tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058983622047999482011-06-24T07:48:08.805-07:00A Windows Vista JournalMike Atwellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-605898362204799948.post-88072828210317700022007-08-17T23:30:00.000-07:002007-08-17T23:32:06.625-07:00The desktop is on Windows Basic and the laptop is on Windows Premium. I can get the two to "see" each other but I cannot log onto Windows Basic from the laptop. I can, however, log onto Windows Premium from the desktop.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/605898362204799948-8807282821031770002?l=carriage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Atwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-605898362204799948.post-51660130540897525882007-02-15T22:15:00.000-08:002007-02-15T22:15:55.791-08:00A funny thing happened...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=0&search_query=windows+vista&Continue.x=0&Continue.y=0&Continue=Find&ic=24_0">Windows Vista, at Walmart</a> anyway, is only available on DVD. So, I buy a DVD drive.<br /><br />Fast forward a couple weeks later. I'm like, "Hey, maybe I'll watch <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/dvd">Spiderman</a> from my new DVD drive."<br /><br />Not so fast. Just because I have a DVD drive doesn't mean I can watch movies. No, in fact, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/dvdcodecs.aspx?locale=409&geoid=f4&version=11.0.6000.6324&userlocale=409">Windows Vista Home Basic Edition doesn't come with a DVD Video Codec</a>, the software that's needed and apparently its still not available.<br /><br />The road points to another upgrade. Microsoft used to ask, "Where can we take you today?" and to that I reply "Where ARE you taking me?".<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/605898362204799948-5166013054089752588?l=carriage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Atwellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-605898362204799948.post-87923656269532141262007-02-14T12:40:00.000-08:002007-02-14T16:43:38.156-08:00Funny, we just had a blizzard and today I installed <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/blizzard_com');">Blizzard software</a>!<br /><br />Went through a collection of disks and found <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo2/" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/blizzard_com/diablo2/');">Diablo II</a> and the <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo2exp/ onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/blizzard_com/diablo2exp');"">Lord of Destruction Expansion Pack</a>. On my <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/microsoft_com/windows/products/windowsvista/');">Windows Vista</a> system, I have a DVD drive and a CD-writer as well. During the first installation I would put in the disks as needed in either drive. The installation seemed to go well until I tried to play the game. Then, no matter what disk in either drive would satisfy. I reinstalled Diablo II and the Expansion Pack. This time, however, I used only the DVD drive for the installation. Everything seems to be fine. I just started the game and not played it yet. I read that the video on Vista is a bit clunky. We'll see.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/605898362204799948-8792365626953214126?l=carriage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Atwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-605898362204799948.post-50617958711105122342007-02-11T00:45:00.000-08:002007-02-14T16:45:31.202-08:00My 13 year old daughter likes to fiddle with the desktop and appearance settings in Windows Vista as she did in previous versions of Windows.<br /><br />So I look for a way, as the computer administrator, to lock the display settings, or at least contain them to just my daughters profile.<br /><br />The problem is that "When you log on as a user and set a screen resolution, and then log off from and then back on to the computer as another user by either using Fast User Switching (FUS) or by logging off, the screen resolution remains the same for each user."<br /><br />I found a reference to earlier versions of Windows where Microsoft says <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281565" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/support_microsoft_com/kb/281565');">"This behavior is by design."</a><br /><br />On a forum <a href="http://www.compatdb.org/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/143261/page/1" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/compatdb_com/');">I found a clunky sort of workaround</a>, but that's not for me.<br /><br />I guess the solution is to tell my daughter not to change the display settings since there doesn't appear to be a way otherwise.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/605898362204799948-5061795871110512234?l=carriage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Atwellnoreply@blogger.com0