Re: Thunderbird question

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:46:16 -0400, Emily <Emily@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:53:28 -0700, Rumpelstiltskin
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm constantly deleting the "my music" and "my something else"
folders that pop up as subfolders of "My Documents", which is
the automatic windows default download folder where I DON'T
keep documents. I zap the "my music" folder in annoyance
every time I see it, but it comes back.

And why are there so many My Document folders anyway? And who the
hell ever thought this file structure they inflict on us was a good
idea anyway?

By the way, how is APN working for you these days? Mine has been
having some very slow periods and other irritating problems. I'm
trying Giganews on my laptop for comparison, and if it seems more
stable, I think I'll drop APN. Diagnosing the culprit is complicated
by the fact that our router occasionally loses connection with the
satellite even when there's no apparent atmospheric reason for it.
One of my neighbors also has WildBlue and recently when my router
light was blinking, she still had connection so I fear we're going to
have to have another tree cut down, a huge, very tall poplar.

It's been commented on the web that APN has been bad lately.
Just now, I tried to download files from Soc.Retirement and only
half the bodies got retrieved before it crapped out. When that
happens, I have to sort by date so that I can see all the new stuff
at the end, then remove the "download" indicator from all the
new files from posters who are in my killfile. I can spot those
easily because they're greyed-out whereas the ones I actually
want to download are in red. Normally during retrieving new
messages, all the bodies get retrieved and the killfiled articles
stay grey, but if the system craps out and I retrieve messages
separate from the download, all the remaining messages will
end up red, so I'll be clicking on posters I've killfiled.

I gather from what I heard on the web that APN was using
Supernews for its feed, but is using something else now that
apparently isn't working that well. This is the first period I've
used APN where it's been so bad, but the web postings say
that it has been even worse at remoter times in the past.

Over a month ago, APN wrote, in response to one of my complaints --
"We are working with the upstream provider (Easynews) to put new
hardware in place to correct these issues." I don't know what the
problem is but I'm continuing my test of Giganews. I'd prefer to
stick with APN if they can get their act together since they are
cheaper but reliability is quickly becoming more important than price.

I just seem to be having a run of annoying problems with the computer,
the e-mail problem, APN, and several times a day the computer starts
grinding like it's doing some sort of scan, during which nothing else
can happen. It appears to be something connected with AVG, but I
don't know what since it does its big scan in the middle of the night.


Computers are full of mystery worries. A couple of weeks ago,
I lost the right-hand side popup that lists in easier format the stuff
that's mostly in folders and icons on the right hand side of your
screen. You can normally get to that list by way of the
"Desktop >>" gizmo on the taskbar. (The taskbar is the line of
icons and currently active programs and other junk including
the clock, that's at bottom of screen by default, though you
could move it if you really wanted to do that.) That "Desktop >>"
gizmo had simply disappeared. I tried all kinds of stuff to get it
back, which was complicated by not knowing its name, which
as usual with Microsoft is very hard to find out unless you're
from Mars and can therefore understand geekspeak, I guess.
There wasn't even any mention that such a thing as that
sidebar or its "Desktop >>" entry point exists, on the web pages
I looked at that described the elements of the Windows Desktop.
Ultimately, I got it back. I guess my floundering around in
bewilderment was what got it back, which is why floundering
around in bewilderment has been preserved by Natural
Selection: it sometimes works and it's better than not doing
anything and just dying where you are. I found out eventually
that sidebar is called "desktop", exactly the same name as
the name of the whole screen and not just that sidebar. That
certainly isn't helpful at all. It should at least have a unique
name. Since everybody has it in XP, I think, the descriptions
here and there on the web of the elements of the windows
desktop should at least mention it - they mention everything
else.



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