Re: [guide-user] Vista

Roger Pickard Oct 7 11:17 AM

That's excellent. Thanks Denis.
Roger

---- Original Message -----
From: "Denis" <boucherd@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Vista


>I am going to make it a little more simple. Go to Guide icon and
>right
> click to select properties, open and select compatibility, check
> "Disable visual themes". Start guide and all should be normal with
> no
> need to loose the entire OS settings.
>
> Denis
>
>
> Kevin Fetter wrote:
>> --- Lawrence Harris <lawrence@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I want to check that I haven't missed any upgrade that is Vista
>>> compatible? I
>>> am currently using Vista Ultimate, but Guide has some problems
>>> with this, as
>>> discussed several weeks back. No display on start-up and the
>>> icons are
>>> separated, limiting the number available for display.
>>>
>>
>> Try this
>>
>> Look for control panel, look for the windows symbol at the botton
>> left ( also called the start
>> menu )
>>
>> After the start menu comes up, look for system, click on it.
>>
>> Then look for advance system settings, click on it.
>>
>> A display will show things like, computer name hardware and so on.
>>
>> Look for Advance, and click on it.
>>
>> You should see performance ( visual effects and such below it )
>> with settings to the right.
>>
>> Click on settings, you should then see visual effects. There be
>> Scroll bar, use it to scroll down.
>>
>> Then look for 'use visual styles on windows and buttons'. Click on
>> it, to turn it off.
>>
>> Reload guide, and if everything goes to plan, guide should appear
>> normal.
>>
>> I had told Bill about this, awhile back to let him know about this.
>> I was playing around with
>> vista, and came across that way to fix the problem, so guide
>> appear's like it did under windows
>> xp.
>>
>>
>>> I have never managed to get Guide to see the MPCorb file, even
>>> though it is in
>>> the same directory. The option remains grayed out.
>>>
>>
>> Weird, I have the MPCorb file in my guide 8 directory, and I can
>> use MPCorb. So I don't know
>> what's causing your problem.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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