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).

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On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":

When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and
want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently
used and wants to put it there.

Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used 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?

When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory,
it will Save it in that same directory. Save As.. behaves the same
way.

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.

When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use
the directory where you last saved a previous file.

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.

I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants
it to go, to where I want it to go.

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.

Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file
will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent
Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find
that File.

Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu. As you hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that 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.

Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit
Remembering recently used Sub-Directories?

Save As.. seems to be your best bet. Then you can "put" the document 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 . .


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On 26/03/2020 2:35 p.m., Ed Vance : August Abolins wrote:

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.

Hello Ed!

Maybe there is a way for you to TAG the message (add a mark of some kind in the message list with your reader?)

I looked at MultiMail briefly, but I don't think there is way. :(

BUT.. I have no problem with tagging when I am using the nntp (newsreader) method with Thunderbird. I can even save a partially constructed reply into Save(as Draft), and come back to it whenever I want.

OH!, The Life with a Computer is Fun!
At least around here it is.
How about at Your place?

The computer is a tool and a toy. TOOL: I need it to track and perform business-related things. TOY: echomail. No games 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.

I am not as organized as you. I just plop everything in the root \MyDocuments directory. \MyDocuments seems to be the default offering with Ctrl-S. Then, I simply rely on "Search" to find what I need starting at the \MyDocuments level.

I do however try to name my files with obvious topically oriented names in the string. Thank goodness for long filenames!

I rarely have to do a computer-wide search for anything starting at a root directory.

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. ........

So.. you basically have your document filing system represented right on your desktop. Nothing wrong with that. For me, it's just as easy to open MyDocuments from the START menu and take it from there. I like being able to sort by Date or Name when I need to look for something specific - and avoid the Search function.

Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file will
be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent Sub-
Directories I have remembered using recently to find that File.

Well, with SaveAs.. you can look around for the right directory to plop your file into. You don't need to know the directory in advance.

Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu..

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 only use Window's Recent Documents when I know that I accessed/saved a file within a few days or a week. The current 15 file listing is good enough. It is
not intended as a long-list of ALL documents accessed. Maybe there is away to increase the 15 files to higher number with a registry edit, but I don't need that.

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.

Maybe time to purge?!!!

Sometimes I have to wonder what's the point in keeping files that I haven't looked at for over 10 years. Pictures might be an exception. But do I really need archived email and their attachments from 1999-2012 anymore?

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.

2TB is sweet. I just upgraded with a refurbished Thinkpad T540p 16:9 screen, with a 1TB SDD and Win7pro 64-bit. But I'm not fully transferred to it yet. I hate the task of transferring my apps and files from a previous XP machine. I still really like my compact T60 "square" 5:4 screen - a lot!

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.

But things can accumulate, fast. I have to get rid of old mp3 files that I can "duplicate" with a Spotify access, and old .avi .mp4 video files that I rarely bother with anymore.

Back in the day when I was still using a fine WinME pc, and DIALUP for internet access, around year 2000, I put a few of the better ones I liked here:

http://kolico.ca/mpg/

Those files were HUGE wrt dialup back then.

In 1958 I passed the F.C.C.'s Amatuer Radio Novice test and..

[snip]

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.

I enjoyed volunteering to fire up the university campus FM radio transmitters on
Sunday mornings. The dials, the meters, the sound, the ozone smell.. sweet!

//aa

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Howdy!

On my XP box I made many Sub-Directories (some call them Sub-Folders).

Most of those Sub-Directories have multiple Sub-Directories under them
for putting like things in their own group.

When I write a .TXT or .RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and want to Save it,
XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently used and wants to put it there.

I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants it to go,
to where I want it to go.

Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find that File.

Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit Remembering recently
used Sub-Directories?

Now wipe that grin off Your Face and let me know if this question can be answered.

Ed Vance Thanks You In Advance!

73 de Ed W9ODR . .



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On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":

When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and
want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently
used and wants to put it there.

Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used directory, not XP.

When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory, it will Save it in that same directory. Save As.. behaves the same way.

Wordpad behaves the same way for me.

When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use the directory where you last saved a previous file.

That seems rather convenient, for me.

I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants
it to go, to where I want it to go.

Easy, use Save As.., then you have the option to put it somewhere else.

Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file
will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent
Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find
that File.

Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu. As you hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that reveals the location.

Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit
Remembering recently used Sub-Directories?

Save As.. seems to be your best bet. Then you can "put" the document wherever you want.



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03-27-20 18:46 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Quit XP "Remembering" Howdy! August,

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On 26/03/2020 2:35 p.m., Ed Vance : August Abolins wrote:

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.

-snip-

I said:

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 remembered last night writing DDR-2 but when this XP box started up today
the screen showed I have DDR 400 RAM in it. OOOOOOOPS!!!!

Remember above MY shoulders is "ED's Head" [TM].

Since I have been forgetting to do a lot of things lately, maybe I ought
to - forget - about trying to become a Mister Know-It-All and just read messages from others to learn what's what about these here fancy electronic boxes.

73 de Ed W9ODR . .


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On 3/28/2020 12:09 PM, between "Ed Vance : August Abolins":

I remembered last night writing DDR-2 but when this XP box
started up today the screen showed I have DDR 400 RAM in it.
OOOOOOOPS!!!!

I wasn't really paying attention to those numbers anyway. Anything running "XP"
is already telling me it would have the earlier/slower ram.

FYI, I have 3 pc laptops that are XP. The most modern one is:

Type DDR2
Size 3072 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 332.5 MHz

And I have no plans to maximize it to 4GB ram so that Linux could use it. It operates quite fine in XP.

Since I have been forgetting to do a lot of things lately,
maybe I ought to - forget - about trying to become..

[snip]

No worries. It's all good.


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August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance <=-

Size 3072 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 332.5 MHz

And I have no plans to maximize it to 4GB ram so that Linux could use
it. It operates quite fine in XP.

There's no need to up your RAM. I ran Lubuntu on a Thinkpad T42 laptop with
3 GB of RAM for years. Lubuntu is a version of Ubuntu that uses many alternative programs with lower demands, and the graphical environment is
much smaller than in Ubuntu.

It installs in 256 MB of RAM, ran nicely on my 3GB laptop, and at idle used around 300mb of RAM.

I got faster and better laptops, but still ran Lubuntu until just recently - on a quad core laptop with 8gb of RAM.


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