Now what's going on?

Vista has steadily been getting less bad.

The "sleep" mechanism works nicely now, especially if you turn all programs off first. Networking also works better than earlier with other Windows machines; less so with Ubuntu but I doubt if Mr Gates is too bothered about that.

HOWEVER...

This morning Windows decided to update my machine. I lost a monitor. I had four screens yeaterday and after the update I had three. Windows had decided to set two of my monitors to run from the same output. Took me twenty minutes to work that one out.


Now I have discovered it has unticked a little box for me. It's a really anally retentive thing they brought in with Internet Explorer that asks your permission before sending forms in case the evil internet sees what is on your clipboard (where stuff goes when you use the copy function). Any way if you are brave and you want to stop the message coming up:

Do you want to allow this webpage to access your Clipboard?

If you allow this, the webpage can access the Clipboard and read information that you've cut or copied recently.

follow these simple instructions:

Alt, T ( to get tools in Internet Explorer 7)
Internet Options
Security
Custome level
Scroll down to: Allow Programmatic clipboard access
Tick enable.