I'm assuming the dog and clippy are forms of the office assistant. I hate that too. The best way to permanently disable the office assistant is to uninstall it from the "add or remove programs" dialog box. Select start->settings->control panel->add or remove programs->microsoft office...[Change]->Add or remove features->office tools, then find the office assistant and select "Not available." Whew, that ought to do it. Don't ask me why MS made this so difficult.
Darcy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bagotronix Tech Support Sent: August 29, 2005 10:16 AM To: Open Topic Forum Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [PEDA] OT Dual output video card > 5] ?? ok how do i get rid the of the dog and the Fisher-Price themes? > any tips on tweaking XP GUI back to more like 2000 ? Right-click on the desktop, click on Properties, click on Appearance tab. Then choose the "Windows Classic" theme. I think that's right, I'm operating from neural memory, and that's not always reliable. I forgot how to get rid of the dog. I wonder if the dog's name is "Bob"? Remember Microsoft Bob? Ugh. I wonder if MS Vista will have a mountain goat ("Billy"?) for an assistant? How about Clippy? I thought Clippy was rather amusing - for about 5 minutes. True story: My mother hates Clippy. Although she is the type of user that Clippy is targeted to, she had me get rid of Clippy for her. The reason: she can't stand anything staring at her. Clippy would jump onto the page she was typing, stare at her, and roll his eyes around. She didn't know how to get rid of Clippy, so she stuck a post-it note over the area of the screen where he was. She was OK for a while, but then Clippy moved to another region of the screen and continued staring at my mother. She got so mad at him! She kept moving the post-it note to cover him up. So I turned Clippy off for her. Ever so often, she would inadvertantly enable Clippy and he would return to aggravate her. So I showed her how she was reactivating him, and how to deactivate him. Problem solved - sort of. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com Dennis Saputelli wrote: > hey Ivan I will byte > > here is my progress on your checklist and a question for you > 1] done > 2] done > 3] whew in progress, seems endles > 4] ditto > > 5] ?? ok how do i get rid the of the dog and the Fisher-Price themes? > any tips on tweaking XP GUI back to more like 2000 ? > > 6] maybe some day real soon now > 7] am actively contemplating :) > > ds > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 > 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 > San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com > > > Bagotronix Tech Support wrote: > >> >>From what I hear (More memory = faster response) from Protel. I'm >> using a >> > Gig of Ram and a 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 based system. It's still >> slow at >> > times... >> >> That's one of the reasons why I haven't upgraded from 99SE to DXP. I >> assume your comments about occasional slowness was directed at DXP, >> right? From my experience, 99SE is not too big a hog. It will run OK >> on a lowly W98 Celeron 366 w/64MB of RAM. Just don't try to have any >> other apps open at the same time! >> >> Upgrade scenario - hmm, let's see: >> >> 1) Buy DXP upgrade. Check! >> 2) Buy new PC because 4-year old 1GHz dual-PIII w/512MB RAM is no >> longer sufficient. Check! >> 3) Install all my apps on new PC and tweak configurations. Check! >> 4) Migrate all my data over to new PC. Check! >> 5) Tweak XP GUI to get rid of Fisher-Price themes. Check! >> 6) Learn new DXP ways of doing stuff I could do before with 99SE. Check! >> 7) Contemplate the time and money I just spent on steps 1-6. Arrgh! >> >> Best regards, >> Ivan Baggett >> Bagotronix Inc. >> website: www.bagotronix.com >> >> >> Brooks,Bill wrote: >> >>> NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU Dual View is what I have and it seems >>> to be >>> okay... No issues so far. I run it at 1600 X 1200 pixels dual >>> screen... I >>> have 2 ViewSonic 19 inch flat screen monitors >>> >>>> From what I hear (More memory = faster response) from Protel. I'm >>>> using a >>> >>> >>> Gig of Ram and a 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 based system. It's still slow at >>> times... >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Bill Brooks - KG6VVP >>> PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I. >>> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 >>> Datron World Communications, Inc. >>> _______________________________________ >>> San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council >>> Communications Officer, Web Manager >>> http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ >>> http://pcbwizards.com >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum >> >> To Post messages: >> mailto:[email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe and Other Options: >> http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com >> >> Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
