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2 questions. 1. How do I proceed to backup email files in Yahoo on a flash drive
2. and this has nothing to do with it but I may as well ask now since I'm here and remembered. How does one produce the "grey field" when separating a sentence out of someones paragraph. I mean when you "quote" the entire paragraph, it stays grey but when I want to separate a sentence from someone's previous post, I lose the grey part that denotes the quote. How do I keep the grey field even when not wanting to quote the entire paragraph?
2. and this has nothing to do with it but I may as well ask now since I'm here and remembered. How does one produce the "grey field" when separating a sentence out of someones paragraph. I mean when you "quote" the entire paragraph, it stays grey but when I want to separate a sentence from someone's previous post, I lose the grey part that denotes the quote. How do I keep the grey field even when not wanting to quote the entire paragraph?
Bird
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I can't answer your first question, but as for the second. You can quote the whole thing, then delete the parts you don't want, or you can highlight and copy what you want to quote, click on the icon above for wraping quote tags around selected text, then put your cursor in between the tags and paste what you had copied. You can do it any way you want so long as you have that text in between (quote) and (/quote) using brackets instead of parentheses.
Dmace
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I wouldn't say you gave bad info, I am sure there are people out there with Windows XP that does not have that option so it's good you brought it up. I found a tech article from Windows that mentions having to install the Backup utility from the Windows XP installation CD so you may have an older version of XP Home that requires that procedure. My only XP machine left (6 month old netbook) has that installed so maybe they do it automatically now. It's all good! :thumbsup:
Your computer is certainly not the bottleneck so I would assume that the flash drive itself is a little slow on transfer speed but for the price you paid, I would expect that. As previously mentioned, 1.5MB/sec is on the slow side for a flash drive and they certainly come with faster transfer rates. For instance, my Kingston 8GB flash drive can write at 10Mb/sec but cost nearly $40. So your 915Mb transfer would have taken about 2-1/2 minutes on my flash drive. The cheaper models ($15-$20) typically write at 2-6Mb/sec. USB 2.0 can transfer up to 480Mb/sec so that is certainly not the bottleneck either.
The Ready Boost is a feature where Windows Vista can use the flash drive as extra "RAM" but even with USB 2.0 the transfer rates are slow enough to hardly notice any difference in processing speed. It's good if you rarely ever use that much RAM and just need a little "boost" to keep a program from freezing like Photoshop or something but if you need more RAM on a regular basis then get more RAM, Ready Boost is certainly not a replacement for it.
Bird
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Yeah, I sent an e-mail to my son-in-law and he told me the same thing. I'd never heard of the ReadyBoost and sure don't need it with 3 GB of RAM.
But in talking to sales people, I didn't find anyone who knew of any differences in the flash drives other than the capacity, so I've learned a lot from you guys and I appreciate it. The faster ones would be nice, but the fact is that I have a lot more time then money.:laughing:
Dmace
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Click the multi-quote icon for each quote you want so they turn orange then when you click the REPLY button on the bottom of the page, all the quotes will be there and you can organize them how you want.
Bird
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I've never used the multi quote icon, so I didn't think about that.
I failed to mention that the way I do it is to highlight what I want to quote, right click, then "Copy", then click on "Post Reply" in the lower right corner of the page and the quote icon I was talking about is in that row of icons along the top of the dialog box. If I'm going to quote from several posts, I just scroll back to each post and do the same thing again. I know I'm not explaining it very well, but only because I don't know how.:laughing: