I apologise sincerely for any offence if you thought I was being sarcastic
at you! I should have said "type *just* the right question into Google".
You have to have a fairly twisted mind to produce the answer you want at the
first, or even fifty-first, attempt. None of the 300-plus computer users
that I support can do this, or I'd be out of a job. Also when I said 'to
save you the trouble' that's exactly what I meant, it would have been quite
rude of me to just leave it at steps 1-3 when I had the answer on my screen.
But if I had just posted the answer without the method, perhaps I would have
been posing as some kind of super guru instead of just someone who used
Google to get the answer... modesty and helpfulness, see, not bitterness and
cheap shots at all.... :-)
I have been in tech support for about twenty years but frankly, skill,
knowledge, experience and training are only useful in about 5% of
situations. Mainly I earn my living by switching equipment off and back on
again, and when that occasionally fails, typing *just* the right question
into Google / looking in *just* the right place in the manual or help
file... it's a rare gift, I mean a *rare* gift.
Erm, also, I must admit finding this one probably was more like the
fifty-first attempt, the first time I had to look for it...
Bj
----- Original Message -----
From: "PBC Web Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] OT: ridding myself of the Windows Welcome screen
At 05:17 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:
The answer takes a bit of finding, you have to type just the right
question into Google.
Apparently, this was the problem. I had not worded my searches correctly
in the WinXP help files to find what you did. Nothing I found in the help
files had anything like this. I neglected to mention that I did try the
WinXP help files before posting. I did not however, try Google. Thank
you. I will try this.
:: Deb | PBC Web Design
:: http://www.PBCWebDesign.com
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