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    Windows 10 How to convert .cpt files to jpg, jpet, png etc. image file

    How to convert .cpt files to jpg, jpet, png etc. image file ? I found them on my old CDs. I suppose they are CorelDraw files. My CorelDraw, an very old version, was running on WinXP. Please advise how to convert them to image files such as jpg, png, jpeg etc? Thanks in advance Regards
  2. Windows XP Looking for the screen-saver program ssmypics.scr in WinXP.

    With any luck, this guy will allow me to show the filename of photos that show up in the screen-saver slide show, if I copy him into Win10 c>windows>system32. The various articles I've found on the net give me a link that spits up. Can anybody help?
  3. Windows 7 Firewall Requester

    Hi. I use Sunbelt Personal Personal Firewall on a WinXP machine. A very nice feature is that it reports also inbound and outbound traffic (connection attempts). I installed Windows 7 now on new hardware and would like to use the internal Windows 7 build-in firewall (since quite efficient), but...
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    Windows 7 Can Only Connect to Shared Folders Using IP Number

    I have a small MS network set up with 3 WinXP SP3 systems connecting to a Win7 system. I set this up back in September and things have been working fine until yesterday afternoon. One of the XP systems lost sight of the shared folders on the Win7 system for some unknown reason. The computer...
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    Windows 7 Canon BJC-4100 printer in Windows 7?

    I have this printer since 1995, and it still works well! (I had, though, to take it apart and clean it a few times.) It runs with WinXP and Linux, but I have not yet been able to install any of the drivers I could find in Win7. Of course, I use a parallel port adapter that works well with XP...
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    Windows 7 Disappearing mapped network drive madness

    We have a small netwrok with one workgroup. We recently added a new machine running wn7Pro 64-bit. We had to fiddle for days with it just to make winXPpro and win2kPro workstations and their drives visible to it. That should be out-of-the-box automatic functionality, but it isn't because Win7Pro...
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    Windows 7 one thread in Real Time priority freezes the OS

    Hey, I just mooved from WinXP to Win7 with my software. My software needs to have real time response to I/O so it makes busy-wait in one thread (wich has affinity to run on one CPU). The result is 100% CPU on one of the cores and 0 CPU for others, in WinXP it worked just fine. In win7 the...
  8. Windows 7 Automatic VPN connection

    How do you establish an automatic VPN connection in Windows 7? I can establish the VPN connection but I have to click on it and "Connect" every time. I'm trying to establish an always on connection, like you could do with WinXP. Thanks.
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    Windows 7 Audio Effects settings

    Hi all, I am trying to find the audio effects settings in Win7 but haven't been able to do so. In WinXP, the audio effects settings is under the following: Right-click Sound icon in taskbar > Adjust Audio Properties > Audio tab > Sound playback > Advanced > Effects tab. Therefore I would like...
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    Windows 7 A little annoying problem >.<

    Ok so I get a new computer with Win7 installed an Emachines EL-1850 and have updated etc. I was having fun with it and still am. However I was doing something the other day I think checking emails or maybe facebook and hosting an online radio station and running an online game. Then suddenly...
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    Windows 7 Right cllicking on a volume for search

    Hello: Windows 7 for some strange reason doesn't have the ability to right click on a volume, folder, etc-amazing. I have been able to regain the search function for folders to right click but it doesn't work on right clicking a volume (hard drive) for some reason. I have always used this...
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    Windows 7 Customizing a drop down menu.

    My OS is 32bit Win7 Pro. In Windows Explorer, when you right click a file, a drop down menu opens showing options to choose. I'd like to add another option on that menu. How do you do that? (It was easy in WinXP.) Please let me know if this request is more appropriate in another forum. Thanks.
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    Windows 7 Where is the "services" overview similar to previous WinXP?

    In former WInXP there was a menu dialog with all services and how they should start (manually/automatic/disabled). Where is this dialog in Win7 I did not found it in Start menu. Is there an alternative way to configure them? Peter
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    Windows 7 No outgoing UDP Packets in Windows 7 Professional

    Hi, I have an application running, where the clients contact a licensing server via UDP port 3047. The Clients run on Win2000, WinXP Prof. Everything works. Installed a Client on a Win7 box, tried to contact licensing server, no success. With tcpdump on the Serverside I see about 50 UPD...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Authoritative time server

    I have a private network that has several computers running a different operating system. I have used Winxp in the past set up as a time server and could run a command on all the otehr computers to sync up with the windows computer. I cant find any documentation to set up Windows 7 as a time...
  16. Windows XP External screen does not show video

    I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running WinXP. I have an external 24" LCD screen connected to the laptop via a VGA cable. I can enable both screens. Whatever is on my laptop screen appears on the 24" LCD screen. I can view videos files on the laptop screen. Here's the problem: the video does...
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    Windows 7 Windows7 64bit cannot reach local network, but connects to the internet

    Hi, I have the following weird problem: I have three machines A) WinXP Pro SP3 32bit B) WinXP Home SP3 (32bit) C) Win7 Pro 64bit They are all connected through a router to the same DSL modem. Each has its own unique static IP. Each can access the internet without a problem. Computers A) and...
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    Windows 7 File Associations

    I have Win7 64bit and it works very well. However, I installed ITunes recently and now Quicktime thinks it is the default application for my picture viewing. In WinXP I could set the file associations for each application. I have searched the forums, and looked all thru Win7 and can't seem to...
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    Windows 7 How do I Chose an Active Network (2 Real Ones Exist)

    Hi, I have been unable to find a solution to this problem. I have 2 active networks, one through a router and another directly from a modem, I would like to make the router connection the primary one. Right now every time I enable the 2nd NIC or turn on the modem and the 2nd network become...
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    Windows 7 Local DLLs not loading

    I have two DLLs named ws2_32.dll and wsock32.dll. I also have an application that i want to utalize these two dlls rather then the ones in system32 but it apears that it doesn't. I ran a dependency scanner and found that in fact the application does load these two DLLs rather then the ones in...