Safe XP

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<quote> Safe XP allows users to quickly tweak various security and privacy
related settings in XP. The options include Media Player settings, Services
settings (error reporting, time synch, remote registry etc.), as well as and
option to remove items from the Start menu, network security settings and
more.
Safe XP improves your system performance and makes Windows to run faster,
more secure and reliable!
It is suitable for beginners and experts! </quote>

http://www.theorica.net/safexp.htm

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Frank Bohan
¶ A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
 
_Frank Bohan_, lunedì 06/dic/2004:
<quote> Safe XP allows users to quickly tweak various security and privacy
related settings in XP. The options include Media Player settings, Services
settings (error reporting, time synch, remote registry etc.), as well as and
option to remove items from the Start menu, network security settings and
more.
Safe XP improves your system performance and makes Windows to run faster,
more secure and reliable!
It is suitable for beginners and experts! </quote>

http://www.theorica.net/safexp.htm

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Frank, did you miss Karen's priceless post about SafeXP?
It's worth reading it again:
<[email protected]>
 
_badgolferman_, lunedì 06/dic/2004:
The above link does not work.
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That's a Message ID and works.
My newsreader is Dialog and can find it immediately, clicking on it.
I don't remember if OE can. To find it in google groups advanced you need to
leave off the < and the >.
 
_Jaxxim_, lunedì 06/dic/2004:
["badgolferman"; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:06:11 GMT]
The above link does not work.
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I tried the message ID number at http://groups-
beta.google.com/advanced_search, but it seems to return the entire thread.
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This new beta google groups is not very friendly.
Click on "view as tree", Karen's post is number 24, the date is Nov 26.
 
Rod said:
It works in my newsreader, you might have to put "(without the
"'s) in front of it to make it work in OE.
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Cool. I learned something today. Pasting the above message ID into my
browser with 'appended to the front did the trick. I've always
wondered how to get message ID's to work quickly and simply (could only
use it in a Google Groups Advanced Search).

Thanks.
 
Cool. I learned something today. Pasting the above message ID into my
browser with 'appended to the front did the trick. I've always
wondered how to get message ID's to work quickly and simply (could only
use it in a Google Groups Advanced Search).
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It also works from the start menu > run box.
 
Mark Warner said:
Cool. I learned something today. Pasting the above message ID into my
browser with 'appended to the front did the trick. I've always
wondered how to get message ID's to work quickly and simply (could only
use it in a Google Groups Advanced Search).

Thanks.
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Thanks for drawing attention to Karen's post. I'd downloaded the program but
not installed it, but in view of Karen's experience I'll ditch it.

Like Mark I was not aware that messages could be retrieved via the browser,
but I had a curious result when doing so. Using XP(SP2) I entered
in IE6. A message stated
that it was being downloaded but the number of lines remained at zero.
Pressing "Cancel" produced another message saying that the message had
probably expired and could not be downloaded. Clicking OK on this, which was
sitting on top of the page previously in the browser, produced (tra lah) the
message. Please would someone tell me if this is the normal (crazy)
procedure for this type of retrieval.

Incidentally, I also tried to download it with Netscape, where the Search
button produced a Netscape Channels page which included a Toolbar for
Internet Explorer!!! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/default.jsp

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Frank Bohan
¶ Pangram: Viewing quizzical abstracts mixed up hefty jocks.
 
Like Mark I was not aware that messages could be retrieved via the
browser, but I had a curious result when doing so. Using XP(SP2) I
entered in IE6. A
message stated that it was being downloaded but the number of
lines remained at zero. Pressing "Cancel" produced another message
saying that the message had probably expired and could not be
downloaded. Clicking OK on this, which was sitting on top of the
page previously in the browser, produced (tra lah) the message.
Please would someone tell me if this is the normal (crazy)
procedure for this type of retrieval.
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All that happened in IE itself? No news client was called up?

On my machine, IE handles URLs by passing them off to the
default news client. For me that's Xnews, and if I put a URL
into the IE6 location bar (or the Firefox location bar or the win+r
run box), Xnews opens up and displays the post.

(Note that setting the default apps using Internet Options|Programs
still does not work quite right even in XPSP2. OE, which is not
installed, is erroneously listed there as my default news app.)
Incidentally, I also tried to download it with Netscape, where the
Search button produced a Netscape Channels page which included a
Toolbar for Internet Explorer!!!
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/default.jsp
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This sounds like an autosearch feature of Netscape was triggered,
which would mean Netscape doesn't know what to do with URLs.

My Opera doesn't seem to know what to do with URLs, but that may
be because I never configured its mail/news component.
 
Like Mark I was not aware that messages could be retrieved via the
browser, but I had a curious result when doing so.
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Try it via the start menu > run box, instead of using your browser. Your
default newsreader should open up and download the message.
And you could check Control Panel-> Internet Options-> Programs tab, to set
your default newsreader.
 
»Q« said:
All that happened in IE itself? No news client was called up?
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Yes and No! It all happened in IE itself, but as far as I can remember
Outlook Express was referred to in the second message, something like
"Outlook Express could not download.....". I may have had OE running in the
background, but there was nothing on it about the message, which appeared as
an IE page. Incidentally, I also tried entering the message number in Run
with a prefix "but nothing happened.

Verily, the ways of Microsoft passeth all understanding.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Women seldom show dimples to boys who have pimples.
 
Rod said:
Try it via the start menu > run box, instead of using your browser. Your
default newsreader should open up and download the message.
And you could check Control Panel-> Internet Options-> Programs tab, to
set
your default newsreader.
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Thanks for the response, Rod. As mentioned in my reply to another response,
I had already tried using the Run option but nothing happened. Outlook
Express is already set as my default browser.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Yesterday today was tomorrow; tomorrow yesterday will be today.
 
Thanks for the response, Rod. As mentioned in my reply to another
response, I had already tried using the Run option but nothing
happened. Outlook Express is already set as my default browser.
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Is there a URL:News Protocol entry in your file-associations ?
Quote:
"In Windows Explorer, go to View (or Tools) | Folder Options | File Types
and
check the values for URL:News Protocol (click edit, open, edit). If that
type does not exist, then create a new type with the description being
"URL:News Protocol". The values should read:

application:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /newsurl:%1
(Check the path to msimn.exe to make sure that is correct)"
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