Recent content by Sebastian42

I often find OverType activated, when I was expecting INSERT to persist. I have tried cleaning under both INSERT keys, swapping the keyboard with another, swapping the P/S2 keyboard connection for USB. I experience this mostly in a DOS text program, but have also found it in Notepad of 32bit...

When I copy an image by means of a program similar to Win10's Snippingtool and paste it into Telegram, it usually offers to paste the photo - which is desirable; but sometimes it offers to paste ONLY a file; since the recipient then has to use an image viewer to see the image, that is less...

I've tried several ones I found on the net - each has some or other drawback. Wondering if I have somehow missed the ideal one which would have the following features : Win10-compatible [unlike ScreenMarker that loses the UNDO function in Win10], vertical toolbar and effective in secondary...

Acer Aspire 2000 (Cl32) runs WinXP/Pro/Sp3 and can be set to display in its native resolution of 1280 x 800 from its ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 video card. However, when it reboots, it reverts to 640 x 480, and often blames an absent or corrupt video driver. My remedy is to UNinstall the video...

I need a way of keeping GTalk in the foreground BY DEFAULT. Autopin tab in Options of Deskpins seems to offer what I need, but I've been unable to get it to work for me. I have used 'Window-on-top' and 'Always-on-top', but their effect only lasts till a reboot. Maybe some code can be copied from...

When I right-click 'Start' in my WinXP, the SEARCH lists StartMenu as the default location, whereas, in another WinXp system there is a blank i.e. NO location is prompted. So it must be selectable - how would one change that default ?

Four four months, Windows Live Mail in Win7 Ultimate 32 bits, behaved as expected. But now, I have to close it and open it a second time, because otherwise the bodies of emails are in the form of attachments. How can I restore normality ?

I have discovered that the QuickLaunch Bar in Win7 is as functional as it was in WinXP, so I will NOT pursue 'pinning to TaskBar'.

That is the same method I used for Internet Explorer - with the same result. A temporary icon with the wrong name, no 'image' and no context menu to fix remedy this.

OK - the scenario has changed. Unbeknowns to me, the unwanted icon disappeared when the PC shut down i.e. it was not there on reboot. It may be relevant here to say that the program that I want to pin to the TaskBar is a DOS program. Its context menu DOES have a 'pin to TaskBar' option; but when...

I edited the Internet Explorer 'icon' pinned to the TaskBar, so that I could change its target to some other program which lacks a 'pin to the TaskBar option'. That succeeded. I can now launch the other program from the 'converted' I.E. icon. However, something went wrong, in that the icon...

In the text-body of Text Editors, one can click the mouse in some position and that becomes the point where text can be entered. Can that be arranged for the situation of WordPerfect5.1+forDOS in WinXP ?

Sometimes Freecell in WinMe runs out of resources, but an indicator of RAM usage shows no lack of available RAM, so what else can be tweaked ?

I answered this, but the post seems to have disappeared - so here goes again : I have no reason to consider the 'vendors' of TK8 untrustworthy. Moreover, while the advice is sound in itself, it is so paralysing as to be impractical. Additionally - I take NO RISKS. Anything I TRY, I try on a...

I have no reason to consider TK8 from an untrustworthy source. While that advice is sound, it is too paralysing to be practical. Moreover - I don't take risks. Any thing I TRY, I try on a dispensible clone of my system. Only after I am satisfied, do I make any changes to my enduring system.