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I have a couple more questions on this theme…
(Incidentally I am not the student–but I am doing this for the student.)
When purchasing the Student Windows 7 Professional OS from the MS website do you have to download it? I take it from Ted Myers reply above that I don’t even need the Professional disc–Just enter the Professional activation code to the Home Premium already installed and it will automatically upgrade Premium to Professional. Am I understanding that correctly?

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Would it be legal to copy a friends Professional discs instead of downloading them, buy the student activation code from MS, install Professional, and activate it? I have had some discussion about this, with some saying it is illegal to copy the discs but wouldn’t I be ending up with the same thing as if I had downloaded them? If you can download the files for free why would it be illegal to obtain the same files from a disc? Just wondering.

Taking DJG’s advice I went back to Thunderbird and did a more thorough investigation. Some may wonder if I am an idiot :rolleyes:, but in my defense there are some strange behaviors in 5.0. For example, if i click on “From’ the list is alphabetized, but not really. Brian comes after the W’s. Anyhow, I found the missing posts from Windows Secrets.

My big mistake was looking for ‘Windows Secrets’ under ‘From’ when I should have been looking for ‘Brian’. What can I say?

Chuck,

I was going to edit my previous reply with the info you gave but you beat me to it. This does work, even from the C: prompt.

Give it a volume label, such as JohnUSB.

Apparently Windows 7 cannot format a floppy disk (unless it is a USB floppy drive). Copying files to a floppy works, but they are ALL hidden and inaccessable (again, a USB floppy drive works fine).
It looks like Windows 7 is the culprit here.

Of course Windows 7 can format a floppy. Computer | Right-click Floppy Disk Drive| Click Format.

If what you want is for the Start button to be within the task bar, Right click on the taskbar and click on properties. Uncheck the box in front of Use small icons. The Start button will then be within the taskbar.

How about turning some services off?

Black Viper

You might try IdealDVDCopy. However, it is only free for ten copies. It specifies Windows 7, but I don’t know for sure if it works with 64 bit.

IdealDVDCopy

I don’t know why you say Ashampoo failed miserably. I have used it in Windows 7 with no problems whatsoever.

You can hide RocketDock under your existing taskbar. Mouse down to the taskbar and it will pop up. Populate it with whatever you wish.

Just for the record, today I got around to trying Wizmo logoff and Wizmo shutdown. Both worked just fine. (Home Premium.)

Wizmo definitely does work in Windows 7. At least for Standby.

Ed,

I’m not entirely clear on what you want but try this:

If you change the target of the Taskbar’s Explorer Icon properties to:
%windir%explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

It will open on “computer” instead of the libraries.

Save the original if you wish to put it back the way it was.