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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008How 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 turn it off? Using 64bit Win Premium on an HP Pavilion laptop. Thanks!  Signaturebitemebutt >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: > >While reading in Vista's help center it highlights text, it's > annoying. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 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. Sorta stupid...I know. But I rarely if ever use the built-in help sections of windows. I prefer more advanced techy books and resources apart from the online help. Thus, I've never encountered this issue nor have I seen it occur in other windows versions. In reality it acts like it's being managed as though it were a web browser where visited links change hue but these can always be reset when you refresh, clean your cache, history, etc. Perhaps I should change the options in IE, thereby it may change the way Vista's Welcome Center handles link visits? Signaturebitemebutt > 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 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 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. >Adam Albright;838634 Wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >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: > >Adam Albright;838634 Wrote: > >> [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > links change color only after he visited them while the other would > experience changes only based on his viewing. Thanks for your reply. I did what I thought would work - considering that Vista's Welcome Center behaves like a browser - I went into each user's Internet history and deleted all files. Ta Da! all the links in the Welcome Center's help section reset. All things being what they are; you'd think some egghead @ Microsoft would have found a way to set a control within the help section so that someone (like me) wouldn't have to go into history files and delete them the way that I did. A retarded workaround but sufficient for my needs, until these little guys get that section read. Thanks again! Signaturebitemebutt |
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