[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

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In article <p5ajtv$2i8$4 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>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.

If I knew how to get to that, I'd do so.  Why do they make it so difficult.
My OSX shows it as a USB device on my desktop.  On Linux, I get an idon in
its task bar.

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