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To: thecow who wrote (33482)	3/31/2003 6:25:14 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

Hi, TC. I like cookies, too. They speed things up. Though there's still something spooky about the concept. Here's a question I apologize for in advance. It's about an Apple computer, which I don't myself have. I was away from home for a few days and stayed in a friend's apartment. I used her Mac to check out a few things. This friend, who only recently got her computer, thinks I'm a computer whiz, so that tells you something. She complained that when she turned on her Mac this morning, it had two mysterious ailments. One was that her homepage, the NYT, was "tiny." I explained how to make it big again (and she was thrilled to discover that you can make windows different sizes.) The other is stranger. She says her Trash has been changed. "What did you do to my garbage?" is what she said, actually. She says that where her trash can used to be on her desktop is now a sort of silhouette of a trashcan that has dots on it, and nothing happens if you click on it. But that on another place on the desktop is a small version of a trashcan different from the original in that it isn't in the same place, doesn't have dots, and instead of having an open lid it has a closed one. She says that if you click on it, you see all the trash that was in the original. She wants her original trash can back. I have no idea what to suggest. Does anyone here have a Mac, and some suggestion as to what might have happened to change the appearance and location of her Trash, and to leave the ghostly dotted trash can over where the original used to be?

To: thecow who wrote (33482)	4/1/2003 9:01:44 AM
From: gypsees	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Hi TC. I checked out the site you linked and wanted to thank you for sharing it. I have a question. I looked around and saw the link for Power Toys. In the faq it doesn't address W2K but in a different link on the site, to a different site, it says those power toys are also usable on w2K. Here's a link to that site: aumha.org When you click on the faq from the posted link above, it redirects to the faq on the original site which doesn't address W2K. Do you know if I can download and use power toys for W2K? I loved those applications when they originally came out and have used them until I upgraded to the new OS. Thanks, Robyn