Blairgowrie

Snough!

The silence is killing me.

Good stuff Bucky. We have really missed you.

We'll help you keep that attitude as best we can Jim, and reciprocate the positivity any way we are able. That's all I can ask Rog. You guys have been great.

Funflack and I have discussed this several times, What he has done is good for his prostate cancer, I am way beyond that. My cancer is advanced and aggressive and now longer confined to the prostate.

Just got back from the London Cancer Centre. Afraid the news was not good. I am back on the dug trial but the iconologist doesn't think the drug is effective any more. PSA is climbing fast and the last bone scan was not good. They showed me a copy of it and I looked like a fookin Christmas tree! The cancer has now spread all the way up the spine and other parts of the body. As they believe the study drug is no longer effective, I will likely be on chimo before the new year. As it is, I will be getting a bone drug, intravenously, every three weeks, at Owen Sound, start right away. If and when I start chimo it will also be done every 3 weeks at Owen Sound. I now have a CAT scan scheduled for Nov 22 and that may show more info. Helen and I are taking this information in our stride and remain optimistic for the future, whatever transpires.

I guess that's my point. I don't have the screen saver turned on.

Is there any way of stopping the screen from going to a screen saver when the mouse is still in Win 7? Bloody annoying.

Outstanding pics Swep. I think you are getting better with age.

It appears that http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/advanced-workstation/universal-restore.html might do the restore job the way I want to do it. Anyone know what Universal Restore is all about? Hmnn. Looks like it is only $37 until you check out and then you find you have to buy the rest of the store.

I have posted on the Acronis Forums to see if this is possible. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=285544

Not sure if I understand you correctly here Jim. Are you saying you made a backup image of one computer and restored it on a different computer? That may not work well unless they are the exact same computers with the same devices and everything. Your backup image may have windows drivers for devices that don't exist, and not have drivers for devices that do exist. This can't be what you are doing, right?? That is exactly what I am trying to do Snack. I made a backup image of one computer and restored it on a different computer (or tried to).

Not sure how I would do this FT. When Acronis restores you don't go into Windows. I am anxious to get this done as I want to give my back up computer to Strider who has gone through some tough times in the past year.

Same serial number for Acronis Brando. I was using True Image Home 2009.

Tried for the 3rd time to get Acronis to work to restore Helen's computer. This time I reformatted the external drive to make sure there were no corrupt files on it. Took a backup of Helen's computer and then tried to restore on my backup computer. Everything seemed to go fine and my computer asked for a reboot. On reboot, Acronis screen appeared and the restore started. Then it went to a blank screen, knocking out Windows XP once again. I have read the user guide but it is massive. There must be a better way!

OK Fruitbat. That nailed it. Many thanks.

Here's mine.

Good score Sid. Just as a matter of interest, I compared our individual scores and found something interesting. Sid Jim Passmark rating 1714 1705 CPU Mark 6654 4480 2D Graphics 359 426 3D Graphics 1013 2695 Memory Mark 1812 969 Disk 567 761 CD 88 195 You have a 3gb Quad which I assume is Intel and I use a 3.4gb AMD quad. I suspect you are using 6 or 8gb of RAM while I am using 4gb. Anyone care to comment about the CPU difference? Sorry, I tried to line up the columns but it doesn't work?

Is that path correct BG, shouldn't it be c:/Games/IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/missions/net/coops I think it is correct Fruitbat. I just installed the game to C:/Games. Maybe if I change the folder name to Games/IL-2 Sturmovick 1946 it might be better. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Feeling a bit more optimistic today! Helen and I went down to see the Inconologists yesterday. They had just found out that fluid buildup is one of the side effects of the drug trial! I had a bone scan done(It takes 5 hours) and have to go back down next week. If the bone scan looks ok they will restart me on the "wonder" drug trial and closely monitor me for more fluid build up. Now that I am on direutics, I feel better every day.

Tried to get QMT working in my new build. It installs ok and gived me the usual screen but when I try to navigate to C:Games/Mission/ Net/ Coops. No missions come up in the menu. Any ideas?

Thanks Rog. That did the trick. Throttle now works fine.

My CH throttle is not being recognized in game. I downloaded the CH 4.51 software and used a map from XP that links the pinky key to the ctrl button on my keyboard. The throttle does not work on TS 3 either. When I try to calibrate none of the slider move when I slide the throttle up or down. None of the buttons seem to work either. I am running Windows 7/ 64 bit.

That was the problem exactly Fruitbat. Guy says he gets dozens back for the same issue.

Just got back from Toronto with lots of egg on my face. The Samsung is fine after all! The techie showed me how to run the screen on! Now to solve Acronis issues.