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In Microsoft's zeal to protect users from themselves or maybe just to make money by ensuring every new user has to call them for support , they have actually ended up protecting computers from the users. Because, as we all know, the real purpose of computers is to just sit there and look pretty with some nice Microsoft wallpaper display.

We don't need to use it to get real work done. If we did that, we might make a mistake and mess something up. Or change a configuration. Or use up some of the hard disk space saving our files. Or try to install a non-Microsoft application on it, and we just can't guarantee that it will work anymore, now can we. Everything you need to do should be able to be done with a locked down account from just the operating system utilities.

Hey, browse the web don't forget to get an MSN email account , and play Freecell, and your life and computing experience will be complete. We'll just keep everything neat and clean and pristine by locking out all those silly users.

That way your computer is always just like it was out of the box, ready to be sold on eBay for a premium in near mint condition. Quote from: tony smedley - am. Mark E. It means that no matter how good your synth is, NWC viewer won't use it - no way, no how!

Quote from: Lawrie Pardy - pm. One solution I haven't seen mentioned here is a standalone soundcard. My daughter got one a few weeks ago for her Vista laptop and reports that it works great. Plugs into the USB port. Hers is an SB Live! G'day William, Owyagoinmateorrite? Actually, it isn't that a sound card doesn't work that's the problem, 'cos is ain't. Synth selection is, however, a problem. Or rather access to selecting a synth The real difficulty is how one uses it.

This is more a user problem 'cos many don't seem to realise that within NWC you can change this and specify another synth if one is present. Thanks, Lawrie. Of course the right driver is necessary as is a good soundfont bank. I guess what I was trying to get at was the same point you made - that people aren't limited to Microsoft's choices if they know how to change the MIDI settings in NWC.

I suspect many users will do that more readily for a standalone card sitting out there in its little box than they will for a card mounted within the computer's frame, which they expect the computer to be able to handle by itself. This is true even for my daughter, who is an expert computer user she has a small side business doing Web design but couldn't figure out why the sound on her laptop was so lousy even when she plugged it into a decent set of speakers.

After trying several other tacks, I convinced her to buy the SB standalone, and now she's happy as a clam are clams happy? G'day William, Quote from: William Ashworth - am. OK - I did the foolish thing, but I seemingly had no choice. My pc died a couple of months ago and the new one has Vista installed and of course the sound is atrocious and completely unacceptable!

Both sound the same. So, if I install the soundcard from my old computer, will it sound like it used to? The old sound card was Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach. Not a bad sounding card for the most part. G'day Duncan, Do you have the correct drivers installed for the card? Checkout Creatives website and download the latest vista drivers from it. Perhaps the new drivers will fix this. Of course, you'd need to load some acceptable soundfonts - one I've found to be quite reasonable is the "Airfont " - only trouble is it has a percussive flute!

Your old sound card is only useful if you can get vista drivers for it Hey Lawrie, I just noticed your reply. Been rather too busy to mess with this issue of late. I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

Do you mean the latest drivers for the X-Fi soundcard? I went to the website and don't see the other card listed. Looks like I am going to have to look up the exact version of Vista operating system before I can download the drivers anyway, but it's too late to do it now.

If I don't go to bed now I may not wake up for work tomorrow. Thanks for the help. From what you said earlier you aren't seing the Creative synth's in NWC - you should be able too. So, it's my thinking that the Creative X-Fi drivers aren't actually installed OR you have a buggy or broken installation. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals.

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