Zebra Code wrote:

"Dave T."

It just ain't there. Not a big deal for me since floppies went away
I've never been concerned about file size, but what you guys are
seeing isn't on my computer. I just noticed though that "Documents" is
in a pictures format. Something new to work on...

sorry, i fear i dont understand.
if i doubleclic the desktop link with my login name, then i hover the
mouse over documents, i get the tooltip '1.46 gb'.
'a picture format' means?
ciao, ZC

--
Dave T.

"Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried
until they are seventy-five".
Benjamin Franklin

cool :

many people think they're existing
-- mallarme'

I found the problem. I had disabled "tool tips" in folder options
because the text balloons were in the way when doing drag & drop
operations. You led me to the answer, thank you! I think I will leave it
disabled though, since I don't need it.

"Pictures format" means that if I open the "documents" folder in the
"list details" view format the column headers read "Date taken", etc. I
think that this is because at one time I had stored some pictures I
received in emails to that folder. I guess Vista will change the view
format automatically if you do that.

--
Dave T.

"Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried
until they are seventy-five".
Benjamin Franklin

"Dave T."
I found the problem. I had disabled "tool tips" in folder options because
the text balloons were in the way when doing drag & drop operations. You
led me to the answer, thank you! I think I will leave it disabled though,
since I don't need it.

glad being useful somehow.

"Pictures format" means that if I open the "documents" folder in the "list
details" view format the column headers read "Date taken", etc. I think
that this is because at one time I had stored some pictures I received in
emails to that folder. I guess Vista will change the view format
automatically if you do that.

the way vista's explorer looks is a real PITA. nor do i expect much from
sp1, as mimicking apple -- in a world not consistant with apple and used to
details since c:\dir and nc's times -- has its risks.

anyway, after some trouble with vista showing any folder as it thought
better, i could arrange atleast it to reset any folder as an 'unknown
folder' and usually show it in the details view, without harassing about
date taken, pixel size, duration and that stuff.

btw, i've got folders with thousands of pictures, and it's uselessly time
consuming. i do not want infos on them, i just need to program them, and
sometimes to enjoy them :P

an useful link about the explorer behavior was

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...t-clean-state/

hth, but read it carefully before trying...

ciao, ZC

note: even after applying the changes suggested by that pages, i stil cant
uninstall many programs. panel programs just doesnt show the 'uninstall'
options for many programs, like vs2005 and most things that came with the
pc.
hope sp1 will fix this...

"Zebra Code" wrote in message
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note: even after applying the changes suggested by that pages, i stil cant
uninstall many programs. panel programs just doesnt show the 'uninstall'
options for many programs, like vs2005 and most things that came with the
pc.
hope sp1 will fix this...


VS 2005 Diagnostic and Uninstall Tool
http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2...01/445831.aspx

Zebra Code wrote:
"Dave T."
I found the problem. I had disabled "tool tips" in folder options
because the text balloons were in the way when doing drag & drop
operations. You led me to the answer, thank you! I think I will leave
it disabled though, since I don't need it.

glad being useful somehow.

"Pictures format" means that if I open the "documents" folder in the
"list details" view format the column headers read "Date taken", etc.
I think that this is because at one time I had stored some pictures I
received in emails to that folder. I guess Vista will change the view
format automatically if you do that.

the way vista's explorer looks is a real PITA. nor do i expect much from
sp1, as mimicking apple -- in a world not consistant with apple and used
to details since c:\dir and nc's times -- has its risks.

anyway, after some trouble with vista showing any folder as it thought
better, i could arrange atleast it to reset any folder as an 'unknown
folder' and usually show it in the details view, without harassing about
date taken, pixel size, duration and that stuff.

btw, i've got folders with thousands of pictures, and it's uselessly
time consuming. i do not want infos on them, i just need to program
them, and sometimes to enjoy them :P

an useful link about the explorer behavior was

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...t-clean-state/


hth, but read it carefully before trying...

ciao, ZC

note: even after applying the changes suggested by that pages, i stil
cant uninstall many programs. panel programs just doesnt show the
'uninstall' options for many programs, like vs2005 and most things that
came with the pc.
hope sp1 will fix this...



Yes ZC, there is no doubt that Vista is a little buggy at this point,
but still far and away the most stable OS I've ever used.

--
Dave T.

"Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried
until they are seventy-five".
Benjamin Franklin

Brink,

Thank you for the additional information and the Folder Link .. all
information is appreciated.

I actually found and looked at some other information while I was at
the Folder Link too.

Jenn


--
JennB213

"Bob"
note: even after applying the changes suggested by that pages, i stil
cant uninstall many programs. panel programs just doesnt show the
'uninstall' options for many programs, like vs2005 and most things that
came with the pc.
hope sp1 will fix this...


VS 2005 Diagnostic and Uninstall Tool
http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2...01/445831.aspx

thank you. the page dates from Saturday, July 30, 2005. a bit before vista
was out, i fear. i wasnt speaking of a vs problem. *this* vista system just
doesnt allow me to uninstall vs2005, nor all the roxios, the java machine,
and many others.

as for uninstalling 2005, on my xp work machine i installed it, then vs
2008, then uninstalled 2005 --and 2008 stopped working despite 3 more
uninstall/reinstalls.

a friend pointed to a page with the suggest to completely erase a vs 2008
key from the registry, then reinstall it anew. it worked.

as i installed both from msdn original dvd's, final versions, not betas (i
got thru the beta in 2005, and the mess was even worse) and both take long
minutes writing and unwriting in the registry, the least i can tell is that
i wouldnt expect such behaviors.

regards, ZC

"Dave T."
Yes ZC, there is no doubt that Vista is a little buggy at this point, but
still far and away the most stable OS I've ever used.

lets talk about that. you hadnt five happy years with w2k, had you

sofar the ratio of 'soft crashes' is some like 5:1, vista:w2k.

with win2000 i could set a dsl shared connection up for weeks with not a
crash whatsoever.
with vista, until i set up a router, the win2000 client machine browsed
happily, while this vista one had unexpected and frequent blank spots every
day in all its internet connections.

i admit that w2k got to sp4, though. and i can be patient and sit by the
river until i see an sp floating by

ciao, ZC

Hello ZC,

I'm in total agreement with you .. Thank YOU for the link I read the
information there and it only confirmed what I was afraid of. As I said
in my first post, I'm totally new to Vista and the more I use it the
more I miss my XP Pro ... :cry:

*Thanks so much to ALL who wrote and helped me. I really appreciate the
information given.*

Jenn


--
JennB213

Zebra Code wrote:

lets talk about that. you hadnt five happy years with w2k, had you

sofar the ratio of 'soft crashes' is some like 5:1, vista:w2k.

with win2000 i could set a dsl shared connection up for weeks with not a
crash whatsoever.
with vista, until i set up a router, the win2000 client machine browsed
happily, while this vista one had unexpected and frequent blank spots
every day in all its internet connections.

i admit that w2k got to sp4, though. and i can be patient and sit by the
river until i see an sp floating by

ciao, ZC

No, I didn't have 5 years with w2k, but I had six years with XP. The
reason I quit XP was that I tired of doing monthly wash & wipes. I'm now
in month 8 with Vista, and I've forgotten what blue looks like. Not one
crash, zero bsod's, lots of speed with 3 gigs of ram. I'm a happy camper
with Vista. FWIW, I remember Win3.0 wouldn't add 2+2 without a crash.

--
Dave T.

"Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried
until they are seventy-five".
Benjamin Franklin

"Dave T." ha scritto
No, I didn't have 5 years with w2k, but I had six years with XP. The
reason I quit XP was that I tired of doing monthly wash & wipes. I'm now
in month 8 with Vista, and I've forgotten what blue looks like. Not one
crash, zero bsod's, lots of speed with 3 gigs of ram. I'm a happy camper
with Vista. FWIW, I remember Win3.0 wouldn't add 2+2 without a crash.

the first windows i met was 2.0, with the double windows logo converging to
the center from both sides if i remember. a bit slow on 286/386's.

i scarcely used xp. have it on my work machine but dont like it. imho and
imhx it never added anything substantial to win2000, in a work environment
at least. bsod ratio same or greater.
yesterday bychance i tested a vb routine to check th o.s. version.
this is the code

Case 5
If .dwMinorVersion = 0 Then
getVersion = "Windows 2000"
Else
getVersion = "Windows XP"
End If
Case Else
getVersion = .dwMajorVersion & "." & .dwMinorVersion & " - Windows Vista"

(i added the last two lines, which give a 6.0 version for vista)
i translate it as "xp is a minor upgrade from win2000). which i knew by
experience.

as for the speed, this vista machine is fast. but it's a dual core, the xp
machine is a p4, same clock. and i feel that both 2k and xp on this machine
would be definitely faster.

i like vista, though. but it's far from being steady.

ciao, ZC