For your signature, you need to go to your profile to remove it. Thanks :)

There's probably a setting where you rotated the screen. Depending on your graphics card, there should be a control program in the Control Panel where you can reset the setting.

Please remove the link in your signature. I'd wager it violates the rules.

I've had no issues with it. It hasn't saved my life yet, but I've not had a reason for it to :P

It should run without the battery plugged in. Since that scenario isn't working, I'd venture something related to either the adapter or the port it plugs into (and attached circuitry)

were I to guess, I'd say it's something in the hardware and you'll have to send it in for repair. :(

The 'My Documents' tree has been restructured (thankfully), but program files is still under "C:\Program Files" (on most systems).

Not positive, but it's probably a security feature to prevent tampering with anything in the program files directory.

Yay for thread necromancy :P


This is not necessarily correct, as the OS could be aggressively swapping data into a pagefile. This would save time if the memory were later to be swapped out, so...

Wow. That was an amazing sentence. Can you read it out loud without breathing?

Anyway, you should also make sure you have the right drivers installed. Does it ever happen when you're not doing...

You can use the key with any Home Premium disc. You're even allowed to buy another copy and change your key after it's been installed (don't know why they have this feature, but it can be useful if...

Bah, foiled by the fingerprint reader. Thanks for the link :)

Any idea if there's a way to tell what the blacklisted drivers are? Here I was excited to update it :(

I've had no issues so far, though my hardware is all from post-Vista release. I have an older computer at work that ran it fine (dual Opterons) till one of the CPU fans died. Overall, Vista x64 is...

If you go all the way to 4GB, remember to use 64-bit Vista (makes upgrading from 32-bit XP not work though, I'm pretty sure). Otherwise you'll only get like 3.5GB of your memory :icon_wink:

And remote desktop (also available in Vista Business at the cost of some features in Home). Of course, I'm guessing there's relatively few people who actually remote into their laptops... (what can...

You should have received a disc with the computer that would have the appropriate restore functions; there may be a partition with another restore solution, but I've never actually used that so I...

I'm guessing part of the problem is that you're running some memory intensive programs. Most services take relatively little memory (see attached), except some take more if it's available (like the...

the 169.254.x.y IP address means you're not getting an IP address from your DHCP server. You can try running ipconfig /renew to see if it renews and gets one properly. This doesn't always work...

Somewhat hackish, but assuming you don't have a DHCP server at work, you could set your fallback to be your static configuration. At home, you'd get your dynamic IP, at work it would timeout and...

Things might start to break (e.g. Windows logon service). Seriously, wait and see what the new RAM does.

AFAICT, most of the services running take relatively little memory. Vista is pretty aggressive in it's use of memory though, so upgrading to 2GB should make a big difference.

DHCP?

Aside from Vista making them more money (at this point, supporting XP would be costing more, since so few people are still buying it), Vista has been fairly dramatically redesigned internally. It is...

Aside from coming with a min of 1GB (at least, it was the lowest I saw on nVidia's site), it has different hardware optimizations that make commercial uses much more efficient. Whether it's really...

In that case, you have the wrong GPU. I believe the Quadro would be a better choice for CAD (hardware is optimized differently, IIRC).

dredging up an old thread...

built a comp for a friend today, got a 5.9 on all categories except for RAM speed (only a 5.6). Frustrating to say the least...

I'd rather not argue a Vista vs. XP (or vs. 95, that's just silly), but hopefully your backup copy works out. Of course, if you've used Vista for a full trial you should know if you're going to...

alt or Ctrl+o

It was weird not having the menus at first, but I use them little enough that I've started to appreciate the extra viewing space... all 50 pixels of it :P

[edit:] also, you can...

VS 2005 SP 1 made changes to make it run better in Vista (I forget the exact issues addressed, but there were a couple). VS is only supported on Windows platforms though ;)

Mac defaults to something other than FAT32 (I think it uses HFS+ or something), but it supports reading and writing to FAT32 volumes. Hence the need for an intermediate device.

Usually your computers can see each other, but accessing files on one from the other requires some form of authentication. This is why Windows is giving you the login prompt. I can't remember the...

Did you log out and back in? Policy changes don't take effect until your next logon.

Actually, it was a bad experience writing a PHP website. I was sick of the language at the end, and then came across ASP.NET. Neither's perfect, certainly, but I find the model for ASP.NET easier...

I found the opposite, so you never can tell.

@OP: as mentioned, Visual Web Developer 2005 and 2008 have their own web server. It's not exactly the same as IIS, but you can use it to test and...

Have you considered that most of us don't have the game? How should we know?

That said, my guess is that it saves somewhere in the program directory (so you can load saved games from multiple...

I had one (still have it, actually, collecting dust in the corner) and it worked fine. I think checked the level about every 6 months, and added just a little bit of coolant about once per year. ...

As with any Microsoft product, you'll find opinions very split on this issue. I like Vista a lot more than XP, and it's because of the little things. For instance, I find Aero quite pleasing in...

Mine's a 4.8 due to memory write speed. Works good enough for me though ;)

I'm again suspicious of your PATH. Here's mine:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows...