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   02-25-20 05:20 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Quit XP "Remembering"   
   Howdy! August,   
   Thanks for the Reply, forgive me for not getting ROUNDTUIT until now.   
   Its been a Month.   
      
   I forget to write Replies to messages after I wake up, if the hour was   
   late when I read the message and I go to sleep.   
      
   The TIME was 21:04 when I grabbed the QWK Packet Your message came in.   
      
   YES! "I" have that FIRST SIGN of Old Age,   
      
   (and have had it for 30 or so Years).   
      
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    AA> On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":   
      
    EV> When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and   
    EV> want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently   
    EV> used and wants to put it there.   
      
    AA> Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used   
    AA> directory, not XP.   
      
   Many times I wished "the program" would remember the Settings I had set   
   for the Printer.   
   I Save many things by using the DoPDF Print Driver to put what I see on a   
   Web Page in a File -"AND"- whatever Text File I want to Print to the   
   Printer gets Saved as a PDF file.   
      
   OH!, The Life with a Computer is Fun!   
      
   At least around here it is.   
      
   How about at Your place?   
      
    AA> When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory,   
    AA> it will Save it in that same directory.  Save As.. behaves the same   
    AA> way.   
      
    AA> Wordpad behaves the same way for me.   
      
   It is NEW Notepad files being Saved to a strange to me for the TOPIC the   
   Text File is about.   
      
    AA> When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use   
    AA> the directory where you last saved a previous file.   
      
    AA> That seems rather convenient, for me.   
      
   My problem is I have many Sub-DIrectories I Save Notepad Files in.   
   BBS Stuff goes here, Operating System Stuff goes there, Medical Stuff gets   
   put somewhere else, Home Stuff has its place too.   
      
   If I want to Open a Text File about a BBS Subject, I have a Quicklaunch Icon   
   I Click for that, when I want to look at something about Medical I have a   
   Quicklaunch Icon to Click on to take me to the Sub-Directory where I have   
   put that type of file.  Etc., Etc., Etc. ........   
      
   You know the "Burger King" slogan: "You can have it YOUR WAY!", that's how   
   I want "Life in the Computer Room" to be.   
      
   Tain't So here, but I turn "IT" on everytime I have a chance.   
      
    EV> I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants   
    EV> it to go, to where I want it to go.   
      
    AA> Easy, use Save As.., then you have the option to put it somewhere else.   
      
   Thank You VERY MUCH for that suggestion.   
      
   I've been trying to remember to do that since I read Your Reply last Month.   
   It hard to break the habit of using Keyboard Shortcuts like CTRL-s when I   
   first Save a portion of a new NotePad or WordPad File I'm writing.   
      
    EV> Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file   
    EV> will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent   
    EV> Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find   
    EV> that File.   
      
    AA> Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu.  As you   
    AA> hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that   
    AA> reveals the location.   
      
   I sometimes have done that, one of my problems is I Look At OR Make MANY   
   MANY Files and the Drop Down List for Recent Documents no longer shows that   
   particular File in it.   
      
   I just Pressed Start - Documents and there are just 15 Recent Files in the   
   Drop Down listing.   
      
   Pressing Start - Doucments - My Documents has over 50 Files and Many   
   Sub-Directories and most of those Files and Sub-Directories I haven't used   
   for many Years.   
      
   When I got this XP box in June 2006 it came with 1MB DDR-2 RAM and the HDD   
   was 250GB.   
   That 250GB HDD was very close to getting filled up so I put a 2TB HDD in the   
   box and Cloned what was on the original HDD on to the new HDD.   
      
   I "think" it may be a long time before I start sweating aging about "IF" I   
   have room to Download a 15GB File, or something like that.   
      
    EV> Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit   
    EV> Remembering recently used Sub-Directories?   
      
    AA> Save As.. seems to be your best bet.  Then you can "put" the document   
    AA> wherever you want.   
      
   Again, I say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! for that suggestion.   
      
   In 1958 I passed the F.C.C.'s Amatuer Radio Novice test and received a   
   License to operate on the Ham Bands.   
   Back then, I knew of two local Ham Radio Clubs.   
      
   A lot of my High School HAM Friends were menbers of one of those Clubs.   
      
   I joined the Other Club, because I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT the Older, Experienced   
   Hams who were Members of that Other Club ALREADY KNEW.   
   (In later Years I joined the other Club also)   
      
   I can't remember if any of the Older Hams ever operated "Spark Gap"   
   Transmitters, but They have been on the Air a lot and learned many things by   
   experience.   
      
   That is why I BBS.   
      
   i WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW ALREADY.   
      
   How else could I ever achieve the Status of being A Mister Know-It-All?   
      
   And I THANK YOU! Again for the Suggestion to use SaveAs... instead  of doing   
   as I always did by Saving a new Text File with the CTRL-s shortcut.   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR     .  .   
      
      
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