MacGroup: fixup after 10.2.8 question

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Rising
Hey folks! 10.2.8 rendered my machine at home unbootable (it would get into an endless loop at the autologin). So... I took the Windoze solution: I went and reinstalled 10.2, using the archive and install option, and then running through all the updates from Software Update. I fixed some of

MacGroup: Fwd: Computer Warning

2003-09-25 Thread Janice Weber
We sure have a lot of blondes in this group! On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: Diane, Many of our members have multiple computers. Harry Jacobson, for instance, said at the meeting Tues. that his wife uses Windows 95. But it definitely should not affect our

MacGroup: apple works tip from apple

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Rising
Hey Folks, This may be common knowledge for AppleWorks aficionados, but I figured I'd send it along anyways. AppleWorks 6.2: Performance Optimization Tip http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n93347 If creating or opening a document in AppleWorks seems unusually slow, try resetting your Recent Items

MacGroup: Blondes (Was Computer Warning or something)

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Kersting
And I just happen to have one of the funniest blonde jokes ever. Write me off list if you want to hear it, it may not be suitable for everybody. And, of course, I'll have to explain it to the blondes also. rob Janice Weber wrote: We sure have a lot of blondes in this group! On Wednesday,

MacGroup: How to open .exe?

2003-09-25 Thread suzart
Insightbb wants me to install their patch, which is a .exe file. It's on my desktop, but how do I open it? It tried Quicktime, but didn't like it. Suzanne Blake OS=X.2.8 (oops) | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: How to open .exe?

2003-09-25 Thread B. Eric Bradley
Toss it, Suzanne; it's a Windows executable. I've only talked to Insight twice in two years and my broadband service runs fine without anything they've got... Insightbb wants me to install their patch, which is a .exe file. It's on my desktop, but how do I open it? It tried Quicktime, but

MacGroup: apple works tip from apple

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Rising
On 9/25/2003 19:13, IamTehMonkay at aol.com wrote I think I have Apple Works 6.0.4, is that only OS 9 compatible? If so does apple offer any sort of update. I'm pretty sure it came out before OS 9.1. Geez, if I remember right, 6.0.4 was carbonized, so it also ran under Mac OS X 10.0.4. You