trouble with hoster and laptop

[ddouglass]

DirectX 9.0 is required for both Vista and XP.

[hwheeler43]

Dale,

Do you think it could be a direct-x problem? It seems strange that both audio and video are affected. Sure glad both my Toshiba's are workin' good. Knock on wood...

[ddouglass]

Anything is possible especially with Vista, but I think we are dealing with more than one problem. It may be a permissions thing with Vista and all the locked down security. It is hard to troubleshoot something like this without being able to see for yourself exactly what is going on.

[George]

Dolly,

Probably draw another blank, but go to the folder where your KMA files are stored and right click on one of them.

What does it tell you the size of the KMA track is? Average should be around 3 to 4 Mg (approx) at 128 compression..

Also make for sure that in the ATTRIBUTES at the bottom of the page READ ONLY and HIDDEN are UNCHECKED.

[George]

Originally Posted by George

Dolly,

Probably draw another blank, but go to the folder where your KMA files are stored and right click on one of them.

What does it tell you the size of the KMA track is? Average should be around 3 to 4 Mg (approx) at 128 compression..

Also make for sure that in the ATTRIBUTES at the bottom of the page READ ONLY and HIDDEN are UNCHECKED.

Well?

[dhkluesner@clas]

Ok, kma files are mostly 3-4 mb with about 30% more than that. In the attributes section there is no read only or other, just kma info.

For assurance purposes, I went through mtu's disable features. The only one I couldn't figure out on vista was how to disable show windows content features. Everything else was right on target.

Windows is update and has been since the beginning. I run an update daily.

I want to thank all of you for your help. I know that me and my problem are very frustrating.

[George]

Originally Posted by dhkluesner@clas

Ok, kma files are mostly 3-4 mb with about 30% more than that. In the attributes section there is no read only or other, just kma info.

For assurance purposes, I went through mtu's disable features. The only one I couldn't figure out on vista was how to disable show windows content features. Everything else was right on target.

Windows is update and has been since the beginning. I run an update daily.

I want to thank all of you for your help. I know that me and my problem are very frustrating.

That answers two of the three questions.

1-You can access the folder where the KMA files are stored, so Vista has not made it a hidden folder and denied you and Hoster access.

2-The files are within normal range and probably aren't corrupted.

3-I don't use Vista and didn't realize they had changed the attributes info.

Regarding your updates, do you use EXPRESS or CUSTOM install? If you've been using EXPRESS, try doing a CUSTOM install, as Dale made reference to early on. There are some updates that companies software requires, that Microsoft doesn't deem important, that you will get with CUSTOM install if you take everything. I'm bringing it back up because it's important, and in all the hassle you could have easily missed it.