Subj : Re: Quit XP "Remembering" To : August Abolins From : Ed Vance Date : Thu Mar 26 2020 02:35 pm 02-25-20 05:20 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Quit XP "Remembering" Howdy! August, Thanks for the Reply, forgive me for not getting ROUNDTUIT until now. Its been a Month. I forget to write Replies to messages after I wake up, if the hour was late when I read the message and I go to sleep. The TIME was 21:04 when I grabbed the QWK Packet Your message came in. YES! "I" have that FIRST SIGN of Old Age, (and have had it for 30 or so Years). AA> @MSGID: <5E54C72B.15732.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net> AA> @REPLY: <5E5331D5.15731.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net> AA> On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All": EV> When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and EV> want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently EV> used and wants to put it there. AA> Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used AA> directory, not XP. Many times I wished "the program" would remember the Settings I had set for the Printer. I Save many things by using the DoPDF Print Driver to put what I see on a Web Page in a File -"AND"- whatever Text File I want to Print to the Printer gets Saved as a PDF file. OH!, The Life with a Computer is Fun! At least around here it is. How about at Your place? AA> When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory, AA> it will Save it in that same directory. Save As.. behaves the same AA> way. AA> Wordpad behaves the same way for me. It is NEW Notepad files being Saved to a strange to me for the TOPIC the Text File is about. AA> When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use AA> the directory where you last saved a previous file. AA> That seems rather convenient, for me. My problem is I have many Sub-DIrectories I Save Notepad Files in. BBS Stuff goes here, Operating System Stuff goes there, Medical Stuff gets put somewhere else, Home Stuff has its place too. If I want to Open a Text File about a BBS Subject, I have a Quicklaunch Icon I Click for that, when I want to look at something about Medical I have a Quicklaunch Icon to Click on to take me to the Sub-Directory where I have put that type of file. Etc., Etc., Etc. ........ You know the "Burger King" slogan: "You can have it YOUR WAY!", that's how I want "Life in the Computer Room" to be. Tain't So here, but I turn "IT" on everytime I have a chance. EV> I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants EV> it to go, to where I want it to go. AA> Easy, use Save As.., then you have the option to put it somewhere else. Thank You VERY MUCH for that suggestion. I've been trying to remember to do that since I read Your Reply last Month. It hard to break the habit of using Keyboard Shortcuts like CTRL-s when I first Save a portion of a new NotePad or WordPad File I'm writing. EV> Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file EV> will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent EV> Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find EV> that File. AA> Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu. As you AA> hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that AA> reveals the location. I sometimes have done that, one of my problems is I Look At OR Make MANY MANY Files and the Drop Down List for Recent Documents no longer shows that particular File in it. I just Pressed Start - Documents and there are just 15 Recent Files in the Drop Down listing. Pressing Start - Doucments - My Documents has over 50 Files and Many Sub-Directories and most of those Files and Sub-Directories I haven't used for many Years. When I got this XP box in June 2006 it came with 1MB DDR-2 RAM and the HDD was 250GB. That 250GB HDD was very close to getting filled up so I put a 2TB HDD in the box and Cloned what was on the original HDD on to the new HDD. I "think" it may be a long time before I start sweating aging about "IF" I have room to Download a 15GB File, or something like that. EV> Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit EV> Remembering recently used Sub-Directories? AA> Save As.. seems to be your best bet. Then you can "put" the document AA> wherever you want. Again, I say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! for that suggestion. In 1958 I passed the F.C.C.'s Amatuer Radio Novice test and received a License to operate on the Ham Bands. Back then, I knew of two local Ham Radio Clubs. A lot of my High School HAM Friends were menbers of one of those Clubs. I joined the Other Club, because I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT the Older, Experienced Hams who were Members of that Other Club ALREADY KNEW. (In later Years I joined the other Club also) I can't remember if any of the Older Hams ever operated "Spark Gap" Transmitters, but They have been on the Air a lot and learned many things by experience. That is why I BBS. i WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW ALREADY. How else could I ever achieve the Status of being A Mister Know-It-All? And I THANK YOU! Again for the Suggestion to use SaveAs... instead of doing as I always did by Saving a new Text File with the CTRL-s shortcut. 73 de Ed W9ODR . . .... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?! --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .