Re: Concerns about defrag's effect on hd

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Laughingstar~* wrote:
I don't get it, and don't open links randomly -- thank y ou.

You don't get what?
Ah - you are a top-reader (much less a top poster)...

Scroll down the entire response (not attached here). The link I put at the
top is the Google Groups archive of this conversation
(thread/posting/whatever you want to call it.)

If you look - I snipped much of the conversation that would have nothing to
do with my response. I put a linkto the entire thread for anyone in the
future who came across it and wondered what started my response.

I left the parts that I felt should remain and put my response at the
bottom... You'd have to actually scroll down to the bottom to read the
response I put. I will respond again with NO quoted text so you won't miss
it in a moment...

For you --> I left only one line above so you would not have to scroll much
in this response...

For you I will also explain how to get to the link I posted previously on
your own - so it is not some random link as you called it...

You know what Google is - I suppose - go there.
(For everyone else: http://www.google.com/ )

When you get to the main page (Google) look towards the upper left of the
page contents. There you will see links like:
Web Images Video News Maps Gmail more
Click on "More" and choose "Groups"...

You are now on Google Groups.

Google Groups contains the world's most comprehensive archive of Usenet
postings, dating back to 1981. Google Groups eliminates the need for a
newsreader and lets you search this archive the same way you'd search on the
web. You can also use Google Groups to post your own comments to an existing
Usenet newsgroup.

Now that you are on Google Groups - you can search and find your posting,
answers to previous posting, etc. In this case I will demonstrate its use
by finding THIS conversation - which is the liknk I posted before that you
'feared'...

First - I choose to do an "Advanced Groups Search" --> which is a link to
the right of the "Google Groups" search input area.
In the new page - I decided to enter two pieces of information to narrow my
search...

Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Author: Laughingstar

Everything else I left DEFAULT... And I clicked on the "Google Search"
(*NOT* "Lookup Message").

The first returned result is:
*****
Concerns about defrag's effect on hd
Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Laughingstar~* le_sentier_battunospam...@xxxxxxxxx
No, I had to do the clean install only once, b/c the XP Pro became
corrupted--as identified and concurred with by Level I microsoft
technologists, and their managers. HP (computer mfgr) Business
Computers support was in on this ...

Aug 15 by Laughingstar~* - 24 messages - 8 authors
*****
Which links to:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/60da5cfe3fea1cda/e019b1ad15709344?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#e019b1ad15709344

Which is slightly different than the link I sent before because the search
that returned the results was not EXACTLY the way I did it before.
However - it still links to the entire conversation - which this response
will soon be a part of.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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