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13-Jan-2009, 11:26 AM #91
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@ AcaCandy.......Thanks to "Eriksrocks' posting, I noticed that the username "acersucks" is OK with "BigBrother". But then the Acer is not a Microsoft "creation". I wrote yesterday regarding the embarrassing experience I had with the Zune a couple of weeks ago @ my party when " Leap year kicked in" hence my frustration at 'Things" Microsoft. I asked my user name be changed to "VistaRedux' so as not to ruffle any more feathers in this "Free" and "Open"Forum. In any case, I bid you all farewell. Only Arnold could say it better than I. .............................."Hasta La Vista... VISTA"... I sincerely hope that Windows 7 is not "Vista Redux for you folks. I admire your passion determination and anticipation. Farewell and Good Luck!..........Hasta La Vista.
That also is NOT acceptable. Unfortunately, we can't catch everyone who wants to bash a company on our site. You just happened to luck out and post in a thread where I'm involved Acer is no more either.
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13-Jan-2009, 11:28 AM #92
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I'm not a big fan of Gadgets .. But I thought I'd play with them.

If I click on gadgets in control panel or personalize .. nothing happens
Is this just me ??
Works for me....click on gadgets, and calendar, clock etc. appear......
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13-Jan-2009, 05:56 PM #93
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Try that On an older PC.
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Did that already.

I have installed Xp on many older win98 pc's with great success.
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13-Jan-2009, 06:15 PM #94
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Works for me....click on gadgets, and calendar, clock etc. appear......
Nope .. Nothing.
Was playing with themes and some themes with a solid color background showed no desktop Icons.
Think I'll reinstall it and start over.
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13-Jan-2009, 06:21 PM #95
Gotta love Beta
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13-Jan-2009, 06:25 PM #96
Turn UAC back on, you can use the lowest setting. This is either Microsoft forcing you to use UAC or a bug in the beta.
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Turn UAC back on, you can use the lowest setting. This is either Microsoft forcing you to use UAC or a bug in the beta.
Now you tell me .. That it’s too late
More than it being a beta version .. I should be getting paid for this…
It anyone can get it to mess up .. It’d be me

The extra partition confuses an Acronis recovery a little .. but I got it to work on the second try.
Acronis reverses the Partition letter assignments

Still no Gadgets.
I set the UAC to the next highest annoyance level .. and guess what ???
There’s my gadgets.
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Turn UAC back on, you can use the lowest setting. This is either Microsoft forcing you to use UAC or a bug in the beta.
That's mean.
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13-Jan-2009, 10:52 PM #100
DUH!!!! Got my shares working again. I took out my password to load everything and forgot to put it back in. Now everything works fine. The correct password helps.
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DUH!!!! Got my shares working again. I took out my password to load everything and forgot to put it back in. Now everything works fine. The correct password helps.
Happy day late birthday
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Thank you!! That's another excuse I can use. "I'm getting old" LOL. That's what my wife keeps telling me.
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14-Jan-2009, 08:16 AM #103
Microsoft windows 7 beta
Hello frnds,

Finally it has been released.. the beta version and this will expire on 1 August 2009. I tried downloading it...but it was not a success, My frnd was successful with it...so I tried my hands at it.. I seriously found it amazing... specially the feature which turns the open windows into glass windows..letting you see what lies beneath... and the taskbar is taller with the icons which can be resized accordingly..instead of buttons. I really found it cool...
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14-Jan-2009, 10:51 AM #104
alina.wilson1, I merged your post with the ongoing thread, please don't start new posts for an existing topic.
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14-Jan-2009, 04:24 PM #105
With a basic install of W-7 that's been defragged ...
Why won't it let me shrink the partition to any size any less than 121G ???
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