RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components > > I think the best solution for this person may be just to take away

RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:13 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components > > There is a great deal more to this story, including his declaration >

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
Thanks. Accessories does not seem to be on the list though, or command prompt? As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the question is now academic, but a sort of bloodymindedness makes me want to know anyway... Preciate the time Dana >Dana, > >Add/Remove Windows Components is now called "Progra

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
hmm that's some useful info. I'm not going there with this guy though. Anytime I spend three days getting someone to tell me his ip address and he tells his professor distance ed won't help, I am done. He needs to move here or deal with a local institution if he needs this class. >On 6/6/07,

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Casey Dougall
On 6/6/07, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If they would use it, then sure, but when was the last time you saw > somebody actually use it that needed it most? Yeah, no doubt. I had to run system restore the other day and I wasn't even here. I think an update caused my virus scanner /

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana
if that guy had shadow copy I can guarantee that it would "not work." He spent hours telling me, the other distance ed geek and the helpdesk guys about computers he had in Mississippi in 1980 something that would not work. I had to shout at him to get him to be quiet long enough to hear that this w

RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Nick McClure
If they would use it, then sure, but when was the last time you saw somebody actually use it that needed it most? -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ouch, No Shadow Copy on home edition, for the people who need it the most... How the heck do you do a restore

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
OK, so -- what I have here is Vista Business I believe. What they are sending out with MSDN. This is now a question for my own information. Shadow copy is what I am looking for? I had a beta copy but did get into these issues with it. >On 6/6/07, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Ou

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Casey Dougall
On 6/6/07, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Point D is the one you will be after... > > HTH > > Paul Ouch, No Shadow Copy on home edition, for the people who need it the most... How the heck do you do a restore without shadow copy... Not that I would buy vista home but when you thin

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Cameron Childress
I think the best solution for this person may be just to take away his computer. -Cameron On 6/6/07, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was taking him to command prompt. Which is under accessories, unless you > use it a lot. And we didn't need add/remove programs -- we needed Add/Remove

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
I was taking him to command prompt. Which is under accessories, unless you use it a lot. And we didn't need add/remove programs -- we needed Add/Remove Windows Components, which is in Add/Remove Programs in XP but not, apparently, in Vista. However, the question is now moot. Further investigat

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
I was taking him to command prompt. Which is under accessories, unless you use it a lot. And we didn't need add/remove programs -- we needed Add/Remove Windows Components, which is in Add/Remove Programs in XP but not, apparently, in Vista. However, the question is now moot. Further investigat

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Dana Tierney
I was taking him to command prompt. Which is under accessories, unless you use it a lot. And we didn't need add/remove programs -- we needed Add/Remove Windows Components, which is in Add/Remove Programs in XP but not, apparently, in Vista. However, the question is now moot. Further investigat

RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Vernon
Dana, Add/Remove Windows Components is now called "Programs and Features" and is still in the Control Panel. Once you are in there, click on Turn Windows features on or off to access what you need. Has anyone mentioned that Remote Desktop on comes on certain versions of Vista? http://www.microso

RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Nick McClure
There is winipcfg maybe that is what you were looking for? -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components On 6/6/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Cameron Childress
On 6/6/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok -- anyone know where this is? My three-day quest to remote desktop > > to this guy's computer continues. He has deleted his accessories folder > > now...makes it hard to do ipconfig. Jim's right, ipconfig is a command line tool. Add remove pr

RE: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components

2007-06-06 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: windows vista - Add/Remove Windows Components > > Ok -- anyone know where this is? My three-day quest to remote desktop > to this guy's computer contin