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This is the only game I've had trouble with running under Vista. Running in compatibility for XPsp2 forces an incorrect "please insert cd" when it is. At the conclusion of each hole a scorecard/scoreboard appears and causes the display driver to crash. I've tr ...

Hi, I have Windows Vista Home Premium and Flight Simulator X Deluxe, if i play more then cca 10min, the PC crash down(Blue death). Testing with all default planes, Wilco A320 series, C ...

I had Windows XP Media Center Edition and upgraded to Vista. When I upgraded I did a "clean install" which, I suppose, wipped my hard drive. Now, the games that were a part of media Center 2005, Otto's Magic Blocks and soem others ...

Anyone know how to send timed email, like an email to go out 2 hours from now ? marc ...

I seem to have lost windows mail does anyone know hw i can reinstall it Simon ...

Observation: The current view in OE was separate between newsgroups and mail account. In Win mail, there seems to be only one view that once selected ...

Can someone please help. I have an ACER desktop PC with OE6 and Outlook 2003 and Windows Media Edition installed and I want to transfer my messages to my new ACER laptop which has Vista and Windows Mail. I have created a folder under Us ...

Just wondering what people's thoughts are on Readyboost. Is it worthwhile, and if so, under what circumstances would I benefit from it? I've got 1 GB ram.Thanks, Walter ...

Vista well recognized my printer and installed the driver good. Some orders operation like the print of the page test. But the printing of a text page written with the Note Pad, for example, does not work. The carriage briefly vibrates but does not move. The driver works well with XP 32bit. Co ...

I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron with Windows Vista, and then bought a new HP all in one printer. When trying to install the printer, I got a message that there is a compatibility issue, and a driver for full use doe ...

When Media Player is in full screen mode I've noticed that the time line / scrub bar flickers on and off. Anyone else have this problem?Thanks, Dustin ...

Is there a way to use Urge or any other music service to work in the 64 bit version of WMP? Iron Feliks ...

Guys, Here is my problem. I installed Vista (home premium) over XP with no problems except that all media (whether it’s on Youtube, Windows Media Player, etc.), kind of freezes and the sound goes away. I’ll be watching or listening and I’ll hear a chirp or mu ...

I bought an HP a1730n with Vista Home Premium already installed. I purchased the Vista Ultimate Upgrade and performed the upgrade. Now, whenever I try to go to My Games, or ...

can not delete, send mail etc. Have a new laptop and can not figure out the window email ...

I get an error saying not a valid win 32 application when i try to install the software that i downloaded for my lifecam 3000. My os is window vista premium and this software is m ...

Upgraded to Vista from XP Professional. I now have no sound and the Device Manager lists Multimedia Audio Controller under "Other Devices" as a failed driver instillation. Any ideas ...

Dear all,Recently, my brother has just got Windows Vista installed in Paris during his vacation. he now would like to change the language into English because we cannot read French. I tried so many time to change it but it seemed so impossible to change it into E ...

is it possible ? Dont want it for anything else as connectiong for my recording for my 360. But since running 2 monitors with costum setup, and media center only run full screen, the transition when turning it on off is soo awfull, and its screws all personal presets and preset icons aro ...

I have a new Gateway MT3418 notebook with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. This notebook has an internal wireless adapter.I have gone through all of the steps to get wireless connectivity to the internet via my hom ...

We have a small network in our office of XP computers. I am familiar with the network connection wizard in XP but am lost as to how to start with Vista. We are trying to connect the new Vista computer to th ...

I am installing Vista Home Premium on a new machine. I am a "power user". I see that it is recommended to set up an administrator account as well as a standard account, and use the standard for typical use. However, I also read that if one is ...

Wierd. We have had our laptop one week. Sometimes I can get mail, sometimes I have to go to the server to get the mail. Today, I am able to send mail but not receive ...

Have tried setting up mail accounts on Vista through both Windows and Outlook 2003 mail, which has resulted in both being able to send out ok but of the 43+ emails I have out there not getting down loaded ...

Is there any way to set keyboard shortcuts for Watch and Ignore Functionality? Documentation does not indicate that keyboard shortcuts exist for watch and ignore. ...

I am thinking about building a media center PC and use the cheap Microsoft HD DVD drive on it. It would really be nice to use Vista's media center instead of fiddling ...

Hello group. I have a new PC with Vista Home Premium, an Asus P5BE MB, and onboard sound. I downloaded the latest Vista drivers from the Asus site and all is well...except....I don't get the Soundmax icon on ...

Question. Has anyone seen the following issue and found a solution. Windows vista business laptop added to 2000 domain without issue. Network connection access stays at local only. ...

I am using v1.0.1.395 of WinMailTray. It needs further development. Is there a newer version, or something similar for WM?ss. ...

How to create themes for vista or at least a website with free ones! ...

I partitioned my hard drive so that I could retain XP until I'd had a chance to make sure any and everything I wanted worked with Vista. Now, having done that, I'm thinking of the fatal flaw of my ...

Are restore points basically a copy of the entire Registry? .... and are separate from Backups?In other words, if I deleted all the backups stored on my Recovery D: drive, the 'restore points' are still on drive D, correct?(If this is a dumb question feel free to educate me.) ...

I am getting a new PC with Vista Home Premium. I need to migrate my photos, documents, and most importantly all of my Outlook Express emails. Microsoft web s ...

news.com.com/Microsoft+extends+Vista+bulk+license+discount+to+Europe/21001016_36170384.html?tag=nefd.top Regards,Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Sh ...

There is a very annoying behavior on my computer. The issue is that when I open a window at times it collapses to the bottom task bar. An example is while composing an email then moving the mouse to send the window might collapse and one think ...

I'm having a problem connecting to networks without rebooting.Simply: I work at home on a wireless network, put my computer to sleep, drive to work, and plug in to the work Ethernet cable. I wake my computer, and i ...

On web pages the curser jumps around, is erratic. ...

How to save drivers that was downloaded on Windows Update so the next time i reinstall Vista i don't have to download drivers again. ...

hi, everybody, it was my first time to make the photo movie with window movie maker. At the beginning it was ok, but later i realized there was a problem with the timeline. The music played in the middle was in a different pace when played from the beginning ...

Trying to map to a 2003 server with Vista Home Basic. When prompted for password and i enter a valid username and password, it replies access denied, you do not have permission. ...

I am trying to set up a home network with my old XP desktop and a new Vista laptop. I've been thru the wizards, and I can reliably connect to the internet wirelessly though can't access the desktop's files. What did I do wrong?Thanks! ...

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Any idea how to do this without using easy transfer, or one of the for purchase software programs? ...

Hi all,I've been having this "runtime error" whenever I resume Windows from hibernation mode. It also prompts me whether to debug it or not. I'm not sure if its a really bad problem, but its just pretty irritating. Is there any solution for this problem?Thanks, John ...

Hi,I created an Administrator account on a Vista installation.But still when I click on programs such as mmc.exe I get misleading error message that "\windows\sys ...

I performed a clean install of Vista and all was working fine until I rebooted the system and found that I needed the CD to boot the system, I have only 1 HDD in my system Are there any suggestions ...

Vista is linux with wine running on it.. there is no other explaination.Vista has:1) bad hardware support, 2) most apps dont run on it 3) you need to keep reading newsgroups just to get it to do what windows xp does with eas ...

I currently run Windows XP Pro and wish to install Vista Home Premium. I understand that going from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium is not an allowed upgrade path. I want to purchase the upgrade version of Vista Hom ...

The only case of Microsoft innovation is.... Microsoft BOB.We all know what a flop that was. Then Billy boy made a decision:We will steal, copy, buy ideas and ...

It took me a while to figure this out, so I thought I'd share it.Skype will install and run under Vista. You'll be able to call others, and even the beta video feature will work.However, if anyone tries to call your computer, they will receive a "rejection" message saying that y ...

Hello.I'm using the Windows SDK for Windows Vista v6.1.6000.16384.I compiled vshadow.exe v3.0 from here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Samples\WinBase\VSS\vshadowusing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Versio ...

Vista Home Premium if I try to play an audio CD it fails with error C00D11B1I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 4 with the latest drivers any suggestions?Thanx ...

For many years I have been transcribing records for FreeBMD using a piece of software called WinBMD. I have a new machine now running Vista Ultimate, but which came with Vista Home and has since been upg ...

I can not get the ie7 protected mode in the status bar to show anything but off. All 4 security areas have it toggled to ON.What else is wrong ? more pix @ members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html ...

I cannot find it in Tools>Internet Options>Advanced tab. Jack ...

Hi,I have just started using Vista for a week. On Day 1 I have installed WMDC 6 and have SUCCESSFULLY synced my PocketPcPhone (O2 XDA II Mini on WM2003; items synced with Outlook 2003 : Calendar, Tasks).I cannot recall exactly, but I should have been using Bluet ...

Can someone please tell me will Nero 7.2.7.0 work with Vista x86 ???? Do i need to expect any error messages on this 32 bit application???? ...

Before I detail the problem, here are my computer specifics.Motherboard: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13 MHz GPU: nvidia 8800GTS 640 Mb RAM: 2x 1GB corsair DDR2 HDD (Master): 74.0 GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM HDD (Slave): 250.0 GB ...

My new computer came loaded with Vista Home Premium. There are many instances where I'd like to be able to boot to XP, but the Help says the earlier Windows version must be loaded first or the computer might become inoperable. The laptop came with restore disks, not a Windows Vista disk as such s ...

My pc has a 160gb hard drive, but Vista only uses 149gb. Is there a reason for this? Let me explain a little further about my setup.The pc is an eMachines that came ...

I have a Acer Ferrari 4000, the operating system it came with is Xp 32 bit. I have the Ultimate Vista both 32 bit and 64 bit, I wanted to do a clean install of the Vista 64 bit but I am having a problem. When I insert the Vista 64 bit disc it says, & ...

Good day,We have WDS for Vista and XP/2003 deployment. It is running on a server with multiple network interfaces. The problem is that WDS is contacting all of the interfaces before it replys and continues. Is there a way to let WDS only use one of the network interfaces?ThxRuben O. ...

I'm upgrading my XP Home to Vista Ultimate, no issues in compatibility check, everything seems fine, except once I've typed in my product key the install seems to stop. The hourglass ...

When a slide show is launch in fukk screen view (in photo gallery or with the vista photo screen saver) it changes my screen to a lower resolution.Then all my windows ar set in a more little size. Does anyone know where this issue come from ? A ...

I would like to know is there's a way to shuffle videos with Vista Media Center. I'd been banging my head against the wall to do so because I have a collection of 80's videos and would like ...

I am tearing my hair out after 3 days of trying to make my wireless network work. All of my old PCs on XP are working fine but I have introduced some new Vista PCs and I can't get them onto the internet because of the above mess ...

I'm having trouble getting a VPN set up in Vista to my client's office which has worked fine for years under XP. I can get to the connecting and Verifying ID / PW notification but then get error 732 "Your computer and the remote computer could not agree on PPP protocols" ...

Hi Gang, Anybody have a solution for DHCP/Vista to a Linksys 300N?Everything works great wired. DHCP, no problems.I have the latest Intel driver for my 2200b/g ada ...

hi i have always put my static ip addy in the tcp settings with no problems . i have recently found you can add the static ip to the adapter settings in device manager is there any ...

If anyone can help me that would be great.Basically i sign into Planetside, Select the World and Character 3/4 to Finsh on Loading the Sanctuary Planetside Crashes.Below is the detail it gave me to the crash...Any Ideas?Problem s ...

Hi,I was wondering if there was a way to manually edit the game information and box art in Vista? I know the settings are in the registry, but nothing changes when I manually edit them. Does anyone know of a way in which I can do t ...

I cand receive mail but not send it. I have tried everything i have even call my ISP service. nothing seems to work. this is just one of the problems I've had with windows vista i hope i haven't made a mistake by this purchase.Please help ...

How can I check the size of my mailbox ie. determine how close to the limit I am? ...

I can't send mail ! help please.Regards Rafael Garces. ...

I upgraded to the latest driver for my ATI 1950 (256) posted by ATI a few days ago. When I rebooted, I immediately got a BSOD but after rebooting again, it seemed to go away for a fe ...

Printer installed when trying to print files icon at bottom displays but reads "0 files qeued to print". Went to properties and attempted to print a ...

So are you getting "Access Denied" error when trying to install a network and/or shared printer? Well here is a solution I have been using and i ...

How do I get my fax numbers into windows fax and scan? I don't have a personal address book set up yet I guess. How do I set one up? I have windows vista ultimate. I can send a fax by typing in the number each ...

Hi was working with 2000 untill last year where My company finaly upgraded to XP. First problem, could not search for files containing a certain text (wich I use all the time). But that's ok, because this "bug" was well known and a little registery modification fixed my problem.Th ...

Vista Business edition had been working fine for a few weeks. But upon booting the machine this AM it would not run Windows Defender updates, Windows Updates, open Control Panel, or run many other apps. IE7 was able to browse the Internet across most si ...

Is there a fix for the fact that I cannot play standard *.avi files in Media player under VISTA?They work like a gem on XP..Any help greatly appreciated.Thanks ...

I have tried at least 5 times now to install Home Premium. Every time in the expanding step (the second one in installation) I get error message 0x80070003 stating some files cannot be found. What is wrong, obviously all the files I have are on the disk. I am clean installing it ...

I have a few questions and concerns about the automatic syncing of offline files in Vista. 1) Why does the sync center not count an automatic sync on the status under the last sync was performed on x/x/xxxx? 2) Why does the sync center ic ...

I have a laptop\desktop + Wireless Router configuration. Have tried using Offer remote assistance option in messenger from with the router network and it worked. I've tried it from outside the network (Desktop was behind the router, Laptop connected from somewhere else) and ...

okay so i just installed Vista but i want to switch back to XP just to get some files. I go through the recovery process but it askes a password for the administration i dont ...

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Hi I have a recently purchased Dell Latitude 820 which had XP SP2 Pro and has now been upgraded to Vista Business. Since doing so, the laptop speakers do not play any sound under Windows Media Player. I do get some system sounds but that's it. I have applied the latest patches fr ...

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Hello I'am a new user FOR WINDOWS VISTA GOT A NEW TOSHIBA A100 the problem that iam encountering often is .When i scroll down a web page .the page disapears as if iam minumizing the page by just using the scroll bar ..so iam wondering if it is normal to that ..or is there a way to fix ...

This error message has started popping up on a vista laptop the past week. I am connected to internet via family network, connected to vpn. When I launch internetbased database for work (which also is where I get my voip) I get this error message and ...

I cannot get Internet Explorer 7 to run in Vista if I have User Account Control turned on. I get the following error message:Runtime error! Program C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Abnormal Program TerminationHas anybody seen this problem Is ther ...

For many years I have carfully backed up and kept my list of Favourite Web Sites on an external Hard Disk.Now, whan I want to put all those Favourite Web Sites into the Folder in Vista for use on the new install, it FORBIDS me to do it, saying I need permission!!!! How do I need to have per ...

Hi all,Everytime when the pc boot up, it will prompts for driver update. But it says "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error wile attempting to install i ...

Currently, I own a MacBook Pro with 512 MB of RAM and 80 GB Hard Drive. I plan to upgrade these to 2 GB of RAM and a 120 GB Hard Drive. I have Windows XP Professional installed on it under Boot Camp.What I was wondering is: I want to install Parallels [after I upgrade my computer's specs] and ...

Is anyone having this problem?... I make a que of songs to play in media center or just select play all. I have the option turned on that shows the album art and song info in the bottom left corner of the song while it plays with the visualize patte ...

I have narrowed down my issues with my vista workstations and networking into a 2000 domain. It is defenitely group policy related. The machine runs fine in a workgroup but as soon as I join to a windows domain everything breaks. I have created the central store as recomend ...

In Vista Enterprise I am not seeing a manual sync option for my offline files in the explorer view am I missing something or has that option been removed? gtcoait ...

I can map a drive to Windows NT server and Windows 2003 server. But everytime I try mapping to our Windows 2000 server as our administrator, I get a req ...

My new Acer was working fine for the first three days running Vista Premium. Then poof, the network controller would no longer connect. Now the network light on the machine stays on solid. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver and even did a complete restore to the f ...

An update is available for Windows Defender on Windows Vista support.microsoft.com/kb/931099An update for Windows Defender on Windows Vista has been released. The update corrects a problem in the functionality of ...

With all these terms such as adware, spyware, phishing and viruses do I need to get software protection for each individual type or are a couple of these terms one in the same? And can I get software protection that covers all these?Thanks, Jam ...

Hi! I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop and a ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 video card. When it goes into sleep mode, I actually doesn't recover properly. Once I flip the lid open, it just boots all over again, restores Windows and takes a very long time to do so, alm ...

Hi folks: I just purchased a new Gateway FX530XV that came with Windows Vista Ultimate on it and since then I can't program my mouse buttons so they will work in AmericasArmy... I purchase a new mouse (Logitech610 ...

I accidentally added a misspelled word to my spellcheck dictionary and can't figure out how to remove it. Does anyone know? Thanks!!! ...

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Im using an epson pm4000px (Japanese version of the stylus photo2200 on a usb print server. when Itry to print photos, for some reason it likes to print the page 2 or 3 times. I checked the event viewer and came up with this "The print spooler failed to verify printer driver pa ...

Hello, I have gone thru all the options mentioned in this newsgroup about chkdsk not running. "chkdsk /f" chkntfs /c c: running chkdsk it in safe modeall options lead me to ru ...

Windows 95 and XP had included a pinball game that I enjoyed but it isn't included with Vista. How can I legally acquire that,? Would it work in Vista ...

the font is making my paper too long it doesnt look right how can i fix it? ...

When I upgraded to Vista, I chose a clean upgrade and manually moved my data over from the preceding installation of XP Pro. This worked fine for everything BUT my favorites.The old Favo ...

Hi all, I've got a problem with the task bar (Windows Vista x64). 90% of the times the task bar freezes as soon as I click on the start menu, while if I click on other items it continues to work fine. ...

I want advice from an intelligent who could advise me with a motherboard which has the best feature, which suite Vista with out any problem witch is causing me now with the motherboard I have, what I am looking for is a mothe ...

I upgraded to Windows Vista by accident, and now my printer doesn't work with anything higher than Windows XP. I need the administrator password to get back on regular windows.. what is it and where can i find it? ...

I have the ultimate version of vista, after installing it on my pc i decided to swtich back to xp because its too slow and some other problems, but i activated ...

About a month ago my windows media player on vista wouldn't start when I click on it anywhere all I got was the loading circle for a second and nothing ...

The Windows Media Player preinstalled in Windows Vista of DELL Dimension is giving lot of trouble. There is a crackling and hesitation of the sound on all types of files mp3,wma,cda, etc etc. The resolution is to disable the enhanc ...

Hi i am new to discussion, can you help. When i start photo gallery in Vista it starts i can see my pictures, then after a few seconds Windows closes the program saying it is looking for a solution but nothing happens. ...

Is there any way I can edit the HTML code when composing or replying to a message in WM? It was so easily done with OE.! ...

Someone please help before I go crazy. I need to start a new email for my new job myname@newportlimo and I can't. Am getting error messages and asking f ...

HelloJust started testing Vista Enterprice 64bit, the PC has nVidia GF 6600GT video card. With both the retail DVD and latest beta drivers, display properties show there are 256MB shared memory ...

I want to suppress zip files from showing up as folders in Windows Explorer. In XP the command for that is "REGSVR32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL". What would be the equivelant of that in Vista? Long live Fat32! ...

Thank you to Carey for answering my questions & to all others who responded. After uninstalling McAfee Security Center, I discovered I now have something called Win ...

I purchased a PC with Vista already installed, it started doing P M dumps and i contacted HP who got me to do a full system recovery..... I'm not one bit confident they knew what they were doing as this i ...

infoworld.com/article/07/04/19/Intel_CEO_spills_beans_on_Vista_SP1_1.html Microsoft Corp. won't pin a timetable on the first major update for Windows Vista, but one of its most importan ...

When I try to publish a movie to DVD maker from WMM it shuts down highlighting an error (Impgd10.ax).(unregister this binary, e.g. regsvr32 /u lmpgd10.ax). Not too sure wha ...

In Vista, the items on the various menus, such as the New manu, and many others, as well as the names of the menus themselves, such as the menus in the IE7 menu bar, do not have the accelerator key underlined, and the user has to remember or guess what th ...

I use Windows Mail for my eMail but Firefox for my Browser. However, I seem unable to truly set Firefox as the complete default Browser. It does not appear in Se ...

Hello We have SBS 2003 that has been upgraded to Win Server 2003 R1. Many SBS 2003 components still exist and we are still in the habit of using connectcomputer wiz ...

It is freezing while it is encoding...any guesses as how to fix it??? ...

I have just upgraded my Acer notebook from XP Pro to Vista Business now every time I reboot I have to start Vista Firewall Manually. I cant find a setting to change to make sure it loads at b ...

Hi, i am Christine. My internet connection (comcast) was installed just few days ago. I would like to use the Windows Mail but don't know how to configure it so that I will be able to use it. I wo ...

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I purchased a lap top and I cannot receive email on the lap top. Can you help me? From: "Angelo Cork" <Angelo Cork@discussions.microsoft.com> Subject: RE: mail setup Date: Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:54 PMI do no have that option checked and I'm still getting the error. Any other so ...

I need Hitachi Prinfina Color CX5000 Printer Vista Driver .. ...

i am running Windows Vista Ultimate and when I try to scan from Windows fax and scan I am told there is No scanner detected. It is definately online and functioning. ...

hello. i have vista ultimate instaled on my pc, with hp officejet 7100 connected i got the vista "your device is ready to use" so that worked perfectly. there was no extra software needed.BUT, there is a conflict with the ...

The instructions are not quite clear. I set up bitlocker to be sure it would work on my system, the after reboot it automagically encrypted the disk. I wanted to use a pin. Are there specific instructions for doing this? Thank you. ...

I want to add a shortcut for making a dialup connection to all the users on a system (husband, wife, child). Is there some way to do this in one step rather than logging in as each user and creating the shortcut? ...

My PC has at least 1 USB 2.0 port. The others are USB 1.x.How can I tell which is which?This is what's listed in Device Manager, under "Universal Serial Bus con ...

Hello everyone,I seem to all of a sudden be unable to send email properly in windows mail. If I send an email to myself for example it stays in my outbox. I also have a message that was sent I think from within adobe photoshop elements 5, wh ...

The problem has been around since NT4/W2K/XP, hoping Windows Vista resolves this?rmeaudio.de/english/faq/10entrye.htm ...

Attention kevpan815@hotmail.com Imposter, I have Submitted a Complaint (About Your Post's Were You Falsely Used My Email Address to Post in these Newsgroups) to both Abuse@Microsoft.Com, and Abuse@PacBell.Net, Just FYI.Sincerely,The Real Kevin John Panzke (The Real kevpan815@ho ...

Vista won't install (over XP) because it detects some Symantec products.They're not listed in Control Panel / Add/remove programs. Norton WMI Update *IS* listed but refu ...

So, after 3 years of OSX on my home computers, I decided that it wasn't worth the time and effort it takes to do things, so I decided to give Vista a go. I grabbed a copy of business from MSDNAA and replaced OSX on my Macbook Pro. The install process was fine. The OS itself takes a ...

Have had Vista since early February and MSN Premium will not work. When I attempt to run the application, it says the program (MSN explorer) has known compatablilty issues with this version of windows. I go ahead and click the "check for solutions ...

HiCouple of questionsHow does window calendar work, Does it constantly run in the background?Also when it is running I keep getting a message that there ...

Sort the issue with WMDC and the htc ARTEMIS which fails to connect., This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, ...

I have DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 PC. It has 64Bit hardware. I installed Windows VISTA Ultimate (X64) and after that audio driver is failing to install.I ran windows update but the issue remained unsolved. Following was the explanation given in "Problems and solu ...

Hi, I just bought a new HP laptop equiped with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2Go DDR2 memory and Windows VISTA Home premium edition. Having played around with it for 2 weeks now, I'm looking forward to install Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition along with ...

I am trying to install my digital camera software, I had it installed on my previous computer that had windows xp, but now when I try to install it on the new computer with windows vista, it says that 4 regist ...

Since I see "PowerToys resizer" is not compatible with Vista I'm at a loss how to resize pics to mail. I see the usual right click on the pic, send to, and then resize but what if yo ...

I am running Vista ultimate and am having problems with sync center. I am trying to sync through my office network to a file on an associates computer.The changes are remaining on my version of the file but not hers.How can i rectify this problem an tem ...

I have a problem that some internet sites gets blocked by the Windows Firewall. This occurs randomly, pages like gmail.com will give the error that the page cannot be found, but other sites work fine. When I turn the firewall off... the sites work 100%.What could this be? ...

All of a sudden my navigation panel has disappeared and I can't seem to get it back. All I see is my inbox, and I can't find the other folders (sent messages, deleted messages, etc. Outlook Express had a "Navigation ...

Is there anyone using xplornet and windows mail? When I connect I can receive but not send mail. I get a server certificate error. I've tried to rese ...

hi all situation: pendrive already partioned in fat 32 as primary, and formated from disk management cannot eliminate partition, it let me to format is this a ...

How do I make it so the easy transfer doesn't start when I click on my mapped drive? When I right click the mapped drive the start Windows easy transfer it default. Can I stop this? ...

I am trying to use Windows Easy Transfer to transfer files and settings from my old Windows Vista Business x64 PC to my new Windows Vista Business x64 PC.I can launch Windows Easy Transfer, choose transfer over network connnection, generate a key. Then I go to the new computer, launch it, choose tra ...

I keep getting this error speratically when I close different applications, like Excel or PowerPoint or Explorer. Anyone have any idea as to what it is and how to fix? ...

WC is constantly crashing whenever i use. E.g. i'll set up an appointment, close it and then a few minutes later i'll get the following crash report.Any ideas b4 i dump WC?Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: ...

I'm the sole user & administrator on my laptop with Vista Home. I see folders under my name/documents/ but it denies me access. I've checked in User Accounts & it shows I'm Administrator. What gi ...

Today I notced vista was jumping up and down saying there is one update for you to download the update is KB932818(also these other 2 optional updates for drivers)Anyway so I thought, sure ok g ...

we have radiobroadcasting in our city / local network but there is a trouble when radiostations playing on 8000 port everything is perfect, but othe ...

Lost the use of the keyboard after a failed attempt to install Webroot Spysweeper which froze the system. Power off, power on, run Check Disk or whatever its name is now: no keyboard. In Device Manager there is a yellow triangle next to ...

I own a copy of XP home. I am in the process of building a new pc and want to transfer the operating system rights from my old pc and will remove it from the hard drive. Is there any other way of installing Vista home pr ...

hello.....i've been running a rc2 ultimate version....decided to purchase a vista business upgrade from windows marketplace...downloaded the files from digital river and have my license key...but cant seem to get it install ...

When I start Outlook I get the message that MAPI32.dll is corrupt or incompatible version. Renaming MAPI32.dll and restarting Outlook does not work. When I go into Contral Panel and Click on Mail, I g ...

HiI recently upgraded to Windows Vista Business (32 Bit) on my notebook. I run 1440X960 resolution. If I attempt playing DVDs in Windows Media Player, I get an error: 'WMP cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust y ...

This problem has existed as far as I can remember first realizing that this feature existed. I would simply click on the "Apply Media Information Changes" button that is located under the library tab. Then, a popup window would appear that says:& ...

trying to connect my new laptop o office network where the others are xp with no success for many days, frustrated. I can ping every xp pc on the network but I cannot see ...

Hi,I'm using offine folders under Vista.I mapped a drive and set it to "always available offline" and synchronised which was great by the way.Unfortunately the system that i'm synchronising with has died and can't be repaired so I can' ...

i have dial up and my desk top is vista and lap xp. when i use ics the xp lap top will not download jpeg images or any weather maps etc.. they come up with rainbow colors. when ghost back my desk top os ...

How do you create multiple dialup conection in Vista? When i try and create a second one, it overwrites the first one. It is really anoying to have to receate one each time I want to dial up to a different ISP.Wh ...

Help please ....... Vista Businesstrying to troubleshoot .mdb file on a Vista Business installation. Using MS Office 2003 Access. I can view the file without issue on the Vista Business laptop but when I send it in a Email or even copy it to a storage directo ...

Hi,I can't remote login on windows vista machine from my windows server 2003 machine.I have enabled remote login on windows vista machine. I have also ...

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Hi,I noticed something funny on my laptop last night.I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost.My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly ...

HP Photosmart C6150 AllinOne printer (we are wireless) HP Pavilion dv6000 Laptop Vista Premium 32bit IE7In March my husband installed our printer getting a driver from the HP website because the driver that came with the printer didn't work with Vista. Everything was working fine. I ...

We are using a Microsoft windows network The boss has his schedule recorded in outlook on his VISTA machine. His calendar has been shared to his staff. However the staff are running XP machines with outlook 6.0. We would like to view a shared vista outlook ...

Hi people,I've installed Logitech SetPoint 3.30 (3.30.165 drivers) for my MX 3200 cordless keyboard/mice and my computer does not enter into sleep nor hibernation a ...

Hi! I'll soon make the transition from XP to Vista. Until now I've always made clean installs for all previous Windows versions because the upgrade functionality never been that safe as ...

Hi, I recently started using Windows DVD Maker, but I'm having a problem.I'm encoding some homemade videos from my DV camera to DVD. The video transfers to the compter no problem, and plays back just fine.However, after the DVD Mak ...

1. From my Xbox 360 I can run Media Center on my PC and view Video's, Music, Etc. 2. I have sharing turned on in the Media Player 11. 3. Try to launch music or videos from the Xbox 360 outside of Media Center. 4. I am able to see the PC. 5. I get the message I need to have Media Player set u ...

Ok, I am using Windows Mail and have found out that I can't delete any of the contacts after I put them in. Every time I hit the delete key of button in the contacts it says that there has been a problem and it needs to reboot.Is this a bug in the code or do I n ...

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I'm having a similar problem to that described here by Nikon RAW users.Problem: Vista Home Prem, release edition I open Windows Explorer and navigate around quite happily until I reach a subfolder of "Pictures" (containing ...

I recently purchased a HP computer with XP Media Centre and upgraded it to Vista Home Premium. Downloads worked fine on the XP installation.However when I attempt to download anything in Vista the downloaded files go miss ...

I am sure that this has been asked a million times, but please humour meI have installed Illustrator All .ai files should therefore have a little default icon. But they don't. In WinXP it just meant a trip to the file ass ...

I (as administrator) have set and saved my Thinkpad T60p LCD brightnes in the Power Options to 70% for both AC and battery power (Thinkpad Default). However w ...

I got a new laptop with Vista. I have been using a Verizon PC Card on an HP Pavillion with XP. Now the PC card in the new laptop is giving me problem connecting to Microsoft Exchange Server to access ...

My father just got a new Dell computer last week. Got it hooked up and everything was great until the last two days. He called me last night wanting to know what was wrong w/puter. Said he was unable to connect to internet. I still have XP (th ...

This is funny I have a Logitech USB headset its like the 300 or 350 series. In the past you would just plug it in and XP would load the drivers for it. See with most headsets as with this one the manufacturer doesn't make drivers for it because all it is a headset. Simple ...

Recently microsoft word 2002 is found to be open/launched when I log in to the computer. It does this by itself. I close it and later it will be open again.I have a new Gateway PC with Vista Premium on it and it worked fine for several m ...

Hi everyone,I'm trying to uninstall one of my applications (Vmware Player in this case) but keep getting "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" errors. What do I hav ...

Hello,I noticed on my Dell E1505 with 7200rpm Hitachi 100gb drive, anytime I come out of hibrnate or standby mode, the harddrive will spin down after 30 ...

I have been running Vista for several weeks now and I feel I have a good handle on it. The other day, however, I ran into a problem where the Media Center was acting flaky. Over the weeks, I had tweaked my system to the way I want it. So when med ...

All my gadgets load as an empty white box with the exception of the clock which is black with one red hand. I have tried to research the problem but have not found a fix. any ideas.... ...

I just got this laptop and deleted that Norton Virus which came with it and I definitely did not want. Now my home xp has the Shield Antivus 2007 but does not include Vista just xp..What antivirus program is everyone using for this Vista Business?Thanks Mary ...

We use the group policy to redirect the users home folder (\\server \home\%username%) and when a user logs on from a Vista machine it is renaming their %username% folder to documents. This obviously poses a ...

I lost my product key for rc1 and i am wondering if there is any way i can get a new one because at microsoft they won't give me one. ...

im having trouble accesing the areo feature, i only get the vista basic feature but i have installed the prmiem version ...

My new eMachine came with VISTA, but some of my software, the printer, camera, etc. would not work with VISTA, so I installed XPSP2. NOW, I have no sound. I have looked for the driver that would allo ...

Brand new install of Vista Business x64, trying to install the software I use most, including Synctoy 1.4. It installs fine, but won't run I get a dialog box announcing "Sy ...

My laptop with Windows Vista on it went corrupt so i had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows Vista from scratch. The problem is the product key t ...

i have windows vista premium , with a mass storage device ie, mini card reader. it is built into the pc when i bought item. also i have a tray icon that say safely remove hardware icon.? do i need to disconnect the devic ...

Is it normal that the Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 32 / 64 edition (labelled on the box) should only have 64 bit disks? Both discs are labelled as "anytime ...

i have windows vista ultimate. i like the wow srs effects. however, as with realpalyer..the crossfade, when activated causes skipping at the end of the song. also, with windows media player w/ srs enhancement, there are popping sounds throughout during playback.. ...

I have Vista Home Premium. I am a novice at CD and DVD burning. Is it possible for me to take 10 music videos fron YouTube, edit them and then record onto a DVD like a long video? If so, how do I do this (in simple terms)? ...

How do you get GPEDIT (Policy Editor) to install so it will be available in the MMC (Microsoft Manager Console) as a Snapin. I have expanded the files for GPEDIT and added them to my System32 folder. I have also tried to install the DLL ...

Still searching for the best internet security for Vista. Any thoughts on the relative merits of The Shield Deluxe, Kaspersky, Nod32 or Avast re effectiveness, compatability and ...

my ex boyfriend has put a parental block on my account so i cant access my music or pictures and has blocked loads of web pages including ebay and paypal. He has also put me on as a standard user so i cant do anything. Is ther ...

I have a problem with a Lacie Network Disk (NAS) which turns unaccessible from my Vista Ultimate PC after some time with the error message"The network BIOS se ...

I've never used Outlook and don't have a mailbox via my ISP. When I click on a link to mail something, Windows Mail always pops up. I went into Default Programs, Set Program Access, selected Custom, and selected "u ...

When I click a link on a website to email someone I get like 40 Explorer screens to open and then it says it cannot do it. The error says something about Windows Mail not being properly installed. I have redone all the associatitions ...

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I just found this text file called "blobl". It has nothing in it, and a size of 0 bytes. I know I didn't create it. I found it on my external hard drive just after creating a backup of my main drive. I have found it before (on my main drive) and just del ...

I am trying to find ASR in Vista and cannot find it. Not even in help and support. Where is it? I read that you can use USB devices instead of disquette. Is it true? ...

When I first got Vista, everything worked perfect. But now, I can't even watch a streaming video from the internet. I know it's not my internet because my other Windows XP computer plays the videos ...

I made a complete backup of my system which was ultimate x86 It is over 14 gigs in size as it had all my old xp stuff on it incl many documents etc. The backup was confirmed as complete. I installed ultimate 64 bit version but as drivers for my Hauppauge card and other s ...

Hi, I just saw this section, so decided to post my question here as well as networking... Not sure which is better for this type of question. I have a desktop running Vista ultimate, and a laptop runing Vista home premium. I would like to sync the desktop and the laptop together. More specifi ...

can anyone tell how to get builtin/adminstrator to stop eating up my hard drive i installed vista home premium 64 bit three weeks ago and the above file has already grown to 52.2 GB it wont let me delete, in fact in the space of this question it has know went into 53GB ...

I just used the windows vista upgrade anytime disc and it finished going through the installation process and then it came to the welcome screen and i signed in. Then a installation program popped up and then a NIHelper.exe window popped up and asked me to allow it ...

ive tried downloading programs off the internet and they arent completing. the little box pops up and says that the download is complete but then i cant install the program. ive tried downloading a download manager program a ...

Hi,I have recently installed Vista on my PC which used to have XP installed. On this machine I had a data drive D that contained all my documents etc. Now, while using Vista I have notice ...

I have a Vista user that is connecting to Terminal Server through RDP. We are having licensing issues with our new 2003 Server, but are currently using Temporary licenses. We d ...

I have run into a bit of a problem. I ran my weekly Spy Sweeper scan today and it was taking way too long over 6 hours. I saw it was running the scan o ...

HelloIt is my first post so please bear with me. I bought a new laptop 2 weeks ago with Vista preinstalled, I work on a wireless BT home network and I am having serious problems with any forum I go on (inlcuding Microsofts own it has taken 27 minutes to get this window open so I ...

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Ever since I got my laptop with Vista the taskbar buttons have been different. Usually (in all versions of windows) when you open a program or internet explorere for example they ...

Start>Run will try to predict as you type which command you're going to run based upon a list of previous commands you've typed.Lately though for some reason it no longer offers a command history but instead seems to use the Internet Explorer hi ...

Hello I posted this question before, first of all thanks for the replys. None solved the problem. Let me restate the problem. I have a workegroup network ...

I just bought a new computer (a Gateway GT5428) about a month ago that came with Vista Home Premium on it and not too long ago it started having the blue screen pop up and say "physical memory dump" and than my computer restarts. I try to catc ...

Hi group,I have an HP Pavilion a1700n with Vista. Does anyone know how to get rid of the stupid Yahoo search box on the taskbar?ThanxChet ...

I have a strange problem. I now have my network shares on my new Vista machine. Everything works fine until I want to copy several files fast from an XP machine to a network share ...

I am using Vista Home Premium and would like to switch to the builtin administrator account. Can someone advise me the procedure to do so.Thanks,Scott ...

I can't believe, what people wanna make money with. It's to bad they often send with this email above to windows vista. Hope, they get spammed themself. geldstrategie@yahoo.de ...

I am trying to install Quickbooks 2002 on my new computer.....having problems!Thank you,Brenda ...

i.e. windows+e (explorer) windows+r (run) windows+m (minimize all)....Any idea what could have caused that? ...

Has anyone figured out how to install a working version of the Epson 1394.3 device driver under Vista? Epson has chosen not to include firewire support in their Vista driver. Jerks. I have tried to install it by download the d ...

Okay, out of curiosity I went to "Online Media > Program Library > More Tasks" in Vista Media Center for the first time. There I chose to watch some Chappelle Best Of Season 1 episodes on &quo ...

I recently bought myself a maxtor on touch III, and installed the software that comes on the hard drive as I wanted to use it's sync feature.It installs fine, but once I've unplugged the hard drive and put it back in at a later time the maxtor software doe ...

Can we add Raid drivers on the Vista installation CD ? Shidewa ...

I installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 9, but its Icon on most days on boot up appears in the extreme right bottom corner and there it is inoperative and I cannot drag it couple of inches to ...

Hi,I'm not able to drag video clips to the Storyboard in Windows Movie Maker v6 after importing several from a digital video camera. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate with all of the latest product updates. The preview p ...

I'm using paint to draw cartoon type pictures. When I save the picture and re open it, there are light colured pixels that surround my drawing. This is making it impossible ...

I have downloaded several movies off of mp3 rocket pro. I have tried to burn them to watch them on TV. no playback available pops up on the home dvd player. how do i get to see the movies i burn on t ...

i can't see the pictures when i go to the folder where they are ... they just have the standerd gif, jpeg,.... pictures not the thumbnails... even when i change it to view thumbnails it didnt work, but the pictures do work and can be viewed when i open them up under the pictur ...

My internet connection keeps dropping. Under network and sharing the indicator says i'm still connected. When i diagnose the issue under windows vista and it says it's a problem with my ...

Hello, I have 3 computers, one with Vista Ultimate and 2 with XP. My question is if I have a printer connected to one of the XP machines can I share this printer with the Vista machine? Right now the printer is connected to othe Vista machine and they are all connected ...

Hi,currently I am searching a program with GUI for editing the ACL descriptors of windows services. This is for example pretty handy if you want to assign a user or a group the permission to star ...

This might be the latest I've seen them release their monthly drivers.ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/commonvista32.htmlati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista64/commonvista64.htmlWonder if these have that Steam client in them ...

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I am having the same problem with my username and password. I tried deleting the acct, but it is still not working??? I am putting in my yahoo user name and password...is this what it is asking for?Thanks! ...

After cleaning up my mess with Windows Mail, I find I no longer have the stationary folder. How can I get it back? Thanks, Kay ...

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how do i set up my microsoft mail to send and receive mail................no clue at all.......just a new user ...

All my mail is coming prefaced with SPAM? This is mostly Yahoo mail. Private emails seem to be OK. ...