ita, can she just find a restore point, or doesn't she have that enabled?
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
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DCJensen - Mar 31, 2009 7:17:35 pm PDT #9569 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
beth b - Mar 31, 2009 7:27:11 pm PDT #9570 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
he's looking
beth b - Mar 31, 2009 7:34:24 pm PDT #9571 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
So far it looks like they want you to buy the restore disks -- he'll keep looking
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 7:36:15 pm PDT #9572 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, fuck. I'm going to have her call support. I can't walk her through all this from here. If Vista shipped with restore points enabled, then maybe it's an option.
Matt H - Mar 31, 2009 7:55:00 pm PDT #9573 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
If she's got the HP Help & Support option installed (not the default Windows H&S), there's a scan option in there which can automatically download drivers: link
For some reason, HP doesn't allow direct driver downloads for all of their hardware, especially on Vista....
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 7:58:39 pm PDT #9574 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Matt. I'll forward that to her.
megan walker - Mar 31, 2009 8:40:23 pm PDT #9575 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So is there any modern type of VCR where I can just set to record things without having a subscription? It seems like Comcast only has HD DVRs which are $16 a month (and I am not paying that on top of cable).
flea - Apr 01, 2009 2:07:17 am PDT #9576 of 25501
information libertarian
This $70 DVD/VCR says it records. We have a similar model. [link]
Jessica - Apr 01, 2009 3:44:54 am PDT #9577 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Megan, a Tivo will work without a subscription. You won't be able to set up season passes, but you can manually schedule recordings.
There's also MythTV, but I'm not sure how plug-n-play they are. (Didn't Gud build one a while back? He would probably know better than me.)
Gudanov - Apr 01, 2009 4:55:26 am PDT #9578 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
With MythTV you still need a subscription to get listing data. It runs $20/year.
MythTV is pretty far from plug and play and can get pretty complicated unless you have over-the-air, analog cable or unencrypted digital cable/satellite. It's a fantastic system if you have an old computer laying around and are willing to do the fiddling, but it's not for someone who just wants to plug it in and have things work.