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Lottery Post announces Lottery Results Gadget for Windows Vista
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 15573 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 12:32 pm - IP Logged |
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Now don't laugh too hard when I tell you this, but I never even upgraded to XP. I din't like the fact that it was taking away my ability to find things easily. The things you mentioned above I already do on my ME. Except the typing to search like you would in an index. I thought it was just part of it. I'm glad you posted that, because I was considering just upgrading to XP (reluctantly). But I have a question: My kids use all kinds of media gagets (mp3' mp4's, flash drives, etc.) Is Vista set up to work with that and winmx? If it can handle what I need it to do---easily---then I would benefit more going straight to vista. Xp didn't have a feel or functionality that I wanted, so I never fooled with it. When my brother upgraded to XP as soon as it was available, he said " on this one you can give a password to every person using your computer." When I told him I already did that on mine (at the time it was Win98,) he just looked at me in disbelief. Then I let him on my computer to do something and he was shocked to see how mine was set up. Oh my gosh, there is no comparison between ME and Vista. Yes, Vista can handle all those things out of the box. You just plug something in and it works. There is even a fantastic download that installs just about every video format imaginable in one file. If you're really worried about upgrading, just purchase another hard drive and make the old on a secondary drive. Do a brand new (fresh) install of Vista on the new drive, and then transfer stuff over from the secondary drive to the Vista installation on the new drive. That way, you can easily go back to ME by simply making it the primary drive again. It will take you a couple of weeks to really feel comfortable with Vista, after having used ME for so long. But once you're comfortable and figure out all the shortcuts it gives you, I don't think you'll want to go back.
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United States Member #28776 December 15, 2005 1073 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 12:56 pm - IP Logged |
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You are still laughing aren't you? My ear is burning. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Happy New Year Everyone!
(It's my favorite time of the year now.)
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 15573 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 1:07 pm - IP Logged |
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You are still laughing aren't you? My ear is burning. I'm really not laughing! I'm *coaching*. That's the way I see my job.
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United States Member #28776 December 15, 2005 1073 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 1:24 pm - IP Logged |
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I'm really not laughing! I'm *coaching*. That's the way I see my job. yeah, right.  It's okay to laugh. I know I'm not your typical gadget junky. Everything I own is the latest everything, but my computer is ancient. The only ones older than mine these days are the ones the government uses.  (You know it's true !) It is a special build my brother designed only for me. He's the genius in the family., not me. So I'm sort of attached to it. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Happy New Year Everyone!
(It's my favorite time of the year now.)
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Heroic City Indonesia Member #32077 February 2, 2006 884 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 3:37 pm - IP Logged |
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spy153 i think any OS should able to do anything as long as we want to learn anything ;-) and about XP should be fine especially the Vista. one thing about Vista it awesome for people how know about computer and for people who don't know i think Vista help user friendly (only read the English help :-) ) because the help cover almost computer troubleshooting for example my friend as me to partition his laptop, i have the freeware partition but show how it doesn't work on Vista also i have scared to damage the system. so just press F1 and type the partition landed on how to create partition and it was on the fly. also the other day my friends piss off with bible program because it doesn't work on Vista (runtime error 75 path access file) and search on the net it solve with right click and run as administrator, ta da the bible program work perfectly with simple solution :-) btw the LP gadget won't work on Vista unless the Microsoft launch SP3 in the future to add the sidebar. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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United States Member #6475 August 20, 2004 2038 Posts Online |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 4:13 pm - IP Logged |
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Todd, the gadget is really cool, but is there any way to get the states to show in an alphabetical order and not the order they are drawn?
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United States Member #28776 December 15, 2005 1073 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 5:05 pm - IP Logged |
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thanks for the info sysp34.  Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Happy New Year Everyone!
(It's my favorite time of the year now.)
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NC United States Member #47194 September 26, 2006 653 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 8:24 pm - IP Logged |
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I would love to have this, but I don't have windows vista.  I guess I have to break down and upgrade, huh? Ditto on that!! Congrats Todd... Thats mi story and I'm sticking with it....
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 15573 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 9:22 pm - IP Logged |
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Todd, the gadget is really cool, but is there any way to get the states to show in an alphabetical order and not the order they are drawn? Yes, one of the features is SideShow support, and a SideShow device can sort by state. However, it was WAY too much to do in the gadget itself for version 1 though. Create multiple instances of the gadget if you have too many games loaded to find a state easily.
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 15573 Posts Offline |
| Posted: November 3, 2007, 9:26 pm - IP Logged |
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@sysp34: Your comment is not correct: "btw the LP gadget won't work on Vista unless the Microsoft launch SP3 in the future to add the sidebar."
I think you have a few things confused in that sentence. I think you meant "won't work in XP". The other thing is that Microsoft will NEVER release a Sidebar for XP. The only reason they're doing another service pack is because they ran out of serial numbers for the last service pack. Not to add features.
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