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We have the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" group policy enabled and we need to keep it enabled. We haven't had any problems with this setting in XP. Vista however seems to be deleting not only AppData/Roaming but everything else u ...

I'm using Nvidia's 100.65 driver and found this problem while playing Freecell. The fonts are oversized and you can't read all of the info in the "hint box". Anyone know of a work around or f ...

I have read almost every post here, but so far nothing has helped. I have IE7 which worked great until I installed Vista. At first, I couldn't get any Pogo games to download. After uninstalling and reinstalling Sun Jave a gazillion times and trying other suggestions f ...

Have the same EMail address on a 6 month old desktop with XPOutlook Expess and a new laptop with Vista Home PremiumWindow EMail. The desktop is connected thru a router. Receiving some ...

I have been trying for a week to figure this out. I created a backup of my emails in outlook, transfered it ot my new computer with Vista and couldnt' open it in Windows mail. (no one told me Office 2007 Student didnt' come with Outlook like previous versions). ...

When I enter a nickname into a TO OR CC etc it dosen't display like it did with outlook...when I hit enter I have to search for each name...this is a pain..can anyone be of assistance ??? >tia ...

When we try to print an email in windows Mail it says it goes to One Note 2007 and not to our printer. And nothing prints. The Preferences option won't let us change the port. What is One N ...

Have an upgraded Home Premium system that hangs up on occassion, like the computer is working. Does it for about two minutes then comes right back. Not sure what is ahppening as I cannot look at the task manager while it is doing i ...

I ran Vista Home Premium Upgrade no problems doing upgrade. Ran Vista Window Experience and got the following:Processor:4.1Memory:5.4Graphics:5.9Gaming Gra ...

I have an HP LaserJet 4600n connected to my network. Vista finds it and installs the driver that comes with Vista no problem and could print for the first day.Now it will not print. I can ping the printer, I can use the r ...

I am trying to print pictures with Vista. I am going in to the picture, right clicking on the picture and choosing the option to print. When it brings up the picture, I go to select the paper type to something other than 'plain paper'. Whenever I select a ...

i installed IIS 7 in my system(VISTA HOME PREMIUM). if i type http:/localcost/ in my Internet Explore i get an error 500.0 Internal Server Error. I want to u ...

I have upgrade to Vista Business, I understand that activesync is no longer compatible and want to remove it. However I can't, it no longers comes up in add and remove programs and i can't delet manually. Has anyone got ...

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Hi, I have problem connecting to a VPN server. I searched all over the web sites and understand that I need to open up port 1723 and ip protocol 47 on the firewall, and I know to open up the port 1723 is just using Add Port on the Windows Firewall Settings page under Exceptions. ...

Hi all,I've just installed Vista Home Premium on my system (Core 2 Duo / 965 chipset / SATA HDD / NVidia 7600GS / 2GB DDRII....) and have installed a dual tuner TV card (Hauppauge Nova T 500). It's tuned to ...

Hi,I've had vista fro about a month or so now and decided that it was time to do a reinstall, just to speed things up a little and get rid of everything that 'didn't' work with it.I set up the automated backup and let it go every night for ...

Where is Vista's User's Manual? Does it have one? I purchased my retail Vista Home Premium here in Manila Philippines (manufactured in Singapore) does it really ONLY have the DVD, a small bookl ...

Can someone help with this problem? I am unable to delete a message from my inbox! Thanks in advance ...

When in Windows Explorer I see Microsoft Office Word Document when the file is a .docx. Is there a way I can change what appears in the Type column for any type of file? As an example, I want to see Word 2007 in the file type column not Microsoft Office Word ...

I recently got a dell C521 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800 (2.40Ghz, 512K). How can I get microsoft word installed to work properly? ...

I am trying to add 2 avi movies to DVD Maker so I can watch in my DVD on the TV but after adding them and selecting next it crashes and says this program has stopped working, a icon appears down by the clock which I clicked on and it says What is Data Execution ...

I used the transfer files and settings wizard on XP to create a .DAT file which is now on 2 DVDs. I made a backup disk just in case this didn't work but for some reason my backup did ...

after I put my system in sleep mode, after a few hours when I open WMP, I loose all of my songs. After a few minutues the media player searchers and reloaded the songs back. ...

I just installed Vista Home Premium earlier today for the first timewhere is "My Network Places"?they cay its called "Network Centre" now, but I can't fi ...

I am new to Vista. I previously used XP and set up an admin account that I used when needed. Otherwise, I did all of my activity on the limited account. My question is; with all of the new UAC controls in vista, is it necessary to do ...

I am the only one to use this computer, new laptop using Windows Vista, so I only have one account (adminstrator). When I try and load my video edtting software from a disk I get prompted that I must be logged on as t ...

Hello. I am new to this whole windows mail thing. I go to the University of Phoenix and with that school you have to download newsgroups to interact with peers. I tried to open newsgroup(s) with windows mail and a message appears that ...

I have had problems all day with my Vista. So I have just done a repair. Now I have no sound, as "no audio output device is installed" (oh yes there damn well IS) And NOW I'm being asked to activate windows "Eh ?" Thinks I I activat ...

I have error message when trying to open an attachment. I am told to create an association in the set associations control panel. As far as i can see this is already done. The Dell pc is 1 month old and came with vista preinstal ...

I have been using Vista for about 2 days on a new powerful PC and have had 3 blue screen crashes already no obvious trigger. In fact one crash took place whilst visiting the Microsoft site to try to solve the problem.Outlook running very slowly and I nee to accept ...

how do I make the all programs view in vista act like it did in XP? ...

I was wondering why after a while the icons on the start menu seem to disappear on the programs that you are using. I have to go back into the program that I was using and reopen it. Sometimes it will stay for a while then I will go into another program go back to t ...

Hi,I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64 edition installed on my home machine I've just upgraded the processor from an AMD Atholon 64 3200+ to an AMD Atholon x2 64 4400+ for Vista ...

This is my second time experienceing this.First with a beta and now with Vista Business. The system will not boot as it feezes at the bootsceen. Even in Safe mode it does not get past the boot. When I try the sugestion of putting my install disc in and rebooting to it. I do not ...

I've a preloaded windows vista laptop which has only Swiss German, Italian & Swiss French language options. Will it be possible to convert the same into an English OS? ...

Can't play video online with wmp the site will start but never load or play the video... im using vista basic...but i hate it and i wanna go back to windows ...

I have Vista business installed on a domain laptop. When on the road, i often VPN into the office to connect to project files, etc. When i setup the VPN on vista, i can get the vpn to ...

This Game will NOT install under Vista 32bit. Has anyone found a solution. The installer starts, but says finished right away without copying files.. Thanks for your help Mike ...

I have Vista and it doesn't sleep. I tell it to sleep and the screen will turn black and the computer is unresponsive. The computer still stays On, it doesn't go into sleep mode.Also, If I tr ...

I uninstalled a noncompatible ESB Tuner from my HP Notebook and in teh process seem to have damaged a registry entry that prevents me from using my CD Drive.On the device manager page under properties for the CD device I get the following error ...

Hi, I have been using MSCalculator Plus for a long time with Win XP already : a wonderfull thing. Now that I have moved to Vista, I have a problem with it : it starts up sooo sloowly. It was lightning fast on XP, now it takes ages to show up when I start it in Vista.Any so ...

I like Vista (ultimate) and it may someday be the most common OS for the average consumer but I have an XP Pro system that works perfectly, has all the tools and applications I need and use and everything has worked perfectly for years. I even have email and files from nearly ...

Internet explorer was mistakenly set to open all .exe files so now all applications are crippled even the system restore. Any tips on how to resolve that? This is a MS Vist ...

Hi I have a Core 2 duo,intel d946 motherboard,geforce 7600gs 256mb and 2gb rams.Vista is telling me that I have 500mb shared video memory added to the 256mb of the geforce card,I tried to see if I can decrease this ...

I received two dvds from dell, upgrade assistant and operating system. Inserted the upgrade assistant as my booklet tells me to, it did it's stuff and this all went smoot ...

Hello,I have a pc that have to run vista, I test it whit the "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor" but when i try to install i got a problem in the final.When I ...

Got a message that a driver was missing/damaged: sys32/drivers/matrixfg.sysI have a Raid 0 array and upgraded from XP professional. No incompatibility issues were found on pre install scan. Elliot Feldbau ...

What gives, I am not the only one with this problem, it has shown up in various forms. There has been no solutions offered.Fine, if there are none, admit it, there is a bug and we are working on it.Leaving c ...

I cannot get the tray icon to appear unless I go to Control panel, Security, Windows Defender the icon pops right up in the tray. I have chosen "Choose when WD appears in the tray" I selected "Always" ...

POR QUE ME PASA ESTO CADA VES QUE QUIERO HABRIR UN FOLDER QUE TENGA VIDEOS Y ME CIERRA EL FOLDER AUTOMATICAMENTE?? ALGUIEN SABE LA SOLUCION. POR QUE SE PAGA MUCHO POR WINDOWS VISTA COMO PARA QUE SALGA CON ESTO. QUE NO NOS HAGAN GASTAR ...

Hi!! im wondering if i have to do anything special to use my Sims 2 games on vista after i have installed it. Like if it has already moved them or if i have t ...

The game installed and ran fine under my admin account, but when my son tries to run it under his standard account it says he does not have permissions. I have allowed the game in the Parental Control and have checked ...

Sarebbe molto comodo, e interessante il poter minimizzare Windows Mail ad un' icona nella Barra di Avvio (come si fà con Outlook) senza sprecare spazio nella barra in basso. E' comodo soprattutto per chi tiene sempre aperto il programma d ...

Currently running Windows Mail v6 and would like to import from Windows XP I am currently networked with two computers and would like the contact lists to match.Your assistance is appreciated. ...

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I normally use my yahoo account to send/receive emails, I can't windows to send/receive email. Do I have to change my email address. I'm also not sure if it's under IMAP or POP3. Please advise! ...

I have 4 messages sitting in my Windows Mail Outbox. When I try to send them I get a message: "The message could not be sent An error occurred"The body of these 4 email messages contains the fo ...

Hi. I was wondering how I could see the details of my disk fragmentation in Vista Home Premium. I recently had my computer go through a full diagnostic at Best Buy and it said that my disk was 26% fragmented with a suggestion that it stay below 10%. I was w ...

When I shutdown Vista, the process never gets as far as powering down the hardware.This was never a problem on the same hardware with XP and is not initially a problem with Vista (both times I've installed it) but starts and remains afeter a short while.Any ideas?Vista Ulti ...

I bought a Vista Ultimate OEM system builder pack (not upgrade) for my home/family computer. I have a corrupt XP and my Internet Explorer will not work. (I already tried updating) The package keeps talking about OPK and when I go to the site it asks abou ...

Hi, How can I install ponetic keyboard in windows Vista? I could only find the phonetic exe file for windows xp/2000, and offcourse that doesn't work with Vista. what should I do . please help.........Samr. ...

Hello all. After installing VISTA Ultimate 64 BIT, I can't use my printer. It's a HP LaserJet 3052 connected by USB cable. (it's a multifunction unit with printer, scanner and fax allinone). When ...

I try to activate Vista Business N over a Virtual machine (Network and Internet links are ok) and I get the following Activation Error: Activation error 0x8007232BWhich means DNS name does not exist. What's the reason for this? Would it change if I installed it locally ? ...

I just upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Everything works fine except downloading. POP email works, etc. I have dial up internet. Whether I use Firefox, Opera, or IE, the results are the same. I pull up a page to download a file, the bro ...

i need to lower my security settings for a certain forum i go into as some parts are password protected. I could do this on xp but the lowest i can get to is medium whic ...

HiI'm having many CTD's with FSX in Vista 64 Ultimate.I can easily create them to go from windowed mode to full screen. But I'm also having many CTD's with just selecting an other plane or changing my settings. In the most cases I'm getting no message from Windows, just a CTD. Sometimes ...

HiI have a problem with my Windows Mail. When I get mails which are from a webside and written in HTML Windows Mail shows me everything in plain text (<b>tes ...

Until a couple of days ago windows mail worked perfectly. Now I can only read and write emails for a few minutes and then acts like it is not connected to the network. I called my ISP (Comcast) and they checked all the settings and they are correct. The only way I can access my email is to si ...

I can not maintain internet connectivity for any long period. I am using a new HP 7760n PC with 2 Gig memory on a MS Vista Home Premium OS and high speed cable connectivity protected by a router firewall. I am not using Vista firewall or virus protection; I am usi ...

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THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE (please don't dwell too much on "games" per se!)My Search Index is behaving oddly.I can't find e.g. Games at least one other user says it works fine for him.If I type "Gam" I get Programs ...

Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista Home premium ...

Is there a way to use Speech Recognition without using the headphones? There should be a way to hook up the computer to speakers so you can come into the room and start talking to the computer? ...

Hi, I'm having problems with Vista's software with it not being very compatiable with certain programs/software. Such as not being able to load older computer games (Sims, for example) and even most of the internet software doesn't w ...

Why does vista take so long to open some folders in Windows Explorer?A green scrolling bar appears at the top of the page as it slowly loads What is that?Some folders take up to a minute to open. ...

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to install an LaCie IEEE 1394 external hard drive. Whenever I hookup the drive I get no reaction from VISTA, it does ...

Blue ray drive Not seen in Vista. ...

i cannot get my number pad to work. if i get my number pad working then my keys will not work. removed and reinstalled hardware and drivers and still get same results. anyone else h ...

Just Installed my utlimate OEM again (did some stupid thing and erased first install) After installing and activating. Vista started to download some actualizations (16 i think), about 76 mb. BUT once downloaded, did NOT install th ...

Hi, I decide to run a reduced CCleaner during startup. The related option is set and in msconfig is it also marked.But after startup i receive a message from SW Explorer (a part of Windows Defender) that the related SW is blocked.I can manual perform the action.Why is not started ...

Just received a new Dell XPS410 with Vista Ultimate preinstalled, sound card driver is up to date. I have sound only in the quick cam application for my Logitech Quick Cam Pro web cam and no system sounds or sound in iTunes, testing system sounds, media player, media center, etc. ...

This is very annoying this PC ask me for my network printers one by one and I have 20 printers and I have to tell intall driver every time and even when I tell do no ask again it promt me went I start again. ...

Hello,I got my wife a HP Pavillion Notebook Vista Ultimate (w/all updates as of last night). She went through setup and heres a funny thing since reading through here, it didn't ask her to make a password recovery disk. S ...

When i open en new window form a hyperlink the new window has strange sizesi don't want. We have also a content management sytem that works with webbased popup windows. All popups are differend sizes because they have differend purposes. Wh ...

Okay, this just started yesterday and to be honest, I don't know what I did to cause it in the first place. When I'm in AOL checking mail, when I click on a particular email to open it, the computer makes a very loud alert "beep!" sound, even when the sound is muted. Ther ...

I get an error message when I try to use help & support. It acts like its about to connect but then says internet explorer cannot download / from help. it says this site is unavailable or cannot connect at this time? whats going on and how can i fix it? ...

I have a Intel D865GLC Motherboard with onboard sound (SoundMAX). latest bios.I installed Vista Ultimate, on starting there was no sound a quick trip to ...

Hello, I am installing Windows Vista Business from Toshiba. I am at step 5 where it uninstalls programs and I have 2 left.TOSHIBA ConfigFree DVDRAM DriverFor some reason these two programs won't uninstall. The error i ...

Can someone please help? I have Vista and when I play videos, mp3s...etc I get no sound and Windows Media Player says "Windows Media Player has encontered a problem while playing the file" If I restart the computer everything will works fine, but then after a while the pr ...

Ok, there seem to be a lot of people that are having problems with Vista Home Premium and wireless internet connections...myself included. I have a new laptop that was working perfectly (even finding XP networks and other computers...SOMETIMES), for some reason all of a sudden, m ...

Hello, I have installed Vista Windows recently in my computer. And when using an application that connects a SQL Server2000 who is in the same dominion, gives the following error me: [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Conn ...

Occasionally, I am receiving the following 2 errors when hitting send and receive in Mail on Vista:An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C0148An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'Comcast Email', Server: 'mail.c ...

Does anyone kow how to have your imported messages sent back to your email server that they were imported from. ...

i just added a 2 GB flash drive to my laptop with vista home premium and the readyboost is just fabulous. both core performance meters were always pinned at 100% in the red and after adding the 2GB flash they hardly ever go above 75%. and the system is ...

Since installed Vista the screen is not bright and I can't change itAny clue?Thank you, Samuel ...

When you buy a stand alone retail version of WIndows Vista Ultimate, does it include the code to execute on a 32 or 64 bit machine? Does Ultimate give you a 32 bit and a 64 bit operating system?Thanks for your response. :O) ...

Hi,I got a USB storage & working perfectly in any WindowXP machines, I try to bring those data stored in my USB to Vista laptop but keep coming u ...

using vista ultimate edition and machine has 3 administrator logonstwo of the three have a normal looking desktop, while the Administrator account desktop shows this default icon which is not the ...

here is one that might be easily solved ..Most everybody uses the start menu .. old style as classic or new style .. BUT .. why did the team remove RUN ? Any help ? ...

ok so i am upgrading my graphics. i am currently using an ATI x1300 pro 512mb but that is now pritty old (1yr) but when i do upgrade i only wont to spend £140 TOP cos i aint like bill g : )what do you recomend? and where to get it from ? i would also prefer on ...

I believe I used to have email notification on my Internet Explorer when I had mail in my inbox. I use Windows Mail as the default client and I have looked ...

Every time I start Vista I get the message that one startupprogram has been blocked. The 'offending' program is config.sys. It shows however as being permitted and I cannot remove it. Anyone a solution? Gus ...

Trying to open a Word file I created prior to installing Vista. The file is on a separate partitioned drive from the op sys and has not been moved, nor does it have a readonly attribute. Running Word 2007 under Vista, and Word opens the file as readonly. Is this a bug? ...

I installed Vista Home Basic on my C drive. Installation was OK. But after installing the drivers, I found that my data harddisk is not reflected (no Drive letters, I previously partioned them into D and E driv ...

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

I was trying to move all of my documents to my new external hdd, so first I changed the location of my document folder to my new f: drive. I didn't get back to it until a couple of ...

Have tried Googling.. tinyurl.com/2wemv7 unfortunately I need to allow full admin to my children for this game to work, I know I can give up my password and use run as but would prefer not to do this, have also tried elevating their status to power users but same issue?Thanks SD ...

Bought a new laptop with Vista and Windows mail on it. My old computer had XP and Outlook. Saved the PST file, copied to new laptop and in Windows mail tried the file, import mail opti ...

My email spell checker is not working. When I checked the edb.chk file in the the Windows Mail folder, it says "Recovered File Fragments" under file type. I don't know how this file got corrupted.Any ideas on how to fix this? ...

Does anyone have the same problem with Windows DVD Maker as I do? Cannot Create Preview, error message appears nearly everytime...and when it does actually work, which isn't very often, the video skip during every picture transition. this program ...

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Hello,I'm feeling somewhat confused about product activation lately. I'm a system builder and purchased an OEM edition of Vista Home Premium 32bit for installation on a system that I built ...

Is there a way to mark messages in your inbox when replied to instead of going to the Sent Folder. Thanks for any help. ...

I get the following error every time I boot up or log back in. Does anyone know what it means?Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closedA problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a so ...

May I know who is the "xfile"? ...

BEFORE you spend money on Vista, you owe it to yourself to read EVERY page of this critique. kadaitcha.cx/vista/dogsbreakfast/index.htmlYou've been warned.Love and Kisses, Doris My Microsoft Hero (he loves this company!) ... tinyurl.com/yp9cn2 Get SP3 ...

Hi!I am using Vista Ultimate 32bit on my notebook (LG S1 pro). Unfortunately I do not receive a popup message from the system tray when the battery is at 10%. I checked the settings in the system control, the warning for low battery at 10% is activ ...

Hey there guys. I have an issue when playing videos on Windows Vista that has been annoying me. I watch a lot of videos on my computer so I decided to ask for help.When I play videos in fullscreen on Windows Media Player it fills the area that does not have video (such ...

Any word on a Vista update of the UPHCLEAN 1.6? I have a lot of event log messages about registry not cleared etc. An update sure is needed. ...

I am soon to have a new computer preloaded with Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I am considering upgrading to Photoshop CS3. Anybody running Photoshop CS versions on x64 Vista? OK ? Problems? ...

At our work we have Vista Enterprise installed... we also need to run both English and French (and perhaps other languages) on our environment.We purchased Vista Enterprise because it said ...

I have a new PC, preinstalled with Vista Ultimate. All has been sweet until today.All of a sudden the front speakers have gone silent. The subwoofer and rear speakers are fine. I have a creative Xifi card. Windows reports no faults.Has anyone else experienced ...

All of a sudden my laptop's combo drive stopped working: In device manager I see: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39).The drive itself is ok ...

HiThe wheel scrolling of my laser mouse 5000 is not as smooth as previous mice (lasert 6000, Intellimouse), and it does not work in Virtual PC 2007. Any tips?The system is Vista Ultimate 64bit, Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 and Wireless Keyboard 5000, MS ...

I have an older Samsung phone (an SPH I330) with a built in PDA using Palm OS. I've synched it with XP for years. It installs in a cradle and has a USB connection to the PC. I got a new computer with Vista, and this phone will not sync. In Vista's Device Manager, there is a ...

Recently purchase a Windows Vista home premium laptop. I can't see the other devices on my home network (PC, Printers). I brought my laptop into my home network workgroup. I h ...

Whenever open any program, the screen saying configuring office 2003 pop up. I tried to reinstall with "complete installtion", then later, "custom installtion& ...

I got it all set up and ready to burn. But when i click burn it encodes to about .1% and then gives me an error that say "Cannot create the DVD" and the ...

HiRunning Vista Ultimate 32bit.As far as I can see, there exists a number of folders on my computer which I as administrator do not have permission/ownership of sufficient to open ...

I have attempted to install the beta 158 drivers. When I get to the "enable SLI button and click on it"I am transported back to my desktop and the existing Nvidia drivers for the two 7800GTX cards show that: 7.15.11.5818 drivers are in fact install ...

I have my Windows Mail options,advanced,maintenace set to empty the Deleted Items folder on exit and it doesn't empty on exiting. ...

Hi all when i try to send or fwd a post to a person in the address fiel y pres first letter thus a lot of address beginning with that letters appears(wel that mean that indexing is running ok but if i choose the adequate address, in the field send to it appears twice ...

I'm having a problem with the Views Bar when I go into "View Layout" and uncheck the Views Bar. It will remove the "Show All Messages" bar on the right side of the toolbar. But, the next time I boot pc the "show all Messages" bar is back.I'm ...

Not able to view own reply news messages in thread. I can view all others reply messages, and the arrow is purple not blue. ...

iT LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY PEOPLE WE CAN EMAIL IS OUR LITTLE SCREWED UP COMMUNITY MICROSOFT PLEASE I WANT XP I DID NOT PURCHASE MY COMPUTER SO I CAN SIT FOR HOURS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT AN IMAP IS AND WHY IT CANT SEND ...

Can somebody please explain to me why Vista Ultimate won't let me delete some folders? The folders are definately not in use, but I keep getting the UAC confirm dialogue (wh ...

Vista premium when I print a web page everything prints so small I cannot read it? ...

Hi,I have vista and wmp11. exampe : i added the video folder. How do I get the subfolders contents to be added to the libray also. Thanks in advance. ...

All of a sudden my Vista PC will not show the video portion of avi or mpeg files. Audio yes but no video.All was fine until two or three days ago.Have been using VLC Video player to watch files and it still works on my other home PC which is Win XP so the ...

At startup, WMP 11 opens to "songs." Any way to change this to, say, genre or artists? piaqt ...

Hi there, I have some great music performance footage on video. I want to add some new footage over the audio but cannot seem to do it. In essence I want to utlise the audio track with some of the origional footage but insert ...

Hi all,am I the only one with this issue? The Games and Contacts folder for instance. The games and contact folder both start out with the preview pane enabled. After a while the preview pane in Contacts ...

So, my Vista still goes nuts on harddrive. I finally found that the defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a neverending fashion. It seem ...

My Vista does not recognise a card reader and I have followed all the instructions so far with little success. At the moment I HATE vista and seriously trading my PC in for XP or an Apple Mac. I am frustrated by the lack of compaibility of Panasonic cameras depsite ...

Every time I play a game, my computer needs to change resolution. Upon exiting the program, the window resizes, but any Gadgets i have floating around (not on the sidebar a ...

I have a Canon Multipass C75 multifunction printer. The guys at Canon have not come up with drivers for windows vista and I don't think they ever will. Can somebody tell me what is the probability th ...

When i close my file i get an error "ADAPTIVE SERVER ANYWHERE DATABASE ENGINE HAS STOPPED WORKING".It doesn't seem to cause any major problems yet it just slows things down before i can move on to my next task. Any ideas ...

Recently installed Vista. After each boot I am losing the personalized appearance settings that were set before I shut down. Examples: fonts, colors of messa ...

I have installed the vista home premium on my acer 5630 laptop but when i shut down using the pwer button from the windows logo and i press the power button to resume windows i get an message saying "windows error recover" and then a message f ...

Do anybody know where i can find drivers for my philips dvd RW (SPD2411BD/00) for Windows vista. I can´t upgrade to windows vista before i get this drivers. There are no ...

I currently have a C drive with a dual boot, managed by LILO, that boots either Linux or XP. I have added a second hard drive (G drive), and that 's where I want to put V ...

I bought Vista Home Premium and decided to go to Ultimate. I used the Anytime Upgrade disc to do that. Windows crashes about once a day (blue screen hell). Also, email stopped workin ...

I have a dimension e520 that came with one 300 gig hard drive with raid enabled. If I disable raid in the bios will I it screw up my current vista installation? I would like to add another hard disk and I want to install winxp on it and ...

All our pics. in Windows Gallery appear squashed and stretched !! ( everyone looks fatter than they really are ! ) I have a new PC with a wide screen monitor ( Vista Premium ) and I wonder if it is the wide screen monitor that is causing the problem ? I can't find ...

I am trying to run itunes and I get an error about my VBScript being disabled or blocked by a firewall. Please help ...

Not initially knowing how to make a playlist, I used too many CD's to records. Can anyone tell me how I can erase stuff off a cd ...

Hello, need some help please...accessing the internet using a wireless connection for a Dell Vista laptop was working fine until a power failure, I then lost my internet connection through IE. I can ping to another ...

I have an nforce 570 sli mobo, in xp i can enable network teaming using the nvidia drivers, but can't seem to be able to do it under vista 64 bit home premiumi can bridge the adapters using windows, but would rather get teaming working properly, does anyone know how to get this work ...

I am seeing some weird behavior whenever I am booting or shutting down Vista Ultimate. Every time I do this, my router (SMC Barricade 7004VWBR) is rebooting. My Vista machine has an ABIT AB9Pro MB with ...

Having just installed VMWare 6 onto Vista Ultimate and find that my LAN connection takes a lot longer to connect at bootup (probably due to the virtual connections from VMWare). I find that AVG and GMail Notifier both fail because t ...

I have Bitlocker enabled on my TPM laptop. It works great. My question is : Can I now enable a PIN in addition to the TPM? I have found how to turn it on via gpedit.mscIf I turn the adv ...

My new laptop (running Vista Home Basic) came with a HD partition 40GB for "OS C:/" and 10GB for "Recovery D:/". I am looking to make the best use of this space, but cannot seem to find any way to give ...

I just purchased Vista Business and set up two users with passwords. I then transferred files from my desktop machine to the new laptop. Apparently everything transferred fine. However, when I went to reboot and was asked for a password, none of the passwords I ...

In classic Vista logon screen, above the username/password input, there's an empty box where a picture/image is suppose to go, any idea how to set an image in there?? Thanks in advance! ...

Hi,Anyone knows how to change a normal user to a rootadmin in Vista Ultimate?Thx,Bram ...

I am the administrator and only user on my computer and i just bought the BEJEWELED 2 DELUXE game off the HP game console and after downloading it and p ...

The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'test', Account: 'mail.practicingperfectioninstitute.com', Server: 'mail.practicingperfectioninstitute.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secur ...

For no apparent reason yesterday only the Inbox opens and I can't find a way to get to any other folder Sent, Drafts etc etc. My new Dell C521came with McAfee which I deleted when the trial time expired and I have installed AVG. I have tried ...

How can I change the name that appears with the mail I send? ...

Can't send emails or delete some in my outbox. I am using windows mail amd windows vista. Please help. Matt ...

I have Windows Vista Home Premiun installed on a new rather fast computer. It shows that the processor is occupied by NMIndexStoreSVR.exe.What is the function of this process or application and how can I deinstall t ...

Has anyone tried open office for vista yet, I have a older version of Office XP (2002) PRO and Vista doesn't like Office and OE and the contact list as it will not forward a email from ...

I am Using Version 2.0 I have multiple installs ( 4 ) , one for each server . Sometimes they work , and sometimes they don't Anyone having problems with it ? ...

I bought my laptop about a month ago and it came with vista already on it. I deleted my windows calendar by accident and now I don't know how to get it back. Somehow, I delet ...

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After all the problems with Compatibility with games and hardware...another serious issue due to Vistas constraints is the All in wonder video card unable to capture under vista. Its getting to a point where your really limited to what you can do with your pc. Vista ...

Hi, I recently upgraded to Windows Vista and everything was great! However a few weeks go by and all of a sudden, my video card driver is gone. I am using an older card, so ...

Hello all,I just bought a new Dell system which came with 250GB SATA drive. I want to add my older 80GB IDE drive into the new system but the all the cables coming off the power supply look like SATA power connector.Is is possible for me to use the IDE drive in the new OptiPlex ...

I have a secondary drive from my previous pc with data I want to put on my new pc. The old system was XP Professional the new system is Vista Home Premium. I put the drive on the ide cable my dvd burner is on and set it to cable select. I could see it in the device manager, but ...

I have a Vista Business notebook with a networking problem. In the troubleshooting process I have discovered that I can "ping" other computers from it, but cannot "ping" it from any of the other PCs, even with the firewall OFF. What ...

n I am working with an hp pavilion amd turio 64 x2. I just bought the computer a couple of weeks ago. I had trend micro antivirus and webroot spysweeper installed at the store. Now my computer keeps giving me the multiple security problems alert. It s ...

Hi everybody,now I have installed additional 1024 MB of RAM to my former 512 MB, so I now have 1.5 GB RAM. But the result is disappointing: starting any applications (Excel, Word, Mail) does not show to be faster than before.Here my performance data:Processor: 3.6 RAM: 4.4 ...

Dear all,After many installation and deinstallation of software, I found out that the registry is kind of messy. I am looking for tools to clean up and remove those unwanted links safely from my Vista. Any suggestion?Also, I am not sure if the build in defrag tools is actually doing a good ...

I'm running winmail on vista but also have outlook 2003 installed. My .pst files from the old computer are on a DVD. How to get them to outlook?thanks(windows blocked popups fro ...

I have Vista Ultimate. In the Start menu, the "Recent Files" submenu always maintains over 100+ files. I can clear it out and within about a day or so, the number is ...

If I try to create a 'Complete PC Backup' or 'Create backup copies of your files and folders' in Windows Vista ( Business ), I receive an error message ........'Ins ...

Hi,I only activated Vista Ultimate (OEM) yesterday and my Computer is already in a mess Software problems and System Restore not working!Can I uninstall/reformat & reactivate (no hardware changes) as I'd like a fresh start. Regards, Mike ...

macobserver.com/article/2007/05/14.9.shtmlA company that took its time, did everything right, and migrated to Vista recounted the full horror of the experience. According to their account, company employees found Vista to be slow, Explorer to be problematic, and ...

in same way than his litle brother XP , i couldn't see nothing about that pls don't tell about System Restore or restoring Backup just only repair if not possible why not?? SaludosAntonio ...

i just bought a new laptop with windows vista there is a partition on the harddrive called healthy (EISA configuration). the shop i bought the laptop from told me that it is just for the system back up disc and once a created the system restore diac i could delete the ...

In XP you could setup a number of option on you right mouse click to open a particular file type. It use to be in explorer underTool>>folder options>>file typesselect the desired file type and setup the new operation.Files types have been removed from the folder ...

Hello,I work in an IT department and we recently received our first Vista machine the other day. Part of our setup procedure is to create a baseline user account on each machine we setup that has the desktop, folder views and application configurations al ...

Clean install of Vista Business and after two days I've noticed that the recently opened programs list in the Start Menu stopped opening programs that the "Target" field isn't populated with a path to the execatuble. Sec ...

Hello all,I always start task manager at system startup so that it runs minimized. It used to display an icon indicating CPU usage in the systray. This icon has recently disappeared and I can find no wa ...

Windows Media player won't open, I click the shortcut and nothing. I try clicking wmplayer.exe directly and nothing happens. wmplayer.exe and wmp.dll file versions are 11.0.6000.6324.I've run "sfc /scannow". I haven't installed any new software, except using portab ...

The 2007 Office has been added to each new Vista computer as a trial version. I have Office 2003 working fine, except that I have to accept or decline the aggreement every time I open it. That i ...

Hello Everyone again!I have recieved some word documents via attachments that will not open when I try to do so.I have to set a file association and this I have done but I still cannot open Microsoft word documents from within windows mail. I ...

I've tried several times to download lame mp3. it seems that my download goes ok but when I try to unzip the files... my computer says there is nothing in the file. ...

Hi,I have a Vista business machine with Pinicle Studio 10 installed. When I try to capture any video from the DV source Pinicle crashes. If I try this using Windows Movie maker, it crashes.I don't seem to be able to find a solution.I can capture ...

The weather service always displays service not available on my computer ever since I installed Vista. Later on I figured out that it is because I set the Nonunicode display encoding to Chinese. Even though I set the locati ...

How does one Pin a document to the Start Menu? For Instance: wordpad.exe c:\mydocument.txt. I can create the shortcut on the desktop and select Pin to Start Menu but when I delete it from the desktop Vista can't find it, obviously, because I deleted from the desktop.Any help ...

Hi, Can someone please tell me how to JumpStart the reliability monitor back up ? It stopped working about a month after installationOr. ...

how can i get rid of the start menu scroll programs without going back to classic view? i want to not scroll the programs but i also want the extra column of documents, computer, control panel ...

I connect the camera via USB and computer doesn't seem to find the camera. Vista installs some driver of it's own and doesn't let me install Panasonic driver. As a result, i can't ca ...

I want to experiment with Vista on my XP (current C: drive) computer. I am using Acronis to make a partition for Vista. After experimenting with Vista I want to be able to delete either the XP or Vista drive. If I elect to get rid of ...

I have two cards set up in SLI mode and I am trying to update the drivers, I have the Vista drivers from Nvidia. When I try to install them Vista tells me that access is denied. I am the only user on this machine under Admin. Could ...

Everytime I shut down or reboot my system, my drivers for my hardware reinstalls!? This includes my sound card, TV card, and keyboard. The most frustrating is when I start Windows ...

i have a dscp200 camera from sony. on their website they say it is compatible with vista and yet when i plug it in, it can't find drivers. there are none on sonys website. ...

I just ordered a new Tablet that comes with Vista Business. I'd like to upgrade to Ultimate so I can use Bitlocker. I have a FPPRetail version of Vista Ultimate. Can I use that to upgrade? Will ...

i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give me any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering if i can downloa ...

Anyone care to recommend a very good wireless router (brand/model) to use with Vista ultimate?Thanks ...

I have just upgraded my laptop to Vista Biz and I am unable to set up my Outlook 2003 for RPC over HTTP to my Exchange Server. This same Outlook 2003 on this same machine flaw ...

i have an acer laptop with windows vista home premium connected in the internet thru a prolink ADSL modem, I am connected to the internet and can brouse all web sites but all the messenger services will not log me in. I ...

When browsing in IE7 I get a frequent popup from User Account Control. It asks for permission to install an IE addon named {BDB57FF2798B942059447F5FE85F37312}. What the heck is this? Is there any way to install it permanently so as to eliminate the message? If I can't el ...

Hi all, Ever since upgrading my laptop (a Thinkpad T60p) to Vista, I've been encountering a vexing problem. As often as not, when returning from sleep or hibernate, it hangs on a screen stating things to the effect of "Locking your computer..." Sometimes ...

Ok so i JUST got a vista. TODAY. We had the guy at circut city install software so he made a normal account without a password, with the name Richard.i went and changed the name to Keech, admin with password. vista logon says it thinks its keech, but the fold ...

Occasionally, after I log on as Admin and Vista finishes booting up, I cannot open the Control Panel and a few other items. After looking in the Events log, I noticed that Windows had logged me off after bootup, thus not ...

It's nice to sometimes get answers from the 'horse's mouth'!! Mike Matheny ...

My windows mail is very slow at the moment. I can still send and receive, but it takes for ages. Also when i try to read any mail, or delete, i get the same. As the messages are deleted, there see ...

I cannot get Windows Mail (WMail) to stay the default email program. When I start WMail I am told that it is not the default email program, so I click Yes to make it the default progr ...

I had 2 critical emails that went into the junk email folder, when I selected the email and clicked Not Junk, they disappeared. I have checked all of my folders these messages are just go ...

I'm using my brand new PC with Vista Ultimate to access mail and news. Evrything is OK except to access secured (SSL, port 563) news server. When Windos :ail try t ...

Can you please let us know as how to import internet account from outlook express. The present server i am using is Microsoft Exchange ServerThanks S Sharda ...

just got the new computer and can't find how to remove the preview pane in my inbox. vista. all help will be greatly appreciated. ...

with Windows Mail,not an improvement on Outlook Express at all, the autocomplete feature is supposed to be activated after you send an email to the same address 34 times. This doesn't generally happen, and then sometimes it does. With Outlook Express it h ...

for some reason since I installed Vista on my laptop, everytime I have successfully logged into the system I have to use the Task manager and use the New task function to start "explorer.exe" otherwise the screen in blank with nothing on it. It seems that windows isn't automatic ...

Is there a way to view thumbnails of the fax pages in a separate pane? This would give the user a quick overview of the whole fax and hopefully allow us to move, edit, annotate, or delete individual pages? ...

I have an odd problem and I cannot find an answer to it.I cannot add my network printer (Samsung CLP510N) which is connected to the network (by ethern ...

I just noticed a strange problem.... if I move the "Documents" folder on my Vista machine to point to my network home directory, it renames my home directory on the server to "Documents" at least it appears to.Once I start navigat ...

My cap lock/num lock icons have disappeared from the notification area/sys tray but they are 'enabled' in the options and set to display always; but they dont.Any ideas how to fix this?ThanksVisintini ...

well i bought a computer that already had vista on it and the guy in the shop said that i had to put vista on a dvdr to make sure i could reinstall it when something went wrong but i have no idea how to do this can anyone hel ...

How can Vista be speeded up for use on an old computer?Are there things that can be turned off and which make a lot of difference? Chris ...

i have vista home prem. installed my office xp small business version 2002 works fine for a while then word documents that I add content to and click 'save' start to clos ...

I am running Vista on a Toshiba laptop and often get the toolbar at the bottom moving from the bottom left to the right. The toolbar becomes unclear unless the cursor is over it. Sometimes the ic ...

Does anyone know when Vista SP1 is released? ...

Hi can anyone help me. I have just upgraded to windows vista home premium 32 bit. upgrading from windows xp media. When I click on internet explorer it keep saing that internet explorer has stopped working. I have tryed to reset internet explorer, and right clicked on internet explorer ...

HI Am running a very sad game Ricochet recharged Lost worlds that has the ability to add other enthusiasts games but it won't run on Vista. Has been suggested that Vista can be 'tweaked' to let games run in Windows XP mode any ideas how this can be done please.Man ...

I am running out of space on primary HD with Vista installed. I'd like to replace the HD with bigger one. My question is:I want to move all the system and data files on the old HD. I will ...

Hi again folks,Just dropping a little followup to the last post due to to some new items that crept up in doing this on the Presario v6310us....For one, the DVD/RW on this syst ...

Last night I dreamed that the Real World had adopted the "Unix Philosophy."I went to a fastfood place for lunch. When I arrived, I found that the menu had been taken down, and all the employees were standing in a line ...

I have Vista Ultimate with 2 hard drives which have two partitions in each drive. What is the best way to backup the data in one drive (not the C:\) to another partition on the second drive? This way I have two set ...

I have downloaded Nero and confirm that version Nero7.9.6.0_eng_update.exe works fine under Vista Home Premium as reported on this NG recently.I have downloaded a who ...

I am running Easy Transfer to send files from an XP machine to a Vista Machine. I am only sending the my documents, pictures, and My Music folders, but there are about 20 gigs of files involved. I started running the proce ...

I keep getting these messages that say stopped working and was closed.Microsoft internet explorer,microsoft console based script host,spooler subsystem app,windows live messenger,ready boost,microsoft windowbased script host,I don't even know what most of these are. I j ...

Yes, I'm back here again tryiong to figure out how to play a goddamn VOB file on my PC. A task that was *simple* with XP is now tremendously complex (if not downright impossible) with Vista. It must be the DRM crap.I've given up. Microsoft has won. I have reached the point w ...

Microsoft How do I shut up the Narrator, and preventit from openeing every time I access my computer? ...

Hi allmy Vista Photo Gallery does not add folders, it says the folder is a system folder or hidden. It does so from any folder, the "Pictures" folder or any other I create. Any ideas?Bruno ...

If I click on Disk Cleanup I am told (after jumping through a few hoops) that there is nothing to delete, 0 bytes.When I click on the Recycle Bin itself I see Folders and Files as though I'm looking at Start \ ...

I just bought a new Vista lappy and plugged in an external drive w/ 200GB of photos and music. Media Center asked me if I wanted to import these files and I said yes. Now my poor lappy has no disk space left. Can I undo this import ? Does MC actually copy the files or just th ...

Does anyone know where I can get the USB drivers to have my Sony Digital Video Camera DCRTRV140 compatible with Vista? ...

after installing opera originally, it had file associations for .mht and ..mhtml files. the association then dissappeared. i tried reassociating those extensions, but vista would not let me. i tried ...

I am running vista ultimate. I have three hard drives. When I defrag does it just do the C drive or all of them. If not all, how can I set it up to do this. Thanks, Maryann ...

Hi, I have Vista Home Premium. Is there a way to set a default dirctory for Explorer (or Computer). When I bring up Explorer I want to be in a selected <user N ...

I have buy in hmv some music but when i try to download, a message pops up saying: 'Background Intelligent Transfer Server could not be started, it may be disabled' It suggests going into start, what i can