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Just put Vista on, (well yesterday anyway) and went to play a new game or so. NONE of them work. All white cross on red background saying ...nothing blah blah blah Use set associations panel blah blah blah.... What is this ? Why arent the games working ? WHAT associations ...

Two questions about Windows Mail: 1) How do I get my contacts list to sort by last name rather than first name? 2) How do I add a new contact? Both things were simple in Outlook Express but I c ...

I am trying to migrate from my old Win 98se machine to a new Vista PC. I exported all the accounts from OE as iaf files and copied them to the new machine. Windows Mail impoted the usenet accounts fine, but not the email accounts it says there is an error. Outlook does n ...

Hi. I have windows vista bussines 32bits. Sometimes by mistake I put it into sleep mode but I never can't start it up again. Why?When I do this I have to reboot it and after that when it's starting up blue screens appers, over and over.I have a Logitech bluetooth keyboard ...

Hi there. Having UAC enabled I found that my comp is working with the speed of PI , and usage of the processor is about 6070% while idling, but after disabling this future everything is ok. And my comp work with lightning speed. Asus 5BE Duo 2 Core E 6300 2 GB DDRII ...

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium, and Aero worked fine, until it just disappered, and the theme changed to Basic. Aero is no longer on the themelist. How can i get Aero back?? ...

i have the gadget to measure processor usage and every once and a while it will jump up causing the music i am listening to to pause/skip. this is a brand new dell with 2 gig ram and a pretty quick processor so i dont see why this is happening. it happens when i only have ...

Hi,I have been getting this error often,when i use IE,after keying in any characters (not usually the same characters),after opening a new browser window. Anyone know what that error is and how to fix it?thank you ...

Hello,When i am away from my pc for a little while and the screen is dark (i have screen saver disabled but this still happens) i find that the applications that are connected to the internet have lost their internet connection.(And those applications can not always successfull ...

I have a new Vista machine, and it's taking 53 sec. to startup. I found that the Maxtor One Touch II backup USB drive was contributing to 13sec. The computer starts up in 40 sec when the Maxtor drive is n ...

I am trying to install printers via logon script to users. Users are being prompted to enter admin credentials to install the drivers.Is there any way to allow users to install printer drivers without turn ...

When I go to change desktop theme, there is a drop down list to select file location. when I browse and choose a file, the file location is added to the drop down list. What can I do to remove/edit this drop down list? I'd like to d ...

I managed to get SLI working under Windows XP, however, I have now upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium and the second 6800GT card now has the following message in the device manager prop ...

I am unable to download and run Abobe Reader 8. I get the following error message: "The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. Free u ...

I install all features of IIS 7 but if i type localhost/ i get an error like HTTP Error 500.0 Internal Server Error. i wat to use PHP software in my system. how can i recover this error. please help me. ...

I have a machine running XP with a full gamut of installed applications (e.g. MS Office, iTunes, BDS2006, and many more).This is a test and development machine, so I need to keep the ...

I have a 512 MB hard drive now, and I got Vista Business for free at college because my school is part of an academic alliance thing that gets it for fr ...

I've had the Vista Beta on my computer and have NEVER been able to get it stable. I'm hoping that if I purchase the released version it will help. I did a comple ...

Ok, here's what I did:On my XP Computer: 1) Right Click on my "My Documents" folder and go to Sharing... 2) Click the box "Share this folder" and name it "documents" 3) Click the box saying "Allow users to change" blah blah 4) Hit OK. File sharing does its t ...

Hi,I've got a couple of hundred video clips that I'd like to sort in "date taken" order within Windows MovieMaker. The problem is the "date tak ...

I just got a new HP laptop computer with Vista already loaded. I use MS Outlook Express 6 on my home computer but cannot seem to get it on Vista computer. How can I ...

HiI have a very serious problem that for the life of me I cannot figure out how to fix.I have a 65gig folder that will not let me have permissions to open it or anything else. I honestly have no cl ...

Within the same Microsoft applications and even Vista itself, wheel scrolling vertical sensitivity varies widely.e.g.: Microsoft Money Normal scrolling within reports, but to merely move the check register re ...

I'm using windows vista business, in the windows mail i can't save my password in the "incoming mail server", however I have click the "remember password", but when I click "send/receive"(include sendor recei ...

Hey I'm on Day 24 and vista after a few days of settling in running perfect even the event viewer quiet It's day 24 and I'm Lovin every minute of it. ...

I'm running Vista Business, and installing a program that uses Chinese characters (Tencent's "QQ"). Although I can read webpages, type in Chinese (in MSN, Word, etc), the program's i ...

Hi, I connect a SVideo cable to the TV but i don't see anything on the TV (of course after selecting the correct channel on the TV).Has anything to be done on Vista (installing SW ....)?RegardsHuib ...

Hi all! I just updated my Vista, home made, PC from an Athlon 64 3500+ single core chip to an Athlon 64 3800 X2 to take advantage of multi processing in Vista. Here is the problem. When I ran the benchmarks, Vista is performing terribly. I went from about 12,500 to about 7,500 in 3D Mark ...

I have a wireless network that Windows XP clients can connect to the Internet on. But this Vista machine cannot connect the connection icon shows only Local, not Local and Internet.Have I missed a configuration s ...

Hi, Hopefully someone can help me out here. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate on a brand new computer. My old pc had video card problems and crapped out on me.I have ...

how do you keep your password form expiring in vista home prenium or can you I am getting a message that my password will expire in 6 days thanks ...

How can you create local folders (ie, saved to your hard drive) in Windows Mail? Unlike Outlook, the folders I create in Windows Mail are subcategorized in the Inbox, therefore contribute to the overall size usage of my mailbox.How can I organize my mail with ...

I have a new machine with Vista Biz. 1GB RAM, P4, 3 GHz, nVidia 256 MB EPCI video card, SATA HDD. All of a sudden, about once a day the screen slowly goes white..like the contrast is just gone. Can barely see icons in background. ...

I have a Konica 1350W connected by USB to a XP Home machine. I have shared out the printer and also a couple of folders. This is connected through a wireless network.On my Vista laptop I can connect to and roam throug ...

i have a dell lattitude 110L it reads that my wireless card is that from a gateway though and says that it is working properly but when i try to use it is says that there is nothing in range i have tryed downloaing the dell drivers but the don't detect the card and everytime i think i have it ...

I have Vista Premium that came installed on a new notebook. Quick question: Is there any way to get the TOTAL file size in any folder when viewing it i ...

I'm fairly new to using windows, but I've learned quite a bit. For the last 4 days now my computer which is running Windows XP media center edition SP2 has been having proble ...

Ok i bought windows vista home premium genuine for my dads comp..after the installation everything works fine but my dad is old fashion and he wants to downgrade to XP.so again, i format it back to XP ...

According to the Help Windows Camera Wizard is suppose to "automatically" detect which photos have been downloaded to the computer and not download them again. Well it DOESN'T Work.I have 89 p ...

Cannot get emails to arrive in all users at the same time, only user logged on get up to date emails. When others logg in inbox not up to date. How can i do this please ...

First problem I have had with Vista. I have a email that I have read and can not delete it from the inbox. When I click delete I get an error message: An unknown error has occurred. Any suggestions? HELP! ...

just got a new laptop with Vista. I like the google desktop bar. however, when i leave my computer on and dont use it for a short time, my screen saver comes on and after i hit my keypad to get rid of the screen saver, my google desktop bar is ...

Hi, When I try to install SMS 2003 Admin Console on Windows Vista workstation I receive this error:The application (System Management Server 2003, from vendor Microsoft) has the followi ...

Hi AllBefore I ran disk defragmentor for the first time in Vista, my pc would go to sleep without any problem, since then, it attempts to sleep, monit ...

I HAVE A HP MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER THAT I UPGRADED TO VISTA AND I AM TRING TO ENABLE MEDIA SHARING FOR MY HOME NETWORK. I HAVE CHANGED THE NETOWRK TO PRIVATE AND I HAVE MADE SURE THAT THE NETWORK NAME MATCHES MY HOME NETWORK. I WENT INTO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11 AND ENABLED MEDIA SHA ...

How do I turn on the facility to view pictures imbedded in emails on Windows Vista Mail?Thanks for any ideas.Nik. ...

Hi my Windows media player has stopped working it is a new machine with vista installed. Can't find a download to reinstall it only for XP etc says vista has it already installed. Can anyone help? ...

Can someone tell me whether NetMeeting is available on Vista? I ran 'conf.exe' but it wasn't found. If not, can I download it from somewhere?TIA, David ...

I tend to use the Command Line as much as possible and usually if I have to put in the path to a folder or or file I just drag it on to the CMD window and the path is inserted for me. Yesterday I discovered to my horror that that feature doesn't work for me in Vista.Does anyone know how to reenab ...

Hi,I received my Vista in a Launch Event from Microsoft. I have registered it and it is working fine but I didn't see any windows update for dream scene etc on my windows. I have Vista Ultimate. On some program errors, when it was trying to look for solution from Microsoft ...

XP had Fax & Picture viewer (I think it was called), does Vista have an equivalent?I installed Vista the other day and found that there was no program automatically set to open photos. I briefly l ...

I have Vista Home Premium just installed. When I start the backup program it terminates after some seconds with error message 0x8007000E saying that not enough memory is availably for the shadow cop ...

Hello I have Vista Business Edition. I have used Speech Recognition once. A few days and a few Windows Update patches later, it refuses to start. THis is what it says: [Window Title] D:\Windows\Speech\Common\sapisvr.exe[C ...

Does anyone know where I can find the Beta driver for the Vista Beta, that would run the Intel 910/915 Chipset? There was one but now its gone. Intel i ...

Today I decided to upgrade to Vista and am a little surprised to find out that now it won't recognize my 128MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7200 video card. The computer says that I am usin ...

Upgraded from windows/xp. ATI Radeon Video (16mg) unable to determine exact model number. Windows/xp current ATI driver version 10.xx.xx causes Blue Screen of Death problems in Vista, faulting module is at3xxx.dll.Attempt to upg ...

Hi, I encrypted some folders\files, on xp pro. But when I tried to decrypt them the encryption came off, but I still couldnt open files. I dont have permissions to mo ...

We have a Gateway MA3 with Turion 64 and originally equipped with XP bought Nov. '06. We received the Gateway Vista Express upgrade, 32bit and installed it. Everything works fine except:1.) Does not completely power down. If I choos ...

I just purchased a new computer running Vista Home Premium and wish to install a second hard drive (ATA from my previous computer running XP sp2 w/all updates) in order to make the programs available on the new "box" without hav ...

With windows XP we use to be able to run a repair of windows in wich it would reinstall itself on top and fix any errors.. Now with Vista I was wondering If you can do the same thing or not.. I tried on a customer' ...

I can share files that are on my XP computer on my Lan but the XP computer cannot see files on this VISTA computer. I have sharing turned on and the workgroup name is the same. In fact this is simply an upgraded install so all should still work. When I try to add network place on the XP machine I f ...

The indexing of music in WMC is an automated process. Is there any way of reindexing entries manually once they are in WMC? Where is the index held in Windows Explorer? I am able to ...

I would really like to see Microsoft write drivers that would allow Media Center to receive QAM streams. Since MS is touting Media Center to be the final answer to a centralized hub design for all of the media in ones' house why would they not accept High Def Digital streams from cable? There ...

Microsoft, I have Windows Vista Home Basic installed on my computer. When I go to play a DVD in my Windows media player, I get a message that says, "Windows media DVD player cannot play the DVD because a ...

I have setup a home network and I am having a problem. I can see each machine on the other but can't access the files. I can Ping both and get a response back. I have ...

When I go into Control panel/Windows security, I get the message “you have multiple antivirus programs, but none of them are turned and up to date. When I click on “turn on”, then click on “show me the antivirus programs on this computer”, it shows me McAfe ...

There is something very clever going on in this OS. CFS3 on this hardware under XP ran at perhaps 30fps but with some stuttering. Under Vista it is 6 ...

There is an import for messages from Microsoft Outlook. When I choose that & click next, an error says "Messages cannot be imported from the Mapi ...

Hi, I just got Vista and am on satellite. On my other service (dialup and Outlook Express) I was able to reply to an email and it would leave the text of the message I'm replying to in the body of the reply. With Windows Mail I can't figure out how to get this to happen. It would also ...

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I attempted to attach jpeg files from a dvd of wedding pictures (287 pictures to be exact) to a mail message and when I sent it, it bogged the system done to a crawl. Nothing would work, an ...

Wrote to HP support and never received an acknowledgment. Wrote again, third time I wrote giving my hotmail address. Received a reply within minutes. With WinMail reply was blocked somehow. Checked by Junk email, ...

I am trying to delete mail from my delete folder especially mail I did not open. I try to delete an the window pane shows that the email couldn't open becasue I might have low memo ...

Sempre que tento deletar definitivamente os spams que tenho no "Lixo Eletrônico" aparece mensagem de erro e esses emails estão se acumulando a cada dia. Alguém pode me ajudar a resolver esse pau? ...

Finally got the Ultimate update of DSN Professional. It works, unlike the Vista Speech Recognition piece of um.crud!Ross ...

I just upgraded to vista home premium from XP with a preinstalled Windows Media Center. It shows the start up screen, i select play dvd and the screen goes black. ...

I use various file extensions for my documents, (based on customer names, i.e last name Williams, extension "*.wil" ) and therefore the basic file extensions of *.doc or *.docx are the only files that will be backed up. How can I turn off the Backup Wizard and chose only the fi ...

day 4 of vista installation. almost there can't use DVD/CD... when office 07 cd inserted explorer crashes. when my computer started with cd in drive, explorer crashes.. driver updates say they are current. sony crx 225e and sony DDU1612. when try to disable/ enable computer ...

My Yahoo Messenger does not connect at all (Vista Ultimate). I have already made an exception with Windows Firewall, and I am using Trend Micro PCcillin AV. All the settings ...

Using Picture Gallery: My daughter just sent me some photos by email. Some of them needed to be rotated, but when I tried to do this I got this message. "an error is preventing galle ...

HiMy system: Vista Ultimate, Intel Core 2 Duo T7600, 2GB memory, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTXI have managed to create a spurious wireless network one that does ...

I share media between my laptop and desktop on wireless configuration. The problem is with video files that sometime not playing (Media Player tells me that there was a problem playing the file) and sometimes does like there isn't a problemAnyone ...

Ik probeer mijn oude emails in Windows mail te importeren. Ik heb mijn emails op mijn oude computer naar een .pst file geexporteerd en probeer nu dit file in Windows mail te krijgen. Nadat ik bes ...

i have my yahoo and hotmail accounts set up on windows mail and i keep getting error msgs like this Subject '', Account: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Server: 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com', Protoco ...

I receive a "Catastrophic Failure" notice and the install shuts down. I've tried every combination of capability and nothing. I hate to try this in safe mode....any ideas? FTP doesn't support Vista yet and they point to capability setting al ...

These are the readings I get when I click on the "Control Panel," "System and Maintenance" and "System" menu: "Processor: ...

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hi everyone i just wanna know how can i turn windows vista aero off and whats the different with aero or without aero thx............... ...

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I have searched and can't find an enable option that says I'm receiving mail... Sometimes if the file is very large, it appears that Mail is just sitting there.... Am I missing something???? ...

Where is my cookie folder via Windows Explorer? TIA ...

The problem: My MS Keyboard, Receiver, and Remote Control periodically vanish after waking from hibernationusually after the SECOND time it hibernates, I think, oddly enough. I use the IR blaster in the ...

Hi,I have an Acer Aspire 9420 with Vista home premium. Each time I startup, wireless is on even if the laptop is connected to network with ethernet câble. How can I automaticly disable wireless when a network cable is conne ...

Hi all,I received Vista Ultimate as part of the Friends and Family Beta. I tried it out on my Tablet PC for about 3 weeks, but I think I want to go back to the XP Tablet PC edition.I would like to install this Vista Ultimate edition on a brand new computer though. Is the ...

I have set up a few desktop folders to organize my shortcuts. For example, I have a folder called Internet that contains short cuts to all of my on line applications. The prob ...

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Hello,I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition at home and have configured the firewall to enable me from outbound traffic. The problem I need help with is to configure the ...

I applied to beta test Joost when I had Windows XP. Finally got the email to set this up but I have VISTA now. Does anyone know anything about Joost? Not sure if it's safe to install or not. ...

I have a mail in outbox. It seems to be send but it is still there. I'm unable to delete it. How to do? Krumme ...

Will Microsoft Mail only run under Vista or can I also run it under Windows 2003.Have a friend running Microsoft Mail under Vista and says all new Email senders are winding up in her Address Boo ...

Hi All.I've been using Vista for a week noww and I am surprised at the size of the Windows folder 12.2GB. The breakdown is winsxs @3.5, Installer @3.2 and System32 @2.8.Can I sue compression on any of these folders or are there alternatives? My c: partition is a little over 26GB and I am runn ...

I'm using Premium Vista version and always can't open a new app or window. I keep my machine running for days and many apps, I have lots of CPU and memory, and only utilizing half 1 GB. So how can I get more windows open &a ...

I have a new notebook computer with vista installed. I am trying to install xp pro on the same drive, because of program incompatibility. I created a new partition for xp, labeled it drive ...

Im having an issue where i put a cd into the drive and when i open my computer to open the disc in explorer it wants to label the disc. Vista thinks it is blank or is writable when it isnt.How do i shut this feature off or get into my cdrom drive.As a work around i ha ...

There is a bug in the photo screensaver. If you have the screensaver photo selection to point to a file other than the default or if it is pointing els ...

Hello.Sorry for posting a picture but I'm not shure how to explain my problem. Where has all programs gone on my startmenu? Any help appreciated. If I create new shortcuts the disappear after a restart. Happened a few days ago but I havn' ...

I openend one of my former movies and swaped some pics. After that just "saved as" and used an other name.... but now it's not possible to open the new project again. After trying to open the modified file (xxxx.MSWMM) the error messag ...

Does anyone have a problem with adding a birthday and/or anniversary in the new Windows Contact. I thought this would be a great thing since it would bring these dates to the calendar. However, it doesn't work. Also it adds a time automatically to the bi ...

I have a novice running Vista Home Premium, behind a Linksys router that passed all of the Vista tests.When she creates a Remote Assistance invitation file, it does not contain a public IP address about 90% of the time. Those fail, of course.Why is thi ...

I have Vista Home Premium. When I create a shortcut to the desktop, 2 identical icons appear instead of one (they both have the shortcut arrow on them). Only recycle bin, control panel, network, computer, and filefolder remain single icons. ...

When I first start up my computer I have started getting a dialog box stating that Windows has blocked some start up programs. I did stop a program from starting using the msconfig start program function. This happened before and I was able to stop this from happening but ...

I have a CDR which seems to just read and read in Vista it doesn't seem to fully load, and therefore cannot be read.The other day, I was in a library and put the CDR in the drive of one of their pc's. It read p ...

I am based in the UK, and I see that most of the laptops on sale in the retail market are still at best Windows XP Professional version, if not Windows XP Home Edition.Can I ask, for a noncommercial, retail laptop what is the upgrade/licensing option to go from Windows XP ...

I can get hold of an Xbox remote control and the packaging claims that it's compatible with "Windows Media Center". I presume that this media the XP version.Two questions.1. Will it work with Vista Media Center? 2. Do I need to buy a separate infrared receiver to ...

Before I install it, does the MS regclean that I use to run for XP work in Vista? ...

Alternate source, if one is interested to learn:microsoftwatch.com/content/vista/oh_oh_vista_pc_sales_levels_are_normal.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/111773.aspGood or bad, time will tell but sticking to only one source of your interest might not ...

I prefer to have all my folders set to open in new windows as I'm drilling through them. This makes it vastly easier for me to move/copy files around, or to compare something between two folders.Is there a way to selec ...

I transferred everything from my PC (XP) onto my new laptop (Vista). I cannot find Outlook Express. Matter of fact I cannot locate where to find Add/Remove Programs so I can see if it even transferred over. I don't know if I will ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the hard drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a pc.I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup option in the xbox interface. It ...

Had a BSOD yesterday and ever since then, Network Discovery won't start. Also, MS SQL won't start & I think these two problems are related. I enabled all services, just to see if something was wrong there but that did not help. I can browse the n ...

I want my to be able to copy my "Temporary Internet Files". I turned off UAC but an still denied access to the folder!!! How can I get access??? ...

i created a windows mail account with my comcast email address. and now it has imported all my messages. and is getting all new messages. my comcast page is empty. ...

If I open a message window, then delete that message, the next message in sequence opens in a new window. If I want a message to open, I'll open it myself. How can I prevent deleting a mess ...

Flash is installed, and no matter how many times I reinstall the latest version from the , it never allows me to view a flash site. I can't get past a 'you need Flash' type of message.And the last time I reinstalled it from ...

I am able to add a bluetooth enabled printer in Vista. The problem is that the printer does not accept a passkey. I can configure the bluetooth printer such that passkeys are disabled, but when I attempt to print ...

Best And Brightest One night, a Delta twinengine puddle jumper was flying somewhere above New Jersey. There were five people on board: the pilot, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, the Dali Lama, and a hippie. Suddenly, an oxygen generator exploded loudly in the lugga ...

using asus M2N32SLI Deluxe board. 2gb dual channel ram, amdx2 5200+. evga 7800gt pcie card. 2 wd 10k rpm 74gb in raid 0 on sata 1 and 2. 160gb drive on sata 3. d ...

Hacking Vista: Easier than you'd think blogs.ocregister.com/gadgetress/archives/2007/04/hacking_vista_e.html ...

HiI have an HP laptop (DV9207us). There is a minor problem, but nonetheless, yettoberesolved problem.Say, I click Start | Hibernate, and the laptop goes into hibernation (all lights went off, etc.). I ...

Yesterday I was able to send pages and links from IE. I Just installed Office Home and Student 2007 and also the PDF plugin. I don't know if there is any connection, but I no longer can send pages and links ...

I just opened a computer and setup a computer preinstalled with Vista. I set up all the 'regional information', and set up the first "User". After all the updates and 'syste ...

I read everything and saw lots of various problems but don't think this one is out there yet. Google around, searched the KB and this... Maybe I'm missing something truly basicI have a folder with various text, HTML and ASP file. I'm trying to find files containing a specific word and I know of ...

Hi guys (and gals),I need help. I know my way around a computer OK, its just that I don't know as much as you all. ;)I purchased the Panasonic PV GS300 mini dv camcorder in December. Last month however I purchased a n ...

Hi guys, If I try to right click a file and choose >>send to>>mail absolutely nothing happens.....my mail which should pop up with the attache ...

I have a 3 computer network all running Windows XP and a new computer running Vista the Vista computer can talk to the other computers running XP but the ones running XP cannot talk to Vista how can I correct this problem? All help will be greatly appreciated.Jim ...

I am a brand new Vista and Mail user, and am having a few "gliches" with Mail. I like to create my own stationery, with sound. I can't find a place to add sound to the email, other than as an attachment, which is not what I want. The sound (music, speak ...

Operating system: Windows Vista, I am using home and student 2007. I want to send Emails via Windows mail (my provider is GMX.Net).After installation, I wanted to ...

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I recently created a new power plan for my mobile PC, and based it off the default 'Power Saver' plan. Once I created it, it replaced the Power Saver plan on my battery meter. However, I won't be using this plan nearly as much as I use the Power Saver plan. I wanted to switch the two, so ...

I just upgrade my Toshiba M105S3004 to Vista Home Premium with the Vista Upgrade DVD, then I have some trouble, first my remote control can't function well, just the power button is function....then when I setup the speaker test ...

Hi,Early after setting up my desktop computer, I was able to purchase 2 Home Premium licence from Microsoft (since I had bought Ultimate full retail) ...

Hi,Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer the list of URLs and form data (usernames, passwords and search terms etc) from a win98se pc (ie6) to a new Vista pc.I can find some registry entries about intelliforms etc, but will j ...

I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to restore the default permissions t ...

Microsoft Taking Beta Requests for Next Vista UpdateMicrosoft is taking betatester applications for the next update to Windows, an upgrade to the Windows Media Center ...

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Whenever I run Windows Vista Update I am told there is an important update for the ATK0110 ACPI Utility and recommends that it be installed. When I accept the invitation the following occurs:1. The update downloads. 2. I am told that a Restore Point is being c ...

Alright, my DVD+/R/W / CDR/W drive is missing. I went into the device manager and there it says:"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)."My computer i ...

I'm running windows vista ultimate and im haveing problems with getting my sound to work properly. I went into the direct X diag. tool and found out that the drivers arent digitaly signed, any idea what to do to get them to work corectly? System Information Time of this report: 4/24/2007, ...

is there any 3rd party software which has the same looks and feel of windows vista photo gallery! and also operates as easily in the same manner like it Also is there any way the i can install vista photo gallery in windows xp ...

I have two vista pc's, one successfully conncted to a broadband modem through "network" as well as the local area connection through "ünidentified network" but the 2nd pc, c ...

hi, i just got my new laptop that came with vista home premium. my older desktop is running win xp pro sp2. i want to share my media files with my vista laptop. my laptop is wireless while my deskt ...

Hi, I'm feeling a bit exposed just using the Windows Firewall, if it was as good as they make out, there wouldn't be one in LiveOne Care (which stupidly doesn't support 64bit editions of their own OS). So I'm trying to find a good package to protect my PC, d ...

all I need to learn how to edit the Advanced Options Boot Menu... In essence, I want to remove the Safe Mode boot option to prevent a back door for internet access. Anyone have an idea on how to get at that menu for editing purposes?thanks in adv ...

sir,How can i set a password for default administrator account. if there is no Local user and groups in administrative tools, i am using vista home premium. and how can i change the account of any user to other ones like power user or remote user tha ...

I got the blue screen of death last Friday and had to use "system recovery". I've been trying to get things back to normal since. I just got my newsgroups going and tried to save a ringtone that I poste ...

Hi All,Does anybody know of a way that I can completely remove windows mail, and windows contacts and calendar? I don't want these cluttering up my system as I use Office to do all these ...

i need help!!!!!!! i cant send an email on here i have no idea how to do anything and i need to send a very important document but the company i am sending it to will only receive it if i send it throught here how do i do this? ...

iam just getting with this email address , coming from hotmail.com. how do i get my messages from my old email to this one if i can? "TrapOn" ...

I was wondering if there was a way to have Windows automatically change my visual theme when changing power sources. I have created my own power profile and while I love that it is so easy to configure certain things to thro ...

Where do we send any bugs we've found with Vista, this is mine:Open the Reliability and Performance montior>View>Customize, the X on the dialogue doesn't close the window ...

I am trying to use Vista Ultimate Backup for the first time and am receiving the error message: 0x80070002 the system cannot find the file specified. This occurs regardless whether I attempt a complete or just files backup. ...

How do I turn OFF password manager in vista basic, I have no intention of storing PW on my laptop even if encrypted. ...

Hi all,From the title you can see my problem. I'm running Home Premium, with all updates. I have cleared cache's, reset IE7 settings, run sfc /scannow which found no errors, and all of my IE7 setti ...

After Installing Windows Vista Home the DVD/RW, a TSSTCorp L632D Serial ATA DVD/RW no longer works. Vista has decided that it is a CD and won't let it work giving an error message saying that the Driver is corrupted. Can anyone out there help me? ...

Hello there, I bought a laptop mouse which works fine all of the time except when Vista starts up. On start up the mouse is disabled and I unplug the USB plug and reinsert into the same socket.. t ...

Hello,A desktop PC (Windows Vista) on a workgroup has a USB printer connected to it that is shared. A second PC (Windows XP) on the same workgroup successfully prints to this shared printer.Is it possible for a third PC (Windows XP) which is not on the same workgroup (it's configured ...

Since I've switched over to Windows Mail from Outlook Express my Inbox messages are vanishing. Most of the messages that were inported from Outlook are remaining, but new messages are vanishing after a couple of days. They were in the Inbox, now they aren't!! Looked though Options to see if ...

hi all am not brilliant with computors, have just got vista, am having trouble reading the words as they are smaller than on windows xp version. how do i make them ...

I am trying to install Vista Business on a ECS K7S5A motherboard.When I get to, "Where do you want to install Windows" I get, This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled ...

hello all, I am new to this so please be gentle, I have bought a new laptop with vista installed & i am so disapointed with it. The main problem I am having at the moment is when i send video files to cd writer & burn them on my XP sp2 desktop the ...

OT: Friday Is My Last Day At The Post Office, Just FYI.My 89 Day Temporay Employment Period Expires on Saturday, Also Just FYI.Kevin John Panzke (Microsoft Beta Te ...

I have two vista ultimate machines, 32 bit. I need to remote desktop from A to B. However I can remote desktop fro A to B, but not from B to A. The error I am getting is "Because of an error in data encryption, ...

Is there any command switch that I can force a program to "run as administrator". For example, I type notepad in run window to start it, can I have some switch to run notepad as administrator? ...

I have been asked to support a Vista laptop at a client's business. I'll have to do it eventually, so I figured "what the hell...may as well start with the most buggy version".I am not a ...

I am running XP and downloaded the WVUA to check the version most suitable. The download appeared to go OK but when I run the advisor I get the error message "Windows Vista Ugrade Advisor has encountered a probl ...

Hi all,I know that there is a way of removing shortcut arrows without using Vista Tweak (or similar).It's just a command that you run & it changes the Registry.Can anyone tell me what it is, or if they have another way of getting rid of the arrows?T ...

Hello,How do I stop my Vista machine from automatically restarting after Microsoft Updates has run and installed updates automatically? Is my only option to turn off automatic updating?Kol ...

I reloaded vista to a faster h.d and am currently trying to get the media centre to work again. no matter which way I enter tv guide setup I vista will not download the tv setup options. The bar stays at one dot on the line. I have tried this at all t ...

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I just purchased a gateway laptop with Vista, and I hate that it seems to lock the Refresh rate at 60 hz. I need to be able to change this. I've downloaded the latest drivers for the ATI display ada ...

Hi, Im using the spanish version of Windows Vista Home Premium, Im a user of XP and I get crazy when the administration rights dialog appears, please help me, I see other Vista PCs that do not have ...

Does anyone have any idea how to delete a corrupt cookies folder? The folder is inaccessible. I had to delete the user account and start a new one from scrat ...

I cannot get the screensaver in Vista to work. I set it up to start after 5 minutes but nothing happens. I've tried different ones, like bubbles and aurora, but it won't turn on.Any suggestions? ...

Having previously connected to the internet wirelessly, I recently had to connect via an ethernet cable. Having done so, when I returned to wifi the connection would not complete. The connection to the router was acceptable but no connection to the IP was gained. Does ...

I am running windows ultimate! and i bought this operating system, now windows has disabled my areo theme LOL and told me to get genuine windows software.why is this happening to me ...

Hi ThereI have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it into my XP machine and that was f ...

Hi, Before I go and shell out money for one, I was wondering what people's opinions are on their driver status...Thanks all. ...

Can anyone out there help me? I have a Canon MP370 which worked perfectly well on XP i have just bought a new computer with Vista as the OS and i cannot get the printer to successfully instal ...

I am upgrading the video card so I get Aero. Everything else in the PC is OK for running aero: 1 Gig HD, Sempron 3000, etc....Question: Once I put the video card in: will the Aero option show automatically?Thanks, mac ...

Hi,I just bought a Lenovo 3000 series, Y500 laptop with Vista Home Basic preinstalled. It has Realtek HD audio and Dolby digital technology inbuilt.But the speakers emit very low sound with full volume. Headphone volume level is OK. Disa ...

I have a small amount of experience using Vista at home, but not with a domain.I will be getting a new machine for my job with Vista Business installed. My desktop support group is relatively inexperienced with Vista and they will allow me to ...

My mouse automatically activates command icons on the desktop. What does it? I have looked ALL OVER the Control Panel, and I have not seen.Help me, please. I have deleted things I want.Mic ...

I just upgraded to vista and I listen to satelite radio over the internet. When I pull up the program that streams the internet it says that i have to have windows media player 11 to play that file type. I then try to download windos media player ...

How do I know if I have static ip address or not? I have a desktop, ethernet controlled, works fine. A laptop, wireless (thru same router as desktop) Also a Wii game console, which I think is wireless, works ok. And a second desktop, also connect to the ether ...

Just bought a new esktop running Vista home premium. I had a desktop before using XP home. Both of my laptops run XP home and we had no problems sharing the printer using a Linksys wireless router. ...

I am trying to create a wireless ad hoc network between my Windows Vista tower that has internet and my windows xp laptop that does not have internet. I want t ...

I have a PC running Windows Vista Business. It is (was) part of a Windows Server 2003 based domain. I just ran a system restore on the machine and when I came to log on again, I ...

Hi In the hope that this might help someone else, here is a review of a Vista Network connection problem that I have resolved.The problem, I have a Netgear WiFi modem/router (DG824M) and ...

For some reason, when I right click on shortcuts in the most used programs list on the start panel, the "Run as Administrator" menu item does n ...

I am the only person who uses my computer. I got tired of having "if you started this" question so I made myself a Standard User and created another name as the Administrator. I forgot the password for the Administrator I created and now can't do anything online except go to M ...

In general, I'm about ready to format my new computer's hard drive and install XP Professional and just get rid of Vista. I'm a mobile professional and can't afford to buy two o ...

Would anyone know why when a particular mission loads up after I completed one (bear something), the mission which is meant to load up does not load up, and stalls. I have tried to reboot my PC and play from a fresh reboot. Still same results.My graphics card is ...

I play simple games like Solitaire and Mahjong Titans. Nice games. But they don't save themselves between sessions. I have set the Options to do just that, but when I close a game it does not ask me to save it and when I restart one it always starts with a new game. Bum ...

A question for anyone that can answer this....When I open windows mail and look at the newsgroups it shows how many posts I believe are downloaded to my computer...If I delete them why does it still show the same amount and am I really deleting them ??...A ...

i am doing fine in window mail ...

Why can't I turn off Windows mail's desire to dial up a new connection every time I open it even when there is already an active broadband connection? I've tried what i would have done in Xp gone into the Connections tab and ...

i have received a email which says, message could not be displayed. However, i cannot delete or move this at all! Nortons too had no success. Any ideas on how i can get rid of it? thanks ...

i hv an entry in the outbox that cannot be deleted each time i try, i get the folowing same mesage p i notice from the discussion that quite a umber of people are facing the same problem it would be great if so ...

Two days ago my new Dell came loaded with Vista Ultimate. I set it up to use my Cox Internet account. Until this afternoon my Windows Mail was working fine. This aftern ...

I have been using Windows Vista Mail for several weeks. Now all outgoing mails are blocked by an outgoing mail that I can not remove. What to do ? ...

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There should be an advanced option that allows the users to change the speed or basically the performance quality of the Disk Defragmenter according to whatever needs or desires that the user may have.I personally hate seeing the defragmenter run slow because I usually use ...

Everytime I open Control Panel window, for example, I resize and position it to fit my needs, but after machine restart, it is back to the size and position Windows picks. ...

I run Vista Business Edition. After running an error check I received a message "Communications Manager has stopped working". How do I get it working again? ...

In XP I had my Search Behaviour set to Advanced so I could search for a word or phrase in a file .. something I may use many times a dayFor the life of me I can' ...

I store my music on an external hard drive and I'm sure I used to be able to change the folder view to display album art. I've forgotten how to do this and Vista doesn't seem too helpful in pointing me in t ...

I was wondering if someone could assist me with this problem. I'm using Vista Home Premium with Outllok 2003 as my default email client. When I try to import my mail from Outlook Express v6, I get the following message:"The import folder could not be opened. ...

I have a Creative Live! Cam Video IM I bought a couple of months ago and ever since I have downloaded 8.1 and installed Vista (upgrade from XP Home), I cannot get the webcam to connect....it's strange. It will show up in the box Accept or Cancel and both ...

Hey everyoneI get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped working" every time I try to access a folder. To start with it happened occasionally, but now it's constant.It's really starting to annoy me.Any ideas on how ...

My system currently has 2 U320 SCSI HDDs in a RAID 1 configuration. I am going to retire the SCSI disks and go with 2 SATA II HDDs also in a RAID 1 configuration. The partitioning will basically be the same and I have images of eac ...

Hi Vista Group, I just bought a new machine with Vista on it and I tried to download some files to start setting up and organizing things the way I want, and when I am asked if I want to RUN, SAVE or CANCEL I select save a ...

I have tried to download Windows Media, since Vista does not work with Active Sync. I keep getting an error. It says that it cannot write to key. I don't understand the error. I am not sure if my security is to tight on my computer. The program wi ...

I received a message from iTunes to reinstall the software. So I downloaded the latest version of iTunes ; but when I tried to install it I got the following message:"The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are r ...

Hi there,For File sharing I have had to setup an extra account for the machine wanting to access the files on a Vista Ultimate desktop and Vista Home Basi ...

Thanks, brink,It sounds logical when you read it, but I don't have any network device that blocks Sleep Mode, and it still doesn't work. Do I need a flash drive? More RAM? A modified registry entry?As always, help is appreciated ^_^ ...

OS: Vista Home Premium Hardware: SONY VAIO VGN FE88OE Intel Centrino, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, dlnaWhen I'm watching a DVD using Media Center, and I pause it, close the laptop and let it hibernate, Vista does not resume/wakeup.The screen remains blank, there appears to be no ...

I am having the same problem many others are having, Windows Defender is asking to download updates and can not. The fix is to go in the safe mode and change the Softwaredistribution folders name. T ...

I'm buying a new home computer. I'm looking at a comparison chart of the versions of Vista, and i see that for Vista Home Premium, Remote Desktop Connection is unavailable. Does that mean i cannot use MSTSC from another co ...

I have a lot of problems with some of my programs connecting to the internet. IE7, AIM and Windows mail are fine, as well as internet dependant gadgets on the sidebar. However, Mozilla Firefox and ...

Hi all, Let me preface this question by saying I have a very basic knowledge of computers... Too technical and I'm lost...OK that said... I am using Vista Home Basic, and IE6...Last night, all of a sudden my internet ...

Hello, I have purchased a copy of windows vista ultimate (64bit). I would like to know if I could request to rcieve a 32bit version of windows vista?Th ...

every time i set appointments with windows calendar then logoff my computer, every time i log back on "windows calendar has stopped working" ...

It cant even see the drvers of simple devices like usb memory sticks! ...

I am hoping that someone can help me get to the bottom of this oddly arising error that is crippling my Vista laptop. I migrated to Vista last month with a fresh install and everything was very sm ...

Hello, I have this problem after i tried to install a Kingston blue tooth adapter. I can no longer install hardware drivers automattlicy, I have to manually poin ...

I need this hotfix for Vista x64 please:kb931936: Incorrect recording speeds are displayed in the "Recording speed" list in the "Burn to Disc" dialog box when you burn a DVD on a Windows Vistabased computer ...

Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help me. I have tried to install Vista on two different machines with no joy:1) Machine one is my main PC which is getting on now but I believe is more than capable of running vista it has the following: MSI KT6 DeltaFISR Motherboard, AMD Athlon XPA 2100+ over cloc ...

I downloaded Ultima Online on the Official Website. Then I decided to uninstall it. However, after I uninstalled it from Controls Panel, I can't delete the shortcut from the Desktop as they ask me to verify the location of the file.How do I delete everything Ultima Online? And, what ...

Ok,I've been researching this and have found alot of convoluted answers but none that really answers the question.I have an OEM Vista Home Premium DVD. The ...

My Dell XPS400 running Windows Media Center went bad, so I've a new 410 with Vista and the hard drive from the old PC installed as drive F. Some of my old programs and the TV tuner won't run under Vista, so I'd like to change to a dual boot system. ...

I am currently running windows vista home premium on my HP. I need to install XP in order to access a VPN website requierd for my job. What is the best way to do this? ...

Is there any way to add lyrics to my music files when using WMP 11? I cant even view my lyrics which i have previously added using advance tag editor in WMP 10. ...

My Movie maker stops during publishing, and the time climbs without progress. I've tried posting this twice, but never saw it here. If I reboot 56 times, it'll works once. Do I ...

I posted a thread earlier today (6607). I received an email saying that I had a response. I clicked on the "go to thread" link. It brought me to this page, but ...

Hello, I'm trying to network a new Vista (Home Professional) laptop to my old XP (Home) desktop. Ironically, I had this once working, but had to reinstall Operating Sys in the Vista; and now can't get to the files. I am able to see the computer ...

Hello Gurus:I recently installed Vista Ultimate on my pc and the downloads in IE7 are at a crawling speed. I have a Comcast 6Mbs Cable connection and it is connected to my PC via a Linksys WRT54G router. The connection to t ...

Now, to begin with, the purpose of this post is to perhaps help someone who is having trouble networking a Vista machine with an XP and that posting my own solution may be able to help. I ...

I use web folders to maintain some files on web sites but now the only thing that shows on the Right Click menu is properties (when a particular file is clicked). The Delete, Copy, Paste etc. are missing. If this is an ownership issue, I am the one that created them so I wo ...

I recently purchased a wireless router for my apartment so that I can have the wonderfull convinience of haveing internet anywhere in my home. Being the somewhat tech savvy I am, I used a WEP security key to secure my network ...

I developed an MS Access Application which I deploy as an mde in a directory inside Program Files.When I update the application I generally just replace the MDE on the user's computers, but o ...

The latest PC Magazine give a comparison of AV programs and of the 17 programs, MS's Live OneCare was at the bottom. Is it really that bad? At least I could install in on my Vista box I coul ...

Hi,How do i disallow laptops/PCs to read memory cards from cameras and handphones? I already set HKLM > System > Current Control Set > Services > USBSTOR > Start = 4. I noticed only USB Mass Storage Devices could be successfully blocked, but not SD cards & etc. Than ...

My wife bought an HP computer with Vista installed. She