[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-02-05 kl. 22:37, skrev johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk:
> On Monday, 5 February 2018 21:25:39 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
>> Den 2018-02-05 kl. 20:39, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
>>> In article <p5ab9s$2i8$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>>> Den 2018-02-05 kl. 19:50, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
>>>>> I have a client complaining about something because they use WEENDOZE.  I've
>>>>> borrowed a WEENDOZE laptop so that I could see their complaint first hand.  I
>>>>> have a file on a USB stick but I don't know how to find the USB stick when I
>>>>> plug it in.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess it is a Windows issue and that you have a Windows laptop.
>>>> If not, you can disregard the following.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It should pop-up as an extra disk right under C: (and D: and whatever
>>>> other disks there are). Have you opened the Windows Explorer and checked?
>>>
>>> Mac and Linus give me desktop icon when a USB drive is inserted. Nonesuch
>>> with WEENDOZE.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Depending on how the laptop has been setup, and what OS version it has,
>>>> you might also get an automatic popup asking what you'd like to do
>>>> with the USB stick. There should be one option to simply open up
>>>> a Windows Explorer window pointing to the stick.
>>>>
>>>> But then, I do not see how you should be able to "see their complaint"
>>> >from an USB memory stick? Have they written some documentation about it
>>>> that is stored on the memory stick?
>>>
>>> The complaint is that data I'm writing, which looks good when using OSX
>>> or Linux displays oddly on WEENDOZE.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> And finaly, entering "how to see a usb memory stick windows" in Google
>>>> gave a over 3 million hits. It would surprice me if not one of the
>>>> first entries in the list would give you some hint also...
>>>
>>> I did and most mention Explorer....
>>
>> "Windows Explorer" (the "file manager").
>> *Not* "Internet Explorer" (the web browser).
>>
>>
>>> However, beyond a normal URL, I don't
>>> understand how to specify a USB device and it would seem I'd need its
>>> path regardless.
>>
>> Of course, since you are using the wrong tool.
>>
>> B.t.w, what version of Windows are you using?
>>
>> What is the actual issue? Maybe you can make a reproducer
>> (without real data) file that anyway can look at?
>>
>> Or just get someone, who is a little more up-to-date on todays
>> standard IT environments, to help you.
> 
> Fwiw, widely available non-MS browsers (e.g. Chrome,
> Firefox, etc) can be used to explore a filesystem on a
> Window box, after a fashion. E.g. use file://C:/ as the
> url and see what happens. Same goes for USB sticks, CD
> drives, etc. No idea if this approach works with any or
> all of the common MS-supplied browsers.

Yes, you might be able to use a browser also, but why take
the hard route?

So, open a "Windows Explorer" session and see if the USB
memory stick is there or not. It will usually show up as E:
or F: depending in what is else on that specific laptop.