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.
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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.
don't give up yet.
do a "verify disk" and see what happens.
I did and it failed as well.
BTW, I like Win7 much better now that I've switched to the "Windows 7 Basic" theme....
Quester -- Like ND said above, the problem could be with the enclosure, not the HD itself. If possible, you should try to remove the HD from it's enclosure and see if you can mount it as an internal drive.
So I am finally joining the smartphone crowd! I'm on T-Mobile, and my two main contenders are the Motorola CLIQ 2 and the Samsung Exhibit 4G. I am drawn to the slider keyboard on the CLIQ 2, but it's only 3G. The Exhibit doesn't have as good a camera, but it's 4G. The T-Mobile guy was pushing the Exhibit, which is also cheaper. I did play with it a bit and found it pretty easy to use.
I've never had a smartphone, so I don't really know what I'm looking for in a smartphone. I don't need anything high-end, but I know I'll be using it for browsing and e-mail and GPS and the occasional YouTube video, surely. And, of course, Angry Birds. Any recommendations/suggestions? Consuela, how are you liking your myTouch 4G? It's more expensive than the CLIQ and Exhibit.
I would go for the Exhibit, because it's running Gingerbread (Android 2.3) while the Cliq is running Froyo (Android 2.2) - better to have the latest one since it can be hard to upgrade Android sometimes, from what I hear. Plus, I've really found that the physical keyboard isn't as necessary as you think: it takes about a week for most people to get used to the software keyboard on iOS/Android, and after that the physical keyboard just adds weight/thickness for no reason.