PainShop Pro 9 - Ping Fred Hiltz or anyone who can help, please

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Ping Fred Hiltz or anyone who can help, please

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

I have just re-installed Windows XP Pro, which I do once a year.

As News Groups are a new thing in my life I haven't found out how to delete
the thousands of old messages in one swoop.
Outlook Express downloads 300 headers in one go, which I then highlight and
delete. But there must be a faster way. I still have another 7000+ to delete
in Photography alone.
Yikes that will take forever!!!
I would just like to start again with the current messages.
HELP!!

Any assistance will be very gratefully received!
Joëlle

Porter

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Sorry it's still pretty early here and I misread the question.
Right click the group, and choose CATCH UP instead.

Jerry Rivers

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

> Sorry it's still pretty early here and I misread the
question.
> Right click the group, and choose CATCH UP instead.

Porter, I may also have misread Joelle's OP. I thought she
was talking about how to load the entire 7,000 photography
group headers in at once. Either way will work, won't it?

-- Jerry

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Thanks Porter :-)
I wish I could download more than a 1000 headers at a time though.
It looks like I shall be doing this for a few hours!
Joëlle

"Porter" <campratty@noratsnormice.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428dd52f_2@cnews...
>
>
> "Joëlle" <spamless@hopefully.com> wrote in message
> news:428dd0b2$1_1@cnews...
> year.
> how to delete
> highlight and
> 7000+ to delete
>
>
> Right click the group
> choose Properties
> Pick your poison
>
>
>
>

DrJoel

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Maybe someone could tell me how to do that with Thunderbird? When I=20
right click I don't have any such dialog box.

Porter wrote:
> "Jo=EBlle" <spamless@hopefully.com> wrote in message
> news:428dd0b2$1_1@cnews...
>=20
>=20
> year.
>=20
>=20
> how to delete
>=20
>=20
> highlight and
>=20
>=20
> 7000+ to delete
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Right click the group
> choose Properties
> Pick your poison
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20

Porter

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

"Joëlle" <spamless@hopefully.com> wrote in message
news:428ddfec_1@cnews...
>
> Thanks Porter :-)
> I wish I could download more than a 1000 headers at a time
though.
> It looks like I shall be doing this for a few hours!
> Joëlle

Just do Catch Up,
you don't have to download anything.
Catch up, "catches you up". Get it? Catch up. :)

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Aha, thanks I hadn't experimented with that one yet.
:-)
Joëlle

"Porter" <campratty@noratsnormice.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428dd78d$1_3@cnews...
>
> Sorry it's still pretty early here and I misread the question.
> Right click the group, and choose CATCH UP instead.
>
>
>

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Good Morning Jerry,
There is nothing to roll back to, the thoroughly cleaned PC is just being
filled up again.
Doing the annual wash isn't the problem, but re-joining and thus downloading
the News Groups, was a bit of a shock when I saw how many messages there
were.
Thanks for the pointer, I'd overlooked that bit and had set it from 300 to
the max 1000. My brain is still in need of soothing voices and soft music!!

I had used a backup copy of XP (which I always do anyway), and the $%%£"
thing was corrupt. When I'd re-formatted yet again and used the original all
was well.
I am a compulsive loader of programs, so an annual clear out is a 'good
thing'!
Thanks again, you can have your coffee now..
:-))
Joëlle

"Jerry Rivers" <usenetMAPS123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428dd570_1@cnews...
>
> year.
>
> Hi, Joelle (without the dots above the "e"!).
>
> Groan! Please don't tell me your PC needs to have its oil
> changed once a year! <grin> I assume you have a periodic
> "meltdown". If yes, and you can get control of your PC, have
> you tried just rolling back to yesterday's restore point,
> which is automatically created every day by XP?
>
> out how to delete
> then highlight and
> another 7000+ to delete
>
> Try Tools>Options>Read and uncheck the News: Get 300 headers
> at a time, as shown in attached screen shot.
>
> That should do it!
>
> -- Jerry
>
>
>

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

You are far too awake for someone who has only just opened her eyes :-)
I'm catching, I'm catching (up).
Thanks again.
Joëlle

"Porter" <campratty@noratsnormice.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428de0f7$1_3@cnews...
>
>
> "Joëlle" <spamless@hopefully.com> wrote in message
> news:428ddfec_1@cnews...
> though.
>
>
> Just do Catch Up,
> you don't have to download anything.
> Catch up, "catches you up". Get it? Catch up. :)
>
>
>
>

Jerry Rivers

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

> There is nothing to roll back to, the thoroughly cleaned
PC is just being
> filled up again.

Joelle, it's your PC and your time, so I won't evangelize
here. Except to say, I'm a firm believer in not fixing
things that aren't broken. So, I make periodic manual System
Restore Points, and definitely do it everytime I add or
uninstall something. I spent a couple hours yesterday trying
to figure out why the spell check in OE suddenly started
erroring out, when it's been fine for a long time. Turned
out that I'd un-installed MS Picture It! (the ! is part of
its name, like ThumbS!), which somehow trashed OE! A quick
system restore and I was back up and running - it was the
diagnosis time that was obnoxious.

> Thanks for the pointer, I'd overlooked that bit and had
set it from 300 to
> the max 1000. My brain is still in need of soothing voices
and soft music!!

Just turn off the "max" setting per the screen shot I sent
you. That, combined with Catch-up, will do what you want, I
think.

> I had used a backup copy of XP (which I always do anyway),
and the $%%£"
> thing was corrupt. When I'd re-formatted yet again and
used the original all
> was well.
> I am a compulsive loader of programs, so an annual clear
out is a 'good
> thing'!

See above about fixing things that aren't broke. As to your
corrupt CD of XP, why not get a /free/ replacement from M$?
All you have to do is show them you have a license, which
you need anyway to do a new install.

I used to be where you are now, perhaps. Always adding new
apps, new hardware drivers, uninstalling the old crap, etc.
Then, one day about 8-10 years ago, it suddenly occurred to
me that I was no longer a computer hobbyist that ate
frustration like candy. I discovered - during one of my PC
"oil changes"! - that I was using the "means" (i.e., playing
on the PC) and forgot about the "end", which is doing
useful work or useful fun - ala PSP and my love of car pics.

I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, conversing with you
on-line. Hope you'll have a good day! Tomorrow, God willing
and the crick don't rise, I'll have a rare opportunity at
the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, where I volunteer
occasionally. 200+ members of the National Chrysler 300 Car
Club are coming to visit, with 40-50 Letter Series 300 cars!
So, I'll have a major hoot talking to these men and women
about my fav Chrysler cars, /and/ get some candid shots of
the cars! Life doesn't get any better than that!.

So, please excuse my rant if I'm trampling on your rights.
Being that you're covered by the Magna Charta same as me,
plus your version of theFirst Amendment, I guess we both
have the "right" to do as we please!

-- Jerry

P.S. I first heard about computer "oil changes" 20 years ago
from an IT guru. He was actually talking about re-booting
which fixes a lot of things. But, there's times, like when
my daughter's PC got infested with over 120 viruses, bots,
and trojans before a "time bomb" blew up, and took out the
anti-virus software, and killed her system. She had no CD-Rs
for her data and it was a total loss - re-FDISK, re-format,
re-install Windows.

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Thanks Jerry and everyone else,
I have implemented all the necessaries and the NGs are clean again.

I thought that if I turned off the 'Get Headers' bit, I wouldn't get any
Headers, this was obviously wrong.
With nice people like you and the others around it has been solved.

My PC is somewhat ancient, only 800MhZ (AMD Thunderbird), with 384 MB of
SDRAM, so I thought that cleaning it up might make it run better. (Finding
more RAM for it has proved harder than I thought).
Anyway, it's my housewifely attitude, if you clean + tidy it, it will work
better!

'My' IT guru has suggested that I build my own system, easy for him to say,
he does nothing else all day long. But he will help, so I might just go down
that route, unless I find a good priced system first!

My goodness, your poor daughter, or was it you who had to deal with it, so
many nasties are pretty terminal.

Thanks again.
Joëlle

"Jerry Rivers" <usenetMAPS123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428deb0f$1_2@cnews...
>
> PC is just being
>
> Joelle, it's your PC and your time, so I won't evangelize
> here. Except to say, I'm a firm believer in not fixing
> things that aren't broken. So, I make periodic manual System
> Restore Points, and definitely do it everytime I add or
> uninstall something. I spent a couple hours yesterday trying
> to figure out why the spell check in OE suddenly started
> erroring out, when it's been fine for a long time. Turned
> out that I'd un-installed MS Picture It! (the ! is part of
> its name, like ThumbS!), which somehow trashed OE! A quick
> system restore and I was back up and running - it was the
> diagnosis time that was obnoxious.
>
> set it from 300 to
> and soft music!!
>
> Just turn off the "max" setting per the screen shot I sent
> you. That, combined with Catch-up, will do what you want, I
> think.
>
> and the $%%£"
> used the original all
> out is a 'good
>
> See above about fixing things that aren't broke. As to your
> corrupt CD of XP, why not get a /free/ replacement from M$?
> All you have to do is show them you have a license, which
> you need anyway to do a new install.
>
> I used to be where you are now, perhaps. Always adding new
> apps, new hardware drivers, uninstalling the old crap, etc.
> Then, one day about 8-10 years ago, it suddenly occurred to
> me that I was no longer a computer hobbyist that ate
> frustration like candy. I discovered - during one of my PC
> "oil changes"! - that I was using the "means" (i.e., playing
> on the PC) and forgot about the "end", which is doing
> useful work or useful fun - ala PSP and my love of car pics.
>
> I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, conversing with you
> on-line. Hope you'll have a good day! Tomorrow, God willing
> and the crick don't rise, I'll have a rare opportunity at
> the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, where I volunteer
> occasionally. 200+ members of the National Chrysler 300 Car
> Club are coming to visit, with 40-50 Letter Series 300 cars!
> So, I'll have a major hoot talking to these men and women
> about my fav Chrysler cars, /and/ get some candid shots of
> the cars! Life doesn't get any better than that!.
>
> So, please excuse my rant if I'm trampling on your rights.
> Being that you're covered by the Magna Charta same as me,
> plus your version of theFirst Amendment, I guess we both
> have the "right" to do as we please!
>
> -- Jerry
>
> P.S. I first heard about computer "oil changes" 20 years ago
> from an IT guru. He was actually talking about re-booting
> which fixes a lot of things. But, there's times, like when
> my daughter's PC got infested with over 120 viruses, bots,
> and trojans before a "time bomb" blew up, and took out the
> anti-virus software, and killed her system. She had no CD-Rs
> for her data and it was a total loss - re-FDISK, re-format,
> re-install Windows.
>
>
>

Jerry Rivers

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

> My PC is somewhat ancient, only 800MhZ (AMD Thunderbird),
with 384 MB of
> SDRAM, so I thought that cleaning it up might make it run
better. (Finding
> more RAM for it has proved harder than I thought).

Egad! You're worse than me! <grin> Mine is a 1.6ghz AMD,
which runs at the same CPU speed as an Intel clocked at
2.2ghz. But, I've only got 512MB RAM and I'm dying! I worked
over 3 hours (!) 2 days ago just doing a 4-part car photo
stitch that wound up around 6500 x 4000 pixels. My PC would
just "go away and hide" whenever PSP 9 decided to save an
Undo file. And, no I couldn't/wouldn't turn Undo off!

I want my PC-guru nephew to build me a near state-of-the art
machine later this summer with around a 3-4ghz processor and
at least 2 gig, preferably 4 gig of memory. I haven't
upgraded my hardware to all-new in around 5 years, so I'm
overdue for the kind of work I do today.

> Anyway, it's my housewifely attitude, if you clean + tidy
it, it will work
> better!

Just remember that Murphy is alive and well every time you
"house clean"!
>
> 'My' IT guru has suggested that I build my own system,
easy for him to say,
> he does nothing else all day long. But he will help, so I
might just go down
> that route, unless I find a good priced system first!

I doubt I would ever buy a Dell, Gateway, Compaq, whatever,
because I don't want proprietary hardware and O/S. When my
nephew gives up the ghost I'll go to one of the many places
in my area that will custom-build a system to my specs.

> Thanks again.

You're most welcome. Feel free to contact me via E-mail
whenever ya gets the urge! <grin>

-- Jerry

Jewels

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Joëlle wrote:
(snip)
> My PC is somewhat ancient, only 800MhZ (AMD Thunderbird), with 384 MB
> of SDRAM, so I thought that cleaning it up might make it run better.
> (Finding more RAM for it has proved harder than I thought).
> Anyway, it's my housewifely attitude, if you clean + tidy it, it will
> work better!
>
Hi Joelle,

I found a site called crucial.com that has a suitability checker and lots of
different sorts of sdram available for uk customers. You can find it on e
bay at cheaper prices but it's more difficult to find out whether it really
is suitable for your machine.

Julie

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

My email is still playing up, must be because I added an umlaut (ë) to the e
on my name. Have taken it off again..
It still 'all systems go' here. Poor hubby looks undernourished today!
Thanks Jerry.
:-)
Joëlle

"Jerry Rivers" <usenetMAPS123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428e086a$1_2@cnews...
>
> with 384 MB of
> better. (Finding
>
> Egad! You're worse than me! <grin> Mine is a 1.6ghz AMD,
> which runs at the same CPU speed as an Intel clocked at
> 2.2ghz. But, I've only got 512MB RAM and I'm dying! I worked
> over 3 hours (!) 2 days ago just doing a 4-part car photo
> stitch that wound up around 6500 x 4000 pixels. My PC would
> just "go away and hide" whenever PSP 9 decided to save an
> Undo file. And, no I couldn't/wouldn't turn Undo off!
>
> I want my PC-guru nephew to build me a near state-of-the art
> machine later this summer with around a 3-4ghz processor and
> at least 2 gig, preferably 4 gig of memory. I haven't
> upgraded my hardware to all-new in around 5 years, so I'm
> overdue for the kind of work I do today.

>
> it, it will work
>
> Just remember that Murphy is alive and well every time you
> "house clean"!
> easy for him to say,
> might just go down
>
> I doubt I would ever buy a Dell, Gateway, Compaq, whatever,
> because I don't want proprietary hardware and O/S. When my
> nephew gives up the ghost I'll go to one of the many places
> in my area that will custom-build a system to my specs.
>
>
> You're most welcome. Feel free to contact me via E-mail
> whenever ya gets the urge! <grin>
>
> -- Jerry
>
>
>

Joëlle

2005-05-20, 7:44 pm

Thanks for that Jewels,
I have made up my mind to sit this one out and spend my money on a new
system instead.
The one thing lack of memory teaches you is to be a lot more patient!
:-))
Joëlle

"Jewels" <stuart_julie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:428e21ea_3@cnews...
>
> Joëlle wrote:
> (snip)
> Hi Joelle,
>
> I found a site called crucial.com that has a suitability checker and lots
> of
> different sorts of sdram available for uk customers. You can find it on e
> bay at cheaper prices but it's more difficult to find out whether it
> really
> is suitable for your machine.
>
> Julie
>
>
>

Patricia

2005-05-23, 4:22 am

Hi Jerry I had a similar problem with Picture It but mine was that I had it
installed and then suddenly Spell-check wouldn't work. It kept asking me
for the Picture It cd. After numerous uninstalls and installs I finally
ditched Picture It as I prefer to spell check my emails and it has worked
perfectly since...Pat

"Jerry Rivers" <usenetMAPS123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428deb0f$1_2@cnews...
>
> PC is just being
>
> Joelle, it's your PC and your time, so I won't evangelize
> here. Except to say, I'm a firm believer in not fixing
> things that aren't broken. So, I make periodic manual System
> Restore Points, and definitely do it everytime I add or
> uninstall something. I spent a couple hours yesterday trying
> to figure out why the spell check in OE suddenly started
> erroring out, when it's been fine for a long time. Turned
> out that I'd un-installed MS Picture It! (the ! is part of
> its name, like ThumbS!), which somehow trashed OE! A quick
> system restore and I was back up and running - it was the
> diagnosis time that was obnoxious.
>
> set it from 300 to
> and soft music!!
>
> Just turn off the "max" setting per the screen shot I sent
> you. That, combined with Catch-up, will do what you want, I
> think.
>
> and the $%%£"
> used the original all
> out is a 'good
>
> See above about fixing things that aren't broke. As to your
> corrupt CD of XP, why not get a /free/ replacement from M$?
> All you have to do is show them you have a license, which
> you need anyway to do a new install.
>
> I used to be where you are now, perhaps. Always adding new
> apps, new hardware drivers, uninstalling the old crap, etc.
> Then, one day about 8-10 years ago, it suddenly occurred to
> me that I was no longer a computer hobbyist that ate
> frustration like candy. I discovered - during one of my PC
> "oil changes"! - that I was using the "means" (i.e., playing
> on the PC) and forgot about the "end", which is doing
> useful work or useful fun - ala PSP and my love of car pics.
>
> I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, conversing with you
> on-line. Hope you'll have a good day! Tomorrow, God willing
> and the crick don't rise, I'll have a rare opportunity at
> the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, where I volunteer
> occasionally. 200+ members of the National Chrysler 300 Car
> Club are coming to visit, with 40-50 Letter Series 300 cars!
> So, I'll have a major hoot talking to these men and women
> about my fav Chrysler cars, /and/ get some candid shots of
> the cars! Life doesn't get any better than that!.
>
> So, please excuse my rant if I'm trampling on your rights.
> Being that you're covered by the Magna Charta same as me,
> plus your version of theFirst Amendment, I guess we both
> have the "right" to do as we please!
>
> -- Jerry
>
> P.S. I first heard about computer "oil changes" 20 years ago
> from an IT guru. He was actually talking about re-booting
> which fixes a lot of things. But, there's times, like when
> my daughter's PC got infested with over 120 viruses, bots,
> and trojans before a "time bomb" blew up, and took out the
> anti-virus software, and killed her system. She had no CD-Rs
> for her data and it was a total loss - re-FDISK, re-format,
> re-install Windows.
>
>
>

AuntySpam

2005-05-24, 4:22 am

Sounds like PictureIt installed an incompatible version of
riched*.dll

--=20

AuntySpam, C-tech Volunteer
http://www.geocities.com/brewnetty/home.html

"Patricia" <wattspa@NOSPAMsupernerd.com.au> wrote in message
news:42915d6d_2@cnews...

Hi Jerry I had a similar problem with Picture It but mine was
that I had it
installed and then suddenly Spell-check wouldn't work. It kept
asking me
for the Picture It cd. After numerous uninstalls and installs I
finally
ditched Picture It as I prefer to spell check my emails and it
has worked
perfectly since...Pat

"Jerry Rivers" <usenetMAPS123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:428deb0f$1_2@cnews...
>
> PC is just being
>
> Joelle, it's your PC and your time, so I won't evangelize
> here. Except to say, I'm a firm believer in not fixing
> things that aren't broken. So, I make periodic manual System
> Restore Points, and definitely do it everytime I add or
> uninstall something. I spent a couple hours yesterday trying
> to figure out why the spell check in OE suddenly started
> erroring out, when it's been fine for a long time. Turned
> out that I'd un-installed MS Picture It! (the ! is part of
> its name, like ThumbS!), which somehow trashed OE! A quick
> system restore and I was back up and running - it was the
> diagnosis time that was obnoxious.
>
> set it from 300 to
> and soft music!!
>
> Just turn off the "max" setting per the screen shot I sent
> you. That, combined with Catch-up, will do what you want, I
> think.
>
> and the $%%=A3"
> used the original all
> out is a 'good
>
> See above about fixing things that aren't broke. As to your
> corrupt CD of XP, why not get a /free/ replacement from M$?
> All you have to do is show them you have a license, which
> you need anyway to do a new install.
>
> I used to be where you are now, perhaps. Always adding new
> apps, new hardware drivers, uninstalling the old crap, etc.
> Then, one day about 8-10 years ago, it suddenly occurred to
> me that I was no longer a computer hobbyist that ate
> frustration like candy. I discovered - during one of my PC
> "oil changes"! - that I was using the "means" (i.e., playing
> on the PC) and forgot about the "end", which is doing
> useful work or useful fun - ala PSP and my love of car pics.
>
> I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, conversing with you
> on-line. Hope you'll have a good day! Tomorrow, God willing
> and the crick don't rise, I'll have a rare opportunity at
> the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, where I volunteer
> occasionally. 200+ members of the National Chrysler 300 Car
> Club are coming to visit, with 40-50 Letter Series 300 cars!
> So, I'll have a major hoot talking to these men and women
> about my fav Chrysler cars, /and/ get some candid shots of
> the cars! Life doesn't get any better than that!.
>
> So, please excuse my rant if I'm trampling on your rights.
> Being that you're covered by the Magna Charta same as me,
> plus your version of theFirst Amendment, I guess we both
> have the "right" to do as we please!
>
> -- Jerry
>
> P.S. I first heard about computer "oil changes" 20 years ago
> from an IT guru. He was actually talking about re-booting
> which fixes a lot of things. But, there's times, like when
> my daughter's PC got infested with over 120 viruses, bots,
> and trojans before a "time bomb" blew up, and took out the
> anti-virus software, and killed her system. She had no CD-Rs
> for her data and it was a total loss - re-FDISK, re-format,
> re-install Windows.
>
>
>