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heiowge · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: My wife has broke vista again

I don't do vista. Ever. And yet I am expected to fix my wife's laptop when she breaks it.

She fiercely resists any changes to how and what she does (I even have to burn discs and transfer data to a flash drive off vista's convoluted file manager for her so I can print). It's a futile battle every time I suggest a switch to a decent OS. Sad

Problem is this:

Her taskbar has moved to the right hand side of the screen. She wants it back. It's not locked and can be resized. Every forum says drag and drop it. That's not working. Any ideas.

lok1950 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject:

Have you right clicked on a blank area choose Properties should be an option to place the task bar left/right/top/bottom at least the option is there for Win 7 Wink

I have mine on the left side great for a wide screen.

Enjoy the Choice Smile

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heiowge · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Not to sound snotty or ungrateful, but I'm afraid that none of that made much of a difference.

Drag n drop had been tried repeatedly, but funnily enough practically solved it.

I clicked between the clock and the bottom edge of the screen on the toolbar. Then I dragged it left and the bar flipped to the bottom edge.

I have since locked it.

lok1950 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject:

I get a spinning dots of colour than become the windows logo as a splash screen on Win7 even on my VB version takes about 15 sec to the log in screen.

Enjoy the Choice Smile

1slipperyfish · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

i've had vista since February and it's run fine with no probs and i believe in treating os mean to keep 'em keen Very Happy

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maria · Joined: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:24 am Posts: 1

Hi,
I am using Vista since last 1.5 year. Its running nice with 2 GB RAM. Previously I was using Vista with 1 GB RAM. It is better then using XP.

heiowge · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:53 am Post subject:

I hated vista from the moment I tried it and every time that I have had to use it since.

I will probably try win 7 just to see if it lives up to XP, but so far no windows OS has come close.

Of course, I still spend 98% of my PC time on linux. Cool

LeeNukes · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:55 am Post subject:

I spend pretty much 100% of my time in Linux now. I used it at work and I use it at home and have done for a few years now, its dual boot but I hardly ever go into XP.
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