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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 11:03am
rgio wrote: Settings / General / Keyboard / Text replacement - we = wendy should be there... which you can select edit and then delete. If that doesn't work... on the keyboard menu try turning off the Predictive Text. If that doesn't work... Â¯_(ã)_/Â¯ Wasnât there in text replacement. Turned off predictive. Thanks

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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 9:08am

Steely_D wrote:

Settings / General / Keyboard / Text replacement - we = wendy should be there... which you can select edit and then delete.

If that doesn't work... on the keyboard menu try turning off the Predictive Text.

If that doesn't work... Â¯_(ã)_/Â¯

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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 8:54am
Steely_D wrote: Coaxial wrote: Gris gris! Marie LaVeau? Personal friend of mine….

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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 7:50am
Coaxial wrote: Gris gris! Marie LaVeau? Personal friend of mineâ¦.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 7:40am

Steely_D wrote:

I have no idea how it happened, but now when typing on the iPad, autocorrect changes “we” to “Wendy” every single freaking time unless I manually intervene. The little autocorrect options show on the bottom with Wendy in the middle and “we” on the left so I can manually override. I went to settings and reset and then reset the keyboard dictionary, and then I set up a phrase autocorrect that isn’t doing anything. Online, everything suggests turning autocorrect completely off, which is nuclear and I’m looking for a better surgical strike.

Gris gris!

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Posted: Jun 29, 2024 - 7:02am

I have no idea how it happened, but now when typing on the iPad, autocorrect changes âweâ to âWendyâ every single freaking time unless I manually intervene. The little autocorrect options show on the bottom with Wendy in the middle and âweâ on the left so I can manually override.

I went to settings and reset and then reset the keyboard dictionary, and then I set up a phrase autocorrect that isnât doing anything.

Online, everything suggests turning autocorrect completely off, which is nuclear and Iâm looking for a better surgical strike.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2024 - 12:45pm

rgio wrote:

Similar specs...I always like Lenovo's/Thinkpads. Their site runs some deals...like this....30% off (whether that's real or not I can't comment).

Lenovo

EDIT - a larger one...with similar specs at half the price.

rgio - thank you for the advice. I looked at those and they are a bit pricey but I'm sure they are worth it!

I talked to the IT specialist at my university (I'm emeritus so still connected there). He reminded me that I need a graphics card (NVIDIA or AMD). So, I went off on a search and found something that I think will work, essentially a gaming computer.

HP Victus Gaming Laptop, 15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display, Intel Core i5-13420H, 32GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Backlit Keyboard, Wi-Fi 6, Win 11 Pro, Blue, 32GB Hotface USB Card

So, I'll let you all know how it goes.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2024 - 11:38am

geoff_morphini wrote:

Hi all, I'm about to purchase a Windows laptop (my first in many years). I need it to run some GIS software and my wife is going to be using it for some microscope camera proprietary software. I'm quite familiar with Windows, having used it in my work, just haven't bought one myself. I thought some of you might have some advice.

Here's what I'd like - 32GB ram, 1TB SSD, i7 Intel (could go with equivalent AMD), 15" or less (touchscreen not important), relatively lightweight

Here's one I'm looking at

HP Pavilion 15 Laptop, 12th Generation Intel Core i7-1255U Processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 15.6" Full HD Display, Fingerprint Reader, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, HD Webcam,Backlit Keyboard,Windows 11 Pro

I appreciate your input. I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on it, just want a good functioning laptop for limited use. Our everyday computers will still be Macs.

Thanks

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Posted: Feb 21, 2024 - 11:14am

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Posted: Feb 17, 2024 - 8:58am

kurtster wrote:

The OS drives are Samsung 500 GB SSD 870 EVO's. One has been in service for a few years and the other that I just cloned it to is a brand new spare that has been sitting around for moments like this. Been using SSD's for the OS for nearly 10 years even though XP is not really set up for them.

If you're using SSDs on XP, then you're very likely missing out on the firmware upgrades, almost always highly recommended. Samsung Magician (and other SSD fw update utils, AFAIR) doesn't support XP, which means to upgrade the drive firmware, you'll need to pull the drive out and stuff it into something, like your SATA dock, and get it to talk to a newer OS.

kurtster wrote:

There are 4 / 2TB drives with about 4 partitions on each of them. I never did get the alleged XP fix to see drives bigger than 2TB running though. That alone would simplify my life cuz even with 8TB's I'm running low on space. I would love to put in 4 / 4TB drives.

Good lord man! Why aren't you deploying a 4 bay NAS? It's doable, even with an outdated and insecure OS like XP.
Offload the storage hosting to a more reliable device, compatible with anything. Then your XP box is easier to maintain, which I assume you are using due to an obsolete version of some app managing your data/music. NAS config isn't very hard. Setting up a simple network with a NAS as a file server isn't hard, and costs are trivial, other than the acquisition cost of a suitable NAS. On the cheap - buy a name brand used NAS and start there.

kurtster wrote:

Upon further thought ... when I initially got things somewhat up and running, I had disconnected the other 4 HDD's so that the only thing the BIOS could see was the OS drive. When I reconnected the 4 HDD's is likely when the BIOS boot order got reset

Having a NAS holding your data will greatly simplify your life. And a four bay NAS can be easily configured for RAID 1 mirroring (up to 2 sets of 2 HDDS) or RAID6. Data protection built in - plus the ability to use the largest drives on the market. With your NAS up and running, then you could focus on simplifying the XP box, and even cloning the XP box to a spare if/when the XP box decides to die.

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Posted: Feb 16, 2024 - 1:06pm

Beaker wrote:

Unplug all USB stuff when reloading an image or reverting to a system restore point. Reset bios to defaults. Ensure your boot order in the bios is correct. Use minimal hardware config, until the OS is up and running. It's important that you determine how this happened. Accidental deletion of boot files, or a hard drive that is starting to fail - and can no longer see the boot sector. You may wish to switch to a known good HDD before reloading the image. Ensure your boot HDD is detecting properly in the bios. Your MBR may be corrupt (poss HDD failing) Fix your MBR. Reference link

Thanks. The OS drives are Samsung 500 GB SSD 870 EVO's. One has been in service for a few years and the other that I just cloned it to is a brand new spare that has been sitting around for moments like this. Been using SSD's for the OS for nearly 10 years even though XP is not really set up for them. Made it very much faster though. I know about not defragging them and turning off the indexing function and some other adjustments for using SSD's. All my HDD's are WD Blacks. There are 4 / 2TB drives with about 4 partitions on each of them. I never did get the alleged XP fix to see drives bigger than 2TB running though. That alone would simplify my life cuz even with 8TB's I'm running low on space. I would love to put in 4 / 4TB drives. I just got done replacing 3 of the 2TB drives as a couple of them were 10 years old. Got one more to do that was installed in 12 / 2018.

The fix MBR I see a warning about deleting all of the partitions on the drive. That would be a problem since all of the add on program software is on the other partition. That way if I needed to do a reimage, it would be the OS only and the programs remain intact and fully functional without reinstalling them on the other partition. It works as I have had to do this several times over the years. In fact having the OS only on a separate partition is how the rest of my newer computers are set up, again for the same reason.

I believe that when the USB crashed, I went and dug up the old master SSD which was only a 128 GB Samsung 850 Pro and the BOIS read it as a new drive and that is how it got reset. Hopefully with now having a matched set of OS SSD drives this will no longer be a problem.

Your advice on unplugging all USB devices for a restore is good advice and I saw that elsewhere during looking up stuff during this adventure.

When I have some spare time, I'll break out the OS disc and try and run the Repair function and see what happens. I will have the working back up clone in case it takes out the other partition. My cloning capable SATA dock has been a life saver.

Cheers !

Upon further thought ... when I initially got things somewhat up and running, I had disconnected the other 4 HDD's so that the only thing the BIOS could see was the OS drive. When I reconnected the 4 HDD's is likely when the BIOS boot order got reset

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Posted: Feb 16, 2024 - 12:22pm

kurtster wrote:

Egads. So here I am a two days later getting what I thought was things settled down. Cloned back up and put in new optical drives.

So put the OS drive back in and back to ntdlr. Restart, enter bios again, find the right drive to boot and in. Restart, back to ntdlr. Restart into bios and look at boot settings find the boot OS is not an option for power 1 or 2. Ok now what. Never had this problem before. Kept looking and found the power option settings and made the OS drive power 1 boot permanent. Fixed. (I hope) Never went that deep into the BIOS before. Never had to. How the BIOS got altered, I have no clue.

The other problem with the USB plug and play drivers was the Error message, "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" Common for USB and especially audio functions. Some how it affected all kinds of things and was not resolved until I tried to reset the driver.

So I then remember that XP still had the good old System Restore ability, and made a restore point for this happy time. Sigh. So clone the OS again and I think I'm done (in) and for now.

Cheers !

Unplug all USB stuff when reloading an image or reverting to a system restore point. Reset bios to defaults. Ensure your boot order in the bios is correct. Use minimal hardware config, until the OS is up and running.

It's important that you determine how this happened. Accidental deletion of boot files, or a hard drive that is starting to fail - and can no longer see the boot sector. You may wish to switch to a known good HDD before reloading the image. Ensure your boot HDD is detecting properly in the bios. Your MBR may be corrupt (poss HDD failing) Fix your MBR.

Reference link

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Posted: Feb 16, 2024 - 12:03pm

R_P wrote:

kurtster wrote:

ntldr is missing windows xp

Check BIOS settings to see if your primary boot device is setup correctly and/or that you have a diskette/cd-rom inserted from which it is trying to boot instead.

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Posted: Feb 15, 2024 - 2:15am

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kurtster wrote:

Been thru that. Same message on 2 copies on separate SDDs. Cloned one again on a brand new SDD and attempting a repair. Got the clone to open up to normal, after getting no devices found at boot up which is most disturbing. Should have gone into disk management and checked to see what the drives were assigned. Ooops. Either the motherboard is flaking out or I don't know what else yet. Last resort is another fresh SDD and try to do a total install from scratch. Gonna be a long (er) night.

This link may help avoid full recovery.
https://www.lifewire.com/resto...

Thanks. Already tried several methods similar to this. The repair gets stuck at a certain point and will not move on. I've got to look at the boot drive and see what letter it is assigned and if it is not C for some reason, reassign it somehow and try again, otherwise its going to be a total reinstall. It is not a total loss as the only thing on the C partition is the XP OS, everything else is on other partitions and other drives.

Just got the clone to light up and C is C as it should be. Still ain't right yet though.

Update : Fixed. Not quite sure how. Overcame the NTLDR with the clone and having the XP OS disc for boot from and it kept going. The original problem was the USB phono preamp ADC quit working properly. It was there, but the signal wasn't coming into the PC. Even pulled out my back up ADC never used, same problem. Then the ADC was not even listed. Tried driver updates. The last one was the USB Plug and Play driver. That seemed to be the one. The mouse has quit working a lot lately and had to get out a spare, then had to switch ports and reboot to get the old one working again. Been lots of static and the power has been dicey with surges and stuff. USB 2.0 audio is touchy all by itself. So 7 hours later. Yay. Playing with OS discs the old fashioned way. Time to retire the two opticals and replace them and clone the C drive that's working for the next time. This has happened a couple of other times over the years but it is so long in between I forget how I fix it. That's why I have a safety clone on standby. But it didn't work this time. Getting too old for this stuff.

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Posted: Feb 15, 2024 - 1:41am

kurtster wrote:

Been thru that. Same message on 2 copies on separate SDDs. Cloned one again on a brand new SDD and attempting a repair. Got the clone to open up to normal, after getting no devices found at boot up which is most disturbing. Should have gone into disk management and checked to see what the drives were assigned. Ooops.

Either the motherboard is flaking out or I don't know what else yet. Last resort is another fresh SDD and try to do a total install from scratch.

Gonna be a long (er) night.

This link may help avoid full recovery.
https://www.lifewire.com/resto...

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Posted: Feb 15, 2024 - 12:19am

R_P wrote:

kurtster wrote:

ntldr is missing windows xp

Check BIOS settings to see if your primary boot device is setup correctly and/or that you have a diskette/cd-rom inserted from which it is trying to boot instead.

Been thru that. Same message on 2 copies on separate SDDs. Cloned one again on a brand new SDD and attempting a repair. Got the clone to open up to normal, after getting no devices found at boot up which is most disturbing. Should have gone into disk management and checked to see what the drives were assigned. Ooops.

Either the motherboard is flaking out or I don't know what else yet. Last resort is another fresh SDD and try to do a total install from scratch.

Gonna be a long (er) night.

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Posted: Feb 14, 2024 - 11:19pm
kurtster wrote: ntldr is missing windows xp Check BIOS settings to see if your primary boot device is setup correctly and/or that you have a diskette/cd-rom inserted from which it is trying to boot instead.

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Posted: Feb 14, 2024 - 10:43pm
ntldr is missing windows xp

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Posted: Jan 5, 2023 - 7:56am

westslope wrote:

Help please.

I am looking for an 'App' that would allow text communication between an iPad and an Android smartphone or Windows 10 PC Workstation.

The owner of the iPad does not have an iPhone. I mention this because apparently if you have an iPhone, you can sync to an iPad and get WhatsApp to work.

The owner of the iPad lives in a provincial hospice, lost both legs to a CN freight train a couple of years ago and has limited use of his hands. I occasionally visit this man and bring him edibles.

I am the one with the android and windows devices and would rather not have to buy an iPhone.

Suggestions?

If the iPad owner has a cellphone they can text from the iPad if they're logged into their Apple ID *and* have enabled SMS messaging in the "Messages" app.

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Posted: Jan 5, 2023 - 5:17am

westslope wrote:

I used Pulse for several years, and it worked great.

https://home.pulsesms.app/over...

Instructions on setting up an IOS alternative are here: https://home.pulsesms.app/over...

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