I am going to make it a little more simple. Go to Guide icon and right
click to select properties, open and select compatibility, check
"Disable visual themes". Start guide and all should be normal with no
need to loose the entire OS settings.

Denis


Kevin Fetter wrote:
> --- Lawrence Harris <lawrence@...> wrote:
>
>
>> I want to check that I haven't missed any upgrade that is Vista compatible?
I
>> am currently using Vista Ultimate, but Guide has some problems with this, as
>> discussed several weeks back. No display on start-up and the icons are
>> separated, limiting the number available for display.
>>
>
> Try this
>
> Look for control panel, look for the windows symbol at the botton left ( also
called the start
> menu )
>
> After the start menu comes up, look for system, click on it.
>
> Then look for advance system settings, click on it.
>
> A display will show things like, computer name hardware and so on.
>
> Look for Advance, and click on it.
>
> You should see performance ( visual effects and such below it ) with settings
to the right.
>
> Click on settings, you should then see visual effects. There be Scroll bar,
use it to scroll down.
>
> Then look for 'use visual styles on windows and buttons'. Click on it, to turn
it off.
>
> Reload guide, and if everything goes to plan, guide should appear normal.
>
> I had told Bill about this, awhile back to let him know about this. I was
playing around with
> vista, and came across that way to fix the problem, so guide appear's like it
did under windows
> xp.
>
>
>> I have never managed to get Guide to see the MPCorb file, even though it is
in
>> the same directory. The option remains grayed out.
>>
>
> Weird, I have the MPCorb file in my guide 8 directory, and I can use MPCorb.
So I don't know
> what's causing your problem.
>
> Kevin
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