03-26-2007, 10:49 AM
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So fuckin' bored
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Originally Posted by RawAlex
You gotta laugh:
Basically, people are upset because Vista is respecting the wishes of the people who sold you the music. The people who sold the music don't want it played over a digital output (because it could be easily digitally duplicated) and Vista is respecting that (otherwise they would likely get sued). If you have a problem with that, take it up with Sony, not with Microsoft.
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Windows XP doesn't prevent me from listening the music I love in a digital quality. So I just using it and don't upset at all. Furthermore I don't care about the Vista users at all 
You gotta laugh:
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In that latter category is the latest bugaboo: Photoshop suddenly decided to stop working. It told me "an error has been detected with a required application library" and refused to run. No amount of coaxing would change things, and neither running the program as Administrator nor reinstalling helped.
Finally, after much searching, I found the only solution that worked: I got Vista to reveal its hidden Administrator account, which I logged into. Now Photoshop works. So I moved all my stuff and now I log in as Administrator. I'm not supposed to ? it's a security risk ? but it's that or do without Photoshop.
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Then I discovered that Vista would not allow Firefox to be my default browser no matter how hard I insisted. I even turned off Internet Explorer through the Default Programs control. Still, any link I clicked in an e-mail message would open in IE, while Firefox confidently told me it was set as my default browser.
I finally fixed this by not only disabling IE through Default Programs, but by delving into Vista's Registry and manually changing some keys, replacing IE with Firefox. (If you don't know about editing the Registry, don't worry ? it's not something for the casual user.)
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I was trying to set up a daily backup, simply copying all my stuff from one hard drive to a second one, without any kind of compression.
Vista stores all my documents and settings in a single folder called /users/AK. So all I had to do was back up that entire folder.
I tried Microsoft's own (and excellent) RoboCopy tool. It gave me an error. I tried 2BrightSparks's (also excellent) SyncBack. Another error. I tried a neat one I found called Karen's Replicator. Ditto.
All three had the same problem: A path was too long. I apparently had too many nested folders.
I looked more closely and found the problem. They were all trying to back up C:\users\AK\Application Data \Application Data \Application Data \Application Data ? and so on, ad infinitum.
Huh?
I Googled and found the answer. Vista stores its application data in a folder called AppData. Previous version of Windows used \Local Settings\Application Data.
To make sure old programs can find the new folder, Microsoft added hidden files called "junctions." If a program tries to access "Application Data" path, the junction sends it to "AppData."
I had run into an infinite loop. The Application Data folder redirected the software to the AppData folder, where somehow there was some reference back to Application Data. It looped forever.
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Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...problems_N.htm
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