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I Supported Toymods
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Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 01:44
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Hey All,
When I right click on the desktop wanting to create a folder, I can't create the folder as there is no "New" option 
Does anyone know how to fix it... I tried to find it on Google but I don't know what to search for 
Cheers.
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 02:01
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Win ME is the worst operating system Microsoft ever made, bar none. It's so utterly crammed with bugs it's virtually impossible to tell where the errors end and the operating system begins.
In all seriousness, going back to windows 98 or even windows 95 will be a huge step in the right direction. You'll save yourself a world a pain, trust me. Ideally try and grab a copy of win 2000 or XP.
There is undoubtably a fix to your problem somewhere, but I don't know it. And my bet is once you fix it, 10 others issues will arise.
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Land of Oz
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June 2004
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 09:04
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Hi,
| joorsh wrote on Wed, 05 January 2005 13:01 |
Win ME is the worst operating system Microsoft ever made, bar none. It's so utterly crammed with bugs it's virtually impossible to tell where the errors end and the operating system begins.
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Yep. I cannot agree more. I tried it and tossed it in the bin and went back to Win98. I'm sure there's a fix for your problem, but I found one bug and problem after another. It annoyed me to the point of going back to Win98, which, IMHO is the best gaming OS - though I haven't tried XP yet, so it maybe better.
Just as a side not, I got my XT running last week. Good old DOS3.30 - as rugged and as dependable as any classic Toyota - and Xtree Gold. marvellous stuff. A reboot takes 10 seconds.
seeyuzz
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 11:54
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| river wrote on Wed, 05 January 2005 20:04 |
Just as a side not, I got my XT running last week. Good old DOS3.30 - as rugged and as dependable as any classic Toyota - and Xtree Gold. marvellous stuff. A reboot takes 10 seconds.
seeyuzz
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that running a rll drive ?
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Land of Oz
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 21:01
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Hi,
| 4DaDrift wrote on Wed, 05 January 2005 22:54 |
that running a rll drive ?
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It's running a Shuggart ST-412, full-height 10M HDD. It's encoded in MFM. Technically, there is no such thing as a RLL or MFM drive. RLL and MFM are encoding methods, and either could be employed to run these old style HDD. You can get about 50% more storage using RLL - so your 10M MFM drive could hold 15M if encoded by an RLL controller. However, some drives, like the ST-412, lost reliability when RLL-encoded. Later drives (ST-225) were more reliable with RLL encoding and were able to be run with MFM or RLL controllers. Under RLL, the 20M ST-225 could store a massive 30M!
I've just cleaned and fixed some old 8-inch floppy drives on an ancient 1976 computer. As old as this stuff is, it works great and is still younger than my car - which also is still running great. In both cases, they run better than WindowsME!
seeyuzz
river
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 21:58
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| river wrote on Thu, 06 January 2005 08:01 |
Hi,
| 4DaDrift wrote on Wed, 05 January 2005 22:54 |
that running a rll drive ?
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It's running a Shuggart ST-412, full-height 10M HDD. It's encoded in MFM. Technically, there is no such thing as a RLL or MFM drive. RLL and MFM are encoding methods, and either could be employed to run these old style HDD. You can get about 50% more storage using RLL - so your 10M MFM drive could hold 15M if encoded by an RLL controller. However, some drives, like the ST-412, lost reliability when RLL-encoded. Later drives (ST-225) were more reliable with RLL encoding and were able to be run with MFM or RLL controllers. Under RLL, the 20M ST-225 could store a massive 30M!
I've just cleaned and fixed some old 8-inch floppy drives on an ancient 1976 computer. As old as this stuff is, it works great and is still younger than my car - which also is still running great. In both cases, they run better than WindowsME!
seeyuzz
river
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And i thought that other thread showed your age... This shit belong in a museum! (no really, it does)
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 22:19
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Hi,
| Squid wrote on Thu, 06 January 2005 08:58 |
And i thought that other thread showed your age... This shit belong in a museum! (no really, it does)
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Yep, it sure does! My workshop is a museum with dozens of old computer systems, all cleaned and running like they used to. If it's broken, I fix it - it's good being an old hardware dude and assembler programmer.
Matter of fact, I belong in a museum also! However, as old as my body is, I'm still young at heart, and regard myself as a cool old school sort of chap. 
seeyuzz
river
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Wed, 05 January 2005 22:24
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Some of that shit sounds cool, i would love to get my hands on it. Given there are no computer museums yet, i think you should start one.
Haha you must be cool, if you weren't we wouldn't talk to you 
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Re: Win ME Right click Help
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Tue, 11 January 2005 04:37
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| river wrote on Wed, 05 January 2005 20:04 |
Just as a side not, I got my XT running last week. Good old DOS3.30 - as rugged and as dependable as any classic Toyota - and Xtree Gold. marvellous stuff. A reboot takes 10 seconds.
seeyuzz
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So does my P4 2.4GHz (800mhz FSB) with 1gb DDR pc3200 (400mhz) RAM. 
By the way if you're not the type to screw around with you're comp and you're not prone to getting spyware/viruses on your comp, get into BIOS and disable stuff like boot up floppy seek etc.
It greatly speeds up your boot time.
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