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when i am about to log on to the system i can use Ease Access or select keyboards (US, FR, ES, ...). you can configure this from control panel, even apply settings to default accounts or system accounts. but i am missing a way to configure ...

Hopefully not offtopic, but can someone tell me if and how (settings) Maple (online game) can be used/played on a standard Vista account. So far it seems only an adminstrator account would do. Under XPpro I was able, with some minor adjustments, to achive this without endangering the s ...

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There are a lot of posts as to the problem of email using Outlook in Vista. I personally cannot send any SMTP mail. I have two different accounts configured correctly, on ...

Hello, I have Vista Home Premium and I'm having a problem with certain attachments in Windows Mail. When I open the message, the attachment has the Windows Mail icon next to the titl ...

Tried to imort from CXV file created from Web Mail but Vista won't recognize data. Help! ...

I've tried all the tips for importing my OE6 messages (Inbox, Sent Items) into WinMail and I keep getting the same error message "No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running ...

I copied my OE wab address file onto a flash drive on the old computer (XP) and installed in onto the new laptop (Vista). All the names appeared in the new Windows contact list however none of the folders f ...

HeyGot my new notebook, Vista home edition preinstalled. Plugged in my SANDISK 13330 USB bluetooth device. no driver for it. Plugged in my Joyit flash drive. No driver for it. Sea ...

Hi, I have windows Vista and I would like to have access to the Scheduled Task on remote computer (Windows XP). With windows XP when I browse th ...

I blocked 2 programs from starting up for 3 to 4 days. 2 Days ago I checked them to allow them to boot on startup using the "system configuration" utility in vista, but on every boot it starts up saying windows is blocking some startup pr ...

Can anyone tell me the highst rate point of vista system. My computer tell me that my computer take 4.5 point. This rating point givin on 5 or 10 points ...

I upgraded to Vista Ultimate from XP Pro SP2 this past weekend. I've found that the speed in which an application runs varies much more now than it did in XP.For example, Virtual PC 2007 has ...

when i restarted my computer a screen popped up and it gave me an option to create a boot disk so i closed the screen because i didnt have any disks...i just bought some and now i can't figure out where that screen is. please help ...

P4 2.8ghz HT, 1.5gb, 160gb, Ati 9550 256mb agp 8x.I open up Advanced tools and notice below Performance issues that it displayed a warning icon with message Performance can be improved by changin ...

So, in my evaluation as to whether I should spring for a duel processor I'm wondering if Vista and Office 07 are designed to take advantage of a duel processor? I notice that some o ...

So in order to access my printer which is connected to a Vista x64 desktop machine. you want me to install x86 vista, to aquire the driver. to reinstall x64 vista. to install the x86 driver for vista onto my x64 version of vista. so that i can then share ...

I am running Windows XP SP2 and planning to upgrade to Vista. The Windows Upgrade Advisor indicates that for my Canon Lide 80 Scanner & Canon LBP2410 Colour Printer there could be problems. Does the Vista upgrad ...

Microsoft indicates that the RX580 is certified for Vista, however the drivers, supplied by Epson will not install. Neither the printer nor the scanner s ...

I know that there are a lot of posts about Vista's problem with folder views. I am getting very frustrated too. I like the way I customise my folders, and Vista always ruins them. Just recently, Vista decided that Program files and Windows folders contained Mu ...

Quite often i get a return mail with following error. !!!! ERROR START > The original message was received at Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:40:37 +0100 The following addresses had permanent fatal ...

Network 2 Win2k Pro boxes, 1 Laptop Vista Home Premium All in all, the smoothest network setup I ever had with a new box....ExceptI can't access two USB devices on my main Win2k box, external HD and an HP 6110 printer. I can see them, pull up properties but ...

I have recently bought an HP Vista laptop and tried to set up a home network through my wireless router. I have looked on here for days now and have not found anything that helps. Now one thing i would like to point out is that i went up to my dads house and he has 2 XP computers with ...

I've been unable to delete emails from my junk mail folder. I just dicovered if I right click on junk email folder and select "Empty junk mail folder" then click ok it will delete one message at a time. It's not the fastest method in the world but at least I c ...

I have windows Vista and I setup my email and news accounts about three days ago. Everything has been working fine. Today I came home from work and downloaded all t ...

I have a client with a little peer to peer network. I was wondering if it were possible to sync the folders of the secretaries to a single pc and then backup t ...

Hi Everyone,I've read a lot of threads on this but none have helped my situation. This should be really simple but it's not.Here's my problem:I have a new PC running Vista Business. My laptop is running XP Pro. They are both connected to my rout ...

i am so frustrated. i hope i can find some help here. i have a laptop with xp media which is wirelessly connected and a desktop with vista connected with ethernet. ...

I am running vista business. When I try to access the help and support I get a message it can't open the site. ...

Does anyone know where the Up a Level button went in Windows Explorer? "Back" just doesn't cut it in all instances.I do computer tech support for my company and I can't believe I'm having such problems with this operating system.Please let me know if y ...

Is there a way to remove the words from the drop down list when doing a google or MSN search? Not sure if I am making this clear but whenever a word is typed for a search that word or words is added to a drop down list. Can this list be removed or can the system be set to not save these words? ...

Is anyone having a issue while receiving email in Outlook 2007 running Vista? I'ts like using a 2400 modem. Thanks ...

Out of the blue, I suddenly can no longer select multiple files and can no longer get my Windows Explorer setting to stick. I have tried the RESET FOLDERS trick but that only worked the fist time. This bug is SOOOO annoying that I am ready re switch b ...

i have a big problem. i bought new laptop with win vista. i am computer science student. so i made 4 partition on my 160 gb harddsik .because of new ...

hi alli am looking at getting a 2 gig ram upgrade (to 4 gig) but ive been told that with vista it only regcognises max 2gig is this true?thanks ...

I run the windows experience index and if fails to finish. I get a box that says a device or program is preventing it from completing. Anyone with a fix??? Bill ...

HiI just bought a new pc with 1.86 GHz core2duo and 2 gig ram. I am, however, getting an odd thing happening.When I start to use the pc, I can open explorer windows and programs ...

I'm looking for a Secure Delete utility for Vista....Minimum requirements... Secure deleting of a directory (recursive) Secure deleting of slack/free s ...

Am using the photos one ( settings random/slow ) from a folder in my pics folder. Now this folder has about a dozen pics but it quite often freezes on the last photo. Have removed that pic and it does the same with another pi ...

Help! while running "full system backup" System crashes at about the 90% mark to a blue screen error ..... driver_irql_not_less_or_equal Blah blah blah......... ...

Whats and how to Windows Download Manager? ...

We're trying out Vista Business on a few PCs here. One PC in particular is left on each night, but appears to either be rebooting during the night or just logging off the user. The logged in user is a domain admin and the desktop is left locked. There aren't any indications of wha ...

HiI'm running Vista Ultimate.How do I get into Dfrag so I can select the drives to defrag?My preference is to go back to the XP interface if possible?thanksDaniel ...

Does any one know how to wake up vista when it goes to sleep? XP wakes up when I move the mouse, not so with vista. I think its more of Display goes to sleep? I change all the settings I can think of to no avail. John ...

I've been experiencing audio and video errors causing multiple crashes since I got my new Dell PC. Every time I try to play certain video files downloaded from the net in media player ...

Vista is unable to find drivers from isp cd (speedtouch 330 usb modem) I have to network my 8yr old pc for internet access. Any ideas? ...

I have a dual boot XP Pro/RC1 machine that I have setup with XP Pro as the default OS. XP Pro is on the primary 160 GB HDD.I installed RC1 in a 50 GB partition of a 200 GB secondary HDD. I do have some software and Data installed i ...

On my Win2000 laptop I can leave messages on the server after viewing so that I can later view them on my desktop. I have not been able to do this with my Vista laptop. Anyone know the trick? ...

Cannot open any attached document that comes through to windows mail. Cannot save them either. Did Uncheck the option "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could po ...

Hardware: Acer laptop 9300. OS: Windows vista. After computer has been left in sleep mode for more than 120 minutes, power indicator turns green and the computer seems to pass onto another m ...

Whenever I boot vista (business edition), I can get to the user logon screen, but before I can select my profile to log in, the logon music skips and then i get a BSOD, followed by a restart. here is the info ...

Hi, I have an Acer 620U Prisa scanner that I would like to use on my Windows Vista laptop. Does anyone know if there are drivers for this scanner? I tried all over on the web and didn't find anything. The Acer website was no use at all!!!!! Thanks, Phil ...

I am currently having to reinstall Vista Premium on a new drive and board. However when I put in the CD Key I get a message " To use this product key st ...

I ran the upgrade advisor and it says my computer is compatible with Windows Vista, and that Vista Business (the version I want to install) is the best version for my hardware. Whenever I try to install it, it star ...

I have a router and i hooked up both my computers, 1 has vista and 1 is windows xp, it stays online for a minute or two then the connection dies, it works fine with 2 xp computers but i cant connect my computer with vista ...

Hey guys, I recently upgraded to Vista from XP, and still have my old HP deskjet 3325. I understand that it isn't compatible with Vista, all I really want to know is if anyone ...

Can someone tell me please how PPC installs are handled now that activesync is no longer supported in Vista? I mean, the programs that you get to run on your ppc just in case there is some confusion. Thank you for your tim ...

I am using Vista Premium home and Vista Ultmate. Using Home I can right click on a file or document and select "Send to" and choice of HD plus MAIL RECEIPITENT,plus ohter destinations. In ultmante the Send to" functions appear but MAIL RECEIPTIENT is ...

I keep getting the following error message when I start up my computer:runner error name (hp connections.exe) locks a '' (the app id separator)I can't find the solution anywhere. ...

When I attempt to Create Restore Point or perform a Complete PC Backup, I receive the following message:The restore point (or backup) could not be created for the follow ...

When running Windows XP in the Virtual PC 2007 window on a Vista Ultimate host, if I get a virus in the virtual Windows Xp opperating system, will it migrate over to the Vista opperating system?In other word. I would like to have a V ...

Hello, I looked for a search option for previous posts but didn't find one. No matter what I do in folder options Vista Ultimate will not remember the folder views but defaults to Date ...

For whatever reason, I continue to get an error message recently from time to time, "Explorer has stopped working" (words to that effect), and then IE al ...

Ok, I've been trying to work through this problem now for over 2 weeks and I've gotten nowhere so I thought I'd make a post here and see if anyone else has some ideas I could try. Since up ...

When I go in the photo gallery and double click an image, I get a messagebox saying:An error is preventing the Windows Photo Gallery Viewer from starting.... Any suggestions?TIA ...

When I open Photogallery, it looks all right for 5 or 10 secondes, then I get a message that a fault has occured and the Photogallry will sut down. It happends all the time. I have reinstalled Wista with no improvement. Has anybody had the same problem ...

My windows media player won't play things that are sent by me or to me, it comes up with a black screen, it will do music but nothing else, can someone tell me what's wrong ? ...

Hi everyone may helpI read from vista help information, it say that if vista wants see XP from the same network, it should op UDP and TCP, please tell where and how to open them, thanksGrace ...

On my laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate, I can connect to my schools network, but cannot get internet connectivity. When I use the the built in Ne ...

hi,i have a domain controller with 4 PCs (4 under XP and 1 under Vista) i want the desktop to not sync the offline files and laptop do this sync..the Vista PC is a desktop PC. all Oth ...

Hi, I have just bought a 2Wire HPNA system and installed it in my 2 home computers (Windows VISTA and XP). I downloaded and ran the drivers, and perfromed the installation wizard on my XP comp ...

Hello,i have studied CNG for adding new crypto algorithm. In Beta SDK Ver., there're functions for adding new crypto alg. (BcryptRegistered Provider(), BcryptAddContextFunctionProvider(), and etc).But, present SDK Ver. hasn't these functions. Moreover, there aren't related co ...

The icon for a message header only and a message header with body are not obviously so very different. This may not matter if you read Online but does matter if you read Offline.Is there any way to change icons or otherwise make the difference more obvious? TIA ...

I'm feeling very inadequate, I am trying to set up the vista mail and am havig difficulty find pop and smta information. Any idea of how I get such information? David ...

I need help please. I have my desktop and laptop on a network. When I open Windows Mail and receive my mail on one computer, those emails will not show up on my other computer. How do I set it up so that all emails show up on both comput ...

Please help, I can not edit a new message or reply to an email. I'm using webmail and Vista Basic. ...

Hi all, I'm coming across the following error in the form of a dialog box upon opening "Task Scheduler"."An error has occurred for task Reminders Tim. Error message: The specified account name is not valid.&qu ...

Hi Folks,Don't know if this is the right group, so if it isn't, point me in the right direction. (I'll post this in the Agent Newsreader group as well).Recently changed from an old Gateway running 98SE, to this new HP running Vista.Brought an older version of Agent with m ...

When I double click a word file to open it in Vista, the program gives me an error that it cannot find the file. I then need to open it through the Winword drop down menu. Any ideas on a fix? ...

Does anyone know of a way to fine tune media center tv channels? The Tuner Card maker won't help me. thanks... jf ...

Very slow to start.Windows Vista Home Premium PC HP Pavilion s7600n 2 GB RAM Processor AMD Athlon (tm)64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.00GHzAfter power on, take 15 seconds from Bios Screen to GUI Boot, from GUI Boot screen to Desktop 1 minute 48 seconds. In between time, I go ...

I'm having an unusual problem with the front USB ports of my computer, and I need to go through a process of elimination before determining where the fault resides. Here is my system configuration:Athlon XP 64x2 4800+ DualCore CP ...

To Whomever Sent Me That Nasty Email, You Have Indeed Been Reported To Microsoft, Just FYI. ...

I have about 700+ folders of music artists, plus the album subfolders. All mp3 files are properly tagged. The Music folder in my Vista account is set as Music Details. I imported most of these folders whe ...

I have been fighting the network problems with this new vista machine and my xp network.I can now acess my xp machines via the vista machine but when I try to acess the vista machine I am asked for a user name and password.What user name what passwordPlease help ...

Hi, What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre making a Password disk or ReInstalling vista ? Or Tsemah YSIDE ...

I have the new vista and I don't know how to bring up all login ID's that have been typed in. How do you do that? ...

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject 'Fw: Sillier', Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): ...

forgive my stupidity, but can i get a hotmail email address and be able to download it straight to windows mail. what are the inconing and out going address's. thanks in advance ...

I have a DOS based linker program that I use to combine a number of files into a single file. In XP I could type the following at the DOS prompt "link.exe & < file.inp". The "link.exe" is the linker program, "file.inp" is a command file containing the list ...

I am using 4 WD Raptor drives in a RAID 10. Twice the RAID has been corrupted and the Bios tells me that I have two RAID 10's. I can still boot to Vista (32) from each 2 disk set. One has anyone else seen this happen? Two is there an easy way to rebuild the array or do I have to ...

Please help me! I am running Vista Home Premium 32 bit, sometimes when I leave the computer for a while I find on my return the screen has got vertical stripes (mostly green and white, a few red) all over it. Has anyone else had such a thing happen? Once the screen has gon ...

I'm having a problem downloading and extracting zip files. When trying to download them it will open and download the file pretty fast but sticks when i ...

I have just installed Quick Time player on a Vista Premium OS computer. Windows Media player now does not play music files when I open them. Is this problem due to installation ...

Hello, I have Vista Ultimate. Media Center app keeps crashing after i look for the my videos portion of the system. I have attached the problem signature below: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: ehshell.exe Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Application Tim ...

I upgraded my XP machine to Vista Home Premium. Before doing the upgrade, I had been using an antivirus program called AVG version 7 from Grisoft.After installing Vista I discovered that AVG would no longer work, so I went into Control Panel, Add/Remove to uninstall AVG. The operating system, ...

I got a Vista mahcine recently and IE 7 failed to download any file while I can download using the very same url with other web browsers. Also the history tab of IE7 showed nothing. Any clue? ...

Dual boot WinXp/VistaU RC2 on the vista side only, after I do a normal "Turn Off", vista seems to end normally however I must manually turn off the computer. On the Xp sid ...

Hello, I am using windows vista 64bits edition, and I cannot use Internet explorer 32 bits and no other broswers.Can help me? ...

I got a new computer with a P5BVM motherboard (Intel G965 chipset) and 4GB of Ram (2 x Corsair Twin2x20486400) and GeForce 8800GTX (with 768MB).When I booted the pc for the first time the POST screen only showed 2815MB and so did my windows Vi ...

I have a AMD socket 964 3.gig processor, 1gig ddr 2400 ram, 2 hard drives 1 300gig and 1 80 gig, I had been using windows vista now for 3 weeks and then I was extracting some files from an ISO image onto the hard drive and install Microsoft office 2007 at the same and the ...

Hi, I'm completely new to Windows Vista, I'm getting the error message "the drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Windows Photo Gallery.I ...

When I try to add any folder to the gallery I get the error: "You cannot add this location to the gallery. This folder or one of its parent folders is a ...

Im sure this has been brought up 100's of times but I cannot find anything matching my problem. I can see my XP Drives from Vista, and I can even see my Vista Drive from XP but ...

start up program that came with lenovo 3000 j15 doesn't run.it gets blocked by windows&needs to be manually run from taskbar icon. i am seeing key board error and some other error at bootup. ...

What's with this Windows Mail in Windows Vista? I can't use my POP3 mail servers/accounts... so what is the good of it? The least Microsoft could have done is to discribe how to use my Outlook Express mail accounts with Windows Mail... Can anyone help... ...

Header information on emails will not print only the message shows up. There is no To, From, Date, or Subject. On some emails the header information will print but that is the exception. I have spent hours looking for a ...

Jeg kan ikke bruke vista maiol fordi vet jeg ikke hva er det brukernavn og passord? ...

In Vista the 'Switch Between Windows' button is suppose to open the 3D windows viewer feature. But when I click the button I get the flat 2D windows xp alt+tab feature. How can I switch to the new Vista feature?Thanks ...

Is this correct is there a way I can stop it using so much CPU time.. is this normal behaviour? Posted via a free Usenet account from teranews.com ...

I bought a new dell inspiron 1501, with an amd turion 64 x2 tl56, running vista home premium. Sometimes when surfing the internet with ie7, it will drop the wireless connection, and be unable to find any wifi networks. ...

I've managed to set up my earthlink account to default to Windows Mail. How can I add another user in a seperate Windows Mail account? I found that I can add them in my account, but you have to switch i ...

I am starting up a new computer and downloading a number of files. Problem is that while the system says the file has been downloaded I can only rarely find it. ...

I have toshiba portege M200 witch windows vista BUSSINES instaled.Over the section Mobile Pc, screen orientation, it doesn’t appeal the option portrait mode .only appear the landscape mode option.What can I do to make this portrait mode effective?What should I do to acc ...

Hi everyone,Is there a way to assign permissions to native applications in Windows? Like app x can only access this and this directories, app y cannot impersonate the remote users, ...

My windows seem to randomly minimize when I try to click on links. This seems to happen when I touch the 'touchpad' of my laptop rather than using the buttons... not a major problem, but certainly a pain. Any solutions out there?(Toshiba laptop with Vista Home P ...

why don't you provide an option to open/view the file while it's in the recycle bin instead of restoring it just to view it This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the sugges ...

why don't you provide an option to open/view the file while it's in the recycle bin instead of restoring it just to view itThe option is there. Try a right click on the recycle bin. See what you can do. Regard ...

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I've seen one post somewhere that the user was able to get Vista Home Premium to successfully fax something. Everything else I read says it's not possible. Is there a work around? ...

I've scheduled disk defragmenter to run on a weekly basis. The task begins, but goes to a queued status with the message "task triggered on scheduler" and doesn't run. I've seen other references to defrag schedu ...

Media Player in Vista shows the video very slowly if run in full screen. It runs ok if it is in a window. I have been using the same videos on XP and were running fine in full screen ...

Running Vista Ultimate for 3 months. In the last week, it's started dropping my d: drive after it's been up and running for a while. To get it back, I have to restart the computer. The d: drive is 4 drives (raid 5) on a silicon image 3114 on board c ...

After reading the increadably slow forum on windows vista this is what I decided: 1. Order my new laptop with the cheapest version of vista I can get. 2. erase and reload it with WinXP.. 3. Hope it never dies till vista gets a "classic" interface.. I don't need stuff flying around and ...

I plan to upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. Mainly for back up and file management purposes. When I upgraded from XP several programs stopped working and had to be reinstalled. I ran into the usual issues that people encountered when upgrading, but nothing too catastrophic ...

Does anybody know how to downsize photo files on vista? all of my pictures are approx. 2.0 mb and when I email them they are about 30" big. I cannot figure out how to make them any smaller without cropping them. ...

I'd like to know if there is now way to back up laptop to external drive on desktop running xp through the network.When I try it says that this can't be done on a pc that's running xp. Could some one explain why it can't be done?Many thanks in advance, Linda ...

I got Hunting Unlimited 4 and after it installs, when I click to play it, an error box pops up and says Prism3d has stopped working, can anyone help me with this ...

I have successfully installed two PC games on my new Asus laptop (GeForce Go 7700 vid card and Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU), both games (Prey & Cold War) are preVista, but with a little in ...

i have upgraded to vista as recomended i backed up my files using win file tranfer wizard now i have win vista installed how do i upload my backed up files onto win vista ...

We've ISV company with 2 products development in VB6. We want to migrate this applications to .Net Framework 2.0, but we are planning this migration for two years. We need ...

I have an old MSN Photo Upload Control and want to delete it and download the newest one but cannot find a way to delete it. Anyone have any ideas?I've browsed to ...

Hi,I just bought a notebook with windows vista business installed. It has a 120GB hard disk with one primary partition of 120GB. I would like to create 3 partitions of 40GB each one. Is there a way to do this with t ...

I was just wondering, does anyone know of a good and free CD burning apps that is Vista compatible? I really need something that can burn ISO images. I was using Nero 6 u ...

I am so disappointed with Netgear. I purchased a Sony Vaio 2 months ago with Vista and could not get it to connect to the internet. I have a home network with a Westell modem, a desktop XP connectected to the Netgear WGT 624 directly and 2 ...

In the "event viewer" section of Administrative tools I keep getting this error, "Windows Servicing failed to complete the process of changing update 93281822_RTM_LDR ...

My daughter has a Vista Home Premium PC that is trying to share the printer attached to my Vista Ultimate PC over a wireless network.Her PC detects the printer attached to my machine but when she selects it, Windo ...

My IPAQ hx2495 works fine when used with my old XP laptop. My new HP laptop that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium fails to install the windows mobile device drivers for the IPAQ. WMP can see the IPAQ and I can access the files on both the device and the storag ...

Seeing one of the Windows/Mac commercialsapple.com/getamac/ads/particularly the one whose picture is enlarged in the center reminds me of something I ...

I selected a desktop background from a folder of my own pix. I also put a shortcut to a doc folder on the desktop. On restarting Windows Vista neither of thes ...

How can I determine if anytime upgrade is on my Vista DVD? I got a DVD using express upgrade and there isn't the regular cover on the disc (I didn't even get a case) so I cannot check for the anytime upgrade logo. On the Certificate of Authenticity label it j ...

My audio files play perfectly until the last 10 seconds when they stutter and jump. I have shuffle play turned on it's as if the next track is being prepared for play and slows everything down. Running home premium with 4GB RAM. Any ideas please? Thanks ...

Here's the problem: I just bought an ASUS G1 loaded with Windows Vista Premium. Now, the owner of the place I'm living in has an UNSECURED Wireless Internet Network that is practically available to all residents of the place. My laptop could detect ...

I recently bought a new fujitsu siemens laptop with windows vista installed. It has the graphics card "VIA Chrome9 HC IGP WDDM". (which I was told was good) I installed the Sims 2 onto it and began playing but the graphic ...

when i try to open an attachment that is in excel or word it says there is no associated program and to go to set association control panel. How do I do this and where do I find it. ...

When I try to send or receive and error message comes up that says I'm not connected or that I've temporarily been disconnected. But I AM CONNECTED! Any suggestions?Jamie ...

I hope someone can help. I created some new folders this morning in Windows Mail and now they're not there. I saw a question earlier (can't find it now) that was quite similiar and followed the path exactly that was offered in a response. It didn't work...When I created the folders I wanted ...

Does anyone have any idea on whether the autocompletion of email addresses will be fixed in Windows mail and Outlook 2007?I should have to type in the email addre ...

I ahve an email that is stuck in the outbos and is blocking other mail from going. I have tried to locate the folder it was in and delete from there but it's still there. It isn't a pic or vid file just a short brief email..... ...

Can someone enlighten me regarding the column in this NG between "From" and "Sent"? I frequently see a round blue circle, containing the ...

is there a place to download OE (Outlook Express) without have to download IE v6, v4 , or v3. P.S. V = version. ...

Installed justreleased HP driver for 7400C scannerHardware configuration works fine on XPInitally tests OK under Camera and Scanner Imaging Control PanelWhen I try to scan using Windows Fax and Scan the I can select the scanner and options and when I pres ...

I have a applciation to fx the MBR code. Currently, I am able to fix the MBR for Windows 2000 and WIndows XP by using the fixed predefined data defined for these OS.I am not able to achive MBR fix for Vista due to followign issue:1.) I am not able to figu ...

Vista Internet Exploer has ceased working, have downloaded Opera which is working fine, however should not intrnet exploerer work?Mail okay.But google mail notifier will not w ...

I got one from the tweak program, but the sleep command seems to do more than sleep... anyway doesn't seem to work properly.. doesn't wake up...So is there another way to create a desktop sleep shortcut ?Joel ...

I installed Vista Home Premium on a laptop running XP SP2. I went for the upgrade versus the clean install. Is there any way of removing XP now? O ...

Couple days ago I purchased a Compaq Presario 3218 laptop with Vista Home Basic. It worked fine for about a day but suddenly stopped recognizing the alt key in my keyboard, so I can't sw ...

I have a Windows XP upgrade disc that I used to upgrade from Windows 2000 to xp last year on my old pc. Is it possible to use this xp upgrade disc to go from Windows Vista (which is what I currently have on my new pc) to Windows XP? I'm having ...

Reading all these posts,there's some comfort in not being the only one with problems.I have vista ultimate,office 2007 and although the connection is there and it tells me that the sync is in progress it does'nt actu ...

I have recently upgraded to Vista (what a nightmare) and when doing so, I needed to update my drivers for my UPS APC Powerchute Personal Edition v2.1, for Vista.Yesterday my PC cut out; there was no power cut, but the PC ...

I am trying to upgrade XP2 to Vista Ultimate but everytime I try the same error occurs which looks like it has something to do with scecli.dllI have had no problems doing a clean install using a spare drive so I assum ...

Is it true that Media player 11 in Windows Vista (Business) won't play video? Mine does sound but will not do video; for that I must use PowerDVD. Is this feature omitted for some reason? ...

got a question wondering if someone can help i have a new area 51 m5790 laptop from alienware i want to upgrade my graphics card soon to a direct x 10 card ati or nvidia and i know i can upgrade the card but where can i purchase one,i dont want to buy from ali ...

Using outlook in XP, my wife's identity was the default, mine was #2, we could toggle between the separate identies, and we could each get our own email.In Windows Mail, only my wife's mail comes through to her default identity. Mine does not, (although we ...

Is there a limit to the number of recipients that email messages can be sent to at one time? It seems if I have more than 15 recipients, I get an "email connection lost" "see log" message that says to make sure I am connected to the internet which I alwa ...

New Dimension E520 factory installed with Windows Vista Premium Home Editon, Windows Mail. Uninstalled McAfee, deleted windows Defender, called Comcast (iSP), walked thru the entire set up phase with IS ...

A series of event loggers are found in the Computer Manager, and i watch particularly the EventViewer/CustomViews/AdministrativeEvents. There are many errors and warnings listed there, but with no obvious effect on daytoday function.Is that "normal" for ...

The order and naming of files were changed when I did the transfer. Why did this happen? What will happen with mail merge if the merge document location is change ...

Everytime I reboot Vista Home Premium I get a box that says Just In Time Debugging and a message that says "An exception 'System.NullReferenceException' has occurred in CCC.exe" T ...

Hi all!How do I know if BitLocker installed?Cheers, Gene Email: eugene.pinero@gmail.com ...

I have never seen this one before. I poll for mail, fine it works, mail comes in. I click on the header and the body now takes several seconds to open in the panel below and then proceeds to appear/disappear roughly every 3 seconds weird.I got to Newsgroups in order to clear ou ...

From: "meron" Subject: sent­/received messages in WM Date: 11 May 2007 02:24unable to copy or move sent and received messages into appropriate folder. The folder appears bolded with a number ...

Is it possible to create a userdefined field that will allow me to customsort my picture directories? I've got lots of photos and videos of my daughter ( ...

I'm trying to fix a problem on a new (about 6 weeks old) gateway computer running vista home. When I first start up the computer nothing works. Well, I should say nothing but explorer (both internet and Windows). After 30 minutes to an hour, I am finally able to start running programs. Before ...

Interesting question for you all....I have XP Pro...., and I also have a brand new copy of Vista that I wouls like to install on my PC as a "clean" install....Would it be possible to u ...

I upgraded to Vista from XP and everything worked for one month. My kid resetted the PC and since then Vista does not boot. It passes the boot screen with the green stripes with Microsoft logo and does not reach the Vista green screen. ...

in vista(Ultimate Edition), how to use "Socks 5 proxy server" to update? I only have Socks 5......don't have HTTP Proxy.and is Vista don't have Web Update? like windows xp. ...

I am connecting the Windows Vista Remote Desktop Client to a xp professional machine which belongs to my domain thru a VPN connection across the internet.The client connects without problem but the o ...

Just got rid of the BThomehub, as I kept losing connection. Chnaged it for a belkin n1., which worked fine, today about 5 days later, it started showing network 'limited connection' with a yellow triangle. checked some obvious th ...

I have recentlly had loads of problems with the internet connect/network connection and having changed between 3 different routers I can only now put this down ...

I have a new laptop with Vista home basic and would like to use my microsoft Office XP standard for students and teachers which I had for my old laptop, does anyone know if this program will be compatible?Thanx ...

Upgraded my computer to Windows Vista on 5/16/07 and all the basic Windows sounds were working (open, close, etc.). Yesterday I went to play an audio file, wa ...

When I try and do complete pc backup on newly installed vista I get the following error:"Not all volumes containing system data are included in the backup (0x80780018)" As I was preparing to do this backup ...

another benchmark that shows that vista is slower than XPI see no one remarked on the other benchmark I posted...when I provide proof, the vistaboys are silent! lolNote: this articl ...

a customer of mine has a vista laptop (ultimate) and the narrator keeps starting itself on every reboot, I can't for the life of me figure out how to stop it form starting, or how to uninstall the damn thing. anyone know how to turn this off? ...

What is it with Vistas Internet Explorer and spam? I run adaware on an XP machine with IE7 and it hardly finds anything. But run it on Vista and it find 60 or 70 critical objects. What did Microsoft do to Vista IE? Is there ...

Small problem that I have not been able to overcome: When I open a new window in Vista (such as the browser) it only opens to about 2/3 screen width on my wide screen monitor. I can drag it to fill the complete screen. But after closing the window by exiting the pr ...

Ok so i just bought a brand new toshiba laptop with windows vista home basic and deleted all the crap pre installed software. It has 1 gig of ram and i barely run anything... i literally use Aim, Itunes, and E ...

Ive recently brought a new PC with Vista home basic on. When i click on a download button on any website, instead of getting a box that says "Run" "Save" or "Open" like i used to on XP, i just get a box with 2 options which are &q ...

Have a lot to learn about Vista, so bear with me. My event viewer is showing the following error repeatedly "The DFS Replication service has stop ...

TRYING to install nero 7960 for vista , it will not let me do it what is going on with vista. can someone help please. ...

When booting up, BIOS recognized my CD/DVD RW optical drive and I can boot from it. Once Windows has control, my optical drive does not appear on either Disk Management or Windows Explorer. When I load a disk, it does not autoplay. When I try the Run command, the browser does not ...

Could I suggest that those helped by the forum finish off with a confirmation that the resolution offered worked. If there are multiple suggesteion could the Original Poster advice ...

when i remove a driver in device manager, then restart, vista automatically installs a preconfigured driver. is there any way to disable this?what i want is for vista to stop and ask, i.e. "new device found, would you like to search for ...

A couple of years ago I bought a Veo Web Camera V300000 that works well with XP. However the driver CD doesn't support Vista (a message from it so ...

I purchased what I thought was a full version of Windows Vista Business Volume license CD. I also purchased the Volume License to go with it. When I received the media, it is labeled Microsoft Windows Vista ...

Hi allI've managed to successfully install Vista Home Premium using 2G of RAM. The problem now is that when I add another 2G the system blue screens and reboots.Any idea how to fix ?many t ...

What is the ideal size partition for Vista, without being too dysfunctionally small or wastefully too large? ...

Like WinDVD does Vista's Media Center interface DVD playback offer any realtime enhancements, such as sharpening to enhance Standard Definition DVDs when ...

Vista Photo Gallery freeze Computer every time I try start a slide show. The screen goes goes blank, and the computer just restart. I have tried with different folders of pictures, but same ...

when i change the image of my song than only change it in media player buth not in the pictogram of the song i don't understand.i restart my pc before it will well work buth now noti tried with 10 songs and always the same in media player it ...

can i add more than one Audio track in Windows movie maker, If so how can i do that. Thank you ...

Now I have had vista since it came out and media player has worked fine then one day it cleared all the music from it so it says now There are no items in this library yetAnd now when i try to add music it just wont but it will still play music ...

Hi All,I am trying to associate two systems in a local network on the following way: System A is a HP dual core workstation running Windows Vista Ultima ...

I have a new laptop (Dell with Wi Fi) that has vista premium on it and I want to be able to network the laptop with the Desktop so I can access files that are on my desktop. I have alread ...

I have a wireless network with 3 computers as follows: OSX XP and VISTAI have never had any problems with the OSX and XP computers where it was just two of those. Since the Vista computer has come into the picture I have been having some problems. Let me describe them briefly.... ...

I am having issues with some CDROMsI can't even get Vista to open some CDROMS, I put it in, it Autoplays sometimes the install game screen comes up, sometimes not. When I do click install the screen poofs and nothing happens, no lockup, nothing.I turned off the Program Control ...

why can i not delete messages in the deleta folder in windows vista i keep geting a unkown error has ocured any help to fix this it just statred about 3 days ...

I am new to this newsgroup and am wondering who answer these questions. I see questions that I also would like answered but dont know where the answer is. How does this work? thnx Pachel ...

When I open the Sent Messages folder in WinMail, I receive a message that the Data Execution Protection system has caused Windows Mail to close. Any ideas of a solution? TIA Jef ...

Every time I attempt to send an email I get an error telling me my server connection has been terminated. How do I fix this? Jim Eure ...

....yet Windows EMail says it has imported all of my old "identities." It refuses to allow me to log into my 'old' webmail from my ISP.Don't know what to do.TIA,Jack ...

I am trying to send an email and would like to order them by first name. How do i do that if i do not have a contact list. Thanks. ...

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Got the error message when trying my first restore of the new computer. Files and settings were changed. Transient error (OX800423F3). Does any one know what this means and how do I fix it? ...

When I force the system to go into sleep mode, no matter if I log out before, when I wake it up it freeze. When I move my mouse the pointer doesn't move, but it changes position on the screen after a while. I can't run any program, system slowes down, like it didn't worked at all. I can't even ...

I've just upgraded from Vista home to business edition hoping that my software application will be able to send faxes via MAPI. It wasnt. So I looked into the Outlook 2007 settings and it doesnt appear to have any linkage with windows fax & scan at ...

This is mainly of interest to people that use Agent as their news reader and download multipart large files. I have used Agent for more years than I can remember and till yesterday haven't upgraded for a long ...

I am trying to install MS SQL 2005 on my Laptop. I have Windows Vista Business installed and when I try the installation it tells me I do not have IIS installed. I go ...

I just noticed that there's no "Send to mail recipient" option in the context menu! I am pretty sure it was there a few days ago, as I even sent a few files that way. Toying w/the "set your default programs" etc. doesn't help.(Using Outlook 2007 for email client.)Sugge ...

I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade? ...

Hi, I'm user IE as my browser and have Windows Vista as OS. Yahoo is my home page and heres my problem: Vista came with a Google toolbar under the address bar. Directly under that was another toolbar. I h ...

Had circuit city download on my new laptop spy sweeper along with norton and the setup...Now after setting up spy sweeper to run 3 a.m., it is still popping up & knocking me offline or off window ...

Al my programs in my start menu dissapeared!!!! I can still use them if I go to C:\program files but it is very annoying to do that every time. And having lots of programs, dont feel like instaling them all over again. please help!!!!!! ...

Everytime my computer running Vista goes to standby mode I have to reapply the desktop background. Why? ...

I've screwed up everything on my new Vista and want to just go over the top install (like I could do in XP) but when I reboot with the DVD, it doesn't do anything.Any ideas?? ...

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 (which doesn't have much). The Delete, Copy, Paste etc. are missing. If this is an ownership issue, I am the one that created them so I would think V ...

i imported my windows address book file (wab) from my xp to my vista. the contacts are all listed on my contacts page. however, the name shows "firstname las ...

Hello, I've enabled the policy "Access this computer from the network", and limited the access to only Domain Admins. When this policy is ena ...

HiIf I disable uac and start using "real" admin account but set "basic user" path rule to IE via group policy.Protected mode seems to be on with IE.But,I guess this is not the "way" to handle this or things will not work right?I had th ...

There is a folder on my desktop that is created by a certain program when it runs and I would like to delete it. However, when I try to it says that access is denied. I am an administrator and I have checked the effective permissions which indicate that m ...

So my 2nd monitor (right) took a power hit and needed to be left off for a while to get its brain back. In the mean time I went to the display properties and uncheck ...

My wife's notebook running Vista was recently stolen and I was wondering if there is a way to remotely "deactivate" the license key for the PC so that the Windows Vista installation on the PC will not be associated with us...Co ...

Hi,I've used a Clipboard enhancer for years now, you know, those programs that save every clip & let you manipulate them to your heart's content.Anyhow...... since I started using Vista ...

How do I recover Vista to my computer from my backup dvds after it crashed ...

I cannot get rid of black boxes replacing folder icons in windows explorer and also have overlaying black boxes on part of the icon on my desktop. What can I do t ...

Ok just click a mailto link on a page.What happens then is just part and parcel of the WOW experience.After about 10 secs it comes back and tells me that mail client is not correctly setup. So I click Ok.Then (WAIT FOR IT). Over 50 windows with Explorer c ...

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Every time I arrange the start, program items, when i go back to them they are alphabetical again. How do i tell it not to arrange by letter? Favorite menus is off and the taskbar is unlocked. Thanks in advance ...

If I upgrade from windows vista premium to windows vista buisness will i lose all my data for example music and what not..? thanks ...

When I go to start >programs there is no programs button; just a search bar ...

I have recently purchased a lenova laptop with With Windows vista business. Unable to use web cam (broadcast) with yahoo messenger. whenevr i try to use invite someone to see my webcam it says cam not present. The camera is working ok when checked outside messenger. I doub ...

Well, I had been running dual monitor way back in XP, switched to Vista at Beta2 and continued using it as my main system since then. About 2 weeks ago, I started to get weird randon crashes, with no sign of why in ...

My laptop insists on turning off wireless networking at start up even though the switch on the side of the laptop is in the on position. This is very annoying, does anyone know how to fix this as I always want windows ...

Need urgent help,Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation i get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot. ...

I have noticed that MM6 does not let you increase the volume of an audio track of a DV file in the timeline, while the previous versions would.So if I am trying to mix the volume of the video audio, with the volume of a music track playing at the ...

I have this problem, Movie Maker create a project in the format .MSWMM, when I try to open this project in DVD maker it seem impossible, because DVD Maker knows only .MSDVD.In the help of DVD Maker there are written that .MSWMM is reconized.Do you know a solution? ...

I recently replaced one of our home desktop computers with a new one connected wirelessly through a router to our home network. It runs Vista Home P ...

I have a printer that I shared from my Mac. The printer is a Canon iP3000. I need to add the printer as a postscript printer and not using the driver supplied by Canon. Can anyone help? ...

Hello all,In Vista Home Basic I always have to do a "Diagnose and Repair" to force Vista to retrieve the I.P. address from my Netgear WPN824 router. This was never required under WinXP so I'm wondering why Vista never does this on it's own.Is there a ...

I am unable to add the company's new computer to the domain. I attempt to use the netwrok ID wizard, however, i continue to get an error after the 3rd screen. The error is:"your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred:An atta ...

I ran an installer from a weblink within Outlook 2003 installed on my Vista Ultimate 64 pc.Once the installer ran and was actually ready to start installing the files, UAC asked to elevate the priv ...

Here's how I got into trouble: I wanted to test a full File and Folder restore from my File and Folder backups. I redirected the restore to a folder under the control of my account (Administrator privileges) ...

Hi, I want to setup a new account in my windows Vista Home Premium for burning DVD and Cd's.I have setup an account, but would like to know I can customize that account, so that certain items don't load in the taskbar, ...

One of my users is having trouble adding a printer. Whenever they choose wireless, network or bluetooth printer, Windows Explorer crashes, restarts, and the add printer dialog box disappears. The exact message sequence is: "Windows Explorer has ...

i just set up my webmail account on Windows Mail using IMAP and when i delete a message, it appears to permanently delete it. how can i see these messages and why arent they going in my Tr