Issue Making Changes To Windows 7 Before Using Hoster

[Harryoke]

Just prefacing this by saying I am not a techy guy, I know just enough about computers to get by and be a little dangerous, but I do follow directions well.

When I made changes to my Vista laptop when I added Hoster to it, it went pretty smoothly. Recently I got a Windows 7 laptop and added Hoster to it, and this is where the flags went up. I am writing this to bring it to the attention of whoever, and also to be sure I did the right thing.

First flag was that I was not sure if the WIndows 7 changes were the same as the Vista changes...so I looked at the website, and not finding the answer submitted a ticket and asked on the forum. Dale provided a link to the Windows 7 changes. Later the ticket also said the changes needed to be made, but did not provide a link to the specific Windows7 changes, rather alluded to just do the Vista changes.

Next flag was while doing the changes, I was feeling whoever wrote them had not actually sat down with Windows 7. I was following it letter to letter, but I was not seeing the same things the author was. For example, the numerous times they said to "right click on the desktop where there are no icons" to open dialog for video display...this did not happen on my Toshiba, so each time I had a setting to set, I had to search the control panel and ultimately find the settings...was not crystal clear. Someone less savvy than me would have not been able to change the settings.

Change number 9, windows sidebar, completely baffled me...could not find it and found no reference to it, so did not change anything about it.

Same problem with the Aero theme. THe route prescribed to disable it did not translate to my computer. I am seeing that I have Aero themes available, but see no way to disable.

When it tells me to "right click on the desktop where there are no icons" and then hit classic view...or open control panel and click classic view, there is NO classic view choice in these areas. On my Vista machine yes, on my Windows 7 machine, no. I was able to change Visual Effects and a few other things by searching in the control panel for those words.

I may suggest that a specific Windows 7 change list be offered with navigation specific to that program to make the changes easier for us lo tech folks. I did start working off of the list Dale provided...and noticed that change 6 and change 8 seemed the same.

Here is the vista list I was looking at provided by MTU: http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm and here is the check list I got from Dale at the forum: http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/windows7-changes.htm

In conclusion, I think I got them all done, except for the Aero Theme disabling. It was a little frustrating, and I was having issues at the MTU site as well with pages timing out. May have been a Firefox issue...I went back in with IE and didnt seem to have the problems.