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TO ADD I NO BE WEB DESIGNER BUT I KNOW ABOUT A GOOD WEBSITE WHEN I SEE ONE AND ITS NOT JUST ABOUT CHILDISH ANIMATION, ITS ABOUT HOW RELEVANT THE SITE IS FOR ITS PURPOSE.SEE LASU WEBSITE ITS NOT THAT FLASHY BUT IT DOES THE JOB,I.E U CAN CHECK UR RESULT,REGISTER ONLINE,ETC AND ALL THESE AS MADE LIFE VERY EASY AND CONVENIENT FOR US STUDENT, YES IT MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST WEBSITE IN THE WORLD BUT CALLING THE GUY THAT MADE THE SITE AN ARMATURE IS AN INSULT, WHAT ABOUT www.whogobuy.com,www.enownow.com,jambonline.com etc ALL THESE SITE WERE MADE BUY NIGERIANS AND WE ARE PROUD OF THEM,

Neptune:
Has abby got you guys confused or are you guys confusing yourself. What does it take to be a pro? she na your flash or na your code or na your navigation. Most of the people that have posted their sites on this topic might not have cool sites and all but you just can't say their sites are not professional or they are not pros. Wetin dey the STONEWALL+ site sef? tell me. she na flash. e don finish. is that site professional? is it? compare stonewall.co.za to microsoft.com tell me which is more professional despite the fact that there is little or no animations on microsofts site. TRUE we never reach the level wey south africa dey for web design but that does'nt make us amateurs. its like comparing south african designers to american designers. e possible? ok compare www.stonewall.co.za to www.2advanced.com tell me what you think. all the things abby dey talk na pure STORY. Professionalism is not about having flashy sites. Flashy sites are just flashy like the name applies. No come dabaru our head for here.

i cant agree with u less, to be frank i didnt want to post anything here b4 cus i was scared that i might be ban 4 calling the abbey guy something related to a@#, i was that mad, some nigerians just feel that because then they outside the country then those in it are crap, it really sucks, because say u dey where u dey see oyibo everyday don make u lose ur sense abi, u con come here dey make mouth say want tin want tin, the nairaland where u dey run your month no bi Proudly nigerian ,abi he dey inferior to anyother forum site any where in the would, i think we have given this guy enough attention, seun ABEG ban him

please tis post is about vista problems

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please tis post is about vista problems

by the way where u trying to download or where u trying to burn ur recovery disks, cus if its a new system then u dont need to download ur recovery disk cus they are embedded in a recovery partition in ur system all u need to do is burn them into empty dvds, and the recovery manager should naturally guide u through the process

please can u tell me or describe the nature of the problem u are encountering , so i that could know the kind of solution that would be appropriate

abdul_D:
vista
i don't even know where to start.
the truth is i've been using it for like 6 months and still not satisfied.
everytime i try something new, problem emerges.
Either with installing new hardwares, softwares or something to do with networking.

thats strange cus i have also been using vista 4 about 6 month and i have never encountered any big problem just minor issues with applications that were incompatible, the good news is that most of them have updated their programmes unlike 4-5 months ago, about hardwares,i connect my vista to printers,mass-storage device,play 4 sure music players,bluetooth devices,webcams,external keypads,game pads,am currently surfing with my starcomms evdo,and b4 that used the moble phone dialup,non of these hardwares gave me problems,and about the networking,4 me that is the greatest achievement of vista making networking so easy,things i couldnt do on xp were done with a breeze on vista,the networking is just crazy, i dont know what to say.look at wlan it works as seamless as bluetooth only strong and faster, really i dont know what to say, but then its got its own problems which is expected for a nu os,

samboribo:
i just got an Acer Aspire notebook a few weeks back, vista pre-installed. 2 major problems i'm currently having now;

1. it keeps telling me to activate windows with original vista key. i have it right under the notebook and the 1st time, it accepted the it gladly during registration. right now, i get a reminder like twice every day because the key keeps telling me invalid every time i put it.

2. when i have many tabs open, it automatically closes all tabs and the window and then re-opens a new window. i don't like that because sometimes i lost vital pages.

@bigrovar

i'll be needing that kaspersky. i'm usually at officers village, ojo cantonment every weekend and it's not far from your school (LASU, ojo campus). so if we can hook up on a weekend since it's free, i'd appreciate. also, MS Office 2007. thanks!


IBB

ur problem is a known issue with vista,and they are update avaliable to correct the problem, connect ur sytem to the internet and try download all the ur vista update , that should rectify the problem, concerning the kaspersky,MS Office 2007,I through with Lasu finished 3 month ago now stay in Okota isolo.o would not be able to come down sorry.but if u could come down to me place then no problem, cheers

thankGod i was able to help , About the pdf converter u can download one here http://www.pdfmachine.com/genp/download.shtml its not free though.but u can get a demo.

if anybody need to get free drivers 4 vista u can check here http://www.radarsync.com/vista/

if u need further clarification vists this site http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio/gb/en/forum/viewthread?thread=39831 got quite some people with the problem, u can share from their experience, pls get back to me a soon as u can am anxious to now if it worked

i really do hope it works as u can see i have attached the update file to my post, and i sent one to ur mail.good luck bro.

yeah am back, i hope u not done anything drastic, i found out that the problem u are experiencing is a very common one its a know issue with vista.and the solution am going to give u has helped everybody with the problem.
first download and install the update from MS.it iresolves the issue.
Update for Windows Vista (KB929685) (already downloaded it and sent it to yr email)

"Install this update to address an issue that may prevent high-definition audio devices from initializing after resuming the system from a sleep or hibernation state."

-, put the PC to sleep .

-now go to Conrol Panel -> System -> Select the Device Manager and find the Sound entry. Expand it. Click the entry for High Definiton Audio Device with the right mouse button. Uninstall it and the software too (check the box).rememeber to check the box the uninstall the software.
-Now put the PC to sleep. When it restarts it will reinstall the Audio device.

its about 11mb if u dont download it with quicktime

@ chichimma
i have experienced that problem before with vista before or maybe I can’t quite get what u are saying, Anyway i know that the new interface can be quite confusing when u want to save a .doc. It’s quite different from xp. By the way is it Office 2003 or 2007 that u use? When u attempt to save a file on 2003 i.e "save as" look carefully at the drop down menu. u would is "Browse" when u click on that u would see a display of your computer directory. Select where u want to save your file. that should do it. however if u use 2007 that quite at the top left angle 90 of your screen u would see an office icon click on it and select save as from the drop down menu.
about the converting to jpg-to start with i never knew that u could convert .DOC- .JPG .pdf yes but jpg-thats a new one anyway all u have to do is look for and download add-ins that should do it, by the way if want a link to where u can download the New office 2007 drop your email and i will send it to u. its the enterprise edition and the most comprehensive of all the 2007 Office program . This one requires no license key on internet verification just download an install, if i was of help hula me, N.B its about 540mb to download.

dakmanzero:
Ah, texas pete, the number 1 vista evangelist


lol. Maybe I should tell u people my own vista problem, sef!

The runtime libraries for DB2 version 8.1 do not launch the TSR components, and when you force them to, the command line tools do not work, instead exiting silently with no eror messages.

Uninstallation does not work because the installer profile apparently has no permissions to delete the contents of the program files/ibm folder,

installation tools for newer versions of DB2 crash on launch,

IBM does not list vista among supported operating systems,

changing the hosts file is a pain,

Anyway we eventually found workarounds to those problems but its an ongoing wahala -fest. We have 2 vista laptops here that we are using to simulate the production environment back home and everything has to be tested on them. Vista ALWAYS throws up problems. The wahala of that thing too much.

I hear u,and am sure u blame vista for ur ibm progamme not being compatible with vista, so tell me wise oNE is an Os that is suppose to be compatible with a programme or is it the other way round, ibm was lazy not to create a program that functions well on vista.but vista gets the blame, ao nice.

chrysler:
the model of my computer is vgn-fe41s and the sond driver is sigmatel high definition AUDIO CODEC incorporated in sound,video and game controller

why wasnt i surprised that sigmatel driver as some issues with vista when u upgrade.please give me some times and i will surely get back to u ok,

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11. Private Browsing

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12. SecuritySecurity

Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one,


but when i downloaded it on my windows vista it just seem to stare at me and wont let me browse or do any thing or type any site on the search field, after sometimes its start to load what i suspect to be a page from apple then hangs and crashes , guess its back to good old firefox for me, let me know if u fared better in your own experience with the brower, u can download it here http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

F

Caradona:
what i hate about vista is sometimes when i want to delete a file i get this message " you have no permission to perform this action, access denied". or sometimes i can't play a media file. but thankfully i now installed NERO 7 media player.

usually happens when u attempt to delete a file from the programs files in your C drive.i guess its part of the security measures of vista.what i do is to move the file to a safe directory like say public folder then i would delete the file there, and it works most times , u can also try checking the file's attribute to make sure that it is not a read only file, u could also rename the file or in some cases restart the system so the if the file saw been used by another program a fresh reboot might free it making it eligible for delete.and about the nero that is what am using too, since i discovered that windows media and media center don't play .VOB files the root files for dvds.but with nero who cares, however make sure that u are using the latest nero as at the last time i checked that was version 7.9.6.0 every other nero has 1 or 2 issues with vista , Vista ROOOOOOOOCKS

juintade:
I am sorry but why would you be using Vista when Microsoft XP is still the best OS from Microsoft in ages. May be in 5 - 7 years time this topic might be useful.

u dont know what u r talking about. an os that sold 40million copies in first 60 days of release is for the 5-7 year time.when Ms Said they would be facing out XP next year, really i dont know what to say to u, just go to sleep knowing that Vista nobi XP mate at all, use vista on a good system and u would neva near XP again Never in your life,

all the best

please can u give me the full name and series of for sony laptop, e.g sonyvaio N21 s/w, and the serial numer, let me see if i can help u get the sound driver, or better still let me know the type of sound driver u use, u can do that by going to ur device manager and checking the name writing on the sound driver maybe its Sigmatel

did u try downloading a new sound driver from sonystyle.com, if u event then may be u should try, if u have tried and it didnt still work.then am afried u have u format ur system with using the vista home premium that came with it.but hold on just yet .there might just be a solution.give me till 2moro morning if u can.

to be honest u kind of convinced me about linux i think i would give it a try already am currently downloading it.about 590mb.i just want to know if it is compatible whit current hardware use with MS os, however u should know that am still 4 Vista anyday.just want to hear Linux out,

iice:
Gawd the vista get too much wahala, too slow for me. Had to go back to my xp thank goodness!

Very wrong, all u have to do is find out what hardwares are compatible with vista.u can just wakeup one morning and decide that u want to use vista on machine that does not have the necessary hardware component that would ensure that vista runs smoothly.most times it is recommended that u dt u buy systems that are preloaded with vista that was what i did and my system works like magic, boots faster shuts down faster,very smooth and easier to use compared to xp.but it came at a cost.160GB Harddrive,2GB ram,Intel core 2 duo processor,256 graphic memory.the funny thing is that even my friends system running xp with a better configuration does not work that well at all.a friend who once loaded vista on his 512ram,amd sempron,compaq almost crippled the system, despite the fact that it was rated vista capable, the most important thing is that ur ram shold be at least 1gb,with a graphic memory of 128mb.and a centrino pm would work fine very fine.but like i said earlier it would be better if vista was shipped with ur system, to save ur self of have to look 4 drivers that
would work with it,

if that doesnt work ,then u have to go to sony site.to downoad a sound driver 4 your system.found out that there is a bug with the Sigmatel driver installation package that affects the upgrade scenario. It will look like the install worked, but you’ll get the error “No Audio Output Device Installed” so if your sound driver is sigmatel u might just want to.uninstall the driver all together and insatll a new one from your sony site or your restore CD OR CENTER.

i feel that what u are experiencing is a driver problem, u said u changed the sound to high definition sound.u know that the visat u upgraded to is business and does not really support most of the multimedia features present in home premuim and ultimate.so it might just be that vista business doesnt support high definition sounds.i just found out that some one experienced that problem after upgrading to bizz from home prem.what i can recommend is that u go to ur device manager then right click on the sound driver.select update driver.among the options choose search for the best driver online am not sure if this will work but u can try this why i think of something,

tenor:
bigrovar you are the man! that explorer issue pisses me off alot. Good thread!

so what did u do to resolve it

now i get the gist FREE i now get ur true point has sumtin to do with FOC, seems there are a lot of that in Linux.on a serious note i would like to ask u a question.if u were to buy a system for say your younger brother to be frank what would u buy, what about ur girlfriend, so u see even a strong ally of ubuntu would not buy one for his girl , despite all the much acclaimed security and multimedia, sUPERIORITY .I dont know whether lord of the rings was cast with the fires of unix.even if it were true it just goes to emphasis my point which is Linux is for The super nerds.ao many people buy computers because they want to make visual effect for an hollywood block buster.the multimedia that i am refering to is the one for home entertainment the one for AVERAGE.which is the one that concerns me and 70% of PC.users.how many game developers bother to develop for linux.? the fact that An Armed Personal carrier is more secured against external attack, does not mean u would prefer it over a BMW, or would u, ?.go to all the small businesses that we have all around nigeria ,all of them use windows.what does that tell u ? it give people a sense that they too can be part of the digital world,while putting food in their month. why dont u go meet them and sell ur nOBLE idea for the gREATEST OS in the world to them.tell them about linux world renown crack proof,hacker killer security,tell them that lord of the rings was make using its multimedia pOWERS. U c many would rather be used to a system that "Crashes on their head"than use to being isolated
in a Digital world of Unix.the world of the remaining 5%

some people have experienced that while upgrading from one vista package to another, by the way what brand of system do u use, why dont u try going to the notebooks manufacturers site maybe u could see the sound drivers to download.one thing i have experienced with vista is that restore most times dont repair driver problems.by the way try checking out ur device manager.check out if all ur drivers are working properly , if the sound driver is not working well let me know the code it displays, it either could be that window could not load the drivers or the necessary sound driver is missing.go to ur device manager and check if ur sound driver is ok, let me know the result,

about creative, creative don paa Rambo,or Rumba,what u called the early version.checkout creative vision, omo that thing kills ipod, as more color display (256,000 colors compared to ipods 65,000 colors),has got radio,has a mic for recording,longer battery life by about 2 hour compared to ipod.better headset. and the click wheel of ipods is over rated.its easier to navigate zune and craetive than ipods tried it with my friends and i was about to get songs faster.the product even won device of the year in last years consumer show "creative won award as the best product at CES this year, beating thousands of products from the largest names in consumer electronics. The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest consumer electronics trade show held in the United States." from http://www.creative.com/ces/, google out review between ipod video and creative vision, by the way i have used ipod,creative vision and zune, ipod, is worst my opinion.

Not every body in this world have to be a computer guru just because there want to use computer, it is suppose to be a basic tool of the 21st century, talk about getting jobs done windows does that for me and the major 70% of pc users.talk of multimedia and gaming linux cant stand windows.tell me waht are the things linux have in multimedai the windows doesnt kill.about usability.windows is easier to learn and use compared to linux,even a bus conduct would find it easy to use windows.that is the way things should be computer showed not eb 4 the few super NERDS, the internet boom,web2.0,blogging etc all these things wouldnt be possible without MS bringing PC to the grassroot. if na os x then maybe i would consider but lINUX, percentage wise how many people use it.even u admit to owing a windows os so what are we talking about, about system crashing it all depends on usage.windows does not crash on my head and i used xp for a long time b4 i sold it to some1 in nairaland.and even he is enjoying it a bad user would crash anything.go to the technology market section of nairaland .tell me a person who wants to buy or sell linux, when u on top people beef u that is life.MS no be linux mate for anything.now the security issue as now been addresssed in vista wetin u want talk again.

i stay around isolo