XP OT

I can't test it - all my XP boxen are members of a windows domain - no 'home edition', but ISTR there is. Probably involves having just one user on the machine. Maybe TweakUI has the necessary clickety clicks. If the answer doesn't materialise here, point your newsreader at news.microsoft.com and select a group with a likely sounding name.

You're thinking of the now, thankfully, defunct Win95/98/ME line. XP is the successor to Win2k - although the home edition tips its hat at 95.

Download the TweakUI PowerToy from

In the 'logon' section select 'autologon'.

There was another OS called Risc OS, which caused some confusion. When I was a user (last machine I had was an 8 meg A5000 33MHz) there were constant flame wars regarding the right way to type it, I used to get annoyed about the pedantry so sort of got used to varying the way I wrote it, partially unintentionally..

It's a shame it went down the pan, but Acorn never developed it properly, even now it's not even caught up with Mac OS 7. I think they spent too much time trying to make a computer that could leak oil. That would have been a proper British computer ;-)

ISTR there being a few, at least 3, split across Windows and Linux. I've never tried them, I've got 4 real machines in the loft after all!

TweakUI as suggested has the clicks, make sure it is the XP one you get. Dunno what'll happen if you get a different one, just saying there is one especially for XP.

Ah, I see. Tis the Sun I'm playing with.

On or around Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:46:39 +0100, "William Tasso" enlightened us thusly:

ur, yuk.

that goes for all of windows, though. recent case in point: I run a neat little thing called Tclockex. This loads on boot up and makes useful clock etc. down on the toolbar. Recently, it's been giving up due to not loading within it's own (arbitrary but as far as I know not settable) time limit, I imagine due to something else hogging resources at boot time.

now in the old days, all these things were in the win.ini file, and it would have been a simple matter to move Tclockex down to the bottom of the list so it started loading last.

Not any more though. There are various ways of finding it in the list including a config program and regedit, but no way I've found of telling it what order to do stuff. Best suggestion so far is a workaround that involving hunting the MS-DOS "hang around for n seconds" utility and attach that to the front of the command that launches it.

On or around Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:27:55 +0100, Stephen Hull enlightened us thusly:

I wouldn't you'd inevitably do it by mistake after 30 minutes of typing and just before you saved.

I think winblows sends a prequite message around applications before shutdown starts, and they grumble if the data's not been saved and they're told that an enforced quit is imminent. That's from memory though, I'll let you winblows users test that out on your own data ;-)

Windoze does send such a message, but it's up to each application to decide what to do about it, if anything.

On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:26:45 -0400, Charlie Choc enlightened us thusly:

sounds familiar.

Trusting valuable data to Microsloth is akin to sticking your nob in a mains socket.

A BATch file at its most basic is simply a text file with a few instructions in it (the instructions are executed as if you typed them in).

Use notepad and make a file called: ls.bat the contents of which will just be

dir

Put this in your root directory (C:\) type ls from a DOS prompt...

(You'll see what I mean I guess)

That reads like you think it's a bad thing

Magic setting "auto save" ;)

Steve.

It does appear to have a prequite message thingy.

Regards,

Steve.

Ahh yes, I understand what you mean, I think RISC OS calls this an Obey file.

Regards,

Steve.

I should have read this before playing with the program.

I set "show no name" at logon and I could not get back into XP, I had to re-install which meant I lost everything including RISC OS. It has taken me a few days to put the system back to almost as is was, However I only lost two months worth of stuff but it could have been much worse.

Next time I'll RTFM (properly) ;)

Regards,

Steve.

|| In message || Austin Shackles wrote: || ||| On or around Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:27:55 +0100, Stephen Hull ||| enlightened us thusly: || || [snip] || |||| Don't know sorry, I'm still learning how to use XP. I would like |||| to be able to just press one button or one mouse click to shut the |||| machine down though and not have to do it via Start, Turn off |||| computer, Shut down. ||| ||| I wouldn't you'd inevitably do it by mistake after 30 minutes of ||| typing and just before you saved. || || Magic setting "auto save" ;)

IIUIC, XP saves in the background anyway, without the need to set autosave options as you did in W2K. Certainly, I have had powerouts (at work, not at home, thank heavens) and on rebooting the machine has saved a recent version of the document, usable if a little mangled.

It's quite simple, use the power button on the front, XP will shut down properly!!

Regards Jeff