fed up with vista
 

Hi everyone,

I am fed up with Vista, or at least I think I am. I have been used to XP, without any problems, even with Norton 360( no comments please). I now have a laptop running Vista Home premium, and I have been looking at hotels to book a holiday, but Windows won't let me view virtual tours. I have disabled several things in security regarding control x without any joy. I am a dumbo when it comes to computers, so can anyone offer advice on how to solve this problem without putting my computer at risk.

Regards Flip

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link me to one of them

Is flash installed btw? and java?

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Hi Zinglebarb,

Thanks for reply, computer is virtually as it came out of the box, had trouble with Java with XP, don't understand flash. As I explained I am not up to speed with computers, so any imformation has to be jargon free, sorry.

Regards Flip.

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google flash player it will tell you if its not installed and if it isnt install that

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Well if you don't wanna talk about Norton, we can't really help ya ;)

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Hi zeph,

Norton 360 is on my old XP laptop, but have Avast freebee on my new Vista laptop the one I am having problems with. So now you maybe in the mood to help with a positive suggestion this time.

Regards Phil.

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did you do what i said?

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Hi Zinglebarb,
Thanks for your suggestions, but I have logged on to Google flash player sites, and all I seem to see are, how to cure flash player problems. My computer knowledge is very basic, so I don't want cause myself any more problems. I've looked up what I want on my old computer. Thanks once again.
Flip:

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What Zingle meant is find the flash installer site using google(i think).

Doing this myself took me to: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

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yes thats correct

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Hi,
Downloaded Adobe, same story, message says, " windows has blocked this software because it can't verify the publisher " no problem on XP with Java.
flip

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Are you running an account with admin powers ?

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can you post a link to one of the problem sites

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This may just be a case of the wrong button being hit at the wrong time, have you tried resetting IE7 security options back to default?

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Hi Paul,
Security was set to default, , the computer is virtually out of the box, but I have since tried the lowest settings for Internet, local etc. Under these settings it still says "unsigned active x controls will not be downloaded " don't know if this is relevant. What's admin powers by the way.
Flip