vista service pack 2

[steve_83]

ya sorta have to squint

Naturally I don't know your age or any eyesight dilemmas, but here is something the fellow that "turned me on" to Firefox did for me.

Nasa Night Launch ( a firefox add-on) made the background black and with kinda bold gray text, it made it a lot easier on my eyes.

I was gonna kick for reading glasses to surf with........until I started using that.
Maybe that will become true for you.

Whoever coined that frapping phrase:

Grow OLd Gracefully

was most likely a 20 something.

Probably the same guy who once said......."Don't trust anybody over 30".


Steve_83 (wheeling off to eat my dinner of mush and oatmeal)

[DataCabbitKSW]

If you use Internet Explorer at all, then switch over to IE8. A standards compliant rendering engine, a better javascript handler, new tab modes, etc. It is much better. Also, there are certain hotfixes and things that have to be installed, and other things that can't be installed (odd language packs or whatnot) before you can get the Service Pack 2 to show up on your auto-update list in Windows Update. If you download the standalone version and try to run it, it will tell you what you are missing or have extra that needs to be removed in order to get SP2 to run. Give that a try. Alternatively to that, you can give an ask over on the official Windows Vista Support Forum located here http://tinyurl.com/d5r9v3 . They are pretty quick to reply, and a lot of this kind of stuff you will find already answered if you give a search around.