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esquire:
You know what really happen is that you did not specify the kind of OS you use so i can know how best to help u. Linux always have their package managers Like Redhat's RPM, Suse's YAST and (K)Ubuntu's SYNAPTIC/ADEPT which are strongly adviseable because of broken packages which can atime render your system useless but if its some packages that does not have dependencies double clicking on such application will do the trick. If to say You tell me the OS u dey use now i for know where to talk on because i use ubuntu

i could not i have said it better , give us the distro u are using so we can help u

am so sorry that i did not respond to ur post earlier, i have been out of internet for a while now, how ever give me ur number and i will get in touch with u, there are some packages that i have for u , dont worry everything is free

the fisrt part is easy, simiply install nero 8, remember i said nero 8 or at least nero 7.9.6 those are the 2 neros that i know are compactible with vista, installing any other lower version might crash your system,

on the second one i need to know the kind of mouse used, is it a wireless mouse or cable, and if u can remember the exact name of the mouse it would really help,

also u can try another mouse tell me if it works

u are not alone in this , the usb problem is a known issue with vista u can read this maybe it might help "I don't want to see the question go unanswered but at the same time don't have much information to offer.

In Device manager Root Hub basically refers to the physical USB ports while the controller refers to the drivers. Thus, all that's normal. When it comes to the number, are you sure you only have 3 total? Most newer computers also have front USB ports, so look around on the front panel, on the memory card reader (if you have one), etc, a fourth one should be there.

As to Vista not recognizing anything you plug in, the only thing I can think of is to plug in a flash drive and then go into Computer Management->Disk Management through the control panel, see if the flash drive is recognized there at all. If not you could try reinstalling Vista, but if it's a drive compatibility issue then the only solution would be to wait for Intel to release an update.
" , am still working on a solution for u

Mehn well come to the club o, out here in NL its a one man that rule, but who cares, i dont i just come and do my thing and get out, i belong to other well maintained forums than to give a sh*t bout NL, we ahve spoken, and suggested, and commented on the need for a moderator. we got nothing, i feel it has something to do with the EULA u agreed to b4 signing into NL

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Lol. . .multiple desktops uhn, or what?! Default installations of Vista and of Ubuntu are basically the same. Stop living on third party software please. . . Niggy specifically pointed out to the OS. I'm not bringing in 3rd party apps into this.

mahn i don't understand u again o, just when i though your argument was weird u stepped up to the ridiculous, how can u call compiz fusion a 3rd party app.

mehn that is just the height , by the way is it that u are so desperate for point that u have to resort to such illiterate conclusion, u don't have any understand of linux so shut up, ok let me educate u, u see my friend , Linux is a community based os , ie it is developed by a armies of volunteers (developers) who are divided into different project, which projects are ment to create programs which can be used to enhance the Linux based distros, we have people who work on improving the Linux kernel,some on desktops environments like KDE,GNOME,ENLIGHTENMENTS etc, some on cross platform programs like Wine,ntfs config, etc, some on multimedia like amarok,rhythm box etc. , all the projects and many more are developed by the Linux developers who are part of the communities, every linux distribution like ubuntu,fedora,redhat etc would then choose which of these projects there wants to add as default for their own os , e.g SUSE a linux distro uses KDE as its defaults Desktop environment,even though u can install Gnome on it , that does not mean that the gnome DE is a "3rd party apps"naa gnome is as a part of linux just as the windows shell is a part of windows .it just that unlike on windows the only choose of GUI u have is the windows shell on linux u have the choose to choose any GUI Manager / Desktop environment u want, e.g ubuntu comes with Gnome as default Desktop Environment but i installed KDE,enlightenments,xfce and flubar, these are all Desktop environments that i can use with my linux system, each as its file manager, default music player etc, the compiz u are talking about is a project that was developed to add 3d enviroments to the linux GUI enviroments, when it started there was a disagreements so some people wents and formed beyl which as more effects compared to compiz which was boring, latter the two settled and remarged to form compiz fusion, which is now stable, the once avaliable before was the beta version called bleeding edge in linux, that was why it did not come as default which many distro before bcus it was not stable, even at that it worked better than the over bloated areo effect of vista, which uses 600mb of your run, now that compiz fusion is stable ubuntu desided to make it default for their own os, and what is the compiz we are even talking about, compiz is just a windows manager for the linux X server, the X server is the base of all the DEs of linux, that is why compiz is DE independents it works on KDE,GNOME,XFCE ETC. , SO guy stop embarrassing yourself by taking about things u have no idea of, your first agreements was that it was not offer real 3d but just screenshots, later it became its a 3rd party app, i bet now u know better

Sounds like your proper linux is the same as a teenage kid whose proper windows includes StyleXP or WindowBlinds. Nevermind. i'm cool without the apps that have nothing to do with productivity.

just like i said ealier compiz is as part of the linux desktop environments just like the windows shell is to windows, talk about windows blind . do u know that the aero effect u have on vista was first developed in GUI styles as a skin to windows blind, Mircrosucks then had to out source the whole aero project to the kid . that is why aero works like a 3rd party apps on windows consuming 80% of your memory if u use a 1gb ram on vista, that sucks and it is not good for productivity, infact most people i know disable areo cus its chops too much batt and makes your system run sluggishly, unlike compiz which actually enhance your productivity cus it uses very little resources infact my friends old dell p3 with 250mb of ram and 8mb of graphic memo runs fine with compiz, if my work space i crowded i simply move my work to another desktop, i can i different things running on each desktop and my system will not slow down one bit, i can power my system from morning till night infact for 24hrs which powering down and the system would just be as fresh as new, even if i install over 500 packages on linux i wont notice the different if i have just 20, this are things i have tried and tested so i know aht am talking about, what do u want to tell me about windows, i was once like u too , but i tried ubuntu and i never came back if u doubt read these thread


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=45022.msg1206031#msg1206031

Flip3D in Vista displays live thumbnails of the applications being put into perspective. i.e. a movie will keep playing in that state. That's closer to 3D than putting screenshots into perspective, DUH Lips sealed

i didnt see that post , mehn i now know for sure that u have no idea about what u are talking about, thank God for free speech otherwise pple like u should be mouth gaged , soo the cube on linux is just a screenshot ehen mehn please try find out more about something b4 u make a post so that u dont disgrace ur self in public, if u dont know i can start 4 movie and move them to each one of my desktop cube and activate the cube and watch all movies , all i can just use the expo plugin,oh shit u probably dont know what that is ,or scale,or scale flip, ok ok i will post screenshot to make u understand what am talking about, who knows might just learn one or 2 things about the world of unix,

naijafan:
@niggy
you honestly got me laughing. Linux geeks and windows admin. . . yea, right. So it now takes a geek to tell the difference between a ball and a circle, i hear you quite alright.

while i'm not going to bother disproving the fact that i knw little about windows and linux os, duh. Just for the record, been on windows since 3.11.

Wateva 3d image posted up there is comparable to flip 3d in vista. . . its a play on image perspective to give a 3d impression. . .
you had to install beryl on your fedora core to get it. . . but its native to Vista. Come on, don't tell me about the differences, because if they where the same, you'd say one copied the other. . . dude, gimme a break!

@ralvy
all this is getting out of hands. the screenshots do no good, because Niggy specifically pointed a finger at the operating system, rather than applications. Maybe when you can interact with desktop objects in such a 'perspective' state, you can come back and tell me which OS is 3D.

I guess we should be comparing OpenGL with DirectX because that's what drives the operation of taking a shot of the current screenstate and putting it into perspective, thus fooling 'Niggy' into thinking the OS is '3D'

@topic
Flip3D in Vista displays live thumbnails of the applications being put into perspective. i.e. a movie will keep playing in that state. That's closer to 3D than putting screenshots into perspective, DUH

Man u can argue for windows on anything but please don't come near GUI when it comes to linux, for now linux is king, what are u talking about, that your stupid windowed desktop that is more like a Blackboard /poster is what u are comparing to the intuitive and dynamic desktop that is used by linux, ? haaah May God for give u for your blasphemy, and from the way u are talking u probably have never seen a proper Linux, CUS if u have , u will ask for forgiveness for your miss yarning, so what do u call 3d hen , yeah still images can't convey 3d as good as live moving picture so i will tell u to go to youtube just type compiz fusion, on the search field and come back to tell me what u got, what is 3d in vista ? the whole aero thing is a big sham, and that is what comsumes about 600mb of your ram and eats your battery for lunch yet it can't do 2% of what u can do on compiz fusion which uses less than 64mb of ram, u can even run it on the lowest graphic card arround, as am talking to u my friend is telling me silence is the best answer for a fool, but i don't think u a fool , u are just need to be educated on the world outside windoze that is all, and about the directx/opengl thing the only difference is that one is closed sourced and restricted and the other is open source and dynamic, non is inferior to the other, oh did i just say that? mehn Opengl kills direct x , abi u fit do all what u could do on compiz on windows ?

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mehn This ubuntu ultimate is too awesome, its just sooo cool, mehn am speechless, yeah everybody here know that iam an advocate of ubuntu , and i have always talked about just how cool the os is compared to windows, installing ubuntu ultimate 1.6 just takes trhings to another height , its the perfect linux os for the new user who just want everythign to work out of the box, without editing or installing any extra stuff, everything has been installed for u, all your codecs , everything , wine works like magic, i was even able to install some windows program using wine and it worked , that is why ubuntu nigeria loco has decided that we would be making it our official distro of choice,

Men this Ubuntu is crazy!I've always thought of one day switching to Linux but everyone says it's difficult to use and again going about doing it without deleting my Xp. Nice one guys.

mehn no fear o i have been using linux for over 4 months now and i have always do so dual booting it with windows , the process it very easy to do, dont let any body scare u, ]




--- just want to let pple know that i have just gotten the ubuntu gamers edition, based on feisty fawn, it was sent to me by an ubuntu user in the uk, it has got all the best games there is on linux,

this are some of the screenshots of ubuntu ultimate 1.6 that i took from the live cd

I have just finished downloading the ubuntu ultimate based on the recently released gutsy gibbon, right now am about to boot into it to check out how it goes

bigrover the computer lawyer. tell me how you are going to combine these two or do u plan to specialise in compuetr law?

Law is a profession ,  ubuntu is a way of life.

We're thinking of making the Ubuntu Ultimate Editions the default for the loco Team since it has everything to get a beginner going!
I am downloading the latest version i.e (Ubuntu Ultimate 1.6) and will be done by evening today, although - this version has not been officially released, you can confirm that by clicking on this link

I will notify everyone once the .iso is down!

yeah the ubuntu loco group (ubuntu user group) plans to make the ubuntu ultimate the our distro of choice,  however wel would still distribute other variance of ubuntu to anybody that so request, 

please when stating your specs be sure to include your graphic card,ram,hard drive, and processor. this infor like ralvy said are very important in helping us decide which distro is right for u

@ ralvy here in lagos too am almost thru with the download of ubuntu ultimate 1.6 right now am at 97% i should be thru in some few hours.

hey ralph man am almost thru with ubuntu ultimate download here in lagos, infact am at 96% i would be thru in a few hours

OK i know that u have seen and heard many things about ubuntu , in other to streamline things i decided to create a thread is meant for the ubuntunigeria loco. in case you are wondering what a loco is,  its a kind of association of ubuntu users that live in a country, their jobs among other things is to . enlighten people about the advantages of using ubuntu, and to help new users with installation, and support. we currently have a blog www.ubuntunigeria. u can visit there if u will like to know more about ubuntu,  we also have some toturials there on how to partition your hard drive and dual boot ubuntu with xp. etc if u have any question u can sure paste them here,
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* and if u want to be a part of the ubuntu loco group ,  all u have to do is register at the ubuntuforums.org call any of the above numbers ,  and u are in,  but note that is a purely non - profit group and we do not charge for what ever help we render to people,

currently  i light of the fact that u need an internet connection to have a complete ubuntu experience,  we are have an application cd that u can use to install some of the programs u will need on ubuntu  etc.

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