I already have my backup settings configured, but wish to go in and change the backup time. How do I change the backup time and save this setting WITHOUT starting a new backup?
View 5 RepliesI recently went into Change Date & Time Internet time tab and chose a time standard to connect with. After doing that I went onto the internet and connected with time.nist.gov and checked the time. After that I was no longer able to go into the internet time tab. It tells me that time.nist.gov is the time connection and I can't change it. It tells me I need to have permission to do this as administrator. I am the administrator! What goes here?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWindows mail has been working properly for me until yesterday. But now it keeps asking me for the username and password when I try to recieve e-mails, and it doesn't help to mark the box "remember my password". I use the correct password because it does work, but I can't be arsed to fill in my details every time.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI guess this will burn the behinds of many fanboys (frank included) but I told you that this would happen. At first no one believed me. but slowly people started to wake up, now its common knowledge, and only a few dorks cling the the worse OS microsft ever made. You all didnt want to listen then, perhaps you will listen now.
The question now isn't "Is Vista Dead?" It is. The real question is: Can Microsoft get Windows 7 out in time to save its desktop domination? I think Microsoft "could" pull it off. Here's how. Vista is dead............
When you are in explorer and are manually typing in a long folder path or at a command prompt navigating through many directories, below are two cool tips that will help you save time.
The first is one that I have been using for years. When working at a command prompt, instead to typing in the full text of an item, just hit the tab key to bring up full items. For example, say I want to change the directory to the Windows folder. At a command prompt I would type in CD wind and then hit the tab key and "Windows" will automatically show up. Think of the tab key as a kind of auto complete for DOS. This same technique also works in Windows Explorer.....
You know when you download something and that box comes up and asks you where you want to save? How do you change the destination if you check the little box that says "always save to this location"?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there was any way to save the view type of each folder. Example: I have my music folder in list view as its easy to scroll down through to choose, but I like my picture folder in the large icon view so I can see each picture better. The problem is that it seems to change the view of all the folders when I change one, and sometimes I open a folder and get a completely random view type that I never use, like extra large. I there a way to save a view to a specific folder so it wont change?
View 3 Replies View RelatedAre there any good third party programs for doing Vista setting backups. In Xp I used backup genie. I don't care about files. that one can do manually But things like sound schemes, appearance, internet explorer setting, windows live mail, folder setting ect ect...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI Can't change Date Or Time Every time i try to change the date it says An Error Has Occurred Unable TO save Changes. I'm Running Vista ultimate Sp1
View 9 Replies View RelatedParagon Drive Backup 8.51 Personal Edition. I have a old backup made in XP on a stationary computer. Now im restoring it on my laptop with Vista on the D: drive. It started after the reeboot and have now been running for more than 20 hours - and still running. The backupfile was about 50GB. How long time will it take to restore? I have seen severel pictures, movies, documents and temp. internetfiles running, but that was hours ago. My labtop have 3GB RAM, 2,000 HZ and there was about 73GB avalible on the D: drive.
View 5 Replies View Relatedis there any way I change the settings in IE7, whenever it opens a new window, it is not maximized to the full screen size. I would ideally prefer all new windows to open as tabs in my current browser, and not as new pop up windows.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm using a combination of the Vista backup to do a complete backup of my OS and applications (for emergency restore) and another backup tool to handle my data. My OS is on C: and my data on D: (and other drives). query is that C: will contain application settings/data - for example if I write actions in Photoshop they will be stored under the user application data subdirectory or if I create a DOT template for Word it will be stored under the hidden data directories for Word.
I want to be sure that I am backing up all of the vital application data/settings so that I can either restore just those or in an emergency can restore my full Vista backup (done weekly) and then restore the application data (which I want to backup daily). I've searched this set of forums and elsewhere to find something that lists which subdirectory tree(s) I need to ensure that I have backed up (and I guess I'll need to do a registry backup too each day just in case settings are stored there). I can't find such a list. Does anyone know of a document that details what the vital stuff to backup is?
I tried Brink's tip to increase the hover time before a tooltip appears: Mouse Hover Time - Change. The default is 400 (milliseconds). I changed this to 5000, which should be 5 seconds. This would be long enough not to annoy me, but still short enough if I really need to know what the tooltip is saying. However, I don't think this has any effect on my pop-up time. I tried the value of 500,000 used by "KWMN ", which she said has stopped the popup. I tried this value, but it made no difference. I am rebooting after each experiment. And the change is persistent when I re-open the registry after each reboot.
View 3 Replies View Relatedcan i change a setting on both my desktop (Ultimate) and laptop (Premium) so that either can "wake" the other? I know i can set the network card to "wake on LAN", but i tried that and i believe the machine (desktop) never went to sleep because the card was always active since i'm on a cable modem that's always on (memory is a little fuzzy on that, its been a while). Basically, i want to be able to access and wake either machine that may be "sleeping" without physically going to that location to wiggle the mouse, as it were.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI don't know what I clicked, but my vista settings changed and I no longer have the little previews when I hover over the buttons on my bottom bar thingy, and my windows are no longer semi-transparent. Does anyone know what to reset or change to get these things back?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded from XP to Vista and for the most I really like the improvements. One thing that is annoying me is that if your folder view is details and you have your mouse set to select when you hover your cursor over a file it will select the file even if you hover over the size column or the type column etc. In XP it would only select if you hovered over the name of the file. Is there anyway to change this setting?
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe Fonts on my vista install seem to be larger than they should be. When I open dialog boxes the text extend past the edge of the window and gets cut off. The DPI is set to default but the setting also has a strike through it. (see image), also notice the text extending the form. If i change the setting to 120 dpi there is a noticeable difference. I've looked everywhere and can't find anything on this!
View 9 Replies View RelatedI remember the solution involved creating an admin account to change a setting. I don't remember what I changed either. So that account sits there, unused, and I've decided to remove it. The problem is that I don't know how. In account management, for that account, there is no "delete the account" or "change account type" options. Does anyone know why this is?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWould you like to change the time format in the taskbar to military or international time format?
Click on the Start Button, type in intl.cpl and hit Enter.
Click the Customize this format button.
Click on the Time tab.
Change the time format to H:mm:ss and hit OK.
Hit OK once more to close Regional and Language Options.
Nickle, thanks for sending this tip in!
I receive a lot of e-mail from the same people and sometimes they come in as attachments when it's just a regular e-mail. It doesn't happen all the time. I sthere some setting I can change?
View 4 Replies View Relatedim using the mouse hover activate feature in the ease of access center, i like it but the delay isnt long enough for me. Is there a registry setting i could change to increase it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having problems backing up using Vista Home Premium. For some reason I am unable to change my backup settings to enable me to save to anything other than my "D" drive. Ideally I would like to save to the "C" on my PC but when trying to do so I get the following text. File backup could not save your automatic backup settings for the following reasons: Your backup configuration is not valid. Review your backup settings (0x81000029)
View 6 Replies View Relatedi used advanced vista optimiser to give my laptop a good clean out as i do every week. but this time when i went to log on the diagnostic comes and says either change proxy settings or try resetting local connection setting. i tried resetting many a time which as done no good. web address bar states where its going but the diag box comes on again.so in the mean time while this is all going on a new tab keeps on opening by its self and saying the same thing,this started to happen before i cleaned my l.p but it was just redirecting to a blank page.
that is why i did the clean.anyhow resetting the lan did not work so i reset the internet expolorer in the tools on the bar. which as worked but the same thing is still happening with the tab ,but now its redirecting to all the freebiee sites and it will not stop. i have spyware-adware-trojan software on my l.p and still no good it did pick up 3 infections which it sorted out, its driving me f*&^%*ng nuts:mad::mad:
how to change the default setting of the Recent Items on the Start menu from alphabetical to date order in Vista Home Premium. I did it on my desktop a year ago- I seem to recall it was a Registry change- but on my laptop I'm stuck with the useless alphabetical order.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs it just me or had vista consigned the art of the simple mouse-click to history. Why when i click on a folder does it always try to rename it ? If i wish to rename it i would right click like every othe microsoft OS ever created. Why when i click on a short cut from my desk top does nothing happen (no feedback that i have clicked) so i click again and get two (or more) application loading. Is there some where to change click behaviour without setting up umpteen user profiles with 136 sql server schemas? Most exaspereted - moving to linux - just need to convince my boss
View 9 Replies View RelatedI really need to change a system file called 'hosts'. I've changed it many times before, but today I'm not allowed. I access the file, make a very small change, then try to save it just by leaving the path as is. Then I get a message that says "Cannot save file, check path.." But I haven't changed the path.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSomething has changed in my Home Premium system such that I can no longer save to the desktop! When I try, I get an error message stating " You don't have permission to save in this location." I do not recall changing ANY permissions to prevent this. I did have a problem installing Office Home 2007 and maybe that caused a change. Where do I need to go to set the permission back to allow me to save to the desktop?
View 7 Replies View Relatedmeasure the ReBoot-Time (restart time) for our systems. You can see how to here: How to See What Your Boot Up Time is in Vista
Here's my ReBoot-Time:
Running Processes: 41
Started Services: 36
Automatic logon
Is it wise to have more than 1 antispyware program performing real-time protection at one time?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWe are using Dell laptops while travelling or at field offices.
We have to reset the clock and time zone, every time when we get to new
locations. That is quite a hassle. Is there better ways to do this?
It has happened occasionally, but with no predictability that I can see. I change settings in control pannel / power settings / balanced to 10 min for monitor and never for computer. I check the "advanced settings" to assure that they are the same. I use balanced because that seems to be the default in the registry. I do not see the actual settings in the registry. Every so often Vista resets the settings back to 20 min for the monitor. I have looked at but it speaks of "System Settings page" - I don't know what that is. In any case, my settings have no effect and I can't get the monitor to dependably go to standby after 10 minutes.
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