Subj : Re: Patience To : Holger Granholm From : Ed Vance Date : Mon Jun 12 2017 23:20:00 06-09-17 16:28 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Patience Howdy! Holger, HG> @MSGID: <593E583F.15153.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net> HG> In a message on Friday 06-06-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm: HG> GA Ed, HG> GN Ed because your msg is timed 00:25, EV> My Messages tell on Me, I can't keep the Date and Time a secret EV> UNLESS I change the Date and Time on this Computer. HG> The date/time is stamped on the message when it is uploaded to your HG> Host I didn't know that, I thought whatever time I last edited a message stayed with the .REP packet I send to my BBS. EV> Some times I stay up late, other times I will get up before the EV> Roosters Crow to use my computers. HG> Usually I reply to messages in the morning, but today was a busy one, HG> so I had to leave this and some others until the afternoon, in this HG> case, or evening. I'm just undependable. HG> What Win10 Telemetry situation?? Never heard of such a thing. EV> I learned of it at www.askwoody.com . HG> Problem for you is that you read too much. EV> I'm still TRYING to be a Mister Know-It-All, but ain't done it EV> yet...... HG> NO, very far from it. Stop reading all sorts of gossip. I think the sites I read have Technical information, not gossip. EV> I wonder if anyone else reading this has read about Microsoft having EV> Telemetry sent to their location from people using a computer with EV> the Windows 10 Operating System on it? HG> There exists a setting where you can disable anything the machine would HG> like to send to M$, or anything M$ would like to know. Use it! I've read a comment that doing that would prevent Edge from giving any Results from a Search that was done using it. EV> Some Articles on www.askwoody.com have Links to articles at other EV> web sites Bleeping Computers - Wired.com and Others about the Care EV> and Feeding of WinTEN. HG> Nothing beats what you yourself choose in the settings. Do You like using Cortana? HG> There are also settings in ZoneAlarm to inform you if the machine wants HG> to send out something somewhere, or if some(body) wants to connect to HG> your machine. HG> ZoneAlarm is a much better Firewall (free), and the Pro version also HG> contains an antivirus program but is not free. HG> I use AVG (free) and ZoneAlarm (free) to protect the Windows machines. Currently I am using FortKnox Firewall (free) and Avast! (free). EV> I use to "think (TM)" I may want to start using Windows 7, but not EV> now. HG> I have skipped all versions of Windows between XP and Win10. EV> In Win3.1 if a program started getting messed up I could look at the EV> .INI file and try to see what may be causeing problems. HG> AFAIR the .INI file didn't show what caused problems. OTOH I don't HG> recall any specific problems with 3.1 or WFWG 3.11. I saved the older copies of WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI by using SaveAs and changing the INI Extension to numerals, as in WIN.001 for the first time I saved it and incrementing the number each time I saved another copy of the WIN. file. When I was curious to see if there were any changes I would use the Command FC WIN.INI WIN.001 | MORE to show me what changes, if any had been made. I used the numbered Extensions with the SYSTEM.INI file too. Worked for Me. EV> If ever I wanted to Restore this pc to that first Backup, EV> I'd use True Image 10.0 to make one more Full Backup so after I EV> rolled back this computer, I would be able to put My DATA Files back EV> on the new setup. HG> You should absolutely make an image or clone when the machine works as HG> it should. This computer works but I don't think it works as it should. At least I still can Send .REP packets and Read .QWK packets and do Email. EV> (or use the two HP Restore DVD I made the day I first turned it On), HG> Well, if you use that, you'll have to re-install all programs you have HG> added to the machine since you made that Restore DVD. Yep, that's why I said above I would make one more Full Backup before doing that. EV> In the years following I have read that a person ought to make a EV> Full Backup or a Clone HDD as the FIRST THING they do on a new EV> computer before they connect it to the internet. HG> That's exactly what I did to both Win10 machines, a laptop and a HG> stationary machine, but they don't contain anything that I have HG> installed afterwards. HG> That's where an image or clone come in. I didn't know to do that back in 1994 when I got the 486DX33 built or back in 2006 when I bought this XP computer. Before that time when all I had was a Commodore 64 PC I made copies of the programs I used and filed the original Floppy Disk away and used my back up copy to run the program. I figured if something got written on the Program Disk that changed how it worked I still had the Original stored away. EV> I tried doing an Incremental Backup but decided if I am going to EV> back a computer up, I ought to let it save everything that is on the EV> pc when I make the Backup. HG> AFAIK, an incremental backup does only change/update the previous HG> backup Yes, it only writes changes it finds on the computer since a backup or the last incremental backup was made. Yes, a Incremental backup takes a shorter time to do, but if ever I would have to do a Recovery I would have to Recover the First backup and EACH ONE of those Incremental backups I had made to get the computer Restored. That sounds to me like too much trouble, so I decided if I want a Backup I will make a Full Backup, then if I had to Restore this computer I would not have to jump through many, many hoops during the Restore session. But that's Me. the EV> I have tried looking for where XP saves that "personal settings" so EV> I could delete it and let the computer recreate a new one. HG> DON't DO IT. If I were able to find that setting, before I'd do any changes to it, I would make a Full backup to fall back on, if needed. It is 23:20 when I saved this message. 73 de Ed W9ODR , , .... We put the "k" in "kwality." --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: CCO BBS - capcity2.synchro.net - 1-502-875-8938 (1:2320/105) .