I recently help a lady with her Laptop running Vista and she wanted her pictures to show as thumbnails instead of Icons. If you go to Documents, then go to Organize, then choose Folder and Search options, then open the View tab, uncheck the first line that reads Always show icons, never thumbnails. Click Apply and OK, your pictures should now be displayed as thumbnails. This works in Vista and Windows 7.

I just recently installed Windows 7 on one of my computers which had a Linksys NC100TX Network card in it. 7 will not load drivers for it and Linksys has no updated drivers for this card. I bought a brand new Linksys LNE100TX EtherFast card and that will not work with 7 either, it is not even listed on the box that it will work with Vista and I learned on the web that Linksys does not plan to make driver updates for these cards. So before you install 7 use the compatibility program and see if your Network card will work. I will no longer be buying any Linksys products. I bought a new D-Link Network card and it says on the box that it will work with Vista so it should work fine with 7, I ended up putting in a Realtech Network card in place of the Linksys and it work perfectly and they had new drivers for it that I downloaded and installed. I guess Linksys doe not give a hoot about their customers so why should I give a hoot about them. I can not believe they did not even update their drivers for Vista, sad shame on you Linksys.

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I worked on a dell dimension 2400 that had lost the onboard video, Start Menu, Task Bar, internet and it only had PCI slots no AGP or PCI express slots. I work on family and friends computers for free, so I looked around the basement and came up with an old PCI 3dfx Voodoo 3 card, I really wondered if XP the OS on the computer would even have drivers for it. I put it in the number one PCI slot, that slot is always reserved for a video card and hooked the monitor cable to it and it worked. I tried booting the computer and was able to get into the BIOS. I was going to disable the onboard video but it only gave me the option for Auto or Onboard, so it got set to Auto. So now I had a monitor to see what was going on with the computer. The owner said she had no Start Menu or Task Bar and could not get online, that she kept getting error messages, the first one I got was a IPmon.exe error message. I did a search on Google and most sites indicated it was a malicious Trojan. I rebooted into Safe Mode and download Malwarebytes on my flash drive and then dragged it onto the wounded computers Desktop. It installed but gave a message error when I tried to open it.

Well I finally got my enclosures and made my own External Hard Drives. It was very easy and they work great!!! I put together a How-To on this page Make External Hard Drive. Hope it helps and you make one of your own.

I have always looked at those external hard drives and then looked away because of the cost. I have a couple 120 gig hard drives laying around that I do not use anymore or if you have old computers laying around you can take those drives out. Anyways you can make your own External Hard Drive by just buying a $19.99 enclosure, plug in the old hard drive and bingo External Hard Drive. You can get them for IDE or for Sata drives, ordered two for my 120 gig drives and will do a how to, it is always good to save money.

Bought a 3 pack upgrade of 7 and upgraded my gaming computer to 7 from XP, details here: Moving to Windows 7 I really like it so far had a few hardware issues. So far all of my software is working on 7. Check it out, will be adding more info after I get a ton of files moved over from my main computer to the new 7 machine.

I noticed that when I went to play the Java games on my Original Game Room with IE they did not work. If you go to Tools-Manage Add ons and then click the Toolbars and Extension button-then Enable Sun Microsystems, Incs: Web Browser Applet Control and Java Plugin. There was another Sun Microsystems which was (not Verified) the JQSIEStartDectorImpl Class, I made sure that was enabled also. They should now work, had no problems with Firefox.

There is a scare tactic circulating about a Death Panel in the Heath Reform Bills being crafted. It is not true check at FactCheck.org, but there are Death Panels right now that decide whether we live or die. It is the Health Insurance Companies, they cap your lifetime benefits and decide what tests and treatments your Doctor can order for you. If we reach our lifetime cap, tough you gonna die, if they decide you cannot have treatments that could save your life, “the Health Insurance Panel”, tough you gonna die and they could care less. They are corporations that deal in profits, PERIOD. They are not in the business of making sure you get well, they are in it for GREED show me the money baby.

Just like the Pharmaceutical Companies are not in the business to find cures for illnesses, they are in the business to make drugs that you will pay for every month and it just maintains the illness, great revenue, record profits in that industry. If they find the cure for an illness you get cured and they lose all that revenue, think about it, where is their motivation to find a cure for cancer or any disease, there is no motivation, they are making huge profits selling “drugs” not cures.

Doctors are caught in the middle, they want to make us well and cure our illnesses but it is the Health Insurance Panels that decide what they can do and cannot do to treat you and the Pharmaceutical Companies are giving them all kinds of perks to push their drugs. There is no motivation for the Doctor to cure you, unless they need to cut down on their patience load and they are willing to play hardball with your Insurance Company, they would have to be fools to get on the wrong side of either one of those entities. If we and our Doctors want the power to decide what “we” need for our treatments and what drugs we REALLY NEED then we need Health Insurance Reform, we need the power over our own health care decisions with the information coming from our Doctors and the power to decide for ourselves what is best for our illness. Our Doctors should be able to order any “necessary” tests and treatments according to best practices that have worked for other patients with that illness.

This is just my 2 cents, but I know that there are a lot of folks that have no health insurance and people that would love to start a small business but cannot do it because of health care. We need this for Americans, we work hard and should be able to be Healed by our Physician, with no Health Insurance Company deciding to approve or deny the Doctors decisions. We spent 1.3 Trillion dollars on Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of that money went into rebuilding their country, when Americans are without Health Care, are Homeless, No Jobs, being foreclosed on, shame on us for allowing things like this to happen in America, but Whoopy we are helping people that “HATE” us, while America is falling apart.

I have been really busy at work right now and to tired to do much on my websites, working is good, being to tired to work on my sites not so good. I did check out a little about Windows 7 and it sounds like it will be better then Vista. One thing that worries me is that in order to run programs that were designed for XP, you will have to run them in whats called Virtual PC. The software is free but it will only work with the Professional and up versions, it is also a beta right now. Here is a link to a MS Article about it: Windows Virtual PC. This is Windows 7 home page: Windows 7. I plan on buying 7 so I can add info about it to my site. Vista wasn’t worth the money as far as I was concerned. You should also check out what requirements are needed to run 7, here is a link to the System Requirements: Windows 7 requirements.

Have not seen any pricing yet, but I will be buying the full retail version not the upgrade version or the OEM, I never upgrade, to many problems, I just reformat the drive or buy a new drive and do a clean install. If you buy a new drive and just disconnect the XP drive and connect the new drive and then install 7, if there are problems I can always just reconnect the XP drive and run that or switch back and forth.

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comments: hello! i found this very helpful. i’ve done most of them of before. What registry cleaner are you using? i tried to find RegCleaner but i couldn’t decide which one you used. please send me a link to download. thank you so much.

Download the old version here Regcleaner
They now have a new version of Jouni Vuoro software Regcleaner, PowerTools Lite very simple interface and you can also purchase a full version if you want.