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Found this on Google:
1. Right-click an empty area of the desktop, and then click Personalize.
2. In the left pane, click Change desktop icons.
3. Under Desktop icons, select the check box for each icon that you want to add to the desktop, or clear the check box for each icon that you want to remove from the desktop, and then click OK.
...go figure...
Hi folks, I am back................. nothing to do with Vista............... a problem at my telephone exchange........
So, I have been extending the tests............ rooting around in the attic/loft for old stuff ..............
All mice seem to work; well, recognised as regular rodents anyways:D
I was surprised that it detected and loaded a driver for a serial port mouse!!!
All keyboards are supported as regular at least.
I told it that I had an HP DeskJet 940c............... It believed me, and told me that it was out of paper????????????? damn thing wasn't even connected....
So I got the HP LaserJet 6L......... this thing hasn't printed since about 2001.............. I connect the 25 pin cable and the damn thing goes and loads drivers????? It then tells me that it is out of paper............ well, I didn't even expect it to work, so I hadn't put any paper in there.
I load some paper and print a local test print............... 6 years and the ink cartridge still works?!!!
Then I had to reboot........ and Vista removed the out of paper messages on the 940c and LJ 6L and printed a test page on the 6L.
Neither of my modems will work with Vista............ my ISP/Telco is sending a free hub/router ................... and an internet telephone.............. and a set top thingy for my TV............... errrr, because I am a longstanding customer I get this free for 6 months and then pay for the next 12. But I was nice with level 1 & 2 support, hell's teeth it wasn't their fault? so they have reduced my subscription charge such that I will pay an extra 50 cents a month for 12 months..........time to get the Dremel and open the porcelain pig?
The only thing I have really noticed so far is that the games port doesn't work (the 15 pin yellow one).
My opinion on Vista so far is that I like it................. and I like UAC:lildevil:
Nice :) I also like Vista but I dont know if my hardware will handle it
AMD 3200+ with 2GB Ram :(
Im sure you need a core 2 duo or something similar to let vista run on it ? :)
Hey Cider!
Happy Easter mate!
I am pretty confident that your kit will be OK................. I built two boxes with old stuff that I had lying around.
Both AMD single cores, one an XP2400+ and the other an XP3000+ so both of those are less than your XP3200+
One has 1.5Mb of PC3200 (DDR400) and the other has 1Mb of PC2100 (DDR266) to be honest, the hardware doesn't seem to be that much of an issue.
Problem is that I don't know what it should look like:confused:
Vista has a WSOD as well as a BSOD :lildevil:
Nice to know that one is buying quality? :D
DISCLAIMER:
I haven't tried this yet so please approach it with caution.
I mentioned that the old 15-pin gameport is no longer supported in Vista. Well, this might be a solution for those of you who still have legacy devices that use this port:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ssage.id=13336
I know it is on a Creative Logic forum but it is supposed to work with all ports.
:)
Hey there Nihil
Happy easter to you too.
I thik game performance goes down with Vista as well, dunno ...
EDIT:
Installed Vista Business 64 bit.
I will take it in to work tomorrow to update to sp1 and all windows updates.
Seems to run fine.
Abit cranky but I hope Sp1 will change that.
BTW: Should I let windows update take care of device drivers if it finds them?
Everything is working so I dunno.
Also Should I install DX10? Dont know much about it. Can you install it if your Graphics card doesnt support it? Can anyone shed some light on this.
Thanks :)
*Stretches and brushes dust off of the keyboard*
First off, Hi Nihil! Cider!
I feel so strange coming into this discussion as a Vista user (and a happy one at that)..
Service Pack 1 breaks alot of people's machines. Especially those with cheaper parts. (E-Machines, HP, low end Gateway, Acer, low end Dell)
Our official stance @ work is, "Don't recommend vistasp1 until Windows Update asks them to download it."
That said...
Windows Update just asked me to download Vista SP1. I'm about to take the plunge.
I see myself using the internet on the PS3 or the Wii for the next couple days.
My memory usage:
Total - 3069
Cached - 2092
Free - 18
Page file usage: 1365/6326M
Kernel Memory
Total - 210
Paged - 152
Nonpaged - 58
I sit with an average CPU utilization of 9%
IE7 eats 160mb of ram alone.
Firefox on my machine is only using about 20mb though.
I have SP1 on my laptop running Home Premium, for some reason this PC, running Ultimate, just won't install it. I ran the beta copy of SP1 on the laptop before the final version came out and didn't notice any real improvements though I don't think you're supposed to. My laptop is actually running pretty badly just now - I have a process svchost, which takes up an enormous amount of cpu usage and has to be frequently killed off. (The install of Vista though, has been on it for ages and it probably just needs redoing.)
SP1 may be doing great things under the surface, but for me I only noticed a few niggly bits and pieces that worked less well afterwards. As a trade off this is probably fair enough, but I can't say I'm too disappointed that it won't install here.
Cider - Direct X 10 is already installed with Vista.
SP1 installed, no really noticable changes, and the machine is currently stable.
I did take a look at my current memory usage, and CPU Utilization, both of which have dropped slightly. The RAM is completely cached, nothing "free"
Yes, what I was saying earlier. People often go crazy when they see the amount of RAM Vista appears to be using, but really it's just that Windows has cached it, in fact making it more effective.
Yeah, I've noticed a lot less memory leak induced BSODs since I've moved to Vista.
Although, when I do get a memory leak, its a beast.
I was playing Hellgate London back in November, and it leaked on me, causing 99% of my physical RAM to be active, all of which was tied to the game I had just shutdown.
Hi Folks,
Well, I upgraded the NVIDIA GeForce2 PCI 64Mb graphics card to a GeForce 6200A with 256Mb of DDR2. The other machine has an ATI HD2400PRO with 256Mb of DDR2.
I have been looking at this "Windows Experience Index" thingy............ the machine with the Athlon XP 2400+ and a 266MHz FSB with 1Gb of PC2100 (DDR266) has a rating of 3.0
The machine with a 400MHz FSB, an Athlon 3000+ and 1.5Gb of PC3200 (DDR400) has a rating of 3.2
MS have suggested that you need a rating of 3.0 or better to get the full "experience", so I guess that I am seeing what there is to see.
Comparing the two, with the lower end machine first, I get:
CPU 3.4/3.6
RAM 3.4/4.1
Graphics 4.3/5.3
Games 3.0/3.9
HDD 5.1/3.2
Most of that I can understand?
1. The 2400+ actually runs at 2.01GHz whilst the 3000+ only runs at 2.17GHz. OK the faster one has more cache as well so a 6% difference seems somewhat low?
2. The RAM is strange (to me) in that both systems are balanced as far as FSB and RAM speeds are concerned, but the difference (as reported) is quite small.
3.The two graphics values seem reasonable as I think that one of the MoBos only supports AGP 4x rather than 8x
4. The HDD is weird. A Western Digital 60Mb, 7200rpm seems to outperform a new Maxtor 160Gb, 7200rpm ?????????????
Moira,
Please check out your sound drivers if you have AC97. Some of them are incompatible and I am told that SP1 won't load if it detects them.
:)
They're SB Audigy .... I'm not particularly worried whether SP1 installs or not tbh! However, I'm going to slipstream it into my install of Vista as I plan to reinstall the laptop's copy soon and I know this made a huge difference to the number of updates that I had to download when I sot SP2 slipstreamed into XP. Hopefully slipstreaming into Vista will be easier than it was with XP when the idea first came out - I know you can do it now a hell of a lot more easily than I did it ages ago.
Hi Moira,
For slipstreaming XP and Win2000 I have been using nLite:
http://www.nliteos.com/
and have had excellent results. They do a Vista version called vLite that is probably still in Beta............... I have not tried it, hell I am such a newb I haven't even registered my copies of Vista yet! :D
Yes, it is still in Beta, the link is here:
http://www.vlite.net/
//Off Topic:
Windows XP and slipstreamed to SP2?
Had one the other day like that...............the guy had done a repair install when his system got screwed up by uninstalling crapware :rolleyes:
He had spent ages downloading the updates (there must be around 100?) and they just wouldn't install..............
I was given the machine to have a go at, because he didn't want to do a fresh install...............
The solution is this:
1. Open a programming text editor (Notepad will do).
2. Type in these lines:
regsvr32 /s wuapi.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 /s wucltui.dll
regsvr32 /s wups2.dll
regsvr32 /s wups.dll
regsvr32 /s wuweb.dll
3. Then save the file as a .cmd and run it :)
Your updates will then install.
//
Back to Vista:
I just had a thought as to part of the reason the two video cards are so different in the ratings. The ATi one certainly recognises the make and model of the display unit............ Vista does not?
:)