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need help, any1 out there know vista better than I?

jontheshogunjontheshogun Registered User regular
edited April 2008 in Games and Technology
which pretty much means any1 who bought the damn thing more than a month ago, and has an IQ over 90 (when it comes to vista my IQ drops DRAMATICALLY. anyway, any1 know how to put your gamertag (for xbox live) on your desk top? i checked xbox360.com but it just tells you how to do it in XP.

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  • The DeliveratorThe Deliverator Slingin Pies The California BurbclavesRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Sadly, you can't put it on your desktop via Active Desktop, since Microsoft decided to remove it entirely from Vista. There are, however, several sidebar widgets that will show it, and those can be drug off the sidebar onto the desktop.

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  • jontheshogunjontheshogun Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Captain Cactus And The Water Preservation Squad wrote: »
    Sadly, you can't put it on your desktop via Active Desktop, since Microsoft decided to remove it entirely from Vista. There are, however, several sidebar widgets that will show it, and those can be drug off the sidebar onto the desktop.

    thats even better, where do i get these widgets? or do you not know?

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  • The DeliveratorThe Deliverator Slingin Pies The California BurbclavesRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    jontheshogun wrote: »
    Captain Cactus And The Water Preservation Squad wrote: »
    Sadly, you can't put it on your desktop via Active Desktop, since Microsoft decided to remove it entirely from Vista. There are, however, several sidebar widgets that will show it, and those can be drug off the sidebar onto the desktop.

    thats even better, where do i get these widgets? or do you not know?

    They should be in the widget directory. On the main window of the widget adding thing, there should be a link labled "Get more gadgets online". That will open a web browser window to the online gadget gallery. Just search for xbox or gamertag, and you should find several options.

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2008
    http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?bt=1&pl=1&q=Xbox#-1~1~5~en~2~20~3~0~0~Xbox

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  • nihilnihil Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    hey, now that this fellow query has been answered mind if i hijack? sure ya don't. I recently purchased a new hp laptop for myself/wife. She has been getting her sims 2 on since launch on an older system with a basic graphics card and one gig of ram. The new jam has a new graphics card, 2 gigs of ram, and a better processor. After the install however she claims the game runs a bit faster but the graphics are not as good. Now I do not know the names of both graphics cards off of the top of my head but I really want to blame the problem on Vista running on the new machine while the old has xp. The upgrade came due to the wear and tear of week long sims2 gaming sessions taking their toll and I really didn't want her to lose 4 years worth of gaming because the pc crapped out. Anyone here have any tips on curbing vista resource use to better use those assets for gaming?

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  • The DeliveratorThe Deliverator Slingin Pies The California BurbclavesRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    we really need to know model numbers on things to have any idea what's going on. What brand/model of video card, specifically. Also, did you go in and adjust the settings in the game?

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