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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on July 05, 2010, 01:39 AM »

Grrrrr - back to no shutdown! I surrender - XP has won! 

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on July 04, 2010, 03:05 AM »

I think my frustration paid off!  Mum says I'm like a 'Dog with a bone' when there's a PC problem...

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on July 03, 2010, 03:09 AM »

It's not only in the Blue Soleil programme folder but in Prefetch - is that correct?

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on July 03, 2010, 02:51 AM »

I've found the culprit - at last! After much frustration and testing....  

It's the BTNt service for Bluetooth (Blue Soleil)- I'm setting to manual because I only need it to occasionally connect my Cell Phone!

 

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by CleverCat on July 02, 2010, 02:20 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 30, 2010, 02:02 AM »

Hello from Ohio.   ...lurking and learning.

-mofohobo (June 29, 2010, 04:23 PM)

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 29, 2010, 01:44 AM »

Quote from 4wd

I prefer doing offline disc/partition imaging.

What does that mean 'offline'?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend disk imaging software?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 28, 2010, 02:45 AM »

That looks good 4wd - better than built in System Restore on XP I presume?

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Living Room / Re: Weekend moment of zen -- Caturday!

« Last post by CleverCat on June 28, 2010, 01:57 AM »

I want him!  Beautiful...

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Living Room / Re: Weekend moment of zen -- Caturday!

« Last post by CleverCat on June 27, 2010, 02:38 AM »

I love Black Cats!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Centra_10.000 Licences

« Last post by CleverCat on June 25, 2010, 03:37 AM »

Yikes, just seen it's 1 GB download - not at my speed...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Centra_10.000 Licences

« Last post by CleverCat on June 25, 2010, 03:31 AM »

Have asked friend in Manchester 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Centra_10.000 Licences

« Last post by CleverCat on June 25, 2010, 03:26 AM »

Hmmm - I suppose I could use a friends address in UK 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Centra_10.000 Licences

« Last post by CleverCat on June 25, 2010, 01:24 AM »

Rats - South Africa not listed under Country drop down box when creating account... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's a good wardrobe management software?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 24, 2010, 01:11 AM »

Please perform regular maintenance on the Wife 1.0 program as the history database is not guaranteed to import into Wife 2.0!

-Innuendo

Now that we're going to be without a specific complaints section, I figured I'd better post this warning here.
Be careful with this!
I tried to replace the Wife 1.0 module with the Mistress module and the program gave me Distress instead.

-cranioscopical (June 23, 2010, 09:37 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's a good wardrobe management software?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 23, 2010, 01:25 AM »

Fantastic - now to get Mum to photograph all my clothes! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?

« Last post by CleverCat on June 22, 2010, 02:02 AM »

alt+space for me - easier to reach! 

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 19, 2010, 03:03 AM »

It must be a Windows issue as I did a Diagnostic Start up with only essential processes running and it still won't shutdown! Except in Safe Mode?

Time for reinstall as I can't restore an Image either....

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by CleverCat on June 19, 2010, 02:59 AM »

Thanks for that! 

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 18, 2010, 02:52 AM »

Back to square one! 

Not the Dock and the shutdown problem has started up after 3 days of being okay... I've tested all processes from a-d again and it seems to have picked a different one! 

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 17, 2010, 01:57 AM »

It is, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's my Docks (Beta version) which I have now rolled back to a more stable one...

Will be testing that theory today!

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 16, 2010, 02:17 AM »

It's working now, but I can't pinpoint culprit yet! Gradually shutting off processes before shutdown - it was somewhere between a-d....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quizo QTTabbar

« Last post by CleverCat on June 09, 2010, 02:09 AM »

My No.1 reason for using QTTabbar is the Double Click on Desktop to open!

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 09, 2010, 01:54 AM »

noticed this option here, the "Clear Pagefile at Shutdown". could you have run any optimiser/boosters that might have turned this on?

When this option is enabled, it causes the system pagefile to be cleared upon clean shutdown. This takes considerable time of the Operating System to flush-out the pagefile, thus causing the slow shutdown. You may disable ClearPageFileAtShutdown option to improve shutdown times. But the pagefile.sys will be intact and accessible via other Operating System, in case or dual or multi-boot.

-website

• http://windowsxp.mvp...org/slowshutdown.htm

-lanux128 (June 08, 2010, 03:27 AM)

Only CCleaner - no Page File options there...

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Living Room / Re: XP Hangs on Shut Down

« Last post by CleverCat on June 08, 2010, 03:06 AM »

is your WinXP patched up to SP3 and all? try using this tool to shutdown in the meantime, Quick ShutDown.

• http://www.winutility.com/qsd/

-lanux128 (June 08, 2010, 02:55 AM)

Yes SP3 installed