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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Security Settings

If you have the newer version (2003-2005), when you click on the Status page, you should be able to select who gets what features (rather than doing each site manually). You can deselect parental controls for Supervisor, and then on the upper-right hand corner select your daughters account and make sure it is checked. That should enable all controls for her and disable all for you. You just have to remember to log off after you're done using the internet or she can change all her own settings and such.
 
:>off_to<:

Unrelated question...

Now that I have "accounts" set up for myself, my husband, and my daughter, whenever I log in to my husbands or my account (the rarely-used accounts) windows tries to instal paint shop pro. I have that installed on my account before I created accounts, and now that I"ve created accounts, it wants me to dreg up the disk to install it on the other accounts. Well I don't really want to bother, especially for accounts that will NEVER use that program, but I can't seem to get the stupid thing to stop trying to install the programs. I use the "uninstall program" feature, and that never seems to work... any ideas? It's driving me bonkers. (Hubby is computer illiterate, and he thinks the computer is having a fit so he won't use it at all until I fix this issue)
 
for each account:
click on start, run
type in 'msconfig' without the quotes, hit enter
click on the startup tab
see if any of those say anything about paint shop pro and de-select it. close the dialog, it will ask you to restart click no. change each account and then restart. The first time you log in it will give you a message along the lines of "running with customized startup" or something like that. Just click "don't show this message again" and you should be all set.
 
Sounded real easy! :)

WEnt to my own account and saw what you were talking aboiut... piece of cake, but everything is running fine in my account, so I made no changes. Went to my stepdaughter's account, but lo-and-behold, I've set her to a limited access, so I couldn't change anything due to those security settings... went back into my account, gave her administrator access, went back to her account, typed in the MSCONFIG and .... nothing that looked remotely related to paint shop pro..thought there was a a file labeled "ps2" but I wasn't sure enough about it to mess with it. Went to hubby's account, and same thing.

Any other suggestions?
 
In MSCONFIG, if it is a "needed" file, it will warn you not to check the box in most cases. I have disabled "ps2" and have had no problems.

Ciao,
Rick
 
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