GJenkins--
*The double post and a better way to access these groups--through Winmail in
Vista and OE in XP:*
It's not your fault but you are duplicate posting because there is a bug in
the html Communities web site and MSFT Communities personnel haven't
lifted a finger to fix it in a week or two. I recommend you use the NNTP
newsreader that you have with a click in Vista Win Mail by opening Win Mail
and on the left pain click Microsoft Help Groups on the left or words close
and that will download the newsgroups for you. You'll have a lot more
features, be able to chose downloading new groups , or all the groups ect.
This is much faster for viewing and using these groups than the Communities
web site which has never gotten less clunky despite the fact that all the IE
teams work at Redmond MSFT, as does Dean Hachamovitch Internet Explorer
Chief, and the people paid to maintain the Communities sites for MSFT. Why
the technology of IE at Redmond has never been applied for years and years
to make the Communities sites less like a legless snail would be a decent
question but MSFT is challenged often when it comes to communicating among
teams who obviously should communicate with each other despite the fact they
have all the cute little Windows mobiles, latest cell technology and are
pioneering some of the cell/web technology and all the cute little Origamis
as the first on their blocks to get them.
As to the sound card question, we could help you and you could help yourself
by googling the name of the manufacture of the card with the word Vista.
You need not open the box. You can:
1) Go to Control Panel>Audio Devices and Sound Themes and the first entry
should ID your card--at least I'm sure it will for stand alone sound cards.
2) You can type dxdiag in the run box (windows key +r brings it up>and click
the sound tab on dxdiag.
3) You can go to
www.belarc.com and click downloads and that convenient free
tiny app will print out your software, hardware, and product keys and once
done I'd web base email it to yourself (Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever)so that
you have that information available in a web based email and always
available to you even if that laptop crashes and won't boot for a time.
If you can tell us the onboard sound card, one of us can probably locate a
driver and help you install in Vista. No one at this point could guarantee
that, but we would try. Some older sound drivers like Santa Cruz Turtle
Beach (that was made about the Time the dreadful ME was hatched on the world
when MSFT had a particularly Machiavelian streak and wanted to keep
themselves and OEM partners in mo' money) require workarounds to get in,
but odds are we can get a driver in for your onboard.
Good luck,
CH
