Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander : Configuration
Apr 25, 2008
I own this (??prehistoric?) device and I reaaally like it. But recently I upgraded my computer and move on to Vista SP1 (32 bits) for several reasons. But I find that the (??prehistoric!) software won't work. It won't even install, the setup.exe just stays there without doing nothing. And I have no way to configure the device. Is ironic that, when moving to Windows Vista, the only device I have problems with is from Microsoft.
I have a huge problem : I have a microsoft sidewinder strategic commander but i lost the installation cd , and i dont seem to be able to find it available for download anywhere in the web! Does anyone have it , and if so could you get in touch with me so I could get a copy? If not does anyone knows where I can download it?
lBrDZIHA.5900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> Is there any way to get this device to work with Vista. I can't find Vista drivers for it at Microsoft's web site. If not is there any programmable gamepad other than the sidewinder anyone would recommend that works with Vista. I need one that can be set up to emulate keyboard keys for various games. This is the second gamepad I've purchased and neither of them works. The Logitech I purchased said on the packaging it was Vista compatible, however it doesn't work either.
i have home vista and game flight simulator ww11 europr series and would like to use it. But my microsoft sidewinder joystick will not pick up or controll the aircrafts.
A friend of in got his in the mail to day and were trying to get the 98 sidewinder to work on xp withe usb adapter since there is one made is there away to get the controller to work with it?
I was using Microsoft Outlook Express as my mail client. Then Microsoft advised users to update to Windows Mail since they no longer supported Outlook Express..so I did. Now Microsoft is directing users to install Microsoft LIVE Mail? What is the difference between Microsoft Mail (which I am running) and Microsoft LIVE Mail....and, why would a user run LIVE over MAIL?
needs to use a 120 dpi configuration but i really dislike it, i need more space in the screen. Need any way i can have 2 dpi configurations on the same computer one for his user account and one for mine.
My pc was configured in raid5 but I lost all the data. Since then I decided to go back to the classic drive C,D,E each by themselves. The point is that things are going slow / sometimes I try to access drive D with music and there is a significant latency in the hdd response. I can even hear the sleepy drive waking up. I might want to aim to high but here is what I dream to do.
1. I want to go back to a raid configuration in which all those hdd(i have 3x 500 sata) to work hard for me. 2. Find a way to add the fourth one in which to save important data. I case of crash to reinstall vista and all the soft without losing all my projects. I am doing video editing.
My motherboard has a sata external connector. What would you guys do with this configuration in order to set up a raid. Don t tell me trash it 'cause i won t. I paid more than 4000 bucks last year. Today might value less than 2000 ( hurts so bad). This is another reason I want to squeeze as much as possible from what I have.......
I am having trouble with the email configuration. I have a wireless connection with a signal booster (ssid: free the net). I don't have an ISP as I don't need one to access the internet.
How can Vista (no router) be configured not to use TCP/IP as transport protocol for NetBIOS, SMB and RPC, thus leaving TCP/UDP ports 135,137-139 and 445 closed.The best to my understanding is that Seconfig works with WinXP only.
This message is in regards to the Wireless Zero Configuration not being fixed in SP1. This is a serious issue for multiplayer gaming enthusiasts who play wirelessly. This system causes a lag spike in games that lasts between 1-3 seconds and reoccurs EVERY 60 SECONDS. This is unacceptable! This makes playing games over a wireless connection completely unbearable!
The problem goes like this. Every 60 seconds, via Wlan autoconfig (WZC), my computer (and ANY computer using Vista and wireless connection) attempts to find the best connection. During this time period, if you're doing something intensive with your connection such as playing a game, the connection spikes and causes an intermission between your game and the server you're playing on because your connection is being temporarily interrupted. There are no options to stop WZC from doing this. Manually disabling Wlan autoconfig causes you to be shut out from connecting to the internet at all........
i'm having problems starting up my windows vista.. when i turn my laptop on there's a screen that comes up showing "configuration updates: stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete" and after a couple of seconds my computer shuts down, restarts and does the process all over continuously with no option of cancelling this process....
With Windows XP, when you ran msconfig, and rebooted, you got that box with the message about how your settings have changed, and at the bottom there was a checkbox that said something to the extent of "Do not show this message at startup".
With Vista, when you run msconfig and reboot, Windows Defender comes up and gives you a message something to the extent of "Some programs have been blocked, click here to see which programs or choose to unblock them".
But now there's no easy, evident way to not make that message seen at startup.
As youve seen from the title, its the access: local only error! I just built a rig this weekend, hours slaving over the damn beast! I cant connect to the internent, it says "access: local only", after doing a bit of googling i can see it must be a bit of a problem for vista? I can connect to the internet sometimes for small amonuts of time before im shut off! Im using a wierd connection straight into the router, have all drivers installed ect, other comps on the network can connect, just not mine I get a I am also getting "Cannot communicate with DNS server (ip)!! (Think its somthing todo with that!) I tired this Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers, but didnt seem to resolve the issue! I also tried disabling ipv6 and setting the DNS in ipv4 settings! Im am at my wits end!
Code: Windows IP Configuration Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gateway.2wire.net
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:.....................
Is there a way to grant an applicatoin the right to execute now and forever more? An app that I use 3,4,10,15 times a day triggers an UAC prompt. I understand that the app should be written in a different manner so that it does not need Admin rights. Until it is re-written, I do not want to be prompted __EVERY__ time i launch it. Is this possible?
Since I think I already know the answer (but I am wrong far more than I would like to admit which is why i am posting), Why not? and to answer the first 3 arguments against:
1) I don't care that the app should be written differently. It is not written differently now, and I need to run it now.
2) It's not really a security hole to whitelist an app(s) - UAC is still running. Firewall is still running. User is still a least priveledge account, etc.
3) i haven't thought far enough to have 3 counter arguments.
Can someone explain to MS the value in grannular configuration? 'Configure UAC' should have a few more options than Turn On / Off.
I'm trying to install windows vista onto my net book but every time I try to, it tells me that it can't update the boot configuration of the computer and stops the installation. Does anyone know what I should do to install it
I got an ASUS M50SV with integrated Realtek HD ALC888S audio and the problem is in the speaker configuration, it only shows stereo. i cannot change it because its grayed out. The laptop also has S/PDIF output but the Realtek HD Audio Manager doesnt recognize it.
I am trying to back up the configuration of a Cisco switch. I am using TFTP. After accessing the switch I try to ping and telnet to my Vista Business PC. I can't do either. I have Windows Defender turned off and I have shut down my Symantec Endpoint Protection. Under Windows features I have Simple TCP/IP services, Telnet Client and Telnet Server turned on. I also have TFTP client turned on. What might be stopping me from accessing my PC??
"A system change was made by a known application...change type: application execution...C:windowssystem32mswsock.dll". This happens when I connected to the network/internet and also disconnected from them. When I checked through Event Viewer, I found some errors:
1- Windows Defender Configuration has changed. If this is an unexpected event you should review the settings as this may be the result of malware. Old value: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows DefenderSpyNetSpyNetReporting = 1 New value: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows DefenderSpyNetSpyNetReporting = 2
2- Windows Defender Configuration has changed. If this is an unexpected event you should review the settings as this may be the result of malware......
I need to deploy windows vista enterprise to 20 laptops but don't have anything like configuration manager 2007 to use. I've read all the tehcnet info on deploying vista but still don;t know how I can do this. I want to build one laptop, put all our busines applications onto it etc and then copy that single image to another 20 laptops (all same laptop model) and join to our domain.
I have Ultimate Windows Vista x64 and I installed "Spybot....". After what usually I've done in the Windows Xp, after update I try to Immunize but it didn't mmunize everything about 800 things was not. I try to do something and my second try was:
This problem happened after I installed Vista SP1. Here's my setup: Vista Ultimate 32bit with SP1 USB Microsoft Trackball Explorer (directly connected - does not go through a hub) I used the Microsoft IntelliPoint software (version 6.1) to map the keys differently than the default settings. Before SP1 this worked fine. After SP1 the trackball still works but my custom settings are lost. So I opened up the Microsoft IntelliPoint software and was presented with the following dialog: "Some mouse settings might not work until you connect a Microsoft mouse to a USB port on your computer or set up a Microsoft mouse that uses Bluetooth technology."
Next step was to Google for answers. There were several suggestions, so I started trying them: 1) Unplug and replug the USB Trackball - FAILED 2) Remove the USB Trackball from the device manager, unplug and replug it (so the OS sees it again) - FAILED 3) Remove the USB Trackball from the device manager, reboot the computer - FAILED 4) Remove Microsoft's IntelliPoint software - FAILED, it starts to remove the software but then fails with the following error: "Setup Error, Setup was interrupted before Microsoft IntelliPoint software could be completely installed. To complete installation at another time, run setup again." This is a bit strange since I was removing the software. Oh well............
When I go into system configuration into the 'Startup' tab, it shows programs that are not on my computer anymore (at least I think). Is there anyway to get rid of these? I follow the file link and can't find them so I believe they are removed. Just wondering how to delete them from the Startup tab.
I have a very annoying problem with my Intel DG45ID motherboard. I am noticing that my Vista power configuration setting are changing automatically! I will set my monitor to go to standby after 20-minutes and for the computer to go to sleep after 30-minutes of idle activity. Everything is fine for a week or two, then suddenly I notice that they are both set to "Never". Anybody have this issue? Alternately, is there some sort of log that I can look at to see what might have changed these settings?
Had an incomplete install of a program...computer otherwise working fine...did a system restore to try to go back to preinstall...in the system restore shutdown and restart, now hung up in a update configuation loop that is in third step up to 99% that shuts down only to do the same thing over and over again. So my system never gets to the mainscreen acknowledging system was restored.
I tried F8 going to safe mode, but configuation step 3 takes over again, goes to 99% and shuts down to restart.
I tried the vista 64 sp1 disc...cannot acccess another restore point since it says the system is already in restore mode....just never gets there with the endless 3rd step update configuration loop.
The disc also does not offer the repair/update mode as an option...only full install.
I do have norton ghost 14 on the system...so there is a complete backup file on another internal drive...but no way to get to it to initiate a recovery ...
Can Vista support more than 1 GPU driver? I am running Vista Ult 64. Looking to upgrade to Windows 7. I previously had an Nvidia 8800GT as my primary graphics card and also had an 8500GT installed as well on my dual boot XP/Vista PC. They worked fine and the computer recognized both correclty on both OS's I think I didn't have any trouble b/c as I found it all 8 series cards use the same driver. I bought a new primary GPU, a ATi Sapphire 4870 1GB Toxic. I am NOT trying to run SLI or Crossfire, I need availability for 3+ monitors. Can I have two completely different video drivers? I was under the impression NO, but a computer parts guy said I can install an Nvidia & ATi driver as long as I do not install the supplemental software.
