze XP <SNIP>
| XP is it's rating, eXtremely Poor), <SNIP>
| Macro$carf's "improvements". <SNIP>
| Bill and Co. have dumped on us. <SNIP>
| Macro$carf knows what is best <SNIP>
| overwritten by Macro$carf defaults. <SNIP>
| Macro$carf tends to treat me as one). <SNIP>
| Macro$carf <SNIP> shoddy their products
| So I'll vent on the newsgroups. <SNIP>

I do believe you selected the incorrect newsgroup.
Maybe try:

alt.microsoft.sucks
alt.destroy.microsoft
alt.microsoft.crash.crash.crash

Some Microsoft Bashing Computer Humor:

BBspot - Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan
http://bbspot.com/news/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

BBspot - Linux Kernel Delayed By Microsoft's Army of
Evil Monkeys
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/MS_Linux_delay.html

----- Begin Original Message -----
From: "Ovidiu Popa" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:24:03 +0200
Subject: Re: Microsoft Stinks!!! They are a SCAM!!
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion
References:
Click to expand...
Organization: IMT
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3
Message ID: http://www.google.com/groups?&as_umsgid=% 2001bd12c2%247f5871a0%24a55ce2c1@moonlight

Hi Kenneth,

For those of you that feel a deep unsatisfaction on Windows
GPF messages, here are some crash messages I encountered
on various computers/OS. Have fun, and remember that
(IMHO) there's no perfect OS/software as nothing is perfect
on this world.

[AMIGA 500]
"Guru meditation error"
A kind of GPF, sometimes the system locks after this.

[IBM 370 Mainframe]
"Disaster"
Memory dump follows.

[Data General 1157 AOS/VS]
"I don't eat raisins"
Sometimes when trying to spool a print job.

[Linux, Ultrix, AIX]
"Panic"
Sometimes have to go to another workstation and kill processes after this.

[Some BIOS]
"Keyboard failure. Press F1 to resume"
No comments.

[And, of course, back to the old MS Windows]
"Something bad has happened which has no error message. Please restart your
computer."

--
Bye,
DON'T GIVE UP UNTIL MALLOC DOES

dr. Ovidiu Popa

----- End Original Message -----

Q209354 - HOWTO
http://www.altgeek.org/methuselah/rtfm/



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Why doesn't AutoPlay work (correctly)?
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

Windows remembers 400 folder settings. When that number is reached some
settings aren't retained any longer. You can change this to 8000 by adding
this edit to the registry.

Run this edit, then reset your preferred folder options:

Increase Folder View Options Limit: (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it
and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by
right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.

Windows Explorer/View/[Select Accordingly]. Then Tools/Folder
Options/View/Apply to All Folders.
 
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