Getting use to vista

exalted512
exalted512 Posts: 10,735
edited December 2008 in The Clubhouse
Well, against my will, I was forced to install Vista on my comp since my XP cd was no where to be found, I'm trying to download McAfee. I have the file downloaded via the Internet. When I click on it to open it, it asks me what I want to open it with. I dont have a zip file extractor that I know of, so I tried to download 7zip. Got the same question, what do I want to open it with...any suggestions? (besides uninstalling Vista...I would if I could)
-Cody
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,454
    edited December 2008
    Get Trend, works great with Vista.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    McAfee is already paid for.
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    Will that make it automatically pick the right program to open it up with?

    It seems like it just doesn't have a program to open it with, thats why i tried to DL 7zip, which it doesn't have a program to open that either! I'm not terribly great with computers either.
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited December 2008
    If it still doesn't want to load go to the user access control panel and turn off all of vista security and it should load. I'd use AVG as it's very friendly with Vista and it's free. 100% effective.
    http://www.grisoft.com/us.product-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba2
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited December 2008
    IMO they got ahead of themselves with the 64 vs the 32, it will be better in the long run but everyone else has to play catch up.

    This is a prime example....
    P
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    I'm not sure I'm making myself clear. This thing will load as soon as I tell it what program to open it up with...will disabling the UAC automatically pick a program or am I missing something?
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited December 2008
    You have to browse to wherever you installed 7-zip. Used to be, winzip was free for at least unpackaging. But again, you have to browse to the Program Files directory the app installed itself into and tell Windows- hey, dummy- use that one!
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited December 2008
    I have both XP and Vista machines. Vista finds ways to annoy the crap out of me on an almost daily basis. Sorry for your loss (of xp).

    Good Luck,

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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    John30_30 wrote: »
    You have to browse to wherever you installed 7-zip. Used to be, winzip was free for at least unpackaging. But again, you have to browse to the Program Files directory the app installed itself into and tell Windows- hey, dummy- use that one!

    I cant load 7zip because I dont have a program to extract it! lol...i hate vista:(
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited December 2008
    Did you download the installer zipped? If so, d/l it in .msi format and it should self extract and install
    "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    Disc Jockey wrote: »
    Did you download the installer zipped? If so, d/l it in .msi format and it should self extract and install

    Downloaded exe the first time, msi the second time, same thing.

    Heres what I'm talking about:
    http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/Exalted512/fuckvista.jpg

    Maybe its the way im downloading it? I dunno...

    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited December 2008
    sounds more like you have a file association problem. Do you have this problem with other install files? If so, try this or http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html GL
    "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    Disc Jockey wrote: »
    sounds more like you have a file association problem. Do you have this problem with other install files? If so, try this or http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html GL

    not sure what to do with that link? I saved the exe one, tried to open up the 7zipexe file, nothing...so i tried downloading it again and opening and nothing?
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited December 2008
    forgot you cant unzip, try the first link
    "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    which link?
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    Ok, the problem is Service Pack 1. I didn't even think about it, but I downloaded it today and now I can't look at PDF websites that I was looking at this morning (pre-SP1, aka, the 'No Problems Period')

    Way to be counterproductive Microsoft.

    Can I delete it?
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited December 2008
    exalted512 wrote: »
    Ok, the problem is Service Pack 1. I didn't even think about it, but I downloaded it today and now I can't look at PDF websites that I was looking at this morning (pre-SP1, aka, the 'No Problems Period')

    Way to be counterproductive Microsoft.

    Can I delete it?
    -Cody

    Should be able to roll it back in whatever Vista's version of Add/Remove Programs is now.
    I guess I need to gwtp and learn up on it, although I really don't want to.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,848
    edited December 2008
    the above is a small bit of why we paid a little extra to uninstall vista and install xp on all work laptops....has the xp tag next to key board and the vista cert on the bottom :)
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    Hopefully uninstalling it fixes it. If anyone else needs help deleting it, or any other update, click here:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948537
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    Can't say I ever encountered that problem on a fresh load of Vista. Decompression of zip files is native to the OS. You have some other odd issue going on there.

    What do you mean you can't look at PDF websites? :confused: What does that mean?
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    Can't say I ever encountered that problem on a fresh load of Vista. Decompression of zip files is native to the OS. You have some other odd issue going on there.

    What do you mean you can't look at PDF websites? :confused: What does that mean?
    Uninstalled it...same problems.

    What i mean by i cant look at PDF websites, that if I click on http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/pfd_all.pdf (just the first site i could find), instead of opening it, when i click it, it opens a 'Save As' box. The PDF file I looked at yesterday morning on the internet wouldnt open a few hours later...when the only thing that I had done different was download sp1.

    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    Definitely sounds like a file association issue. Of course we cant ignore possible malware infection either. I'm not saying that SP1 wasn't the cause, but I haven't had any issues with Vista unless it was with an app that wasn't x64 capable.

    Have you tried reinstalling the Adobe Reader? (for the pdf issue). Of course you could alwys try to manuall fix the association, but reinstalling should be just as easy.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    For the zip file, what options are shown if you Right Click the zip file? Is decompress or extract an option?
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    I cant download ANYTHING because I dont have any programs to open up the download with.

    What I think the problem is is that its not saving correctly. When I right click on the adobe thing I just downloaded, or 7zip, or mcafee...it says the file type is 'file' (none of the options you listed appear)

    Its not downloading as 7zip.exe, its downloading as 7zipexe
    -Cody
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited December 2008
    Rename the file to 7zip.exe
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited December 2008
    For the PDF issue, reinstall Acrobat reader. Sounds like the IE plugin got zapped with the SP install.
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited December 2008
    Cody, that first link was imbedded in the "here". Here it is: http://blog.jtbworld.com/2007/03/have-you-lost-your-exe-file-extension.html. Read through that, you might want to give it a try. I've never had this problem on my one vista machine here.

    DJ
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    phuz wrote: »
    Rename the file to 7zip.exe

    that seems to be working...why is it downloading wrong?
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    That's odd right there-perhaps its not an association issue after all, but how the browser is opening the files and losing the "dot" in the filename thus leaving it extension-less.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited December 2008
    phuz wrote: »
    For the PDF issue, reinstall Acrobat reader. Sounds like the IE plugin got zapped with the SP install.

    I'll try that now that I can download stuff!...lol.

    Talking to vistas help line is like talking to a brick wall.
    -Cody
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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