On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:07:13 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , JimK
scribeth thus
/ Played here fine on a WIN 7 machine thanks... Just as you might well
expect. :-)

Well it just works;!...

--Tony Sayer/q

FSV of works...

Jim K

Yep ticks tickety boo;!..

I like this Opera one 'tho/?...

Am I to take it that you've actually installed Opera 12.16?

If so, you need to know its default setup is a little kakameemee imo.
I suspect you might like it more when you press the "Opera" button
just below 'File' on the extreme LHS of the toolbar and click on the
'Show Menu Bar' 2nd item up from the bottom of that dropdown list.

After that, click on view and move the cursor to the 'Toolbars' and
slide across to select and enable Panels, Main Bar, Address Bar and
the Navigation Bar in turn until you have a more bog standard
complement of toolbars.

After that, from 'Tools' select preferences at the bottom of that
list (or just press CTRL+ F12) so you can change its startup
behaviour.

What I normally do is to google for wikipedia and go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page before setting my homepage
preference so that I can change the default 'continue from last time'
to 'start with homepage' and click the Use Current button to set it to
wikipedia. You can use the same routine if you wish to set a homepage
of your choosing.

I've got this routine off to a fine art after installing the one and
only web browser I can trust to do the right thing with PCs brought in
for repair. I reckon my customers can handle the idea that there's no
need to do something so stupid as to set the homepage to google.co.uk
when the default search engine is already set for google (such default
being adjustable to any search engine of your choosing). In any case,
the wikipedia page is as close as you'll get to a page devoid of fancy
advertising and other annoyances.

Another thing you might want to do is reprogram the default Speed
Dial boxes to useful websites or simply blank them out. I've got the
first four programmed to bleb.org's BBC1 through to BBC4 TV schedules
and the next 4 to the actual BBC TV schedule pages (the ninth is left
blank).

Strictly speaking I could leave them all blank and just create a
bleb.org and a BBCTV folder in the bookmarks list with each of the 4
shortcuts stored there (I've already done this for the BBC TV listings
pages which lets me open all folder items in one go).

Another nice feature is the excellent download manager which will
start buffering the download as soon as you've pressed the first save
button that takes you to the 'save to' dialogue box where you can
decide on the destination of the downloaded file if you don't want to
use the last location.

If you're downloading a CD iso's worth from a fast site, you can take
your time browsing and even creating new folders safe in the knowledge
that you're not holding up the download process as is the case with IE
(I'm not sure about FF - I suspect it does the same, so nothing new to
you but you're welcome to advise me if it is otherwise :-).
--
J B Good