Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-29 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:08:05 -0400 Tim Crone via Mercedes wrote: > On Jul 29, 2015 2:26 PM, "Craig via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > Now I just need to how to activate my installation of Win7. > > Windows will try to activate over the internet with the key you gave for > install, if it wasn't install

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-29 Thread Tim Crone via Mercedes
On Jul 29, 2015 2:26 PM, "Craig via Mercedes" wrote: > Now I just need to how to activate my installation of Win7. Windows will try to activate over the internet with the key you gave for install, if it wasn't installed on that machine before. If the activation fails, you'll get a message in th

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-29 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:27:09 -0600 Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > From my experience, Win7 is ornery about booting so I'm > > reluctant to advise "Just try it". But the "root" command > > looks correct for legacy GRUB. Well, I did, "Just try it," and it worked. I performed the following steps:

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-25 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:08:39 -0500 fmiser via Mercedes wrote: > When I must use MSWin, I use PDFCreator to "print" PDF > files. I believe it is based on Ghostscript - and although I > haven't tested it extensively, it seems to embed the fonts. > GPL licensed. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pd

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-25 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:06:01 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Craig, > > 1. Windows Update: Short: type "windows update" in the dialogue box > that opens just above the start button, after you click the start > button. Long: you should have a "Control Panel" option on the menu > when y

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-25 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
> Craig wrote: > > I have just installed Windows 7 Home Premium I know very little 'bout Win7 > 3. What are XPS documents? > >I want to be able to print to postscript so I can > transfer the postscript (with all the fonts) to my Linux > system to make new PDFs to replace ones which were mad

Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions

2015-07-25 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Craig, 1. Windows Update: Short: type "windows update" in the dialogue box that opens just above the start button, after you click the start button. Long: you should have a "Control Panel" option on the menu when you click on the "Start" button (which is the Windows symbol, round and in bottom l