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burnfor

DIE VISTA DIE

Jan 09, 2009 15:10

Ack. I've been ridiculously struggling with the new laptop/Vista. Internet on this stupid thing is SO slow, I haven't even bothered to try youtube. I've been trying to DL Windows Live Messenger so I don't feel so cut off. It's not working. So I go to the download page, hit Download, thing pops up (only giving me the option to Save File or Cancel, ( Read more... )

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rubymiene January 9 2009, 22:34:56 UTC

::blink:: what's telling you file sharing is on?

burnfor January 9 2009, 22:49:54 UTC

While I'm connected to the internet, when I go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center, under Sharing and Discover > File Sharing, it says ON. And tells me to use my firewall program to change the setting. But.. I'm using the free Norton that came with it, atm, and there's no option to turn it off.

rubymiene January 10 2009, 06:44:09 UTC

It's probably referring to the Windows firewall...?
but when I look at mine, if I click the drop arrow next to it, it gives me the option to turn file sharing off. Are you not getting that???

burnfor January 10 2009, 23:59:26 UTC

Nope. I'm not given the option. It tells me to go to my firewall program. Will look into Windows Firewall and see where that's at.

All in all, Vista's not too bad, after those hiccups.

rubymiene January 12 2009, 04:15:34 UTC

Ugh. Bet Norton's messing with it. I'd just uninstall the free Norton, use the Windows firewall, and be careful where I click.

burnfor January 12 2009, 06:00:27 UTC

Just did a Norton uninstall. Managed to get AVG installed and running. It's the slightest bit faster, but not by much. Download speed at 16kb/s instead of 7, and upload at 676kb/s instead of 501.

*sigh* I have a feeling I'm going to have to return this laptop and go back to a Toshiba or something. It just really doesn't like me.

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