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fkelly · #1 Post by **fkelly** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:38 pm

Any hints or suggestions. I was trying to intall ms net 3 and it got hung up. I keep trying to restart my lappie. It wouldn't so I hit and held the power button down.
Re-fired it up and now all my icons on my desktop and browser are super sized....Very large fonts.

Not sure what I did, but would sure love to get back to my previous setup.

#2 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:52 pm

I would boot up in SAFE MODE (F8) and use System Restore (in Help and Support, under tasks, off the Start menu).

#3 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:32 pm

You don't say what OS. .Net V3 works fine on my XP Pro boxes. I have not yet tried V3.5. My Vista 64-bit will not go past V1.1
... JDH

fkelly · #4 Post by **fkelly** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:39 pm

XP.....I forgot to add it was docked in the X6 ultrabase.

I undocked it rebooted and it came back to normal.

qviri · #5 Post by **qviri** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:08 pm

jdhurst wrote:You don't say what OS. .Net V3 works fine on my XP Pro boxes. I have not yet tried V3.5. My Vista 64-bit will not go past V1.1
... JDH

Vista comes with .NET 3.0 and may not react kindly to attempts to downgrade.

(Unless I missed an option to not include .NET during installation and you've used it.)

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:37 am

qviri wrote:<snip>
Vista comes with .NET 3.0 and may not react kindly to attempts to downgrade.

(Unless I missed an option to not include .NET during installation and you've used it.)

No - there is nothing beyond .Net 1.1 on my Vista 64-bit box. I did a factory install and did not uninstall or use any option not to install.

I have a client that uses a specific application requiring at least .Net V2 and it won't run on this box. I did try to get to V3 but could not. In the course of learning Vista, I did two factory installs beyond the one that came, so I am very sure it is not the install process. Add/Remove Programs (Programs and Features) only shows .Net 1.1 as well.
... JDH

qviri · #7 Post by **qviri** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:39 am

I'll check again on Monday, but for now I stand corrected and very surprised.

#8 Post by **jdhurst** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:32 am

qviri wrote:I'll check again on Monday, but for now I stand corrected and very surprised.

Please let us know. There may be something I need to do to correct my installation. Thank you. .... JDH

TTY · #9 Post by **TTY** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:37 pm

jdhurst wrote:No - there is nothing beyond .Net 1.1 on my Vista 64-bit box.

In 32-bit Vista Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 can't be found in the regular list of installed programs. It can be turned on or off in "Turn Windows Features on or off", which is accessible in the Programs and Features control panel applet. It might be that it's the same in 64-bit Vista. There are three subcategories for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 in 32-bit Vista. The factory preinstalled 32-bit Vista on a T61 only has the XPS viewer active.

#10 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:32 pm

TTY wrote:
jdhurst wrote:No - there is nothing beyond .Net 1.1 on my Vista 64-bit box.
In 32-bit Vista Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 can't be found in the regular list of installed programs. It can be turned on or off in "Turn Windows Features on or off", which is accessible in the Programs and Features control panel applet. It might be that it's the same in 64-bit Vista. There are three subcategories for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 in 32-bit Vista. The factory preinstalled 32-bit Vista on a T61 only has the XPS viewer active.

So it is! And I have .NET Framework 3 enabled and did not know it. Of course, this is one beef I have always had with Vista - it splits up one thing or one concept into two or three pieces and sticks the pieces in mutually distinct and confusing areas to be certain the OS is as difficult as it can possibly be to use. Thank you for clearing that up.
... JDH

Marin85 · #11 Post by **Marin85** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:09 am

jdhurst wrote:it splits up one thing or one concept into two or three pieces and sticks the pieces in mutually distinct and confusing areas to be certain the OS is as difficult as it can possibly be to use.

I don´t think that any Windows is /will be much different. It seems to me that all recent Linux distros are way more intuitive and better organized regarding usability, something I wish we could see from M$...

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