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Why can I not edit any of my group policies in Vista Ultimate RTM?I used to edit them using gpmc on RC1 and created a few new ones, but now with a full version any policy I try to edit generates a load of errors along the lines of 'unsupported version 0.9, the parser only supports ...

I have recently installed a clean install of Vista Business on a workstation in my home/office. I had the workstation join the domain and everything seems to be working ok with on ...

I have recently purchased a Windows Vista Home Premium OS, but there is a problem that has risen. For some unknown reason I can't install files or save them onto my Prog ...

i just got my new computer and got age of empire 3 and it don't like to work, so what games has people found out does work with vista ...

just before i installed vista on this pc, i installed x3, a starforce protected game and the first/last starforce game that my newer Plextor dvd drive experienced. since then i've done a complete format and installed vista.i have not installed any starforce crap i ...

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, but i'm confused as hell by the actual CS tech sites... every time i start steam to play CS i get an error message. Steam.exe (main exception): unable to load library Steam.dlli'm not ...

here is what has occured CS:S recieved fragment out of order 1/101 many times cant actually play game. battlefield 2142 all punkbuster errors. i can ping the router at <1ms but when i ping websites they are up above 200 ms brand new computer. started happening out ...

Is there a recommended way to back up you email messages and folders?For example, suppose you get a new machine and want to access all your old saved emails. How do you save all the emails so that you can then import the ...

windows vista is being a pain. is there any reason why the blue screen of death keeps popping up?i know some programs do not work on here. like the old version of aol instant messenger, but that was my problem before. so i just downloaded the updated version and ...

Can I improve performance by utilizing this option in task manager and how should I to get the greatest benefit? I have an athlon 64live 4200 x2. Are there ...

I really should not need to ask this…but I loaded Vista into my brand new C2D computer last week and I cannot see how I can move ALL data for ALL users from the C primary boot partition to either the second partition on that drive or to another drive. It should be a simple matter, bu ...

My Linksys wireless B USB adapter 2.6 v.4.0 updated driver is causing a freeze in the shutdown process with Vista Ultimate 32bit. If I unplug the adapter prior ...

I have a Lexmark 2350 and I can't print and it says the printer is not communicating to the computer and the printer driver is their in the Lexmark folder and I have unplugged the USB port and plugged back in but no good. And I have moved it to ...

RE: HP Advisor. Upon launch, it says HP Advisor has stopped working. My latest HP update is 4.0.5.7 I have a new HP Pavillion with Windows Vista preinstalled on it. Is there a fix for this and where do I get it? ...

Vista is not booting up past the Sign In/Welcome screen. It lets me type in my password and then just hangs with the perpetually spinning busycircle.I've tried booting in safe mode and it goes through the scrolling of loading files and alw ...

I can use my Yahoo account but when I send emails through Microsoft they do not make it out. Do I have the wrong "address" for outgoing emails? Please reply to ...

HiI have just bought a new laptop with Vista and tried to load Office 2000. I did a full installation and it mostly works fine. It is when I am in Outlook and tried to save an appointment that it came up with an error message tha ...

I have a Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) computer that I want to use the File and Transfer wizard to move files to a new Vista Business PC. I also have an exp ...

Possibly user error here (and I would RTF if I could find a suitable topic :( ), but...I was under the impression that I could run a program by clicking the start button ...

I am running dual monitors, and having a problem w/ the arrangment of the monitors. In Display Settings, I arrange Monitor 1 above Monitor 2. The s ...

I've upgraded my HP Pavilion zv5000 to Windows Vista, although HP doesn't support Vista on this laptop.After I upgraded the display adapter manually (using the Omega driv ...

When I try to create a password reset disk, the wizard will not give me the option to select my CD drive. The lowest drive letter it will let me select is F: which I believe ...

I HAVE A TOSHIBA SATELLITE A135 LAPTOP WIT WINDOWS VISTA BASIC.. I LOST MY ACCOUNT PASSWORD. I CAN'T LOGIN AS ANYTHING ELSE BUT THAT ACCOUNT(ADMINISTRATOR,GUEST) I DON'T GET AN OPTION TO CHOOSE A PROFILE. WHAT CAN I DO TO GET PASSED THAT.? IS THERE A ...

Are you telling me that I no longer have a convenient shortcut bar in OE/Windows Mail? That I'm stuck with this expanded tree mess? Gawd, what inbred mutants concluded the shortcut bar couldn't make the final cut?And don't get me sta ...

Brand new Sony Laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and Solo Core U1500 1.33 GHZ CPU. I can't seem to resolve the performance issue related to the hard drive constantly spinning. I went to the Resource Monitor and see that the Disk section is ...

Does anyone have a clue how to do this...I want to take an existing DVD and burn it to a blank DVD. ...

When I got my computer it said one hard drive on the box but in my computer it shows two. whats the second one and whats it for. ...

Hi,I purchased compaq presario v3004au in dec. 2006. It was working excellent with genuine windows xp home. Last week i purchased genuine windows vista home premium and now, I have 1 problem since then. Sometimes when I ...

Does anybody know what this yellow triangle with an black exclamation mark means? ++ |Filename: Capture.JPG | |Download: forums.techarena.in/attachment.php?attachmentid=6233| ++ Pete138 Pete138's Profile: forums.techarena.in/ ...

Maybe a very silly question but here goes:I am a home user who does a bit of research work as well. This morning (Sunday) I received 704 email messages. Of these 701 turned out to be spam, detected and quarantine ...

HelloI am running a domain and recently received a copy of Windows Vista x64 which I put on but sometimes it works well but other times, for no apparent reason, the system will just hang for around 30 second ...

Can anyone tell me where individual "user" tempfiles are now located? ...

Hi,I got the game earlier this week, and it runs fine except for the above mentioned problem, I don't understand since my computer has 4Gb of RAM, and all RAM meters never goes over 50% of the RAM that is been useCPU Athlon 5200+ RAM 4Gb OS Vista x64 Video EVGA 8800GTS 640Mb Thank You in Advance Me ...

Has anyone gotten Planetside to run on Vista? How, please? I tried. ...

There must be a "quick switch" key for changing users. I just don't know the combo.Anyone? ...

When I open the classic appearance properties > advanced to change the numerical color values (as in 85, 152, 230 for red, green and blue, ), I can only input 2 digits. When I try inputting a 3rd digit, I get an error sound (ding). Anyone know a solution to this? ...

hello,i tried installing this onto my pc today with no luck :(. i have got this error code about 45% into installation. I bought the Windows Vista Home Premium version, and currently am running win xp sp2. I tried disc defrag, cleanup, I dont know what else to do. ...

Ever since I installed Vista on a new computer I built, it keeps crashing giving me the BSOD and a memory dump. It will happen anytime, online or off while doing anything. Very unstable and annoying and am considering going back to XP! Any suggestions ? ...

Hi to everyone. I run windows vista home premium on toshiba laptop and an external monitor. Everything runs fine until yesterday I inserted a 2GB SD card and enabled ready boost. The system hang and I was forced to do a brute shutdown. When I restart I found that windows now use external m ...

After installation from CD is complete, I get the following message when trying to start Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006: "Your registry settings for this app ...

I am doing xp tablet 2005 to vista business upgrade and everything said and went fine until reboot following preliminary installation phase, and then hung at ...

I got Vista i have no title on any movie,Iused all program and no one start title. What I need to play normal movie with title? ...

Hi got 1 PC (Vista) attached to ADSL modem/router by ethernet & 4 wireless PCs (XPHome). I want to monitor/limit the bandwidth of the wireless PCs from the Vista PC; as the wireless PCs are bandwidth ho ...

I have tried several times to connect via Media Center to my Xbox 360. I keep getting "configuration error" on the PC, but no real indication what the error is or what the fix ...

When I play GunBound..it works fine but then asfter awhile it would raise the cputo 100% constant and dramatically lowers the game performance i checked w ...

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OK so first I am running some stupid BIOS because I built my own computer. It is the Award Workstaion from Phoenix something. Basically it just makes me press F1 to start my computer now. Well when i first tried to uprgade I htink this caused the problem. I then got on the phone for over ...

I have a client that ordered 5 workstations from a vendor (Gateway) that were to be installed with Windows XP Pro with Vista express upgrade option. Unfortunately, the workstations arrived with Vista ...

I have a client who has a small network and wants to share all of the C drive of his Vista Home Premium computer read/write to all of the other computers on the network. Vista doe ...

why, after joining my notebook to the domain at work, has my VPN connection gone? i have tried to create a new one but it will not let me. ...

I had the problem of my computer shutting down unexpectedly which i reported .. windows help advised that the problem might be in the bios between the processors and the mothrboard and they recommended a bios upg ...

I have a westell wireless modem which could use the MAC address for security. How can one find the MAC address from a vista? I used to do it from the command prompt. I don't think I knew how to get th ...

This is odd!I have no hardware problems at all and never had this problem before: it always used to work. When I stick a blank/new/unformatted disk in my DVD burner, then rightclick on it in Computer and select Format, I ...

Bill Gates reveals the truth!Many of you might think that my passion was making software and operating systems. However this is not true. My true secret goal was to make the industry create super ...

My Vista lost the reference to it's own drivers database. It's unable to install ANY device until i select "Browse disk for a drivers" and select c: ...

Hi there,Once in a while after going to browse some web sites....the temperature of my machine starts to rise.I check the Resource Monitor and find that AVGW.EXE is hogging the CPU anywhere from 22 to 40 %.There doesn't seem to be any ...

howtogeek.com/howto/windowsvista/makeuseraccountcontroluacstopblackingoutthescreeninwindowsvista/BE WARNED HOWEVER if you read the above article that:This is not accurate. The blackedout screen is called a secure desktop. Other ...

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I simply cannot get dreamscene to work on my vista ultimate only in the preview mode.Aero is working fine on my system When i go out of preview it just goes solid.Also the ...

msnbc.msn.com/id/17521182/Are you planning to upgrade to Vista? * 4871 responsesYes. It's cool and I want it on my computer. 14%No. I'm worried that it will be a hassle. 47%Maybe. I don't know if it's worth the cost and trouble. 21%I'd rather buy a Mac. 18%sounds about ...

I attempted to connect a projector via the VGA connection on my desktop running Vista, but all I get on the projector is a "no signal" when the source is VGA. I have pored over the Vista F ...

had repeated BSODs got lots of dmp files Is there a place I can send them to to find out the cause? ...

I changed an icon on my desktop for Bank of America website, but after I go to the website and close it out the icon I changed comes back and the new one disappears. What can be causing this? How do I fix? Thanks! ...

I installed Vista from DVD and it seemed to work fine. But I have found out that the only way my system will boot up is if I have the Vista installation disk in the drive, which of course it normally would not be.When the disk is not in the drive, I get a ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS M2010. You'd think that these kind of bugs would be worked out by the Microsoft Technicians by now. I've tried a dozen times to install this one and got the same message. Also 3 hours out of the box this machine ...

I have 2 computers in my LAN, one computer running vista premium, and another running xp, both computers have the same workgroup name, both computers see each ot ...

i think my windows might have crashed or something it was about a year ago i had a virus and it killed my firewall windows media player i cant log onto windows messnger or ne window ...

Hi,I recently purchased a HP DV9022ea with XP MCE 2005.I decided to take the plunge and install Vista Home Premium on a clean install and have loved it but i have one issue.I have a Yuan EC30 ...

Can someone possibly help or advice?I have a Dell system purchased in Decenber 2006 that came with a Express Upgrade to Vista Premium offer. I have now received the upgrade kit but 4 days of my life seem to have been wasted in trying to get t ...

I'm somewhat impressed by the capabilities of Windows Movie Maker. However, I could not get one feature to work properly. I have a panoramic photo that measures 9251x1923 that I stitched together using Panorama Factory. ...

i have spent countless hours this week trying to network my vista notebook w/my xp desktop with no luck. i read on here about a program, network magic, and thought it would be my last resort. it should have been my first. i ...

On XP you simply had to add a network place (I have a few domains that I update all the time). I can't publish from any of my Office Professional 2007 programs ...

Hi I have set up a VPN on my Vista laptop, to my office, and can connect to it fine. However, I cannot see my office server to access files.In XP, I created a shortcu ...

My setup:Vista Ultimate Outlook 2007 Connect to Linksys wireless router at home (secured)I have no problem using my wireless network at home. But when I connect to a wirel ...

Just installed a vista business version on my T60p. Found 2 serious problems. Most of the time after I bring my computer back from the sleep mode, the wireless connection becomes limited connection. There was no pro ...

I was using XP and compusec free full disk encryption worked like a charm. Ive decrypted whole drive installed vista installed compusec on vista with encryption keys on xp and encypted drive under vista ...

Hi, our user directories are redirected to a server share i.e. \\servername\users\username with no problems under XP, however some of our users have now ...

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Can anyone advise how to copy all of the emails from one PC which has Outlook Express V.6 to another PC which has Windows Vista Mail? ...

I have Vista, and use microsoft email. When surfing and I click on an email hyperlink, I get like instant caos, multiple winodws keep opening up at an alarming rate, causing me to log off and restar ...

The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing email [SMTP] server. For help solving this problem, go to Help, search for "Tr ...

Windows Mail wo'nt open the Inboxmap. It worked fine until now, all of a sudden this problem was there. Joan M.Lee ...

Anyone know a woraround for this i got VISTA thinking "oh this is great" which so far so good it is but damn it won't sync info with my moto q says i need to have outlook installed! If this is the "FUTURE" of out ...

OS is Vista Home Premium. In a nutshell, what I'd like to do is to manually run a full backup for Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos on a monthly basis. On a daily basis, I'd like to automatically schedule an incremental. Here are my questions: ...

Here is the fix for the "Empty Printer List".C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 is most likely corrupt and should be deleted. You will need to edit its file permissions to give Full Control to the User Group before you will be allo ...

Hi I'm not so computer literate so I might need some instructions on this I bought a brand new laptop with 512 MG Ram a Pentium "Dual Core T2060" and a 80 Gig Hard drive with Windows XP Basic. My question is why does it run so slow!? I mean wow! I thought my old ...

I have a program I wrote that I use to process QIF files, by right clicking the file in Windows Explorer, then left clicking on my program's name in the "Send to" list. I cannot remember how I added my program to that list of choices in XP Pro, and ...

how do you uninstall utorrent? do you know where %AppData% is located?thanks Message posted via WindowsKB.com windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windowsvista/200704/1 ...

I have heard of the problem with 4GB of memory not displaying correctly in Win Vista. But I have a different problem. My desktop has 1 GB of memory according to the BIOS, but my vista only display that it has 768 MB. I am wondering if anyone knows ...

I've got some programs that had nice looking menu fonts and window fonts, etc, when I used them in XP. Now in Vista they have these thin, lousy looking fonts. Is this easily changed?? ...

Has anyone worked out how to reduce the time between songs when burning a vcd photo disc? I.e if I have 10 songs @ 3 mins each = 30 mins but when I try this it might add up to 5 mins (for example) as the space between songs is too long. Clicking match the photo ...

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While installing components for Vista (premium home 32bit), I get a message that not all of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator components have been installed. The Vista Upgrade Assistant then says the download failed. I tried uni ...

I have attempted to upgrade my media center pc 3 times without it completing successfully. It gets all the way to "attempting to start computer for the firs ...

In photo gallery when I go to print it is always defaulting to my HP Fax driver even though that is not the default printer. Any idea how to fix this. ...

I have gotten this error a few times now when switching users...I get to the choose user login screen... I pick the user then I get this error:"The number of connections to the computer is limited and all connections are in use ri ...

My ISP has confirmed that my email account is configured correctly. After reading some post answers, I changed my port # to 587, but the same problem continues. I get the same or ...

I receive daily messages from Lakewood Church but one of them will not delete. (Body of message is gone but header remains) Yes I have tried all your other suggestions. Need A Patch. Thanks ...

(I am running Vista Home Premium with UAC partially enabled by way of a registry edit that disables the dialog boxes that pop up whenever you try to install something, etc. while still allowing ...

Vista thought it might be a good idea to change the "Settings" icon of my classic start menu (screenshot: <t.fl7.de/clip958523.png>), but I disagree. I tried deleting all the IconCache.db files I could find and restarting ...

nThis might seem a bit silly but when I open my documents, pictures or music folders there used to be a info box accross the bottom of the screen. I seem to have lost this. Does anyone know how to get it ...

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When I run certain installed program, a popup box appears to ask for the confirmation before launching the program. Can someone advise why it happens and how t ...

Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista Movie Maker 2.6 is for Windows Vista users whose computer cannot run the Vista version of Movie Maker. To test if your computer can run the Vista version of Movie Maker: 1.. From the Start menu, click All Programs 2.. Clic ...

hi i can't install any new storage device in my HP DV6000. every time i plug in a USB storage device it asks me for a driver and couldn't find it.any suggestions? thanks ...

I've spent the last 12 hours trying to install Vista Ultimate and still do not have it installed. I need some help as I'm totally stumped here.I first tried to install it on a brand new virgin Seagate SATAII hard drive. Had Windows Install create the ...

I'd like to customize the toolbar = put more icons into it, like f.e. cut, copy, paste, delete, etc. I've read that I need to rightmouseclick into an empty space on the toolbar and then choose "customize". But nothing happens when I ri ...

I have to say that i thought i was pretty dang good with computers, but this vista ordeal has proved me wrong!! i am trying to get my new computer to network with the old one...the old one is the XP, new is obviously Vista. I ran the Windows easy transfer program on both comp ...

I have added an FTP server to my Vista computer, and I added program and port to firewall exceptions manually.Today, I putted my system to Halt (sleep) and now when it resumed I discovered that my FTP server was no longer listening ...

i have got a problem with finding new received messages. I just started to use Windows mail. Made a new account. After downloading messages from mail server to Windows mail, there are only 20 messages i ...

Hi All,I am sick and tired of Vista already, hope they work the bugs out soon.Anybody know I how I can attach Office 2003 files excel, word etc without having to buy the '07 version. Felix ...

Hi, before I state my problem to you good people I would like to introduce you to my system. I have Acer Aspire 5684 WLMi laptop with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600, 2 G ...

So why is Faxing so poor in Vista Ultimate? My notebook running XP HOME SP2 does a much better job. I'm trying to FAX scanned documents, not use the new maillike editor to create a text document. I have no trouble sc ...

Had been sending/receiving emails no problem. I don't know what i've done but if someone could tell me what these mean:Account:pop xx etc Server smtphm etc Protocol:SMTP, Server Response:501 5.5.4 Invalid address, Port:25, Secure (SSL); Yes, Server error; ...

Hey. I have been having problems installing the March Compatibility Update, since it always fails at installation. Windows Update fails, I downloaded from Microsoft itself and it still failed. I even went to Safe Mode to find ...

I have been hearing about Linux Free O/S's for many years now, and I have decided to try it out on one of my older P/C's one that I built from parts purchased at PC Club which I have replaced with this one (hp Pavillion). Checked the Ubuntu website and v7.04 will be released on the 19th ...

Greetings,Did anyone have difficulty with Windows Vista Ultimate noticing your USB mouse? I've tried two USB optical mice and the plugnplay is not even noticing the USB device. The USB port is functional because I've tried each port with my jumpdrive.Any ...

Installed Vista Home Premium Retail (fresh install) on my existing setup and the media Center and the tuner worked great! I believe I didn't even use the drivers from Hauppauge's website, just Vista's drivers. Then wh ...

When I try to rip a cd to my computer it takes a really long and only rips like 2 songs it is a new cd and my computer is compatible with windows vista it came with a free upgrade to vista it is only a few month old and ...

Hi, I am just setting up VISTA Ultimate. I have the OS and all programme files on drive C:. I have 2 other partitions (D: and I:) on the same physical drive as C:I ca ...

I'm running Vista Home Premium on a new Vaio AR320E.When I return to Vista from my screensaver (its password protected) my wireless connection turns off for a s ...

On three different Vista computers I get nonfunctional hyperlinks created by Windows Mail when pasting a hyperlink into an HTML email message. The text is colored blue, but the text is not linked to a location on the Web. To the sender it seems like ever ...

The root cause of 0x8007006 is similar as 0x8007002. It can be caused by damaged registry information or Windows Defend files. At this time, let us perform the following steps to rebuild the registry key for Windows Defender service. If our persists after restoring the re ...

I see that ntbackup is replaced by a new software (Backup status and configuration). However, I cannot selectively backup specific documents with this tool. Is there an ...

wow theres not a newsgroup yet. ok it's code name. anyway to join the betas? ...

Dedicated to Justin!blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=242Over at CNET News, the bold headline reads: No more Windows XP as of 2008. And the opening line continues the theme: "Starting next yea ...

How can I set the calendar both for the system and fo the calendar in the sidebar to use Monday as the start of the week? Is this even possible?Eric ...

The advice is: WAIT. There are currently too many inadequacies and bugs in Vista to make the transition worthwhile. Vista doesn't do much more than XP ...

In Vista why does a program or a drop down choice auto execute whenever i hoveer my mouse pointer? TIA David W. Owens Skyking@enter.net ...

I install Realtek Ac'97 Audio using Window Update but realtek AC'97 Audio is not listed in programs and features. I want to remove it to install the latest driver on realtek website 2007/3/12 rea ...

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I am using Vista Ultimate and the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader with DigitalPersona 2. Every time I click on one of the gadgets in the Windows Sidebar the fingerprint reader icon appears partially obscuring the view of the gadget.This is ...

I built a computer, and it is running along fine. I started out with 2 gigs of ram, knowing that i would buy 2 more later when I could afford it. I bought the second 2 gigs, and insta ...

When I attempt to run a game from the "Game Explorer", it gives me a error that says"This files does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Asso ...

Hi Now that I have vista and muti processor and Ati card. Most of the same equipment that in your Xbox and Xbox360. I would like to play some of the games for those tw ...

Whenever I click on an email it opens in a small box and I need to click to fill window. How can I get it to open to a full window immediately?? Also the preview box is a nuisance fo ...

Why can't I get my signature block to work? When I chose that option, it tells me that it is not available. ...

I was wondering if anyone was able to get their Verizon Cards to work with Vista. Mine blue screens of death while trying to install a driver for PCI Simple Communications Controller.Matthew Lanier ...

HI can anyone tell me why my control panel is now being unresponsive? i click on it to open it, it then flashes onto the screen and then goes away, its really driving me mad. I contacted dell support who took me through a system restore th ...

I've been trying to import video from my Samsung dv camcorder to Windows Vista's Movie Maker. At first Vista wouldn't recognize the camcorder so I downloaded the Driver made specifically for Vista. After installing the driver movie maker still tells me that it cannot fi ...

I installed Windows Vista Premium and created two users(me and my wife) both with administration priveledges. The problem is that all of our old documents and pictures only show up under my logon. Is there a way to change her settings so that they match mine? Basically, I wan ...

although i haven't selected to delete Office setup files, Vistas's disk cleanup insists to clean some Powerpoint .cab file and that forces me to have Osetup files handy to avoid to insert CD when i'm trying to open a pps file B.T.W all Vista and O2003 upda ...

which is the best way to search the hard disk for files/programmesThanks ...

I cannot get search to find something that I know is there. I can navigate to it directly. FugPalm.prc is in Program Files for Fugawi but it is not found in indexed and not found in advanced allowing all things, even system and hidden files. What am I not understanding here? Why would t ...

Because Windows Mail only supports POP3 email accounts, would there be any way to create email forwarding on a Hotmail account?cheesegrater ...

Mmmm....SEEMS to beSearchFilterHost.exe s earchprotocolhost.exe and searchindexer.exetaking a lot of the CPU useage...it's STILL running at 100% when ALL I have running are WinMail, Task Manager and Sidebar (with 3 whole gadgets!!!)....So.. ...

what is the latest version available for Win XP 64? what is the latest version available for Vista Ultimate 64? ...

Hello, I have a Vista and a XP laptop that connects wireless through a router to the internet (internet connection works fine)! With XP on both of them everything i ...

I purchased a new laptop (after diligently looking for one with XP) and SURPISE, microsoft is dominating the market again by making a system that is completely incompatible for all of my games. Tried to install Sims2, won't even recognize the disk, diablo 2 won't run, and Last Chaos? Nope. Only thin ...

Hello allI have just joined the Vista community, so will see if it works better then Windows XP. i'll have to say that Vista different. Anyway to the point of the email. Can you so ...

i use 2 addresses, sponsored by my isp.i don't know what happened: at first i was receiving both addresses in the same inbox, and suddenly, i see only one. where'd my other address go? Fool On The Hill ...

I don't know if this is the place to ask this, but I hope so...If anyone can crack this one, I owe you... at least until Vienna comes :DThe problems started 2 weeks ago. Suddenly wh ...

I have 2 hard drives each with 2 partitions. I would like to combine the partitions on each drive. to give no partitions on the drives. When I go to disk management and right click on any of the partitions the option to extend is greyed ou ...

Hello, I am doing research for the best laptop computer's for college students. I will be an freshman in the fall and need too purchase a laptop soon. I am not huge on games, and web cams... I want a super fast computer, with a big hard drive, good sound quality, and good battery life. If ...

Hello, I've not been able to find a method to use the /for /on switches effectively from the vssadmin command in Vista Ultimate. I'd like to:vssadmin create ShadowStorage /On=E: /For=C: /Maxsize= ...

Hello alli have a SC101 Storage Central (kbserver.netgear.com/products/sc101v1.asp) but as per my uppgrade ti vista i can nolonger use it ...anyone know if it is in MS intrest or Netgers to make the d ...

Trying to import an Access 2003 contacts db to Windows Contacts. I've exported the db to cvs (txt) but when I import it into Windows Contacts it puts .Contact at the end of all ...

Hello goodmorning from EuropeMy problem with Live Messenger is that I never know what release is the newest one available . Not 1 MS site is showing this information why is that ? ...

Since I upgrade to Vista, I am unable to use the fax from the HP soluntions center on my computer. I installed the new drivers and everything, but not luck. HP was really no help either on this so I am checking here to see if anyone else has pro ...

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I have 2 17" 1280x1024 LCD monitors. I have it setup so my primary display sits in front of me and the secondary 'extended' display sits to the left.The problem I am having is that a 'dual screen wallpaper' (2560x1024) will start on my right screen and then the 2nd half will wrap around to t ...

Is there a way to disable write combining under Windows Vista? I have a GeForce 7600 GT AGP card.. Under Windows XP, you just had to go to display settings, click advanced, the under the troubleshoot tab there was the option to disable write co ...

Sometimes while I try to read defective CDs or DVDs Windows (95,98, NT, 2000, XP) hangs and become unresponsive, sometimes even to CTRL+ALT +CANC, continuing to try to read the disk forever, so that I have to reboot (loosing my unsaved data!) to regain t ...

Hello.I'm having difficulty encoding my MP3 files to WMA format. I've been using thirdparty utilities, namely WinLAME.WinLAME succeeds in converting the files, but it does not del ...

Does anyone have any idea why my Vista Home Premium shuts down when I plug in certain USB devices? First, I thought it was something with my iPod, but I've tried it on other computers and it works fine. Then I plugged in my digital camera and it does the same thing. My keyboard is USB and ...

It has been reported that Vista upon going to sleep/rest will return without implementing the correct monitor profile. I use only calibrated monitors for my work. Is it true that if I install Vis ...

Is it possible to have both XP and Vista existing at the same time? I intend to install Vista on another hard disk and there will be a list to select either XP or Vista to be loaded when bootup. How can I achieve this? Any idea would be appreciated. ...

I have a new HP Pavilion (Feb 07) which came loaded with Vista. After the computer has been in sleep mode, when I check my email (Outlook), the mouse seems to work fine, the first time I try to use the keyboard, it locks up and I have to turn off the computer to start over.Any fixes ...

After instaling vista, the sound controls on my laptop is not working. this was working before when i had xp media centre edition on. By the way it was a complete installation i did ad not an upgrade. ...

I've recently "upgraded" my Compaq computer to Vista (HP) and have been studiously upgrading all my drivers (inluding Firefox for IE7 it keeps on "stopping" des ...

for fairly complex and boring reasons I have had to perform a clean install rather than the planned upgrade (vista home premium). a problem has arisen however when i try to aut ...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. The sensitivity on the touch pad is too sensitive. As I type the cursor will jump around to another place. I think the heat fro ...

Im running vista home premium 64bit and i had 1 gig of ram. I added another 2 gigs adn now my system only shows it having 1535 megs of ram instead of the 3 gigs. The bios screen at system start up also had the weird 1535 megs. Any help would be great ...

i have accidently deleted the system to my volumn control. i do not have the icon any more and every time i try to click on the program it would say " Th ...

I am the computer guy for my family, and I recently convinced my cousin to get a new Fry's Vista box. I took the 80gb hdd (pata) from the old box & put it in the new Vista box, but we are unable to acces ...

I am having trouble getting the Vista Install (Enterprise Edition) to pickup my unattend xml settings from Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Here's what I've done so far: Setup WDS on W2K3 R2 SP2. Added boot image (boot.wim from Vista Enterprise DVD) Added install image (install.wim from Vista ...

I have a dual boot system with XP and Vista. Whenever I need a restore point there is always just one, the most current. What's wrong here and how do I fix it? ...

Does installing windows vista delete all my files? I am being told to back up but is that a CAUTION?ie. if it's a caution I only have important stuff to back up...if not I h ...

I have scheduled and recorded two TV shows with Media Center. On both occasions (seperate channels), about a week after I made the recording, Media Center recorded the same sh ...

I am setting up a public access Vista computer and was wondering weather anyone could recommended a program which will restore the hard drive to a preset state after a restart, at this ...

I have windows vista on an emachine. I just started work with this new company, and they gave me the servers for windows mail. I receive every message that gets sent to me, but I cannot send any mail at ...

Yesterday I was invited to... "RENEW NOW, Save 20% on 2Year Renewal"McAfee software came supplied on a trial basis with my Dell PC but I immediately replaced it with Norton's that came ...

After I delete messages I tried to go in and clear my deleted box but it won't do anything?? Tom in Ohio ...

I have read several threads regarding this, but theyare WAY over my head. From the very very beginning can someone explain how I get my laptop running Vista to print to my desktop running XP. D ...

I would like to install Visual Studio 6.0 onto the Vista computer but I keep getting errors cannot load module when loading my apps also a message comes up cannot register OLE object. I need to support my VB 6 apps on Vist computers so I need to ...

My elderly friend ran disk cleanup on his Vista ( I have XP so not familiar with this procedure ). He selected to run it on OS or some such option rather than his C drive. Since I help ...

I'm running vista home premium and have itunes.Recently i got the notification to upgrade quicktime to 7,but every time i try i get the error 2738. Any solutions? Should i just ignore it? Any help will be appreciated.Mario ...

Is there any news about an update to move the refresh and stop icons to another place on the toolbars? Damned annoying to have 2 icons in never never land.Bob ...

Is there a way to opt out of "some" of the updates that have been causing slowdowns and get rid of the norification icon in the taskbar? This is with Vista Home Premium Edition. TIA ...

Shares with my onboard ATI IGP320M video chipset resulting in me not being able to load the video driver. I get this: "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 1 ...

Hi there,I'm having trouble splitting a wmv file into a number of different clips in Movie maker v 6.0 under Vista.I've managed to get it to work once but then never again.I have created a new collection (folder) called ...

BUG: All http access blocked after running Perl scriptSUMMARY: Windows Vista blocks all http access from all users after running the attached script (at the end of this post).DESCRIPTION:Create a file accessible at 127.0.0.1/test.htm and run the attached script ...

i just got a new comp with vista 32 bit. it has Core 2 extreme nvidia 8800 gtx 2 gig corsair dominator mem, my problem is with eq2 and vanguard, they both boot up fine and run fine but seems that after playing either of them for 30 min to an hour i crash to the desktop. and i cras ...

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Why do you have to hit send/receive evrytime to retrieve emails that are sent to you. I am using POP3 mail server to acces my emails. In the past when using Outlook I didn't have to hit send/receive everytime I wanted to retreive my email messages. Any thoughts or suggestions? ...

Hi,Is there a way to disable Windows Mail from being the default mail program when there is no other program to take its place? In other words, I would prefer no default email program than Windows Mail. The problem is that I am using a free MS Hotmail account and do ...

Windows Explorer stops and restarts. How can I stop this so I can check out what is causing this? In XP I can Kill Explorer in the task manager. I can't kill explorer in the task manager, it still keeps trying to restart. ...

I have one of the aforementioned multifunction units running on Windows XP with no problems. Unfortunately, the same levels of support do not exist in Vista. Currently, HP only supplies printer drivers (and then only PCL5 or PCL6) and ignores the scanner ...

It seems that the Users\<username>\AppData folder, and its subfolders, cannot be removed from the index search options. I wonder if that is only because it is a hidden folder or whether MS had some other reason to determine that that, a,.., junk, just had to be ...

I have a dell laptop that I am upgrading the hard drive on. I also ordered a external enclosure to put my existing drive in. Does Vista have a program or can someone recommend a program for ...

What the hell is up with RSS Feeds for the sidebar It never updates I have 3 PCs and all are the same. The only time they update is when You create another user. Other than that all I see is the same old news what a piece of crap ...

Hi,I have purchased an HP box with Vista Home Premium on it. Now I want to upgrade it to Vista Ultimate. My PC is in India and Windows any time upgrade does not list India. Please suggest how should I proceed. If I purchase the upgrade license in US and ship the license a ...

I am so happy Kevin is using the newsgroup as a personal vehicle to let us know about his escapades, I thought I would say that I also work at the Postal Service. I graduated the ...

When I activate my system from sleep mode it opens windows that are partitions on my external drive. I did a clean install of Vista 64 bit about a month ago to get away from th ...

I upgraded to Vista last night and have lost my USB 2.0, all USB now is showing as USB1.1. Is this a bug and is there a fix?. Also, and I will list this seperately, my Philips ...

Whenever I resume from sleep mode voice recognition turns itself off. It also does this when I resume from hibernation mode. This is a major problem for me since I am handicapped and cannot ...

I don't know what happened but suddenly i get the message "unable to load msjter40.dll", and i believe that something has gone wrong and odbc doesn't work any longer. Is there a w ...

I am attempting to use my Vista Ultimate RDP client to connect to a Windows 2003 SP2 Terminal (Application) Server, and get the following error:"Because of a protocol error detected at the client (code 0x1104), this session ...

Himy question is probably similar to alot of others but since i have emailed microsoft twice with no sign of reply ive decided to try here.I have two computers one is my old crappy stopgap computer that i got while i was saving up to build the computer im typing on now and the other is my new du ...

I'm running into a strange problem when trying to install our Controls on a fresh Vista/IE7 system. Oddly enough, both our controls and msxml4.cab also fail. Ou ...

Vista really hates this program. I ran it and then did a disk cleanup. When cleaning it pretty much deleted all my programs and user settings. All the programs I had were removed from the start menu. All my personal directories were gone too. Live and learn. ...

I have an external hard drive that I used to backup data from my old Windows XP system. A few days ago I purchased a new PC which comes with Windows Vista. I can see the external hard drive, and I can see tat t ...

On Windows XP, if I click on Scanners and Cameras, a window opens that displays the output of the camera. On my wife's Vista computer, an HP with builtin webcam, that doesn't happen. What is the easiest way for me to see if the camera is working? Thanks for your help. ...

I have a Windows Vista homepremium . This morming I just find out that the drive for DVDcd is not in the Pc. I tryed to play some music Cd and the nothing happened. Then I used a DVD and an ...

i have a flatbed prolink scanner model simplex 8400u "winscan pro 1248u" it works fine in xp but in vista i am unable to install its drivers. when i plug it in it recognizes it and tries to install, but it says that an error has occured and that the speci ...

Is there a program/script that can be linked to in Windows Vista via the Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000's 5 hotkeys that will open and close the optical drive?I have an HP a6000n, and ...

So I hook up my 2nd Monitor on my ATI X1650 that came with the machine. I then go to Switch Users, and wham. Blue Screen. Reboot and it says if has a solution to the issue. INstall ...

Hi, I have some trouble using a Sony Network walkman with Windows Vista it ran fine with XP using the same version of Sony´s SonicStage that supposedly has all the drivers. The message I keep getting is that there is an invalid se ...

I am trying to install Vista Business on a ECS K7S5A motherboard.When I get to, "Where do you want to install Windows" I get, This computer's hardware may not support booting to th ...

I recently purchased a HP Pavilion with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. Messing around under user I put in a password. For some reason or another I couldn't log back in. I reinstalled Vista with the CD that came with the ...

i bought vista upgrade and install on my xp machine.. This machine suffered a spillage and the main board failed.. i bought a new pc and it came with vista home premium, i upgraded with my upgrade disk to ultimate but it say's that my product key is in us ...

I've successfully recovered a new sony vaio to it's factory default because my father sent it to his nephew in Thailand. Now he's having a problem logging in at the startup. Can anyone help me. We've tried using the admin password, and admin & ...

I have a new dell pc xps 410 and when I play mp3 or wma's that work fine on my xp windows media player on my other 2 pc's on the new vista home prem media player towards the end of each song I play no matter which one it stutters towards the end of the song, Ive tried hundr ...

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

Hello,Using Vista, I view photos using Windows Photo Gallery. I am able to change the 'display size' (using the zoom icon) to magnify an individual image but when I move to the next image the display size resets to the default zoom and I manually increase the zoo ...

Hi there,I've been editing some video's in windows movie maker. I've been adding music to them and everything has been working fine. However, when i saved the file and reopened it it couldn't find the MP3 file. That was f ...

I have many MP3 files that I have set various MP3 tags on (Conductor being one of them) and even after I run the "Apply Media Information Changes" option, the tags are not set in the file. How do I get the tags written to the M ...

I'm a new Vista Business user, have no manuals and moving from Win2000 the interfaces are not very intuitive.I have an existing home wireless network comprised of a Linksys a/b/g wireless router connected to a Linksys wire ...

I'm happy with UAC, and unlike most people don't object to Windows telling me when something potentially risky is about to happen.However, at the moment I've set my account up as an Administrator so I don't have to type the admin password into the UAC p ...

When trying to run certain files it refuses saying that the system could not find the enviorment option. c:/windows/system32/dfi***.exe Do you have any opinion as to if the file is missing or corrupt or suppost to be named something else? ...

I have shared a folder on an XP machine which contains an Access Database that I'm trying to use on a Vista machine but it won;t let me access it. When I set the share I gave everyone full permissions. W ...

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with a nvidia geForce Go 7900 GS 7.15.10.9746 running on Vista. There are a couple of games that I am having trouble with. Some of the game forums report success with Beta drivers, but I don't know if they are ...

I'm having trouble subscribing to outlook folders. I keep getting the following message. Windows mail was unable to switch to the newsgroup BSBACC1.0508.BCBH06M171MGT330 on the server bsbacc1.phoenix.edu 480 authentication requi ...

What is the name of the folder in Vista in which Windows Mail messages are stored? I need to copy the messages to Outlook, and it seems the way to do that is to drag the folder into an Outlook folder?? Randy in San Miguel (or Austin) ...

I cannot receive attachments in word on my Vista Winows mail. They simply don't appear. (I know they are attached to the original message, because I get them on ...

How do I go about displaying contacts in the navigation pane of Windows mail?In outlook express and outlook it was relatively simple to display either a link to contacts or list contacts in navigation pane... ...

I have about 30 entries in the Deleted Items folder that will not delete. Each of them has a message like this assoicated with them:=================================== Message could not be displayed W ...

With the problemswith Windows mail (an unknown error has occurred) is it possible to reinstall thta part of the "recovery disc"? Bob Young ...

Hi!I have problem with windows mail. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2003. When i open Word 2003, choose FILE, SENDTO, Mail as attachment, after that comes new windows, where i can s ...

Hi guysDoes anyone here know of a way or an add on that will enable me to display a notification message & play a sound when an email arrives in a certain account as Outlook provides in its rules wizard?CheersRearAd ...

How do I change my 'display name Husky's Rock' in this discussion group? Husky's Rock ...

This just started happening for no reason. Why are my read messages being deleted when I close the program? Also, they are not going in the deleted folder they are just dissapearing. Please Help!!!! ...

Why is Vistta so slow at simple tasks, like copying 1 folder to another, I have a high spec machine dual core 4GB ram, but I point at a Lan folder and the circle appears 1mi ...

I recently purchased an external 300+ GB drive (a WDC WD32 00BB00KEA0, for what it's worth...). The hard drive isn't a problem when it's running off one of the two USB 1.1 ports on the T23 ThinkPad with Vista Ultimate (a postbeta nearRTM build 5840). That's the ...

Hello everyone,Thank you for the opportunity to postHow do I configure Vista Search to index mapped network drives. This was standard in Windows Destop Search. Please tell me they didn't take it out!Charlie ...

The new KDE 4.0 scheduled to be released on October 2007 will run natively on windows...this means that you can replace all the xp or vista shell interface and load KDE on windows! (also on MACOSX)the look and feeling will be linux, yet the applications ...

Bill E: When my computer was set up, the installer put in a desktop/screensaver of a favorite phtoo of mine (from an opler disc of phtots). It was, obviousl ...

Sometime whenever I restart Vista the gadgets appear in a different top to bottom order. No big problem, but I just wondered if anyone else experienced this and if it was a known issue. ...

This is the update that destroys Internet Explorer on some systems rendering IE7 unusable. Did Microsoft ever fix this screwed up update (so I can turn automatic updates back on), or is this update still being pushed, killing computers without warning? Posted using Android Newsgroup Downloade ...

Hi I recently purchased a low end base PC AcerT180, AMD 64x2 3800+, 1Gb PC25300 633Mhz RAM, GeForceGo6100 256mb shared, 160Gb HDD, DVDRW DL., currently using an old Packard Bell 19&quo ...

Just "upgraded" to new mail.What a joke! ...

How do I open a microsoft excel spreadsheet down loaded onto a pen drive that has been coppeid from XP on to Vista as it will not open using Microsoft ...

Are there any known facts about unusual hard drives activity when computer is running Vista? I have AMD Athlon 64 X2 and two RAID 0: 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates.Thanks ...

Hello,I'm close to throwing Vista on the window (the "real" one, not the one in Windows), because of the VERY SERIOUS mode it stops responding some ...

Ive been experiencing a few problems with my Vista Home Basic lately.. The last two days,i have had 2 sudden shut downs..this blue screen appears just before and does a very quick coundown and then it automatically restarts.I have no idea what has ...