Recent content by senorcarne

Well it's not so much having a fresh install of Windows, or an image of anything, as much as I'd like to have all the latest data backed up seamlessly to another drive. I should have mentioned this, but I'd rather have the full-size files rather than compressed files like Acronis and Norton...

What is the best backup utility, and is there a program similar to OS X's Time Machine for Windows? Time Machine is a backup program that automatically copies every file, unless I exclude them, to an external hard drive. I can remove the hard drive, and when I plug it back in it automatically...

Ok, I have Windows Vista Home Premium but had a problem and instead decided to use Windows XP Professional. I missed media center so I hacked my professional into Media center through the common methods online (basically change a registry key and install Media Center, Pre-Rollup 2, and Rollup 2)...

I got a trial of ultramon, but it still doesn't fix the problem - the dual taskbars on each monitor is really cool, but NOW they show the reflection of the wrong monitor. I determined its a vista monitor issue kind of thing - my primary monitor is detected in vista as monitor 2. setting monitor...

I don't have ultramon, nor do I want it to pay for that. I do use the free DisplayFusion... you think thats the problem?

No, 1024x1280 - it's rotated 90 degrees, and it was really annoying finding a background for it. here's a screenshot

I just got a 2nd monitor, rotated 90 degrees, and it's so awesome. It's to the left of my main monitor (with the taskbar) and set up perfectly. There is one problem though: Vista's transparent taskbar. It's on the second monitor, like it should be. But that screen is 1680x1050, and the left...

I have a custom built Vista 64 PC and a MacBook. They are both on a network of four computers. The Macbook can usually see every computer except for my windows one. My PC can see every computer, except the Mac - sometimes it can see it though. I bought a Crossover Ethernet Cable to hook...

...is SP1 out yet!? I have Vista x64 Home Premium, and for some reason, while my friends with Vista have Service pack 1, I don't. Windows Update doesn't find it, and I can't download from Microsoft's website. And, I don't want to download those clean install torrents, although an upgrade...

Yes! Thank You! It works now. Although I hope the annoying icon thing goes away if I ever decide to disable it...

Well now I realized something else - I turned off UAC, deciding to forget about this whole hassle just to enable an annoying feature anyway, and I restarted, and all my desktop icons retain their UAC security shield things. Not only that, but system wide, every icon retains it. (I know the...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php/t-185622.html This is someone talking about the AOL Instant Messenger on Vista error and how to fix it. They specifically say to type this into command line: net localgroup Administrators NT Authority\Local Service /add I added this...

no lol well yeah, i modified the system but i undid my modification and it's still acting eratically.

well first of all, i never actually tried deleting C:\Windows, since I'm not stupid. But I used it as an example - it never prompts me. As mentioned in the first post, I turned off UAC when I first installed vista. Edited the Administrators group in the command prompt, turned UAC on (as part...

Well, for me, I know UAC is definitely broken. (Thread starter btw) I have Vista on two computers. One prompts me every time I move my mouse, so I know UAC is working. The other one has it enabled but I can delete my entire C:\Windows folder without any notice. So I know that one is not...