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I'm not sure where to put this. I have a nonstandard mail program. I have always been able to push a button in the program and that would make the registry entries to make it the default mail program. The automatic route doesn't work. I'm looking for informati ...

I am running an accounting program. I am the only administrator/user on this computer. I have tried to "run the program as administrator" which helps while the program is running, however there are updates that are supposed to load after the program sh ...

I have only one login, but i don't have all the rights. After searching on the internet, there was stated somewhere to use cmd (find cmd.exe, right click and then s ...

I have vista home premium and whenever I try to run a full screen 3d game, after a few minutes, the game crashes. I am sent back to the desktop after going through the search for solution program. This problem always happens on any 3d program (Game). ...

I love playing Real arcade games but ever since I changed to Vista have not been able to download them. I get an error message about my cyber strength? Am thinking about installing IE6, but would it run on Vista and does anyone know if that would solve my problem? Any assistance would be grate ...

Just bought a new laptop with vista, have tried to install 2 games on it and both do not function properly. The first one i installed, a pop up said the installation was interrrupted and now i ...

I am having trouble sending mail from windows mail whenever I am connected to a network other than my home network. Running on a new laptop with Vista Premium. Windows mail seems to go through the normal steps sayin it is connected, receiving and s ...

Hi! I have checked to make sure everything is "correct"...atleast I think it is. I have even turned off my antivirus for outgoing messages, and that is not working either. Ofcourse,Geeksquad is going to charge me $99.99 to walk me thru it over the phone ...

I have installed the various versions of Vista on 56 various computers. On eight of those computers I have run into, and solved, this nasty boot problem. I have also assisted with this problem for a rather large handful of people who post here with a similar co ...

Hi, I have a couple of questions about setting up my 2007 Vista Live Windows Mail. (Please excuse my newbie nonprofessional terminolgy) It's defaulting to Unicode (UTE8) although I've chosed Western... ? Also, when I compose I like to change Font Colour, Highlight and other.. that I'm able ...

Using Vista Home Premium clean install for 3 weeks, not too much troubles. One thing I notice.... I have 3 hard drives, one for OS and others for storage. Now I can be doing stuff on my computer and I click Internet Explorer for example, and it starts to loa ...

I am dismayed at the reduced file copy speed in Vista, as opposed to XP. This is due to the fact that Vista must first calculate precisely the number and size of the files to be copied so that it can r ...

Why does my computer keep locking up? I have to turn it off, then restart in "last known good configuration".This happens every so often, but this mornin ...

I have set up all my printers on the Vista Ultimate 64 bit network All printers are listed as network printers and available. I have a laptop running xp pro 32. Have download the relevant update to allow the laptop to be see ...

I have an ancient HP 820CSE attached to an equally ancient Linksys PPSX1 version 1 on my home network. The printer and printer server work fine from my other computers runnin ...

Even though i called Panasonic and they said they have nothing for vista...yet I was wondering if anyone knew any tricks to get this working. Vista sees and lists the printer in the device manager but it cant find or ac ...

I installed Vista Home Edition Premium last night. Today I cannot tell our network printer to staple my print jobs like I could under XP. The system gives me an err ...

Did you ever receive your Solaris? Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group: protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.htmlMost recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks): "DRM ...

Have a simple Home Network and this new (clean install OEM) Vista Ultimate Machine is plugged into a router and that router goes on to an ADSL Modem/router.Under XP if I did a reboot, that machine would be straight back online. Like wise at startup from an ov ...

Hello,I read some articals on web describing how Vista OS perlform dhcp request broadcast in ipv6 from, then if no dhcpv6 response, it will perform for ipv4 from.Can anyone tell me what exactly the dhcp client does here in sequence and the frequence of performin ...

Hi everyone, My kids have many video games on CRROM. Is it safe to load these on our new Vista Ultimate system? For example, they have Battlefront II. What worries me is it says "DirectX9.0c may be loaded..." during the install. ...

I'm unable to zip/unzip and rar/unrar files. What are the Vista file names I need for function to work. I upgraded my machine to Vista Ultimate from business and lost the function. Worked fine with Vista business version. Tried to upgrade again still nojoy. Thanks. D.S. ...

When I installed Office in Vista Home Premium the software is only available on my user I am the administrator. How do I get the software to appear for t ...

I had some issues with Vista and I decided to dump the previous install and go it fresh. After formating my primary hard drive; or at least telling it to when prompted to select a hard drive to install Vista on I got the error c ...

I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have also installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is fine there. Also, strangely, I ins ...

Hello all,I searched several vista newsgroups but found nothing that helped me. Because of the lack of hardware profiles I found no other way to disable other network adapters when the LAN Adapter is active. The only information I found was that v ...

Hello,Anybody else using an nVidia GE Force 7900GS video card with Vista?Having a lot of goofy prolems and suspect the video card.Frank Klassen ...

I have Vista Business. When I shift+Righ Click an item, I can see the Run As... option, but when I click on it, UAC asks for my consent, but I do not get the prompt to enter the user credentials to actually Run the program as. (&quo ...

I really like the games in vista (solitaire in particular) and that is really the only thing keeping me from not putting xp back on my computer. So is there any way I can copy games from vista and run them in xp? ...

I really like the games in vista (solitaire in particular) and that is really the only thing keeping me from not putting xp back on my computer. So is there any way I can copy games from vista and run ...

When clicking on add network printer the program crashes immediately and returns the following error:Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Application Timestamp: 454 ...

I bought this Acer Laptop (with Windows Vista) from Walmart about 2 months ago. I used it for two months and i realized that it had too many errors. It couldn't update no matter how many times i tried. Therefore, i decided to ...

A manually started Windows Vista Defragment appears to stop before completing its job if the computer enters sleep mode. I've read that Vista Defrag was designed to be low disk and low cpu priority, but why would defrag let the computer go to sleep on it? Isn't defrag SUP ...

i once got an error about windows live sign in and accidently clicked on do not show me this message again. since then, whenever i open windows mail, a window with the message 'an error occured while attempting to open windows live sign in dialog' keeps on c ...

Here's the steps I followed to install Vista Ultimate (upgrade) over XP2:I.Go online to get latest updates... Downloading installation updates Cannot connect to the internetBut the underlying XPSP2 can connect to the internet just fine via IE7... oh well.II. Enter product key (Key en ...

My apologies if this appears twice. Windows Mail tends to hang when I post to MS Communities, and some of these show up days later while other just get lost...I am really starting to hate Vista's UI bugs. Anyway: I've got a bit of a dilemma. In a nutshell, I turned ...

I changed to new mobo ASUS m2nmx with AMD64 3500+ and Vista x64. No sound through AD1986A . No device showning up in MMC. I have follwed some treads from this forum and others ending up in ASUS support site and Nvidia. Installing the recommended AudioAD1986A610x6100_Vista from ASUS s ...

Hello,Is there anyone here with a Dell Dimension 9200 running Vista Ultimate.If so, and it is running trouble free, would you please say what you have for audio card and video card.FK ...

Ok, so I know I'm looking like a complete idiot about now.Equipment Dell E521 Desktop running Windows Vista Home Premium Dell X300 Laptop running Windows XP SP2I have a CAT5E Crossover Cable connecting the two together. I connect the Laptop through the LAN connection. The Desktop shows conn ...

I have a Vista Notebook configured with a Workgroup. I connect to a 2003 server (Active Directory & domain) either with wireless or cable. It always gets the error that it cannot contact the DHCP server and times out whe ...

Hi group,Last weekend I have tried Vista the first time. I have some COM dlls that my client wants to know if they still work under Vista or not, I was very frustrating to see a stupid problem like that takes a lot of time to figure ...

Ive been serachin for the perfect desktop manager to use in vista but they are all pretty lame best is Yodm 3d which effects a 3d cube like style of switching (ala Spaces on OSX) nyhow it doesnt utilise the DWM which I think is an error on the creators part and in essence isnt very good ...

This is the third time I have had this happen in 4 days. If I click on control panel any place it briefly popsup on desktop but is empty. By briefly I mean way less than a second. Looking fo ...

I have Vista Ultimate 32 clean installed and works flawlessly.Waking the PC from Hibernate mode takes 49 seconds. Cold starting the same PC takes 52 seconds. I've been consistently getting these times.On the same PC, when I had XP installed instead of Vista, it used to ta ...

Microsoft should have a search technology in Vista that is better than MSN Desktop Search or at least equivelant!!. Unfortunately, MSN Desktop Search was way better than Vista Search in all aspects: performance ...

I just got a new Dell computer with windows vista and it only has usb ports in it which is fine. I want to use my old keyboard which has a ps2 connector so I got an adapter but the keybo ...

I have an Intel MB d946gzis whith a Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codecd ver 6.10.5405.0, it worked initially not the speaker in the bottom right says, "no audio output device installed" I have uninstalled it, and re booted, it re installs but not success. BTW i'm running Vista Busine ...

OK, so i'm trying to get our Vista VL machines and KMS server up and running. I have not reached the 25min KMS req so last week i activated a couple of our Vista VL machines against a KMS server in another domain, that worked fine. Since then the machine has bee ...

Hi,I am having trouble configuring remote desktop for vista Ultimate.I have followed the microsoft setup guide for vista remote desktop. As part of this process, I also changed the remote desktop port to 3393 and configured the firewall rules.When ...

If I turn off System Restore on all drives, will "Restore previous versions" still work.If so, does "Restore previous versions" also take previous files and folders from a CompletePC Backup? ...

I realize that Windows Messenger does not run on Vista and that MS wants everyone to transition to Windows Live Messenger. That being said does anyone know of a simple client application which uses SIP so that I can communicate ...

Does it come with 32bit or 64bit?Or does it come with BOTH the 32 & 64bit install DVDs? ...

I just bought a laptop with vista and cant get the toggle function to work properly. I like switching between window/applications using alt+tab, I call this toggling. What am I doing wrong? This ...

Disk management reports free space on my partition to be 79GB. When I try to shrink the partition, it reports that available shrink space is 34GB. Where is the rest and how do I get my hands on it? ...

hi i am looking for vista patches for programmes such as nero, divx. does anyone know of a site which displays all patches available???any help appreciated.does any ...

Ii was having problems with works 8.5 not functioning. Found fix on Microsofts download page. Type in microsoft works in search field on download page. Takes you to link ...

My display setting is 1920x1200 and I have a Dell 2405FPW monitor driven by an ATI X1900 graphics card. I ahve the text size (View) set to 'largest'. Yet sites appear in the center of the screen with blank space of the sites colors on ea ...

hi all, when i open windows explorer it opens in a small window, i have to manually resize it each time i open explorer. Is there a way to get the window to stay at the resized size everytime i open it?Thanks! ...

I have windows vista home premium and every time I switch on I get a message saying the windows calender has stopped working. Does anyone know how I can stop this. The calender does seem to be working ...

I have 4 SATA drives all in sleds which can easily be pulled in and out. My question is... Will my Windows XP still funciton normally if I remove it and an install Vista on another drive which is also on a sled? Will I be able to swap my operating systems simply by swapping disk?Any in ...

The Windows Vista EULA states the following:IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal service (Teredo).This feature helps existing home Internet gateway devices transition to IPv6. I ...

Hi.I'm have AData 4GB flash disc and have performance problems in 32b Vista Ultimate. When i plug in this device, vista informs me that i plugged USB 2 device, but write speed is only ...

My installation of Office 07 and Acrobat 7 won't run correctly on my new Vista box. Each time I launch MS Word I get several dialog boxes that imply that the program is being installed again, then eventually Word opens. Same happens with Acrobat 7 and Corel Draw 11. Altho ...

I am logged in as an administrator. This was all set up using the Vista setup wizard when I first installed it.Lots of programs I am using are not remembering settings when I close them down and reopen them. Program preferences suc ...

I have several services that are set to start automatically that don't start. These include the Windows Audio Service and the DHCP service. They work perfectly well if I start them manually! Any idea how to get them to start automatica ...

I have been runninmg Vista Ultimate on a laptop for about 2 months using a wireless connection (802.11a) from my inhome router. As of yesterday, I can no longer access the internet from the laptop. Two other systems use the wireless connection and they are running fine ...

I have only one disk with the following partitions. The last one, 44GB, is Free space according to Vista's disk management snapin. Partition ### Type Size Offset Partition 1 OEM 55 MB 32 KB Partition 2 Primary 10 ...

Is there any way to get rid of the fingerprint icon while working with the Sidebar gadgets? It is very distracting, blocking the controls and has no use in gadgets. This post is a sugges ...

One care problems *I keep getting an annoying error message from vista that my firewall is off. *Tune always says defrag could not be completed and will resume next tune up. One care has disabled vista defrag so I c ...

Which online music store is compatable with vista? ...

heres a good troubleshoot for you techies out there.well I cannot access pop3 port anywhere.I suspected norton antivirus had to do something with it. So I understalled the software, but it did not soft the problem.no sort of firewall services are runnin ...

Hello!I have Windows Vista Ultimate and is not possible connect to via Remote Desktop to a Windows 2003 Server Standard, the error message is the following "The remote session was disconnected because the Terminal Server client access license ...

Hi,I'm having some issues with the Malware Protection in Security Center. First, any of the antivirus programs I've installed are detected by the "Security Centre". I am using MacAfee. Second, I can't turn on Windows Defender in the Security Center. When I try to activate it, he se ...

The resolution is set to high, but the game does not hold that setting in Vista. ...

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I know that windows mail does not support but can microsoft make a plugin to make it? ...

When sending email in Windows Mail how do you set it to block all the receipents of the email from seeing all the others that it has been sent to? Ken ...

Have all my current contacts on my Axim and want to get them into my MS Mail. Anyone have an idea how to do this?With XP when I connected the Axim to the computer they automatically compared files a ...

In OE6 there is a Status Bar containing details like message numbers and unread messages. Is there no similar facility in Windows Mail? TIA.Gerry ~~~~ Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...

Ihave tried everything that is listed in this discussion group and nothing is working! There is a good possibality that i just dont know what im doing:} I am not that much of a techie so please take it step by step, Thanks in advance. ...

how do i export Outlook Express to vista mail? ...

I've recently upgraded to Vista Business from XP Pro SP2. I compile code on my laptop with a great degree of regularity and have noticed that XP Pro was about 5075% faster in this area. I've seen articles that indicate that thi ...

Is there a way to to get the Z55 to work with Vista? ...

Vista Protected Processes Bypassedit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/1426200 alexionescu.com/?p=34 alexionescu.com/?p=35"Security Researcher Alex Ionescu strikes again, this time with a proof of concept program that will arbitrarily enable an ...

Here is the issue.I just purchased a brand new HP dv6338se laptop. I also purchased a brand new Lexmark X8350 allin1.I connected the allin1 first to my already established desktop running XP pro. I connected the printer via USB cable. The prin ...

I asked in an earlier post how I can increase the speed of Vista, I definietly found a little loss in speed going from XP Pro to Vista Premium, not enough to ever think of going back to XP. I am running a P4 3 with 1gb memory, I thought maybe n ...

Hi,Vista home basic. I've unchecked "warn before switching from secure to insecure"... in IE and restarted it, but it still gives the warning. Is this anything to do wit ...

Hi everyone I wonder if someone can help with a update question in vista home premium every time I install an update my computer comes up with a license change screen and directs my to validation which I h ...

Can anyone tell me if Windows Vista product keys are region encoded?I bought Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade Edition from Amazon (USA) and had it shipped to a friend in the States and had it sent to me here ...

Im using window Vista and I cannot find the panel where to set the base, treble,and balance etc... Is it all preset with window vista ???? Thank you for any help ...

Hello~~Everytime i make a new shortcut on Windows Vista, it automaticly adds the word " shortcut" to the icon, e.g. "My Computer shortcut".How can i disables this feature... ? ...

It appears that I've lost both of my DVDRW after installing VISTA 64bit. I was using them up until a few days ago. It just shows as a "Removable Disk".This is the error message I get when I go to the DVDRW burner.Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The dri ...

will downloading certain software harm my computer? What should I do if after installing a software..if i uninstall it and there is still problems with my computer? What does it mean when it ...

I have 3 PCs on my home network, 2 wired and 1 Wireless (1) Dell Desktop with newly upgraded Vista Home Premium and (2) an IBM Lenovo Laptop with XP Pro and an (3) IBM XP desktop. Before my Vista Home Premium upgrade, (using my XP home ne ...

Have just brought a new laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. My sons have decided that they want to load up software without my knowledge; this was not what the laptop was brought for.I decided to create an Admin Account and Family Account to stop the loading ...

::Does rise of the witch king work on vista because i get a error whilst installing it :( any help ?:: Benbo ...

I have sancharnet account. I have configured the windows mail but not able to send or receive mail. kindly help me out. I get following messageThe host 'nmra.sancharnet.i ...

So I've installed Vista a few hours ago, and since then I've been busy trying to get the computer to a working condition for me to accomplish anything today. All in vain.I've encountered a few recurring problems and those are: 1. The text on the desktop is blurred. Its not me. I'v ...

I am trying to change a file directory list to a text document using dos commands like I did when I had Windows ME, 98, and 95. However, this will not work in Vista using the same dos commands and I was wondering if anyone could help me. Everything works ...

Upon installing Vista (Home Premium 'clean install') I began getting the error message depicted in the screenshot .jpg shown here:https://rtc2.one.microso ...

Hi!My vista is a Chinese version. I found that I can dictate the Chinese email very well on my Vista. Since Speech Recognition is available in English(U.S.), English (U.K.), German (Germany), French (France), Spanish (Spa ...

The problem is caused by the installation of the Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATA/RAID driver update (in my case). It could be that other drivers from this manufact ...

Hi,I hope someone can help. I've now given up on Vista, it's been so unstable on my machine that I can't even restore the backup I made without it crashing. Could someone please tell me if Windows ...

I have installed Vista 32bit buisness addition in a dual boot configuration with XP on my laptop. XP resides in the C: partition, and Vista buisness is in the E: partition. I am doing this to play around with vista and to get acquainted with it. Originally, when I turned on my ...

I upgrade a dualmonitor PC from XP to Vista ultimate. The second monitor doesn't work and a message says that a noncompatible VGA driver was disabled. The ...

My HID keyboard device does not work to well, whenever i turn off my computer the keyboard does not work, to fix it i have been placing the cord for the key ...

Hi,I was wondering what are the restriction in using the Standard VGA Graphic adpater in windows Vista.Thank you ...

does anyone know when the tv tuner part of the ati v.x1300/x1550 is coming out? I bought the radeon card just so I can watch tv on my comp.All in Wonder R.adeon When i installed vista premium clean install it automatically found my pci card and installed drivers x1300/x1550 drivers. sc ...

I have a Toshiba P100 satelite laptop with Windows Vista and I can't seem to get any drivers to work with the video card properly. I have an NVidia Geforce Go 7300 Video Card. I have tried the drivers that Toshiba supplies but when I go into stand ...

I have just installed Vista on my computer with success. But I have a second harddrive (both are SATA) which I did not do anything to when installing Vista. And now when I click on this drive, the Ddrive, it says it need ...

Please help me I tried in all the wais possible to minimize the windows media player to the taskbar miniplayer but it just stays as a box like all programs!!! i tried also to go ...

I have been recently having an annoying problem with the firewall on Vista, everytime I trun on my computer, I have to go in and enable the firewall. everytime, how do I keep it constanly on? ...

I'm running Vista Business and disabled all of the nonsense that you don't need running in the background. I am a administrator of my own machine and I can not delete folders. I am getting access deny ...

A couple of users that bought recently PCs with Vista Premium from the store, can't print from citrix session. When they send print jobs to the printer everything seems OK. The printer accepts the job sent and it "Print's" ...

i get this error ((((The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'gmail', Server: 'gmail.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E))) can someone give me the steps to setup up ...

I just got a new HP and what to set up my Email hot button to go right to Windows Mail. What is the http? to get me there?Please help ...

I am part of an online class and we use newsgroups for our discussion and to turn in our work. I just bought a laptop with Windows Vista and I am having a hard time subscribing. What can I do?Th ...

Why does defrag increase the disk's "used space"? This happens with both the GUI version, and the commandline version. The command line flag "w" results in a greater decrease in used space. I used (command line) defrag c: a v to generate a report, ran the ...

Hi!Is there a way to sort the program folders like it was in XP?: Folders on top, single files below. Vista has it the other way round...Martin chatman ...

Hi,I have Windows Explorer Ultimate Its a brand new install from yesterday. After all update and installations of my software has taken place I seem to be getting a very strange thing happening. I cannot copy and paste a file from one direc ...

hello im having problems getting vista home premium to reconise my 2 external storage devices 1) my archos 504 160gb 2) my newly bought freecom 400gb hard drive. ...

Greetings all, I have be trying to remote desktop into my work computer from home. I am using Vista Ultimate at home and XP Pro at work. My company has me using Check Point SSL Network Extender software to VPN to my company network. When I VPN with Check Poi ...

When I open the Remote Desktop Connection application, I am able to enter the IP address of the computer to which I want to connect.After entering the address, I'm presented with a dialog box that prompts for my username and password. My username credential ...

I have transferred all of my email and contact info from my XP laptop to my new Vista laptop successfully. But names or email addresses aren't automatically coming up in the TO , CC or BCC rows as I type them. What ...

Can anyone tell me how to import my old messages from Outlook 2000 to Windows Eamil? Vista will not recognize Outlook 2000 and will not let me import the file I saved. ...

Is there an spelling check available in dutch? And where can I find this? ...

In XP I can go to properties of 'My Documents' and change the target so that all of the contents of that pseudo (don't know its proper name) folder live on ...

Hello,I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium. I also have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed. When I tried to save a web page (receipt) as a pdf file Vista wo ...

Ok, I'm sure this has been beaten to death but I'm sick of it already. Everytime I boot to windows Vista I have to restart the areo interface. It is not easy as I have to type a command in the run box. I hate that and one ...

Good evening. My laptop has a 15'4 in wide screen display and I also have an external 17' full screen display monitor because of migraines. For some reason my external screen displays the same picture ...

I was having a problem with my network. My computer wouldn't see anything other than my modems, it wouldn't access any networks at my place of business. On top of that my CD/DVD ROM quit worki ...

Since we are debating Michael Dell's computer usage, I was wondering if he uses RollOn deodorant or a Spray in the morning when he gets ready for work ...

If looking for a different approach and drive selectable in Vista.. Take your pick: 1. Auslogics Disc Defrag auslogics.com/diskdefrag/index.php click on the Mirror Download link for the latest version(the Cnet still has the prior) Comments: Quick and ...

This way you will be able to tell the actual write speed instead of having to guess from the write time.For Nero 6x or 7x:If you have a DWORD value of "ShowSingleRecorderSpeed":Simply Right Click>Modify>Change 0 to 1. __________If you do ...

Hi,Under XP, my external USB drive always had the same letter, "N". Under Vista, it keeps taking up the first available letter even although I ch ...

I can play DVDs on Widows Media Player but when I try to play them on Windows Media Center, there is not audio. I've checked and rechecked all of the audio and volume settings but still no audio (CDs play fine). What am I doing or not doing that there's no audio? TIA ...

When I click on a link for a video, that would normaly open the Media PLayer and play whatever video it is, it open a box to download it instead. I cant figu ...

Does Windows Vista include the ability to turn an .avi file (or a collection of them) into a playable video DVD? If so, can this be done under the control of a C# program? ...

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly document folders.My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error m ...

Hi I 've got windows vista integral edition joined on a domain on windows 2003 server entreprise edition R2;when I want to view the entire map of the network on vista i receive a error message :"the network mapping is desact ...

I have a problem with my Vista computer Registration in DNS. The situation is that the DNS Registration is not on DHCP but rather on each machine with the "Register this connec ...

Hi Guys If you enable the hidden administrator account In Vista , How can you disable it ? I enabeled it just to check it out and see what it does comp ...

Hi, How do I get rid of those > signs at the beginning of each line when I forward a message? I searched but couldn't find the option. Thanks for helping. ...

When you create a mail (message) rule it always defaults the application of the rule to after message arrives.Is there a way to apply the rule after the message le ...

When you create a mail (message) rule in Vista Windows Mail, it always defaults the application of the rule to after message arrives.Is there a way to apply the rule after the message leaves the Outbox, so that the copy of the se ...

Does anyone know weather you can use the same email address for different accounts? ...

I actually love Vista, but since a difficult installation with Vista Business 32, it will not save a restore point. I get an error (0x80042318) which says "An error was detected in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). THe problem occurre ...

Has anyone encountered this problem with Vista 64 ?Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards. DETAIL 1 user re ...

I tried opening Vista's help. It worked yesterday but not working today. Only change, I installed Winamp and did a reboot afterwards.I get a dialog box:Windows Internet Explor ...

We have just recently purchased a laptop with vista on it, our main computer is running xp. We cannot get the two computers to network together they are sho ...

There appears to be a bug in Vista (I have Ultimate so can't speak for others).Under the POWER OPTIONS, no matter what PLAN you are on when you choose the Option for when to turn ...

My Vista resources map shows the below 3 internal devices on my Platinum P6N SLI Platinum motherboard with an E6600 Core Duo Intel CPU sharing the same IRQ "(PCI) 20". I have nothing plugged into any PCI slots. One graphics adapter in the PCIe x16 slot. High Definition ...

my I.E. will not open any pages. i get messages saying, " cannot display the web page", " also that whatever web page i try to connect to it will say "is ...

I've searched the ng's for a previous answer to this question and can't find anything.Just got a new computer with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. In XP, I used to be able to add custom .bmp pictures to the ...

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I upgrading my XP maching to Vista, and apparantly since I had a custom theme with StyleXP that changed some of my icons, many of them don't show up. Folder Icons, (when they are small, they appear when they are l ...

Ok, so I am bad at acronyms. But what does RTM mean? Also, I'm running version 5600 of RC1 Vista Ultimate. Is this an "RTM" version? And can I just upgrade it with the Vista Premium upgrade? I realy don't have the money, n ...

When I try to uninstall one of my programs, I get the following error messages:Ox8002801c and 1722.Any help on what these mean? And how to complete the uninstall? ...

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Hello,I work at a college and students are bringing their new laptops with Vista (all different version) into the Help Desk because they can't connect to our wireless network. They co ...

Hi,I�ve got some problems with my DVD Drive on my Lenovo 3000 J115 desktop with a IDE DVD/RW Device.The Vista Bussiness 32 bits is preinstalled. We have Nero ultra 7 latest version installed.I can read the CD�s from the command line, but if I try to ope ...

I installed the the Nvidia 158.18 drivers when they were released on 4/17. I see now they have a 158.18 WHQL driver released on 4/26.Does anyone know if there are any differences between the 2 other than one is Microsoft certified i.e. is it worth ...

hi everyone... wondering whether anyone is having a problem like I am now with Vista and knows a solution..I create a new Internet COnnection using broadband. everything works fin ...

Every time I try to share files on my network (wireless), I get the error message "The RPC server is unavailable." As far as I know, I have all the settings right but it still won't work. I've searched online but all I ...

I have an SBS2003 network, and installed all the updates for Vista support. I previously created a Group Policy for computers to disable the use of Offline folders for my desktops. It works fine for all my XPSP2 desktops, but my new Vista ...

I have Vista Premium and I want to know if there is a way to make the command line in a specified directory. I use it for only one directory and I always want it to open in that directory. Is there a wa ...

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I have decided to dump Mozilla Thunderbird so when I started to set up Windows Mail, much to my surprise I couldn't find it anywhere on my PC. I used Help, but the instructions state to StartProgramsWindows Email and in my case, there is no Windows email icon or prog ...

I have had my laptop for almost 3 months and was running fine until this week. when i look at the task manager my cpu useage is at 100 percent and almost all of it is the SearchIndexer.exe file. Which is slowing down my internet usages and other things.. when i end the process my usage drops dow ...

Hi,I was running windows XP with active sync, before upgrading to vista, i untinstalled active sync, and after upgrade, i am unable to synchronize my PDA imate. When i double click on WMDC, nothing happens, when i connect ...

i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other options? th ...

My new notebook is with OS Windows VISTA. Can it work properly with my company server which is dealing with all other users having PCs with Windows XP Professional? Out IT manager is afraid it could not work properly. I wish you will help me wih having a quick ...

After many years working with XP Prof, I finally started to use Vista Business edition. After switching off UAC, I quite enjoy working with Vista. I have noticed however, that the startup time for Vista with the same hardware config (2 GB mem) and the same softwar ...

Is there any way to completely remove the Favorite Links in Windows Explorer? I find it takes up valuable real estate and is just a nuisance.Koka ...

I apologise in advance if I have the wrong discussion group. Can anyone help. I purchased this box set some years ago and successfully ran it with Windows 98SE. I have just bought a new machine which i ...

Aloha, seems like I am newsgroup hopping today :). Just installed Vista as an upgrade to XP. What a nice little way to spend my evening hours yesterday :).One question, I don't have my quick launch bar locked. I want my icons on one level and ...

Everytime i conect a storage device on my pc i get this error (most of the times is my mobile phone SE P990i): Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Appli ...

I have a frustrating problem I have been unable to find a solution for. today, out of the blue, I went to save a file from firefox and the "save as" window ...

I bought an acer laptop with vista pre installed, this was to run diagnostics equipment for our garage business, (Hanetech cmt pro diagnostic equipment) unfortunately this will not run on vista, we asked in store before purchase if vista had compatibility problem ...

hello i have a lot of trouble whit my taskbar on windows vista home premium for some reason i cant use my task bar i cannot select any programs from the task bar when i click on icon or page or program that had been minimized to taskbar the only think that i get its a ding sound ...

Hello all. I am stuck. I have an external modem that is connected with a serial plugin. My pc has no serial plugs so I have to use a serial to usb adapter. It u ...

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Hi, wonder if someone could help me please, here goes...I have two computers, one running Vista Home Premium and one XP Home. The Vista one was originally an XP Pro version and I purchased and reinstalled ...

I have a laptop with Vista home premium on it that I am trying to connect to a network. I can connect and see all the other computers on the network if I am wired to the network bu ...

Why I cannot install Bitlocker in my HP TabletPC. Can I install BitLocker in a TabletPC that Comes with ultimate .64 bits. I do not have TPM in my TabletPC. Can I still install BitLocker? ...

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Problems with this email client:Can't import identityrelated outlook express emails Can't add contacts from folders from an email that is composed Deleted my contact list without an alert that the contacts will be deleted. ...

tried everything...or maybe not. When i press send/receive button I get this message>>>>Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include ...

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Greetings,My posts to newsgroups keep showing up in Red...and everyone else's that posts a reply to my threads. I checked the rules setting, and there are no rules set up just yet. I just upgraded to Vista with Office 2007 as well. I unchecked the "watch/ignore" post....How can I ...

When I print an email in windows mail the message is automatically minimized on the task bar. Is there a way to change this so that the message stays open after print is selected? ...

The Word 2007 it have a translator and the name of translator it is Worldlingo. My question is, I can send, copy, print etc without the Worldlingo service? thank you George ...

ok well its been hapening for about 2 or 3 days now. When you move or delete a file on vista a small dialouge box comes up with a status bar and gives u the time remaing, files size, amount of files, etc...anyways for some reason the file ...

It will stall when printing from MS Word. Check printerdriver, and it shows "spooling". When I turn off spooling, and change to print directly to printer, it will print from Word, but not envelopes. When printing envelopes it will stall. If I cancel the ...

I am using vista ultimate and I am trying to import my fax files which I was using in window xp but I don't find import option in vista fax and scan. please help me....Thanks & ...

If at first you don't succeed...Give up? Never!Patience is sometimes more than it's own reward I have found a replacement for the dire Briefcase that is part of Vista... and it's free MS software now compatible w ...

This pertains to .NET apps.I managed to get the UAC process pretty much understood. I create the uac.manifest file, the .rc file and generate the .RES file for my applications. I use the project properties to specify the .RES file. I also use signtool to sig ...

After much searching for ways to dual boot xp and Vista with Vista installed first, I decided on partitioning my drive with the Gparted Live CD. Then I had boot problems, an ...

Hi,I have Ultimate installed on my X64 system. As part of Windows update I've seen Ultimate extras download (Texas Hold'em; DreamScene).I cannot access DreamScene, and when I've tried downloading DeskScape Animated Wallpapers that seem to rely on the Dre ...

I'm trying to use Task Scheduler and want it to automatically startup after a reboot (like maybe caused by a power failure). But I can't find a way to get Vista to a ...

I have Vista Home Premium and everday a day i get a blue screen error that says Stop 0X0000000D1 (0X000000000, 0X000000002, 0X000000000, 0X8A178C4) Netr61.sys address 8BA178C4 base at 8b9F9000It also this for extra info about the problem BCCode: d1 BCP1: 00000000 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3: ...

My wife and I have identical computers with both running Vista Home Premium.Our computers are networked so we can designate selected data to be shared.We both want to use Vista Calendar and be able to overlay them so that we can see one calendar showing the app ...

Hi all,I have Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit on a new Dell Precision M65 laptopIn earlier versions of Windows, we had a "tweak" where we could ...

Suddenly all websites and windows I viewed appear on my desktop after I end my session. Then I have to use F4 to clear all the pages so I can see the desktop. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Wayne (Vista user) Wayne L. ...

I have a great keyboard that I love. It has an integrated pointy stick and the old 'IBM' feel. It is a USB keyboard with a single USB connector.The problem is when I plug it in, it doesn't find drivers. Should just be a generic HID device. It works flawlessly wit ...

Has anyone been able to intstall the Dazzle DVC100 USB video capture device on Vista 64bit, have looked on the Pinnacle forums, some seem to have been able to install ...

I've tried to install my Artemis a million times now and each time Windows does not recognise the device and installs the generic Windows Mobile device driver which just does not work. On occasions i ...

The Microsoft supplied driver when installing Vista is not working properly and the notebook does not run in dual mode and I can not connect an external monitor or LCD Projector. Toshiba Level 3 support simply came to the conclusion that there is no driver that works at the moment ...

I installed Vista on my old computer when I first bought the OS off of Amazon, and decided that I needed a newer faster computer. I decided to build me one, and I want to install Vista o ...

Print Screen key works when Media Center is not running in Full Screen mode. However, when Media Center is using the full display, a Print Screen results in a black image to the clipboa ...

I have my home PC running Vista HP and I have my laptop running win xp home, can I remotely connect to my vista HP machine from my laptop? and if so, please tell me how to config ...

I bought a new Dell XPS 210 about 6 weeks ago and after a month the HD was found to be defective. I got the new one and got help installing it. Before the new hard drive I could play Sims 2 and all the expansion jus ...

Hello there everybody:I'd like to know how I can import my Netscape Messenger (4.8) mail into Windows Mail in Vista. It's that I've got lots of stuff which I don't wanna leave behind, and I've heard there are applications which can do this importing. Do you know of any? From Windows ...

I have installed Adobe CS3 and when I start to type something that begins "v" (virtual pc) explorer stops working. The reason it is stopping is because of the adobe version cue cpl.Is there a way to remove the ...

.. . .correctly then try again. Clicking Search icon for Windows Classic Start Menu, a menu opens with three selections. Two of search functions work fine, the third, [Search] using QuickFinder, causes the error message. I searched th ...

Using O/S Vista HomePremiumCould someone tell me how I can find Send To so that I may add locations to send files as an example, to send a file or folder on my network. Als ...

I dont know if anyone else has experienced this problem, but the icons in the taskbar; system tray and quicklaunch, the whole taskbar for that matter seems to be twice the size as it should be. The icons must ...

there was s registry edit for XP that let you define the num lock state before login..in Vista the same registry path does not exist, also no MS article seems to mention ...

BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE Hash: SHA512For reasons that defy logic, MS has always forced you to make 3 mouse clicks just to turn the computer off. There has got to be an easier way. Anyone know how?If there isn't, I will settle for a two click shut down. Anyone know how to chang ...

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Does anyone else out there have 2 instances of csrss.exe running? I'm pretty sure it's not spy ware... is it a configuration issue?It it by design for ...

I am reposting this helpful information in case people did not see it the first time: NOTE: THIS IS VISTA that is in a virtual hard disk for free that you can load on a virtual machine.... Its a good way to try out vista to see if it fits your needs.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID ...

Hello,I bought a laptop that was preloaded with Vista Premium. I have two users, user A and user B. User A is default administrator and user B was made an administrator.A program I installed crashes(blue screen) when ran from user B but runs OK ...

Just bought a new computer, and continued using my old LCD monitor. Although now I'm using it with a DVI lead. When bring up webpages the text is small, particularly on sites like the BBC and Yahoo, where there is lots of space on the screen to the ...

So I have Vista Premium and it will crash every now and then when the computer either comes back from sleeping or from the screen saver. Any help? ...

Is it possible to have the same file search feature as it was in XP?Now in order to sort by folder you need to make the column Path visible every time (the column Folder is useless because puts the last part of the path at the beg ...

I am use HP DV2000 notebook, after i install Vista i cannot use my buildin microphone. What can I do? Anyone can help me? ...

I have two 500gb WD drives, SATA.Vista recognized both, but will not allow a clean format of the slave as there is a windows driver in the HD from a previous install.Apparently, VISTA will not allow this recognized drive to be reformatted..I have tr ...

I asked this question earlier but due to my lack of expertise did not provide sufficient info. I know that this Webcam is NOT Vistasupported by Logitech but wondered whether any of the more knowledgeable contributors here might know of a workaround. ...

I have been just using my monitors speakers and they have been working fine with windows ultimate until just barely. I was just using windows looking on the internet. I left and it had logged me off, like normal, but when I logged back in the sound no longer worked. I have turn ...

Windows Vista Home Premium EditionUsing Windows explorer with <Windows Vista Basic> or <Windows Aero> appearance selected the line round the selected folder on the left is so faint that it is almost invisible. Likewise for the selected file on the right.The setup is: Mobo ...

I have spent the day trying to get my Dell XPS Gen 2 machine upgraded from XP to Vista. The Vista upgrade advisor sees no problem with upgrading and says the program ...

Hi,I used this <a href="apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp guide">article</a> to add an XP installation next to an existing Vista installation, with the difference that I used a se ...

Successfully installed/validated Vista Premium on brand new Sony viao laptop and all working well. I can open the desktop and the cursor is free to roam but I cant access any programs. Get ...

I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 not partitions, separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, ...

I recently purchased a computer from dell with vista installed. i think i deleted something i shouldnt have and am having problems with it. I need to reinstall vista, but i did not get a cd or dvd with the system what do i do? ...

Hi My OS is Vista Business.When i load a Windows Movie (.AVI) into my WMPlayer it plays the audio but not the video [no picture].On my previous XP Window it played with no problem.Since I'm ver ...

How do I uninstall photo galleryit's never worked and just says this programme is not responding and will have to close down. I'll use another more reliable program to organise and open pictures etc, so t ...

I posted this in the Vista General Discussion, but it prompted no replies. So I thought I'd try it here.I’m running Vista Home Premium with an ATI 256 MB graphics card. I have all updates. My system is smooth ...

When I reinstalled Vista I can now only connect to the internet in safe mode and not in normal mode. Any ideas why? ...

Hi,Do any of the old viruses that affected XP work in Vista as well? Are there any known new viruses that affect Vista yet ?thanks ...

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I have my email account with yahoo and complete the set up with window mail. When I click sendreceive, it asked me for username and password. I've been ...

I get a clear display of words, however, the display of pictures is blurry. Also when I am trying to look at weather radars, the picture display is not the correct c ...

I have a problem with this errore popping up. I have checked the forum but cannot seem to find the answer to it. I found one person with this problem buut they were trying to run clips in windows movie. I am however not trying to do anything ...

On the occasions when I have uninstalled stuff I have noticed that the start menu shortcut and the folder in "c\program files" remain and I have to delete them manually. Is there any way to make this happen automatically?Cheers.Si ...

I Have The Windows Vista Home Basic Built In To My Computer And I got It From Pc World On 12.2/2007. Everything Works Great Except For The Realtek Sound For Recording My Voice. The Problem Is The Sound Rumbl ...

I just recently purchased 2 HP computers for work and they both have Vista Business installed. The server we have is SBS 2003 RC1 and it has a shared fa ...

Hi,I'm having an Intel 539EP modem which I use to receive faxes. It worked just fine until I created a new Vista administrator account and deleted the old one. When I tried to configure Windows Fax and Scan, when creating a fax account, I got t ...

How to make Vista display same details for all folders?In XP it was simple, disable remember each folders view settings, set the view options, then apply to all folders.In vista, how do I make vista display the sam ...

Hi...I just upgraded (or downgraded, not sure of that yet) to Vista Ultimate. My system is an old Dell Dimension 8200 with 1.2 Gb of Ram, since its an older system some of the hardware has compatibility issu ...

i need a replacement for hyper terminal for windows Vista. i use this for upgrading control modules on a nearly daily basis for work. i need something that will allow