Stephan Miller

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My wife’s Inspiron 1525 has always been a bit possessed. It looks nice on the outside and does the job, but it is a bit clunky. We couldn’t beat the price though.

Tonight, it just wouldn’t turn. It would start up. The white timer bar would go across the bottom of the screen. But then only a white flashing cursor on the black screen would show. Okay.

After messing with Camstudio for hours, trying to get it to work on Vista, I decided to see if anyone else got it to work with Vista. The answer, no. Then I found Wink which creates a SWF file. Still looking for something that can create a larger variety of formats or something that can convert SWF to other formats. Super C might work for converting but keeps telling me that the file is not using the correct codec.

The search is still on.

Not sure what this is supposed to do, but when you click the little icon that starts when the computer does, you get to choose whether or not you want to use this software. Of course, if you choose not to, the OK button will not work. So much for free will with Windows Vista.

I actually found the answer to this problem pretty quickly.

The php installation software did not work for some reason on Windows Vista. The only thing I saw that the installation program did incorrectly was that it id not add index.php as a directory index.

Therefore simply changing this: DirectoryIndex index.html

To this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

fixed the problem.

I also copied php.ini to Windows folder for good measure. Why? Because someone said to do that in a forum. I figured it couldn’t hurt anything, not being an executable to begin with.

This really sucked. No one gives the complete information anywhere, so I thought I would explain step by step what I went through to install Apache 2.2 on Centrino Duo Laptop running Windows Vista Business. Just a testing server, to try sites before I upload them live. This task went pretty simply on Windows XP Home.

I started out by downloading Apache. I figured what the heck, run the installation program. After all, that’s what I wanted to do, install Apache and most installation applications work. Its the answer I was looking for, but not quite the answer I got.