Spooky

Nope, no more sysoc.inf type file to change, however, you can try this: Start - Control Panel - Default Programs - on left lower corner click on 'Programs and Features' - then click on 'Turn Windows features on or off'

Try this; Create another connection after disabling the exisiting one, but this time choose to make the connection 'Public', then delect the previous disabled connection and don't disable any lan connection. Then see what happens, if you can connect to the internet then.

I like Vista personally, its faster on my machines then XP ever was. I've been using it since the very first build was released to testers and i've had some time to grow used to it and learn how to make it behave. Myself, i've not had problems with my hardware as it was all purchased to meet the hardware specs for Vista, I upgrade some hardware every two years anyway (new hard drives, etc...). Out of several machines with a mixture of various hardware (including SATA and RAID set ups which Vista picked right up and uses fine) I only had one thing that Vista didn't like and that was an HP high speed USB scanner that was about 4 years old, no problem, i plugged another scanner in and donated the older one to a local school where its working fine with XP and 2000 machines. All the software I was formally using in XP works fine with Vista (about 150 different pieces of software including a few games), didn't have any problems except one thing I had to run in compatability mode but it works fine in that mode and as soon as I can aford the new version which does work with Vista without compatability mode i'm going to replace it just to keep current but not because its not working and needs to run in compatability mode to work. I did have a minor problem with not having a driver for an older Samsung monitor on one machine, but using an XP driver solved that problem, didn't have any driver signing issues with it, and it works fine, the monitor is going to be replaced soon anyway - Vista had drivers for all my other stuff. Vista is no different then any thing else, every OS has its requirements and when those requirements are met it works. There are some good and some bad with any OS, XP was the same way when it hit the shelves, drivers weren't available, new things that were never before, etc... It seems as if there are two camps - those for Vista and those for XP. It comes down to a matter of choice and the choice is very simple, if a person likes XP then stay with XP, if a person likes Vista then stay with Vista. There is no requirement to upgrade to Vista, if XP is doing everything for a person they want then indeed there is no reason to upgrade.

How do you log in with an actual and real SYSTEM account that uses the actual system SID, and not just a user named SYSTEM (or an administrator type account)? Offtopic, but yes, the real SYSTEM account with real SID 1-5-18.

OK, strictly on topic: Your areas of consideration were: 1.Some XP programs don't work in Vista 2.No RAID support during setup 3.SuperFetch 4.Crappy folder management 5.Driver Signature Enforcement 6.Windows Resource Protection 7. No BOOT logo 1. Thats true, but when Win95 came out there were some win 3 programs that didn;t work any more, when winME came out there were some win95 programs that didn't work, when winXP came out...yada yada yada, you get the picture. One of the reasons some programs don't work is because of the way they were coded to begin with. But your right, Vista is a radical departure from previous MS OS's. 2. Yeah, I agree for some, but myself i'm not seeing any problem with it. 3. I like it myself, I see the effects of it in long sessions. 4. Not so crappy, just different. You can make them anything you want and use what you want, you just have to do it the right way. 5. Personally I like it because it helps set a standard for drivers. But i also tend to side with you a little, it does get in the way sometimes. 6. Ya got to start somewhere and what better place to start then at the first place people want to hack. How easy would it be to distribute a hostile package in something everyone wants and you can get for free only it just 'tweaks' the rersources a little to get there? 7. Not a consideration for me, I don't really care about this one...sorry. Vista gave people, not all people but the ones who spoke up, what they wanted. And...the people who told MS what they wanted in an OS said they wanted a 'My Music' folder for example. MS listened to the years of complaints about their OS security, so they finally did something about it. Overall, I like Vista, there are a few things that bug me about it, for example...why can't you set the 'Advanced Search' as the default view for search? But overall i like it, takes some getting used to.

Its eaisier just to log in as the Administrator and add your normal user account with full permissions for the entire drive. That way you don't mess with the 'Trusted Installer' thing (and just what is that doing there any way?) and gain full control over the drive.

Oh yeah, I support ya 100%...in fact I was really hard pressed to get rid of my voodoo when 3Dfx got bought out. It was like getting rid of an old friend. I couldn't agree with you more, beautiful graphics and really good cards. I'm not a conspiracy type of guy, but I firmly believe that 3Dfx got good enough to pose a threat to the others, which is why they got bought out in the first place.

Man...you guys are die-hard voodoo fans aren't you.

Are there some other steps or something? I tried to repro what you posted and everything woked like it should for me.

That may be what it says, but if youv'e got a watermark then its likely you don't have an actual RTM running. The RTM doesn't have the items in it that will produce the watermark.

jamesagmoore; Very nice tip. Thank you One thing about doing the registry key, its OK to leave the IPv6 enabled in the connection properties. However, when you use this reg entry if you take a look in device manager at the hardware, for the NIC card under Network Adapter you will see a '6TO4 Adapter' with an exclaimantion point on it, don't be alarmed if you see this as it will be normal for some to see this after using the reg key, its not broken or anything its just disabled by the reg key in favor of IPv4 instead of IPv6 having to be converted to IPv4 in some cases.

the 'ColorizationColor' color is at that location, its there on the RTM but i'm not sure of the previous release builds. Try adding the enrty for non-RTM and see what happens, i haven't tried that on the non-RTM. As far as it being locked into msstyles.dll, i think its hard coded in dwm.exe its self. not sure tho, haven't checked.

You actually log in as the SYSTEM or as a user named 'SYSTEM'???

Are they hidden folders that the Vista explorer normally isn't configured to see but Total Commander is set up to see by default?

see if this works for you: 1. Log in on your actual 'Administrator' account (not a user with admin privilages). Before we continue with the below lets open up 'Adminstrative Tools' in the control panel and make sure the user you want to normally log in on is in the 'Administrators' group. 2. Open up explorer and right click on the 'C:\" drive and coose 'Properties' then click on the 'Security' tab. 3. then click on the 'Advanced' button, on the GUI that comes up click on the 'Owner' tab. 4. Change the current owner to 'Administrators' (not 'Administrator' - not the 's') you will be changing the owner to the 'Administrators' group (not the user 'Administrator'). See if gaining control of the whole 'C:\' drive helps you out.

Before you do anything rash...lets try this... 1. Log in on your actual 'Administrator' account (not a user with admin privilages). Before we continue with the below lets open up 'Adminstrative Tools' in the control panel and make sure the user you want to normally log in on is in the 'Administrators' group. 2. Open up explorer and right click on the 'C:\" drive and coose 'Properties' then click on the 'Security' tab. 3. then click on the 'Advanced' button, on the GUI that comes up click on the 'Owner' tab. 4. Change the current owner to 'Administrators' (not 'Administrator' - not the 's') you will be changing the owner to the 'Administrators' group (not the user 'Administrator'). See if gaining control of the whole 'C:\' drive does it for you.

maybe doesn't apply, but did you read http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=18957 ?

Vista may detect SATA drives, but identifying that drive and having drivers in Vista for it are two different things. Fizban2 was correct, if the drivers do not exist natively in Vista you need to load them like he said. Vista ships with a ton of drivers but not every SATA in the world has drivers in Vista.

Put the drives on a floppy disk or USB flash drive, during the install you'll see an option to load drivers, then just load the drivers from the disk or USB flash drive. Not sure if this is what your asking or not.

See the Vista Tweaks and Tips section for the TakeOwn command line utility in Vista at: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=578742 After you take ownership you'll be able to do anything you want with it.

Automatic language translation in Vista IE7? Well almost. I never knew this with the tabbed browsing in IE 7 in Vista, never had an occaision to see this happen until today. If you run across a web link that is in another language, say Chineese for example, if you search for that link in Google and then click on Googles 'Translate this page' link, after your tanslated page comes up if you right click on any link on your initial translated page that is also in that language and choose to open in a new tab, the new tab link comes up translated too. maybe not too exciting, but using a tabbed browser for this really makes it a lot eaisier to follow something on a page in a foreign language.

Heres a kind of cool one for you uncluttered full screen people out there. Turns out its not really a bug per-say in the sense that it doesn't really do anything bad (i guess it does fall into the bug category though, I bugged it), but its not a feature or intended either. OK, I admit it, it is really kind of useless, but interesting in a weird 'if your really bored' way. Hold down control and click the maximize button on a Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer window, the window goes into (almost) full screen 'Kiosk' type mode. Now, move your mouse to the top of the screen then move the mouse downwards and watch what happens. (P.S. Some say the menu bar doesn't come back for them, works OK for me. If it does happen that way for you just hit the F-11 key).

You can create your own tool bars in Vista, sort of. Create a new folder on your desktop, open it up and fill it with shortcuts to the things you want all together in one place. Then drag that desktop folder to the edge of the screen, let go of the mouse button, and Voila! you have your own personalized toolbar (sort of) with your stuff on it.

This is one of those kinda useless shortcuts, until you really want something like this. If you want to create a shortcut for Flip3D on your desktop or one for your Quick Launch bar its easy to do. Just right click on the desktop, select 'New' then 'Shortcut' then in the 'Type the location of the item' field enter "RunDll32 DwmApi #105" (without the quotes) then click 'Next' and enter a name for the shortcut, then apply your changes and your all done. There ya have it a shortcut to start up Flip3D. If you want it on your Quick Launch bar just drag it to the bar.

Some people complain that the start menu is too slow. There is a way to speed it up a little that may help. Right click on the 'Start' button (the windows 'Orb') and choose 'Properties', then click on the 'Start Menu' tab. Next click the 'Customize' button. Scroll down about half way to the item that says 'Highlight newly installed programs' and uncheck the box then 'OK' and 'Apply' out.