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Thanks folks..nothing special planned...but i do have my youngest home from school with a fever and a cough..lol..i'm too old to have a 5th grader..

Hi Liz...well i meant to set the updater to notify...but put it off..lol..procrastination bit me again... so i guess i'll back up some critical data...check my internet settings...and try to follow the sticky procedures and give it a go...i too wish i knew how to disable the "install updates before shut-down feature.." but i have learned a lesson about how i have my updater configured UPDATE: well..followed the sticky and let the updater do it's thing...no mess no fuss.. ADDITIONAL UPDATE: both my daughters machines updated using the updater with no issues...i did follow the stickies advise

for various reason i have put off installing xp sp3...i see that M$ has kindly downloaded it to me automatically(i'm set to download but not install until i say so..)...since i like to turn my computer off at night...this means that it will try to install the update if i want to turn off my machine... so...shall i follow the instructions in the sticky...or has it been made stable enough to just let the updater do it's dirty deed...?? Thanks.. wayne

see my post below about mapping a network drive in vista...some of the links in that thread may lead you in the right direction...

Well i must say my first hands on experience with vista has convinced me to hang onto XP as long as i possible can..i spent another 4 hours today mucking through the file sharing morass that is Vista..while i understand the added "security" that they have built into the networking and file sharing protocols..the lack of clear and concise instructions and help...combined with a lot of misinformation and down right simply conflicting and vague stuff on the internet..makes the set-up a can of worms...for example one Microsoft article about setting permissions for file sharing goes into some det

well after spending all day trying to configure a simple wired Ethernet network and not having much success i'm inclined to agree..however the client is not about to do that so i'm stuck trying to muck thru it all again tomorrow..glad i get paid by the hour on this one.. the drive mapping was a piece of cake...it's the setting of permissions and the fact that the network wizard only tries to set up an internet connection..which i do not want to do..i'm having a hell of a time getting a simple file sharing network to work..good grief wayne

I do some consulting work for the local Track clubs and high schools setting up small 4 computer Ethernet networks and hardware and software interfaces for their timing systems.. I have a client that just updated his computers and they are all Vista OS laptops...one of the machines we set up as a "server" and we map a network drive on it to share data with the camera and the meet management software.. All my setups have been on XP machines and i'm quite adept at mapping the drive for our set-up...but i have very little exposure to vista...so my question is...are there any things i should know

McAfee shows it all green... wayne

oh i do remember those mornings...but for me as a kid in Michigan..it meant hours of shoveling snow for my neighbors for 50 cents...75 if you had a fully paved driveway... but here in SoCal today high of about 65...low this morning was actually 31...frost on the windshield..lol

For those of you who may not have heard of this...an army major named Andrew Olmsted was killed in action in Iraq a few days ago..he entrusted a blog posting to a fellow blogger to be posted in the event of his death... a must read... i don't believe i have ever been more affected by something i've read on the internet than his last post...i also recommend you follow the links in the above post, to some of hie earlier blogs...i doubt you would disagree with me that America has lost one of it's best... wayne

bought my first machine in 1987...Motorola AT..20MB hard drive..i think it had 32kb of ram...really slow modem...(but got us connected..)..dos 3.something...paid over 2 grand from QVC..that machine was still running kid games in 1998..

i suppose it's a bit of bad form to bump a birthday thread to wish you all a Merry Christmas...and a Happy New Year..but since the "damage" is done... ..all the best to all of you..we hope your holidays are filled with happiness and peace.. Wayne

thanx marty..pat and echobay...all the best from me and mine to you and yours..Merry Christmas..and Happy New Year..!!

Thanx again all...

did i say CHOCOLATE Cake...really..really big CHOCOLATE cake....LOL thanx...