craigathus

Hey guy's I've been using Vista for about 6 months now and initially it did take some getting used too. Vista's search function is not as straight-ford "easy to use" as XP's in my opinion.

Yeah nice Hazel I luv PDF manuals Especially after buying a new Canon camera and not being able to read the supplied manual without a magnifying glass I've known about http://safemanuals.com/ for a while now

Hi Hazel Do you mean "Dial-a-fix" doesn't work with Vista? Also "cc1" I checked my "Windows Update" settings and found that Install updates automatically (recommended) was checked. I'm guessing that means "important updates" are going to be downloaded & installed without any notification to the user? Then there are the updates that need Windows to be "restarted" so Windows needs to let the user know whats going on In the case of "IE8" as an "update" I'm assuming that Windows was kind enough to let me know that it had only downloaded "IE8" and that it was ready to be installed Long live Firefox Craig

Hey guys I think I might be having a similar problem. I have Windows Defender set to do a scan once a week at 6.00PM every Sunday... it doesn't happen. Windows Defender tray icon appears with an exclamation mark... Windows Defender reports that the last scan was ten days ago...bla bla bla, so when that happens I click scan now and every thing is OK again. Is CCleaner upsetting Windows Defender "scheduled" scan's by removing the scan log history? If I uncheck the cleaning option for Windows Defender in CCleaner, will scheduled scans run normally? Craig

Nice

Hi cc1 I have no problems with IE8 on Vista SP2, though it only gets used when I visit "Windows Update" site You have to have some version of "Internet Explorer" it's part of Windows I also kept ignoring the "Update to IE8"...bla bla bla mainly because I use Firefox. Then one day Windows informed me that IE8 was downloaded and ready to be installed...etc Out of curiosity I let Windows go ahead with the install. My preferred browser is still "Firefox" I just don't like the weird IE8 layout! I also run my browsers sandboxed!

Yeah I got the same

I too agree with Capman My old machine has XP Home SP3 with a modest (intel pentium duel core processor & 1GB of RAM) it performs very well, however... I dont think my old machine would be up to running Vista at an acceptable pace My new machine has Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 with an (intel core2 quad processor & 4GB DDR3 RAM) it's at least twice as fast to boot up, and easily out performs my old XP machine Vista is different, and takes time to adjust too

Since getting a new comp with Vista, I've been wondering the same thing How to search my computer for files "created & or modified" by date? The (.) dot in the search bar seems to be the way to go

Hi abu aufa Thanks for the reply. "WhatsRunning" isn't what I was after. I finally found it! SIW I knew there was a "W" in it's name somewhere

Hey guy's I'm slowly adding (must have) freeware programs to my Vista machine. I cant remember the name of one app that's similar to "Process Explorer" I think it's name starts with a "W" I've been searching through Software>Freeware with no luck. I know someone here will know what I'm looking for Craig

Just remember that curiosity killed the cat!

My first PC had Windows 95 and 16MB of RAM Second PC Windows ME with 192MB. Then came XP with 1GB. And now Vista Home Premium SP1 on my new XPS430 with 4GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Core2 Quad processor Back in 1996 a PC with 16MB RAM, 950MB HD, Pentium 100 processor & Windows 95 was quite a zippy machine I was a bit apprehensive about getting Vista, however after using Vista for about a month now... I luv it How times change. Craig

Yes the drive happens to be my camera. If I right click on my camera that's connected to a USB port and select "Properties" the only tab on the window is a "General" tab listing camera make, model, etc... All I can do is make sure communications between the camera and PC have finished before I turn my camera's power off & unplug it.

Hi annox & welcome I recently had a problem caused by selecting the (Secure file deletion) option in CCleaner settings. I found that letting CCleaner empty the recycle bin of deleted "copies" of files that were not burned to a disk was not a good idea if (Secure file deletion) is selected The files were "copies" in the "staging area" waiting to be burned to a disk I was making. I had no room left on the disk, so I selected to delete these files from the staging area. I later found that the original files in "My Pictures" folder could not be opened after CCleaner had emptied the recycle bin of the copies. They were picture files that I luckily still had originals of on my camera Normal file deletion works fine

Makes my new Dell XPS430 look very very ordinary ...

I always did the right thing and used the (Safely Remove Hardware Icon) that was in the system tray on my XP comp However I don't have that icon in the system tray on this new comp with vista? Is it included with vista? Do I need to enable it in vista? Edit: I found "Removable Storage Management" option in (Turn Windows features on or off) I checked the box and clicked Ok. I restarted my comp... Still no system tray (Safely Remove Hardware Icon)

Yes I know about the 5 chances you have to set it right I had to set it to region (4) for Australia Today none of the players would play a DVD without it being reset Craig

Ok for no apparent reason this ATI Radeon HD4670 graphics card fan has been running between 1043 & 1045 RPM all day! it hasn't come close to 5375 RPM's (see my 1st post) Today's room temperature has been no different to any other day, and I've been trying to get the card's fan to speed up by running Quake4 on maxed out settings! The card's temp almost reached 60c and the fan never went over 1045 RPM! I'm not sure if I have a problem or not?

Ok this is strange I put a movie DVD in my new PC's DVD drive and from a list of players I selected "CyberLynk PowerDVD" as the player. The splash screen appears and then a message saying... DVD Region Error Unable to play this DVD because it does not match the region code of your disk player. Please insert a disk created for your region or change the region code of your disk player. I closed "CyberLynk PowerDVD" and didn't change the region code. I ejected the disk and then put the same disk back in. This time I selected "Windows Media Player" and the movie DVD started playing! Without changing the region code I tried using "CyberLynk PowerDVD" again and this time it worked! I still haven't changed the region code! The region code is set to (1) and the region code for Australia is supposed to be (4) Should I change the region code to (4)? After restarting my PC and trying to use "CyberLynk PowerDVD" I'm getting the "DVD Region Error" again! Any ideas? Craig

Hey guys Two or three days after getting my new machine the graphics card (ATI Radeon HD4670) fan started to run at high speed all the time? Should the fan be running constantly at that speed?

Hey Capman I really don't mind the short amount of time that this "Vista" machine takes to start. I still have my old faithful "XP" machine... well my wife doe's , and both machines are similar with regards to start-up time. One thing that I have noticed is that "avast" doesn't have as much impact performance wise compared to "McAfee" on my new PC I have to admit that I was a bit worried about leaving "XP" for "Vista", however I really am starting to like Vista! Craig

Well I've had my new machine for the best part of a week. So far the only annoying thing is the Dell keyboard, I keep hitting the Caps Lock key instead of the Shift key Thanks to Capman & Augeas for helping me remove "McAfee Security Center" I'm starting to enjoy using "Vista" after stumbling around for the first few days My machine has an (Intel Core 2 Quad processor & 4GB of RAM) and Vista Home Premium 32-bit runs nice and quick. Craig

Hi Capman Thanks for the link etc... I followed the instructions and everything seems fine Craig

Hey guys Ok I got my new PC It has a 30 day trial of "Mcafee security center" I need to know how to completly uninstall it. Do I need some sort of removal tool? I want to install & keep using "avast" Craig