fed up with vista

flip63 · 23-03-2008, 18:16

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

23-03-2008, 18:40

link me to one of them

Is flash installed btw? and java?

flip63 · 23-03-2008, 19:22

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.

23-03-2008, 19:25

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

Graham M · 24-03-2008, 02:06

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

flip63 · 24-03-2008, 09:20

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.

24-03-2008, 10:25

did you do what i said?

flip63 · 24-03-2008, 12:31

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:

Jon T · 24-03-2008, 12:34

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

24-03-2008, 12:44

yes thats correct

flip63 · 24-03-2008, 12:58

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

Paul K · 24-03-2008, 13:01

Are you running an account with admin powers ?

24-03-2008, 13:01

can you post a link to one of the problem sites

Paul K · 24-03-2008, 13:07

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?

flip63 · 24-03-2008, 15:07

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