Tom,

I see you have a gMail account. Do you access your gMail account with an
email client, like Outlook Express? If so, what do you use for your POP3
and SMTP settings or ougoing incoming and outgoing configuration settings?

Ron, K8HSY

At 07:23 PM 7/2/2013 -0400, you wrote:
>Howard:
>
>At the risk of unnecessarily prolonging this thread, I'll just say that this 
>is one of many things that absolutely drives me crazy about Windows 
>operating systems.  Specifically, why does everything have to be so 
>complicated, and why do fundamentally important functions and/or processes 
>have to be hidden somewhere in obscure lists of options that you almost have 
>to be a computer programmer to understand?
>
>Things like this are causing me to want to switch to a MAC as soon as 
>possible.
>
>Right now, the only thing that is holding me back is that my University does 
>everything in Windows, and I worry about significant compatibility issues 
>between work and home.
>
>Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:48 AM
>Subject: Who knew?!!
>
>
>>I have been reaming people out for years about sending me inaccessible PDF
>> documents.
>> I got an important one last night, that I couldn't open with anything on 
>> my
>> main computer, which is an XP machine.
>> I sent it upstairs to my windows 7 laptop, and it opened right up.
>> Well I completely removed and re-installed acrobat on the XP machine, and
>> this time I got a dialog, after the accessibility settings dialog.
>> It said that in windows XP, some documents will not display if acrobat is
>> set to be in protected mode.
>> Their instructions are not clear, or misleading at best.
>> You go to the edit menu, preferences, advanced security, and turn off
>> protected mode.
>> The computer has to be restarted, and then the documents become visible in
>> acrobat and windows xp.
>> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
>> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>> 
>
Dr. Ronald E. Milliman, retired Professor Western Kentucky University
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