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Hey. Im no tech wiz, and have very little idea about all this. But I recently had a computer made with Windows Vista. Due to technical problems it resulted in Vista being deleted and reinstalled and a ...

I want to be able to create a zip file to send someone. But, they can't unzip and it's easier for them to use a .exe file. Problem: In Vista, the path for stationery is : C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Stationery\ In XP it's: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft ...

I am having problems getting technical support from Microsoft and Gateway on this problem I tried for 4 hours last night. I would apreciate any help.I cannot delete messages from my deleted folder. I also have an email stuck in ...

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New drivers for many Creative soundcards Vista 32bit and 64 bit: us.creative.com/support/downloads/ ...

Hello,I am running the following specs:AMD X2 3800 3gb Corsair XMS Dual Channel Ram eVGA 7800 GT graphics card. Abit KN8 SLI "Fatality" motherboardI am curious to know what these numbers in the WE are based on. Comparing my PC vs th ...

I have an old Canon BJ200 bubble jet (black and white) which I wanted to use in Vista Home premium 32 bit. It isn't listed in the driver list specifically (that ...

In Beta I was able to set the initialization commands in Phone and modem Options in the control to have my modem perform a Silent answer and it worked.Now with Windows Vista Ultimate installed Windows Fax and Scan (W ...

I have run the windows diagnostic tool, and now am stuck with a icon on the task bar. Which i can't remove, anyone know how ?Chris ...

How do you get Vista to allow more than one remote connection at a time? When I try to connect remotely, it tells me that the other person has to log off. How do we fix this? Andy ...

I'm running Vista Home Premium on an HP n7674n desktop.When the live TV window is not on fullscreen mode, the TV picture stalls and gets very choppy. When the window is fully maximize ...

I was considering purchasing a new PC for some time now and I had hoped that Vista would be far better than Windows XP but alas, I fear I am reliving the ME days. Having browsed these forums and hearing friends and relatives tell me of their Vista OS woes has caused me considerable fear. Then t ...

Creative ALchemy 1.3 for XFi preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/Downloads/Creative%20ALchemy%201.3.zip Creative ALchemy Project allows you to run your favorite DirectSound3D games on Windows Vista as the developers intended with full hardware accelerate ...

Vista Ultimate Retail/Upgrade in language english, possible change language in Italian version ?Thanks ...

I finally got everything to work right with Itunes and Windows Vista except one minor problem.On my ipod, the blue "dot" does not show up when a podcast is new, so in a long lists of podcasts, I can't tell which ones I already listened to.Is there a way t ...

I need your expertise . . . please MS Windows expecters . . . WHAT IS THE BEST ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE for VISTA!!!!!????? I have tried McAfee, Norton, and PCCillin. ...

Sorry But most users want to be able to Delete folders and files they created or created by programs for temporary use.I don't wan to use Dos like com ...

Hello.I recently upgraded from XP to Vista Hope Premium on my Dell E1505 laptop. I now cannot connect to my wireless network (Linksys WRT54GX4 router). Vista "sees" the network, but will not connect owing to an "unknown problem." Both Linksys and Dell ...

AT LAST! some people are coming to their sensesand seeing vista for what it really is... trash ...

Hello,I have a toshiba laptop with vista. I did a first shrink on C: with good results. But now, like others, I cant go further down. I downloaded PerectDisk 8 and di ...

Using windows Mail to read USENET it seems the "Block Sender" feature is missing from the "Message" menu.Please tell me MS has not taken away the ability to block posts from people who pollute USENET!Thanks, Bob ...

Is there a way to have the IMAP Inbox items into the regular POP account's inbox automatically (without the IMAP folder being inside the Inbox folder). ...

I've got an Acer TravelMate 2490 Notebook and a Telkom ADSL 5102G ADSL Modem at work and at home. I can't connect wireless to the routers with Vista at any location, but connecting to other wirele ...

how many hrs. does it takes to dowload windows vista,i try to install it since yesterday at 5:00 p.m. and computer still running saying: it may take several hrs. ...

Is there a work around or an update to allow installation of the modem sharing client in Vista Bus? Working in an SBS2000 domain.Each time an attempt is made to install the service, the PC reboots. ...

Vista Home Premium...Sorry if my ignorance of Vista security etc. makes these sound like very dumb questions...Defender persistently blocks at startup a number of applications* I trust ...

Almost every time that I am in Windows Explorer such as my computer or my documents, it always quits responding. Do they have something to do about this. I am VERY busy, and I don't have time for this problem. What ...

I am currently using Windows Vista Ultimate edition. When I tried to start Windows Meeting Space, I got the "Windows Meeting Space cannot start" message prompt. When I checked with the troubleshooting guide, one of the item is to check Windows ...

Hi all,Does anyone tried Adobe photoshop elements 5 or premiere elements 3 with vista 64 bits ? The adobe support is unable to tell me wether this works.Regards, ...

I liked Windows Explorer in XP because it worked. Now, basic functions are hosed.A few examples: 1) Copying fill from a CD to hard drive and there is the green bar that shows progress (I guess) and is there ...

I recently installed Home Premium on my PC. I now want to install Ultimate instead and would like to reuse the Home Premium version on a different PC. It has already been activated with Microsoft. Will there be any issues in installing the Home Premium Copy o ...

We got 2 broadband connection at home. I was wondering does VISTA can support balancing loading with 2 connection. Can set which connection to be the def ...

Windows Vista 64bit.... When I start my Windows Mail, and press "send/recieve" it checks my mailaccounts as it's supposed to do. If I press it again to send a mess ...

Hi,I have just tried to back up my files using the back up facility on Vista Home Premium. Unfortunately, I received an error message which said:The backup did not complete successfully. The file or dire ...

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Can anyone tell me how to get an Icon back to my shortcuts in Vista Ultimate. For some reason over the past few days, and I've only noticed it now, my ...

I have Vista 32 ultimate and after I reboot the desktop will not display after I log on. If I do ctrlaltdelete after logging on and launch task manager I can run 'explorer' as a new task and all is fine but it will not start automatically.I've been running ...

Question: I have a PC with OEM Home Premium and a brand new retail Ultimate Upgrade disc. Can I use it to upgrade my home/premium to ultimate?Thanks,Char ...

Does Vista have a Ramdisk? ...

Hi guys, Linda here with a small problem!First off, I have Vista and love it...except for one VERY annoying bug that I have; about once ever few hours of browsing the internet, all of a sudden my right click "freezes" and doesn't work. I'll try to right click a link to ...

Immediately after I install Vista Business (before I connect to the internet) one of my spyware checkers (XSOFT) finds two problems:1 PCTattletate File Keylogger C:\Windows\System32\ ...

Hey all,I have had Vista for a month or so, was good. I had to format and reinstall due to my system not booting at all, thought this would be simple enough, put XP back ok, ran Vista install. All was fine untill just after the bit where the sc ...

I'm doing some experimenting with a Vista system and I've come across some more in depth documentation of UAC which explains some expanded configuration options. To get to these options, it says to run the s ...

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is anyone able to add email accts because i can't ...since i've upgraded to vista ...

Cannot get all user profiles to receive emails at once? only user logged in gets up to date emails. Can anyone help please. ...

I cant restore, I get a unspecified error message that it cant be restored no mater what restore point was chosen. ...

I am encountering an error message when I try to check for update as it is telling me to (I am connected through LAN) The program can't check for definition updates.E ...

Let me kill some rumors:1. Yes, you can get the Product Key from the WAU license, but it will not let you reinstall the version of Vista as an upgrade to itself so that you can retain all your other program installations. You MUST perform a Clean Install of the prior ver ...

I had to reinstall Vista after it was activated.When I try to activate for the second time in less than a month, will I have to call India and give a long set of numbers, and explain why I am reinstalling ?I have not changed any hardware at all.Please help me to understan ...

In XP, 2000, etc., I was able to easily find and modify the "send to" folder for each user by adding a shortcut to "notepad.exe" and then all my "send to" context menus would have notepad in them.In Vista I searched for and ...

Hi all, I have a slight problem with some icons on my Vista OS, whenever I use to insert a CD/DVD or a USB storage device the Autoplay pop up box that comes up and it has all the icons in from the sofware that you might want to use. Now whenever I ins ...

I am now getting the following error message most times when I swicth on my PC:"Display Driver R300 stopped responding and has recovered".Is this serious? ...

I've been doing a lot of copying of a 15 MB file onto a network drive, and every time it is at least 3 times as long as it takes on XP, but also, the dialog sp ...

I just got a 14 inch widescreen notebook and, rarely, the pages, images, words, et cetera are stretched out by a few pixels. This is how it is right now. It usually does ...

Hi all, Everytime I open the Save As window from various applications such as Word, Illustrator, etc. I am trying to set the width of columns to be "Size all Columns to Width" this is what happens when you right cl ...

I installed a fresh copy of Vista Enterprise on a Dell D620. Somewhere there appears to be a phantom instance of the MSI insaller running on my machine. When I try to i ...

I have a Desktop computer with Vista UltimateThe Monitors switch themselves off (mouse click to wake) after 20 mins. In the CONTROL/PANEL POWER, I can adjust this and save this setting (to never off or 3 or 4 hours off) yet it falls back to 20 mins off without any reboot o ...

Ever since I migrated to a Vista Business computer, the eye dropper tool has stopped working in several applications, including FrontPage 2003, Adobe Phot ...

Our previous computer crashed and we were given a computer with Vista. Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to email from a web site/s associated with my company and a s ...

This is completely unacceptable. Never mind the lack of support for common or garden software, which they have limited control over I admit, until this rubbsih with simple operations like file copy and file move is fixed, the OS is completely unusable. It's beyond comprehension th ...

In XP I would use the search for "Computer" function to search for a computer by IP if I couldn't find its Netbios name, but I cant find this function in Vista. Someone please tell me they didn't remove this very useful search function! ...

Hello all,I would like to say that my internet time synchronize is not working so this is what I have done so far... I've tryed to update my time with every server but I get "An error occurr ...

Hi sinds earlier this day we have windows Vista ultimate installed. When the installation finished i started installing needed drivers so the also the one for my sounds card ( an 5.1 Surround So ...

The leftshift and/or leftcontrol keys always "stick" when pressed in conjunction with the Home, End, Delete, PageUp, PageDown and arrow keys. That means that any key press or mouse click will ...

I have upgraded HP Pavilion a1129n and now some of my USB ports don't work, and the ones that work doesn't pick up usb 2.0 for removable USB flashdrives, ...

After upgrading to Vista Home Premium I can't get Windows Mail to start. It says transferring messages and addresses from Outlook Express but hangs on message 3 and becomes unresponsive. I suspect the mes ...

Have been working for over a week with tech support from all parties Microsoft, HP, Verizon, Norton. Outlook 2007 would not send E mails, would set in outbox unsent, but would sometimes forward to a f ...

I had to reinstall Vista. I already had it activated. Now that I reinstalled it, will the second activation fail ?When I had Win XP, I had to call India. and read them a bunch of numbers, and I had to explain just what the heck I was up to, in order to cause the activation to fa ...

two part question,i upgraded this pc to windows vista home prem. i know when upgrading, a folder was created, windows.old what if anything can i delete from that f ...

I am calling an MS DOS database application through a shortcut on the desktop in Vista. I get "Insufficient Conventional Memory" errors. Changing the memory parameters in the shortcut properties has no effect. Also, I changed the program icon in the ...

I Bought A New laptop with Vista on it, and i transferred my music videos to my laptop. Some of my videos dont play or they play very fast. Im not very familiar with the vista, so can anyone help me with this issuethanks ...

Anybody can help:I downloaded software to play video on the internet not download video to the harddisk, but my video without volume, I think the Norto ...

Hi,When I boot up Vista my network shows 'Limited Connectivity'. If I then physically disconnect then reconnect the LAN cable I can then access 'Local and Internet'.If after bootup if I use Diagnose and Repair it has no effect. I loaded drivers from the Intel website for the NIC (Intel 82566DC) ...

I have a client that encrypted there my documents folder on their pc. Then it was upgraded to Windows Vista Business from XP Pro. Now they can't access their file ...

Hello all,I seem to have a problem:I have the retail, "PowerTogether" (Microsoft Business Partner) Vista Business.Originally I installed it back in January as a test, activated it, ...

Did what I usually do on XP: created dummy user w/admin, drop real user to limited, hide dummy via registry. On XP, this gives "Administrator" and real user login icons on the login screen nice and tidy. Not Vista. Still only sho ...

how can I remove this > symbol from forwarded mail.thanks ...

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I have recently got myself a new webmail email address for work, and am trying to get this new address configured into Windows Mail. My address is xxx@outdoorrestore.co.uk, where xxx is not my name. I am having problems w ...

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Email works fine when u first install. after a short time u can not send email out but you can recieve. I have an email in outbox i cannot erase and all new email goes directly to outbox and does not send. What a mess.. ...

im useing windows vista and windows mail i keep geetting unknow error has occured come up when i try to deleate messages in my deleated folder ?i have 192 in there that need to be deleated any help on this one ? ...

I have imported my address list from OE6 on my old computer, and find that only some of the names complete automatically (and yes.. the option is switch ...

How does one sent an email to a number of people without showing all the recipients every ones email address. We could do this on xp outlook using the old address book!!!? Dano ...

Hi, does anyone know where are the emails being saved ? In Outlook Express, we can go to Options Maintenance to check the folder. But I can't find any in Windows Mail. Thank you ...

Hi,In the adressbook, maps can be made on a functional basis.When sending a mail and trying to acces these maps it isn't possible anymore. The search works fine but one ha ...

I am using the Restore utility to restore some files. I get to the "Add files to restore" file explorer screen to select the desired files. When I click the column header for "Date created", "Date modified" or "Size", the rows are not sorted (I don' ...

It seems MS are now aware of this problem, see: support.microsoft.com/kb/933942/enus I've asked for the hotfix, but I'll be very annoyed if they start my support countdown for this call. Nigel M ...

I've set up a computer with both XP and Vista on it. The computer has two physical drives drive 0 is C and contains XP; Drive 1 is divided into two partitions (Drives D & E); Vista is installed on D. E is empty. This whole setup is for me to "play with". I wi ...

This will probably be a generic question hopefully I can make it more detailed. When I first start my machine on Vista, and I let it start up completely after Superfetch has loaded and so on, the RAM usage is onl ...

I saw this post before, but cannot find it again, was hoping there was a solutionI have an HPdv9205, with a builtin webcam. Most of the time I cannot access it all the time. I am sure it is not a hardware problem, since it does functio ...

I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is showing the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've installed it, removed it and did all of the tinkering I can think of ...

The only reason I want to use winmail is for the voice recognition factor. I configured my gmail account to a pop/forwarding account. But gmail wants to know what email address I am forwarding to I would like to know this as well. Also, any good tutorials for ...

I have Outlook 2003 install on Vista business x32. I can export my local folders to Exchange/Outlook…….Where is the export file so I can import it into Outlook 2003?How do I import back into Outlook? I have searched the HD with non in ...

Vista's health report reported that Avg. Disk queue length is 2. What can be done to imrove it (Not Defraging the disk) ?Thanks Or Tsemah YSIDE ...

Hi there,I am running Vista Home Premium, Publisher 2007, Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer. i want to print 10 business cards on some precut business card paper. i designed my card, then when i go to set the ...

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 ...

Scenario: I want to save a new file using "Save As" with a similar filename to an existing file1. In the Save As window I select the desired destination folder (SAVE IN:)2. In the file window I find a file with a similar filename to the one I want to name the new file a ...

For some reason, every time I start my pc, system configuration automatically starts up with the pc telling me that I have made changes to the way Windows starts. Even though I have not made any changes to my start up items and I check the box to tell it to not show ...

Is Defender a necessary program in Vista? I am trimming the fat on the start up programs and wondered if Defender is truly needed, I have a anti virus program running.. ...

Looks like Aero is still unsupported on Intel 910/915 graphics chipset. I do have 128 vram but chipset has no Aero capability. Intel is still tight lipped when or if at all they will release a dedicated Vista driver.Those who don't have Aero, how are you living your ...

Hey there, When I receive certain emails with attatchments its telling me I cannot open them and I need to set the association file? I did try looking there, but have no clue where to go and what to ...

Please help!! After hours on tech support between HP, Microsoft, back to HP, I am about to cry! I am stuck in the supportless warranty void and tech support wants to charge me for help!I have discovered a problem trying to download software to vista my experience is this: ...

today I use wmp to playing a video (the video file is wmv ),and open the windows live messenger ,then the machine is halt if I play rmvb file use the real player ,the syste ...

Hi,running Vista Home Premium and when I try to start a backup I get the error code 0x80071A91. I have followed the instruction at this page: 'Vista Backup error 0x80071A91 and/or failed Windows Updates Blog' (tinyurl.com/2 ...

Hello, I am logged in as the administrator in Vista Home Premium. I want to change the Internet Time Sync Settings in the registry. I know what value to put into the registry locations with the name "specialpollinterval&qu ...

Hi, I have Windows Vista Home Premium on a computer with Intel Core Duo CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVIDEA GeForce 8800 GTS, and SoundBlaster Xtreme Audio card. However, when I place a DVD movie into my Sony DVD player and burner, I get no soun ...

My remote computer is connected to a Linksys WRK54G router by a WUSB54GC adapter. When I first installed Vista and set up the wireless network, it was pretty stable. Windows update offered a driver update which I applied. Since then ...

Is Vista a step backwards? I don't need all of these UAC controls. For many years now I have gotten along just fine with few hindrances to efficiency. Now Vista comes along and I c ...

hiI just installed Vista RTM in my system everything works fine; but the internet connection is there & no network problem found; but the browsers is unable to open any page,error as "S ...

Hello everyone!I have a question regarding connection to SQL server using Management Studio Express on a computer with Vista Business while using a VPN connection to the networ ...

All my music files seem to double up on vista.Every track is in twice.And when you have a lot of tracks,it takes a lot of time to delete all the extra tracks.Anybody got the same problem? Regards,Jerry. ...

Hi i have just built a new system around a E6400 cpu with a 7600GT(waiting for 8800 to come down) 2gig Ram etc, installed Vista 64 on a sata drive and runs like a dream also put ...

After installing Windows mail new with copiing the mailfiles I have files double and tripple! Therfore : 1. How can I clear the double Files without paying for a Programm 30€ which I use only once!2. Everytime I open WMail I ...

Hello, my preinstalled Windows Vista Ultimate (from DELL) is not able to set a default printer at all. Not even the XPS Document printer can be set as default printer.Any idea from anybody?Any help highly welcome... Regards Matthias ...

In addition to the generally dire reimplementation of Briefcase under Vista, another (XP/preXP?) issue has (re)appeared on Vista HP.I finally caught the briefcase out in the (badly designed) Update dialog, the "master" version is ...

I wanted to just change some mic settings so i went to control panel as you normaly would, but this time it just says "Windows explorer has stopped ...

Hi,I have a system with two SCSI drives and two SATA drives. One of the SCSI drives is the boot drive showing up as 'C:' drive in my system. The other SCSI is a data drive. The two SATAs are also for data.Under 'Disk Management' in 'Computer Management', I ...

As some of you with older Sound Blaster cards have come to realise, Creative has just deemed the Live! series at the end of its life cycle hence no more support (not even for XP) and certainly ...

Hello, I'm trying to install Microsoft Money 2007 Deluxe on my new Dell Computer. But when I insert the disc, nothing happens. Normally I get the window asking if I want to read or view the disc, but in this case nothing. I've tried ...

Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.Problem: My Outlook Express does not update corre ...

Hi, rescuers and experienced users! After I installed the subject and some large nomber of software I use a tuneup period for my new PC begun. While this, Vista once invited me to test memory at the co ...

I have a Gateway Laptop running vista and I have been trying to decide between dual booting xp pro, or running it on Virtual PC. This is to solve program compatibility issues with vista. I could not get xp to install on my new formatted partition. When I tried to boot off the xp pro cd when it ...

Anyone running Coffeecup 2007?? If so do you know anything about this error when I tried to upload my html code to my site I get, DSN lookup: invalid host name. No matter what I do I can not upload an ...

Hello!When can i download from MS Update the Extras called Windows Dream Scenes? I have Slovenian edition of Windows Vista ULTIMATE. So... i can't see this update...There are NO this Extras for dream scene...Tha ...

When I move a folder, I now see just the outline of the folder. How can I change it so I see the entire contents of the folder that I am moving and not just the o ...

Hi: I have Windows Vista Ultimate and I try to install FTM and appear an error. Appear this mesege: "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script re ...

FYI there's no indication on this site that if you try to access it from Firefox that half of the functions won't work.For instance, I spent ages hunting around this site trying to work out how to post a message only to find ...

It seems that Vista HP can't even do games right. Have you tried the solitaire that comes with it? So, I copied the one from my xp machine. I have even successfully copied the VERY old 3d PInball and both work just fine..... Don Guillett SalesAid Software dguillett1@austin.rr.com ...

I can't get my background to change. It allows me to change colors but doesn't allow to to use a picture as the background. ...

Hi All, Has anyone had problems with Vista turning their monitor off while they're still using the machine?The problem I'm having, is if I'm watching a video, or playing a game that doesn't use ...

I have tried to install Adobe reader for Vista, but when the file is ready to install I get an error that says that the partion with the "Temp" folder is full (which it's not) or there is no writing acess to the folder. Any tips? ...

I've upgraded my XP station to a beta vista version voor testing out some new software which should have worked faster with vista but the software had some bugs and is back for de ...

Hi,I have Sony DSC P10 Digital Camera. When I take videos (MPG Format), Windows Media Player 10 on Vista does not play videos to full length. Videos are played around 3/4 of total duration, howeve ...

Over the past few days Media Player in Vista (Home Premium Edition) has started playing WM Video, Audio & AVI files very slowly with no sound.It exhibits the same behaviour with MP3 music files. Media Centre is also failing to play these files.However, bizarrely, it st ...

Does anybody know how many workstations that file server that has window vista can support? So far, i know the window xp home edition can support to 5 workstations, window xp pro support up to 10 workstation. How about window vista? Does a ...

I can't see where this is possible, any help?Thanks, George ...

Okay now I may have missed something, but I thought that getting a roaming profile was as easy as going to the properties of the user in AD, then going to the profile tab and in the textbox next to "Profile Path" placing something like ' ...

My partner has to enter his password every time he opens MS Outlook to access his emails. We have a Sony Vaio VGNSZ4 with MS Office 2002 and Vista. He has tried to save his password but it won't save it in any of the settings. I use Windows Mail ...

I have just upgraded to Vista one question:Previously in OE when I went into a newsgroup, say this one, above the task bar would be a counter nnn messages, nnn unread, nnn not downlaoded.This seems to work for mail now, but not newsgroups.What am I m ...

Just in the last 72 hours I have started to have problems with my Vista installation. Whether I start the computer in Safe Mode or regularly, the explorer.exe process runs up my dualcore processors to 100%, or thereabouts. The average usage for the p ...

I downloaded the backup files like I was suppose to discs. I think, because I had problems with my computer and had to take it down, only I couldn't bring it back with the discs, thank heavens it had a recovery on the pc. But, I can't go back and redownload those to f ...

Although I will buy a new, faster PC with at least Vista Home Premium on it maybe within the next year, for now I'm considering getting a Vista upgrade so that I can test things I create/use in XP for compatibility with Vista. Things like programs I write in VB6, and also OE stationery scripts ...

I need to set up a VPN to my office where I have a XP pro workstation and Windows Server 2003 I use Vista Premium at home. I am a novice network user and have no Network Administrator at work to ask for ass ...

Everybody the bought MS ME for $200 raise their hands haha. ...

My son bought Halo Combat Evolved and installed it after we upgraded his PC to Vista. He could never attach to Multiplayer games He could get a list of active games, but when he tried to connect, it timed out no response. After trying several things, we disabled ...

I installed a game it placed shotcut icon on desktop. Game didnt install properly so uninstalled.Now it want let me delete the shortcut as it says that it cant find the program.How do I delete this pesky shortcut? There is no security info under that tab under ...

Ok not much works with this terrible OS but playing an MP3. now how difficult can that be????Ok open an MP3 and nothing. I can see title etc. so I look at Task Manager. mfpmp.exe at between 75 and 50%. No sound. WOW. Anyone have any ideas other than tossing thi ...

Today in a newspaper advertisement for Dell computers directed at business customers, the ad gave customers a choice of Windows Vista or Windows XP for each computer being offered ...

When I use the "Photos" screen saver provided with Vista, it stops working after a few minutes of activity and a "Problem reports and solutions" box appears with information about using regsvr32 to unregister ...

Hi I bought vista premium oem in feb witn new hard drive. Sset up hd installed vista. end of march motherboard died had to buy another make of board after a few days i get you have 23 days to activate message its being used on another com ...

blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=378My comment: Dah.. of course Vista is windows Me II twice as horrid as windows Me!!!! lolIs Windows Vista going to be a repeat of the Windows Me marketing and sales disaster that Microsoft experienced back in 2000? Over the past few weeks I've come a ...

My Sony DVDRW DWg120A will burn dvds everywhere except windows DVD maker, where it either freezes up or gives me the message "DVD Burner not found. Please make sure a DVD burner is installed, and then try again." I know my dvd Player is i ...

Cannot complete backups Using a USB drive, Retrospective 7,5 message received Windows\System\HDD.dll is either not designed to run on widows or it contains an errorusing Vista Home Premium ...

I run a 3.2 GHz Intel 478 socket processor on a ASUS motherboard. Unfortunately after installation of Vista Ultimate only a 'blue screen' appears and installation needs t ...

I have a couple of keys (one from the download, and one I got at an event) for Vista Beta 2 I think. I had it installed, but no longer. I've read about the new offer for people with these to get an upgrade license.if I don't have them installed, how do I go about installing the "upgrade&q ...

I've been reading bunches o' posts here in advance of moving to Vista soon, so I thought I'd post the highlights of my plan in case I've made some incorrect assumptions.One of the goals is not to have drive letters that flip depending on which OS I'm in.Before starting, I shoul ...

I have Vista Home Premium and i can't disable DVD subtitles in windows media center.Enerything fine if i play the dvd in windows media player 11.I have an ATI 9600 xt video card with the latest vista ati driver.Than ...

When I attempt to add a domain to my Vista PC I get a pop up error box ComputerName/Domain Change The following error occurred attempting to join a domain. An attempt to resolve the dns name of the DC in the domain being joi ...

Vista Business User I want to change the expiration timeframe for my password currently set to 42 days. When I get into local policies under administrative tools I see that the 42 day setting has "greyed out" and I can't chnage it. Any ideas on how I can make this change?Thanks ...

I'm using Vista 32 bit Home Premium. I was unable to delete messages in my delete folder and used your fix of Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintance/Store Folder etc ...

I could't send or delete an outgoing message. Due to ??? I couln't also send further messages. The email is blocking anything.Who could help? I even tried to get a new account, to change the order ... ...

I have a local network that has severial Intel NetPort Express 10/100 print servers connected to it. I have severial computers running Windos 98 and XP Pro, these computers are all ...

I just got a new HP PC with VISTA and every inch on the widescreen display, the line of text is cut off or displays only half the line of text (upper half). As the text scrolls on the screen it corrects, but the n ...

I keep getting this problem:Problem signature Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033Files that help describe the problem (some files ...

Hi all !! i have 10 GB in the System Volume Information folder ! how can i get free up this space !? i allready try to clean up the system restore but the files are still there !!this are the ...

Hello all. I just received my first windows vista (32 bit) for testing We have an MRP called 4th shift which is a 32 bit .net 1.1 framework application.When I try to run the client setup, I get this error: "Setup will not run under Winnt 3.51". For some reason, the ...

Can I install Exchange 2003 in Vista. ...

thank god i have another computer with XP, cause Vista sucks. nothing is compatable, can't play the same DVD's that i play on XP, Can't get Nero to install, And I have a fax modemn on my computer that is totally useless without Windows fax, which does not come with vista ...

I do have a lot of problems with the hibernate and sleep function. Since two weeks I guess I receive every time an error when starting up my pc. Ever ...

Hello all, today I discovered my Happauge PVR150 is no longer working on my windows vista home premium machine. I know for a fact this card was working yesterday until I was working on my dlin ...

IE7 worked great on new computer with Vista Premium but now won't connect after upgrade to Vista Ultimate. Any ideas? ...

Trying to install Home Basic. Running two separate internal hard disks a Maxtor 7L300R0 (comes up as 6L300R0 on Maxtor's site) 300gig and a noname 40gig the computer came with. When I try to install, setup informs me that it cannot install to either driv ...

I want to delete differnt folders how do I do it? ...

I Downloaded a MP3 music file on my second hard drive. When I try to delete it, it desplays that the Destination path is to long. "It tells me that the file name(s) would be to long for the destination folder." "Then tells me that I can shorten the file name a ...

Hello, No video, only sound when I play my DVD camcorder mini discs. The vista media players however, works fine though. I tried loading the Vista codec with no luck. Please advise. Many thanks! ...

I can not get two Vista machines (both running Home Premium) to join one another's meetings with Windows Meeting Space. Both PCs are on the same private subnet, both PCs have OneCare installed. I have ...

Somehow or another my TCP/IP has gotten corrupted. So how do I delete and reinstall? Highlighting the protocols in the properties box then grays out the uninstall button. Any ideas other than a system restore? I have tested my computer in both a wireless and wired environment and it doesn’t ...

We have a 3 computer peer to peer network with 2 XP Home computers and a new Vista Business laptop with Office 2007. The XP machines talk to each other and share files effortlessly. The Vista laptop can see both XP machines and can read files on their drives but will not allow us to ...

After upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate I seemed to have lost administrator priveliges. One feature of Dreamweaver is the ability to click on an image to edit, using another program, and it says you must be administrator to preform this function, a ...

I bought my new laptop with vista no problem but i bought one of the games off the HP game console ( BEJEWELED 2 DELUXE) after paying and downloading when i try to open the game it says that this game has been locked by your parental controls enter pin to conti ...

Thank You Steve Cochran. You have solved my Vista Mail problems and my Recovered Message folder is gone. Your a genius. ...

I know this problem has been listed before,. Has anyone found a solution to the problem of not being able top open attachments in Windows Mail? I have completed all the suggestions through "Help" and have had no luck. I have Macafee Anti. installed. ...

I am going to buy a new computer. I set is: 1.Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2.40GHz, 1066FSB, 4MB Cache, LGA775, 65nm, BOX 2. Gigabyte 965PS3, P965 Express, DualDDR2800, SATA2, RAID, GBLAN, ATX 3. Kingston 2 x 1024MB 800MHz DDR2 NonEC ...

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium (build 6000).In attempting to run the ...sfc /scannow... command from the Adminstrator: Command Prompt (with ...

Hello... i was wonder as to how i would get my old files from the windows.old file to be added to my computer as before.. but they seem stuck int he folder.. i can take them out but they dont work.... can someone plz tell me as to how (w/o reinstalling) i get those files ...

Hi.Pages that previously didn't display the annoying "done, but with errors" message now (inexplicably) display this error. This just started happening late MON into TUE. IE7 on Vista. Pre5/9 Vista update.The big question: any ...

Hello,Does/Will Windows XP Drivers work with Vista?We have a Intel SE7525GP2 Server Board and there are no Vista Drivers for it. We are trying to find if LSI has drivers for the SATA onboard controller.Thanks ...

Okay this has happened to me twice now. My main drive is C:\ i had a folder on the c: drive hidden. One day i tried to get to it by typing the destination c:\folder, that would open it up usually but windows claimed it could not find it. S ...

Just started with Vista on an Athlon 5200+ 64 X2 w/SyncMaster 930B. Trying to setup monitor so that it's appearance looks like it did on Win2K (AMD 2100+) and Win98 (AMD 300?) for applica ...

neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=40225NOTE. I do NOT endorse cracking.. if you want dreamscene get vista ultimate.. better yet upgrade your vista computer to XPSP2, it will run faster and more reliab ...

can any one help me with a free web site that have an upgrade for a device drivers for windows vista i have my Sat Pci card it works fine on windows xp but in vista i ne ...

reloaded vista Ultimate64 last week to clean up the install FXS loaded alright before that know with this new clean load I get this error at the end of disc 2 right after it checks for DX9c & MXL 4Error to number 0x800407 ...

Is there a way not to have to hit send/receive every time you want to download mail from your server. i use POP3 mail server and in the past the emails came through on outlook without hitting send/receive everytime. i do not receive my email ...

Hi,From OE5 onwards, quoting original messages was done incorrectly (that is, lines not prepended with '>'). So much in fact, that someone created ...

my inbox only has email from about a week or so back.. is there a way to make it keep them all in there, or automatically move all to the saved folder after i read them?i am using an aol email address ...

I just purchased an external 250GB hard drive to backup on my new 'Windows Vista Business' PC ... and have already reformatted the drive to NTFS. When I try to perform a Complete PC Backup, I receive an error message ... 'Backup Failed Not ...

Just used windows updateVista prem 64bit to update a NVIDIA nforce4 Serial ATA Controller. (optional)After a reboot and about an hour,the activation notice appeared( I have done this before succesfully) It would not reactivate online,so I had to phone ...

I recently purchased a sony vaio micro computer (model #VGNUX280P) and it came with Windows XP. I bought the upgrade version of Windows Vista Business from Bestbuy. I've had nothing but problems intsalling the OS Mirgration updates f ...

I've seen screenshots online of other Vista computers where the window white areas are very transparent. How can I increase the transparency of the white area of the windows. By white area, I mean the white behind the lists of icons if, for example, you're in Windows Explorer ...

Hi friends, I am having one system with Vista home edition installed. I want to install XP Prof also in that means dual O/S. Because I have one graphics s/w which runs in XP only. They didnt develop drivers for vista. So I must use XP only at the sametime I want to ...

Where are the option of the Record what you hear in Vista? I want to record some radio programs.Thanks ...

Hello again, I have recently needed to reinstall vista after a power failure. I used my computers system recovery disk. After much ado I am running again. Vista moved my old windows to an old.windows directory. So, I started reintalling ...

When I'm coping big files which are 500MB to 4GB, explorer.exe is easy to be no response. ...

stoyanoff.info/blog/2007/01/17/windowssidebarstyler/Windows Sidebar Styler is an application which takes advantage of various technologies introduced in Windows Vista in order to provide extensions to the existing f ...

Since upgrading from Windows Media to Vista Home Premium, I receice two error messages when using Outlook 2003. The messages state "This application has failed because FXSAPI.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may ...

Here is an interesting article I have found on the Internet about the OEM product activation issue:apcmag.com/6090/microsoft_we_cant_afford_to_support_oem_vista : extracted shown below:Conventional wisdom holds that if you feel the urge to upgrade ...

Can Vista 32bit take advantage of 4GB RAM? ...

I have a docked laptop (Lenovo t60p). Plugged into the usb ports are a tablet and an external disk drive.When I put the computer to sleep, there tablet correctly loses p ...

hi i have a line i problem with vista i think i have a realtek hd audio device and when i click properties and go to the line in it shows the meter bar moving but i cant hear anything? is the ...

Hi allAm I right in thinking that both the home versions of Vista are unable to be joined to a domain but all the other versions are?Many thanks. ...

I wanted to ask if i can install Windows xp again over vista???? ...

The first time I burned a DVD it asked me to choose a DVD playback setting. To start with DVD menu or play video in a continuous loop. I never saw that option again. I want to burn my DVD to play in a continous loop. How do I ...

I cannot run any programs because I keep geting this error. Additionally, I dont seem to be able to be recognized as the administrator anymore.ANyone else have this ...

We are currently running windows xp at work and have changed the "my documents" for each user to point to there own private network areas (mapped as j:\).I have tried doing this with Vista however it says that Documents location is J:\ however it is ...

When I click on an attachment link in a mail message, the link opens fine in Firefox, my default browser, but then mail aborts with a DEP, then promptly restarts itself. ...

how can i let my pc recognize my camera ? i tried the camera cd but it didn't work and i asked sony & they told me that the driver should be already instal ...

Has anyone got a sound card fully working with 5.1 spearkers yet? I got a Audigy SE which during tests gives me lovely 5.1 but because the nice developers at M$ removed 3DDirectSound nothing else can use them. So I'm looking for a new board that ...

I have a panasonic, and when i try to upload video into windows movie maker, it say that the camera isnt conneted. I tried to find a vista driver with no luck, and it doesnt look so good.i only have ...

Im struggling finding a decent referrence or review site for TV cards. ANyone help? ...

I've just about got Vista home premium working the way I like it apart from one small problem. All my mp3 music files are listed in separate alphabetical folders, and I've got quite a few. I prefer the "detai ...

I purchased Home Premium upgrade, because the store I purchased it from ran out of the full version.. Because I'm not ready to boot XP I decided to do a clean install of Vista on my second harddrive.. Put when I went to activate it it said something like the license is for upgrade not a cl ...

I want to install Vista on a usb external hard drive with C: remaining for XP. When I went to do a clean install on E:, the Vista installer tells me that it can not install Vista on a external usb or IEEE ...

I have a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium on it. We also have a wireless office network secured with Mac Filtering. All the other computers in the office are Windows XP p ...

I am using an upgraded Vista Business laptop with a networked DLINK DSMG600 RevB network drive. DSMG600 worked fine under XP. In general, it seems to OK under Vista except when tryin ...

Hello,I've bought two brand new Acer Aspire 5102wlmi laptops with Vista preinstalled.Connection to my wireless network works fine, but once in while ( once every ~30 minutes) the connection disconnects and conne ...

I have 2 wired desktop pcs. One of the ports on the wired router at the desktops "we'll call it Router A) goes to a port on the wall in another room. The router for our FIOS tv (R ...

I am trying to save a host file that I changed to acommodate a VPN connection into our Server. I opened windows/system32/drivers/etc and opened the host file with notepad. I added the information and then did a save a ...

i got my pop3 and smtp server names from verizon typed the information in the fields plus my username and password even though i don't need password to send email. I still can't send emails but when i set up the account like explained above windows mail downloaded all my emails f ...

does anyone know why some mail does not arrive in my mailbox. I'm having particular problems recieving mail from virgin. ...

Well I had this trouble too and tried a few times, then I remembered in the junk mail options, it's set to high. I clicked it to Low, then deleted them one by one. ...

I have a gmail account that I receive email from. I have setup this account in Windows Mail. Now when receiving messages, I only seem to get 56 emails each time I refresh the send/receive button. Any ideas on how to chang ...

How can I start a new contact group in Vista Business? The help file indicates that there is a button on the toolbar called 'new contact group' but I don't find it. ...

I followed all instruction for setting up my Vista Mail program. I get messages that my msn account is not supported so I followed the procedure and updated to a beta version that got me no where.What can I do ? ...

ive been reading the posts and still cant figure this out.i can send mail but cant recieve, my server info is correct and ive turned off outbound and inbound scan al ...

I'm expierencing problems with system restore. I'm running Vista Premiun Edition on an Acer aspire desktop. As I understood more people are experiencing this problem. I've tried several ti ...

Hello,I am running Vista Home Premium. When I try to synchronize the clock using any of the choices on the internet time tab I get an error message that reads An error occurred while syn ...

I've a Vista PC and an HP840c connected via USB (it has also a parallel port but the PC has not)As I need to print from a DOS program I've shared the printer and connected the LPT1 port via NET U ...

Did 4 installs and only had this problem on the one computer that had "xp home". The other 3 vista premium upgrades all work ok. Googled around and cannot find anything related.Symptom: "saveas" do ...

when i had windos xp i could record with audacity using the wave in. now that i have vista (and a new computer) i cant even choose wave in. on audacity, the seletion is blocked. are there any ways around this. there are li ...

Ever since I have upgrade to windows vista business. 32bit. My wireless networks will work fine sometims for 10hrs and somtimes it will only work for about 10mins. The little ico ...

Using Windows Mail (Vista). System is sending duplicate emails to all recipients. Any fixes? Dr Dave Vista Newby ...

After a fair bit of difficulty I have managed to install Flash 9 and get it working. However it keeps asking to work outside protected mode. It wants to run FlashUtil9b.exe. Disallowing doesn't ...

i can not install ulead studio 8 in my laptop , my windows is vista ultimate . any suggestion. thanks. tarek ...

Hello All, Could someone help, im running Windows Vista Business on a compaq laptop, and everytime i get a file (copied on a flash drive from a colleague using windows xp) i cannot read it. I have had this problem with other files as well. What i was ...

Some of the shortcuts I have for programs do not work. It seems to only be for certain program shortcuts in the start menu pinned area and the recently used list, along with the quick launch.. ...

Is anyone aware of how to get the UPS WORLDSHIP to work with VISTA.Bottom Line: Did the beta version of Vista and worked with WORLDSHIP. Beta Version Ran out. Bought the Home Basic Upgrade and that does not work because the free beta ver ...

I want to get a list of the files that are in a folder. Eventually I want to put the list into Excel. Any pointers? Thanks! ...

I received jpeg images from someone and tried to open them in windows photo gallery. It says the file is not supported or I do not have the current updates. I know I have current updates so what else do I do ? ...

Using Vista on a Desktop and a Laptop, what is the best method to transfer data files between systems? ...

A few days ago I installed Vista. All went fine am pleased with the new system. I do have a problem though in that Vista does not recognize the drive and assign a letter to the drive. This drive is the data drive from my o ...

Hi Is there any way you are able to disbale the delete option for internet history files(browsing history). I know how to delete them, but i do not want other users to delete them.. any help would ...

i know you're supposed to have a dx9 graphics card for vista ultimate but is this just required for aero or would vista not work at all? ...

I just purchased a new Dell XPS computer with Windows Vista and ordered a TV Tuner with Remote and sensor. I had no idea what it was but decided it would be fun to figure out and make DVD's ...