5308 - Permissions - VGA mode - Sidebar - Gadgets - WHERE are they ?

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New user here .. trying to get familiar with the product , BUT I can use
some help:

1. Why do I keep seeing this popup " Windows needs your permission to
...."
I have an admin account - why can't I/ the system run / open files by
default ? I see that a lot . how to I get around it ?

2. Device drivers .... I get message "found new device" with no clue as
to which device - ( and it 'needs my permission' to look for files) Any
way to tell if it's onboard, PCI, etc ? Log files to give me a clue
about an address / irq - something.

3. I heard about sidebar - gadgets. Where ? How ? I tried help and
nothing.

I know it's beta but I should could use help from the product to get me
going.

I changed video settings - to a bad setting - it changed anyway and my
monitor went out of sync. I had to reboot F8 into VGA mode to get video
back.

Thanks
Bobb
 
1) Turn off UAP - simple article here :o)
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/security/disableuap

2) I know what you mean - it's a pain. Check the Device Manager (Run,
compmgmt.msc then select Device Manager) and check which section the Unknown
device is under. More than likely networking, then find all the networking
device drivers on disk for it.

3) www.microsoftgadgets.com - also if you right click on the Sidebar and
select "Add Gadgets", there's a link on the full-Glass dialog to the site as
well. These at the moment are primarily for Live.com, but will be
implimenting full Sidebar gadgets by the time the public beta comes out.

Hope this helps!

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Ok, I'm running this on Vista now ...
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Zack Whittaker said:
1) Turn off UAP - simple article here :o)
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/security/disableuap
Click to expand...

I found it - did that - thank you VERY much.

2) I know what you mean - it's a pain. Check the Device Manager (Run,
compmgmt.msc then select Device Manager) and check which section the
Unknown device is under. More than likely networking, then find all the
networking device drivers on disk for it.
Click to expand...

I should have mentioned - it under "Other Devices ".
I just checked the box to not bother me again and left it in Dev mgr
3) www.microsoftgadgets.com - also if you right click on the Sidebar and
select "Add Gadgets", there's a link on the full-Glass dialog to the site
as well. These at the moment are primarily for Live.com, but will be
implimenting full Sidebar gadgets by the time the public beta comes out.
Click to expand...

Went there, downloaded them ( there are only 8 listed) - saved them OK ( got
an error when I tried to save to a new folder: I had to create the folder
in advance using another window) and when I double-click them to run/add
them I get this error on each one: (First it notes that they are signed etc
and then I get:)
' Unable to load " < the correct path to where I just saved it> ". Invalid
version attribute " value" .
So the system-supplied ones load , but not the downloaded ones.
I thought I'd read in PCWorld etc that there were a LOT of these ... and
they had them running.
What am I doing wrong ?
I am making progress - thanks for the help
 
Some of the gadgets are custom made by users and aren't endorsed by
Microsoft - so they might break or not work 100% - but you should end up
having a folder full of files with the .gadget extension - simply double
click and it should load it in the Sidebar.

Here's some links:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/systemapps/defaultgadgets
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/technologies/sidebar
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/glossary/index (click "G")

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Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

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Zack Whittaker said:
Some of the gadgets are custom made by users and aren't endorsed by
Microsoft - so they might break or not work 100% - but you should end up
having a folder full of files with the .gadget extension - simply double
click and it should load it in the Sidebar.

Here's some links:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/systemapps/defaultgadgets
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/technologies/sidebar
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/glossary/index (click "G")

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
Click to expand...

That's the problem - they don't load into the sidebar when I double-click.
I get the errors I mentioned below. They do appear in my gadgets folder but
the appear as a "wrapped box". Like they have to be " unwrapped".

BTW I just noticed in MAIL - when I backed up to correct my typing in the
sentence above, I see a trail of the left edge of the cursor as I "left
arrow", not over every character - maybe 5,6,7 in a row, then a few that it
won't do , then trails, then none. They stay there until I 'type a
character' I just did it and 'charact' did NOT get the fine line in front of
them - but 'ter I just' DID have a fine line in front. Is this a mail
""feature"". What's the point ?

Also Zack, I have yours as my homepage as I'm always needing help getting
around .

\Bobb
 
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