>"Get rid of McAfee!"
No disagreement here :)
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Hello MFPA,
On Saturday, October 11, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 4:47:12 PM, in
M> , Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
>> I'll stick with Win 8 especially since I loaded "ClassicStart"
>> which gives me a Start button *and* menu just like Win 7.
M> I saw a few add-ons that cla
Hi
On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 5:03:29 PM, in
, MAU wrote:
> Actually, if I recall correctly, you don't even need to
> copy the keyblock to the clipboard. If you just select
> the email with the keyblock, TB will grab it from
> there.
That would make far more sense to me than grabbing co
Hi
On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 4:47:12 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> I'll stick with Win 8 especially
> since I loaded "ClassicStart" which gives me a Start
> button *and* menu just like Win 7.
I saw a few add-ons that claimed to do that (or similar) together with
a registry hack. But I'
Hello MAU,
On Saturday, October 11, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hello Jack,
>> I may not have phrased that correctly. The "Thank you.." message
>> appeared ONLY after erasing MaAfee and then copying the keyblock into
>> my clipboard AND THEN calling HELP/ENTER REGISTRATION CODE. It would
>> seem that
Hello Jack,
> I may not have phrased that correctly. The "Thank you.." message
> appeared ONLY after erasing MaAfee and then copying the keyblock into
> my clipboard AND THEN calling HELP/ENTER REGISTRATION CODE. It would
> seem that TB did in fact *assume* the keyblock existed in the
> clipboa
Hello Paul,
> Something I learned well over 10 years ago: "Get rid of McAfee!"
Agree 100%.
--
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Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v6.6.0.8
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Hello MFPA,
On Saturday, October 11, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 2:35:54 PM, in
M> , Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
>> Hello TBUDLs,
>> A fruitless telephone session with an ASUS representative taught me
>> that I wouldn't be able to downgrade this $900 laptop to Win 7
>>
10/11/2014 11:29 AM
Hi MFPA,
On 10/11/2014 MFPA wrote:
M> Seems odd that TB! would *assume* you had the registration key on the
M> clipboard.
It has been like this for quite some time. It is a great feature!
- --
Paul
The Bat! v.6.6.0.3 on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit 6.1.7601
No IMAP No OTFE
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Hi
On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 2:35:54 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> Hello TBUDLs,
> A fruitless telephone session with an ASUS
> representative taught me that I wouldn't be able to
> downgrade this $900 laptop to Win 7 because "there were
> no drivers for Win 7 on the ASUS website."
U
10/11/2014 10:03 AM
Hi Jack,
On 10/11/2014 Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
JSL> The next thing I deleted was MaAfee firewall/anti-virus
JSL> (after first turning off the WIFI). Voila! No more problems with TB.
JSL> I downloaded & installed AVG anti-virus and turned on Windows firewall
JSL> to compensat
Hello TBUDLs,
A fruitless telephone session with an ASUS representative taught me
that I wouldn't be able to downgrade this $900 laptop to Win 7 because
"there were no drivers for Win 7 on the ASUS website." In frustration
I headed to my local computer guru thinking *he* might know where to
find t
Hi
On Tuesday 7 October 2014 at 2:15:59 AM, in
, Paul Van Noord wrote:
> No kidding... really?
Yes, unless I completely mis-understood what I was reading.
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Keep them dry and don't feed them after m
10/6/2014 9:15 PM
Hi MFPA,
On 10/6/2014 MFPA wrote:
M> I think that's one of the "hits" on the search results page you posted
M> before. It tells you how to install 64-bit Windows 7 using UEFI, but
M> does not say you can only install it that way. In fact, if you follow
M> from its beginning th
Hi
On Monday 6 October 2014 at 12:53:53 PM, in
, Paul Van Noord wrote:
> I have no experience with 32 bit Win 7... See this:
> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186875-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html
>
I think that's one of the "hits" on the search re
Hello Adrian,
On Monday, October 06, 2014 you wrote:
AG> Friday, October 3, 2014, 6:27:34 PM, you wrote:
>> I am seriously considering buying an authorized copy ($99 from Newegg)
>> of Windows 7 and trashing Windows 8 on this new machine. I will
>> contact ASUS tech support to see if the machin
10/6/2014 7:49 AM
Hi MFPA,
On 10/5/2014 MFPA wrote:
M> I thought an SSD could be used on any box that can use a SATA disk
M> drive, as a drop-in replacement for that drive.
I confused this with ACHI, sorry.
>> It is needed in Windows 7. See this:
>> https://www.google.com/#q=uefi+mode+when+in
Friday, October 3, 2014, 6:27:34 PM, you wrote:
> I am seriously considering buying an authorized copy ($99 from Newegg)
> of Windows 7 and trashing Windows 8 on this new machine. I will
> contact ASUS tech support to see if the machine will even let me do
> that.
First thing to do with any new
Hi
On Sunday 5 October 2014 at 2:11:03 PM, in
, Paul Van Noord wrote:
> UEFI mode is needed when using an SSD as a primary
> drive.
I thought an SSD could be used on any box that can use a SATA disk
drive, as a drop-in replacement for that drive.
> It is needed in Windows 7. See this:
>
On Sunday, October 5, 2014, 15:11:03, Paul Van Noord wrote:
> UEFI mode is needed when using an SSD as a primary drive. It is needed
> in Windows 7. See this:
> https://www.google.com/#q=uefi+mode+when+installing+windows+7
Nope, I bought my first SSD 2009, but haven't gotten an UEFI-capable
mothe
On Sunday, October 5, 2014, 3:44:47, MFPA wrote:
> "UEFI-mode" and "Secure Boot" in the BIOS are two newish features that
> came out somewhere around the same time as Windows 8. I have not
> encountered them myself, but saw when googling this topic that they
> need to be disabled before installing
Hello MFPA,
On Sunday, October 05, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> On Saturday 4 October 2014 at 4:18:45 PM, in
M> , Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
>> The desktop I'm using now was purchased from EggHead or
>> TigerDirect, I don't remember which. It was purchased
>> as separate components and assembled by
10/5/2014 9:04 AM
Hi MFPA,
On 10/4/2014 MFPA wrote:
M> "UEFI-mode" and "Secure Boot" in the BIOS are two newish features that
M> came out somewhere around the same time as Windows 8. I have not
M> encountered them myself, but saw when googling this topic that they
M> need to be disabled before
Hi
On Saturday 4 October 2014 at 4:18:45 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> The desktop I'm using now was purchased from EggHead or
> TigerDirect, I don't remember which. It was purchased
> as separate components and assembled by me. The HDD
> was blank and starting the machine with the Win 7
On Friday, October 3, 2014, 22:16:17, MFPA wrote:
> Doesn't Microsoft have a semi-official way to upgrade from 8 to 7,
> like they did a few years ago for those who wanted to upgrade from
> Vista to XP?
OEM installs of Windows 8 Pro can legally downgrade to Windows 7 Pro,
but not Windows 8 (witho
Hello MFPA,
On Saturday, October 04, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> Out of curiosity, I did a spot of googling. If the Windows 8
M> version has "Pro" in its name and came pre-installed on the
M> computer, the licence apparently includes "downgrade rights" to
M> Windows 7 Professional or Windows Vista
Hi
On Friday 3 October 2014 at 10:03:44 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> What with all the bad press Win 8's been getting I
> guess that would be an "upgrade". I'm not aware of any
> offer like that but it certainly would shine MS's image
> if they were to offer something like that. On the
>
Hello MFPA,
On Friday, October 03, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> On Friday 3 October 2014 at 5:27:34 PM, in
M> , Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
>> I am seriously considering buying an authorized copy
>> ($99 from Newegg) of Windows 7 and trashing Windows 8
>> on this new machine. I will contact ASUS tech
Hi
On Friday 3 October 2014 at 5:27:34 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> I am seriously considering buying an authorized copy
> ($99 from Newegg) of Windows 7 and trashing Windows 8
> on this new machine. I will contact ASUS tech support
> to see if the machine will even let me do that.
Doesn
Hello TBUDLs,
I've received a response from RIT Labs which suggests that the problem
with the key block is that I'm using the wrong key block. They will
re-send the original keyblock for the name and email address I
provided them in the return email I just sent. No mention was made as
to why the
Hello TBUDLs,
I've sent an email to RIT Labs this morning outlining the two major
problems expressed in this thread. I'll keep the list posted as soon
as I hear from them.
--
TIA,
Jack LaRosa
:usflag: Central Alabama
Using The Bat! ver: 5.2.
Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack
Hello Paul,
On Friday, October 03, 2014 you wrote:
JSL>> In addition, you mentioned the possibility of the anti-virus (McAfee)
JSL>> hanging up the displaying of some messages when clicked on. As an
JSL>> experiment, I disabled both the McAfee firewall (for 15 minutes) and
JSL>> the McAfee anti
Hello TBUDL@thebat.,
Friday, October 3, 2014, 1:21:29 AM, you wrote:
JSL> Hello MFPA,
JSL> On Thursday, October 02, 2014 you wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 MFPA wrote:
M I just searched my computer, and randomly seem to
M have a copy of "thebat_pro_5-2-2.msi" that Windows
M>>
Hi
On Thursday 2 October 2014 at 4:21:29 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> Un-fortunately the problem
> with the key block is still there. The first 56
> characters of the block are there as soon as I open the
> registration dialog box. And again, deleting those 56
> characters and pasting in t
Hello TBUDLs,
I received an email off list from Chris suggesting that I try renaming
CONFIG.CDB to CONFIG.CDB_OLD and letting TB! recreate the file. I did
as suggested and it had absolutely no effect even though TB DID
recreate the file. I then deleted the newly created file and renamed
the orig
Hello MFPA,
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 you wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 MFPA wrote:
M>>> I just searched my computer, and randomly seem to
M>>> have a copy of "thebat_pro_5-2-2.msi" that Windows
M>>> tells me is about 16MB. No guarantees its any good,
M>>> but I could send it to yo
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Hi
On Thursday 2 October 2014 at 12:21:02 AM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 MFPA wrote:
M>> I just searched my computer, and randomly seem to
M>> have a copy of "thebat_pro_5-2-2.msi" that Windows
M>> tells me is a
Hi
On Thursday 2 October 2014 at 12:21:02 AM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 MFPA wrote:
M>> I just searched my computer, and randomly seem to
M>> have a copy of "thebat_pro_5-2-2.msi" that Windows
M>> tells me is about 16MB. No guarantees its any good,
M>> but I
>Possibly. Since this a brand new computer I don't really know what AV ASUS
>might have running on it. I'll check that.
I get it too. I run windows 8.1 on 2 computers. It was really bad on the older
one with 8 megs of memory but even with 32 megs and a xenon processor it still
happens, although
Hello MFPA,
On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi
M> On Wednesday 1 October 2014 at 6:11:35 PM, in
M> , Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
>> 1) Sometimes there's as much as a 10 second delay between clicking
>> on a message and having it appear in the message view pane.
>> Sometimes when this
Hi
On Wednesday 1 October 2014 at 6:11:35 PM, in
, Jack S. LaRosa wrote:
> 1) Sometimes there's as much as a 10 second delay
> between clicking on a message and having it appear in
> the message view pane. Sometimes when this happens the
> "Title Bar" at the top (a new cosmetic?) will show th
Hello TBUDLs,
My wife's old computer (HP laptop/Win 7) was on its way out so we
bought a new ASUS running Win 8. I made a backup (using TB) on the
old machine and downloaded the closest version to 5.2 (which was 5.8.8)
to the new machine. I installed 5.8.8 on the new machine and restored
"from b
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