Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread Q. Fisher
I have been using Acronis for daily incremental back-up (not the same as drive imaging) for my data folders. It is convenient and fully automatic, but has a substantial disadvantage. You cannot groom the files to selectively eliminate older versions, so the backup disk eventually fills up with

[CGUYS] Acronis Backups - Grooming Files

2009-03-28 Thread Q. Fisher
I have Acronis Home 11 edition set to do automatic backups, but the file sizes are growing enormously. I cannot find any instructions for eliminating older files without starting the whole configuration over again. Used to be able to do that with Retrospect. Anyone know if it can be done?

[CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Q. Fisher
I back up my Dell (runnung Vista) to a WD My Book 500 Gb External hard dive. With the changeover to Standard time, all the files on the External drive now show timestamps one hour later than all the files on my C drive. The time stamps on another backup drive (Maxtor) and on DVD's agree, so

[CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

2008-07-22 Thread Q. Fisher
I recently bought a Dell Ultrasharp color monitor and have been surprised ( = disappointed) at its tendency to put red or green fringes around high contrast areas, most notably black text. My older CRT seemd to give a much sharper and accurate image. Is this normal behavior for a n LCD

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

2008-07-22 Thread Q. Fisher
by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable. Fred Holmes Q. Fisher wrote: I recently bought a Dell Ultrasharp color monitor and have been surprised ( = disappointed) at its tendency to put red or green fringes around high contrast areas, most notably black text. My older CRT seemd to give a much

[CGUYS] Avery labels, Word Perfect Windows XP

2008-07-13 Thread Q. Fisher
If you are using WP 8 - 11 (and it might work with newer WP, but I don't know that program), you might try making a simple macro to fetch the page layout for that label when you load the file. You can even put an icon for it into your toolbar. How to do it: 1. Open the file 2. Press

Re: [CGUYS] Can't access a computer over the network.

2008-07-09 Thread Q. Fisher
From:John Emmerling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:48:04 -0400 Does computer #2 have VPN software installed? I had a similar problem. It turned out that the VPN requires a security driver to be installed which can be disabled when editing connection properties (but then the

Re: [CGUYS] Can't access a computer over the network.

2008-07-08 Thread Q. Fisher
Subject: Re: Can't access a computer over the network. From: John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:57:22 -0400 There are a million things possible, as you probably tried. Some thoughts: 1. Users access shared folders - not computers. Does every user see the same symptoms?

[CGUYS] Can't access a computer over the network.

2008-07-07 Thread Q. Fisher
I am running a Vista computer (#1) hardwired to a Linksys wrt54G router, and an XP computer (#2) via Linksys wireless. All software updated, all firewalls and antiviruses disabled. All in the same workgroup, all permissions to share the C: drives. All can get on the internet. Computer #2 can