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ventaAll right, all right, I give in. Since re-installing Windows on my laptop, I'm unable to get a few things back how I want them.
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition. All the things I want to do I had working happily before the reinstall, so I assumed that they are at least feasible.
My main remaining problem is with the taskbar. I keep my taskbar where God intended it to be - up the left hand side of the screen. All I require it to contain, beyond little buttons for each running application, is a batch of quick launch icons and the bunch of cack in the systray. In particular, I don't want the "language bar" to appear. And I'd like my task bar to be wide enough to fit icons four abreast in the systray.
Sound unreasonable ? No, I didn't think so, either. I adjust all these things to be true, and I hit lock taskbar. All is lovely. Until the next time I restart my laptop, in which case the language bar is back, and, though the taskbar is the right width, the instant I click on it it reverts to a silly little skinny thing. Is there an extra option somewhere for "and remember what I said even when you get switched off"?
Similarly: where, oh where, is the checkbox to say "don't make my quick launch icons the size of Mexico" ? It's like something from Fisher-Price in here, enormous chunky colourful icons which take up way too much space. I rarely see my desktop (I keep most windows maximised, laptops only have small screens) so I rely heavily on quick launch icons.
I have just, at length, given in and signed into M$ Passport once and unchecked the box for "run at every opportunity you get". And I think I've now located the checkbox Firefox has been hiding from me for the past couple of days. And I've nearly hoovered up all the software I want. So if I can just get that taskbar kicked into shape, things will be looking up.
Update: and one more thing - I'm reliably informed that Firefox works fine with scrolly mice. I have a touchpad, which has a scrolly function - you stroke the right edge of the touchpad up or down, and the screen scrolls up or down accordingly. It works fine in this nice LJ client, it works fine in emacs, for heaven's sake. It doesn't work in Firefox :(
Update2: and lo, that's everything sorted out, barring the weird non-scrolliness of Firefox. Ent LJ brilliant ? Thanks folks.
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition. All the things I want to do I had working happily before the reinstall, so I assumed that they are at least feasible.
My main remaining problem is with the taskbar. I keep my taskbar where God intended it to be - up the left hand side of the screen. All I require it to contain, beyond little buttons for each running application, is a batch of quick launch icons and the bunch of cack in the systray. In particular, I don't want the "language bar" to appear. And I'd like my task bar to be wide enough to fit icons four abreast in the systray.
Sound unreasonable ? No, I didn't think so, either. I adjust all these things to be true, and I hit lock taskbar. All is lovely. Until the next time I restart my laptop, in which case the language bar is back, and, though the taskbar is the right width, the instant I click on it it reverts to a silly little skinny thing. Is there an extra option somewhere for "and remember what I said even when you get switched off"?
Similarly: where, oh where, is the checkbox to say "don't make my quick launch icons the size of Mexico" ? It's like something from Fisher-Price in here, enormous chunky colourful icons which take up way too much space. I rarely see my desktop (I keep most windows maximised, laptops only have small screens) so I rely heavily on quick launch icons.
I have just, at length, given in and signed into M$ Passport once and unchecked the box for "run at every opportunity you get". And I think I've now located the checkbox Firefox has been hiding from me for the past couple of days. And I've nearly hoovered up all the software I want. So if I can just get that taskbar kicked into shape, things will be looking up.
Update: and one more thing - I'm reliably informed that Firefox works fine with scrolly mice. I have a touchpad, which has a scrolly function - you stroke the right edge of the touchpad up or down, and the screen scrolls up or down accordingly. It works fine in this nice LJ client, it works fine in emacs, for heaven's sake. It doesn't work in Firefox :(
Update2: and lo, that's everything sorted out, barring the weird non-scrolliness of Firefox. Ent LJ brilliant ? Thanks folks.
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:41 pm (UTC)Er, no, but I have now :)
US English safely removed from the list, and a mad flurry of boxes unchecked. Hopefully it will now behave. Thanks.
<going for a test reboot>
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Date: 2005-01-14 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 09:49 am (UTC)At least it's better than the last reinstall (done by Evesham rather than by me) where the language was set to US English :)