How to turn off the highlight text feature in Vista's Help Center

While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it's annoying
Is this a function of "Ease of Access" or something else? How do I tur
it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks

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bitemebut
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:29 +0100, bitemebutt
<> wrote:

>
>While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it's annoying.
>Is this a function of "Ease of Access" or something else? How do I turn
>it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks!


You mean the green text that sprinkled throughout? Those are linked to
pop up windows to give more information if you click on them. Nope,
you can't turn them off.

Actually I've praised Microsoft several times in that their help
system in Vista is vastly improved over XP. THAT is about the biggest
single improvement in Vista with many mini-videos and images now
embedded throughout the help system with plenty of cross references.
Shame, I'll wager 99% of Vista users hardly if ever bother to read
what's there.

Adam Albright;838634 Wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:29 +0100, bitemebut
> <> wrote
>
>
> >While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it'
> annoying
> >Is this a function of "Ease of Access" or something else? How do
> tur
> >it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks
>
>
> You mean the green text that sprinkled throughout? Those are linked t
> pop up windows to give more information if you click on them. Nope
> you can't turn them off
>
> Actually I've praised Microsoft several times in that their hel
> system in Vista is vastly improved over XP. THAT is about the bigges
> single improvement in Vista with many mini-videos and images no
> embedded throughout the help system with plenty of cross references
> Shame, I'll wager 99% of Vista users hardly if ever bother to rea
> what's there
Thanks but no, after I re-read my post it's not as clear as I meant i
to be. I agree the help in Vista is tremendous. However, what I mean
was...

When going through the help center aka Welcome Center and you click o
one of the help links (text that acts like a hyperlink) it get
highlighted as though it were a hyperlink and you're then directed t
the answer.

My problem is when you go back to the original screen showing the lin
you just clicked it remains highlighted as though you've "been ther
done that". That's OK except the link does not reset even when I reboo
or change users.

This is proving to be a problem because my two sons (7 and 10) ar
getting confused after each uses the help section. I've told them t
read through whatever interests them but when one does so it confuse
the next boy into believing he already visited that link (because th
link still appears as though it's been visited) and he then ignore
reading that section

Sorta stupid...I know. But I rarely if ever use the built-in hel
sections of windows. I prefer more advanced techy books and resource
apart from the online help. Thus, I've never encountered this issue no
have I seen it occur in other windows versions.

In reality it acts like it's being managed as though it were a we
browser where visited links change hue but these can always be rese
when you refresh, clean your cache, history, etc

Perhaps I should change the options in IE, thereby it may change th
way Vista's Welcome Center handles link visits

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bitemebutt wrote:
>
> When going through the help center aka Welcome Center and you click on
> one of the help links (text that acts like a hyperlink) it gets
> highlighted as though it were a hyperlink and you're then directed to
> the answer.
>
> My problem is when you go back to the original screen showing the link
> you just clicked it remains highlighted as though you've "been there
> done that". That's OK except the link does not reset even when I reboot
> or change users.
>
> This is proving to be a problem because my two sons (7 and 10) are
> getting confused after each uses the help section. I've told them to
> read through whatever interests them but when one does so it confuses
> the next boy into believing he already visited that link (because the
> link still appears as though it's been visited) and he then ignores
> reading that section.

Just a thought.....if you and your sons don't have separate logon
accounts then that kind of data will be saved under one account. If no
solution presents itself for resetting the "viewed" parameters under the
single account, a workaround, maybe, would be to set individual logon
accounts.

On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:23:30 +0100, bitemebutt
<> wrote:

>
>Adam Albright;838634 Wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:29 +0100, bitemebutt
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it's
>> annoying.
>> >Is this a function of "Ease of Access" or something else? How do I
>> turn
>> >it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> You mean the green text that sprinkled throughout? Those are linked to
>> pop up windows to give more information if you click on them. Nope,
>> you can't turn them off.
>>
>> Actually I've praised Microsoft several times in that their help
>> system in Vista is vastly improved over XP. THAT is about the biggest
>> single improvement in Vista with many mini-videos and images now
>> embedded throughout the help system with plenty of cross references.
>> Shame, I'll wager 99% of Vista users hardly if ever bother to read
>> what's there.
>Thanks but no, after I re-read my post it's not as clear as I meant it
>to be. I agree the help in Vista is tremendous. However, what I meant
>was....
>
>When going through the help center aka Welcome Center and you click on
>one of the help links (text that acts like a hyperlink) it gets
>highlighted as though it were a hyperlink and you're then directed to
>the answer.
>
>My problem is when you go back to the original screen showing the link
>you just clicked it remains highlighted as though you've "been there
>done that". That's OK except the link does not reset even when I reboot
>or change users.
>
>This is proving to be a problem because my two sons (7 and 10) are
>getting confused after each uses the help section. I've told them to
>read through whatever interests them but when one does so it confuses
>the next boy into believing he already visited that link (because the
>link still appears as though it's been visited) and he then ignores
>reading that section.

Oh that... I think we're on the same page now. If so, the topics
actually take you to some external web page so they behave like any
link with it changing color to indicate it has been visited already. I
agree it can get confusing if multiple people use the same machine
since the color is changing based on the IP address the web server is
using to "serve up" whatever page you linked on. So if Tommy goes to
site X but Billy hasn't yet, the color of the link will have changed
to whatever is used for visited since both boys are using the same
computer that has the same IP address so no way for the web server to
know if the original visitor is coming back or somebody that never
visited before.

One Rube Goldberg trick that should work is have each son use a
different browser. While the IP address will remain the same the User
Agent is different so the son using lets say Netscape would see his
links change color only after he visited them while the other would
experience changes only based on his viewing.

Adam Albright;838920 Wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:23:30 +0100, bitemebut
> <> wrote
>
>
> >Adam Albright;838634 Wrote
> >> On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:29 +0100, bitemebut
> >> <> wrote
> >
> >>
> >> >While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it'
> >> annoying
> >> >Is this a function of "Ease of Access" or something else? How do
> >> tur
> >> >it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks
> >
> >
> >> You mean the green text that sprinkled throughout? Those are linke
> t
> >> pop up windows to give more information if you click on them. Nope
> >> you can't turn them off
> >
> >> Actually I've praised Microsoft several times in that their hel
> >> system in Vista is vastly improved over XP. THAT is about th
> bigges
> >> single improvement in Vista with many mini-videos and images no
> >> embedded throughout the help system with plenty of cross references
> >> Shame, I'll wager 99% of Vista users hardly if ever bother to rea
> >> what's there
> >Thanks but no, after I re-read my post it's not as clear as I meant i
> >to be. I agree the help in Vista is tremendous. However, what I mean
> >was...
>
> >When going through the help center aka Welcome Center and you click o
> >one of the help links (text that acts like a hyperlink) it get
> >highlighted as though it were a hyperlink and you're then directed t
> >the answer
>
> >My problem is when you go back to the original screen showing the lin
> >you just clicked it remains highlighted as though you've "been ther
> >done that". That's OK except the link does not reset even when
> reboo
> >or change users
>
> >This is proving to be a problem because my two sons (7 and 10) ar
> >getting confused after each uses the help section. I've told them t
> >read through whatever interests them but when one does so it confuse
> >the next boy into believing he already visited that link (because th
> >link still appears as though it's been visited) and he then ignore
> >reading that section
>
> Oh that... I think we're on the same page now. If so, the topic
> actually take you to some external web page so they behave like an
> link with it changing color to indicate it has been visited already.
> agree it can get confusing if multiple people use the same machin
> since the color is changing based on the IP address the web server i
> using to "serve up" whatever page you linked on. So if Tommy goes t
> site X but Billy hasn't yet, the color of the link will have change
> to whatever is used for visited since both boys are using the sam
> computer that has the same IP address so no way for the web server t
> know if the original visitor is coming back or somebody that neve
> visited before
>
> One Rube Goldberg trick that should work is have each son use
> different browser. While the IP address will remain the same the Use
> Agent is different so the son using lets say Netscape would see hi
> links change color only after he visited them while the other woul
> experience changes only based on his viewing
Thanks for your reply. I did what I thought would work - considerin
that Vista's Welcome Center behaves like a browser - I went into eac
user's Internet history and deleted all files.

Ta Da! all the links in the Welcome Center's help section reset. Al
things being what they are; you'd think some egghead @ Microsoft woul
have found a way to set a control within the help section so tha
someone (like me) wouldn't have to go into history files and delete the
the way that I did.

A retarded workaround but sufficient for my needs, until these littl
guys get that section read

Thanks again

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