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Hi All, for some reason, I do not see all of my programs listed (just happened) AND when I select a program, Uninstall is no longer an option on the top bar.Thanks in advance Steph ...

Has anyone managed to get Tiger Woods 2007 working with Vista with an Nvidia 6200?My game runs but the graphics are very poor, missing part of courses are black.... :( ...

Was able to download games just fine for about 3 weeks. Now, it lets me go through the motions with the run or save box, when its finished it disappears. I have downloaded these very games from them on vista already and can't figure out what the problem is now ...

In Outlook Express, I could download my emails from my Bellsouth account AND my hotmail account. I have only been successful in downloading from my Bellsouth account, thus far. Please advise.Jessica ...

i can't see message bodies neither it's mail nor news. i see only a attach but it also won't open. my mail virus scan is off. ...

My goal is to create a "group" so that I can send an email to several people without having to manually enter all addresses in the "To" field. I'm running Vista Home Premium. Using the Help feature and searchi ...

Hi,I can't figure this one out myself and McAfee technical support merely directed me to a help page for Outlook Express. :(Each time I open Windows Mail, McAfee Security Center launches and scans each and e ...

I am migrating from Office 2000/XP Pro to Office 2007/Vista. I imported my Outlook and set the imported data files as my default. All worked fine. I want to be able to have Microsoft Mail share the imported Outlook co ...

From: "paulp" Subject: Windows Mail Sharing Outlook Contacts Date: Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:40 AMI am migrating from Office 2000/XP Pro to Office 2007/Vista. I imported my Outlook and set the imported data files as my default. All worked fine. I wan ...

I am a video editor. I need to make thumbnails from my movies. So I export movies into jpegs. But when I go to the dir with the 5001000+ jpegs from the movie, I am greated with a wonderful 5 hour wait. It only loads the ones in VIEW. So when you scroll down you have to ...

Hey, I'm about ready to tear my hair out on this one.I get about 4 to 5 DVD burned during the "Complete PC Backup" process coming back into my computer room t ...

I have been experiencing many problems with restarting or shutting down Vista, home premium. I have gotten the blue screen twice, and on several other occasions just today, I have had to shut down by holding down the power switch. This seems to me to ...

I have a brand new clean install of Vista 32. It does not detect the PC idle state. That is, I can leave the mouse and keyboard untouched for minutes or hours, and the screensaver never comes on, monitor never turns off, PC never sleeps, etc. I have all these things set up ...

HiI have the HP Scanjet 4600and I just installed Windows Vista, The Scanner is not compatible with Vista, I check the HP website and they advise to wait until Late March, Anyone have a solution?.ThanksMichel ...

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 running XP on the network, but when I try to print from Vista, the printer starts feeding the paper, ...

I recently had an issue with DELLs Allinone printer setup and in troubleshooting the problem, uninstalled the microsoft fax stuff. Now I can't figure out how to get it back. can anyone help? Upgraded to vista premium from windows media center 2005 on a Dell Inspiron E1705. ...

I have added a new Vista Ultimate computer to an AD domain and created shared folders on the Vista machine.The Vista machine can access all shares on the network (XP machine, W2003 Servers, etc), but the other machines on the network can see the name of the Vista computer, but cannot access ...

The answer to this is possibly very simple,but i can`t see it. on my keyboard i have shortcut buttons ,when i press email it goes to my yahoo email account page. i want it to open windows mail. in the keyboard setup what address do i put in the ema ...

I've tried importing the mail store from another computer, and took the opportunity to try importing some older messages.What has happened, while I was trying to organise things, is that my messages seem to have multiplied several times. I now h ...

Every time I boot the following message pops up "The proceedure entry point apsInitialize could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll" Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks ...

When I reboot in XP, the RAID set is not powered down (or spun down), and there is no delayed spin up at the RAID screen.When I reboot in Vista, the RAID set seems to be powered down, and there is a long delay at the end of the BIOS when the RAID screen loads. I can ...

Suddenly and without known cause, I have a new toolbar across the bottom of my desktop displaying all the drives on my computer. My normal desktop was only icons and a taskba ...

Hey allI've got WMP 11 installed on Vista business, but my MDA Vario ii is not compatible with it when trying to sync music files and i think it's causing problems with transfering music from napster to my phone too. Is there a ...

I recently used sync centre to synchronize files from my desktop to my laptop, unfortunately I chose to make the complete directory offline and now th ...

Wheres the windows picture viewer where it was possible to "Scroll" through the folder in full screen without haveing to exit the program for each picture. :( and i dont intend to start that lausy media center each time, just to see pictures. cause it screws all custum setti ...

We run software called Retail Pro. Recently we installed a Vista machine, and when this software is run it comes up with an error about files being unavailable for barcode information. The program runs fine, but we use it to print lables (that have bar codes on them) and when we attempt to ...

hi, i'm using vista parental controls on an account and restricting to certain websites, however if media player is required to stream media on those sites it wont allow it to open, saying that it cant run when web restrictions is on, is the ...

I am have such a problem when I use my mouse pad on my laptop a lot of the times when I tap my mouse pad to click on something or to scroll down a document it shrinks my window or minimizes it instead of doing what i want it to do. is anyone else havi ...

Harold E .....read about other users having difficulty opening attachments in Mail, I have struggled also with this problem I click on the attachment that tries to open but a warning box from M/soft Works appears.. "Works was unable to open th ...

Hp dv600 laptop with vista does not seem to detect the built in webcam This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vot ...

Hi, I have this problem with upgrade from XP pro to Vista business. When installation expanding files (22%), it stops on error message: Installation can't prep ...

Hello, I am trying to use the Microsoft Managament Console to apply Group Policy to individual user groups on a local level. All Group Policy settings that I define are applied just fine. However, the Software ...

What email provider can you use with Windows Mail? I currently use Hotmail but you can't use it with Windows Mail so what can you use? ...

I recently upgraded my laptop to Windows Vista and I have a i730 pda smartphone from Verizon. In the past, I could place my pda in its cradle which was connec ...

I cant delete anything from either my inbox or my deleted folder in Windows Mail. I am running Windows Vista Premium preinstalled on a Dell. Anybody have any ideas? I would love to get rid of the hun ...

I have new pc with vista on it and downloaded and installed some fonts, but not all of them show...i went to fontfolder and made sure i installed them all, even selecte ...

I have a new PC running Vista Ultimate connected by ethernet cable to a Belkin F5D7632 wired/wireless router. My old XP machine, which is on the same desk as my new PC, is connected to the same router via a Belkin wireless connecter. When I access some w ...

I had Nvidia driver 7.8.8 Vista update gave me a new driver. I could not find out how to tell what the new driver was until it was installed. The ne ...

Why is My media player not giving me the option to burn a cd or calculating the time I have left on a blank CD. At first I thought it was what I was trying to burn but I tried with a list I just burned two days ago for my BF and it didi the same thin ...

Top posting is often frowned at in newsgroups.Does Windows Mail allow a signature to be automatically inserted after any text copied from the previous post? Michael Chare ...

Hi,On my old computer I could drag the taskbar along the bottom out of sight when needed. But on this one I can't seem to get it to drag. I do get the double ...

No matter which application I use I cannot record sounds either streaming or PC input. I have the Hi Definiton Audio Card. I have th Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec. Is anyone else experiencing this? What was your resolution?Thank you.DU ...

Hi, lately when i have downloaded zip files Vista has associated them with Notepad. I see a "notepad" type of icon instead of the "zipper pack" i used to see.I want to re associate the .zip extension, but don't know what .e ...

I have decided to junk Windows Vista and go back to Windows XP Pro. However, when I boot from the Windows XP Pro disc I after it loads drivers shows a blue screen and says things ...

my PSP will not show in windows media player 11. is there a addin. ...

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I have about 50 folders and it would be nice to only display those folders with unread messages. Is that possible? Thanks, Jack ...

Hello, I've got problems with Windows Mail I can't send any email and I also can't delete one corrupted email in my outbox. I saw the rest of this discussion and it seems that there's no solution for this. Does MS work on ...

Hello. I am trying to export Window Mail Messages to Microsoft Outlook but error message is always waying that "The export could be performed; An error occurred while initializing MAPI."Any one knows how to resolve this problem ...

I had an issue with Vista this morning, it wiped out my Thunderbird mail and Windows Mail newsgroups. After setting up the usenet server (msnews.microsoft.co ...

Please help.......I am havng a problem opening my mail I can get in my mailbox(sometimes) other times I have to put in my password and thats as far as I can go....Do I have a setting wrong??? I can ge ...

i changed from the 3d view (the one that the open programs show on the desktop) to classic view. How do I get the original view back. ...

Is there any emulation mode or any way to run applications with 16bit code? I have an app that installs but will not run. Thanks.:( ...

Are there any free disk imaging programs out there that will allow me to backup a hard drive's data to DVD and what would the program(s) be? (including the OS) Even if it is a pro ...

Can any one help me i cannot seem to burn anything to CD/DVD with vista i open my photo folder and select a file and choose the pictures i want to copy i then hit the burn button on th top tool ...

My computer build is mother bored P5P800 Pentium4 3.0ghz 2G RAM Nvidia 7600GS The problem I have right now is when I play CSS or HL2 or any of the games from Steam. ...

Is there any way to sync with Windows Mail's logical folders store with the actual file system mail store?I ask this because I imported my folders from OE. I then logical ...

After creating a new email when I click on the Spell check icon I receive the following pop up window error."This language is no longer available for spell checking. Please select another in the spelling options dialog"I went to Tools > Options > ...

Hello I am enjoying using tags now greatly. I have a problem though...I have noticed that there are duplicate files showing up for the same tag, but only one can be deleted. For instance, the tag is "Go ...

As abovehave a folder that contains 995 files of vector EPS files (for use in adobe illustrator). total folder size is 171mb.when i open it from the vista e ...

I have a new Acer laptop which came with Vista and am trying to install programs. The security is frustrating. Defender reports some programs are 'Not Yet Classified' even the 'Acer eAP Launch Tool'. Another program has installed a starter application on b ...

I need to get a new pc for work purposes, and my employer still uses the old Microsoft java for its servers. I can not get SUN JAVA to work (I have tried and had my companies techs ...

how do i remove msnbc news feeds?It's not in the IE7 feeds list. ...

I realize this is herretical in nature but the new Vista file Explorer is a very real problem for me. The Navigation pane comes and goes as it wishes. Sometimes the files are single click activation sometimes do ...

Hi,I've been having some problems lately with my HP computer with Vista. So I decided to do a system restore. It wouldn't go through so I followed directions 2 more times using different dates to restore to. No ...

Was wondering if any themes are out yet. Also, reading some of the things in this group, am wondering if MS will be coming out with a MS Plus for Vista type deal, seeing how they've ...

I asked a question about fonts on this thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=11017 because this forum does not support pictures, so please help in resol ...

I can access the internet from a program ie: the online help menu of my anti virus program, but if I try to use my IE icon, I get an error message. (IE has stopped working, blah blah blah) A ...

Just wondering how I can make the little cursor more visible when it mouses over some text. It nearly dissapears and it takes me a while to find it in the middle of a document. It happens in everything from IE7 pages to Word and VISIO documents. ...

Just an FYI. I was giving a presentation on Vista and we did not have a Vista machine in the conference room so we decided to use remote desktop. My machine at my desk has Aero turned on. When accessing the machine from a XP laptop in the conference room, none of t ...

I was at this website the other day and I wanted to open something but then it told me I needed the new verison of Adobe Flash Player, which I though I had, so I was wondering if I should download the new one, is it free?( I think the website I was one was ...

My Winodws Media Centre give me the "Blue Screen of Death BSoD" when starting in full screen mode.How can I change the programme proterties so that it starts but not in a FULL SCREEN mode. I have triend looking throu ...

HiI just bought a new laptop with the Vista Business Edition and stupidly followed MS's marketing and uprgaded to Ultimate, but now the sound doest work (audio out or mike in). The device manager shows that the SigmaTel audio driver is working properly and the taskbar shows the loud ...

During installation of Vista I backed up my data using Easy Data Transfer, but after vista was installed I can't import the data. Every time is comes with the messag ...

Hi! I have a clean install of Vista home premium. I updated all my drivers. But when I want to install some games or other software, it goes until the middle of th ...

I have a lot of animations that displayed in XP but have not been been abke to view them in Vista Home Premium. If anyone has the answer can you possibly share it here. Thank You! Randy ...

I have a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I am trying to access the internet without success so far. At home, I have wireless connection to a router and, from there, cable connection to the intenet.A ...

Hi very much a newbie here and would welcome your advice on a very puzzling vista problem. My new laptop (toshiba satellite P105S6147) using vista home premium downloads MS updates and google mail BUT when I try to ...

Click on Help in Windows Mail and you get Windows Help! Is there any way to just get Windows Mail Help? TIA.Gerry ~~~~ Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...

When sending emails with winmail (vista) I can type out emails then click on 'insert' > picture > double click on required picture and it appears under my message ..... always wo ...

This might be a no brainer for you all but I need help! Where do I find the Set Associations control panel? I received an email with what appears to be a .doc (126 KB) attachment and when I try to open it get the error message "This file does ...

Everything in Vista Mail (Home Basic) is working perfectly, except that I cannot reply to any email. The error message produced is: "The message could not be sent. The ...

HiWhat version of Vista do I require in order to be able to connect to aan Exchange server via Outlook 2003?I recently purchased a laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed, ...

Hi,I am having problems finding things with the search in Vista. With XP when I set it to search system and hidden files it stayed that way. It also didn't give me ABSOLUTELY everything includi ...

I had Roxio DLA installed on Windows XP, which isn't compatible with Windows Vista. Well, now I get an error message at every boot (annoying) saying its not compatible. Uninstalling is fruitless since the check on Vista which says its not compa ...

Hi,I have set up a number of 'Synch' profles betweem my Main PC and my laptop. All Ok so far.However, one of them is a 'Synch' to all my CD Rips and that is a BIG 'Synch'...Questions:1. I assume that the 'Synch' replicates the files on the lapt ...

I have Windows Vista Basic. I want to be able to import photos from my Canon EOS300D to particular locations, which I want to be able to choose, and to ...

Hey guys, I always use the import feature on Vista whenever I plugin my USB Drive with pictures on it. Problem is, it's not there anymore. I can do it manually but I'd rather have the convenience of having it popup in Autoplay. It's a p ...

After installing the latest Vista drivers they correctly appear in Device Manager in the Network Adapters and Usb sections , but when i set up the broadband connection in Internet Explorer it does n ...

I shipped a machine that used to be my old development machine. It was running Vista 64bit Ultimate edition. When it was still with me, I would frequently connect to it via remote deskt ...

This is a huge mistake! On a fresh Vista INSTALL, I accidently wrote my password into the User Name field for my Adminaccount (leaving the password field blank)I could, of course, rename my ...

Fellow Gamers!!!Currently running home premium 32 bit. I ordered the 64 bit upgrade disk. My question is how is the 64 bit version. I can play most of my games now under 32 bit version, cod series, HL2, BF2142, Ect....no problem.I am curious if you see and performance increas ...

Hi! I am a standard user of WinMail. My keyboard does not send the right characters to the screen. For example I can not write the @ sign! The administrator does not have that problem. Where did I go wrong} *that was suppos ...

Hi Folks,I remember seing a blue panel at the bottom of a music folder where I could edit ID3 tags, but now it's gone.Any ideas about getting it back?Thanks Donny ...

Hi,I have ati x700 graphics card on toshiba m70 series notebook..when i put my notebook on standby or hibernate and then i resume windows...sometimes the screen shows vertical lines..as if the screen doesnt repaint itself.. the file attached will clear thing ...

hey on my friends myspace page, when i try and click on their pics or blog or It then says this and I am on wireless Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: You are not connected ...

hii just installed vista and i cant find where to set the left/right volume balance i read in another forum that it was in sound>speaker properties>levels but in mine there is only a mute button a ...

In Win2K and XP, the QuickLaunch toolbar could be relocated to the Desktop, or to any of the other three screen borders. In Vista, I can't seem to do it. Clicking at the left corner produces the "multiarr ...

Is there anyway I can turn of the indexing function. It seems to really be slowing down my whole syste.Thanks in advance ...

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. How do I tu ...

OK, if I can't get these Vista problems fixed, the Wow ENDS next week! My biggest problem with Vista is how long it takes to cache the video thumbnails when looking at a folder full of videos (maybe 2030 videos). It seriously takes up to 5 mi ...

I tried Add New Hardware for ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI that was invisible to Media Center but worked well in XP MC. The ATI "vista 32 bit" driver was already on my ...

i am buying a new computer that comes with a trial of MS Word, but to buy Word alone, it costs $150 i was wondering if i could install Word 2002 when the trial ...

My windows update feature has failed the past 2 updates to detect that critical updates were needing to be downloaded and installed. I have the misfortune of having purchased a Gateway computer and the support team there is ...

When running as an administrator, with both UAC turned on and off. When I go into parental controls in the control panel, and select an account I want to set up controls on. The parental controls dialog starts to paint itself, and then exits out with a dialog that say ...

I have separated partition for swap file, and I see message "Low Disk Space". How I can turn it off? Please don't suggest to buy new HDD. ...

I went through the process of setting up an account but when I tried to test it by sending an email to myself, I got the following error message: "The host 'smtp.aol.com' could not be found. Please verify tha ...

I, like most am new to Vista and Windows Mail. Use to microsoft outlook and its views. In Outlook views could be "Show in groups" which would put all messages from each ...

I have 4 1gB sticks of Kingston memory in a Gigabyte GA965pds3 ver 3.3, with bios at ver F10, running at normal speeds. Due to a concern about faulty data after doing an Easy Transfer from another ...

i recently had someone redo my computer and i went to reinstall a game that i have and my computer says that i dont have enough RAM how do i install more ...

I'm trying to find out what the file tree would contain and how it is arranged, if I had installed Vista Home Premium on my new machine and hadn't done anything else. I ...

Hello, I just upgraded from windows XP to Vista Ultimate. I am having a very hard time connecting a second monitor/TV to work together, "mirror" When I connect my TV, using a video component cable, it does recognize it, ...

Any reason why Documents and Settings folder can't be accessed? I tried to change permissions for the folder (including in Safe Mode) and got access denied? Any ideas will be appreciated. ...

Every time I defrag my new Windows Vista program, I end up consuming more space then when I started out. Is there some type of hidden files where temporary information is being stored. If so, how do I go about emptying ...

I have tried to set up a wirless network in two diffrent places and the wirless works fine for others but my comp. only has limeted access? i have tried all the obvious things like the automatic help that vista provides. Whats wrong? stu ...

I can not get explorer to sort the recorded tv folder by date. I have tried all the views and nothing works. In xp explore the detailed view sorted by the date modified for all folders ...

I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Basic Home Edition and then installed Office 2007. I then imported my PST file from my old computer. Having problems with Outlook now! Each and every time I try to navigate, ie. click on a ...

I got a trouble. I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic.When I try to set up my screen saver the preview screen says: " The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or one that's compatible with Direct3D".What this means? Can som ...

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel wireless card and experienced issues (could not connect to the internet) connecting through a public WiFi access point. ...

My roomate recently bought a new HP with Vista on it and I really liked it so for some reason I thought it would be cool to take the anytime upgrade disk that came with his laptop and put it on my XP HP ...

Appears it's as easy as hacking XP. Watch the video. See how a hacker can so easily get control of a Vista box.techreckoner.com/windowsvistahackingvideo/Partial Solution (includes hoping a ...

I am configuring the control device with Group policy. I want to Prevent standard user from writing data on to USB memory drive. Basically, only configure this policy Removable Disk: Deny write Acc ...

Does anyone know if you can have your incoming mail messages seperated by day like it was with Outlook? ie. division tabs that say Today, Yesterday, 1 week old etc.Thanks in advance. ...

Is there a way to synchronize a blackberry device with the new Windows Mail?Thanks tmeria ...

I have setup gmail in winmail, I can send email, but cannot receive email. I have quadruple checked the settings on gmail and winmail and no luck. I have norto ...

When I try to open Speech Recognition, I just get the message "If you would like to learn more about speech releated tools and support from Microsoft, pl ...

I recently set up automated backups to an external hard drive for Vista Home Premium. First manual backup worked fine but all subsequent incremental ones (automated or manual) have failed with "windows error 0x81000001.& ...

I have a Canon printer installed on an XP desktop computer. It was networked with another XP desktop computer. When I installed Vista on the computer without the printer I was unable to get printer networking. I've gone on line and saw many ideas on how to do make it work. Nothing has worked ...

A while back in this newsgroup, someone from MS said that an Epson person in Vista printing group confirmed that Espon is promising a full featured Vista driver for this printer in April.I can confirm that the USA Epson site indicated that there is no such plan to provide a fu ...

We currently have customers using windows XP but they will shortly be upgrading or buying new PC's with Windows Vista, we currently program using SQL Server and Visual Basic we have been told that it will not work with Vist ...

Q: How many Microsoft testers does it take to change a light bulb? A: We just noticed the room was dark; we don't actually fix the problems. Q: How many Windows programmers does it ...

Hey guys, I upgraded from XP to Vista a while back on a Dell 9300 that came with 2x256 DDR2 PC4200 sticks of RAM. I recently purchased 2x512 DDR2 PC4200 GSkill RAM from Newegg with the hopes of upgrading. H ...

using: Windows Vista Home Premium and deskstop PCI'm currently using dialup but i'm still planning on getting highspeed with wireless internet connection to share with my sister and not completely sure if wireless will work in my configuration. When i had XP installed in network connec ...

What GUI problem have you notice in Vista? here is my list:One of the thing that i notice is that the security center icon in the Window Defender turn off dialog box is verry fuzzy, unclear and jaggy. Ok turn off Windows Defen ...

Is there a way to "Set Affinity" besides using Task manager, perhaps making the setting permanent for certain programs? Thanks, ...

Every time I try to run IE the system almost crash. I can´t connect to the internet by IE. BUT if I go to the icon besides the clock (downright) and I select the net options, ...

I come back from work and turn on my computer to check my mail, and Vista tells me that I have new hardware installed and must reactivate. Any idea why Vista is detecting hardware changes that never happened? I don't want to have to call MS activat ...

I notice to the group my english is not very good, but I understand everything that I read. I don't now how procedure. My notebook is new. Sometimes when I turn on the message apears "irql_not_less_or_equal". Others I use the computer for a while ...

hello I'm having probelms with installing my printer because my printer does not provide the window type. They only support windows XP, 98, Me, and 2000 professional. I dont know what to do. Can some one help me with this problem? ...

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Impressive. That's where the "Wow" went.If Microsoft actually intends to do as they say and bring Vista's code to the same level as Longhorn Server with Vista's first service pack I might actually recommend V ...

i need to connect to my xbox from vista. in windows explorer i need to be able to enable or disable psv. how do i do that? also how would i type into a browser or windows explorer the log in details for my xbox? i know i type in ftp:\\192.168.0.150 ...

I made myself a new Outlook 2007 datafile on my vista ultimate. I had a mobile partnership setup with my HTC S710 (which is running windows mobile 6), and it worked fine before i made the new datafile. Aft ...

My desktop running Vista is online and working well. My Tablet running Vista is on the local network and will file share, ect.. But will not go online. ...

I have just upgraded to windows vista from windows xp When i start my computer it askes me whether i would like to start xp or recovery mode is this normal Would i b ...

There is something wrong with my install of vista. It's worked fine for several months and now I am experiencing the following:1. Control Panel won't come up. I've tried various ways of getting to it, but something flashes on the screen than goes away. Too fast to see wha ...

When I first got my computer, I clicked on magnifier by mistake, now I can't get it off and its driving me mad. Please help! ...

Started in this group using Vista's, Yech, WinMail, and messages went thru after signing up for community access. Now using Thunderbird, which coincidently is the name of a really bad shortbottle wine in California I was introduced to in college, and I'm not seeing my messages OR any respons ...

I´m having a problem with Live Icons in Windows Vista. When I enter to a folder that contains video files all I see is the icon and not the live preview. I´ve tried: Give icons the max size possible: Same problem Check or uncheck the “show icons and not preview” option in contr ...

Favorites is now shown in a different way , in IE ( as history was shown in box in XP ) . Is there a way to customize favorites in the old convenient way ? ...

I have Vista Business and trying to install Adobe Reader. At the point where I hit RUN, I get an error that says more or less that the Temp folder is not writeable or t ...

Hi,Once created, is there a way to rename a scheduled task, or does a "new" task have to be created with the desired name? Thanks ...

Is there a way for Vista to recognize an external Mac drive so that I can format it? Plug & Play sees this as either a USB printer or as a removable drive without any media inserted ...

Is there a way to remove the uninstall files created when a Vista update is installed? They take up increasing amounts of disk space as time goes on and this will impact disk ...

1) Fresh install If my hard drive crashes how do you reinstall the Vista Upgrade? 2) Disabled startup software warning How do I disable the warning and enable my software that I installed? If ...

Hello, When I start Vista Enterprise I get 23 error messages "Rundll32 has stopped". Any suggestions on what to look for? ...

For some reason the background of my Side Bar went opaque white not the original see through to the desktop. Any way to fix this?Thanks ...

I set the background color to black and when I start up my computer in the morning it changes to white, I change it back to black and it stays that way all day. ...

We have two accounts set up and I am the default. My husband has emails that he needs to copy and save to an outside source, but we can't figure out how to do it. On my side, I ...

Hi, I am curious as to what windows old files are, I have a laptop with dual XP/Ulitmate boot. and on the partition where ultimate is are these files, which look like an OS, I noticed them when I was doing a full scan last night, t ...

I have Headset Microphone,first (When i Run Microsofts Speech Recognition it will works and hear me...).Then, when i shutdown and log on to my computer, i run speech recongtion again and Microphone will not ...

Hi,I have a Gadmei USB 2.0 UTV330+ TV BOX that comes with XP Drivers. However, when I plug it into Vista, guess what, it does not recognise the devices.It shows it as USB 2681 when installing, and the XP Drivers of course do not work.I have se ...

I am using an Amilo Pa 1538 +b laptop from Fuj / Siemens. It is possible to capture video from my DCRHC40E with an acceptable rsult, but when trying to export an edited AVI to the camera it does not ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 on a desktop and latop. I'm using offline files to sync a number of folders between the 2, with the desktop as the host, but I work on the laptop most of the time. My question is, is there a way I can force it to always work of ...

ok, i recently bought a new laptop with vista home premium and im trying to get it to network to my old windows xp computer. they are both connected to a wired network and they both connect to the intern ...

If you've been experiencing internet dropping, hanging, ect. on Vista, you're not alone. I was ready to throw the thing in the trash. I finally fixed it by going to the Network and Sharing center, click the View Status on the connection, click Properties and then ...

Hi everyone. Windows XP had a problem with Persian keyboard layout since the beginning and it was never solved. During that period of time, I've always had to restart in safe mode and ...

Hi, I'm trying to work with someone who was managing hundreds of contacts in outlook express in the windows address book. She has contacts divided into folders so that when she is co ...

want is the pop3 & smtp want do you put after that ? ...

I'm posting this in a few places, so hopefully someone far smarter than I will run across it. I'm at my wits' end and I can't get any assistance from Microsoft or Toshiba on a twoweekold notebook! Here goes:1) Two or three times, I've g ...

I cannot burn recorded TV (recorded w/Media Center) to DVD. I have a Dell XPS 410 w/ Intel Core 2 6600 @2.4 GHz, 2 X 500 GB HD and 4 GB RAM. I just upg ...

I just bought a new computer running Vista Home Prem. and was wondering if its possible to have it so I can install a program and save the icon on my desktop without having it go on every other user's desktop.... ...

Sto utilizzando il nuovo pupillo di Microsoft da circa un mese e l'impressione peggiora ogni giorno che passa.Il motivo? E' presto detto. Nel compiere il lavoro di sempre rilevo sorprendenti cali di produttività rispetto a quando ...

I made the mistake of installing nero 6 on Vista, and now I don't have access to my cdrom drive. I get error code 19. I have read a few other suggestions, but th ...

the only thing i can find on the Microsoft site is a page, telling me to end task the program causing it.THAT IS A DUMB ANSWERi need to run all those programs, they are not viruses or spyware. ...

Hello,I am getting a bit frustrated with trying to save items such as web pages etc as pdf files to the documents folder of my choosing on my PC. I am the administrator and still get the message "You don't have permission to save this location......" I am have Adobe Pro ...

due that mark all as read is too slow, Steve remember me that Ctrla +CtrlQ selct all posts inside a Ng and mark all as readed but after a time using this Kb combination sometimes only ONE post is marked, not ...

i am trying to set up my windows mail account does any1 know how i find my email account info? im on aol. ...

i have just set my email account back up to windows mail, i can send email but do not seem to be able to recieve? my isp settings are correct as i have double checked them on another pc down my fathers house w ...

Can anyone help me with the settings necessary to set up Windows mail with a SKY account. I know the basic procedure for adding a new account but SKY customer service wont tell me what the servers adddresses a ...

I cannot import anuything from Outlook. Anyone know a work around so I get get my old mail and contacts into this foolish thing, beside buying Outlook for Vista? ...

this is my hardware:ASUS P5LD2 775 VM INTEL CORE DUO e6300 2 X 1GB DDR 667 e5300 KINGSTON GFORCE 7300gs HD SATA2 250GBthis is my rating:processor 4.8 memory 2.9 (very low!!!) graphics 3.5 gaming 3.2 disk drive 5.2thi ...

i DELETED RECYCLE BIN BY MISTAKE HOW DO I GET I BACK?THANK YOU DENNIS SMITH DS2580@COLUMBIA.EDU ...

All of the sudden the favorites drop down menu does not expand when clicked.. Well it does after you click the little arrow.. I want them to always expand.. Where might I find this option ? Thanks ...

money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?postversion=2007051405 Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corpora ...

I checked the box to set up high contrast and the colors on my screen now make some data unreadable and the background to everything is black. I have attempted numerous times to reset this feature to get back to my or ...

Howdy all, using the "shields up" site to check our security, everything checks out except the computer responds to pings!I've been trying to turn it off by making new inbound rules to block ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 (custom ...

Looking for some good Vista sites/newsgroups ? Thanks Barry ...

Using Windows Update under Ultimate, I get told of four updates to Office 2007. They download ok, but do not install: I get a failure error code of "91A". Anyone know what the cause of this error might be or how to ...

I am using the pad mouse on my laptop and Vista seems to make the arrow turn into a directional cursor which moves me all over the page or opens things without me clicking.very annoying!Help! ...

After installing several updates from windows update I have accumulated NTUSER.DAT file in my C:\Users\Marek folder. This file can't be deleted. Any advice on how I can remove these files or even what they are. Thanks. ...

I have been seeing the message that the host service is shutting down on a daily and sometimes more than once a day basis. This seems to happen when I am in email but not exclusively so. My PC i ...

Oh, oh. I guess I accidently deleted the wrong font in Vista32 ultimate.Now when I go to change the font size, the 96 dpi std. set has a line thru it, like it's not available anymore. (see the attached screen shot). Also, notice how the ...

I have a separate HDD for all my data. I just discovered that all the directories and files within are locked, i.e. are 'Read Only'If I right click a folder and select 'Properties' and untic ...

Every 5 secs. Pop up Windows Explorer has stopped working. APPCRASH explorer.exe 6.0.6000.16386 Fault mod: indwvm.dll_unloaded Pops up at startup Any help t ...

I have encountered my first software problem with Vista ( Business 64 bit ) and it is with Nero 7 XXX. I installed my copy of Nero Essentials to find out that Vista 64 doesn't support Nero. So I emailed Nero ( Ahead ) and questioned the ...

Hello,In Win XP there was an option on the dialup connection icon (in the notification area) called 'Status' , which allowed the flow of data to / from the I ...

Any recomendations for WIndows Vista Anti Virus? 32 Bits? 64 Bits? AVG 64 bits it�s a good choice? And any recommendation for Windows XP SP2 64 bits? ...

My son had a copy of Windows Vista on his computer. He completely removed Vista from his computer and as his father, I installed Vista on my computer. I cannot activate it because it says the activation in use. Do I have to purchase another copy of Vista or is there a way to activate this prod ...

I bought a knockoff Nokia usb cable and can't install drivers on the USB serial controller in my device manager. I think i'm crewed but thought I would ask if there is help. ...

Hi,I have made a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate having bought the System Builder Version. Everything works absolutely fine, but one thing surprises me. I used the trick mentioned in the book Windows Vista Inside Out not to type the product key and not to activate automatically in order ...

I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my computer this afternoon (clean install) then I installed Visual Studio, then the Visual Studio Service Pack, then the Visual Studio Service Pack for Vista. When I click on the Icon on the desktop, I get a message each ...

Can anyone help me change the way Vista Photo Gallery saves photos to the Pictures location, as well as recently imported location, as well as a catagory I set by naming a Tag, or creating a folder which I name? I've tried working with the program, but it keeps put ...

I know this has been asked before, the error message of "buffer over run" and the application (quicktime) terminating, but it is now also ocurring i ...

When I import a video from Media Center (.dvrms) into Windows Movie Maker I get the following error message: "An installation package for the product Sonic CinePlayer Decoder Pack cannot be found. Try the installation again u ...

WMP will not load from the start program or by clicking on any of the associated files. The only way it will load is by by right clicking and then clicking on run as administrator. What's the problem??? ...

I have Windows Vistahow can I add files to a CD that already has files on it? I have tried the HELP which was no helpit just told me that I could do it. I have performed this task before on my other computer with XP and had no problem. I just tried to add files to a CD ...

I have recently tried to netowrk my new PC with Vista and my old PC with XP to share files and a net connection. Is it possible to run a cable from my DSL modem to my Vista, then from my Vista to XP via a PCI network card? I'm just looking for a cheap but efficeint ...

OK I have a Dell Dimension 9100. It has dual core, 4GB RAM, and Intel VE/100 NIC. I have loaded Vista 64 bit Ultimate, Vista Home Premium 32 Bit and currently Vista Ultimate 32 Bit. I also installed XP SP2 (32 Bit) which worked just fine. The reason I went thru all this tortur ...

How can I make a shortcut to an FTP site in Vista? Using XP this is easy using My Network places, but there is no such thing in Vista (apart from "Network" which does not seem to have a possebility to add shortcut to FTP servers). I would like the shortcut t ...

In 2 days time I take possesion of my new laptop. Vista Business. At home I have a desktop PC running XP Pro. The desktop has a broadband connection (non wireless). It doesn't connect via a router but via a USB single user ADSL modem. How can I connect to the net ...

A friend has WinVista Home Premium. She is connected to the internet via dial up using AOL. She said that sometimes when she is on the telephone she can hear AOL trying to dial and connect. How can she ...

I'm having a time attempting to connect to a domain. When I set up the configuration via control panel, I'm presented with the following error when I attempt to log in."The join operation was not su ...

Hi,We are trying to migrate to windows Vista but facing problems with existing firewall solution as the tcp/IP stack has been revised in vista, I am not a very techie guy, But have few questions, If some one can answer, It would be a great help.Q: ...

Vista Media Centre ErrorsI am logged in as Administrator Administrator is a member of the local Administrators group.When loading Windows Media Centre I get this error message:Windows Media ...

Environment :Windows XP SP2 Windows Live Mail Desktop BetaError Message :Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. This account does not have permission to synchronize ...

My email all of a sudden is asking a username and password whenever I open it now!! I enter what i think it is correct and it says,"Protocol POP3, Server Response:' ERR Authentication failed', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Serve ...

I cannot send an email to the email address listed below. I can send email to other addresses, but I keep getting this message with this particular email address. Any ideas what is wrong?? T ...

When I rightclick and choose "Empty deleted items folder" the only email that deletes is the newest one. What happend to my "delete all" function? It was working find a few ...

How do you export your Windows Mail messages into your primary internet service email account? I.E. att, sbc... ...

When Mail wants to compress the mails, an error message appears that the program is unable to clean the Windows Mail directory. The Archive of Windows Mail is possibly damaged. It is advised to use ScanDisk to repair the files. ...

Hi, I just bought a new Dell Dimension E520 with a Vista OS. It is networked at a business. I have two related questions...1. I cannot 'see' all of the computers on the network. In order for me to see some of the computers, I need to say that I am in the workgroup ca ...

I tried to setup all my subfolder directories all with the same layout in Vista Ultimate, by selecting: Tools, Folder Options, and View. Or: Organize, Folder & Search, and View. However selecting “Ap ...

I have been searching Google and cannot find anything maybe I am phrasing the search the wrong way?When I open a Save or Open dialogue box there is a button &quo ...

hello! im using windows vista premium, and i installed my CREATIVE Live Cam Optia, i installed it properly but they keep on tellin' there's an error with the installing and when i opened the camera icon and start clicking the photo c ...

Is there anyway I can set up a visual popup or indicator that my battery power is low, I have set up an audio one but I keep missing it when I have turned the sound down so as not to annoy everyon ...

HiI have a program that I want to uninstall, however when I go to add and remove programs I am unable to uninstall it as a file has been corrupted. I am also ...

This may make me a bit unpopular but I have found (to my horror) that when a "clean install" of Vista is done on a newly formatted HDD it runs pretty well perfectly! I did this on a new PC I bought and have n ...

I've finally managed to get vista to sleep properly (in the past it would just wakeup after 2 seconds after setting the computer to go to sleep) but now ...

My daughter got a laptop with windows vista. it had mcafee on it and I took it off. I put AVG on it and her computer is locking up. I don't know if this is the AVG or not. Can anyone recommend a good ...

No idea why this started happening (Not really anything has been installed or changed in the last couple of days) but quite a few things are crashing, for example, explorer.exe crashes when opening images (Using the 'Preview' thing) or opening the Games window, Defender simply won't ...

I am helping my Dad set up a new PC; and ACER model that has Vista preinstalled in it.I actually installed MS Works for him, as that is what he is happy using.However, when I try to open MSWorks documents, up pops Word for Windows, but then says there is a registry entry missing, and shuts ...

Have a new laptop with Vista OS and an old Canon BJC 70 printer. Printer uses an LPT port. Anyway feasible to use this printer on the Vista laptop?Thanks Mike B ...

I buy a new computer with Vista Ultimate on it. My old computer is a dual boot with XP Pro and a boxed retail version of Vista Ultimate on a second hard drive. I also have a l ...

Hello,I have a hard drive array (raid 1) that recently reported a probable failure SMART error. I believe this failure to be bogus, as it is most likely the result of an unexpected power loss. I'd like to figure out how to disable the ominous "backup ...

Hi all,I have a lady friend whose running Vista Home Premium on a new Gateway desktop system. Lately, she's been experiencing a Runtime error while running up to 5 applications, including JASC ( now part of Corel) Paintshop Pro 7.0 ...

Idiotic but irritating....when I click on the send/recieve all, I get the error message screen and it lists that states under tasks check for new messages on windoows mail. If I select one or the other just check the receive all or send all, it w ...

Anyone know the answer? Hardly normal want the full upgrade fee however the Australian Vista (Windows) mag from Derwent & Howard says you can upgrade on line as all Vista install disks are the same ...

I switched to Windows Vista Home Premium and I totally regret it! If you are planning on switching, i strongly suggest you stay with 2000, XP (etc.). DO NOT SWITCH! ...

I have a weird problem, when I try to use the dreamscene background, I only get half on the screen on top with the bottom half in black. I am running SLI, could that be the problem? I have tried reinsta ...

I have working on this problem for very long time. My problem is when Vista remote desktop connect to the server 2003, I found the remote session has been established in Term ...

I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 with 3 monitors for some time (23 months). After downloading and installing Dream Scene trhough windows ...

I have been using my SD card reader, which is built into my computer, since I purchased it in January. Today, I insert my card, and it doesn't even recognize that it's there. The ...

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and my sound card is a SigmaTel High Defininition Audio CODEC well I have no sound how can I fix this, I have Vista Ultimate. it says no output device installed. But when it says configure it is not ...

I am trying to install intel viiv 1.7 software,could some one please tell me where the above(the title of this ) is in services or processes so i can stop it to a ...

I go to control panel > Programs and features > click on Microsoft Office small business 2007 and click UNINSTALLI get setus error "the language of this installati ...

Got a new build with the Intel DQ965GF board that's using all of the onboard hardware (gigabit NIC, HD Audio, Video and a TPM module). What happens is that ...

Hi,I purchased an OEM copy of Windows Vista 64 Ultimate. I have only used it on one computer. I have needed to reinstall this copy a few times now, and I am currently unable to activate this legal copy. Who can I ...

I just bought a new laptop with the vista operating system. I drew a picture in paint and it turned out very nice untill I saved it. To give you an example of my problem If I draw a square and then save the pic when i reopen it and try to change the background color there is ...

Is there dhcp server in Vista? When I'm connecting my laptop (WinXP) to desktop computer (Vista, static IPs)using WLAN I have to specify static IP on laptop. I'm using it in many diffrent networks and I would like it to obtain IP on its own. ...

ok i will explain my computer on my network worked fine 2 days ago. yesterday i was at a friends house and it worked fine today i am unable to sign in to MSN or WoW on my network but i ca ...

I'm a techincally challenged grandma so please answer me like you would a child. I am running Vista on a new computer big leap from Win 98. I tried to respond to Craig's List posting and Windows Mail insists I set up a non HTML acct. to do so. I am using MSN and Hotmail. I ...

I have been scanning through previous posts but have not found a remedy for deleting an email in my outbox. I can still send and receive email. It just constantly asks me if I want to send the one email in the outbox, which originally was in my inbox.Any sure fix ...

When I used Outlook Express I had no problem accessing my Voicenet mail. When I upgraded to Windows Live Mail (which I like better) I can no longer read mail. I get the following error: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this ...

running windows vista wife uses yahoo for her mail when she types an email the thing skips misses letters e