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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    Ramette - change your view options

    Internet explorer - got to menu at top - Page -text size

    * I'm just guessing your using internet explorer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Ramette wrote: »
    this evening the font size on my screen is HUGE - the google toolbar at the top is in normal font but say if i look at boards or my email or other internet pages the font is huge so the page doesnt fit on the screen - HELP!
    Hold down the Ctrl key (down on the bottom left of your Keyboard) and then press the - key (Minus key, Up the Top right of your Keyboard) if you make it to small, you can make it bigger by pressing the + key.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    Hal E - THANK YOU! that worked.. wow never knew that i was in display control panel and view and reducing every feckin thing but now i have my screen back :)

    if you were here i would give you a big KISS xx:)

    Golden Virginia thanks for the suggestion


  • Registered Users Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    super_funny_cute%20images_a7c91cf7cf762ba2a1c417367a283b12.jpg

    Sorry, just practicing .
    Didn't know one could post an image direct from google without first putting it in photobucket or whatever until I seen this thread.
    Thanks folks and good thread.

    Edit..for HE :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    ^^^You could have at least put up a funny pic...


    ALpLJ.jpg

    K3DrM.jpg

    qZrgr.jpg

    L6F5X.jpg

    R94la.png

    :D
    vbulletinALpLJ.jpgvbulletin[I


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭Fittle


    Ok so, I figured out how to multi-quote vaious threads thanks to this thread...now could someone tell me how I 'multi-quote' from the same post? Some posters have a tendancy to pick every sentence I write, and comment on it...how do I get them back, so to speak:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Fittle wrote: »
    Ok so, I figured out how to multi-quote vaious threads thanks to this thread...now could someone tell me how I 'multi-quote' from the same post? Some posters have a tendancy to pick every sentence I write, and comment on it...how do I get them back, so to speak:p

    When I quote you this is at the start of the quote QUOTE=Fittle;75840215 - it will be in these brackets [] but to show you this I had to take it out of them or it won't look right.

    This is at the end of your /QUOTE also in brackets [] but same as above to display right.

    Now if you want to break a quote up into pieces you need to put in extra QUOTE=Fittle;75840215 and /QUOTE at the start of each line of text you want to quote.

    You can just copy and paste it to the front and end of each line you want to quote.

    Use the "Preview Post" button when your're trying it out, you can keep fiddiling with it and keep previewing it till you get.


    Fittle wrote: »
    now could someone tell me how I 'multi-quote' from the same post?

    This is from the middle of your post with QUOTE=Fittle;75840215 at the beginning and /QUOTE at the end.....inside the brackets []


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    I think that's fairly clear but shout back if it's not....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    What Hal is saying is that you enclose the text you what to show in Quote tags so that it looks like this:

    [noparse]
    you enclose the text you what to show in Quote tags
    [/noparse]


    The tags are almost always in the form of open the tag, close the tag.
    [noparse][img][/img]
    [font][/font]
    [/noparse]

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,777 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    OldGoat wrote: »
    What Hal is saying is that you enclose the text you what to show in Quote tags so that it looks like this:

    [noparse] [/noparse]


    The tags are almost always in the form of open the tag, close the tag.
    [noparse][img][/img]

    [font][/font]
    [/noparse]

    Oh who's a clever old goat then! I was going to ask you how you did that but when I replied with 'quote' I saw the noparse thing...

    In the mean time I was trying to put up a you tube link and it did not work. I will try again here so ignore me if I make a hames of it again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,777 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    http://youtu.be/pyj2qL-bQ4E

    ok see if this works - I'm on a '60s fest tonight!


    ok, I clicked on Youtube link then inserted http://youtu.be/pyj2qL-bQ4E so what went wrong?

    I am trying to get the actual pic to embed not just the link


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    i left a post for you on the other forum but..
    (1) click youtube button
    (2) copy only the end of the code in your you tube address bar*** the numbers and letters code listed after the = sign

    so it is


    this particular video was more complicated because it had another = code after the first = code.
    Just use the first code after the first = pyj2qL-bQ4E
    Dont use the bit after the second = &feature=youtu.be

    * often there isnt a second =


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    What Hal is saying is that you enclose the text you what to show in Quote tags so that it looks like this:

    [noparse] [/noparse]


    [HTML]The tags are almost always in the form of open the tag, close the tag.[/HTML]
    [noparse][img][/img]

    [font][/font]
    [/noparse]


    Just trying..pay no heed.

    What is that???? lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭Fittle


    Fittle wrote: »
    Ok so, I figured out how to multi-quote vaious threads thanks to this thread...
    now could someone tell me how
    I 'multi-quote' from the same post? Some posters have a tendancy to pick every sentence
    I write, and comment on it
    ...how do I get them back, so to speak:p

    LIke this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭Fittle


    Ok, so that didn't work above!!!

    I wrote
    before and after each few words I wanted to multi-quote..still got it wrong though!!

    I've seen some threads where people reply pretty quickly to a previous thread, quoting and commenting on every second sentence - do they actually use those keys [] etc, or is there a quicker way that they multi-quote each sentence???

    Maybe I should just reconsider trying to multi-quote from one post!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    I agree Fittle :)
    We'll just go back to pen and paper ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,777 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If you do the
    thing before the first sentence that you want to quote then copy it (quick way - ctrl c) and paste it (ctrl v) at the end of the sentence then pop in the forward slash /. The first
    will stay in your memory so you can just paste it every time you need it, and put in the / manually.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Ok here's the text as it looks in the editor:

    [noparse]
    This is a quote...
    [/noparse]



    And here it is as it will look in the thread.
    This is a quote...

    So, anything wrapped in those quote things (and dont forget that the ending one has a / at the start), shows as a quote.

    This works for lots of things like, images, youtubes etc.
    There is a full list of them here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/misc.php?do=bbcode
    (cue a rash of people writing upside down and back to front :p)


    DeV.

    ps: For the advanced users struggling to help here, there is a very nifty tag called [noparse] [/noparse] which will stop Boards from parsing the code and displaying it rendered, and instead spits it out as raw text. Neat huh!


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Now if you want to embed quotes you simply put them inside each other, so:
    [noparse]
    this is the first quoted line
    this is the reply
    [/noparse]



    produces this:
    this is the first quoted line
    this is the reply



    Note that the first set of tags completely envelops the second. The second quote is completely embedded in the first.

    You can wrap quote tags around something quickly by selecting the text and then pressing this button: quote.gif (its across the top of the editor).


    Hope thats clear!

    DeV.


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  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    BBDBB wrote: »
    I dont think After Hours has the images icon in its chat section only in the sub forum at the top of its menu
    Some forums have image embedding turned off so that the usual clowns can post goatse or tubgirl to shock unsuspecting readers. Do NOT google those images unless you want to lose your lunch, horrendous doesnt begin to describe them.

    Hence it is altered to a link on some forums. Here, we allow direct embedding because we presume you all know better :)

    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    DeVore wrote: »
    Ok here's the text as it looks in the editor:
    ...(cue a rash of people writing upside down and back to front :p)
    Yeah, thanks for that mate. You'll be teaching 'em txtspk next.
    DeVore wrote: »
    Here, we allow direct embedding because we presume you all know better :)
    /Whistles innocently

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    For the avoidance of doubt

    I dont know any better:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    goatse and tubgirl....:eek::eek::eek:

    hehehe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I should ban you for making me check that those links were safe. I had to click each with my eyes half closed, just in case.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    goatse and tubgirl....:eek::eek::eek:

    hehehe
    OldGoat wrote: »
    I should ban you for making me check that those links were safe. I had to click each with my eyes half closed, just in case.
    LOL :D

    When you hover over a link, a little popup sort of thing should appear down at the bottom of your screen, bottom left if using Firefox, it'll tell you where a link will take you.

    Handy tip for anyone that doesn't know it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I should ban you for making me check that those links were safe. I had to click each with my eyes half closed, just in case.

    Im afraid to click them :o

    I got brave..ya brat Hal lol


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Though be careful.... nasty people are now hiding the links via other website. For example, say I want to link to DeVs Nasty Site... well you can move the mouse over that link and see that it likes to www.devsnastysite.com down the bottom of your browser. That way you can see what its going to take you to before you go there. Job's oxo.


    BUT if I put my link through a link shortener (a site which makes long links short), it has the unfortunate affect of masking where you will be taken if you like to it.
    So, My Nasty Site now doesn't give you any hints as to where you will be brought. Try it out (its ok, its safe and doesnt go to anything nasty!)

    Hope that helps!

    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    I Cant see anyones avitars..wheres um gone? :confused:

    I ticked the box in the box ticking place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    chucken1 wrote: »
    I Cant see anyones avitars..wheres um gone? :confused:

    I ticked the box in the box ticking place.
    In your Control Panel in Edit Options, scroll down to Thread Display Options, tick that "Show Avatars" box.

    Or is that the box you ticked?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Got it Hal thanks :) I hadnt clicked 'save changes' :o

    If I had a brain Id be dangerous.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    Good lord i can now see pictures beside peoples' names.. .its nearly too much! Ha ha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    How do put in " location" on your boards profile? I have tried but i am baffled!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    How do put in " location" on your boards profile? I have tried but i am baffled!


    its what yer up to people want to know

    not where you do it :p



    if you go to your User CP (stands for Control Panel)
    click on the Edit Details bit (top left) and its an option I think about half way down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    Thanks BBDBB location not there on my user CP - i have searched for it umpteen times - but maybe as you say its not important as what I'm up to!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    I just changed mine using the above instructions I gave you

    if you go to your User CP and click on Edit Details, how many options do you get?

    I get ones for twitter and all sorts, my location is one of them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    Oh thanks BBDBB - i got it - see - i put in Ireland! ( Will think up of something more creative soon)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    you mean I visited my own page twice and thought of my own location and wrote 2, now 3 posts to you..............so you could put in "Ireland".....................................................


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    No I don't mean what you accuse - they're youre thoughts not mine - i was just asking for help on this forum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    you asked

    you received


    seems like a good service


    am I not allowed a small eye roll at the result?;):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    This thread has turned into a Boards helpline. Thats not a bad thing but I believe the original idea was much broader then just Boards.

    How do I break through a password locked laptop. I'll search for the answer myself but just thought I could shortcut here to see if anyone has a quick and easy route to take.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    OldGoat wrote: »
    This thread has turned into a Boards helpline. Thats not a bad thing but I believe the original idea was much broader then just Boards.

    How do I break through a password locked laptop. I'll search for the answer myself but just thought I could shortcut here to see if anyone has a quick and easy route to take.

    What OS? (I'm assuming windows but ya never know!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    It's a windows OS but not sure what version yet. (Forgot to say that it's not my laptop). I'm texting the owner to find out what he's using.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    OldGoat wrote: »
    It's a windows OS but not sure what version yet. (Forgot to say that it's not my laptop). I'm texting the owner to find out what he's using.

    Grand so.

    If it's XP:
    Ask them to try booting in safe mode.
    (Turn on the computer, hit F8 before the Windows boot thing appears, Choose "Boot in safe mode")
    It'll look a bit weird, but that's ok. Safe mode is your regular computer but with various tech stuff turned off. For safety!
    With any luck, you'll see an account called "Administrator"
    Head into that account and change the passwords for any user you please!

    If it's not XP, they might need to use a password reset program. Or reinstall the entire system, deleting all data on the computer. :/

    Windows makes things kinda secure. :(

    Edit: If the user can get into the admin account, by default there is no password on it. Using the admin account they can reset all passwords.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Is this a dos laptop before they boot

    If so get the model number and do a search for manufacturers password , if you can't find it online ring the manufacture


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    A few days ago I logged on in the morning and was out until eveningtime ...... when I got on the laptop I was still logged on. How come?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    OldGoat wrote: »
    This thread has turned into a Boards helpline. Thats not a bad thing but I believe the original idea was much broader then just Boards.

    How do I break through a password locked laptop. I'll search for the answer myself but just thought I could shortcut here to see if anyone has a quick and easy route to take.
    Google trinity rescue kit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Spread wrote: »
    A few days ago I logged on in the morning and was out until eveningtime ...... when I got on the laptop I was still logged on. How come?


    when you log on, do you tick the Remember Me box?

    if you dont you log out automatically after 15/20 mins I think


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    I still don't know how to put in fadas - I've got an AZERTY keyboard (as I happen to live in France) why isn't there an easy way of doing it? Here if I need to put a letter with an accent on it, it's already on the keyboard. I've seen that long long ago (fada fada) they did in fact have an Irish keyboard with letters with fadas already on them. It's just so frustrating. There's a lot more that I don't know how to do - as I have never been on any kind of IT training course, so up till now, I've been muddling through.
    &é"'(-è_çà)=
    azertyuiop¨^
    qsdfghjklm%ù*
    wxcvbn,;:!
    and I don't even have a key for the euro sign!(chuis nul en informatique!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    try híttíng thé kéy whilst yóu hóld down the "Alt Gr" key

    my euro sign is the alternative to the number 4 and $ sign, again pressing Alt Gr is what accesses it €


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Or if you hit start and type charmap into the box, you'll have all the random characters you'd ever want.


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