Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Fred Holmes
At 03:37 PM 6/14/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: The instructions amounted to going to the web site of the manufacturer of the particular brand of U3 software and downloading the applet to remove the U3 CD drive and reformat the stick as one drive for the whole stick, FAT32. Have you tried

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Piwowar
I seem to recall that I tried that first and found that the CD ROM partition was write protected or that removal wasn't straightforward to do. Are these sticks sold with a warning label? May make it impossible to use your PC in a normal manner. I guess it is a tribute to good marketing (or

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
There is a tool on u3's site to remove u3. http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ Let us know how it works. I haven't tried it but I have a mojopac on a U3 stick which is sort of confusing. -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o)

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Chris Dunford
Are these sticks sold with a warning label? May make it impossible to use your PC in a normal manner. What on earth are you talking about? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the

[CGUYS] adobeupdater.exe

2007-06-15 Thread Ralph
I'm surprised to not see any reports of problems with adobeupdater.exe hogging the cpu, following an upgrade to Adobe Reader 8.0 and 8.1. Maybe it's peculiar to my firewall program - Sunbelt Personal Firewall... Anyway, I found a renaming option that worked, at this link:

Re: [CGUYS] adobeupdater.exe

2007-06-15 Thread Tony B
I'm not having the problem, but I glanced at the thread you quoted and FYI the renaming option should only be tried if the *better* option of turning off the updater in Preferences doesn't work. On 6/15/07, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm surprised to not see any reports of problems with

Re: [CGUYS] adobeupdater.exe

2007-06-15 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jun 15, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Tony B wrote: I'm not having the problem, but I glanced at the thread you quoted and FYI the renaming option should only be tried if the *better* option of turning off the updater in Preferences doesn't work. Adobe updater on my Mac launches itself only if I

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Jeff Wright
Slightly off-topic. Riding the metro one day, I saw a picture in an ad of a guy holding a 5-sided chip in his hand; about the size of a CF card, maybe a bit larger. I couldn't read the ad's text right away, and I thought it might be computer-related. Once I was close enough to read it, it

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Eric S. Sande
But, in between the time when I couldn't read the text and finally could, it gave me the idea of how cool it would be if you could carry around your OS and apps on a chip, maybe data too. Imagine being able to walk up to any computer with the right slot and just plug in *your* computer... Yes

Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues

2007-06-15 Thread Fred Holmes
At 11:48 PM 6/15/2007, Jeff Wright wrote: But, in between the time when I couldn't read the text and finally could, it gave me the idea of how cool it would be if you could carry around your OS and apps on a chip, maybe data too. Imagine being able to walk up to any computer with the right slot