What I loathe about 7 is the Explorer and the stupid libraries. I managed to make the flickering go away and finally convinced it to run everything as an admin, so we've reached a truce of sorts.
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Ginger - Jun 24, 2011 10:47:27 am PDT #17039 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2011 10:57:23 am PDT #17040 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm a bit weirded out now by how Windows 95 Classic is, and I want a middle ground. I just can't work out where those settings are. I refuse to close the Personalisation window until I work it out.
I don't know when I became a Mac, but shit. It took.
Gris - Jun 24, 2011 10:59:09 am PDT #17041 of 25501
Hey. New board.
And you really don't like Windows 7 default? I find it to be by far the Macciest Windows yet. I actually find it rather a pleasure to use (though I still boot into it quite rarely)
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2011 11:02:45 am PDT #17042 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The transparent windows thing is a no go for me. I keep getting lost between applications. And the task bar doesn't make it obvious enough what's running (though it's clear in Windows Classic).
Liese S. - Jun 24, 2011 2:05:50 pm PDT #17043 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
In the Aero themes, you can just turn off the transparency, by opting to change window color; there's a checkbox. That was insufficient for me, so I went with Windows 7 Basic. It's okay. There is a slightly lighter background behind the icons that are actual open in the task bar, but yeah, I agree with the objection.
quester - Jun 25, 2011 2:28:22 pm PDT #17044 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I have had a number of different WD drives die on me, to the point where I won't buy them any longer. In most instances it has not been the actual mechanism inside, but rather part of the electronics in the enclosure that had failed. I've been able to rip the drive out of the enclosure and hook it up to a USB to SATA dock that I have and get all of my data. I know this probably sounds like a pain in the ass, and it is, but it means that there is a good chance the data is still there.
Well, I tried the Disk Utility as le nubian suggested. The utility recognized the drive but fixing permissions failed. I may have to give it up for lost. I just bought a new drive that I hope will work.
Meanwhile, my modem is once again in failure mode. This time when I called Qwest I explained all of the things that I had done to reset it and how many people had been out to look at the situation and the guy just said, "They should have replaced the modem right away" so he ordered me a new one, it's still under warranty. It should arrive at the beginning of the week, so I am hopeful.
le nubian - Jun 25, 2011 2:56:41 pm PDT #17045 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
don't give up yet.
do a "verify disk" and see what happens.
quester - Jun 25, 2011 7:45:41 pm PDT #17046 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I did and it failed as well.
Jesse - Jun 26, 2011 12:42:02 pm PDT #17047 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
BTW, I like Win7 much better now that I've switched to the "Windows 7 Basic" theme....
le nubian - Jun 26, 2011 1:44:40 pm PDT #17048 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."