Vista Question

[den]

Okay, all you clever geeks, I have a problem.


New Toshiba laptop with Vista. Want to connect it to the office network (LAN And/Or Wireless) Can see the network, can't connect. Any idea how to do this? How do I change the Workgroup? In XP there is an option to connect to the Internet via a connection that is always on. Where is that in VISTA?

How the hell do you OPERATE Vista, anyway. It seems to work on a need-to-know system that the user doesn't need to know.

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[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

Be grateful you're using a computer that is (presumably) designed for it. I am trying to make an old piece of software I wrote work on Vista (for work obviously) and it works very much better on the 'Vista Capable' computer than on the one that doesn't even mention Vista on the sticker. Neither of them have WHQL-certified sound drivers, but sound does work properly on the 'capable' computer; not so much on the other one.

My program doesn't work on either as far as I know, but I'm not entirely sure, because I haven't got admin access on the 'capable' one so I can't install it on there.

Doesn't sound like anyone here needs it, but my firm advice would be that nobody ever install Vista on any machine that didn't ship with it.

My favourite Vista feature is mapping network drives. This is incomprehensibly difficult, and quite simple, all at the same time. Most of us are used to the incredibly-shitty-but-works system in Windows XP; there's a button, or it's on the Tools menu; you choose that and it promptly forgets what folder you're looking at, but does let you map the drive. In Vista? No button, no menu.

EXCEPT the magic 'Alt' button! If you press Alt (not hold it) the same menu mysteriously appears! Then you can do it that way.

I found this out after ten minutes with Google (some of the pages that came up had the wrong answer). Yay for discoverable interfaces.