I’m at my neighbor’s house helping her fix her recently-busted Dell Dimension running Vista Business. My neighbor is a sweet woman, who is particularly computer savvy for her near-senior age. While I’m busy trying to figure out how Vista knows I’m connected to the Internet when it’s not actually receiving a single data packet from Comcast, my neighbor asked me if Vista came with solitaire. I quickly replied, sure, it’s in Programs > Accessories > Games… just like every previous version of Windows. In fact, it’s not.

Solitaire isn’t even installed by default on the new Microsoft OS. Here’s what I just had to do:

1. Start > Control Panel.
2. Windows Needs Your Permission. Do you want to allow that? Yes.
3. Turn On/Off Windows Features.
4. Windows Needs Your Permission. Do you want to allow that? Yes.
5. Turn on solitaire.
6. Windows Needs Your Permission. Do you want to allow that? Yes.
7. Please wait, this could take a few minutes. (It took four.)
8. Restart now.

Mark Needs Your Permission. Do you want to allow laughter? Yes.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 13th, 2007 at 10 am and is filed under dell, just plain sucks, microsoft, windows.