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23September2012 The following was/is an (indirect) reference to Ethervane» As I posted here» Ethervane does NOT show Alt-Shift-1, Alt-Shift-2 nor Alt-Shift-4 as assigned on the XP laptop in question ...which makes the situation even more enigmatic ... I wish MSFN lived up to its tagline ... it does not in my experience ...

21September2012 I still have no idea what is intercepting those hotkey combos globally, but I have found that "whatever it is" does NOT intercept those hotkey combos when I put them in 1 of my custom/persistent scripts ... which I also do not understand ... That is, those hotkey combos do not work at all (on this specific XP laptop) ... no matter what window/app is "active"; however, some script like» #IfWinActive, "whatever" !+1::whateverAction1 !+2::whateverAction2 !+4::whateverAction4does capture those hotkey combos & execute whatever I have scripted ...

7August2012 Really! do you promise?Not only do you only speak hacker's English, but you are also unpleasant - snide & vulgar ... and seemingly clueless ... maybe you should "get a life" and get out of the forum(s) ...

4August2012 This XP-Home laptop has sp3 and had sp3 when I uninstalled ipv6.The issue is why XP gives the error message that it gives and what to do about it ... I do not know how to speak / say it in "hacker's English" ...

4August2012 Seeing as how I wrote» I have no idea why you wrote» Seeing as how I have described the issue in great detail,I also have no idea why you wrote» Maybe you speak "hacker's English"?Maybe you don't understand the details of the issue ... There is nothing helpful in your reply. Maybe you just like to make posts that try to criticize ...

3August2012 Years ago for some unknown/mistaken reason I uninstalled ipv6 on one of my XP laptops. I have not been able to reinstall ipv6 - neither via the commandline nor the GUI. The error message is» I have found/read» ipv6 % inf to no avail ... Any helpful replies/insights appreciated ...

3August2012 For the past year I have had the problem described in this thread. Now, all of sudden for some unknown reason, I can deselect File&PrintSharing on my wwwNICs ... without XP then proceeding to deselect F&PS on the other NICs and thus disable my (crossover/USB) LAN connections ... I can only guess that maybe this is because I am NOT using Windows to manage my wwwNICs on any laptops - (I am using the 3rd party wwwNIC management utilities) - and do not have WZC enabled on any of the wwwNICs ... I still hope to hear from someone who actually know something about this ...

26February2012 Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

26February2012 Greetings. It has been a long time since I have had an XP hotkey problem, but this weekend I have come across another. I assigned Alt-Shift-1, A-S-2, A-S-3 & A-S-4 as local hotkeys to a freeware file manager. These hotkeys work fine on 2 of my 3 XP laptops. AS1, AS2 & AS4 are dead on the 3rd XP laptop. They do nothing in the freeware file manager. I cannot set these hotkeys in any app/util that sets hotkeys when the user types them. XP acts like these hotkeys are active/global hotkeys, but the hotkeys combos do nothing when executed. The AHks utility does NOT list these hotkey combos as assigned. I tried killing off every non-XP process 1 by 1 to no avail. I did a safe mode boot with no networking, no antivirus & no firewall to no avail. The hotkeys work fine on this laptop when I do a BartPE/XPE boot. I was "demo-ing" some freeware file managers - most were install-free/portable but not all. Under the safe mode boot there were only half a dozen processes running, so it seems to me the problem must be in the registry somewhere. I am at the moment a loss for how to re-enable these hotkey combos. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

17November2011 Greetings. This posting (and the underlying issue) is(are) not about IPX/SPX. MS dropped IPX/SPX with Vista, so USB-Link products for Vista have to include IPX/SPX for the install. USB-Link products for XP could rely on the built-in IPX/SPX. I have to use IPX/SPX (& also use TCP/IP) for the USB-Link connection. This posting is about disabling File&Print Sharing. I gave the details in my original posting. One detail to add is that under Network Connections \ Advanced \ Advanced Settings \ Adapters&Bindings, I can deselect (on each/every NIC) TCP//IP from F&PS (& Client for MS Networks) but have to select (on each/every NIC) IPX/SPX for F&PS (& Client for MS Networks). However, like posted originally, I cannot deselect F&PS on the General Tab under each individual NIC Properties. This problem has come & gone but has not gone away this time. If I deselect F&PS on the wwwNIC, F&PS becomes disabled on each/every NIC on the General Tab under each individual NIC Properties. I should be able to deselect F&PS for the wwwNIC without losing F&PS on the other NICS ...

17November2011 Greetings. I recently decided to start using the "text" PerceivedType, so I could set the contextmenu in one place under SystemFileAssociations. I found out that XP will not treat .m3u nor .reg files as "text". XP will only treat m3u files as "audio". I guess there is something somewhere in the registry controlling that. I would like to know how to have XP implement any any PerceivedType entries I might make. Aren't users supposed to be able to assign any PercievedType option they want? Any helpful replies/insights appeciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

8June2011 Greetings. I am experiencing (once again) a randomly, recurring problem. Two of my XP (someone [else] still use/remember XP?) laptops (G & I) connect to the internet by either a WLAN NIC or ethernet NIC and then connect to the other laptop by either an crossover/ethernet or USB-NET NIC/cable. Right now G connects to the web by WLAN and connects to I by crossover/ethernet. Right now I connects to the web by a USB to ethernet adapter (connected to I by a PCMCIA USB card) and connects to G by (built-in) ethernet. Right now I connects to XP laptop T by USB-NW cable. I never connect T to the web anymore. G uses its internal WLAN & ethernet "NICs". The problem is that when I de-select File & Print Sharing (F&PS) on the NIC connected to the web, I lose F&PS on the local LAN NICS. De-selecting F&PS also makes changes to the "Adapters & Bindings" under Advanced Settings. Other similar bizarre things happen, like if I de-select NWLink NetBIOS on the NIC connected to the web, the other NICS on the local LAN lose the NWLink NetBIOS setting. These things do not always happen but they are happening again now. I could/would go into more detail if/when someone might be able to help me figure out what is going on and why ... (I have always had to use NWLInk IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Tranport & NWLink NetBIOS with TCP/IP on my local crossover ethernet LAN connections. I could use NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS WITHOUT TCP/IP but would then not have local LAN IPaddresses. The USB-NW "NIC" absolutely requires NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS.) Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

11July2010 Greetings. On two of my three XP laptops, I now have two instances of explorer.exe running. That was never the case before and does not occur on my XP laptop "T", which is almost never connected to the internet. There are two types of Network Connections (NWC) mini windows» NCPA.cpl which loads a ExploreWClass window and control netconnections which loads a CabinetWClass window. I have determined that opening the CabinetWClass window starts the second instance of explorer.exe. If I close the CabinetWClass NWC window and open the ExploreWClass NWC window, I only have one explorer.exe instance. Anyway, I don't know how or why this has started nor why it only happens on two of my three XP laptops. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

5December2009 Greetings. I am VERY HAPPY & RELIEVED to say that I have finally actualy hacked my way through this Network/Ping labyrinth and now seem to have a fully functioning PINGABLE XP Ad Hoc LAN. Regards, AEN Æ

3December2009 Greetings. I have three (3) XP laptops & would like to be able to use intranet time sync utilities but at the moment cannot at all because at the moment I can not PING at all - with one minor exception. I have seemingly lost the ability to PING any NICs. Recently I could PING between laptop G & laptop T - both directions. I could also PING between laptop i & laptop T - both directions. I can no longer PING amongst the latops except when I activate the Direct Cable Parallel Port Connection between T & i. Laptops T & i both have XPPro. Laptop G has XPHome. I do not use Simple File Sharing on laptops T & i. I network the laptops with varying NICs depending on what type of internet connections I have to use. At the moment I have two ethernet connections - one on G & one on i. I always connect G & i with USB bridge/network cable. Right now I use a pcmcia wLAN NIC on laptop T to connect T to G & i, so I have a redundant connection between G & i. 1) Is there any way to connect T with I & G via wlan but not also connect I & G via the ad hoc connections? It seems to me that the problem is not the free ZoneAlarm firewall. Until this week I could make the above PING connections between G & T and T & i. I have never (not yet anyway) been able to PING over the USB bridge/network cable between G & i. Because T is almost never connected to the internet, I uninstalled (& then reinstalled) ZoneAlarm on T; however, uninstalling ZoneAlarm did not allowing any PINGing to or from T. Activating the DCPPC between I & T for some unknown reason enables pinging between I & T over the DCPPC. XP assigns the DCPPCs a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, which I thought was "illegal" ... I could go on & on with details, but for now I'll just hope that someone will reply & eventually help me restore PINGing over my Ad Hoc LAN. 2) I cannot start remoteaccess on I; however, I can start remoteaccess on T. G does not list remoteaccess as a service option. I & T have parallel & serial ports. G does not. At a minimum I would like to "ping" between I & T. T is usually never connected to the internet, so I would like to use intranet time sync utilities between I & T. Enabling the direct cable / parallel port connection between I & T (I as guest & T as host) allows pinging between the I & T DCPPC IP addresses (but not the wLAN IP addresses ...). Most of my LAN traffic goes from I to G & I to T, so I set up the DCPPC with T as host. Previously I could not set up a guest DCPPC on T but could start remoteaccess on I. Now I cannot start remoteaccess on I but yesterday was able to setup a guest DCPPC on T. I could use intranet time sync between I & T when a DCPPC would be active. I cannot, however, have the DCPPC where T is host because all traffic from I would go over not only the wLAN connection but also the DCPPC, which causes T CPU usage to go to 100%. If I could (once again) start remoteaccess on I, then I could activate T as a guest. Then there would be an active DCPPC but traffic from I to T would only go over the wLAN connection. I found/tried 2 proposed solutions to the remoteaccess "won't start" problem, but neither worked for me. I tried the Winsock reset procedures - at first on the 2 XP-Pro laptops (T & I). Immediately afterwards I had partial ping success. The partial ping success lasted about 30 minutes. After the XPP winsock resets, I could ping all the wlan connections but still not the usbnetz connections. I had to make some nic readjustments which maybe killed the partial ping success. I don't now why the reset on the 2 XPP laptops (I & T) allowed pinging the untouched XPH laptop (G). It might be that installing the usbnetz connections somehow impedes the pinging. If so, I don't know why. The "networking" works fine. Each connection reads & writes both directions without problems. The XP "Search for Computers" finds all computers, but I still cannot ping any connections. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ P.S.: The PING error message is almost always, "Request timed out" not "Destination host unreachable" ... For some unknown reason today I successfully pinged (for the first time ever) to a USBnetz IP address - however, only one way. For some unknown reason I could not ping back to the other USBnetz address ... No other pinging (except the DCPPC described already) works ... Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

3December2009 Greetings. Thanks for the reply. XP managed the z-order properly in Safe Mode, but did not after I rebooted normal XP; however, I then (seem to have) subsequently found a solution. At the moment XP is (once again) properly managing the z-order on each laptop with Personalized Menus disabled. I still need/want to find a helpful network PING problem solver. Any suggestions? Thank you. Regards, AEN AE

1December2009 Greetings. Thanks for the/a reply. I'm not sure I understand your reply in the context of the following http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/...0/20/55367.aspx The above link implies XP controls the z-order. I have not yet tried Alt-Tab in safe mode. Alt-Esc still works properly. Things are always changing on my three XP laptops. I am constantly updating freeware (mostly portable / install free); tweaking the XP StartMenu, registry & other settings and recently tweaking Ad Hoc LAN NICs. In that I have three XP laptops I have somewhat of a control group when making changes. Laptop G is my XPHome laptop & now has the z-order problem. I have had no z-order problems on laptop T with XPP. I had the same z-order problem on laptop i with XPP, but experienced that turning on Personalized Menus in the Classic StartMenu & rebooting returned the normal z-order. I recently decided to turn off Personalized Menus on all three laptops. The "fix" that worked on i has not worked on G and now no longer works on i but is no longer necessary either. I have been able to reboot with Personalized Menus turned off & the z-order remains working. What things could be interacting with the DeskTop? What could it mean if the z-order is OK in safe mode? I'll try the Safe Mode tomorrow probably. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ p.s.: I can never logout of this forum without closing whatever browser. I logout & leave. Then maybe I come back later to check for replies and the forum automatically logs me in even though I do not & never check remember me ...

1December2009 Greetings. Here's a fun one. The z-order on my XP Home laptop stopped functioning properly this week. Minimizing non "always on top" windowed apps/utils no longer sends the app/util to the bottom of the z-order. Anyone ever heard of this one before? Anyone know & would tell me what controls the z-order? Does a registry entry control the z-order? Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

2October2009 Greetings. Thanks for asking ... I'm all for "information sharing". "Sharing" means that I would receive solutions as well as post solutions that I've found. If one reviews my posting experience here @ MSFN, one would find that (with one small exception) I've never received any solutions here @ MSFN. I've solved numerous questions I've posted here and elsewhere on the web on my own. If I post every solution I've found myself, then I would be giving everything and receiving nothing. Others would not agree, but I've found MSFN to be a most worthless forum. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

17September2009 Greetings. Thanks for the replies. I'm talking about the columns bitrate, duration & dimensions NOT the popup info. In any case I had already looked at the registry popup settings. I also use ABCavi which gives much better avi popup info. Lastly I am pleased to say I found the solution. Now the bitrate, duration & dimensions columns work for avi files in x² (& all file explorers). Regards, AEN Æ

4September2009 Greetings. I'm still hoping/looking to find the answer to this specific question. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

4September2009 Greetings. I solved the problem in question with some tomfoolery but I (and others) am(are) still looking for a way to see which hotkeys XP has as assigned to which apps/utils/etc ... Someone has a utility which shows which hotkeys XP has as assigned but not to which app/util/etc ... Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

22August2009 Greetings. I'm also trying to figure something out & hope MSFN might point me in the direction of a solution. On one of my three XP laptops, Windows Explorer & xplorer² display bitrate, duration & dimension info (correctly) for avi files. I'm not sure why this is so on only one of the XP laptops. Maybe someone might have some idea why these columns can work properly in XP for avi files? I would like to tweak the other two XP laptops, so they show that info for avi files too. Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ

22August2009 Greetings. I would like to assign a keyboard combination to something, but XP will not accept the combination on one of my XP laptops. I have already entered this combination on my other two XP laptops. Apparently XP still has this combination assigned to a .lnk or something that no longer exists. How/Where in the registry could I find/delete the entry where XP has stored this combination to free it up? Any helpful replies/insights appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AEN Æ