XP did automagically install, but the magic is gone from Windows 7.
Definitely a step back, and a weird one as that can't be hard to implement.
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
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Gudanov - Jun 08, 2010 12:22:35 pm PDT #14091 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Deena - Jun 08, 2010 3:17:54 pm PDT #14092 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I was able to automagically install fonts on Windows 7. I can't check how I did it, though, because my computer's in the shop.
dcp - Jun 08, 2010 3:38:42 pm PDT #14093 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Windows 7 Help says:
To install a font: Right-click the font you want to install and click Install.
Tip: You can also install a font by dragging it into Fonts in Control Panel.
Ginger - Jun 08, 2010 5:43:28 pm PDT #14094 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Windows 7 Help says:
That's what it *says*.
I'm mainly just channeling Mal: "This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in-and-out, I wanted easy money. ... Once, just once, I want things to go according to the gorram plan!"
meara - Jun 09, 2010 9:52:18 am PDT #14095 of 25501
Grr. My internet connection has been driving me crazy. It keeps dropping out and I keep resetting my wireless. Which is annoying anyway, but especially when I live in a many-story townhouse, and my office is on the top floor (but if I put the wireless in my office, then I probably couldn't get it in the basement, and also then in the evenings when I'm surfing on the couch, I'd have to run upstairs to do it).
And so after the third time today, I decided I'd reset the cable modem while I was at it...and it went CRAZY, and my whole internet went down. Kept re-resetting itself, or something.
I decided after half an hour of this, it was time to go ahead and order my own on Amazon. I balked at the cost of overnight delivery, but paid for two day delivery. Because two days with only work computer (I have a cell-internet dongle) and my iPhone, internet?? Is two days too many.
...so of course, at that point, after I've ordered, is suddenly when the internet seems to be working again. Sort of.
Liese S. - Jun 09, 2010 11:45:35 am PDT #14096 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
You can also get a signal booster to help deal with the distance in the house.
Deena - Jun 09, 2010 11:47:56 am PDT #14097 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
My computer is dead. Motherboard, power supply, and graphics card. The tech says he can't even tell yet if the hard drive or memory are good until he replaces this first set of parts. That's $300.00, right there.
It seems to me it's unlikely the rest survived the surge if those parts didn't.
I'm screwed, right?
javachik - Jun 09, 2010 11:55:12 am PDT #14098 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Deena, I have an old Dell laptop that I can send to you. Just let me know.
Deena - Jun 09, 2010 12:24:06 pm PDT #14099 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks, javachik, that's so sweet of you. I have backup, so I'm okay. I'm just frustrated because it doesn't have my programs, or my stuff, and it's got less memory, but mostly the programs and the stuff. I saved everything to that computer. I've really got to stop doing that.
Sean K - Jun 09, 2010 12:46:04 pm PDT #14100 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Deena, I have an old Dell laptop that I can send to you. Just let me know.
Isnthat the same Dell laptop I used to watch The Office (and many other DVDs) when S was in the hospital in SF a couple of years ago?