VISTA: Numerous problems

Hello,
My son got me a new Acer notebook PC, model #ZR1 last week. It has the new
Vista operating system equipted on it and it is giving me some troubles.
They would seem to be minor to some, but after having XP ust the troublefree
way I like it. they are a big deal to me. I've called Acer a couple times
and each time they had had me restore the system to factory specs which just
got me off the phone and no help at all.

Specifically the 3 biggies are:
1. My polaroaid digital camera, w/ software installed will not fully open
upto allow transfer of pictures to PC via USB. I sent E-mail to Polaroid in
hopes there are a patch or fix for this problem. 3 days, no answer. Sending
again after this.

2. When I download thumbnails from a site, they will not open any bigger on
the notebook than the original thumbnails. NOTE: When done from same site on
a PC with XP home, they will enlarge in about 97% of the cases.

3. Similar with screensavers. Most won't open up once downloaded.same
circumstances as above. On #1, #2, the downloads were found through Google
and the subject matter was my favorite actress, Alicia Silverstone.

Now, Does anyone know anything about any similar problems or conflicts being
reporter and / or any repairs for same.

Please help. I am a candidate for a heart transplant and my notebook is my
only companionship every day. When things go well, time flies by quickly.
these problems make time drag on and on.

Thank you to all for any ideas or suggestions.

God Bless,
Radioman (Ray Miller)

For the Polaroid camera problem, go to the Support page for Polaroid and see
if they have drivers for Vista and your camera. If so, download and install.
Screensavers, again must be compaible for the OS on which they run, so again
check to see if the screen savers you want are Vista compatible and/or have
Vista versions.

As to the thumbnails, that most likely is a function of the application
you're using to display the thumbnails, and if the backing JPG or other
file, is available to expand the thumbnail.

--
The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little


"radioman" <radioman@localnet.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> My son got me a new Acer notebook PC, model #ZR1 last week. It has the new
> Vista operating system equipted on it and it is giving me some
> troubles. They would seem to be minor to some, but after having XP ust the
> troublefree way I like it. they are a big deal to me. I've called Acer a
> couple times and each time they had had me restore the system to factory
> specs which just got me off the phone and no help at all.
>
> Specifically the 3 biggies are:
> 1. My polaroaid digital camera, w/ software installed will not fully open
> upto allow transfer of pictures to PC via USB. I sent E-mail to Polaroid
> in hopes there are a patch or fix for this problem. 3 days, no answer.
> Sending again after this.
>
> 2. When I download thumbnails from a site, they will not open any bigger
> on the notebook than the original thumbnails. NOTE: When done from same
> site on a PC with XP home, they will enlarge in about 97% of the cases.
>
> 3. Similar with screensavers. Most won't open up once downloaded.same
> circumstances as above. On #1, #2, the downloads were found through Google
> and the subject matter was my favorite actress, Alicia Silverstone.
>
> Now, Does anyone know anything about any similar problems or conflicts
> being reporter and / or any repairs for same.
>
> Please help. I am a candidate for a heart transplant and my notebook is my
> only companionship every day. When things go well, time flies by quickly.
> these problems make time drag on and on.
>
> Thank you to all for any ideas or suggestions.
>
> God Bless,
> Radioman (Ray Miller)