In a message dated 6/6/2005 2:39:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mamat@gvtel.com writes: (where on earth did they come up with a name like "Longhorn"?.....sounds like some Texas Steer!) <Rest snipped> Thanks, NancyT ----------- Nancy, Obviously, you didn't know that the Longhorn is the University of Texas mascot! Go U.T.!! Velma

Velma.... I'm in Northern Minnesota.... I would have no good reason to know about the Longhorn steer being the U of Texas mascot...besides... I'm not really into college sports in my OWN area... PAX NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: <Vrgfdonna@aol.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [SR-NEWBIE] Windows XP In a message dated 6/6/2005 2:39:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mamat@gvtel.com writes: (where on earth did they come up with a name like "Longhorn"?.....sounds like some Texas Steer!) <Rest snipped> Thanks, NancyT ----------- Nancy, Obviously, you didn't know that the Longhorn is the University of Texas mascot! Go U.T.!! Velma ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

Barry, Sorry to be "so thick".... but where would you look for this "License key sticker".... I did a quick look and didn't see it on either the top or sides of the tower.... I did buy it from Best Buy...so it is legit... Thanks, NancyT JLA> I would think that if you purchased your computer new and out of JLA> the box at a place like Best Buy, or Comp USA that you don't have JLA> to worry about a bootleg Operating System. My 'puter came from JLA> such a place and was purchased new. If you purchased a HP JLA> computer after 2001 you may not have recovery CD. It is JLA> partitioned on the hard drive. Yep - such places can't afford *not* to be completely above board and legitimate :-) You also should find one of those WinXP licence key stickers on the case. JLA> The product key you get from Belarc would be legit. Again, yes it would, however you'd find that it differed from the one on the sticker. Both are correct !! Every PC built by these places has the same OEM licence key in the registry but a unique key assigned to that particular PC - it's that which you'll find on the sticker. Why do they do this ?? Well, instead of the OEM having to install each and every system from scratch they use a technique called cloning so that all PC's of the same make and hardware specification can be very quickly built and sent out. This does mean that they all go out with identical product keys in the registry so what happens is they buy a number of installation licences from MicroSoft ( being in-bulk they get a good discount ) - and in return they are sent a sheet of stickers with those unique licence keys assigned to the OEM builder. Quite reasonable when you know what goes on, but confusing when you don't :-) JLA> The problem, I think, would be if you had someone build you a JLA> computer and you do not know where the OS came from, or if a JLA> computer was purchased second hand from someone who may not be JLA> trustworthy. Definitely !! And the warning sign here is the lack of that little sticker with the licence key. Such a small thing but with a great importance. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Thanks, Wayne, PAX NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Jones" <jonesr007@hawaii.rr.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:09 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] HP class action suit HP Computers have the model number on the CPU unit, not the monitor -- the MX number is strictly the monitor model number/ Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 9:50 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] HP class action suit Hmmmm, I didn't see a number that matched the one on my monitor...... hp pavilion mx704..... I didn't see a CD that specifically said that it was that.... (I did get a few others...) but this was a rather quick look-see.... somewhat confused by the whole list.... PAX NancyT In a message dated 6/6/2005 1:12:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, etm1935@yahoo.com writes: "I wonder if you know about the class action suit that was filed against HP about this very situation. If you're interested in pursuing it, here's a link that should work: http://www.computersettlement.com. Or call 1-866-778-1148." ---------- Thanks very, very much for posting this, because I had not heard anything about it. Because of your post, I went to the site, and now have a claim number. I didn't know enough about computers to know that I should've gotten a CD with my computer, and I knew nothing about what that might mean to me at some later date. Thank you, thank you! Velma ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== For Newbie help with computers and genealogy see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besley/newbie.htm ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Pat, follow these steps: Select Run from the Start Menu, Then type: control userpasswords2 Click Ok. Turn off the: "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" option Then click Ok. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: PatCassdy@aol.com [mailto:PatCassdy@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 4:38 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE]xp and one user Is there a way to bypass the chose the user screen? There is only one person using my computer! Can not find it in the help section. Pat ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To volunteer to do a lookup or to exchange lookups, go here: http://www.RAOGK.org ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.4 - Release Date: 2005-06-06

Mike, You're in Texas.... wouldn't you say so.....? PAX NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: <MMattes200@aol.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [SR-NEWBIE] Windows XP In a message dated 6/6/2005 1:39:16 PM Mountain Daylight Time, mamat@gvtel.com writes: (where on earth did they come up with a name like "Longhorn"?.....sounds like some Texas Steer!) HEY !!! LOL Mike in TX ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help with genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429

Joan, Thanks for the heads-up!! I think mine is on the computer itself.... but I didn't know about this "tap the F key as soon as the computer turns on", either.... You'd think that these big companies would ***eventually learn*** that being up-front about EVERYTHING is just plain a goooooood policy.... Again thanks, and I printed your reply.... I could possibly need it sometime.... PAX NancyT The suit has to do with recovery disc. When I purchased my computer in 2001 it didn't come with a recovery CD. Instead the recovery is partitioned on the hard drive. To access the recovery all I have to do is tap the F10 key as soon as the computer turns on. I'm assuming that those machines that came with a recovery CD would not be included in this suit. I know my older HP that came with a recovery disc is not. It also in not running Windows XP. When I do have to recover, I turn the machine off, disconnect everything except the mouse, keyboard, and monitor; turn it back on and start tapping F10. This accesses the recovery on the partition. Part of the problem is that HP didn't exactly tell its customers about this. I found out when my computer was one month old and stopped working. It was tech support who clued me in. To make a long story short they had to replace the tower with the one I now have. But that is how I learned to recover my HP!

The other down-side of having the "recovery" CD as a partition on a hard drive is that all that hard drive space supposedly paid for is "lost". As you wrote, Elaine - an "idiotic" idea (and they get paid to come up with ideas like that - amazing!). Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: ETM [mailto:etm1935@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 7:45 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] HP class action suit It also isn't 100% certain that it will work. I was unable to use the recovery partition once but fortunately by then HP had sent me the set of restore CDs. I used them and was able to reformat and reinstall the applications. You can't trust a computer to permit access to that recovery partition. The whole idea was idiotic. Elaine

Joan, Well, I guess that proves that all the nuts in the world sure don't grow on trees....Hooooo-boy!!! (Perhaps..... stupidity, thy name is Microsoft CEO's.....) Thanks!!!! PAX NancyT Named for Places In Canada??? I was under the impression that MicroSoft was a US company???? They are but they are headquartered in Redmond, Washington which isn't all that far from the Canadian border and I'm thinking the test names have something to do with golf courses in Canada. LOL! I guess the bigshots at Microsoft vacation a lot in Canada and play golf a lot. Now this is from my memory--I think that is what I read--I could be wrong. Joan ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help with genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx

Ginny, Oh, well.... if you don't know something... I guess you might's well admit it....(If you don't, well, then you gotta remember what you said....) PAX and GOOD LUCK!!!! NancyT Well their sign up list won't take me but my number is plainly there so I shot off a mail to them. We shall see. Nancy I knew the number was on the tower but I also thought it applied to everything. We are never to old to learn ...I guess (grin) Ginny -------------- Original message -------------- > Thanks, Joan....for enlightening me.... and also for not making me feel like > some > dummy!! > > I did not realize that the tower had a different number than the monitor!!! I > just > assumed that number, was the number of the computer!!! Well, learn something > new > every day, I guess!!! > > The number on the front of the tower... was "hp Pavilion a532x"..... didn't see > that, on the list, either....But, given the fact that I thought the monitor > number > was the computer number...it sure could have been there! ooooooof-dah!!! is > my > face red!! > > again, thanks!! > > PAX > NancyT > It doesn't involve monitors but the tower part of an HP computer. Look > on the front of the HP tower for the model of the computer. The check > the list again. > > Nancy Tollefson wrote on 6/6/2005, 3:49 PM: > > > Hmmmm, > > > > I didn't see a number that matched the one on my monitor...... hp > > pavilion mx704..... > > > > I didn't see a CD that specifically said that it was that.... (I did > > get a few > > others...) but this was a rather quick look-see.... > > > > somewhat confused by the whole list.... > > > > PAX > > > > NancyT > > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To view or submit a GEDCOM, go here: > http://wc.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at > the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&target > id=5429 > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429

Barry, Thank, and you are right... it does sound like one, silly dumb name....(sometimes you do wonder where the powers-that-be at MicroSoft, and other big companies, too, left their brains!!!) Based one what you say.... guess I'll keep XPHome and not upgrade.... do you know when is the "newest steer on the block" scheduled to come out? still shaking my head in dis-belief.... NancyT NT> Do you happen to know what's gonna be different about "Longhorn"? NT> I get along pretty well with XPHome... have had it a couple of NT> years... was on this computer when I got it... Quite a lot different in many ways though from screen shots I've seen and reviews of beta versions it'll look pretty much the same as WinXP. What it does do though is integrate the internet even more closely with the operating system - now whether or not that's a good thing or not is debatable. Personally, and given MicroSoft's track record on the security side of things, I think it has the makings of a very bad disaster movie !! There would be no need for anyone to change their WinXP, in the same way there are plenty of folks still using other versions of Windows. What it will affect is anyone buying a new PC after Longhorn is out, as it will then be the default OS and you'll be stuck with it unless you erase the whole lot and put your WinXP on - thus voiding any sort of warranty you may have. NT> (where on earth did they come up with a name like NT> "Longhorn"?.....sounds like some Texas Steer!) No doubt there'll be lots of puns built on the name if it does turn out to be a bad OS <lol> MicroSoft have always chosen weird names for the 'work in progress' developments and I guess this one is going to make it through to the final version. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== For Newbie help with computers and genealogy see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besley/newbie.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Longhorn is an interesting "code name" and this site's article explains the reason "why" all things Canadian are popular at Redmond and why "Longhorn" is the code name: http://tinyurl.com/76qsy A brief quote from that site to satisfy the curious: "The Longhorn Saloon is a bar between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, so Longhorn became the codename," said Leblond. "There've been dozens of other Canadian codenames like Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. I think this happens because we're the loudest group here." And as this site shows, it really does exist :-) - http://www.longhornsaloon.ca/index.php?page=home Lance On 6/7/05, JYoung6180@aol.com <JYoung6180@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 6/6/2005 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, > mamat@gvtel.com writes: > > (where on earth did they come up with a name like "Longhorn"?.....sounds > like some > Texas Steer!) > > > > > That is not going to be the final name of the ext Windows--it is the > "testing" name. It comes from the same place they got all the other names for the > previous test versions of windows. I know I've read the source of the "code > names" and I've forgotten as quickly as I learned--but I am thinking the names > are for places in Canada. > > Joan > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help in genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > -- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii

It would be necessary NOT to have ".url" at the end of each web address, Nancy, because it is not part of the real address. As I explained to Lloyd in my other posting, ".url" is applied when you create a shortcut to a web address on your Desktop. If Lloyd leaves them in an actual address as in say www.google.com.url it will produce an "Address Not Found" message. On the other hand, if the shortcut is clicked upon, the correct site will open, because the Properties of the Shortcut contain the real address, in this example www.google.com. Unlike the post office, URL's have to be dead accurate to arrive at the correct destination. There is no "human" intervention to redirect incorrectly addressed messages as the post office often does :-). Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 5:18 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Adding Web Addresses to IE Lloyd, Don't know the answer to your question.... but why go to the trouble of "getting rid of the .url" on the end of each one"?.....it's just 4 little spaces???? Just curious, PAX Nancyt Hello, I lost all my addresses in IE and am adding them back one at a time. The addresses have .url on the end of each one. I renamed all of them getting rid of the .url and then I could not open the website. Before I lost the addresses, they did not have .url on the end. I have always edited the address to shorten it. Is there a way to not show the .url? -- Best Wishes, Lloyd mailto:llhite31@juno.com ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== For Newbie help with computers and genealogy see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besley/newbie.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.4 - Release Date: 2005-06-06

My mistake, Joan. I thought you were replying to the posting I made in response to John's query about finding the "registered owner". I had not read one from anyone about obtaining the "Product Key". You had posted your reply on top of my message (see messages below) so I assumed that was what you were responding to - my apologies. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Joan L. Asche [mailto:jasche45133@aol.com] Sent: Monday, 6 June 2005 6:07 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] Windows XP The thread that I responded too concerned finding the product key. Belarc is one way to do that. I have used Belarc because the sticker on the back and bottom of my machine is next to impossible to read. :-). CD cases get lost, and the product key goes with it. It doesn't mean the program is "stolen" it just means it's lost. Our grandson once and spilled Coke on a CD case for MS Word and the key sticker was gone! Long ago when I purchased MS ME the "case" was paper.... it's gone too. Belarc also comes in handy because it gives you all necessary information that you need to know such as memory, lets you know if SP2 is installed and other programs. This could be very handy data on a machine you just brought or plan to buy. If I purchased a pre-owned computer I would not bother to re-register it, but if I did I would contact Microsoft and ask them how to go about doing this. Have the person you purchase the machine from give you a receipt. If the question of software ownership comes up you can honestly say that you did not know where the previous owner got the program. Lance wrote on 6/5/2005, 9:29 PM: > Actually, Joan, the query was about "changing the registered owner" not > about the product key. As you said Belarc will reveal the product key. It > will also reveal the registered owner. It was the latter which John > wanted > to change. > > My warning about the product key was just in case the equipment John was > thinking of purchasing had a pirated version of XP. If the original owner > does not have the product key STICKER, normally on the setup CD case or > pre-coded into the manufacturer's (Dell, HP, etc) setup CD, there is a > good > chance that the copy of XP is not legitimate as far as Microsoft is > concerned. Every legitimate purchased copy of XP comes with a product key > sticker and it can be applied either by the owner or the supplier to the > computer case. Regardless of whether there is a sticker available, there > will be a product key which will show up in Belarc's scan. Whether it > is a > "generated (pirated) key" or a genuine Microsoft key Belarc doesn't > define > that. This note (of warning) from Microsoft (URL below) is worth > digesting: > > [QUOTE] > Windows Update installs an ActiveX control on your computer. Each time > you > visit the Windows Update site, the ActiveX control gets your system's > product key and sends it back to Windows Update servers in an encrypted > format. Your product key is then checked against the current list of > known > pirated product keys. > [END QUOTE] > The last sentence is good enough reason to be extra cautious isn't it? > > A few sites which may help: > http://tinyurl.com/dz44h > http://tinyurl.com/bdx3t > http://tinyurl.com/73m5j > > Lance > > > > P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy > program can be downloaded FREE at > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan L. Asche [mailto:jasche45133@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2005 10:08 PM > To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] Windows XP > > To get the product key you can download this program and it will give you > all keys and other information regarding the machine. > > http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html > > > Lance wrote on 6/5/2005, 6:13 AM: > > > John, you can change the registered owner name on the computer. This > site > > gives you the steps to do it. It involves editing the Registry so > make > > sure > you back up first: > > http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5630339.html# > > > > Whether you will be able to obtain updates I can not say. However, > as > > the OS > is still on the original computer you should have no > problem. You > could > always check with Microsoft just to be sure. Make sure the > required > > Microsoft Product Key Number sticker is attached to the case. If it > isn't > > the original owner should be able to supply it. If he can't - > forget > it > as > Microsoft won't want to know about it (or perhaps they will :-)!). > > > > Lance > > > > > > P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured > genealogy > > program can be downloaded FREE at > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Warnock [mailto:twojays@tik.com.au] > Sent: Sunday, 5 June > 2005 6:14 PM > To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] > Windows XP > > I am considering buying a good 2nd hand computer. > Windows > XP is > registered > to the other owner, How do I transfer to myself > or do > I leave it as it is > ?????? > > John from West Aus

What you are most likely adding, Lloyd are shortcuts to the websites. A website address does not have ".url" as an extension (uniform resource locator). However, if you drag a website address on to your Desktop it creates a shortcut to that website and it will show as "<name of site>.url". Have you looked for your Favorites folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<your name>\Favorites? As you have Firefox installed also, you have the option of exporting your Bookmarks from Firefox to IE. On installation Firefox would have read your Favorites list and added them to Bookmarks. So all your Favorites, at that time, should be available from Firefox now. As well as exporting your Favorites/Bookmarks to a HTML file for future safe keeping, you could use Powermarks to manage, save and backup your Favorites/Bookmarks: http://www.kaylon.com/power.html Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd [mailto:llhite31@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 2:51 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Adding Web Addresses to IE Hello, I lost all my addresses in IE and am adding them back one at a time. The addresses have .url on the end of each one. I renamed all of them getting rid of the .url and then I could not open the website. Before I lost the addresses, they did not have .url on the end. I have always edited the address to shorten it. Is there a way to not show the .url? -- Best Wishes, Lloyd mailto:llhite31@juno.com ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== Keep informed of the latest news and new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the weekly RootsWeb Review. To subscribe, start here: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.4 - Release Date: 2005-06-06

Lance, Maybe I did not do a good job of explaining my situation. Here is an example of what I am talking about. One of my online newspapers is News and Observer.com In my favorites list,it shows News & Observer.url Before it just showed News & Observer. Best Wishes, Lloyd mailto:llhite31@juno.com Lance wrote: > It would be necessary NOT to have ".url" at the end of each web address, > Nancy, because it is not part of the real address. As I explained to Lloyd > in my other posting, ".url" is applied when you create a shortcut to a web > address on your Desktop. If Lloyd leaves them in an actual address as in say > www.google.com.url it will produce an "Address Not Found" message. On the > other hand, if the shortcut is clicked upon, the correct site will open, > because the Properties of the Shortcut contain the real address, in this > example www.google.com. Unlike the post office, URL's have to be dead > accurate to arrive at the correct destination. There is no "human" > intervention to redirect incorrectly addressed messages as the post office > often does :-). > Lance

If you looked on the top and sides, look on the back -- that's where mine is! Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:26 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Re[4]: [SR-NEWBIE] Windows XP Barry, Sorry to be "so thick".... but where would you look for this "License key sticker".... I did a quick look and didn't see it on either the top or sides of the tower.... I did buy it from Best Buy...so it is legit... Thanks, NancyT JLA> I would think that if you purchased your computer new and out of JLA> the box at a place like Best Buy, or Comp USA that you don't have JLA> to worry about a bootleg Operating System. My 'puter came from such JLA> a place and was purchased new. If you purchased a HP computer after JLA> 2001 you may not have recovery CD. It is partitioned on the hard JLA> drive. Yep - such places can't afford *not* to be completely above board and legitimate :-) You also should find one of those WinXP licence key stickers on the case. JLA> The product key you get from Belarc would be legit. Again, yes it would, however you'd find that it differed from the one on the sticker. Both are correct !! Every PC built by these places has the same OEM licence key in the registry but a unique key assigned to that particular PC - it's that which you'll find on the sticker. Why do they do this ?? Well, instead of the OEM having to install each and every system from scratch they use a technique called cloning so that all PC's of the same make and hardware specification can be very quickly built and sent out. This does mean that they all go out with identical product keys in the registry so what happens is they buy a number of installation licences from MicroSoft ( being in-bulk they get a good discount ) - and in return they are sent a sheet of stickers with those unique licence keys assigned to the OEM builder. Quite reasonable when you know what goes on, but confusing when you don't :-) JLA> The problem, I think, would be if you had someone build you a JLA> computer and you do not know where the OS came from, or if a JLA> computer was purchased second hand from someone who may not be JLA> trustworthy. Definitely !! And the warning sign here is the lack of that little sticker with the licence key. Such a small thing but with a great importance. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429

Hello Joan, Monday, June 6, 2005, 10:50:52 PM, you wrote: JLA> I would think that if you purchased your computer new and out of JLA> the box at a place like Best Buy, or Comp USA that you don't have JLA> to worry about a bootleg Operating System. My 'puter came from JLA> such a place and was purchased new. If you purchased a HP JLA> computer after 2001 you may not have recovery CD. It is JLA> partitioned on the hard drive. Yep - such places can't afford *not* to be completely above board and legitimate :-) You also should find one of those WinXP licence key stickers on the case. JLA> The product key you get from Belarc would be legit. Again, yes it would, however you'd find that it differed from the one on the sticker. Both are correct !! Every PC built by these places has the same OEM licence key in the registry but a unique key assigned to that particular PC - it's that which you'll find on the sticker. Why do they do this ?? Well, instead of the OEM having to install each and every system from scratch they use a technique called cloning so that all PC's of the same make and hardware specification can be very quickly built and sent out. This does mean that they all go out with identical product keys in the registry so what happens is they buy a number of installation licences from MicroSoft ( being in-bulk they get a good discount ) - and in return they are sent a sheet of stickers with those unique licence keys assigned to the OEM builder. Quite reasonable when you know what goes on, but confusing when you don't :-) JLA> The problem, I think, would be if you had someone build you a JLA> computer and you do not know where the OS came from, or if a JLA> computer was purchased second hand from someone who may not be JLA> trustworthy. Definitely !! And the warning sign here is the lack of that little sticker with the licence key. Such a small thing but with a great importance. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Hello Nancy, Monday, June 6, 2005, 8:24:40 PM, you wrote: NT> Do you happen to know what's gonna be different about "Longhorn"? NT> I get along pretty well with XPHome... have had it a couple of NT> years... was on this computer when I got it... Quite a lot different in many ways though from screen shots I've seen and reviews of beta versions it'll look pretty much the same as WinXP. What it does do though is integrate the internet even more closely with the operating system - now whether or not that's a good thing or not is debatable. Personally, and given MicroSoft's track record on the security side of things, I think it has the makings of a very bad disaster movie !! There would be no need for anyone to change their WinXP, in the same way there are plenty of folks still using other versions of Windows. What it will affect is anyone buying a new PC after Longhorn is out, as it will then be the default OS and you'll be stuck with it unless you erase the whole lot and put your WinXP on - thus voiding any sort of warranty you may have. NT> (where on earth did they come up with a name like NT> "Longhorn"?.....sounds like some Texas Steer!) No doubt there'll be lots of puns built on the name if it does turn out to be a bad OS <lol> MicroSoft have always chosen weird names for the 'work in progress' developments and I guess this one is going to make it through to the final version. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Well their sign up list won't take me but my number is plainly there so I shot off a mail to them. We shall see. Nancy I knew the number was on the tower but I also thought it applied to everything. We are never to old to learn ...I guess (grin) Ginny -------------- Original message -------------- > Thanks, Joan....for enlightening me.... and also for not making me feel like > some > dummy!! > > I did not realize that the tower had a different number than the monitor!!! I > just > assumed that number, was the number of the computer!!! Well, learn something > new > every day, I guess!!! > > The number on the front of the tower... was "hp Pavilion a532x"..... didn't see > that, on the list, either....But, given the fact that I thought the monitor > number > was the computer number...it sure could have been there! ooooooof-dah!!! is > my > face red!! > > again, thanks!! > > PAX > NancyT > It doesn't involve monitors but the tower part of an HP computer. Look > on the front of the HP tower for the model of the computer. The check > the list again. > > Nancy Tollefson wrote on 6/6/2005, 3:49 PM: > > > Hmmmm, > > > > I didn't see a number that matched the one on my monitor...... hp > > pavilion mx704..... > > > > I didn't see a CD that specifically said that it was that.... (I did > > get a few > > others...) but this was a rather quick look-see.... > > > > somewhat confused by the whole list.... > > > > PAX > > > > NancyT > > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To view or submit a GEDCOM, go here: > http://wc.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at > the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&target > id=5429 >