Problem with Vista

Flamed Diving

I remember that when I hovered my mouse cursor over an item in the taskbar, a tiny little window displaying the contents of this item would appear. It no longer does. I don't recall switching it off, how do I switch it back on?

Thanks.

Flamed Diving

Oh, and that Window Switcher thing is not working, either. When it cascades all the windows graphically. I don't really care about that, but it might be related.

deep1

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Oh, and that Window Switcher thing is not working, either. When it cascades all the windows graphically. I don't really care about that, but it might be related.

I don't really work with vista but there should be a setting in control panel, user display or something. that will let you change it.

Flamed Diving

deep1 wrote: »

I don't really work with vista but there should be a setting in control panel, user display or something. that will let you change it.

Yeah, I tried clicking around that region. Nothing seems to relate to it. Thanks.

Simply Red

If you go control panel > appearance and personalization > taskbar and start menu, there should be a button down the end called "show window previews(thumbnails)". is that clicked?

Flamed Diving

Simply Red wrote: »

If you go control panel > appearance and personalization > taskbar and start menu, there should be a button down the end called "show window previews(thumbnails)". is that clicked?

It's not clicked, but it's gone grey! It definitely worked before.

Optimus Prime

do you have different profiles on the pc? you might need to log in as an administrator to change that. strange though.

Noffles

Trying to instal iTunes on a Acer laptop with Vista and it simply will not let me... anyone know what the issue could be?

Flamed Diving

keithgeo wrote: »

do you have different profiles on the pc? you might need to log in as an administrator to change that. strange though.

Nope, I'm the only user and therefore I'm the admin.

Flamed Diving

Noffles wrote: »

Trying to instal iTunes on a Acer laptop with Vista and it simply will not let me... anyone know what the issue could be?

Explain exactly what happens.

Noffles

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Explain exactly what happens.

It will not run the .exe to start the instal, it did not have iTunes on it originally and then when trying to add it, it stops it somehow... It actually does very little, just does not instal.

Flamed Diving

Noffles wrote: »

It will not run the .exe to start the instal, it did not have iTunes on it originally and then when trying to add it, it stops it somehow... It actually does very little, just does not instal.

Right-click and then choose 'run as administrator'.

Simply Red

Flamed Diving wrote: »

It's not clicked, but it's gone grey! It definitely worked before.

Right click on the desktop, and click personalise. then click on window colour and appearance, and down the bottom of the next screen should be "Open classic appearance properties for more color options". Now in the colour scheme dropdown menu, is windows vista basic selected?

Flamed Diving

Simply Red wrote: »

Right click on the desktop, and click personalise. then click on window colour and appearance, and down the bottom of the next screen should be "Open classic appearance properties for more color options". Now in the colour scheme dropdown menu, is windows vista basic selected?

When I click 'window colour and appearance' I get a window titled: 'Appearance Settings', with various colour schemes available to me. I am currently on Windows Vista Basic. The options are 'effects...' and 'advanced...', neither seem to point to where you are suggesting.

EDIT: Ok, the option for Windows Aero needed to be picked. Thanks!

Simply Red

Yep exactly, thats why i was checking was vista basic active, has to be on aero to work. glad its sorted!

Noffles

Flamed Diving wrote: »

Right-click and then choose 'run as administrator'.

Yep, logged in as admin and still unable to run it?