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- Windows Vista >> Downloaded files go to local temp internet directoryWhen I've downloaded files from the net, I choose a directory to save the
file but then get error message saying that I don't have permission to save
files in that location and to ask the Administrator for permission. I am
the Administrator and I have no other users. All the files downloaded go to
the Local temp file since I don't have permission.
I can't figure out how to give myself permission --- I've been through the
help files but still have no clue. Can anyone help?
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- Windows Vista >> Startup and reliabilityDoes Vista take as long to startup as everyone suggests? Is using it a
satisfying experience or a frustrating one? Does it hang a lot? I need a new
computer but am turned off by Vista reviews. I am considering a Mac. Should a
take the plunge or not?!
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- Windows Vista >> Keystroke commandsI seem to be activating keystroke commands without knowing it. In almost any
program (running Vista) I can lose all data typed by hitting a few keys -
still haven't figured out what they are. Also, Tab key now tabs thru open
programs, not thru the document on screen I am on. As I type, cursor moves
to another place in the document. Does anyone know where I can view
keystroke commands that I apparently set up without meaning to. thanks.
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- Windows Vista >> Vista 2008. New Tips, Tricks & Tools!Annoyance Buster: Make Vista's User Account Control, Keep Your Data
Safe by Reorganizing Windows' Folders, Work Smarter With Vista's New
Productivity Tools, Vista's 'Extras', Make Random Reboots Tell You
What's Up, Activate Vista's Snipping Tool and more at:
http://vista-tricks-tips.blogspot.com
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- Windows Vista >> I was right about Vista all along...I know someone else pasted this link before but I love to see it again! LOL
Is it just perhaps that this guy is saying the exact things I have been
saying for the last 15 months, yet I have been attacked by vista fanatics
and dumb MVP's for?
And again is it perhaps that if I was right those stupid naysayers were
WRONG?
YOU BET YA! For those who dont know, I am the user formally known as
Tiberius...
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)
customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for "Windows Seven,"
currently expected in 2010. There's a feeling of inevitability about the
transition, as if it's just a question of when to write the checks to
Microsoft and do the tedious work of switching operating systems. Yet as
Vista celebrates its first birthday, the chances are increasing that many
users will never see it on their desktops.
Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting
the operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn't
benefit from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year
after it began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are
running Vista.
Financial issues could also work against Vista adoption during 2008. The
sub-prime mortgage meltdown may foreshadow a recession; at minimum, the
financial services industry is certain to scale back its computing needs.
Even companies that budgeted a Vista upgrade in 2008 may reconsider the
decision if the economy turns sour.
There's no doubt that XP is the current king of Windows, and it will stay
that way for a while. Microsoft's XP support continues through the end of
2011. Microsoft is set to deliver XP Service Pack 3 in the first half of
2008. It's not set to be as revolutionary as Service Pack 2, so it shouldn't
be as tough to deploy, but SP3 includes more than just a bunch of security
patches that are already available. After many years of tweaking, tuning,
and training, XP is finally living up to the slogan Microsoft coined: "It
just works."
Given the slow adoption of Vista, an uncertain economy, and customer
contentment with XP, it's becoming a safe bet that Microsoft's XP support
will not end in 2011. Too many critical customers will be running XP in 2011
for Microsoft to even consider dropping what they call Extended Support,
which includes security patches. There's even a precedent: Windows 98.
Support for that OS was originally supposed to end in January 2004, but
Microsoft announced that they would continue support until June 2006.
If history replays itself, Microsoft will wait until the absolute last
minute to announce that XP support will be extended. In the case of Windows
98, the announcement was made just weeks before support was to expire. If
customers know that XP is safe for years to come, they'll have even fewer
reasons to upgrade to Vista, and that list is already too short for
Microsoft's comfort.
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- Windows Vista >> Vista Won't Sleep and successfully resume.Hi,
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on a slightly older machine with
2.66ghz Pentium 4 and 2gb ram and can not get Vista to sleep. If I select
sleep from the power options on start menu, or press the sleep button on my
keyboard the machine will power down as if entering sleep mode, but it will
then very quickly restart, however the desktop won't load. The screen stays
blank and the only option left is to press the reset button located on the
tower.
However when I hit the reset button the machine does not simply reset every
time. On occassions it will, but on other occasions it will resume Windows
from the sleep state earlier requested. But the desktop will still not load.
My monitor stays totall blank.
I have tried the obvious potential solutions including disabling the ability
of my mouse and keyboard to resume the computer from sleep mode, in the
anticipation that I would simply use the power button. I have also disabled
the ability of the ethernet port to wake the computer from sleep mode when I
thought it possible that my ADSL connection was waking the machine. I have
also updated my graphics port drivers too.
Could this be a hardware issue or does it sound like something which is
related to Windows, and if so does anyone know if MS is planning to issue
any patch or any fix in a future Service Pack for Vista?
Cheers,
Bradley
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- Windows Vista >> what did I tell ya?those who are regulars know that I was saying this exact thing several
months ago..
Ok the stupid regulars will never agree with me, even if they start working
with comptuers as I have predicted in several years.. why? Well they will
not connect what I have said with reality..
I guess Im right again... do I see a pattern here? LOL
I am talking about the WEB BASED OS's and the FACT that not many people seem
to like or want vista. See LINK
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9838338-7.html
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- Windows Vista >> Vista Ultimate Dream SceneWhen I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great. Then,
when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
(basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene stopped
working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around on
it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just wondering
if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
Thanks!1
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- Windows Vista >> Vista Pre/Post SP1Prior to SP1 certain programs would not/could not save or change files in
c:\program files. Since SP1 they can. What did SP1 do to change this?
Thank you.
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- Windows Vista >> Scroll BarsI'm new to Windows Vista and lost my scroll bars. I don't have tools,
option, view or preferences. So, how do I find my scroll bars again? Please
help. Thank you for any suggestions.
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- Windows Vista >> network printer problemI have a Minolta Pagepro 8L laserprinter active in my network. I can't add
this printer to my new notebook with Vista. Vista doesn't recognice te
printer/driver (he see the printer on the PC with W98), but can't install
him.
How can I solve this problem?
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- Windows Vista >> Annoying "Flicker" Problem written 4/10/08 by Island MommaIs there anyone out there with a solution to this issue. I have a Tohsiba
purchased 1 year ago (running Vista), and had this isue, but being a computer
novice, always assumed it was something I was doing. However, just bought my
spouse a new Acer (again, running Vista) and having the same issue on that
one, so I decided to do some research. It has to be a Vista issue since it is
occurring on 3 different computers being used by 3 different people. I could
not find a response to Island Momma's request for help.
Pleeeeease, if someone out there has a solution for this, can you post and
help us out.
Island Momma wrote:
Got this dang computer (HP) with Vista Home. It drives me nuts. When I am
> typing it suddenly does something (maybe called a flicker) and the curser
> ends up somewhere else on the page.... (and the letters get typed out of
> place)
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> I have my monitor set for 1024 X 768, I tried to raise the Monitor setting
> screen refresh rate, but it is set at 60 Hertz and there is no other option
> for it. If I increase the pixels there is still only 60 Hertz setting
> option.
>
> What is this problem and how can I get it fixed. Getting tired of screwed
> up text .
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me!
> Marianne
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sasman
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- Windows Vista >> A real nice story about Kevin Putzke - Just FYIThere was a guy Kevin Putzke riding through the desert on his camel. Kevin
had
been travelling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there
were no women in the desert so Kevin turned to his camel.
Kevin tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran
away. Kevin ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride
again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he
turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to
it again and go on it again.
Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a
road. There was a broken down car with three big chested beautiful blondes
sitting in it.
Kevin went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help.
The hottest girl said ,"If you fix our car we will do anything you want."
Kevin knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash.
When he finished are three girls asked, "How could we ever repay you Mr."
After thinking for a short while he replied,"Could you hold my camel?"
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- Windows Vista >> Adobe ReaderI have found that some of my professional materials which used Adobe 5 are
not compatible with Adobe 8 which is included in Vista Home Premium. I
notice all the problems installing Adobe in Vista. I have been told to
remove Adobe 8 from my computer and install Adobe 5. Is this a good idea in
the opinion of this group?
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arjunb
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
FYI
I just install Ethereal (very popular packet sniffer) into Leopard on my new
MacBook.
It takes about 2.5 minutes to install Ethereal in Vista, it takes about 3.5
hours in Leopard if you have complete and accurate install info; I could not
get such info, so it took considerably more time.
The following is a post I have made which lists the steps I used:
Re: Installing Ethereal into Leopard via Darwin Ports
It should take about 3.5 hours to complete if your setup is similar to mine:
2GHz Core 2 Dual Intel CPU, Santa Rosa chipset MacBook with 4 GB memory, and
a fast DSL (310 KBps DTR) Internet connection.
1. Create an Apple Developer user acct if you do not have one:
http://developer.apple.com
Required to download Xcode
2. Download/install Xcode Developer Tools:
(it is on OS X DVD #1, but download may be more current)
Go to http://developer.apple.com
Do a search on Xcode
Select Xcode 3
Login
Download stats:
File size: 1.16GB
Time: 1 hr, 10 min at 310 KB/sec
Reboot after download to increase amt of free memory
Double-click the DMG file
Double-click the XcodeTools.mpkg file
Time: 8 min
Reboot to increase free memory
3. Verify X11 is installed:
It is by default in Leopard
(for Tiger, you must install it from the OS X DVD disc)
4. Install X11SDK:
Insert Apple OS X DVD disc #1
Dbl click on "Optional Installs"
Dbl click on Packages folder
Dbl click on X11DSK.pkg file
Time: 30 seconds
5. Install Darwin Ports:
Download from: http://darwinports.com/download/
Double-click the downloaded DMG file
Double-click the .pkg file
Time: 10 min
6. Update Darwin Ports:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port -d selfupdate
If you get following error message: (I did)
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldnt sync dports tree:
sync failed doing rsync
Then disable all firewalls on the Mac
(my NAT-router was not a problem)
Total time: 2 min
Check amt of free memory
7. Install Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port install ethereal
Time: 1 hr, 15 min
CPU usage: both cores were used heavily at times
8. Build the font cache before launching Ethereal for the first time:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo fc-cache
Do not need to run it again before using Ethereal
Total time: Few seconds
9: Run Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal
10: If Ethereal crashes: (mine did)
And if Terminal.app shows following error message:
"BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)"
Then download/install X11 v 2.1.3 from:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
(Leopard's X11 has a bug)
11. Install AquaEthereal 1.2 to launch Ethereal from the Dock:
Download it from:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/AquaEthereal.shtml
Dbl click the .dmg dnload
Drag the .app file to the desktop:
(I drug it to the Application folder, but it would not show in the
Application folder)
Then drag that .app file to the Dock
12. Enable firewalls if you disabled them per above
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wrat
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
In article <#EMail@HideDomain.com>, CZ <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
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>It should take about 3.5 hours to complete if your setup is similar to mine:
Why didn't you just download the source and build it yourself?
There's a handful of libraries you might or might not need to build first.
I'm not sure what point you meant to get across. Are you
complaining about ethereal (you didn't really install ethereal, did you?
That's obsolete and unsupported now. You really installed the current
wireshark, right?), OSX, or Windows?
>10: If Ethereal crashes: (mine did)
If ethereal crashes try installing a supported version, i.e.,
www.wireshark.org. The ethereal project was abandoned a year or two
ago when the company the author worked for tried to assert intellectual
property rights to the material.
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
>It should take about 3.5 hours to complete if your setup is similar to
>mine:
Why didn't you just download the source and build it yourself?
There's a handful of libraries you might or might not need to build first.
I'm not sure what point you meant to get across. Are you
complaining about ethereal (you didn't really install ethereal, did you?
That's obsolete and unsupported now. You really installed the current
wireshark, right?), OSX, or Windows?
>10: If Ethereal crashes: (mine did)
If ethereal crashes try installing a supported version, i.e.,
www.wireshark.org. The ethereal project was abandoned a year or two
ago when the company the author worked for tried to assert intellectual
property rights to the material.
WR:
Being new to OS X, Googling indicated the use of Fink or Darwin Ports (aka
MacPorts) was desirable.
The point I wanted to make was the difference in time and involvement:
2.5 min in Vista on a Dell, and 3.5 hrs in Leopard on the MacBook.
Ethereal has been my std packet sniffer for years in MS op systems.
Yes, I did install Ethereal v .99 on the Mac and it works great. I have not
used WireShark on my MS op system computers yet. Ethereal has been
excellent on my computers.
Ethereal and WireShark both have crashed (per Google) due to a bug in
Leopard's X11.
Apple has release a patch, but I used the one from
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
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wrat
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
In article <EMail@HideDomain.com>, CZ <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
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>The point I wanted to make was the difference in time and involvement:
>2.5 min in Vista on a Dell, and 3.5 hrs in Leopard on the MacBook.
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Are you sure the point you wanted to make wasn't "Vista rulez,
dood, look at how long it takes to install Ethereal on that sux-azz MAC
OS!!!" ?
It took you so long because you didn't do it right. If you'd turned
off the firewall, installed the required patches, and then installed
wireshark it wouldn't have taken all day, would it?
>Ethereal has been my std packet sniffer for years in MS op systems.
A) You should use wireshark, since ethereal is no longer
completely supported
B) You shouldn't use windows machines for packet analysis. The
high OS overhead makes them unreliable for capturing high volume
packet streams. (That being said I mostly use a PII laptop because
98% of this kind of work involves debugging a WAN connection
running at MAYBE 10megabit...)
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
WR:
>> Are you sure the point you wanted to make wasn't "Vista rulez,
dood, look at how long it takes to install Ethereal on that sux-azz MAC
OS!!!" ?
My post was factual only. Users should know one of the issues in using a
Unix based op system.
> >It took you so long because you didn't do it right. If you'd turned
off the firewall, installed the required patches, and then installed
wireshark it wouldn't have taken all day, would it?
Interesting comment. It was installed correctly, as it runs perfectly.
I assume that my notes can be used to install the Darwin Ports port of
WireShark if you simply exchange "wireshark" for "ethereal" in a few places
in my steps.
And I assume it would still take a number of hours.
Also, why don't you post detailed steps for installing WireShark in Leopard,
and compare the time spent vs the time spent installing it in Vista.
>>Ethereal has been my std packet sniffer for years in MS op systems.
> A) You should use wireshark, since ethereal is no longer
completely supported
I have no problems with using what works, and Ethereal works great.
> B) You shouldn't use windows machines for packet analysis. The
high OS overhead makes them unreliable for capturing high volume
packet streams. (That being said I mostly use a PII laptop because
98% of this kind of work involves debugging a WAN connection
running at MAYBE 10megabit...)
Ethereal has worked fine in various MS op systems (Win2k, XP, Vista, Win2k3
server, SBS).
Did you ask me if I capture high volume packet streams?
I have spent about $1,500 on this new MacBook, and I can sincerely say that
it has value.
However, I would not drop my Vista-Dell portable for the MacBook.
The Leopard-MacBook combo is very nice, but I prefer the Vista-Dell combo.
So, do you currently own a Vista machine? Can you see any value in a Vista
computer?
My original post:
FYI
I just install Ethereal (very popular packet sniffer) into Leopard on my new
MacBook.
It takes about 2.5 minutes to install Ethereal in Vista, it takes about 3.5
hours in Leopard if you have complete and accurate install info; I could not
get such info, so it took considerably more time.
The following is a post I have made which lists the steps I used:
Re: Installing Ethereal into Leopard via Darwin Ports
It should take about 3.5 hours to complete if your setup is similar to mine:
2GHz Core 2 Dual Intel CPU, Santa Rosa chipset MacBook with 4 GB memory, and
a fast DSL (310 KBps DTR) Internet connection.
1. Create an Apple Developer user acct if you do not have one:
http://developer.apple.com
Required to download Xcode
2. Download/install Xcode Developer Tools:
(it is on OS X DVD #1, but download may be more current)
Go to http://developer.apple.com
Do a search on Xcode
Select Xcode 3
Login
Download stats:
File size: 1.16GB
Time: 1 hr, 10 min at 310 KB/sec
Reboot after download to increase amt of free memory
Double-click the DMG file
Double-click the XcodeTools.mpkg file
Time: 8 min
Reboot to increase free memory
3. Verify X11 is installed:
It is by default in Leopard
(for Tiger, you must install it from the OS X DVD disc)
4. Install X11SDK:
Insert Apple OS X DVD disc #1
Dbl click on "Optional Installs"
Dbl click on Packages folder
Dbl click on X11DSK.pkg file
Time: 30 seconds
5. Install Darwin Ports:
Download from: http://darwinports.com/download/
Double-click the downloaded DMG file
Double-click the .pkg file
Time: 10 min
6. Update Darwin Ports:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port -d selfupdate
If you get following error message: (I did)
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldnt sync dports tree:
sync failed doing rsync
Then disable all firewalls on the Mac
(my NAT-router was not a problem)
Total time: 2 min
Check amt of free memory
7. Install Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port install ethereal
Time: 1 hr, 15 min
CPU usage: both cores were used heavily at times
8. Build the font cache before launching Ethereal for the first time:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo fc-cache
Do not need to run it again before using Ethereal
Total time: Few seconds
9: Run Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal
10: If Ethereal crashes: (mine did)
And if Terminal.app shows following error message:
"BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)"
Then download/install X11 v 2.1.3 from:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
(Leopard's X11 has a bug)
11. Install AquaEthereal 1.2 to launch Ethereal from the Dock:
Download it from:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/AquaEthereal.shtml
Dbl click the .dmg dnload
Drag the .app file to the desktop:
(I drug it to the Application folder, but it would not show in the
Application folder)
Then drag that .app file to the Dock
12. Enable firewalls if you disabled them per above
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wrat
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
In article <EMail@HideDomain.com>, CZ <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
>WR:
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>My post was factual only. Users should know one of the issues in using a
>Unix based op system.
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Your agenda's showing again.
The bug is in Apple's X11 port. It's got nothing to do with Unix
in general, or even BSD in particular. Wireshark builds just fine on Solaris,
and can be installed painlessly on linux via yum, apt-get, or even <spit> rpm.
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>Interesting comment. It was installed correctly, as it runs perfectly.
Your result was correct, but your procedure was wrong. Sort of like
baking a cake, forgetting to turn the oven on, complaining about Betty
Crocker, ***and then publishing a procedure that includes "FORGET TO TURN
OVEN ON. COME BACK IN FOUR HOURS, WHINE ABOUT RAW CAKE, THEN TURN OVEN ON"*** You could _probably_ leave that part out, hmmmm?
The correct procedure is not 2.5 pages of re-tries. It's just
- turn off firewall
- install required X11 patch
- install wireshark
now, isn't it?
Intellectual dishonesty really ticks me off.
>And I assume it would still take a number of hours.
Umm, try 6 minutes or so.
1. Install X11 (if not installed already) from the MacOS install CD
2. Run System Update or manually get the update from
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html
3. Install wireshark.
BFD.
>I have no problems with using what works, and Ethereal works great.
Well, shit, I bet you'd be interested in the three dozen copies
of Windows 98SE I have in the garage! They work *GREAT*!!!
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
In article <fn3661$est$EMail@HideDomain.com>,
the wharf rat <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
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> The bug is in Apple's X11 port. It's got nothing to do with Unix
BTW this appears to have been fixed in 10.5
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Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBook
> The bug is in Apple's X11 port. It's got nothing to do with Unix
BTW this appears to have been fixed in 10.5
WR:
I am using 10.5.1
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It would have been nice to have an undo function on the desktop that
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Either that,or i'll have to pay more attention to what i'm doing!
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I'm beginning to hate Vista, with all it's inbuilt in quirks. Anybod
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My next step is going to be a disk format and re-install of everythin
but that's going to be a real pain
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Kestrel48
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After burning 4-5 DVDs, Vista keeps on prompting <Unable to format DVD> error.
I finally fed up and restarted Vista and retry again. This time it gives no
problem,..
until I burn 4-5 DVDs ....
Is this the problem with Vista or with my DVD writer?
Regards,
Chris
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- Windows Vista >> quicktime file wont deletehi can someone help please i downloaded a quicktime file it is a movie
trailer of 2000 years bc i tryed to delete it but have had no luck
geting rid of it no matter what i do i canot delete it has anyone had
the same problem? can anyone advise me how to get rid of it i would be
very thankful
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- Windows Vista >> Vista 64bit in domain gpo problemHi All,
Vista is great in a domain I must say. Alot better than XP. Anyway, I have
one issue. How do I set it so the log off button is the default button? At
the moment it's the sleep button. This doesn't work so well. I have tried
changing it under the Start Menu under system in the computer gpo, this
doesn't work though. Seems it is only for the classic startmenu.
Using admx btw.
Thanks,
Gorge
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- Windows Vista >> HHD CapacityHow do I get my computer to tell me how much space is left on the hard drive
"C" It seems to be stuck on the way it was when I first installed Vista,no
matter what I install.
Thanks
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- Windows Vista >> windows will not shutoff my pcI have windows home prem. i did a video card update that went south, i had to
do restore from my last restore point. however when i hit shutdown, it goes
thru the green screen and everything, but then it just goes to a black screen
and never shuts itself off. this even happens when i press reboot. i have to
physically hold down the power button to shut off my pc. i even tried to use
a restore point earlier in the week when my pc was running great.
Anyone have any thoughts?
i know a shutdown file is either corrupt or missing. just don't know how to
fix
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- Windows Vista >> Restore point oddity?I have multilple drives installed on Vista Home Premium but I only
want the main C drive to have system restore set. Easy you would think
but when I look in the system restore window it tells me that it has
set a restore point for both c and j? Ok so I click J/apply and it
gives me the message 'Do you reallt want to turn off etc" I say
yes/OK. All restore points on J vanish as expected. Right then create
a new restore point. All goes fine BUT it creates a restore point on
the J drive againas well as the C drive!! How can I turn off system
restore on the J drive ( a SATA drive) permanently?
No matter how many times I go through this, confirming that I don't
want SR on this drive, it still creates one!!
cheers,
Len
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- Windows Vista >> Deleting Program FoldersWhen I try to delete a folder under "C:\Program files", a message
box tells me that I must have permissions. How is this set up. I
tried all permissions that I can find but nothing works? Any help
appreciated!
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- Windows Vista >> Outlook 2007 Failed to InitializeHas anyone seen this error message when trying to 0pen Outlook 2007
"Business Contact Manager failed to initialize common language run time
error 0X80131700"
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Office 2007 and Business Contact
Manager at the direction of a Dell Technician all to no avail.
Am running Vista Business operating system on a Dell Vostro 1500 and
Microsoft 2007 Small Business applications package
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- Windows Vista >> Having smaller icons on the Desktop?There was an easy way to do this in XP if I'm not mistaken, but I can't find
the option in Vista Ultimate: I would like the icons on my Desktop to be
smaller in size, as the icons of some of my older programs look grainy when
enlarged as much as they are.
How would I go about doing this? Changing the resolution has not
particularly helped.
Thanks!
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