Jabo

Here's an interesting one for the techies to puzzle over. I'm off to bed having given up... When I install my copy of Office 2007 H&S, it installs OK, but when I try to open one of the applications, I get a warning box stating 'Office is not installed for this user'. Erm WTF? I'm out of ideas after installing and uninstalling most of the evening. I could do with being able to use Word though as I've some stuff to write and Notepad just doesn't do it for me. Any ideas? Jabo

Ahh.. there is a Win 7 patch. Didn't see that when I downloaded it I'm with you on the irritation, although this is light relief for me compared to the pig's ear I made of these boards I downloaded Nero trial (I have an old license kicking around somewhere) but couldn't get it to work with Irfanview - then I saw Jabo's post above...so yeah I'd give it a go mate! Yeah, it's quite a big patch (coupla hundred meg), so they've made signiifcant changes to the s/w in the wake of 7 being released. Bear in mind FB that if you d/l the software now, you'll prolly get Nero 9 Reloaded which already has the patch on board - makes life easier maybe. Jabo

Yep Rog. Using Nero 9 with the Win 7 compatibility patch, I've got no problems burning video to DVD, but I've not tried burning a slideshow to disc. I suspect it's not dissimilar. Jabo

You're not using RW disks are you m8? Most DVD players can't read them Jabo

Good news m8. I take it you've solved your SLI+Win7 problems then? Jabo

I'll look out for that when I'm on my weekly book trawl next weekend - thanks for the intel m8! Jabo

No m8, in this case I was just too impatient. The photos loaded a few seconds after I made my post - You will see it's now different. Jabo

Ain't it? Dangerous work, but what a rush. Jabo

Yep, liking Win 7 A LOT. Jabo

At least you won't get carded now m8. LOL Jabo

Some great shots coming through at the moment - Like the ones of Goose's P38 and Sid's 109 - the lighting is great! Going to check that smoke mod out as well. Jabo

Nice work Swep, great photos too as always! Jabo

O M G. EADS Messerschmitt Bf109 visitng UK this summer! For the first time the Messerschmitt Foundation will be sending one of it's Bf109G's to the UK during the summer and there is a chance it will appear at Duxford! It's definitely (barring u/s problems) flying in the RIAT show at Fairford the following weekend, so it could well be doing both shows. On a related(ish) note the USAF will be sending the 3-ship F-22 Raptor Demo Team to Fairford as well! That's sorted the w/e following Duxford anyway. I've never seen a 'proper' 109 in flight (the Buchon doesn't count), so I'm very excited about this. Jabo

Interesting about that 100MB partition Rog. Of course, I am using Ultimate and BitLocker so...Now I've looked more closely at the Disk Management plugin, the 100MB partition is missing 'cos I have a 50GB XP partition at the front of the disk. So I'm obviously talking rubbish - but it is 2:45 here. Amen to the 'Once burnt' too. Jabo

Niiiiice. Thanks Rog! Good photo too. Yours? Jabo Niiiiice. Thanks Rog! Good photo too. Yours? Jabo P.S. Can't have been Duxford, the sun's out!

Although these things are great in principle, unless you have a good upstream connection, upload times tend to be prohibitive. I've tried a couple of alternative services to the ones mentioned before, and always given up before having much more than a fraction uploaded. Eight hours per 500MB equals about 1600 hours (66 days - continuous) for the photos, another 1600 for the music - compared to four hours for copying the whole shooting match to an external HDD with encryption and then an hour across Coventry to drop it off in my mates fire safe and have a quick coffee. Another four hours to make a local copy and voila. I'd definitely run Speedtest to get an idea of how long it'll take to transfer your 30GB Col, I'm moving a lot more data, but 30GB uploaded is still quite a lot. Hmm, I'm not on a downer over the whole online storage concept, I just feel that if you're storing a lot, multiple local copies are a better bet. Jabo

Blast, missed it as well.

I like the G15, and I like the TS3 plugin, but if you didn't want to shell out £80+ for a keyboard, Colin's solution would be the way to go. It looks good, is easy to use and is relatively cheap. Jabo

You definitely need that little 100MB partition m8. I wonder if yours went AWOL when you were swapping the drives about? I used to do the same as Rog, and only have the OS drive connected when reinstalling the OS, but since using Acronis, I've been leaving all the drives in situ (except my external 'last ditch' backup drive - just in case ) - seems to work OK. One thing I have noticed though is that the drive letters do swap about depending on which OS I'm booting to (XP, 7, ubuntu), so I've taken the precaution of individually naming all the partitions so I know which drive is which regardless of the drive letter. Jabo

Any intention to build all of them, or is the fun in the collecting?

Hi Sulky, good to see you back in one piece m8. You've got most of what you need already, but you will have to download UltraPack 2.0n in order to fly with the DDz, the link is here. You'll notice this is a .torrent file so you'll need uTorrent or similar to download it. If you've not used torrents before, just post back and someone will be able to advise. You'll also need Teamspeak 3 (d/l from here). Use the 32 or 64-bit version as dictated by your version of Windows (32-bit must use 32-bit TS3, 64-bit can use either but better with 64-bit). I'll PM you with the server details as I'm not sure if this is public or not. Jabo

Yep, no question

How did you find the new 'Vault' Nick? The attachment thingy in the posts is quite enat too, allowing multiple files to be selected and uploaded to a post in a single hit.. 'Scuse the thread hijack... Fine Rog, The creation of a new item in the Vault seems much simpler than the method we used to have. The in-post attachment thing is great but wouldn't allow me to put an .exe file in there (Hence using the Vault) I'm pretty certain the No-CD patch is redundant with UP2.0, but it would be nice to have that confirmed (and then remove that file from the Vault - keep the place tidy as it were.) ...Hijack over Jabo

Yep, prefer the alternate one too - Nice one Rog. Jabo

Fortunately Jax, this is a common problem, and appears to be related to the optical drive (my copy of IL2 will only run on one of my two identical dvd-rw drives) - go figure. What you need is the no-cd crack which should be available in the vault (I've just uploaded it). It ceases to be a problem at that point! Don't forget that if you want to fly online with the DDz, you'll need to patch the game to v4.08, then v4.09 and then install UltraPack 2.0n. If you're going down this route, I think UP2.0n includes the No-CD patch anyway (someone will be along to correct this shortly I'm sure). Jabo