[OFB Cafe] Vista Woes

[Rick Bowers]

At 7/3/2009 03:59 PM, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>         I really should make a policy of refusing to touch Vista PCs. They
>usually seem to get worse after working on them. So the case is now. I
>have a client who has a Vista PC which will no longer autoplay Windows
>Image Gallery on insertion of a compact flash card (though the card
>reads just fine in the computer -- it just refuses to do the normal
>autoplay, despite all of the autoplay settings being fine and it
>autoplaying fine if it launches Windows Explorer instead)...
>
>         Even worse, the Brother HL-1440 printer they have no longer works.
>Every time I reinstall the printer it refuses to print a test page
>(without any on screen errors). When I go to view printer properties
>afterwards, Windows always reports that the printer's drivers are not
>installed and prompts to install them. Doing so only satisfies it
>until the next time I try to do anything with the printer. It never
>does print.
>
>         The printer works fine on another, Windows ME computer 
> (gasp, I know)
>and it works fine on the problem computer when using an Ubuntu Live CD.
>
>         Any ideas?
>
>         Thanks,
>                 Tim


Hi Tim,

I run Vista with that exact same printer and it works fine. I think 
there was a special driver for Vista. Let me take a look and I'll report back.

(trying to get MythTV on Ubuntu or Fedora is *my* challenge)

~Rick