File 'ownership'

I bought a Toshiba laptop recently with Vista Home Premium on it.

All my previous OS experience was with W2K or older.

I need to have fax capability, and Vista Home doesn't.
I installed several fax clients to try, but continue to have a
problem.

One says it can't create the TIFF file that will become the fax.
The other says it doesn't have permission to use the file.

I figure there are 3 potential solutions,
and I wonder which youse guys would choose.

A) Figure out how to set Vista to NOT F^&K with the permissions.

B) Switch to XP, where programs just work better?

C) Switch to Vista Ultimate with it's built-in fax capability?
IF C, could I just install over Home Premium?

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:23:44 -0000, "HF" <>
wrote:

>Switch to Ultimate but try these first :-
>
>http://www.nicocuppen.com/download.php (30day FULL & FREE trial)

Will try that, but not holding my breath.

>http://www.snappysoftware.com - Snappy Fax.( get an evaluation copy)

Tried that, no luck, AND no reply from support after 4 days.

Other was RKS (formerly MightyFax).
Have exchanged several emails with them, and may be onto something.

Just not familiar with the permissions thing, an MS is no help at all.

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news:...
>
> I bought a Toshiba laptop recently with Vista Home Premium on it.
>
> All my previous OS experience was with W2K or older.
>
> I need to have fax capability, and Vista Home doesn't.
> I installed several fax clients to try, but continue to have a
> problem.
>
> One says it can't create the TIFF file that will become the fax.
> The other says it doesn't have permission to use the file.
>
> I figure there are 3 potential solutions,
> and I wonder which youse guys would choose.
>
> A) Figure out how to set Vista to NOT F^&K with the permissions.
>
> B) Switch to XP, where programs just work better?
>
> C) Switch to Vista Ultimate with it's built-in fax capability?
> IF C, could I just install over Home Premium?
>

Take control of permissions:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...menu-in-vista/

Free Impact Color Fax Lite Software:
http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm

>>Free Impact Color Fax Lite Software:
>>http://www.blackice.com/impColorFaxLite.htm
>
> They want WAY too much info for demo/free program DL.
>

Whatever

I just put sensible lies into the form and used a throwaway hotmail address
to get the free demo...