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I'm using Vista Ultimate and every time I try to go into Media Center it tells me I need to use a nonguest account. The only active account is me as administrator as far as I can see. Any suggestions? ...

Dear All: Did anyone get Worms World Party working in Vista? If so, how? I just get a black screen. Thanks for your time.Mel ...

I am just changed over my setup so all my yahoo emails go straight to my new Windows mail inbox. I went through the process of saving my yahoo preferences to allow this and then set up my account using my existing yahoo details on Wind ...

Good Day,I am intrest in which newsgroups you have available/ Please advise.Victoria Carpenter Smarter Building Inc. ...

My performance rating gave me a score once during install... and then after that quit working. All I have now is the original rating, no way to update it and just the page where it says not sure where to ...

Hello, i'm experiencing a situation with my icons on my desktop. The icons are their but it has these black squares covering them. Why are they like that and how can i make the ...

I keep getting a message that states I am either out of memory or don't have permission when I try to run the Adobe Reader. I have a Macbook Pro and Microsoft Vista and I am using the Parallels program to run Vista. Any suggestions, I have plenty of memory so I don't ...

Hi all, wonder if anyone can offer me some suggestions. For the past 2 weeks, every time I've had to reboot Vista, it would hang just before the log in screen. My Dell pc diagnostic lights one front of box were showing 1 and 2 for longer than normal during bios ...

I also just got a new laptop with Vista. The HP1210 allinone driver is already installed and when I plugged it in the printer is automatically installed. I al ...

Hi. This is my first post. Please be gentle! <g>I have a new toshiba laptop (A135S4487) which I LOVE!It came with Vista Home Premium. Also Windows Live OneCare purchased and installed. I have a little wireless network with a desktop running Windows xp Media Center hardwired. My old lapt ...

I can't install my printer, I get the error message that I have to be the admin inorder to install. I am the admin, I am the only user of this computer. I purchased a new printer thinking that it was my old printer, same error message. Can anyone give me any ...

I have a shortcut icon on my desktop that I cannot delete.What happened is that I installed the game Battlefield 2 recently. Then, I realized that I installed an incorrect patch so ...

Hello, When I was trying vista rc1 5600 build I didn't have many issues with Vista.When Vista Launch I had to wait till march 1st to buy it and install it.Today the 18th day and the vista Ultimate v6.6000 install star ...

Is anyone else a little curious as to why events and holidays added to Windows Calendar are not expressed in any way on the gadgets Calendar? It's either i'm doing something wrong or the desktop Calendar is pointless. Please help. Thank y ...

I can not find Arabic language pack for windows ultimate any one can help ? Yhanks ...

Well, it seems like a patch was downloaded automatically on Wednesday night that has hosed my system. I come in the next morning to find a system that is constantly reboot itself shortly after trying to boot into the OS. Running t ...

Running VHP on duel screen.Mail and explore and such on left monitor, and more hard load programs plus fullscreen software on right screen.Most programs etc. when you right click they pop a dialog at a ramdom ...

Using Vista is mail now always 'Windows Mail' and no longer 'Outlook'? Windows Mail Inbox automatically opens mail when I click on it. Previous Outlook would only open when 'double' c ...

Hi all. In the past I could just set options to see file extentions but I can't seem to find where to do this in Vista.. Can someone point me to where this is done? I ...

Only took them 109 days. That's some efficiency! Michael Cecil home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/ home.roadrunner.com/~safehex/ home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/hackingvista/ ...

I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a CDRom rather than a DVD writer. I have tried deleting the device and rebooting but it comes back as a CDrom. It worked correctly under Media Center ...

Does anyone have monitor profiles working under vista?I have two video cards and three monitors. Vista's "new and improved" color management p ...

Hi, I just did a clean install of Vista Home Premium. The network icon in the system tray has a red X through it. However, the network works. I can connect to all the computers on my LAN. However, I can't connect to the Internet so I ...

Hello togetherWe are using with XP the Safenet IPsec Client to establish a connection to our company network. Is it possible to do a IPSec connection without third party tools on Vist ...

I had an issue where I got a stop error; the blue screen said something about a Policy violation, something along those lines I didn’t write it down. I got the same error 3 or 4 times in a row before I got the machine to boot normally under debug mode I think. Anyhow I didn't mak ...

I have been able to work remote assistance up until about 2 weeks ago. Both intra and internet. I can still do intranet, but for some reason I cannot respond to requests sent via internet. Any suggestions ...

I am unable to open jpeg and sometimes gif filrs in my hotmail messages. if I right click on it, it does not give me the option to open it with a certain file. Has anyone else experienced this probelm and what have you done to resolve th ...

When I delete messages in my IMAP account they are immediately, permanently deleted. Not marked for purging, not moved to the Deleted Items folder. It doesn't matter if I have the advanced option to move deleted items to the Deleted Items folder or not. Me ...

I have my email set to empty the Delete Folder when email is closed but the folder does not empty. When I try to delete by clicking on it and selecting 'Empty Delete Folder' I get a message asking if I want to delete the message, I ...

After a day of failing to get my LaserJet 2500 migrated from my old XP system to my new VIsta machine I gave up and called HP Support. In spite of what they say on ...

Before repartitioning my hard drive, I used Vista's Home Premium's full PC backup option to save all my files to another drive. It created a directory named after my machine, which contains a "Backup Set ...

I am buying a pc with Windows Vista Home Premium installed.I have an old printer (Canon BJ200) that prints in black.I have no driver for this printer.Can anyone suggest a drive ...

I recently got a laptop and it has vista on it. I've tried several times to use MSN Live and basically it keeps telling me I'm behind a firewall. I've uninstalled my antivirus and firewall ...

I can't seem to position the desktop icons exactly where I want then to be, seem to be snapping to a grid, but I can't find any way to change the settings.Also the desktop icons are rather large, any way to make them samller? ...

itunes playes my music fine. so its clear nothing wrong with my sound device. when i play mp3 in wmp11 it only starts some irritating machine gun firing sound. i have no clue what could be wrong. i ...

Dual Booting XP Pro (SP2)/Vista Ultimate with VistaBoot Pro. Know about the problems relating to XP destroying restore points in Vista, but has anyone experienced problems the other way around (i.e. Vista (or Vista BootPro) messing with the XP MBR (or similar))?Cl ...

I have a laptop and I wantted to know if it's possible to have bluetooth installed. Is there a chip for it? If there is give me a link to where it is. ...

Two files have disappeared from the Windows Mail. I imported accounts from OUtlook express. Now the junk email file is gone, and also the deleted file is gone. All that is left is Inbox, outbox, and Sent. I checked in customize and there is no option to add junk email or deleted to the too ...

HelloJust recently, something with the DVD/RW drive on my Toshiba Satellite A100 laptop has suddenly stopped working. The drive itself is fine it still loads and acknowledges the discs but doe ...

i have 4 gigs of pc 3200 installed works fine on my XP hard drive but crashes BSD when i boot my Vista drive works fine with 3 gigs ive switched them around every which way again 3 works ...

I have a Apacer Handy Steno HT203 Flash drive. When I try to write, delete or format the drive I get the error 'Disk drive is write protected'. The drive itself doesn't have a switch to turn on/off write protection.Is it possible to set the write protection ...

A month ago, I purchased a copy of Vista Ultimate OEM version and did a dual installation with XP. The install ran without problem, however, after the initial install the reliabilty monitor never worked.Yesterday I attempted a reinstall of Vista with the intent on eliminating the dual boot as ...

Saludos:Mi pregunta es, ¿Es cierto que hay un máximo de veces para reinstalar Windows Vista? Me explico. Se me daña la computadora por alguna razón y tengo que ...

Does anyone know if there is a vista driver for the lexmark p6350 printer ?Regards ...

When I burn Dvrms files they come out about 1/4 the size of the tv screen (if I play them on my computer or stand alone dvd player). Does anyone know what causes this or can fix it? ...

After using the Belkin cable to import my info from my old Dell (XP) to the new Dell I1505 (Vista Home Ed.), I was able to go into the Windows Media ...

First, i´m spanish and my english is not very well, sorry.I have Windows Home Basic from 3 days ago.I have a folder whith a lot of photos, and the icons are standard icons for files (the same icon for every file, an jpg icon standar, I supose).I want to get a preview image of th ...

when running automatic updates for Windows Defender (WD) it comes up with the code 0x80240029. I read a few solutions and tried some of them even unistalled my anti virus rund WD updates but nothing works. I'd appreciate if anyone has a solution. I have a laptop with MS v ...

I have imported address book from OE6 to new Windows Mail contact, but ...

Packard Bell 2380 with Vista Premium 10 dfays old.The following will not work...... PBUpdator.exe iupdator.exe SMP Sys.exe plus a couple of others I now get the message that "name" has stopped working ...Windows will inform when there ...

Hello, Is there a way to manually force the printer que to clear? I tried clicking on the printer icon in the system tray and selecting the job, then clicking cancel. After doing this 4 times in 10 minutes I finally rebooted the PC. This worked, but I would rather not have to do that ...

Using Windows Vista basic.........I have several large .mpg files on one hard drive, this is where I record video to. But I can't delete any of these files to make room for others. Windows Explorer hangs and will not process the "calculating time remaining' for sending to the r ...

POR QUE ME PASA ESTO CADA VES QUE QUIERO HABRIR UN FOLDER QUE TENGA VIDEOS Y ME CIERRA EL FOLDER AUTOMATICAMENTE?? ALGUIEN SABE LA SOLUCION. POR QUE SE ...

Hi,in general people try to avoid getting confronted with a "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) usually me too but today I am searching for just the opposite:I am searching for software that causes a BSOD with a v ...

my entire look has blue color ...where as it used to be yellow or orange if mouse over programs or all programs buttonplease how to restore my entire look to vista default, the ie too.....if ...

Hi,In Windows XP, I was able to have similar application to be grouped in the taskbar as soon as I had 2 or more of the same app running, but in Vista they group only when there is no more space in the taskba ...

Hello,The vista version of media player seems to play some of my .avi files, but not others. I get a message saying 'looking for codecs' but nothing happens. Help please.KK ...

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Having followed the uninstall links provided in this discussion group and installed the newest adobe flash 9 version, I was only able to get flash sites to work by turning of user active controls (UAC). Therefore my new laptop does not utilize the protection that Vista proposes to offe ...

As we all know, if you dualboot XP and Vista, XP's volsnap.sys will delete Vista's restore points and shadow copies. We know the two fixes hide Vista's partiti ...

I am trying to run some software that is PC and Mac 10.4 compatible. It is software provided my a yearbook compilation company to do the layout and design of our school yearbook and I can not get it to run. I have reinstalled it several times to no avail. Any ideas? The software is ...

I have a batch file (ftp) which works just fine when I manually run it. When I set it up in Task Scheduler, status says it runs, but the cmd window pops open a second, nothing there, and closes. I have it set to run when user is logged on, and run with highest p ...

Can anyone help me with getting them back into the taskbar? I have right cliced on the taskbar and went through all the options to no avail. ...

Hello,I have the following problem, and is't nasty:In Explorer I cannot select more than one file or folder at a time, not using the mouse drag options, nor using the control or shift keys. In other programs, like Total Commander and Adobe Bridge etc, it does work how it's sup ...

I am using Vista Premium, and evertything was working fine. I now have a problem with all my desktop icons. On each icon, you can only see 3/4's of the icon, and in ...

I bought an ACER 560 including Vista Home Basic edition. Now Im wondering why I have a 32 Bit Sistem and not a 64 Bit. What can I do that I have 64 Bit and is this important for runnig some applications?Sadly here in the Philippines where I live no one is able to give ...

When I try to install a program, I get the error message "The directory name is invalid". I remember seeing a post saying that this error has to do with UAC but I cannot find the post again.Does anyone have a solution to this problem other than to disable UAC? ...

I have new Dell w/vista home premium. I transferred old files and loaded Juno 5. I can get email to send receive; but it will not connect to Internet. I get an error that says 'triedit.dll is not supported. ...

Got an HP machine with OEM version of Vista Ultimate 6.0.6000 Build 6000 with 2GB of RAM. The 320G hard drive was formatted into 12 NTFS logical drives.Have been trying to backup fi ...

On March 1, 2007, I purchased an Acer Aspire E380 running Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit). I set it up, ran the Windows Updates, and promptly lost the DVDRW. I also had an issue with the sound card, it put no sound out through any place that you pluged the speakers ...

Can anyone tell me how to flash your BIOS with VISTA? Thanks, Doug ...

I have a Netdisk external hard drive with around 55 gigs of free space. In vista, I tried to copy over a 4 gig file to the external hard drive. It then gives me an error saying that the file is too large for the destination file system. I have over 55 gigs and when I tried to copy 4 gig worth of ...

Hi, this might seem like a daft question but, i am new to vista and it was already on my new comp but i cant find my product key to get registered and have only 29 days left, please help me find it, thanks ...

I have a Home network with a "wired" XP Desktop, linked to a Vista Laptop via a wireless connection, all updates are current. I am attempting to share files from the XP to the ...

I've been trying for a couple days to be able to share my internet and printer through my new Vista desktop and I can't get it to work. I have my Vista desktop attached to my cable modem and then through another ethernet card, it goes to a router where ...

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I need to work with vrml (executed by means of the Cortona in the Internet to explorer) and Java together, this resource this available one in the vrml, pra to be able to distribute applications vrml by means of the RMI. Already I carried t ...

OK, here's my situation. I've got a new PC with Vista Home Premium on it. I'm trying to install Acrobat reader on it but it won't let me because the Windows Temp folder is flagged as read only. I turn the flag off, right ...

Good Evening: I recently upgraded from XP to Windows Vista Home Premium. I am very happy with Vista but I am having issues loading Microsoft Intellitype Pro 2.1. When I try to download from the disk I receive an unknown error message. I have tried for a month using every possible method. ...

I had tried sharing folders without internet connection, with just wifi connections. I am using vista right now. Can i use Wifi to create a LAN point for LAN games? eg. to play LAN warcraft 3 with just using ...

im trying to get into a game i love playing. but it is not letting me.. it keeps saying waiting for ping....... its online so ppl host servers and i just cant get in plz someone help???!!!???!!! ...

On my old XP system, when I played the stock games that came with the OS I could go automatically online to play someone, that option was right there in the menu bar. I used to enjoy playing a little game of Spades or Hearts with someone.Now I don't know how to do it. Is this a c ...

I have windows vista premium and in the games folder there is no games, u know like minesweeper and chess, i used to have them there but they have dissapeared. i have tried searching the game names in the ...

I cannot save the the Pictures sent to me. I get the right commands, but I cannot see them in the File where I saved them in. A picture sent to myself I cannot open either. It refers to Configaration/ Coupling, which I can ...

I just upgraded to Vista. Is there a way to view my contacts under Inbox, Outbox, like in Outlook Express? When I create mail and start to type the email address it used to fill in for me. Now nothing happens when I start to type in t ...

I send my emails out, they do not move from the out box to the sent box i don't know if they are actually going out, some tell me yes some tell me no...Help..issue ...

It seems no matter what I do I keep getting this error. Any suggestions? I have tried turning off my email scanning virus protection and also tried resetting my account. Stepbystep instructions would ...

OK, so i am stupid, but I did not back up my outlook express files before upgrading to vista home premium. I kinda expected them to be automatically migrated. Now I find that some important emails in my inbox and sent box are required and do not seem to be o ...

I installed a new ATI video card and wanted to update my WEI score. It runs then at the end a box comes up and says it can't finish due to a program or device. Any fixes yet to this?? Thanks, Bill ...

I have a new PC with Vista Ultimate. I recently had some error messages when I switched on my PC (Display Driver R300 stopped responding, and has recovered) firstly, is this a serious problem? Secondly, I tried to do a System Restore to the po ...

Please excuse my ignorance, This is my first pc, It is a HP M7780n media center with Microsoft vista home premium software, there is a fax modem program is the files, but I see nothing in the home premium about fax operation, My printer is a Canon Mp600 all in one with ...

I have been waiting for the new drivers and they became available today. I have a Dell AIO 922 printer. Installing the new drivers was not a problem but at the end of the download I was unable to print a test sheet as my AIO print centre stated there was a communication problem. ...

Hi I'm having many issues with the new Sync Center (Windows Mobile Device Center) software being used with Windows Vista. I'm thinking that it has to do with software compatibility issues when syncing between the following:1. My Home PC Windows Vista w/ Sync Center & MS Outlook 2007 2. My ...

Hi, Is it possible to execute an older Dosprogram on Vista and if yes how?Regards Huib ...

I am no good with computers and need help with sending the same email to many people without sending everybodys email address and name on that one mail?? I rea ...

setup email as requested verified smtp outgoing address, redid it three times still says error in outgoing address. works fine on other computer. this is vista. see many notes re: same problems. any solutio ...

I can create and send new emails but I can not reply to an email that was sent to me. I have Vista Home Premium Edition and I have Earthlink as my internet provider. I receive an error message and the message s ...

I'm logged on as the system administrator and I can't start/stop services on my system.This is also causing complications when I install an application that must update registries and start services.Hoe can I get around this? ...

How do you change the login screen from icon based to an actual login prompt so I can log in as the Administrator account? CtrlAltDel is not enabled. How do you enable it?Thanks ...

Having upgraded my XP 64 PC to Vista Business I notice I can get to sites like www.bt.com instantly but not to www.microsoft.com. Configuring my outlook client my test message fails with an error that it cannot locate the mail server mail.btinternet.com. However I can send emails out from o ...

My 3week old Vista Home Premium system increases its total disk space by about 1 GB/day. Apparently this is caused by the automatic generation of system restore points, because when I do a Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point m ...

Hi, Any way I can play .mov files with WMP on Windows Vista? I tried to install quicktime and iTunes, but they're not compatible with vista.My best regards ...

Since upgrading to Vista I have a scanner that does not work, a print server that does not workand a TV card that does not work. All these are supposedly compatible with Vista. Oh, nearly forgot my DVD drive can't be set to use DMA any more. ...

Hi ... this is my first post here.We have a large number of PCs working well with 256K RAM and Windows XP Pro SP2.If we upgrade to Vista, realistically, what kind of performance can we expect?Thank you ...... adembinsk ...

When I open a photo and then click on "email" in my Photo Gallery or Pictures folder, I get the dialog box asking me to choose a picture size. When I choose and then click okay, I see another dialog box flashing by, too fast to read it, and no email message ever opens up. ...

Bought Vista Ultimate Retail at top wack UK ripoff price (350 UK pounds). Installed and activated fine. But with all the driver & software improvements, I decided last week to wipe and fresh/cl ...

There will also be an alternative news group for a varitey of topics at 71.216.240.133 if you all want another place to post. Check it out. I can also put yup custom NG's for people topics. Ideas for new NG's are w ...

i love playing this game well of souls. but it will not let me play multiplayer it keeps saying waiting for ping..... but i no it might be a firewall problem but i dnt no how to fix it cou ...

Hi i am trying to export my windows mail messages and settings to outlook 2003 but it just doesn happen. i tried importing from the store folder of windiws 2003 with no luck. even when i try to export from windows m ...

i have tried to send mail to friends, i have aol as my email and it is and Imap incoming server and the server name is imap.aol.com my omputer says that imap.aol.com doesn't have special folders that are needed to send mail, but i can't seem to download t ...

I have only 6 emails in my INBOX and it prompts me to compact the messages. I don't want to compact them. I would like to turn off the prompt and would like assistance as how to do it. Is there anyone there that knows and would like to assist me in this? ...

My auto add is adding the addresses of everyone to whom an email is addressed instead of just the sender. Anyway to change to just adding the sender?Than ...

It seems that recently, my home default page keeps changing whenever I log onto my computer. I origionaly had the default page set to MSN. Now it just keeps going to the dell start page. I suppose i ...

I have 3 PCs in my home each running XP Pro SP2, connected through a wireless AP and a router and belonging to the same workgroup. Now I have added a brand new fourth PC with Windows ...

I have tried 3 mikes of varying quality I have here and none works with Windows Soeech Recognition (I have checked for mute, etc.) Do only headsets make this option ...

Is there a way to use Speech Recognition without using the headphones? There should be a way to hook up the computer to speakers so you can come into the ro ...

Please help restore my sound...I was taking out "unneeded" components that were on my computer and accidentlly removed the file(s) that control sound on my computer ...

Sir, I can't connect My Laptop With MS Vista Basic to My PC With XP SP2 .Through Crossover cable. I set every thing in the XP PC but I can't do the same with Vista . Could you pls advis how to do this . Appreciate you swift action . Rgds TK ...

Hey guys I'm hoping I'm just overlooking something dumb here but I need some help. I just upgraded to Vista Home Premium last night. I use my laptop at work ad I'm having some issues. I can't see my local network when ...

Trying to use a IOMEGA USB drive on another network maching DELL XPS to backup from laptop DELL Inspiron .. I get a ID and PW request (all network settings are for shared)The network share could not be accessed for the following reason: No mapping between account names and security IDs ...

I purchased a laptop installed with Vista. Then I purchased a Logitech Webcam that had a driver available to make in compatible with Vista. It all loaded fine on my computer. The problem is when I try to actually use it with ...

My Vista Home Premiuem cannot update security defenitions for Windows Defender. Otherwise I have no problem updating Vista.What's the problem??/Bjoern ...

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Is it just me, but shouldn't the OS just be part of the background and not have to have ANY attention paid to it? I have a computer to run programs other than my OS, Vista is just too f ...

I did a completePC backup onto my secondary hard drive (D drive, where image is stored). I then tried to restore from that image by restarting the PC, pressing F8, and getting to "Advanced Boot Options" screen. However, according to vista instruction, I was supposed to see a &q ...

I just got Home Premium and I use my headphones for NR2003. Well the problem is that when I connect my headphones to my sound car (SB Audigy 2 ZS Gamer) I can hear everything going on.On XP I couldn't hear anything other then the other people; ...

*. HJ3133V FNA365Y SCSI CdRom Device: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The drvier may be corrupted or missing. (code 39)*. HLDTST ...

I ran the Vista Advisor before upgrading from XP and it came back without and compatibilities with my video hardware, but after upgrading my FireMV card no longer works and reports Code 43. I also have a ATI X800XL AIW card in the same machine on the PCI ...

If I made a new user, is there a way to make sure I have the same songs on my ituens as does the itunes on my admin user? ...

When I run whoami on my user account, it has a shorter list of priveleges than I've seen in the past and it states that most of my priveleges are disabled. For instance, it says the SeTimeZonePrivelege is Disabled yet I can change the ti ...

I have this email in my outbox that displays this 'windows mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. check your computer for low memor ...

I would like to move items I read out of my Inbox and into the Deleted Items folder to save for future viewing. However, every time I close Windows Mail, it deletes all the emails in the Deleted Items fo ...

iv'e lost total sound in my computer. i cant hear anything! ive even reinstalled a fresh new copy of windows vista and STILL no sound. ive reinstalled my drivers and made sure t ...

Hello and thanks for reading my post.I’ve just purchased a Dell Optiplex running Windows Vista Ultimate. I have three problems which I can’t figure out. Backing up files: I want to backup files on an external 500GB h ...

My IPAQ hx2495 works fine when used with my old XP laptop. My new HP laptop that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium fails to install the windows mobile devi ...

Hello,You can get Vista ready games here: dvalot.free.fr/games.htmShisenCS is a dotNet game in 3D.Have fun Daniel F Valot ...

Hello, This has got to be simple but I can't find it. Does anyone know how I would change my preferences so that when I click on a link, etc. a new page would open, full s ...

I can't get the screen saver to come on. I have set and reset screen saver, even rebooted after setting it. Does Vista have a known issue with screen saver? Sarah ...

I have a Motorola Q phone and when I installed Vista I installed the latest Mobile Device Center. At first, each time I connected the phone via USB, the Syn ...

I have a dual boot setup with Windows XP and Vista Ultimate. Initially things were going well but suddenly dreamscenes will stop working and crash with an error statimg Dreamscen ...

Hello,After running a scan for new hardware (no new hardware was installed except a USB key that I wasn't finding on its own) vista turned up one unknown device. When I at ...

Tonight, I tried to download a program from a CD. When it didn't automatically start, I began to investigate. When I went to "My Computer", ...

Just figured to throw into the general knowledge base.I just solved a high CPU utilization problem in vista ultimate for one of my artists.Problem: Vista Ultimate CPU is showing constant high usage that is unattributed to an ...

Im really tired about this bug i need help, im having lots of trouble with my windows vista,i bought new laptop its already included from factory i got vista home premium 32 biti got this 2 massive and huge problems im about to explote, first, wireless, im using really fine ...

can i use active desktop with vista premium ...

Hi,Could someone explain to me how the following occurs?I installed a new hard drive today. The old hard drives score was 5.2 it is now 5.6. My old Base score was 5.4 but now it has dropped to 4.7. I have done nothing except put the new hard drive in yet my CPU AND my RAM score ha ...

Just had to do a fresh, install of Vista HPrem due to HDD failure. WMDC is now out of beta, and I followed the install instructions from the download site to the letter, hard reset my Orbit.Everytime I ...

I'm buying a new computer with Vista installed. One of the options I can specify is a "DataSafe" hard drive which is really three hard drives: two drives fo ...

I accidentally installed a driver incompatible with Vista for this copier/printer. When I try to remove the printer in control panel, it crashes the spooler service. When I try to uninstall it using admini ...

OK So I had a virus on my computer after i had upgraded my computer to vista i bought the upgrade version and it wont let me install it from the disk because i had to format my drive and i no longer have a os so i cant install it but my mom has windo ...

Hi When I add a new user account I get the follwing error when I open that account. It does not happen on my account. Any ideas please? Microsoft.NET Framework An unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to ...

Hi,I have a preinstalled Vista machine, which I want to install XP on another partition. I know this can be done, but when I install my XP CD it doesn't get recognised as a bootable disk. ...

hello to all vista users out runing 64 bit ultimate. my pc which i built myself consists of an amd 64 x2 4200, dual asus 7600gt grapics cards running in sli, 2gb af ddr400 ram an asus a8nsli premium mb and a seagate 320gb 16mb cache sata2 hd. i am able to play all games at decent specs, ...

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Where is the button to rate whether a certain posting in newsgroups was helpful? I can't seem to find the button to do that in Windows Mail. ...

How do you make windows mail delete everything in the deleted box upon closing the program ? ...

Every time I reboot Vista, I get the Boot Manager screen, with the options of booting in a previous version, regular boot into Vista, or into repair discs. The default is Vista. A 30second timer counts down to give me time to decide, and then boots into the default, unless I m ...

I use software that involves a lot of outbound and inbound connections. The issue I'm experiencing is strikingly similar to the old EventID 4226 when XP SP2 was ...

Hello, Having problems with playing a file back in Media Player. If I have saved a short video of myself to my hard drive and play it back, using Media Player, ...

HiI have a game that when I click run it takes a few minutes for it to start even though it is there running in Task Manager. I have found that if I right click the game icon and tell it to Run As Administrator it runs st ...

I am using vista premium.Is it possible to sync in progress documents with a copy on a flash drive. Rather than continually copying the the updated document to the flash drive is there a way t ...

I bought Vista Home Premium and loaded it on a new hard drive. What I failed to notice is Remote Desktop is not a feature of Home Premium. I need that feature which comes ...

Our User Group is holding an event called TECHbash 2007 in Northeastern Pennsylvania on May 19th, 2007. The event is free for all and it is recommended that all ...

How does vista know which image is linked to which media filethx ...

Is there a way in Windows Vista Home Premium I can assign a fixed drive letter to a specific drive? I have an external hard disc to sync my data as a backup but the drive letter it gets depends on when it is plugged in and what other drives are plugged ...

I have been using MS Java VM for an online scrabble game that I play, however the connection to the internet keeps closing unexpectedly when I am playing and I suspect that it doesn't like MS Java VM so I wish to remove it but how do I do i ...

Every time I reboot, Vista resets the mouse pointer speed to medium. Anyone had such problem? It's nothing terrible, but it's annoying to reset the speed every time. ...

Since I upgrade to Vista, I am unable to use the fax from the HP soluntions center on my computer. I installed the new drivers and everything, but not luck. HP was really no help either on this so I am checking here to see if anyone else has problemsWhen i try to fax from the Soluntions cent ...

My firewire Lexar card reader and Sony DCR50E camcorder worked fine with XP Home. i would see the card under Removable Disks in My computer and I could capture video ...

Hi.When I create a DVD in Windows using Windows DVD Maker I get the option at the end to create additional copies of my DVD. If I want to create more copies later on, is there a feature to copy my DVD without having to run through the whole creation process again ...

Hi everybody. Seems, I'm not alone with WMP 11 appcrash. Could anybody figure out, waht's the cause of my appcrashproblem? Comments are welcome! Thx.Error message (in German):Problemsignatur: Problemereignisname: ...

I keep all audio files in my Music folder, meaning all files related to audio. Most of my audio is music files, but i have some stock sound files for when i create little films. In Windows media player, ...

I've just installed Vista Enterprise on a computer on our domain and noticed the following in the event log. As usual with these stupid messages, it doesn't bother ...

Steve...the commands you replied with in my other post didn't work. It said: 'global command failed on IPv4 the request operation requires elevation'I am using a wireless router. Email worked before using this. This error comes up The host 'mail' could not be ...

Can't seem to get nothing to work right with Windows Contacts. I add a new contact. Input name and email address. Name shows up in the list but even though I select email address in Choose Details the column header shows up but there is no email address displayed. The only way I can view th ...

I have the new windows mail on vista , the old outlook express allowed me to automatically empty out ALL my deleted emails from the deleted emails folder upon exiting outlook, instead of having to delete each email in the deleted folder one ...

Windows Mail is unable to display some accented characters in sender names in the mail list. In the preview pane and in mail detail the names display ok, but in the mail list some characters are skipped (for example the 'š' ...

how can i change folder that started up with win mail? It's goes into folder "Inbox" but i need to change it to some others help me :) email: xross@yandex.ru > or @ya.ru ftp://10.38.24.14 ...

I would like to increase the size/number of entires for Vista Mail addresses. I am used to Outlook, which appeared to remember all addresses. The Recently Used Address entry in the registry looks like it is lim ...

Hi, I have no problem sending or receiving mail using Windows Mail through my ISP Juno. When I try to reply to a message I get the following error:"The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing email [SMTP] server. For help solving this prob ...

Since I've updated to Vista, a few of my received newsgroup posts are displaying as blank. The only way I can see the body is to use CtrlF3 to show the messag ...

hellloI am running vista 64 ultimate and using netgear router connected by rj45 cable, on DSL internet connection. i leave computer running all the time, but everytime i wake up computer it drops the internect connection with the router. this does not happen with the other ...

I had this problem before and followed the instructions to fix it and now I am getting the error again. I tried to redo the instructions and discovered that I have the softwareDistribution folder and SoftwareDistribution.old folder. Should I just delete the SoftwareDistrib ...

Is there a simple way to change the color ?? and maybe lose the pulse ? ...

Hi everyone As I wrote in the subject. My Windows VistaBusiness computer stops responding when I resume the computer from hibernation. How to solve this problem??? thanks advance ...

I just completed the third and final test on Vista (from RC1 to RTM) and suddenly realized that it has been 20 years since my first experience of using PC. 20 years is a long time and many things have changed. I feel compelled to write the following and I kn ...

Does anybody know of a way I can get dual sidebars, one either side of my screen? if it involves d/loading something, i dont mind. cheers ...

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.Already did the patch...support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/enus Still very very very + 100 slow. It takes 3+ minutes (if it doesn't stop) to connect to a netw ...

Windows Vista Home Premium does not recognize my 2nd internal Hard Disk Drive. XP Home and Pro recognized it where I keep my music. ...

WHEN I PUT A DISC IN THE F DRIVE IT SHOWS THE NAME OF THE DISC BUT IT SAYS THAT THERE IS NO PICTURES ON THE DISC. CAN ANYONE HELP?? I CANT VIEW THE PICTURES , I KNOW THEY ARE THERE AND THEY OPEN ON MY XP SYSTEM. ...

Hi,I've no problem connecting my Vista Home Premium to my LAN. Workgroup had been configured similar to my existing workgroup.Gateway map shows the workgroup and other comput ...

When I send the same email to more then one contact it always shows everyone's email addresses; no matter how I try to change it. So now I started to Bcc everyone, but there are occasions that I rather not do this ...

Could someone tell me why when on Ultimate I go here: Start/Default Programs/"Associate a file type or protocol..."Scroll down to "URL : HyperTe ...

Has anyone had trouble installing office 2003 or office xp ina pc running Vista Home edition? ...

Hey all, I was trying to add a shortcut to Windows Media Center to my desktop, but instead I dragged the actual program from the start menu to the desktop. Now I'm not really sure how to move it back. WMC works fine when I use the Media Center button on the remote, and when I click on th ...

On Windows Vista Ultimate, I am having a problem with Media Center. I use the DVR and record shows the the PC, it works fine about 60% of the time. The other 40% ...

I've just installed Vista. Started up fine and began downloading and installing the automatic updates. When those were done, it prompted me to reset the machine. I did so, but when I should have seen the Vista screen (just after the progre ...

Hello, nearly every shortcut in the start menu doesn't work anymore. So, every time I want to start a programm I have to open it directly in the explore ...

I hope to attempt to make this comment as civil as possible. In my experience with Microsoft it has not been a very positive one. I do not know where to begin on describing my negative experiences. I will give Microsoft credit for establishing standards to get the comput ...

A few days ago (May 15th) I started getting a message on bootup that the Intel Alert System has stopped working. I can no longer run Intel Viiv settings. I do not see the Viiv icon icon on the sask bar ...

I have Vista home premium and cannot find the snipping. If anyone can send me a copy of snipping tool.exe it would be appreciated, or show me to the micro page where I can download itThank you ...

Forgive me if I have placed this in the wrong area, I have no idea what I am doing. :o)I was wondering if I will have any problems with installing all of my old programs/games to Vista. I will be getting a new computer with Vista on it, but have never used it before, or actually see ...

I recently had a problem with the Service pack 1 for flight simulator X. After several tries on the flight sim support groups with no help I got the customer support number and called Microsoft. I spent over two excrutiating hours with a gal and then ...

Figuring I would just "go for it" and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice:"D ...

I have recently run a free space wipe and when I switched the pc back on, I have lost my aero appearance/taskbar, folders etc etc. The windows background is there but I only have the basic windows classic (white..ish) tas ...

Where is this tool or the equivalent there of? I need to set up to run on a certain website and cannot find it. ...

I am getting an error when booting my computer. It says "BOOTMGR is missing pres CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart." I read online that to fix this problem I need to boot off the CD/DVD and select Startup Repair. I am unable to do this b/c whenever I bo ...

hi! i need to know, how much of memory video is necessary to run windows vista ultimate with aero and flip 3d resources? 128MB of memory video or 256MB? because i want to buy a new notebook, and i'm worried with total memory video is necessary to run vista ultima ...

We have an online system developed that makes use of Flash Form through a web browser. Up until now there have been no issues, but I have changed to VISTA OS and IE7. Now when entering data into ...

I'm currently running XP Pro on a laptop and I got a copy of Vista Business from my school. What I did to install it was create an extended partition on my hard drive and create a new V: partition. When I booted ...

I have two PC's with Vista Ultimate. About 4 months ago, on the first PC, I installed Visual Studio 2005 on it. When I doubleclick the Icon to run Visual Studio, it just opens up.Last week, I installed Vista Ultimate on ...

I have Paint Shop Pro 7 and when looking at .png files they have a black or white background. Before when looking at them in PSP 7 they were transparent. How do I get them to load transparent? For now I'm doing this...Viewing Transparent PNGs If you open a PNG file i ...

I was able to extend my monitor to T.V in XP but in vista, when i make a check mark on "extend the desktop onto this monitor" and click on OK, i ...

Can someone tell me how I can get a music file (MP3) and an audio file (narration also recorded as an MP3) to play simultaneously? When I drag the narratio ...

I have a laptop that connects to 2 different networks depending on where I am: Work, or Home. When I try to save a new Word 2000 document to an offline folder o ...

Hi all, I hope someone is able to help. I cannot get WM5's ActiveSync to start the Bluetooth sync, yet everything is paired and set up correctly:On Windows Vista: The PPC is paired by Bluetooth (had to switch from Toshiba to Windows stack) It automatically assigned in/out ports t ...

I have just brought a Laptop, Fujitsu Amilo Li1705, to be precise ... However i have now tried loading two games onto this, knowing both games are fine when i put them on my Computer with XP ...

im using windows vista 32bit version and requirement to play C&C game is for windows vista 32 and 64bit is not supported. so my question is, is there any idea i can play C&C game? besides that can i using windows vista ultimate editon or home premium coz my laptop operations ...

Can anyone help? I have a number of applications that come up with the message 'mmc could not create the snapin, the snapin might not have been installed correctly' But I don't know what this is or how to rectify the problem. any help would be appreciated. Thank y ...

Dear Sir,Few mails was deleted from inbox and sent box of foxmail 5.0. I ma using Windows Vista Business. Is their nay solution to recover the deleted mails. ...

i was wondering how to use yahoo on windows mail.....if you can please message me back. ...

Having gotten WM up and running again, I now need to reimport the messages that were present before it stopped launching, etc. They are in a separate folder, called "WMSAVE", from the "Windows Mail" folder. When I try to import them, I get a ...

I have a laptop that was originally preinstalled with XP. I bought windows vista home premium upgrade, and I have been using vista without any problems for the past few months. Unfortunately, it appears that my hard drive is starting to failue (at ...

Using xp, I had read a tip to move the paging file to its own hard drive. I bought a 10 gig drive but never got around to it. I am itchin to try but I can not find any opt ...

Everytime I go to do a complete PC backup to my second internal HDD, I get the BSD...I start the backup normally, and select my second HDD Maxtor 320GB SATA II 16mb. Then the backup process begins and runs almost what i ...

I would like to use readyboost on my system, but am wasting money left and right (LOL). I bought a thumbdrive, but it was too small and too slow. So I bought an Emprex 4GB USB 2.0 and it says it is high speed, but when I try to go into readyboost for it, it tells me "th ...

What's causing the Protected Mode of IE to be Off? The option "Enable Protected Mode" under Security tab is checked. Is Live OneCare causing? ...

I tried to dowload adobe and adobe flash since I've installed vista and it won't. Is there a setting or something I have to do. I've tried turning off firewall and everything I could think of and it just won't. Also I have a ...

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has anyone tried to see what happens if in Vista you try to load IE6? I have a CD with IE6 full version on it but I am surmising that it would say something like 'this version of Interne ...

When I first used Windows DVD Maker inside Vista Ultimate, each "Scenes Button" would display a small clip of the video that represented that ...

Wondering if it's possible for search controls in the File I/O dialogs to search more then author, tags, comments.Photo gallery seems to know to search exif data of files...how come the other O/ ...

There should be a way to copy DVDs and CDs without having to manually copy the files to the hard drive yourself. There should simply be a duplicate button. It just makes since... Really, who wants to go through ...

I want to customize my screen saver in windows Vista. I want to use something other than pictures like a video type of screen saver that I downloaded from a business. Does anyone have a clue as to how I can do this? It was easy with earlier versions of windows even XP. Thanks for an ...

Hi everyone I sure hope that some one can help me beening that Gateway support was not. Here is the problem when I try to open sonicpartnernet. com It start but then it goes back to the sign in page again. I have mak ...

I installed nero on a vista home premium x64 machine and got a registry permissions error. I followed the instructions on the nero site but must have done something wrong because the ahead software group is locked and I can't look at it even though the account is an administ ...

Hello, I am new to Vista but seem to be having a problem with the sidebar. The feed gadget that comes with Vista does not display the latest headlines. Instead, it displays headlines from the day I installed it (yesterday). I have closed and reopen ...

I wondered how many others (because its fairly well reported on the web) are experiencing an IE7 crash that reads (in event viewer) and is caused by Adobe Flash Player which is often needed for web sites to display their c ...

Hello All, I have an Excel file that I have opened, closed and saved many times and that I use frequently. However, it never shows up in the "Recent" items on the start menu. I have emptied all the items in the Recent folder and still nada. Is there som ...

I have a 150GB disk on my laptop. It came with 2 partitions: C (130GB) and D (20GB). I created a third partition X (30GB) by shrinking D by 10GB and C by 2 ...

Hi guysI'm using Vista since a few months and I have found a few BUGs as well as a few interesting things which I have posted in following forum:merawindows.com/Home/Forums/tabid/324/forumid/54/threadi ...

When I change the Computer Name, I was asked to enter the user name and password. As I have one domain account and local user account and both are members of administrators group, which one do I need to enter? I tried both without success. What sort of things I have looked at f ...

With in about 45 days of installing Vista Ultimate 64. I have had a harddrive failure A Fujitsu limiterd Model Mat2073np A Hitachi Hus103073fl3600 Both of these drives are SCSI Controller is LSI 53c101033. I dual boot with machine xp on one ...

I have an ABIT IP95 MB with 2GB of DDR2 667 MHz memory with an Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz 1 MB Cache CPU. I am thinking of buying a core 2 Intel chip for an upgrade. I can get a ...

bI had to reinstall Vista Ultimate 32Bit on my Asus P5wd2 Premium MB. Although the installation went fine the first time, after reinstalling I cannot read anything on the screen ...

I can't install (or uninstall) more than 1 program that I know runs under Vista. Vista run fine, but, for example googletoolbar won't install. I get Installer errors 2502 and 2503. On other ...

I have Media Center set up to display on my secondary monitor (a TV) so, obviously, we can watch videos off the computer from the comfort of our sofas. However for ...

Hey all, Windows Media player 11 has just deleted all my songs from the library, and when i try to re add them, it won't let me. The playlists ive created before this problem still play, and they play, but it wont show t ...

recently bought a pc with vista home premium. tried to import videos and it comes up with an issue where movie maker must close due to Data Execution Preve ...

I have just purchased a HP DV9330 lap top with Vista Ultimate installed and NIS 2007. I already have a cabled home network for my Dell Dimension XPS T600r PC running 98SE, and an older Compaq ...

I am now on my second Acer 3680 Vista basic laptop. First one went back as it would not connect to the wireless router. I tried everything suggested by the newsgroups, with n ...

I am running Vista Home on a laptop (soon to be upgraded to Vista Enterprise) and I have a small but growing LAN at home. It consists of this laptop (Connected via Wireless); another HP laptop (also via Wireless); an HP Inkje ...

When logging into my computer at work, i keep getting "the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed" when i log in as the administrator i noticed my log in is not there. When i att ...

I would like to set individual user