Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
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Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
16-04-2009 9:43 PM
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Running Vista Home Premium..... and it took me about 20 minutes to do a system restore, after I had searched for the location of that little gem....
Is this going to happen every time I update automatically? (I have turned it off now..... and the two updates that are available should not have affected the desktop at all )
Oh and don`t try to get me to go t Linux.... I am having enough problems learning Vista after XP ! ! !
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 2:46 AM
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Send it back
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 6:20 AM
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 10:34 AM
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17-04-2009 11:05 AM
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Quote Is this going to happen every time I update automatically?
It shouldn't! I'm running Vista on my desktop PC and have never had any issues after Windows Updates (including the most recent ones).
The only thing I notice is (and the same happens on the Xp laptop) when there's any change to Outlook (normally Junk Mail filter updates) it gets set as the default mail client even though I have Thunderbird set as default on both machines. Other than that I've had no issues and I've certainly not seen the behaviour you're describing.
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 2:35 PM
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I am running AVG 8.5 free, which has daily updates automatically, and automatically runs a complete scan daily at 10:00, so far with no reports of any virus attack.....
I normally run Superantispyware weekly on Saturdays, so I could run that just to make sure, but I do clean up every night using CCleaner with 3 X overwrite in the settings..
I don`t want to go back to XP, (unless I really have to) my missus is using Vista, and as others have said, it is frustrating to try to find things with the two different OS running.....
This is a New Machine, and has Vista pre-installed by Dell.... I could go back to WIN 98 if I really wanted to, but time and technology have a way of moving on, and I have to keep up ! ! (even at my age)
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 2:42 PM
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Try (for example) the Ubuntu Live CD, don't install it, just play with it a bit.
It will be relatively slow because it is running from CD/memory - but if you like it, the next step is obvious!
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 4:30 PM
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 4:41 PM
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I'm on the office laptop at the moment - with Vista.
I turned it on again at about 3.30pm - used for a while - went to make a few phone calls and came back to find the PC had rebooted and wanted me to sign on again.
I found out it had done an auto update. Everything seems as before and ok
not much help to you I know - but it does work for some of us.........
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 4:54 PM
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- Fell over
- Rebooted
- Decided to download stuff off of the internet
- Did all these things without asking its owner
You should do a low-level format - that would make it mend its ways.
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 6:12 PM
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17-04-2009 6:44 PM
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
17-04-2009 7:17 PM
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and yes exitsofevil i have a partion with ubuntu on. i only have a play with it now and then and to be honest linux in its current form will just not take off with the mass public. theres to much messing about to get simple things to work. using wpa2 encpt use to be a big job to get running. it just will not cut the mustard with we want it now generation
Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
18-04-2009 12:00 AM
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But it's only half a dozen lines anyway - the only tricky bit was generating the pass key from the pass-phrase.
I expect Ubuntu would handle it automatically on a new install - must try it one day.
I've (only once) had to install a driver
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Re: Vista Update ruined my desktop layout
18-04-2009 8:34 AM
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