Re: Windows Vista.............how is it, so far?
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Turn UAC off, it's worthless (the constant prompts). It's the only thing hugely negative about Vista IMO, and you can turn it off.
Back to Cable Cards... I'm not even going to get into the 2.0 debate cause EVERY device currently out there is a ver 1 device and won't utilize any features that 2.0 "could" offer... I guess I got into that debate. ;-)
Now the reason I say they are pointless is cable companies are all moving to "switched video" to deliver HD programing (some much faster than others, ie Time Warner). Basically ver 1 cable cards don't work with switched video. And ver 2 isn't the answer (see above).
Cable companies want cable cards to die more than anything. They want to force everyone to rent their boxes so they can push their on demand type services for more cash. That model only works well on a closed box/system.
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Re: Windows Vista.............how is it, so far?
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Comcast just charges the same rental fee whether you get a card or box from them.
I'm hoping FioS TV is available after I move. If it is Comcast will be out of my house all together.
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Re: Windows Vista.............how is it, so far?
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Turn UAC off, it's worthless (the constant prompts). It's the only thing hugely negative about Vista IMO, and you can turn it off.
How??
And how do I clear this D Drive back up so that I can re-do it?
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Re: Windows Vista.............how is it, so far?
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For UAC...
Go to Control Panel, User Accounts, and turn off 'User Account Control'.
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so how do you clean out the D: ?
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Dam recovery drive... . It's full but won't let me delete any files or clean it up.
how can I do that?
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Re: so how do you clean out the D: ?
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One possibility is that your recovery drive is not hidden for some reason. Most laptop and many desktop manufactures use a hidden partition to store a backup of the factory install of Windows and sometimes other files. I know that for some reason with Dell running Vista this “hidden” partition is now visible but not usually accessible except to the backup utility.
If this is the case I wouldn’t mess with this partition unless you really must. It would be easier and safer to add another hard drive if you need more space. If you must delete these files the only way I know how is to reformat the partition which will wipe out everything on it.
If this is just a complete pc backup using the Vista utility and you want to make a more up-to-date complete pc backup I wouldn’t do it over my original factory backup unless I had an exact copy of the factory backup somewhere else.
I have helped a friend with Vista a little so I hope I can help you out but I chose to put XP and Linux on mine new computer as I already knew they worked and don’t like Beta testing for Microshaft.
Mike, I’m just curios why you want to mess with this D: drive?
Dean
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Re: so how do you clean out the D: ?
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Well, because it's full and I consttantly get these pop ups that tell me it's full. It's 7+ gigs of space. I click on the pop up that takes me to another disk clean up utility, but it won't let me do anything with this drive.
So I reckon I want to mess with it because it's pissing me off.
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Re: so how do you clean out the D: ?
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So I reckon I want to mess with it because it's pissing me off.
One of the best reasons I know of
Rick
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Re: so how do you clean out the D: ?
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What is the exact message you get from the popup? It sounds like the low disk space warning which then automatically takes you to the cleanup utility. If that is the case then try this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/dislowdisk.htmMake sure to backup your registry first. When you get the pop up that takes you to the cleanup utility are you logged in as Administrator. If not try logging in as Admin and manually run the cleanup utility on the D: drive. If you do get access to your D: drive be careful what you delete as this likely contains your restore files from your computer maker.
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