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I installed Vista Ultimate on my PC recently and got two problems Windows Media Player and Media Center would crash as soon as I opened them!I managed to fix the WMP problem by reregistering some DLLs off the microsoft site (if that is what the problem was) but Media Center still cra ...

Fresh Vista Enterprise install. I am a Student Adminstrator with Admin rights to a college specific OU. I have disabled IPv6 and set the Netbios to TCP/IP but I still get the afor ...

We have a server asking my VISTA laptop for my user name and password when I try to view the server under Windows Explorer or the desktop Network icon. If I'm on an XP machine I can open the server OK. What setting do I have i ...

I got MS PInball running in Vista but I get a nagging VIDS:IV50 decompressor error on startup. Tried installing the Indeo drivers (5.11) to no effect. I ...

Hello all,i havent bought my new laptop yet, cuz everyone tells me that vista wont allow me to play games on it. My question for everyone is: If Vista allows me to play games will Everquest II be allowed on windows Vista and is it ...

after upgrading to windows vista ireached here which i hope will be helpful, ihave encountered the same problem as the other six people , after openeng up windows mail i al ...

I bought a new Dell Inspiron with Vista Home Premium recently. I got it all set up with my screensaver and a slide show of my photos and it worked fine on the laptop display. I have now a ...

Upgraded from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Ultimate. Vista is running good so I deleted the Windows.old folder. Now I want to remove the Windows Recovery Console, that I installed in XP. I found the instructions for removal, deleting the Cmdcons folder and the file Cmldr and editing Boot.ini ...

Help me please! I just bought a Vista machine (new Presario laptop) about three weeks ago. Vista's been fine, except for a few issues (mostly related to iTunes). But last night, my computer did one of those Windows Explorer errors. I restarted, and now I can't get it to boot u ...

I used an AppleLaserWriter Pro 630 laser printer on a previous Windows XP clone computer without any problem. The XP OS included printer drivers for many of the popular LaserWriter printers (long since out of production). The new Windows ...

Hi,No, this is not a standard "there is no driver for my printer" issue.We have a network printer. HP have no driver for it, stating that the driver is built into Vis ...

Whenever I want to use Photo gallery I get the message: "The picture can't be displayed. You might not have enough memory available. Close some programs or, if your hard disk is almost full, free some disk space and try again." I have a Pentium D930 with 2 GB memory with Home ...

For awhile there things ran smooth. Now the User Account control is stopping popfile from running at every boot. Actually this UAC is causing all sorts of troubles. It's now running ...

i want to extract some jpeg files from the windows vista beta 2 dvd is there a way to do that ? ...

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My computer has 2GB of memory. I have read in these groups and other places that if I add 2GB more my computer might not see all 4GB.So the question is: Is adding more memory a waste of money? Will adding more memory help my computer do it's ...

In my more than 20 years in business I have never had such a waste of my time as with the new VISTA OS. We had to purchase two laptops, one for a new employee and another as a ...

Alright I am running a windows xp professional on my base computer and I've got it connected to the wireless router via CAT5 and I have an internet connection. And now I've recently purchased a laptop with a wireless network card for the link sys 2.4 G ...

I've tried everything. For some reason I am only able to connect to the internet when using my Linksys WRT54G router. If I disconnect from router and try to connect directly from my modem I get an "unidentified network" message and am unable to connect to interne ...

I cannot run Bicycle Board, Bicycle Cards and Bicycle Casino games on Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. I suggest to Microsoft Games Studios to make available a Service Packs for these games to fix this problem.Thanks. This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to ...

Hello,Would appreciate any help with the following error:File backup failed. The error is: Access is denied. (0x80070005).I get this when attempting to do a full backup to a USB HDD. The backup starts, but quits about 1/3 of the way through.Logged in as admin equiv acct. Have ...

I know that with XP you could purchase one copy and run it on all your machines at home. Can you do the same with Vista Home Premium Ed. Can I buy one copy of Vista and run it on my two machines at home? Thanks, dave ...

I have built a beast of a machine and spent every penny I had. So, when it goes into screensaver mode, I still want to be able to see ow much it kicks butt. You know what I mean?So, can someone recommend a totally overthetop screensaver that will show o ...

I cannot access a Windowsauthenticated web site locally even though I can access it remotely.I have a simple web implementation that hosts an IIS / ASP.NET based web site. I recently "upgraded" Windows XP 32bit to Windows Vi ...

I recently purchased a new computer that came loaded with windows Vista. I used the import function in windowes mail to pick up my contacts from from outlook express running on windows XP on my old machine. All the co ...

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Whenever I try to access anything controlled by windows explorer (ie documents, computer, downloads, control panel) The window shows up blank, and qeues the new vista spinwheel, then gives me the Windows Explorer has stopped working message, whi ...

I'm looking to buy a really good motherboard for Windows Vista Ultimate. It will be Intel cpu based on Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad in future maybe. Needs Raid 0 sata and sata for backup hard drives. Needs regular IDE as well for my ide dvdrw drive etc. ...

When trying to send emails from Windows Mail I get the message that my server is not recognized. What can I do about this? Who do I contact about the problem? I would appreciate any help.Robin ...

System...AMD 64, 3.2 with 1 gig Ram, 2 internal 250's and 1 external 250 HD's Vista Ultimate 64 Office 2007 Cox High Speed Cable modemI am so sick of watching that green chase circle EVERY time I want to do something I am tempted to dump all these Vista ...

Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. ...

Hi,I've having a nightmare getting 5.1 surround sound from a Divx AVI file which is encoded with the AC3 codec on Windows Vista x64. The file works perfectly on my old XP Media Center but in vista I just get 2 channel stereo.The strange thing is that when I play a DVD in media center ...

Hi all, I'm coming across the following error in the form of a dialog box upon opening "Task Scheduler"."An error has occurred for task Reminders Tim. Error message: The specified account name is not valid."This p ...

My vista screen saver would not start. After perusing the discussion groups I found a solution which required me to download a fix from Microsoft.Apparentely it was a fix for the usb wireles ...

I just installed vista and i just keep getting this message over and over and explorer has to restart after the error window is closed. The message comes up in the Vi ...

My new Vista Home Premium system has a Canon i9900 color inkjet connected to it via USB. (I switched it from my old XP system.) I have marked the printer as Sharable in Vista. But my XP system is unable to connect to it.The XP Add Printer dialog shows my XP machine but it will ...

I deleted "my pictures" from my "C" documents file. The only place i have them is in my Adobe Photo Album...but...with no file..so I cannot reconnect. How do I resto ...

After buying a new computer with Visat loaded, I come to find out that Office 2003 can not be migrated to Vista. Is this correct? If so, then this one of the biggest abuses of power I've seen lately. Office 2003 was perfertly function for 90% of ...

wmp 11 on my vista is giving problems. it does not play any mp3s and makes a strange noise when an attempt to play is made. it works fine on my brother's user account. i would like to reinstall it. can som ...

Hi, unless I am mistaken in what I have been reading, I should be able to run the gpmc and gpedit that came with Vista on my 2003 DC so I can manage both XP and Vista computers. Right now I have a Win2k3 DC running the same version of GPedit and GPMC that have been there since installation ...

I bought a new laptop from bestbuy the other day. Everything is running well except for the system clock. System time will be running slow, 10 sec in every 15 min. So the system clock kept on drifting off . The accumulation in a day will be around 1 ...

Does Vista Firewall support 2 ACTIVE network connections? It seems that the firewall is designed to only support one active NIC at a time. I pose this question as I have 2 disjointed NICS and cannot get Firewall to behave correctly.Network 1) accesses the LAN and the internet ...

Just rec'd a Dell PC with Vista Business, which I read was comparable to XP Pro. Here's a couple of observations/questions:a) In XP Pro, you set the Administrator password during initial setu ...

Hello, We send out email campaigns to our customers that request email from us notifying them specials/sales/... We are a ligitimate company and these emails are only sent to customers that request these emails. A customer has a Vista system and is usi ...

how do I configure my incoming and outgoing mail using qwest as My server ...

Using Outlook express I was able to click on sender and place all of the mail from that sender into a folder automatically. I have tried to go that with windows mail and all it does is group them by sender. Does anyone know away to get them into folders with out having a long list of em ...

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I'm trying to get a feel for whether people are living with UAC or disabling it out of annoyance. One simple question in this poll:professionalinsight.net/vista_uac.aspxThanks Al Degutis ...

While trying to get Vista support, I was prompted for my product key. I entered the key EXACTLY as it was given to me. I was told the product key is invalid. Has anybody else had this problem and if so, how did you resolve it? Thanks. LB ...

Here is what I found worked for me. I post this in hope to help others in the same situation that took me some time to figure out. I don't care if you do not like Mcafee or Norton, your answers to Just "uninstall& ...

When I saved some JPEG photos onto a Cd using Vista Home Premium, I found The CD showed the Folder containing the Pics as Empty when read by a Win XP computer. Help! please Bananabenders Ban ...

i just got my windows vista home premium 2 weeks ago, and my desktop icon for excel is gone and all i have is a folder icon now. where did it go and how do i get it back? ...

We have a family computer. If we go the seperate users route, will all users be able to access our family pictures, our common documents, and music library? Rj ...

I bought my VISTA directly from Microsoft. After buying it, I realized that Microsoft does not have a way for you to create a boot disk. My system crashed and support told me the only way they could fix it was for me to boot from the installation DVD. Gotcha They wer ...

Vista Home PremiumWindows Update is recommending I install KB925902. After download, installation fails, giving error 8007000B.I searched the Windows Knowledge Base for KB925902 and had no result. I also searched the Knowledge Ba ...

I just purchased a new Dell E521 with a dual processor and Vista premium. It is running fine but at night it will frequently crash. When you check it in the morning the screen is just multicolored lines and it has to run a self repair. I have a ...

i cannot find any registry cleaner that will work on my vista system. i have tried several so far. they will find the problems but will not delete them. i also noticed that at the end of the scan it will say " voli ...

Is Windows Defender a reliable Vista program? Would other programs work equally well, or better? I have used the free version of AVG from Grisoft, an antivirus program, for several years. It has done a very good job on every XP computer in my home netw ...

I've never noticed this before as I've never had two machines with 1920x1200 monitors.The server is Vista Business running an nVidia 7600GS at 1920x1200 with a Dell 2407FPW monitor. The client is XP Pro running an ATI 9800 ...

Right now, I'm using the OnScreen Keyboard so I'll make things short.1. Top keys (Sleep, internet, mail, etc.) work fine. 2. The rest don't work. 3. It's not a connection problem, I've checked. 4. Reboot fails to fix the problem. 5. Windows Vista 32bit H ...

I recently installed a Sony HandyCam USB 2.0 driver designed for Windows XP. When I ran the installation wizard, it said that it could not be installed in the current version of Windows (I'm running 32 bit Vista Home ...

At the moment ive got 1.5gb installed in my system (x3 512mb 3200 DDR) running with Vista Ultimate, and ive just ordered a 1GB kingston USB memory stick that is combatable with Vista Readyboost.Now my question is this, how much differance will this extra 1gb via readyboost help my sys ...

hi,I run Vista HP on an nF3 motherboard, with AMD X2 CPU, AGP graphics card, and Creative Fatal1ty Xfi sound card.On startup I get the message: "Windows needs to install driver software for your Multimedia Audio Controller",Which one is it? Where is it?I di ...

I am running Vista 64 on my desktop as well as office 2007. My mother board is starting to crash often, this is nothing new it was doing the same thing under XP. N ...

Hi, I've just bought a new pc working on vista. Everything is fine but last week I bought The Printshop Version 22 (Broderbund) and have, till now, been unable to install it. ...

I just tried to upgrade to Vista Premium. All seemed to go well but when computer restarted got blue screen with message Page Fault in Non Paged Area "srescan.sys" and below that address 81612F45 base at 8160D000, date stamp 45abfd3e. Can anyone help? Can't get ...

When trying to load WET onto my brandspankinnew Vista Home Premium PC, it gives me an error that states there is not enough storage to complete the process. There is 200GB free on my C drive, and I have a gig of RAM! This was with everything I could think of turn ...

Playing at Windows Media Player, Media Center or even Nero ShowTime, any kind of media (mpeg2, AVI DV, etc) has a horizontal lines when the action is higher. Looks like Windows are unable to show the entire image, so, some line ...

I'm not sure if I'm the only one having this problem but I don't see it around on this forum.When I try to connect to any wireless connection, I need to use either IBM's Access connections program or just the "Connect to a network" button using Windows Wireless. However, both these pro ...

I connect to over 20 clients servers using remote desktop on my XP machine just fine.Just purchased a Windows Vista Home Premium Computer and am trying to connect the same way to the remote servers. I get ...

Good Lord, one must wonder if Microsoft wants us to network? I can see from all the threads this isn't only my problem and I can see that oddly, everyone's pro ...

I have followed the help guidelines for two programs (my netgear wireless application & Logitech's updater application) by choosing to 'run as administrator' for each application, both for the shortcut in the startup menu and for the actual .exe ...

Ok, I have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. installed. And it is not certified for Windows Vista. And there is no S.T.A.L.K.E.R. item in Game Explorer. I`m draging shortcut of game to Game Explorer and yes, it is there ...

this game well of souls. im trying to get on it but it still is not letting me i choose multiplayer, and servers are meant to come up where you can choose and play. but it just stays at waiting for ping..... PLAESE HELP!!!! i no itmight be firewall but what do i press???? ...

Does any version of PGP work with Windows Mail and Vista x64? ______________________________Walter B waltblanch[at]tampabay[dot]rr[dot]com ___________________________ ...

Hi if anyone can help much appreciated. I have just brought a lap top with windows vista already installed. Having heard comments suggesting it is such a new program is could cause me trouble, I am delighted to say this is the first time I have suff ...

When I send an Email the copy goes into the Outbox instead of Sent Items . Under tools , options under "send" I have checked "save copy of sent messages in the "sent Items" folder.This had been working properly.We have W ...

When using "Edit | Find | Message" there is a progress bar at the bottom of the Find Message window. However, it doesn't show progress. Is this a bug, or is it suppressed purposely, as is the progress indicator in Disk Defragmenter.This is a ...

I have attachments in my newgroup folder messages. These are word documents. When I right click on the file, the save as option is not enabled. I am unable to save these files without opening them and saving th ...

Hi. I do not use Windows Mail for MAIL. Got that configured right. I use Outlook 2007. But I do use WinMail for Newsgroups/Communities like this one. My question is how do I set the defaul view so I DO NOT see u ...

As of yesterday, I am getting the little weather gadget window reporting from State College, PA, or Redmond, WAnot Pittsburgh, PA, where I live! I cannot figure out how to access Pittsburghthe "gadget" feature j ...

Hi Can anyone out there please tell me how I can check on the progress once I start a Disk Fragmenter task. With XP I could analize and decide if I needed to run the task and then on screen you ...

I can't get the fax to work in windows scan and fax. Using Vista Business 32 bit. Have fax and scan checked off in the firewall permissions. I'm using a Dell AllInOne 922 printer/scanner/fax machine, and ju ...

After the last update, performed on Arpil 5th, 2007 Vista won't start. It shows loading the system and then only the pointer (arrow) shows on the black screen. Trying to start in last known good configuration doesn't help. Booting from Vista DVD and re ...

Hi, I installed an older program Route 66 which works perfectly on my ME machine.The installation was succesfull but when trying to run it i got the message OUT OF MEMORY because a fi ...

In the RH bottom corner I have the time, my question is can I add the date and day to it ...

I bought a new Vista notebook computer. I loaded Microsoft Outlook 2007, which ran twice. I installed a DSL line, upgraded software, and downloaded Microsoft Updates. Then Outlook wouldn't start, and I keep get ...

New Laptop running vista.Packard Bell Easy Note. Cannot complete DVD recovery burn . Any known issues here please ? ...

After I have upgrade my XP to Vista, I'm no longer able to open my folders using the Windows Explorer. Every time I try to open a folder I get this message:Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the ...

I'm running Vista Premium on my notebook and it won't recognize my external HD in the Safely Remove Hardware icon. All my other external devices are recognized (i.e. camera memory card reader, flash drives, etc.). How can it b ...

Hi, just got a laptop with VISTA installed. My internet connects via a wireless router/modem (Billion make). No problem using a laptop with Win XP but ca ...

i keep getting a window that says product key laready in use, i just bought this vista upgrade from comp usa, i have the box recipt and everything ri ...

How do I change the location of mail folders?For many years, using Outlook Express, I stored my messages on an external hard disc. I also kept my Favourites and al ...

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On one computer I am not able to successfully import my Outlook contacts into Windows Mail. When I start the import of the CSV file a few contacts are imported and then the ...

HiWhen i am start the performance monitor window for MSVista and when trying to add counters ,the "ADD Counters" page ,none of the performance count ...

I recently got Windows Vista and love it! Anyway i have been using iTunes + iPod for a while. But to put it frank, iTunes sucks! I want to have Window ...

Hi,Can anyone let me know if there is some version of DiskProbe that works for Vista as well.Or even if there is some other tool that works on vista and has the same functionality as disk ...

I use Vista Ultimate. Whenever I connect a Thumb drive, there is no removal icon in the System Tray. If I connect my large external HDD there is. How do I remove my thumb drive safely? Doug ...

Hi there!My Vista is a Chinese version. There are two tts available. One is for English, the other is for Chinese. Now I want to add others: Korean and Japanese. How can add them?Thanks in adv ...

Can anyone help please? Most aspects of my upgrade from XP Professional to Vista Business was smooth and now work great. The only problem I have is an intermittent boot up problem. That is, somet ...

Vista is telling me it doesn't recognize Active Sync 4.2 Is there something coming soon that will?My cingular 3125 calener needs updating and I can't remember my anniversary from my birthday without that thing. ...

hi everyone i have problem in my windows vista Aero when i open windows color and appearance , an appearance settings window appear and my problem is that i cant find windows Aero in the list i have 7 color scheme but i can't find windows aero so is this problem h ...

As bad as UAC is, the most insidious change that Microsoft did behind the back of it's hundreds of millions of users is to sneak in DRM which not only raises all kind of free use ...

Help! I feel like an idiot, but I just cannot seem to figure out how to install downloaded or CD source software and programs. What am I missing? XP was so simple and intuitive, but I'm having problems figurying out Vista mickc. ...

Hi everyone,I have got an Acer Aspire Idea 510 with two TV tuners inside. Can anyone tell me if and how I can use the Twin TV option of MCE ? Twin TV is for monitoring a TV channel in a small windows while watching another one full screen. Thanks in advance.Steve ...

Well,i accidentally erased the recycle bin.What can i do now? ...

I try to add the 360 to media centre but when it goes to point where it says 'configuring extender settings' or something like that, it just doesnt work. ...

Does anyone know where the settings for the sidebar are stored which tell the sidebar which gadgets to launch and how many? When I run sidebar, it launches hundreds of copies of the gadgets and slows the system down to where it is nea ...

thanks for the suggestions but neither one did the trick...either i have no picture and solid color or icon and text and no color behind ...

I have Internet Explorer 7.0 and recently I have to copy and paste what I want printed from a website onto Microsoft Work. I am very certain that the printer is not the problem, as it prints out just fi ...

I've subscribed to my Google calendar with Windows Calendar and can read everything ok, but cannot edit from within Windows Calendar because it tells me it's ...

I am using Vista Home Enhanced When I try to acess user\send to folder , it's denied. There are some dialog boxes , and when I select a user ( I am the only one ) , all the read /write/modify etc are checked . Vista's help, tells I have to take ...

I have deleted an Access database from couple of locations in Windows Explorer, have put it into a third location. I find that Access can still find and open all three versions of the database (I know they are diff ...

these files are unacceptably huge at 3gb each. I know I don't have much of a choice with pagefile.sys, but what is hiberfil.sys and can i get rid of it or disable it and shrink it. I thought it was related to hibernation (perhaps th ...

I currently have an error that pops up several times per day. The error is Windows Media Center Store Update Manager Stopped Working and Was Closed.....a ...

I downloaded and installed Norton antivirus 2007 for Vista. After a successful download, I turned on the firewall, checked for security updates, and ran live update. Now, the Security Center Services will not ...

In Vista plateform, I discovered that my username is registering in my register Key at HKCU and somehow someone could exploit this information too easy by collect these registres with all specified detail into this server ...

Here's my problem no matter what game I try running from Chess titans, to benchmark demos ( cascade), to Vanguard SOH as soon as the program starts the screen flip ...

HiI have been trying to import contacts from a .wab file taken from a XP Machine into Windows Mail, I have tried importing them from within Windows Contacts it says they have been imported but they are not there. If I double click the .wab it says they have been imported but again they a ...

I am so confused w/this Vista. I sent this before but cannot find the question anymore. I transferred all files from my PC(XP) to laptop(Vista). I cannot find my Outlook Express, I like to do emai ...

Hi, im looking for the IE log files (cache,cookies, and history) ...

When I open WMP11 and click TOOLS OPTIONS, I only have one tab: BURN.So... what happened to the RIP tab, so I can select a RIP location and format? ...

Does Vista Come with Office? And when I say office, I mean word, powerpoint, excel,etc... I am itnrested in getting it but only if it has those, Because I am currently just using trials for word, powerp ...

ubuntu, kubuntu, edubuntu and xubuntu 7.04 were launched today final...www.ubuntu.comread more at www.distrowatch.comall these are linux for those who have no clue... ...

Hi, I was on Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit. I am now back on XP again and I think maybe this time for a while or until Vista gets some real equilibrium.I wanted to share some things here because there have been alot of reactions, both posit ...

I have noticed the following shortcoming in explorer folder mode. When the user switches the view to a particular style, All folders underneath need to automatically change t ...

Just trying Vista for the first time with a friends PC (Home Premium).I have a few XPs on a Netgear router and normally use no WEP just authentication via MAC ...

Hi, I just bought a HP laptop with vista home premium installed. I am using cable internet and it works fine on my old computer with XP. Somehow it does not work in vista. It shows only have limited access, which is it only ac ...

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new comp came w/ windows mail and my old comp had outlook have a rather large .pst file that i moved to my external hard drive from outlook (old comp), and want to load that file into windows mail (new comp), but there is no "open/outlook d ...

Bonjour, Où sont situés dans le disque les fichiers des messages de Windows Mail ??? ...

How can I assign a password to my Windows Mail? Anyone can click on the Icon and my mail will come on for all to read.Thanks ...

I got a prerelease version of Windows Vista at a MS' promotional event. I noticed there is no display of a beta version and looks very much like final ve ...

I have one message in inbox that i can't remove. I've tried to move the maps and let Windows make a new inbox, but that also does not help. Does anyone have a suggestion how i can remov ...

Hey all,I just bought a new machine with Vista on it. Ever since I have a hell of a time logging into my Linksys router from it. Sometimes it loads, sometimes not. The router works as far ...

Overlay isn't supported on vista yet? I noticed my video brightness looked a little too high so I went on over to the nvidia control panel and 'adjust video colour settings' but it displayed a message saying overlay disabled.VLC player do ...

Zonealarm 70_337_00 stops instal at 4% in Vista Home Tried "Recomended settings " and running in XPSP2 mode and it does not install I tried to uncheck windows firewall too , and it stops responding at 4%. Although there is a support p ...

I have a Canon MP600 printer, with builtin slots for reading/writing flash cards like from my camera. When I used it with WinXP, it mounted and worked normally. I could drag the fil ...

How do you turn the permission thing off. Is really starting to annoy me, asking me if I am sure all the time !!! ...

I like playing Defense of the Ancients(DOTA). And I connect through other players using the GG Client. When I installed Vista, I'm now unable to play with others. I'm able to connect t ...

OK GUYS/GALHave an Gateway 835GSM which has an integrated Sigmatel Sound Card.Was wokring great after upgrade, and then microsoft decided they had a better driver, well.....after the update AUDIO went crazy. Uninstalled reinstalled tried orginal driver n ...

What is this message?What does it mean?Why doesn't it tell me which file (ideally application) is the cause of the problem? This is like saying "a program is broken". What the hell good does that do me?Microsoft used to rule with wizards and with more useful, humanfri ...

Hi,here is the link to the image explaining what is the bug...when i create a dial up netwk shortcut on desktop it remains showing the correct icon for a while and after s ...

Hi,I use an external firewire harddrive (Gericom 250 GB HDD) for backing up my files. I had no problems using the device under XP, but Vista refuses to work with it. The IEEE 1396 to ATA (or something like that) d ...

Help!! I need an English extension of my Japanese windoes Vista is there such a thing? Can I trade (bah ha ha ha...yep...). If anyone can tell me how I can get this baby running in English I'd be greatful!! ...

HiGot an annoying problem with Media Player 11 on Home Premium edition. If I open a movie file from its folder location (double click) I get sound but no window opens up.If I then go to the start menu and open Media Player I then get video playb ...

I am very amused that I don't see any other posts referring to the Java Runtime Environment. We just got out computer and it already has the most annoying software issues I have ever seen. I started JRE the first time, and it worked great and I used it that night, the next day I try it agai ...

Windows Mail wants to use Adobe 5.1 and I now have Adobe 8.0 installed. Adobe 8.0 is used in other contexts, e.g. for documents in a folder and in IE. How do I get Windows Mail to change? ...

I am trying to forward a post from a newsgroup, nor can I forward a email to someone in my outlook address book. I can post to any NG and send and receive mail. I have changed the settings from MIME to UUencode and changed the setting for the logon to server. So it signs in ok a ...

I'm disappointed . . . After patiently waiting months for Microsoft to fix the 'stuck mail' problems, and others, I see no solution on the horizon. I switched t ...

I need help with adding Netscape and other programs I've downloaded from the net. Everytime I try to load one of them, Vista blocks it. MS won't provide support because I got the laptop from Dell and they (Dell) don't have a clue. in fact they ...

I did a backup restore from XP using backup genie.. It got most of my old XP sounds in place.. missed a bunch.. those I can manually fix.. but in the ...

Hello everyone!I keep getting a dialoge box (daily) telling me:An error occurred when checking the status of the last automatic backup:The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. (0x8007041 ...

first we have to wait for the new drivers to be available and now nothing works!!!i downloaded the driver from the website but when I click on it, I get the error message : this is not a vali ...

Hi Friends:An eeror appear in my coputer said this:"Windows Media Center Store Update Manager stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the aplication to stop working correct ...

i want to install a second hdd. being a newbie, i need to see how this is done.is there someone in nyc who would allow me to watch over your shoulder while ...

Hi, Have followed a lot of the posts here and tried the suggestions provided but to no avail. My problem is as follows: I have a Dopod D810 from 3 Au ...

Since I have upgraded to Vista my computer will, on it's on, go into sleep mode at the most annoying times. I have been all through the settings but to no avail. I have updated the bios also but nothing.AMD Anthlon 64 FX55 2 QB of ram 1TB HD space A8V Deluxe ...

I have a Inspiron E1505 running Vista Home Premium purchased mainly to capture A/V through IEEE 1394 from a camcorder to Hardrive. The windows movie worker appears to work just fine except that I can not get the size o ...

I have a new computer with Vista Home and an existing Windows 2000 & XP systems. From the Vista systems I can ping and browse both the 2000 & XP system. From the 2000 and XP systems pings time out and I am not able to connect to t ...

I'm posting this here because there might be something in Vista preventing UPNP from working for me. I'm not sure.I've got a Dlink DGL4300 with UPNP on and programs on my pc won't work with ...

I find UAC extremely irritating with all of its pop ups and have turned it off. If I turn it back on will the number of popups eventually decrease.........i.e. does UAC learn as time goes on?Also one of things I'm struggling with is that ove ...

Hi,On my vista installation, i installed apache 2.2.4. Everytime i log, windows defender blocks apachemonitor application to run at startup.I've got info that i shoul ...

I'm having a problem updating the drivers to my Saitek X52. Apparently old drivers from XP do not properly uninstall and I have to manually clean out the registry because the new drivers tell me ...

Can someone please advise. I am running Vista and have installed MS Office 2007. All seems well with the exception of Outlook. On trying to configure, i cannot get passed Migrating Ac ...

how can i set up an email account in hotmail to windows mail? dats d only email account i have dat i would like to add to my windos mail. thanks if anyone can help... ...

Does anyone know of a news reader that will work on Vista. I've had enought of MS Mail. It is a very poor replacement of Express, filled with excessive "Unknown Errors&q ...

I just purchased a new laptop with Windows Vista Home. I used the Microsoft tool to copy settings and files from my old computer. I have enough working on the laptop that I don't need to use my old computer anymore.I am using the Windows Mail program for email and it is set as the d ...

I can't set Windows mail to be my default email program. when I click the "make default" button, it goes light as if being accepted, but it's not. ...

I brought me a copy of windows vista premium and I activated it on an previous computer , but it got broken so I took it to the shop and had it fixed with a different motherboard, tower,but the same two hard drives in it. The program was installed a second ...

When I click on the first letter of a contact's name, an entire list of names from replied addresses appears. How can I delete these names/addresses? I have my Address Book uptodat ...

I have a Dell Inspiron I6400 with an Intel Core2 processor (1.67 GHz) and 2046 MB of RAM, running Windows Vista (32bit). I don't really know enough about screens and graphics to describe what I have, or where to look to ...

Over in the Vista General Discussion, I have posted what I have learned about getting my Linksys Print Server (on my LAN) to work with my Vista desktop....need to have consistent Domain names and must configure a "persistent" use. ...

I am generating maps with TopoUSA, running on Vista. After generating about two 11x17 landscape files, the XPS writer cannot get through another without failing, leaving a zerolength file. I can reset it by changing most printer settings use my real printer, letter siz ...

Hi, I'm kind of hesitant to try installing Nero for the Nth time. Does anyone know of a company that puts out a Lean CD audio burning program that is compatible with Vista?And I'm not looking for free or open source I'll pay for it. I'm just behind on what's act ...

Hi, every time i start vista it works for about 10 minutes then, it just loses power like there is a power cut(there is not) no error messages are displayed. when i restart it it works fine and will never lose power. please help this is driving me mad. thanks for any help ...

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Hi allIs there a way to fix internet explorer and windows mail. I using Vista Ultimate and when I clik on mailto link: I get this error messageCould not perform the operation because d ...

I have been having an ongoing problem with activating Vista. I am regularly prompted to activate, although I have already done so many times. This usually happens after a computer crash or hard reboot as opposed to using the usual shutdown method. It sometimes happens after installing a new driv ...

I already contacted my computer manufacturer w/c is dell on this issue, they cant do anything about it and asked me to contact the manufacter of my external hardrive (simpletech). Usually, external hard dri ...

I FORMAT THE DRIVE ON MY DV9000 AND DOWNLOAD VISTA ULTIMATE ..BUT ITS NOT DETECTING MY BUILT IN WEB CAM ..DOWNLOAD NEW DRIVER OLD DRIVER FOR XP BUT STILL ITS NOT WO ...

Is Vista any good? I am considering upgrading from XP Home but I'm told it there are numerous problems with it including causing slow Internet connection. Does anyone have a view on this? Jackie D ...

Hello,I cannot find an Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows Vista. i have tried to install the XP version microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D48E808EB10D4CE4A1415866FD4A3286&displaylang=en But that doe ...

I can use the Media player for music but not for my recorded tv..it works for my Xp computer but not the Vista..So I have open up the networking but it deoesn't show the computer icon just the ...

I just got a new Vista machine, running Home premium. I'm trying to network it to 2 other XP machines (already networked with ethernet through router). During this process, to organize and I hoped sim ...

I purchase the software (disc) and wanted to know how to install security suite 7.0 on vista. I was told I cant run the cd in the hard drive as it is not compat ...

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When I go to Create mail, on the To: tab I have certain contacts, but when I click on contacts straight from W Mail I have different contacts, well the same but a lot more. Plus when I email from the contacts list the email does not save into ...

Hi, I'm trying to set up Windows Mail to work with my Google Mail account but I'm having problems. I have modified the incoming/outgoing servers and changed the port numbers to what google mail recommends, and I've also changed the POP settings on my Google mail ...

I too have a stuck message in my Outbox. Now I can't send any messages. I can receive but not send (forward, send, reply, etc.). How does one eliminate the pr ...

Vista Home Premium connected with line to Siemens Gigaset 555 WLAN dsl router , another connection to same router by Mac laptop. Internet connection is set to " always on" for practical reasons. Mac laptop has not any problem with such connection, but ...

I have an HP dv6358se that came with Vista. As soon as we tried to network the new machine with my desktop (with XP), major problems began. Could not get the machines to recognize one another. The worst part is that now my Vista machine is having trouble booting up and shutting down. Also ...

I need your help my Printer Lexmark Printer Z600 and X2400Because I can't my copy of card, picture family Thank you ...

Hi,I have Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 trial. I have made some editing changes to Word docs created in Office 2003 and want to use "Save As PD ...

Hi AllAs a total novice on wireless I need help. I have purchased a BT voyager 2091 for my wireless enabled laptop. The CD with the router is not compatable with vista. I have down ...

hello all,we have laptops that are not part of our AD domain. they connect to a Cisco VPN via broadband and then access our servers (\ \servername.domain\share). the first time you connect to a windows server and share, you are prompted for credentia ...

hi can anyone help.i upgraded to vista from xp but unfortunately i need to format the pc.when i format i beleive the pc will revert back to xp but how can i reinstall vista as ive allready registered the product.thanks for any help. ...

By hacking the Start menu:blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=203&tag=nl.e550 Terry***Reply Note*** Antispam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address afte ...

Greetings MS Guru's!I previously posted a question but did not have enough info availble for the "experts" to fully diagnose the problem. My parents recently purchased a new laptop with Windows Vista loaded. I added Norton AntiVirus and Webroot spyw ...

Hi,Gotta USB External Hard Drive, that I have plugged into my 2k Server for storage.Yesterday I used it to do a full system backup to on my Vista Ultimate machine, which was successful, now when I plug it back ...

I loaded vista onto a spare hard drive but not in dual boot mode. I had to go into bios and tell it to boot from the spare drive.Now I cant delete the vista files from the spare drive. Access denied.How do I remove these ...

Windows Calendar sends me a message whenever I logon to windows calendar saying it has stopped working and that windows will find a solution to the problem. I never receive any remedy to this. I see other people have had this problem with ...

I uninstalled Norton completely with Norton Removal Tool. I don't find any instance of Norton or Symantec in my Registry anymore. Though: when looking in Security Center under Firewall it says: "windows firewall and norton in ...

Greetings,Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very unstable).Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as instructed.Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so acce ...

I use a voice recorder to record classes. It records in MP3 format. On my old computer (Windows XP) it would upload as MP3. On my new computer (Vista) it automatically uploads as WMA! No ...

I'm not a computer guru, so I'll try to explain what's happening.Windows Vista won't start. I can get it to load in Safe mode, all safe modes. I hit f8 key, and I've tried every option. It won't load in anything b ...

My company is testing Vista with our software. Under XP, the fonts get copied to the fonts directory and will appear in Word. The fonts are copied the same way in Vista but they do not appear in Word. Is there som ...

When I try to open a picture in Windows Vista on my new HP laptop, I get an error message that says "Windows Explorer has stopped working," then it just quits on me. Music files, Word files, movie files, etc all ...

Windows update tell me there is a download for my PhotoSmart 8400 series printer and it downloads it and tries to install but then I get a message saying that the file could not be installed. Doesn't give much more info than that. I've ...

Hi, I would like to hire someone that could make me some kind of script/Bat file that I could use in the Scheduled Tasks to have System Restore create a restore point every 12 hours since I can't do this with the shipped task the MS has in ...

I hope this proves helpful to all.We received yesterday via Microsoft Update an updated driver for Realtek RTL8139 series ethernet NIC cards v6.103.126.2007, which we duly accepted, downloaded, reboot etc.However we noticed that connection to the internet was slow to say the least and downloads ...

I hope this doesn't sound too general or too much like a rant. After I explain what's going on, I'll get to the question. I have a Creative Audigy on Vista Home Premium and the drivers for it are terrible because for starters, Windows Media Player keeps getting stuck on 'media ch ...

I have seen many people waste money on 4 GB RAM etc... for Windows Vista.Recently I assembled a new PC, let me tell you 1.5 GB of RAM is enough to run Windows Vista / Games / Applications smoothly.More Details: vistaarticles.com/articles/ ...

Hi,Can someone please help me. My screen resolution changes to 1024 by 768 after hibernation. Is there a fix for this issue?Thanks, Alvin ...

I own a Sony Vaio notebook VGNFS series running XP Professional edition. The upgrade advisor for Vista is telling me to go with the Business Edition of Vis ...

We work with a lot of virtual machines in a product testing environment up to now, only Win2K and XP. We have always Sysprep'ed our configurations, and used a Sysprep.inf setting to supply our MSDN Volume License key. If we n ...

When I go into my pictures and try to view images in thumbnails all the images have the same generic image showing. I cant actuly see the picture till I click on it, which makes browsing ve ...

I got a new computer not too long ago (Windows XP), and so far, it's been great. However, it's got some sound issues:The main problem I've been having is with my mic. I use an online chat program called Ventrilo when playing online games. What friends have told me is that when I speak in my mic, ...

Hi, When I go to Windows Vista Photo Gallery to scan a photo the program doesn't recognize that I have a scanner device installed although Device Manager shows that I do and it is properly installed. Pressing refresh does nothing. When I installed another photo progra ...

windows vista 32bit intel core2 duo 6600 2gig ram netgear wireless wg311v3 i can be using the internet fine and then sometimes a webpage wont load so i tried the run "cmd" ipconfig/flushdns and sometimes that fixes it for a little while then it stops working again so i ...

How do I network my new windows vista to my windows xp computer to share files lv ...

I have gone through the process of installing the hp840c updated print driver I found on the net onto my machine running VISTA Basic. I still cannot print to the printer which is attached to another computer on my home network. I can open the print que and see othe ...

I have no need of mobsync.exe. All it does is thrash my HD. I've turned off all offline file caching I can find for IE7 and my Lan. But it still keeps popping up. I have a 2 machine network. X ...

Download this patch from MS and install it on your XP computers.... microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F01A31DEE46481EBA1137F485FA34EA&displaylang=en This will enable Vista to put the XP computers in the right place in the network map.Then goto these two sites (and my very ...

Hello everyone!Just picked up my laptop from bestbuy. It was taken care of cus of outside spill damage. It wasn`t requred to log in computer during reparing process so i didn ...

I can send from MS Mail but can't receive from my verizon.net acct. which is enabled. Help! ...

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I have an IMAP email account. I just upgraded from XP, where when I deleted a message in Outlook Express a line went through the message, and then I could purge manually or have it purge automatically on closing. This allowed me to take a look at everything that was marked f ...

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Hello all. Maybe someone out there can help me with this: I have an Intel D975XBX motherboard running Vista Ultimate 64bit edition. Is there a mothe ...

Why aren't there manual input fields for the recipient's company name and fax number in the SEND dialog? As per online help, the user should be able to manually send a fax to a person not listed in their address book, however the standard send dialog is missing the ...

Can someone teach me how to fax fromwindows Vista.I have HP fax/scan/printer all in one...5510xi. I have connected that to my vista machine.in Vistal fax I have composed a fax which has 5 scanned pagesIn To section I have written 0119120xxxxxxx (this is international fax t ...

I'm having problems again with my printer. One day I think I have it working and the next day it's not working. I uninstalled the printer once before, but have forgotten how I did it. I don't see it listed on the Programs & Features. I don't see a folder for it ...

I'm trying to print a .docx on a network printer and this is the error I'm getting:Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup.This error can appear if a default printer has not been designated or if th ...

In XP, I could relocate the Quick Launch toolbar. I prefer it along the left side, running the whole length of the page. This option seems to have disappeared in Vista? Is that right? Is there a workaround? Am I just missing someth ...

Just installed Vista. Not terribly wild about it so far. Willing to give it a chance, though.On Windows Explorer, what has happened to the ability to customize the toolbars? I used to be able to add cut/copy/paste/delete icons to the toolbar. Saved time, added convenience. Doesn't app ...

I'd be so grateful if someone could help me with this. its driving me mad. Everytime i use word, outlook or any program where i'm entering text the entry keeps jumping to the rows above m ...

I have an RBase application I've been using for years and I have it now running in Vista Business but I can not get it to print no matter what I do. I have an HP960c Inkjet printer connect by USB. I have no LPT ports. I have tried "net use LPT1 \\wizard\HP960c /persis ...

OK. I hope I'm on the right board.I have a Dell Dimension 9100. BOIS A01 (5/25/05) Intel 4 CPU 3.00 Ghz 2.0 GB Memory 533 Mhz Speed DRSDRMHope this helps.Anyway, I upgraded from XP to Windows Vista Home Premium a couple of months ago. Thing ...

I've been trying to download mp3 ringers to my phone using Motorola Phone Tools and I keep getting the error msg "mp3 codec may be inappropriate or missing". Support at Motorola said this: The cause is simple: som ...

Why does it take a day for my question to show up in my newsgroups on my home computer. This is the only newsgroup that I have a problem with. Does anyone know anything about this?Thanks Richard ...

HiWhy is transferring files from an old computer to a new vista one not as easy as says?I am currently doing this but keep finding that I get a new desktop user I am force to have alth ...

I am using this version today (06/01/2007). Yesterday I received hourly messages that it would expire at midnight. This evening I got a message stating that it would expire in 0 hours.Is this normal?Joe ...

One of the most common questions I've seen asked here is if it's possible to hide the Windows Vista partition from Windows XP installations because of the bug where Windows XP will delete ...

Does Vista home premium have and admin account if so how do you access it, XP it was ctl+alt+del. Thanks ...

Hi,IE is not saving any of the web sites that I wish to add to favourites. There is no warning that the link isn't saved it just doesn't appear in the dropdown list or the folder.Any ideas on what might be the problem please?David ...

auslogics.com/diskdefrag/Why use this? 1)Vista instead of improving the defrag interface, it removed it all!!! Now you stare at a throbber going round and round.. with no clue of the pro ...

I have Vista and everytime Media center tries to automatically download the latest guide there is an error: Guide server error (Code 34). Once I disable the Norto