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What I don't get is, if I can't install this program onto my C drive, and it won't let me download it to a CD, where am I supposed to install it? The D drive is supposed to be reserved, right?
It totally depends on your system. Your D drive might have Windows restore stuff, but if there's room on it, I don't see why you can't install it on that. (Or is your D drive a CD/DVD drive?)
Failing that, you'd need to add another drive to your system or get an external drive. A cheap USB flash drive might even work.
You could also re-partition your C drive to add another partition, but once you're trying to recover something, this option will also risk wiping out what you want to recover.
Okay, yeah, the D drive is a partition of the hard disk. I could install it on that. When I tried to open the D drive before, the system wouldn't let me - flashed all sorts of warnings and I thought I'd kill my computer.
Perhaps I should back everything up before I start messing around. Considering I don't know what the frell I'm doing.
I'm scared by Windows Vista. How long before they're going to take my XP away?
Dude, if it comes to that and the security chip thing, I'm switching to linux and not looking back.
Didn't MS only recently abandon support of NT 4.0?
Didn't MS only recently abandon support of NT 4.0?
I'm not as concerned with abandoning of support, but more of what OS I can put on my next computer. And the rate at which applications might move away.
I was happy once I got started on W2K. Happy enough that knowing my next machine would have XP bothered me. But I made peace with that, although I still long for the days of yore.
Vista brings back my XP apprehension, times a brazilian.
Well, just that short listing of the Vista line has increased the likelihood that my next computer will be a Mac.
Oh, a while back someone posted that Vista will not run on 50% of the PCs out there. I think that 50% figure refers to computers capable of running the Aero graphic thingie, and that you can run Vista just fine without Aero. (Aero requires a certain level of graphics card functionality.)
eta: I don't know much about Aero, but I think it's just translucent window crap, and other eye-candy, sorta' like OS X has had for a while
Gah. Suddenly my power supply for my Powerbook isn't making the lighty light. I can't tell if it's because it's not seated right or what. Pisser.
::wants to quip about ita and a brazilian but fears the Wrath of She, so remains quiet::
