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I usually tell Windows to not remember my passwords, just in case somebody wants to use my computer and tries to access a private resource.
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Yes so do I usually but its just the fact that if I wanted to, I cant no longer do that.

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OMG!?! No pagefile! Are you sure it wasn't a display error?

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Laughing Yes, that should be considered an error if Windows is not using a page file.

Right, I'm well and truly urinated off with my Vista. It randomly gives me local only access to my network, but what that actually means is that it doesn't give me access to anything at all, including my local network.

This is blasphemous! Vista has been set to automatically assign an IP address via DHCP, and should automatically find my default gateway and DNS. It fails to do this almost every single time. So now I have had to manually specify an IP address, manually specify my default gateway and my DNS servers just so Vista can see the other computers on the network and get Internet access.

Whatever Microsoft did when they said they'd completely reworked the networking stack, they did it wrong. It's more like a stack of tumbleweed, or poo. Something like that.

Fedora Core 6 on the other hand, does manage to automatically detect my default gateway and DNS servers. The web server is running with a fixed IP address, and my big computer is running with DHCP enabled, and it actually works.

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LOL, new errors - happy errors and sad errors....

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Now Vista has decided to stop me from using Aero. The [b]only[/b] reason for somebody to upgrade and now they have stopped me from using it. This is stupid. I paid for the Ultimate edition.

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Maybe it think you're a laptop on battery power? LOL

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It's very random... it was doing it last night, but not this morning.

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I opened iTunes on Saturday after reformatting, and look what I saw Shocked (look in top right of itunes window)

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That just looks... broken...

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and before you comment Aaron, I'm not running that many apps for me (yes, even on Vista) Cool
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It's not just the fact that you're obviously using over 6GB of memory with those applications on, it's the realisation that you're actually running NightmareScene in the background. You my friend, are nuts.

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He has formatted and reinstalled Vista atleast 3 times by now...

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Curry's Digital is plagued by Windows Vista advertisements. The Vista laptops they demo are all slow and clunky. The ones actually drawing attention are the MacBook Pro's sitting in the far corner with groups of people around them laughing at the iSight effects. MacBook Pro = More Wow than Vista.

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Yeah, the MacBooks will be attracting a lot of attention now... so sleek, and people will realise they do more than Vista.

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look in top right of itunes window
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What's wrong? I don't see anything wrong. Confused

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The standard iTunes minimise, restore and close buttons have turned in to the Aero Glass buttons.

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Confused

I take it they are not supposed to be.

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