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It seems that stored usernames and passwords no longer works in Vista (XP works fine).We use this feature to connect to SQL Servers using a particular UID/PW combination so we ...

Online play only works on admin account how do i make it so the other accounts can play games online. ...

For no apparent reason, I can no longer send email. I get the following message; The host 'smtp.verizon.net' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the ser ...

we have a performamce collection DLL, which gets installed via LODCTR and then works fine in WIndows XP. On Vista, LODCTR returns with the message &quo ...

Hi,Microsoft says:� Easier organisation of faxes and scans. Windows Fax and Scan provides categories and folders for organising faxes and scanned documents, as well as the ability to create custom fo ...

In windows Vista I can see local security setting. However any attempt to change it creates an error. I discovered that even administrator does not have ri ...

I installed Vista Ultimate couple of weeks ago and after a little hiccup during install (I had to run it twice), everything seemed to be up and working ok ...

I upgraded my dual core p4 2.8 PC with 2Gb of RAM and a 300Gb SATA drive to Vista Ultimate.Generally the performace is quite good except:The task bar and star ...

Hi,Have Microsoft produced any PowerToys for Vista specifically Vista 64 bit? I found the Image resizer for XP particularly useful and would like something similar.RegardsAlanC ...

I have just purchased a new laptop installed with Windows Vista. I have been attempting to transfer some files and folders via a USB storage device. I open it, select the files I want to transfer to my Docum ...

hello, every time i try to access the "control panel" the screen freezes and i can't scroll or click on anything. when i checked my performance, my cpu usage was constantly at 100%. can anybody help? ...

After installing Windows Vista (upgrade version), my computer no longer starts on its own. I now have to start it if I wane it to start before the 30 second time limit. It gives me three options: (1. Earlier Version of Windows 2. W ...

To import your Outlook Express files to Windows Mail, you need to locate your .dbx files from Outlook Express. Next, create a temporary folder on your desktop and copy the .dbx files t ...

I found that I was able to use shortcut keys to fix my problem. I had over 180 deleted messages and I couldn't use the 'empty deleted folder' option. Instead I found that, if I press "A ...

Hi, Every time I open a folder I would like to set it to size all columns to fit by right clicking on name at the top of the folder so I can see the full length name etc, ...

tweakuac.com/whatisuac/ it has a small download... will test soon...seems free....oh.. uac is stupid.. almost forgot to mention that.... ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate x86. When sharing a folder the window pops up that says sharing and i see an animated deal with folders moving and a " ...

my computer currently has Windows XP on it. the activation days has ran out so everytime i turn on the computer it loads to the login screen and tells me to activate it but when i try it doesnt wo ...

I just got my laptop back from an ASP who had to reload my OS. After reloading Vista, they copied all of my documents and email back to my harddrive, but now Windows Mail doesn't see my old messages. I can see the messages if I browse to them from My Computer. ...

When updating a briefcase, the rightclick menu only offers a "Details" option if an existing file is to be updated it does not offer this option if the file in the sync location is new. Very unfortunately, only a few (~10) characters of the file name are shown ...

can someone suggest which is the best DELL LAPTOP for Vista...I am looking AERO, WCF Development etc... Config would be incredible! ...

Hi. A few days ago I posted the message below but got no replies and could find nothing online. I contacted MS support and was told to uninstall my 3rd party burning software, in my case ...

Hi all, a few days ago i can hibernate witout problems afeter a disk cleanup y delete the hiberfile.sys and now how i can enable hibernating i've looked in power options in control pa ...

I have tried to restore to factory settings in my HP dv9288ea laptop bought on 30th January 2007 with vista Home premium preinstalled? I get as far as the screen which lets me choos ...

I have just been organising the drive letters/paths on my hard drive to incorporate a dual boot partition but 4 of my PC's Card reader partitions have suddenly disappeared, how do I get them ba ...

Hello everyone,I would like to see if anyone is experiencing these problems in vista ultimate.I have Vista Ultimate (PTPT) installed and I can't change the order of the quick lauch icons. They always get back to alphabetical order each t ...

has vista a new filesystem? If I boot with BartPe (Windows Pe) from rescure CD I can't see me Vista Drive.the same with Partition Magic 8. ...

I'm not at all sure how this permissions thing works on Vista Home Premium. My problem is this ... I have two user accounts on the PC the main one is for everyone in the household and the other is for work both are passworded administrator accounts ...

hi ppl, i hav created an account in my windows mail ,, and then i deleated my account, as i wana switch a new account. then my removed account is not working. may i know the reason behind that. i am not getting any mail to my remove ...

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I rightclick on a picture in Windows Explorer and select Send to Mail Recipient. Vista displays an Attach Files dialog and asks for the Picture size. I click Attach, expecting Vista to ask me whether I want ...

I have a Documents folder in my username folder but somehow Vista no longer recognizes it as such. So, whenever I restart my PC, Vista creates a new, empty Documents folder in the same username folder and makes that the Docume ...

just did an upgrade from XP to Visa and noticed I have a choice between booting to XP or Vista at boot. Is this function automatically installed with an upgrade or did I choose it during installationdon't remember if I did. T ...

I have Vista preinstalled on my new laptop. I tried to instal actisync for my M3100 and it says l can use the mobile centre. When l add my phone and want to set up a new partnership it opens media player and gives me no options ...

(I hope I'm putting this in the right group)Help, please.I have a new Vista OS. This is from the Event Viewer. What do these mean and what do I do about them? And, please don't say nothing, it's an error ...

Using HP 7310 with Vista 64 bit and the new "full feature" drivers (downloads a file named AIO_CDB_Full_Network_enu.exe).Duplex printing still "flips the ...

I have Windows Vista Home Basic. I have set up my contacts, but how do I send an email with showing the contact's name without the email address also??In addition, does anyone know if I can load INCREDIMAIL on Windows Vista? I loved it on my ...

I just got a new laptop which has the windows vista, I set up the email with Gmail, I have been reading all the posts and trying to figure it out but it just doesn't seem to be working, I got it to send out mail but cannot receive them...this is the error message I am receivin ...

Everytime I start the program I have to confirm admin rights. This is annoying. What can I do ? vistalike ...

when i try to delte a file such as a picture, it deltes straight away but about half a sec after that the deleting window pops up and trys to estimate the time l ...

I just ran my antivirus program for the first time since installing Vista and it has taken 4 times as long to run as XP did and I have the same programs, etc. on my hard driv ...

Its taking 15mins or more for Vista to boot up! I'm running intel core 2 duo 2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, everthing was great when I first installed, now its taking forever! Any solut ...

There are two articles at my website that I have written based on experiences trying to post to this very group using Outlook and MS Mail. If you are using Outlook, Outlook Express or MS Mail to post to a Microsoft newsgroup or any USENET newsgroup in general, ...

How can I turn off the help box that opens below the mouse curser as I scroll the mouse over links and buttons. I am running Vista Home Premium. Thank you,Bobbo ...

I'm using a machine with 2gigs of RAM & recently plugged a little 1gig Kingston USB drive in to use with ReadyBoost. The drive shows CONSTANT activity. It's little blue light blinks almost all the time, even when computer is sit ...

Dear All,I have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on one machine and I want to make desktop sharing of this Vista machine with about 10 XP SP2 machines.I tried to use Windows Meeting Sp ...

Whenever I boot up my computer into vista I get an error saying windows services has encountered an error and must close (services.exe) Now I cannot see anything when I view a folder. For e ...

Firefox seems to work well with Vista but it jiggles like crazy. Any way to stop that? Thanks.... Kathy ...

I can't believe this operating system sucks so bad! Why are there so many posts here? Why are people having so many problems? Why can 't Microsoft make products that work the first time? Why have a beta pr ...

All of my firewire devices work perfectly under XP Pro. I have a dual boot, with Pro on C and Vista Ultimate on D. No problems there (so far!). But none of my firewire connecti ...

I saw in a webcast last month that imagex.exe could capture OEM Partitions. Such partitions are usually in the very begining or end of a hard disk created by PC Manufacturers to store diagnostics or configuration ...

While troubleshooting a networking problem on a Vista Business machine, I went to a cmd prompt and typed "net view" and after displaying only 2 of the machines known to be ...

Has anyone had any luck installing the above on Windows 2003 Server Standard?We have tried four different servers now with variations on Windows updates ...

I just purchased a new computer with Vista Professional installed. I've noticed that I get messages from time to time that tells me that Defender is turned off. I don't remember turning it off, so why do I get these messages. What can I do to prevent it from happening again? ...

Hi All,I have four POP accounts for which I'd like to assign different sigfiles for each one. Since WM had abandoned the "identities" format in favor on "user ac ...

I have a message stuck in my outbox. I want to try the delete message store fix everyone is talking about.What will happen if there is nothing in my Windows mail backup file? ...

Strange things happened.. Windows mail crashed and then i cannot delete a lot of mail.. and I cannot see the body of the mail too...!!! Any suggestion? thanks in advance. ...

Is there a way to alter the way the paste formatting works in Windows Mail? I often need to paste text into my email, but it either takes the source formatting, or defaults to Times New Roman (yuk!).I've set my Compose font to Verdana, is there some setting I've missed? Nigel M ...

I have a couple questions concerning Windows Mail, one is how do I get my contacts listed below my folders on the left side like used to with OE6 and second ...

When I try to update I get error message 80072EE6 can anyone tell me how to clear this error so I can update? JAH ...

Hi...Vista Home Premium.......When I look at Performance I am told that a program is slowing down my Computer...it is....tsnp2std.exe and I get the message asking if I want to Remove it or close it down. I cant see ...

Another media player I have loaded and deleted stole some of WMP file associations so they will no longer play.I know I can right click the file and select "Open With" but I thought there was a menu option in W ...

how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have no need for it. ...

When I play games that use my USB controller, after my 10 min. set time the screensaver comes on. Then I have to wiggle my mouse to get the monitor to turn back on. Annoying!!! Any ideas on how to disable the screensaver while ...

does anyone knows where to download the gateway bigfix fixlet? ...

Well, i just bought a new computer with Vista Home Premium, and i already own a Windos XP, and my questions is, is it possible to transfer my Vista to my XP for free? I dont want to go out a buy Vista, that so ex ...

My system time is about five minutes out, so I tried updating the internet time and the following error was shown: "An error occured while Windows was syncronizing with time.windows.com." The time is still wrong, can anyone help? Thanks. ...

Downloaded and tried the 101.70 Beta today. Just made my GFX card overheat and restart (7950 GX2) Back to the "stable" 101.41 Beta Driver for the while.Anyone ...

I have a customer who has installed Vista 64bit Pro version on his computer but after loading the extra function keys he is now locked out because even ...

Hi there,I made a new dual boot installation with Windows XP on one partition first and with Windows Vista on another partition second. The Vista installation created some files (e.g. boot folder) on the f ...

Father inlaw is running Vista Home Premium 64.He gets this error upon booting.Where do I start? Where do I find this error and how do I fix it?[image: chosenones.org/downloads/pics/vista/error.jpg]Thanks to everyo ...

Is there any way to get your windows mail from another computer Carol ...

I have numerous “Categories” with several “Contacts” & “Calendars” in each in MS Outlook98. I would, of course, like a painless way of transferring or importing this mass of data, intact, to the new VISTA equivalences. My research thus far has not produc ...

Hi All, I am running Vista home Premium, just wondering if there is away to edit/remove some of the windows installation history of downloads from the Info Listing? Rgds Macca from DownUnder ...

Is a vista ultimate upgrade dvd tied to any specific computer?Or if your old computer dies, or wish to revert it back to xp, can you use the DVD to upgrade another computer.I think this should be the case.. yet someone posted here a different scenario...Thanks ...

I am logged in as Administrator, not Jack with Administrator rights, but just as Administrator. Nevertheless, when I want to delete exe files, folders and sometimes other files I am told that I don't have permission. I have gone to cmd, opened it as administrator, and typed in Net User Ad ...

hi,I am running Windows Vista Business Edition on my laptop.When I try to run windows update from home, I get an error message (Windows Update error 8024402C).This also prevents me from automatically installing drivers for even devices such as a mouse. Plea ...

Is it possible to buy and install Windows Media Center for Vista Enterprise? If so, Where can I get it and how much? ...

I have a new computer purchased about a month ago and used the Belkin USB transfer cable to transfer from my old computer that was using Windows XP. Now I am giving my current computer to my sister and have ordered a ...

hi, i have a problem with counter strike 1.6 servers. Just about everytime i want to find a server to play a game, when i click on it, it says "server is not resp ...

hi, i have a problem with counter strike 1.6 servers. Just about everytime i want to find a server to play a game, when i click on it, it says "serve ...

Hi I upgraded to Vista yesterday and since this time have found that it takes 5 15 seconds to access even a simple web page such as google. The more complex ones take even longer. I previously had XP Pro and this was immediate. The detials of my sys ...

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

Did any one have problems accessing internet with vista when first started up after installing? If your are I have found the reason why. It was so simple I fell of the chair laughing, just turn off the protection mode and away it all went. Sorry, I am not the smartest when it com ...

i tried to download itunes but it won't let me when i try to install it a message appears saying not valic win32 application i don't konw what that is... please help. ...

I upgrade a dualmonitor PC from XP to Vista ultimate. The second monitor doesn't work and a message says that a noncompatible VGA driver was disabled. The operational device is Nvidia Geforce 6600 which works fine althoug ...

I run 3 computers in a small network, 2 computers run XP Prof and one runs Vista Home Premium but when I try to read files from the Vista installation I cannot read any through XP. Vista will read files in XP. How can I correct this problem?Jim ...

How do I limit how storage space a particular user's profile can use? ...

how to transfer vista Windows mail to Win Xp outlook express 6 email?help. ...

How do I get my different folders to open with a Password Protection Box Right now it just opens for anyone. Please help ...

Does anybody know if it is possible to permanently delete only the Blocked Senders instead of junk email? The only choice I see in Junkmail Options is to delete the junk email. I r ...

I have had problems opening some internet sites, "IE cannot display the webpage" etc. I can ping the sites and get a return, but neither IE7 nor firefox can display the sites. I didn't have this problem until ...

can anyone tell me what this means and how to fix it. "The itunes library file cannot be saved. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation" i get this message when i am importing cd's. ...

Why does ListView control beep when selections are changed in Vista? This happens both when listview is clicked on using the mouse and also when up/down arrows are used to move among items in the list.Any way to prevent that ...

Hello, I just upgraded from windows XP to Vista Ultimate. I am having a very hard time connecting a second monitor/TV to work together, "mirror" When I connect my TV, using a video component cable, it does recognize it, but I can only use one or the other. I need help t ...

I have been HOPING hard that they would finally put a network recycle bin into Vista but again, im not seeing it...or is it there and im missing it?? Its something that most every office atmosphere needs being there is generally a shared hard drive or ser ...

Comes up at the startup of my computer. I am not even trying to use the windows mail feature. It just shows up when I start my computer. Any suggestions on how to make it stop? ...

Any way to import from Eudora? ...

I am unable to sync my (windows mobile) treo 700w with my thinkpadx41 notebook running Vista Ultimate. I downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center (post beta, BTW) version 6 and installed it. But the WMDC never acknowledges that the treo is plugge ...

HiI've installed Vista on a HDD, and now I want to read it in XP. I removed the HDD from the computer I used to install Vista, and put it in an external HDD case, and then tried to access the disk via USB, but for some reason XP can't recognize the HDD at all, it just won't show up in ...

I have a .NET solution which uses the .NET Application Updater feature.This runs fine on XP operating systems but whenever I attempt to run the program under Vista I receive the following error box:Application Update FailedT ...

I need some advice concerning the 2 OS, XP and Vista in a vs. type scenario.I have had Vista for about 2 weeks now and I have to say I am quite impressed with the functions, design, li ...

Windows easy transfer restored the wrong computer. How do I reverse the process? ...

I have finally successfully installed vista home prem on my brand new systemathlon 64 x2 +5600 asus m2r32 mvp radeon x1950 pro 512mb geil 1Gb ram X 2 HItachi SATA 320Gb H/d Pioneer DVD 112 IDEti ...

On my laptop running a NVIDIA GeForce GO 6150, with Business edition, I can't get the photos screen saver to allow me to select themes. This Compaq system does Aero & transparency, fades photos, I just can't select Random theme.The origina ...

How do I get the volume control back to the bottomright part of my taskbar? ...

Hi All, I have a small wireless network. 1 PC running XP Pro 1 PC running Vista Pre Both access the internet via the same wireless router From the XP Pro ...

Hi there, I use windows Vista Home Premium. I have an Windows 2003 Server. When i connect to the server i am asked to enter user name and password. I do this and I also click remember passwords. Once i reboot and then try and re connec ...

HiI used Cisco VPN to connect to my office XP Professional on a university network from a XP desktop and a XP labtop at home. They all worked fine. After I upgraded to Vista Premium on the desktop, I tried to use Vista built in VPN, but with no success (while I am still able to connect ...

Hi guys, I was thinking about how to avoid identity theft when selling a laptop on and wanted to see what others thought was the best way? (other than bitlocker)1. Delete all personal data (temp internet files, docs etc) 2. run cipher.exe /w on your ...

Not even sure what I'm doing here, but I'm at my wits end and would appreciate any help anyone can give me.I am new to Vista. 1 It says I need a Digital ID to be able to send out of Windows Mail. How do I get that set up and where?2 I ha ...

Is there any way when posting to newsgroups, other than manually or using OEQuotefix, of putting the cursor and signature at the bottom of a reply rather than top posting?I have ...

Account: 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com', Server: 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: 'ERR popgate unknown command', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error ...

I am subscribed to a Yahoo Group.. However, I want all the mail from that group and its members to be placed in a separate folder to view at a later time. How can I set this up? there is so much mail, that I can't weed through ...

Hi, I need help badly due to my laptop.Problem:When I close the lid the computer goes to sleep... but when I open the lid the computer restarts. Or if I put it to sleep from the start menu, and then wake it up, it restarts. No errors po ...

Hi,I have just installed Windows Vista Ultimate and love it, however with the sidebar I have the stock gadget installed and am trying to view Australian Stocks.At the moment I can only see the US stocks, does anyone know how I can monitor Australian Stocks instead.Thank ...

I have 4 disks, 2 in a raid off the adaptec controller, 1 JBOD simple volume off the adaptec controller and 1 off the motherboard boot disk (c:), Vista went on smoothly and found my raid set (D: ...

targets1.schtuff.com/ I must be popular this is all the people that are amped up about my purchase of Vista...Chris Bradley ...

HiI got this new computer and can't set up windows mail ! what is the incoming server and the outgoing one ? ...

I cant use the onboard LAN 10/100 in Vista, device is detected but it cant get IP in a DHCP LAN, I also tried force an IP manually without results. It works fine in XPI tried the last drivers for this chipset from Nvdia without luck, only solution is install a PCI Realtek ...

Hi, I have a problem with disabling visual themes for any program. When I check the option and hit "apply" and then start a program visual themes aren't disabled. Every other option works but this one doesn't (it worked before, maybe this is something with older visual basic files?). ...

I just purchased a new HP Media center PC with Vista Home Premium. The older PC is a Dell with XP home and Outlook 2003 on which I have ~ 150 contacts. How do I transfer these 150 contacts to the new ...

I am attempting to install a driver for my Sprint Wireless card and I am getting this Error message:"Failed to Install ISKernel Files" Make sure you have appropriate priveleges on this machine.Does anyone know why this is happening? Can you tell me how to get these ISKernel files?Plea ...

Hi i have been trying to connect to my wireless wifi, but i am just getting a local connection?how do i fix this to show the internet aswell, my friends laptop who uses xp can connect fine, i have WEP security set, what do i need to do, to ...

I have Vista Business installed on my Dell Core 2 Duo laptop. I bought the laptop a few weeks after Vista was launched and had it preinstalled.My laptop is part of a bu ...

As has been noted, the default for the Windows Vista Firewall is to NOT block outgoing traffic. Though outbound blocking can be turned on, the Windows Firewall does NOT pop up a "Allow/Disallow" window for programs try ...

Can someone tell me what intel alert service is? when I start up my pc with Vista I get a popup that says intel alert service has stopped working will find a solution at a later date ...

I have just purchased a new computer with Vista Home Premium Edition. Upon initial set up I was asked to create a Admin account with user name and password ...

I have an issue with Vista updates. I have them set to update automatically, but a lot of them are failing. My Media Center updates, Win Defender updates, and some security ...

I run windows Vista Home Premium and can not find the "fax console", have they forgotten about it? I want to be able to send and recieve faxes like I could before I upgraded. ...

I use VISTA business on my VAIO TX5MN. When I change offline files on my VAIO in offline mode and later try to synchronize them with my PC with XP SP2, I get errors "no access". I found out, that files like {6354725448}.tmp appear on my PC with XP. New files on my VISTA V ...

hi just downloaded vista now i have lost all my grandkids photos, where are they? shall i delete vista and go back to XP?though i cant even find add&remove programme ctitheb ...

I feel like you guys (Microsoft Offline Files Team) have really dropped the ball with this feature.From the start I have had nothing but issues with offline files. I purchased a new laptop with Vista Ultimate. Out of t ...

Just got a new system, and Vista won't recognize any of my music files to add to my new machine. I've tried adding from a disc, as well as from my portable player ...

Whem I open Help and Suport in Start Menu, I can view all informations, but the format of HTML or XML, is the default, without the original style that came with ...

The game played, but peices are being taken illegally. Is the programm at fault? ...

I am using the windows vista premium edition, with Dell's Roxio Creator DE. Neither one will format my cd. I am using Maxell DVDRW Cds. I put the disc in click on format it goes for a bit then the tray pops open saying either there is no disc in it, or the old message I was getting w ...

Can you do multiple CompletePC backups and save the images to the save drive? Would a 2nd backup image overwrite the first image already stored on the ...

This had me going for ages, so I thought I'd share the solution with you.System: newly built homebrew with Duo 6600 processor, 2G RAM and 7600GS graphics, running Vista Home Premium. It's been running fine for the past three months until a few days ago.The symptoms ...

Hi, Before i start i have to let you know i am totally untechie (such a term?) so please keep any replies S I M P L E!!! lolI have just bought a new Pc with Vista Home premium 32 bit preinstalled. I had a version of Word from my old Office XP small Business dis ...

Hi, I have Vista Ultimate installed in a partition of my main drive (C:) and I wanted to make a system backup in the other partition (E:). I also have another drive (D:). When I tried to do the backup, Windows tol ...

Hi, when I go to change users, I go to who is next to use it. Where I have 3 people including myself. (I am the administrator, they are limited users). I ...

How can I view the current com ports on Vista? I am trying to restore my bluethooth connection to a LifeDrive PDA. It was working but now it says that another application is using that com port, so I go and create another and then it says that the com port is bein ...

I am trying to sync an older PDA (Dell Axim x5) running windows mobile 3.0 with windows vista. I followed the links in other posts to the windows mobile device center but it says that it is ...

My Vista PC is connected to a 1080p HD TV with a 1920*1080 panel. The desktop is set to 1920*1080 resolution and the panel operates with 1:1 pixel mapping and no overscan or scaling. In normal operation (surfing, editing photos, etc.) the PC outputs at 1920*10 ...

Is there an iTunes with Aero capabilities? If not do you think Apple plans on writing a program in the future for an iTunes with Aero?? EusebioDell Vista Home Premium iTunes MSN Live Messenger Core Media Play ...

I have a new Toshiba laptop with Vista preinstalled. Apparently the Movie Factory version for Toshiba has an issue with not showing JPEGs when trying to import pictures (only shows TIFF files). I have been told to reinstall the Movie Factory from the Product Recovery discs to hopefully reso ...

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I jump through the normal hoops, but after I enable sharing and set all the settings, it shows that media sharing is disabled. I fou ...

For the past two days, I have been trying to get Ultima Online and EverQuest II to connect to their respective servers, but each time I try, I keep getting an error that says I nee ...

I've just installed Vista Enterprise on a computer on our domain and noticed the following in the event log. As usual with these messages, it doesn't bother to tell me 'which' file name it's talking about! At any rate, is there something I can do abou ...

I originally posted the message below in the "general" section of Vista, but found this group in searching, sorry for the cross post.I hope someone out there can help me wit ...

What is the best strategy for Spider Solitaire? ...

when i try to send outgoing mail, the follow appears The host 'vista' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Subject 'Springers Wholesale', Account: 'imap', Server: 'vista', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0 ...

I'm running Vista v6 (32bit) and using Windows Mail. When I open an email in its own window to print, it prints fine, but the printer queue does not clear. It says "deleted printing" in the status column. No other docs will print at this point. I have to turn the printer off, ...

I uninstalled a few programs and now I cannot remove their shortcuts from the desktop, it says 'this item is no longer located in users/public/public desktop...please verify its location'. I went to user/desktop and the shortcuts are not in there...confused as how to remove them! ...

Can anyone Assist. I have just loaded Vista on my PC. THe copy was provided at purchase. Since the upgrade I have tried to download a couple of progra ...

Hello,i did apply restore point. Now Task Scheduler Service keeps crashing frequently. Afterwards the themes service also crashes. Anybody knows how to fix this?Thanks Hansj�rg ...

I installed vista ultimate, and the administrator has no password, so anyone who can tell me how to set password for it.XP ...

Our company has purchased a laptop that came equipped with the Vista software. I was wondering if it is possible to download MS 2007 on that laptop without creating a mess? I want one of our employees to be able to use that computer however without Vista on ...

I am trying to create a DSN ODBC connection to a mdb database inside of the Documents folder for my user. But the DSN utility does not "see" my Documents folder for some reason (I have selected to show hidden folders). Even if I enter the actual path to ...

Somehow my favorites folder has moved to my desktop. I have tried to move it back to the proper place but I get a message that I do not have "Permission".How do I ge ...

since ive installs vista my fle share on messenger will not work/ it sayin i havent created a sharing file n asks if i want to create on now when the sharing folder is there i can see it! i read a artical on google that there is a bug in vista wihich stops file sharing if this is ...

I cant transfer anything from outlook express to window mail? need help please ...

I just did a clean install of Vista home premium and the send and receive toolbar does nothing. When I launch windows mail from quick launch or desktop it's fine... I create and send fine it seems to be just the to ...

Where do I find my POP3 Mail server at? Can anyone help? I am sort dumb at this.Thanks, Tracey ...

Problem: For some reason Vista is EXTREMELY slow at logging off users. (Taking between 57 minutes) which seems totally ridiculous to me. On my laptop, which is half as 'powerful' as ...

Each time I boot my Vista computer I show an established TCP connection (viewed in tcpview by sysinternals) to "inthemotherhood.com:http" then after about five minutes it's gone.WHOIS results:Domain Name: INTHEMOTHERHOOD.COM Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC. ...

Hello,recently I have noticed that media streams from the internet have not been working on my Vista Home Premium edition. They work fine if I copy/paste the link into Windows Media Player 11 (or any other program), but if I click on ...

I have a field in my device manager for my e6600 processor,its under unknown, and says Intel processor (listed twice). From what I remember, shouldn't this be listed under processors subtab, ...

Not sure if this is a common problem. When I insert a CD into the DVDRW drive Vista does not recongise that there is any data on the data and pops up the format disk option. Its an ATAPI DVD drive if that makes ...

In Windows 98 I could view a file for which I did not have an associated program. Is there a viewer in Vista? ...

hi all ! Im in a horrible situation. I was away for a few hours and when I came back everything that has to do with internet tells me that there has stopped working (IE,messenger,mirc,Azuerus,etc.) I dont know what its wrong with the computer, everything was working before I l ...

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when every I try to type something with my key board it inserts the following no matter what key I press. I must have done something to cause this, I just do not know how to correct it. ...

I'm not sure if this is a Vista or an IE7 issue, but I think it may be Vista since I never had this problem with XP. I usually get a promp to remember user name or passwords on Web pages or fo ...

Well, it looks like I have to restart my Vista Home Premium again. The disk meter frequently goes to and stays at 90% or greater, and anything I attempt to do takes minutes, not the already unreasonable seconds like it did until last Wednesday. My old XP Pro is lightn ...

I get the following blue screen error during boot up after letting Vista automatically install drivers for my Nvidia 8800GTS graphics card:Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.76 ...

In XP you could click on a directory in explorer and it would instantly expand the sub directories. Is there a setting in Vista that will cause this?Thanks ...

Is it possible to minimize Winodws Mail to the system tray as opposed to the default task bar? I googled it and only came up with reg edits for outlook (which do not work, I tried so don't waste your time). I think this is something many people would like to know. Thanks guys. ...

How do I best transfer everything from windows mail to outlook 2003 on my vista home premium system plus one newsgroup posting stated for increased speed I should uninstall the security update that was done around May 8th, KB931768. Is that correct? If so how best do i ...

I have a Japanese Sony VAIO laptop that came with the Japanese Home Premium and I want to UPGRADE using a US Vista Ultimate version but when i try to setup Vista Ultimate it only allows me to do a clean install. I dont want to insta ...

See subject and my video card is AllInWonder x800 series ...

If i plug in speakers, or a headset it does not come up on the sound tab or let out any sound when i try to play sounds. The only sound hardware i have managed to get working is a usb headset, which i am also having driver problems with.Can any ...

I have user with a Vista Business laptop joined to a 2000 AD domain. I am trying to make his network share available offline for him. When I right click on the ...

Hello, I am attempting to use ImageX and each time I get an error with access denied to files. The first time it was accessing the Security\Database\edb.log file that gave the problem I added that to the exceptions in the wimscript.ini the ...

I just finished a long conversation with tech Support and the result is that Office (2003) cannot be activated on two hard drives on the same system: it is irrelevant that I have Vista on one and XP on the other. Given that Vista is ...

i have recently installed a pience of software onto my computer that is runnign Windows Vista Home Premium. In doing so somehow the autorun feature has been turne ...

I running XP Pro SP1 and have just purchased Ultimate X64 full version, and want to do an upgrade so hat i dont loose and have to reinstall all my installed software. I have purchased a full version of Vista Ultimate X64, does this have the option to per ...

I'm trying to deploy Vista Enterprise using Windows Setup and a custom image.I'm using the walkthrough at: technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library ...

On Vista Ultimate, standard mouse & keyboard when I go into Screen Saver setup on all screen savers the Wait time is set to 30 and the On resume, display logon s ...

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and have been for about three months now, and its mostly been running fine (at least where this is concerned). However, the o ...

Marvelous tool, just push F11 or the knob at the bottom of the window and with with a beamer you can produce a spendid slideshow on the wall or a huge screen! Much appreciated also are de different modes of operation, however I have 3 little problems: 1) is it possible to add background music 2) ...

Hello! I am using Vista Ultimate 64bit and am looking for a way to easily identify the wifi channels that are in use by routers within range. My router keeps dropping the connection (I have tried a different router) so I suspect interference with another router using ...

I have a Vista Business box, an XP Pro box, and an XP Home laptop. The Visa and XP Pro boxes are connected to my router using wires and my laptop is connected wirelessly. I installed the LLTD patch (KB922120) on both ...

Hi there, I have a very strange problem with Vista's networking: From time to time, it looses the ability to browse the internet for a period of minutes to hours. ...

Perhaps someone could help this neophyte with a home network problem. After setting up home networking on both PCs, the XP machine seems to have full netwo ...

When I start my computer I get the following message "Application failed to initialize: 0x80010665" Neither the firewall nor defender applications are turned on. I can turn on the firewall, but the defender application will not turn on. It simply looks for an update and then fails t ...

I have AVG Internet security suite and Vista Ultimate 32 bit. They have been working perfectly together until the last few days. Suddenly Security Center reports I have no anti virus program or fi ...

Hello everybody, i have a problem.My College supports the MSDNAA Program. First i downloaded the 32 bit version of Vista Business and got the key. Now i got a new Computer which supports 64 bit. I downloaded the 64 bit version but i havent got a key. How can ...

Over the last few days I have noticed that, not only when opening but also sending. The preview screen takes around twenty seconds to open one page. Scanning down to other messages do ...

HiI dragged the divider between the folder pane and the header/preview panes across to the right. The dividing line now doesn't allow me to clickdrag any more. I now have a huge pane o ...

I will be away on business and would like to know how to add an email responder to incoming emails when I am away on my windows mail? Thank you. Robert ...

When I try to send/receive email in Windows Mail , it asks for my login name and password. I give it the correct responses, that window disappears, and the window unde ...

Is there a size limit on the inbox in Windows Mail, i.e. is there still a 2GB limit on the size of the inbox before it goes haywire?For some reason I can't seem to figure out how to pull messages off of this newsgroup older than today, sorry, so this may be an old question.... ...

How do I get Windows Vista to send mail from a Hotmail address. ...

Anyone know why I am getting a folder called "New Folder" created on my Vista desktop everytime I close down the EVent Viewer?Inside the folder is ...

I recently upgraded to home Premium, and I knew I would have to wait for the driver for my printer. Well now I have the driver, but the printer will not communicate with the computer. I have tried all the different ports, and none of t ...

I have an LaserJet 1200 printer connected to a Netgear FR114P print server/router. When I send a print job from my Vista Business laptop to the printer, the queue does not clear when the job is done. I have to manually clear it to prevent the job from reprinting. What is the so ...

I recently bought a PC in The Netherlands and it has Vista Home Basic on it with only the Dutch language installed. I can"t work with a Dutch environment, so ...

Im Running Vista Ultimate And I Did Something Really Stupid, In My Harddrive options I Clicked "compress harddrive to save space" i did that but i only let it go through like 2 percent i admit it was stupid but when i restart ...

I had an issue when upgrading to Vista Home Premium that all my Start Menu icons appeared corrupt. Instead of a folder, the icon came up as a "blank" icon. I could not locate any resolution to fix the problem.I finally downloaded software from St ...

Hello.Since a while I have a dell inspiron 640m laptop running vista premium. Now I suddenly have a 'menu start' icon on my desktop and I can't remove it. The command 'remove' is not available in the context menu when I rightclick the icon. Also, ...

Windows Mobile Device Center doesn't sync with MSN Premium Accounts using Outlook Connector:My upgrade to Vista was going well until I came across this.I have an MSN Premium account which I access using the Outlook Con ...

I'm really glad linux distros don't fragment, at least they don't according to our resident linux loser trolls (you know the ones). However, just in case your linux distro should per chance, become fragmented, here are 4 1/2 pages worth of defragmenters to chose from and download to defrag with ...

I am developing an application that has to run under WinPE 2.0. The application communicates to a web service that needs NTLM authentication. I am using the XMLHTTP control in a C++ application to handle the communication. Under WinPE 1.x this works fine and auth ...

I have read all posts pertaining to this issue and all answers that I have found apply to XP. I am Vista Home Premium. My name was entered incorrrectly at setup by ...

Vista Home Premium and all of a sudden I have the following problem. When I try to open an image (Jpg)file Windows Photo Gallery starts and the circle keeps going around and around and eventually I get the following error: "an error is preventing windows p ...

Silly question I suspect, but is there an autohide setting for the Vista sidebar? Can't seem to find one, but surely it would have one? Thanks. Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compul ...

What is wrong when I am unable to view pics that are in a post or website? Recently, I have been unable to view pics that I am sending or that I am trying to see off a website. This has not been a prob before. I get the little box with the red 'X'. Sometimes I can go ...

I have been uploading word documents to my website by going to "file" > "Save As" and I type the web address that I want to save it to and it asks me for the username and password. I enter the information and it opens the web ...

I am using Vista Home premium and have the following problem. I am using Comic Sans as my preferred font, and Western European International settings.When I type a �nverted comma' the first ...

I'm in the O/S file I/O dialogs and I'm trying to search for files shot with my Canon camera...I got to the search dialog and type in cameramaker:canon and then a toolbar ...

Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to find the list of ports in use on windows Vista Home premium. I looked in Firewall settings but found nothing obvious other than the facility to ch ...

I have a gateway vista tablet and just last week I set up Vista Speech Recognition. I decided that leaving it on all the time was dumb because it might misinterpret noises as commands. So I put it on sleep mode, where it only listens for "start listening" and then it turns ...

i started this thread "WEI decreased after adding more ram" two days ago, recieved two emails for replys but my thread is gone. I prolly wont be able to find this thread either. deriams@hotmail.com Amd.64x24200 (FIC ...

Hello,I've been playing with a 30 day trial of PS today, I installed a couple of plugins, then the wireless went down. I've uninstalled the plugins thinking it was them, rebooted but still nothing. I cannot through a wirel ...

Any idea why, when I try to install the above drivers, it says "Driver Installation complete", but then a "Problems & Solution" dialog pops up saying "Windows Vista does not support Age of Empires II 2.0a update", th ...

I am having trouble installing this program. this came with the new computer and it is not a program that I am trying to add!this is the error msg that I am getting.The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Also ...

Forum PostI have a rather unusual issue with my Vista PC. Everytime I turn off my display it turns itself back on.Setup: Motherboard Intel DG965OT Operating Syst ...

COM Surrogate & other proceses has stopped working Hey..! I'm using Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Vista(TM) Ultimate Verision 6.0 (Build 6000) I'm facing some problems which are listed below...Plz Suggest some solution....! Problems Are... 1. COM Surrogate Has Stopped Working.... ...

I'm having problems installing any hardware which use USB ports to my pc. I have tried installing my printer (cannon pixma ip4200) using the vista drivers recommended by cannon. E ...

When I go into Control Panel Personalization Screen Saver the "Wait" time and "On resume, display logon screen" options are grayed out on all screen savers. This is a new development when I installed Vista I was able to change these o ...

This was originally posted 5/26, and got no response.We work with a lot of virtual machines in a product testing environment up to now, only Win2K and XP. We have always Sy ...

Hello Everyone,We used to purchased HP computers with and image them using ghost. It was real easy as the image contained all the required settings and applications. ...

I can create but cannot access the Guest Account with Vista Home Premium. The Guest icon appears on the logon screen but access is denied with the error message "Windows could not connect to the Sens service&qu ...

Does this all the time! it plays when its in libary but every time i click on Now playing BOOM blue screen and reboots...now i have tryed to unstall but Its not in the unstall programs menu...So what could i do? ...

Lately I've been having the same problem: everytime I open Photo Gallery on Vista, it crashes. This is the error log (sorry, in Spanish): Firma con problemas: Nombre del evento de problema: APPCRASH Nombre de la aplicación: Windows ...

Every once in awhile I cannot get the recorded tv function to work. I press for "add recording" then "manual" or "guide" and set what I want to record and It does Not Record anything nor advise why. I can do this ten times before it finally Does record what I want?? ...

Hello !Since a few days when I try to laucnh the wlanscv it won't start, returning error 1068.I did check dependancies : all ok No virus, no spyware etc .. No new software install No change in the network setting Repl ...

I have a laptop with XP Pro and have networked a Vista laptop through the wireless router. The XP Pro is connecting fine to the internet but the Vista, although it can see and is connected to ...

Do I need to use a separate antivirus program if I am using Windows Defender? Will Defender protect my Vista computer all on its own? ...

Is there a way to get a new password for my/me admin. acct.? I cannot remember it! I did as suggested and am using a standard acct. w/psswd. I cannot download or upg ...

Using the browser method is difficult, it won't show what threads have been answered. I tried accessing my ISPs news server via the Outlook Newsreader, but it does not carry this newsgr ...

have a "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage http error 403 (forbidden)" when i double click on a link to listen to a www.gsradio.net mp3. I was told it was a quicktime file so i downl ...

How can I recover (or transfer) my email addresses from outlook express to windows mail. I just bought a new computer with windows mail and I sure would be cool if I could recoup my addresses. Thanks! ...

as same as Windows Desktop mail ...

Have had Vista Windows Mail running for a couple of days. Composed a message two days ago, using one of the stationery choices, and it worked fine. When composing today, none of the default stationery choices ...

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When I try and carry out a BackUp I get the following Error Message: The backup did not complete successfully An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the er ...

I have a dual boot of XP Home & Vista Business on a 80G HD and hide the Vista partition from XP using PartitionMagic. I have swapped booting between both OS's 45 times each (hiding ...

In Windows XP, I used the printer migrator program to copy printer settings from one workstation to another. in Vista, you now use Printbrmui.exeWhen I try this, it tells me that I do not have printer administrative rights. How do I set that up? I have read that I need to ins ...

PLease help! I'm not the most tech minded person. I have just got a new Packard Bell laptop and it won't recognise my old HP Deskjet 940c Printer. I am connecting the printer through a parallel cable and Lapto ...

I found a bug in WMP11 about Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Configuration (wmpnscfg.exe). I have disabled the service WMPNetworkSvc (Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service) because I don't use it, but when I open W ...

I have vista ultimate on a notebook and desktop. I use synctoy to sync documents from desktop to a usb drive and also from notebook to same usb drive. The usb is my holding vessel for shared files. ...

Since moving from XP to Vista I have several Excel files that won't launch hyperlinks to wav. files error message is (runtime error '2147221018 (800401e6)' No program registered to open this ...

Tried everything on Adobe Support and yet having problems watching videos from YouTube and other sites.Any assistance will be greatly a