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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Me again . I interrupted the download of an .exe file intended to update some software, and now I can't delete it or indeed do anything else to it - WinXP error message says it's being used. The file is recorded as having 0 octets. I've tried rebooting, to no avail. Also tried downloading the same thing again but of course it renames the existing file when it discovers there's already one there. It doesn't seem to be doing any harm, it's just annoying me. Can anybody rid me of this turbulent icon?

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Originally posted by Jimmy B:
Ok, printers. Previously I have been a Canon junkie. Loved them in the past, very reliable. Cheap to run. Now with the advent of chipped cartridges, my printer is a nightmare. It's less than a year old near top of the range and I'm about to dump it and never buy Canon printers again, I'm so pissed off with it. I have half a mind to complain to the ACCC (Oz consumer body) about Canon's anti-consumer practices eg. you are forced to use Canon consumables at 3x the cost of a generic, and if you use a generic, the printer becomes purposely cumbersome to dissuade you from doing that - Canon effectively block all competition and deny the consumer the ability to use the product at its peak function unless they also buy Canon ink.


So. About to dump $400 worth of Canon. What (copy/scanner/fax that preferably does duplex, adf, dvd printing, and direct from flash) printers are there that don't use chipped cartridges, or failing that, which ones have chipped cartridges that are known easy to reset or chip with 3rd party chips?

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Sir: I know how it is. I've just bought a replacement for my old and trustworthy Canon printer S600, as it stopped printing in black, even after installing a new printhead. (I was told now by another geek that perhaps the printhead contacts needs throrough cleaning, so might try that at some time. I hate dumping old stuff which still kinda works.)

I've bought the Pixma iP5300 printer, which also only works with chipped cartridges, but as it is my second (backup) printer, I'm not using it very often.

However, and to be on the safe side, I've looked into some alternative ink systems.

One that seems quite popular in Oz can be found here: rihac.com.au. It's a so-called CISS, a continuous ink supply system. I know people in Oz using it, and who are quite satisfied by this. I might have to look into this when my current main printer, Canon iP4000 (works still without chips! Yay!), reaches its end of life...

An other alternative would be an adapter, as made by Armor (see e.g. here: Armor flash demo), who appear to be a French-based manufacturer.

Jimmy, I absolutely agree about the ACCC - by all means, go for it and complain to them! Somebody's gotta do it!!

Hope you'll find a solution, and/or a new, better machine. This OEM cartridge only policy is totally inacceptable, I find.

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
If not try the old Dos delete commands. They may work where GUI fails.

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I interrupted the download of an .exe file intended to update some software, and now I can't delete it.

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If not try the old Dos delete commands. They may work where GUI fails.

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Goodness, attempting that took me back. And told me how much I never knew. I remembered dir c: and got a result, but beyond that I'm lost. What would the command to delete a file on my desktop look like?

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
del "c:\documents and settings\<username>\desktop\<filename>"

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TaDaa! Thanks. Maybe I should pay you a retainer (and thanks Jengie for the DoS suggestion!)

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Originally posted by Custard.:
I recently got e-mailed some attachments (.doc files) in a hideous Mac base64 format. I ended up having to edit the files as text, remove what looked like header and footer information, then bung the text through an online base64 decoder and save the result as a .doc, then it worked.

What was the easy way?

I use Windows XP and/or Ubuntu.

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Originally posted by TonyK:
Has anybody used Cloudmark to detect spam and phishing emails?

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Thanks Wesley J and Mr Spouse.

Wesley J - are you using any of the plug-ins?

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Yes, I am. Actually, I've downloaded 27 (!) of them, just to be on the safe side. It seems there are 29 filtering plug-ins currently, some of which may, for one reason or another, not download anyway. The instructions to some of them appear to be in German, as devised by geeks there; they can be downloaded safely though.

A nice feature is the DCC filter which connects to an external server (allow through firewall!); it stops e-mails sent to lots of recipients from getting through (occasionally occurs with normal automatic replies too, so regularly check the 'Training Area': this lists all messages stuck in any of the filters, and you can finally delete or save them, and even read them if you like, in safe mode).

BTW: Should you not like the software, you need to do a clean uninstall. It puts itself between your inbox and the mail server; if you just shut it down, you may not get any incoming e-mails.

All in all, a very useful thing that regularly saves my day.

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
if you just shut it down, you may not get any incoming e-mails.

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if you just shut it down, you may not get any incoming e-mails.

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Are you saying you actually prefer talking to people?!

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Originally posted by 206:
I used a Microsoft approved 'Easy Transfer' cable to move stuff from my nearly ancient laptop (XP home) to my new one (Vista basic or home or whatever they are - I buy the cheap ones).

No real problems except none of my original Outlook Express 'personal folders' or contents made the journey. I've got a lot of old emails I'd love to have stored in my new Outlook but I don't want to forward them all by email.

Any advice very much appreciated.

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• Open OE, go to tools -> options -> maintenance -> store folder -> 'Your personal message store is located in the following folder' -> ...
• Then EITHER: copy and paste the folder address into 'run': go to 'Start' -> run -> type the name of a program folder, document or internet resource, and Windows will open it for you -> paste OE folder adress -> click ok; OE folder opens -> choose edit -> select all -> edit -> copy to folder -> choose folder of choice -> ok
• OR: click on 'change' -> browse for folder -> highlight OR create new folder -> ok

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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
Virus question.

I use the free AVG anti-virus, and Outlook 2000 for my email. Due to being careful about publishing my email address, and probably some good luck too, I am largely free of spam.

But the past couple of days I've received a couple of messages that not only are definitely 'spam' (just random words strung together to look like a sentence, to fool anti-spam software I suppose) but AVG has identified them a having a virus - it instructs me to delete them without further reading. But they appear to contain no links, or attached files, so in what way could this (seemingly plain text) email be carrying a virus?

I had to open them in order to read them (and to see the message from AVG on the bottom that says there is a virus - normally on emails it says its certified virus-free), so have I compromised my system in any way?

Spam I can live with (but of course would rather not), but spam that claims to be carrying a virus is more worrying.

So how do these things work?

The email address they used, was the one in the 'mailto' link on my personal website (see sig) - this address is not advertised anywhere else, nor given to anyone else, so I know they got it from the website - is there any action I could/should take here to prevent further reoccurrance?

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Originally posted by Late Paul:
I use AVG

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Originally posted by Mr Clingford:
I've got a Packard Bell EasyNote running XP - how do I switch off its annoyingly loud start-up beep?

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I've got a Packard Bell EasyNote running XP - how do I switch off its annoyingly loud start-up beep?

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It'll be in the BIOS settings somewhere. If not there, then you can't.

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