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On mousekeys / and - swap the thing from left-handed to right-handed.

That's probably it. Does it do the same to the mouse as well as mousekeys? If so then it's probably something different.

Yay! Thanks.

Bollocks bollocks bollocks. Just accidentally pressed 'is spam' button when one of my draft emails was highlighted/open (am in Outlook) and it's completely disappeared. Not in junk, not in deleted, help, please, anyone!

Is it in 'Drafts'?

Dan

Just found it! (It was in 'spam', which in my defence I had never seen before.. :$)

Lesson to be learned here - Don't use Outlook.

Quote: Leevil @ October 20 2011, 3:45 PM BST

Lesson to be learned here - Don't use Outlook.

It was all I could think of to do after hotmail 'upgraded' and starting linking everything with the same title as if it was one conversation and so showing everyone you email all your other emails- extremely embarrassing when the title you most use is 'submission'. (In a looking unprofessional writerly way, not another way)

Yahoo mail works well for me!

Didn't want multiple accounts I'd have to remember to check, and I do like not having to sign in and out of outlook, and I don't trust any of the buggers to not do the same and effectively ruin my chances of getting anything read by making me look a twonk (yup, that's the reason)

Don't listen to Lee. He uses Apple stuff.

Dan

I don't have an Apple email account.

A little help please...

I have this touch pad thing - http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vpad10.htm

It dual boots into either Android or Win7. The problem is whenever I boot into Win7 I receive a message - "Windows Created a temp paging file and it may not be the size you expected blah blah" or some words to that affect. I've tried deleting it with the hope that it creates a new one, but no luck! Same message every boot. Problem number 2: I keep getting other error messages along the lines of, you're low on memory, please close down programs AND I also get, you are low on disk space. Now this is a new machine. I have only installed Firefox, MSN and done one security update (it wouldn't let me finish the rest due to running out of disk space).

Have I got a shit machine here or what? How big is the install size of Win7? I have 12GB with 500mb free, sometimes down to just a few mbs. There's also a 16GB mini SD card. If only I could get Windows to use that. But I don't know how?

Help me please, or the bloody thing is going in the bin. Android works well but there's no flash and Market (although I'm going to flash it with a new ROM when I can be arsed.)

Quote: Leevil @ November 5 2011, 12:57 AM GMT

A little help please...

I have this touch pad thing - http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vpad10.htm

It dual boots into either Android or Win7. The problem is whenever I boot into Win7 I receive a message - "Windows Created a temp paging file and it may not be the size you expected blah blah" or some words to that affect. I've tried deleting it with the hope that it creates a new one, but no luck! Same message every boot. Problem number 2: I keep getting other error messages along the lines of, you're low on memory, please close down programs AND I also get, you are low on disk space. Now this is a new machine. I have only installed Firefox, MSN and done one security update (it wouldn't let me finish the rest due to running out of disk space).

Have I got a shit machine here or what? How big is the install size of Win7? I have 12GB with 500mb free, sometimes down to just a few mbs. There's also a 16GB mini SD card. If only I could get Windows to use that. But I don't know how?

Help me please, or the bloody thing is going in the bin. Android works well but there's no flash and Market (although I'm going to flash it with a new ROM when I can be arsed.)

The message actually relates to the paging file which is on the hard disk (or equivalent) maybe there is not enough disk space. I expect Win7 takes up at least 9GB.

I think it is optimistic to have both Win 7 and Android on what is nowadays a small disk-space machine.

If it can boot off the SD card, try a fresh install of just Win 7 on the main SSD and install Android to a 16GB SD card. The two will then be independent of each other & before booting Win 7 you can remove the Android SD card and put a different one in instead and use it as the data disk for Win 7.

Thats the sort of thing I do with my Netbook. The original O/S is on the internal 16GB HD & I can install Ubuntu or Mint or whatever-I-am-trying-out onto distinct SD cards (usually 8GB is enough for a variant of Linux).

One can see why they have an optional 32GB SSD.

It seems very odd that they would ship it this way though. If l were to use your method would I have to edit the grub or would I just rely on the traditional boot menu?

In regards to the paging file, it's asking for about 1500mb to create it, but like I mentioned I have only got less than 500mb free. I even tried setting no paging file. But the error message still pops up. I've read that you can move it to another disk, but nowhere explains how. Any idea? Cheers Bill.

Quote: Leevil @ November 5 2011, 1:34 PM GMT

It seems very odd that they would ship it this way though. If l were to use your method would I have to edit the grub or would I just rely on the traditional boot menu?

In regards to the paging file, it's asking for about 1500mb to create it, but like I mentioned I have only got less than 500mb free. I even tried setting no paging file. But the error message still pops up. I've read that you can move it to another disk, but nowhere explains how. Any idea? Cheers Bill.

What happened to the other 4GB of the SSD, you say you have 12GB, but the spec says that it is 16GB. It may be space reserved for Android or it may be set up as a partition, Drive D: and be empty.

SSD drives & SD memory sticks are not really suitable for use as a swap (aka paging) file because it gets lots of activity & these solid state devices have a limited number of write-cycles before they die, so you really need to find out how to turn off the swap facility and you will probably have to get used to closing each program before you open a different one. With 2GB of RAM you should not really need a swap/paging file at all for most normal activities.

I don't know enough about Win 7 to know for sure how to turn it off, look on the pad manufacturers site for a help/support/forum and/or do a Google for
[Windows 7 paging ]
etc

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