motion Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 2. You need a great program called "UltraMon" Or just stick two images next to each other that are the sizes of your monitors, go into Display properties and under desktop select that image, and click 'Tile' as the option rather than stretch.
Shorty Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Ultramon gives so much more than just allowing you to have two seperate wallpapers....
Marshmellow Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 I'm officially fed up with Vista. 1st. It won't let me play AoE III. 2nd It deactivates and still has not reactivated. And now it won't let me play Diablo 2 LoD! I'm loading XP MCE within hours, god so annoying.
Ant-Shimmin Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 I am installing a Vista again due to crucial system files being deleted during some sort of thing...Blah Blah Blah Anyway I know the old files get named as Windows.Old, can these be deleted?
Caris Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 You should format, it means your not doing a clean install. but yeah you can just delete them.
Ant-Shimmin Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Yeah I deleted them and it worked... Clean Vistas FTW!
Marshmellow Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 4 posts later and I'm already back to Vista But at least AoE III installed this time... Bit weird.
Shorty Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 And what does it have to do with Windows Vista?
KKOB Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 And what does it have to do with Windows Vista? This thread is the closest thing to a M$ thread so seemed the right place.
Ant-Shimmin Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 What do you think are the common misplaced 'Facts' of Vista that are handed around the internet... List them and give an example.. 1: Dodgy Installation How can people who have even been through the process even call it that, it is the most safest installation I have come across in a program/os Only idiots could come out of a Vista Installation with an Issue. I have heard that phrase battered about on this forum more times than Sony Sux. What are the other misconceptions of Vista?
Shino Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 2: It's unsafe, I'll wait for SP1 - Vista in its original form is safer than XP SP2, and when SP1 finally comes, its nothing more than a compilation of the updates we've been getting through Windows Update.
AshMat Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 On my dad's new pc, with Vista Home Premium. First time i've had chance to actually use this now, i'm quitem liking it, it's a fresh, new interface, all flows smoothly, really like Aero and all that too. First impressions: Tays-tee.
Guest Stefkov Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 I've done something, I don't know what, to make the bar at the top of Opera/anything full screen a clear blue/white colour and the start bar really black. It wasn't as black as it is now which I like, but it's strange. I don't know what I did.
Slaggis Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 I've done something, I don't know what, to make the bar at the top of Opera/anything full screen a clear blue/white colour and the start bar really black. It wasn't as black as it is now which I like, but it's strange. I don't know what I did. How! Sounds awesome. I wish there was a simple way of changing the colour of the start bar etc (or is there a way?).
Guest Stefkov Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 There must be a way, I've done it. I just don't know what I've done. I'm not keen on the bar at the very top being that clear blue. I liked that being dark. I guess I'll get ued to it.
Shino Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 Try going to Control Panel > Personalization > Window Color and Appearance, see if you can fix it there.
Guest Stefkov Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 Cheers. It's wierd it set it to default even though I hadn't been in that option.
Eddage Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Ideally I would like to be able to turn my computer on and off with a remote control, is there actually any way of doing this? With my Media Center remote I can send it in and out of sleep but what I would really like to do is get it so the fans/anything else that makes a noise stops running. I know there are different levels of sleep (S1-3) and that S4 is hibernate but I'm not really sure what the best method would be!? I've tried telling my computer to go into hibernation when I press the sleep button but for some reason it just comes straight back out of it (I've tried disabling network cards and anything else that may be telling it to wake up). How do I go about activating the other levels of sleep and would these turn things like the fans off? There must be some way of achieving this!?
Slaggis Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 After seeing Cube's desktop pic in the desktop wallpaper thread thing, how do you make the task bar much more see through etc, same with the start menu?
Eddage Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 I just bought a new hard drive, plugged it all in but Vista wont display it. It shows up in the bios and the device manager but whenever I go to My Computer it isn't there? It's a SATA drive if that makes any difference!
Shorty Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Ideally I would like to be able to turn my computer on and off with a remote control, is there actually any way of doing this? With my Media Center remote I can send it in and out of sleep but what I would really like to do is get it so the fans/anything else that makes a noise stops running. I know there are different levels of sleep (S1-3) and that S4 is hibernate but I'm not really sure what the best method would be!? I've tried telling my computer to go into hibernation when I press the sleep button but for some reason it just comes straight back out of it (I've tried disabling network cards and anything else that may be telling it to wake up). How do I go about activating the other levels of sleep and would these turn things like the fans off? There must be some way of achieving this!? Is this just so you can turn your PC on and off without getting out of bed/up from your sofa? pure laziness! Why back in the day we didn't have remote controllamagigs even for our telemovisions. We had to get up and WIND the tv to the next channel. And even then we only got eighteen seconds of footage per wind. My dad used to power it using a bicycle in a big wheel once every third saturday. As a treat. Err, but ignoring that. I would say just use full on hibernation, make sure you don't move the mouse after you start it up, turn off running processes that you dont need (run > msconfig > services > tick "hide all MS" > untick some you dont need). And you can get remotes for WMC that would do the trick but... it's cheaper to buy like a wireless mouse or something.
Balfron Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Your window is see through at he top and the start bar is grey rather than black ? Make sure the window you are viewing is maximised. (not just taking up the full screen but maximised using the button at the top right of the window)
killthenet Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Whilst avoiding doing some work a minute ago I was trying to connect my Wii to the Internet via an ad-hoc Wireless network I created. Now after about 10 minutes altering security types and codes, I've realised it's probably quite a pointless task, was just wondering if any one who's better with computers know any way that I can do this? I'm at Uni you see and we're stuck with stinking wired internet. I'll begrudingly buy a USB adapter though, if it's not possible.
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