Vista - Vista Uptime Gadget - whacky!!!

I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...

Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.

The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.

Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)



Jim

Jim wrote:
> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)
>
>
>
> Jim

Vista can't even tell time? LOL!

Alias

Jim wrote:
> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)

Vista uptime calculation works just fine (Ctrl-Shift-Esc, "Up Time"
entry under System) but the gadget just doesn't. Said 298d 2h when
the actual time was 122h as shown correctly in the Task Manager. The
gadget's programmer really managed to code something so simple so
poorly, amazing... :-))

- Jan

vista tells me that its time to boot back into xp.....


"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
>> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
>> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>>
>> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
>> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>>
>> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
>> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>>
>> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim
>
> Vista can't even tell time? LOL!
>
> Alias

You are using a gadget written by "ViNighthawk" and you complain that Vista
is at fault?

Strange indeed!

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Jim" <jim@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)
>
>
>
> Jim

I really wish you would!

"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
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> vista tells me that its time to boot back into xp.....
>
>

"Jim" <jim@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)


This is a known issue with the gadget, not Vista.

It's a coding error that only looks at month, day, year instead of
your configuration which is likely set to day, month, year. The author
just didn't think about default settings outside North America when he
wrote it.

Wishing does not appear to work.. I have tried already :-)


"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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>I really wish you would!
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:e1i2GIjGHHA.4760@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> vista tells me that its time to boot back into xp.....
>>
>>
>

Jim

When I first installed that gadget, it was fine and for a few days could
count accurately.. alas no more, and it has gone.. two items I do liek are
the calendar and notes.. the address book needs work as it doesn't auto
update when a WAB entry is made.. one has to close it and re-open it.. maybe
a fix will arrive for that.. I have the feeds gadget running, but wish that
it could be sized.. four lines is not enough.. the clock would be better if
it had an alarm function..

More gadgets have been promised in the future..


"Jim" <jim@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)
>
>
>
> Jim

There's a fix for this posted on this group

"Jim" <jim@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with the installed Gadgets. I'm trying to
> coinvince myself that the SideBar is actually useful...
>
> Anyway, I have the Uptime gadget (installed by default). Yesterday
> morning I booted my PC, and it was left running overnight.
>
> The gadget now helpfully tells me that Windows has been up for 178
> days, 6 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> Impressive hey! And that's on Vista x64 RTM :-)
>
>
>
> Jim