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i have found a bug in Vista related with UAC setting.there are two ways to turn on UAC setting: 1. from user accounts in Control Panel 2. from windows security centerthe first on ...

well BF2 dosent work for me...so i guess i need a list of what works and want dosent! ...

I have been playing games on Vista with only a slight performance hit, but in Warcraft 3 TFT, I had an issue one time where the game simply closed without warning. I assu ...

I just bought Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit OEM with my computer and I can download and install BitLocker and EFS enhancements properly. But when I use the ...

Hi,I have searched and read through the "cannot open attachment" issues already here (to date), I would like to give this a "new try".I have a brand new HP Pavillion DV9225 laptop ...

I do not have the function, which worked fine in Outlook Express, to allow Windows Mail to "Send Messages Immediately". Yes, the option IS checked on the Tools/Options/Send page.If I answer a question in a newsgroup and press the send button, the mess ...

When I try to email a web page as a page or as a link in Vista those options a grayed out (not offered). Is there something that has to be reset to do this? AuxCox, Beverly, MA ...

I am using windows live mail.I get a white box with red x in the upper left corner of emails and also webpages.How do I fix this?I am running Vista. ...

When I look at my system information, it shows that my Windows Experence Index Rating is Unrated, so when I click on this link it takes me to the Speed and Performance Information page. and says "Rate and Improve your computer's perfomance" Last rating 08/02/2007 13:06:19. bu ...

Why does this keep happening? It seems not a week goes by without having to do the ritual. They are even on my favourites list! HELP ...

I have small wireless network. i have installed HP laser jet 1020 on winxp (USB). I have shared this on network . When i try to install this printer on my windows vista which is on ...

I'm finding it impossible to get the suppposedly Vistacompatible driver downloaded for a new Epson Perfection 4490 scanner to work. Nor is Epson support (I contacted them by phone) able to solve the problem they vaguely blame a "bug" ...

Whenever I try to set up a sync partnership by using Sync Center with my USB memory pen, it always try to use Windows Media Player. I don't want to sync music and videos, which is what it is tryi ...

I consider upgrading my processor from D820 to E6600. How much improvement (percent) I would see? ...

I just installed Vista Basic on my laptop. I use my laptop for film class. When i try to open Movie maker I get a error message:Windows Moive Maker cannot start because you video card does not support the required level hardware acceleration or hardware acceleration is not available. I used t ...

I have installed Office 2003 and BCM on Vista . When I try and access the BCM database which is held on a separate XP Pro machine the Vista machine cannot access the database. Both firewalls are off. The Vista machine can see the XP machine and can explore freely. A se ...

Ok, I just upgraded from XP to vista. my question is where are the programs that came with the computer. For instance my computer came with microsoft works and quicken.They are not listed in the progra ...

My clean Vista install has to Pictures folders.Which is the one Microsoft intended for me to use?C:\Users\myname\Documents\picturesorC:\users\myname\pictures I would prefer if all my data, including pictures, shortcuts, etc, were under "Documents, that way I know w ...

I am writer and I have been happily using the Search function in Windows XP to find every instance of say the name "Jacob Riis" in my hundreds of WORD 2002 ...

Bonjour, A chaque fois que je démarre mon ordinateur, j'ai le message suivant : BOOT MGR absent. CTRL + ALT + SUPPR Si je met mon logiciel VISTA Edition Intégral dans mon lecteur de CD et que je redémarre mon ordi. Tout fonctionne normalement. Si l'enlève et je redémarre l'ordi, il me remet ...

I purchased a new laptop that comes with Windows Vista and, after setting it up, I installed a printer software and my camera software. Apparently both are not compatible with Vi ...

Hi To All,Im a bit stuck, when i was receiving emails with hyperlinks in them I used to be able to click on them and they would load instantly in Internet Explorer which is the way I would like it. Up until a few days ago the links would load fine, but now I rece ...

When I try to play a DVD in Vista I get a message that Windows Media Player can't play it and I might need to adjust my Windows display settings. I' ...

Sorry if the way I structured this thread is wrong but I encounter one major problems when installing Windows Vista.The version of Windows Vista is Home Premium x86.The installa ...

In trying to get a program to work correctly I checked the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox in Properties>Compatibility. Since this didn't solve the problem I now want ...

if anyone has any advice please share. when i try to scroll down using the scroll sliders to the right of the boxes, the window invariably maximizes or minimizes. then, getting the window to return to normal size is ...

I am currently awaiting my vista upgrade, haven't decided if I will install it yet, but have one question. I have Windows Media at present and I really love the aquarium screen saver that came with it, will this still be available if I upgrade or does Vist ...

I'm looking to buy a really good motherboard for Windows Vista Ultimate. It will be Intel cpu based on Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad in future maybe. Needs Raid 0 sata and sata for backup hard drives. Needs regular IDE as well for my ...

Very strange, suddenly sound is not working on my creative usb audigy 2nx. I looked in device manager and somehow the default vista driver for my creative (something like 'soundblaster audigy...') sudd ...

I'm trying to help someone with a small PC network that purchased a few new Gateway machines with Vista Ultimate Edition.They have a few Windows XP Professional machines, ...

Hi,I've got a couple of hundred video clips that I'd like to sort in "date taken" order within Windows MovieMaker. The problem is the "date taken" ...

Hi there,in windows xp it was possible through the properties dialogbox to change the physical location of the my documents directory. In Vista there is ...

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if i have already installed vista home premium on my system, and im having problems can i reinstall the same disk and use the same id number? on the same system ...

I put a monopoly cdrom in the top tray and all i get on screen is sound effects from the game.I clicked on "start", then "control panel" then "hardware and sound" and then "play cd's or other media autmatically" and ...

I installed Vista with the upgrade Advisor and did what it said. It installed without a problem. Vista accepted all hardware except the Lexmark Printer. Went ...

Does Vista have the ability to search file contents.i.e. will vista find all the files than contain a particular character string? Michael Chare ...

I have vista windows and im sorry to say i dont care for it at all. I try to download or install programs and all the time it says the same thing no digital signature. Why is this windows so hard to use?? Never had any issues with any windows ...

Hi forum,I saw a lot of troubles on this forum but couldn´t solved up till now.Vista to old PC is working fine.In the old PC the Vista is visible but when trying to access it is denied as not allowed access.I was reading th ...

I love Vista, but... without NLA support for RDC in WinXP clients, is not a good choice to help companies to migrate. We need a solution asap. I know the effort from MS building a goog vista OS.Thank you very much beforehand. Trying to secure Windows World ...

Hello, I have an issue with a new domain setup. New Server 2003 R2 AD server, basic install, default settings. Two new Vista Business Ed boxes. We have an application that needs the Privilege Level Run as Administrator checked (according to the applic ...

The online help explaining Event Log warning & errors in Vista is NOT working. I click on Event Log Online and nothing happens. This would be a big improvement fixing errors if it works, does anyone know how or when this wi ...

Hi, I created several rules but the mails I receive from (Yahoo) mailing lists still do NOT get moved to the specific folders. I put the mailing list addresses in the "from ...

still need helpi still cannot work out my email server pop3 or smtp, i know some of you have told me to look up my isp but im not sure if i have one? as i am using a router to gain internet access off the families main pc, as you pro's know once my main pc and router are switched off, i ca ...

Test... My posts aren't showing up in newsgroups. Dustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com vistarip.com ...

HiI have a problem with Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Vista.When I attempt to run it, I get a message saying: Windows Media Player has stopped working. When this message pops I c ...

I bought the retail Vista Ultimate box from Best Buy. What I've noticed is that they put a clear "semicircle" seal at the top of the packaging right where the Cert ...

Anyone know why I get this random window that pops up? And I can only close it with my task manager. It will open whether or not I'm connected to the internet.running Vista, IE7 on a HP Pavilion dv 6200 CTP Notebook/one other post on 2/28 with same question and no response. ...

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and I am getting the following error while trying to run the Group Policy Editor:"The following error occured in C:\Windows\inf\AER_2068.ADM on line 30: Error 64 Help String specified more than once The file can not be loaded"How can this be fix ...

I have a brand new HP Pavillion Media Center PC that came with Vista home premium. If I Replace Vista with XP will I still be able to use the features of ...

Thought I'd post THIS with the subject header. I found this solution in several threads that weren't as simply labled. Uninstall your flash playerscroll to the bottom of the page for the uninstaller adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html Run the uninstaller. Go to any site that ...

I have been using Vista RC2 on my PC. Bought a (new) used MB and Video card that were more compatible with Vista. After installing Vista RC2 on this new hardware configuration, I was pleased that the Vista rating was 4. ...

Help! I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Home Premium and I am unable to run several applications I need for work. Vista will not register a dao350.dll file that is a workhorse for several not in print indu ...

keep getting problem since loadin Vista the following fault, update manager an error accurred error # 5 visit consumer.install.shield.com for mor info ...

We just got our computer and thought our email was all set up for us when the Geek Squad guy was here. But I open the "Windows Mail" and there is nothing there. I know people have sent us email but there is nothing there. Do we have to do more setting up or somethin ...

When I try to release IPConfig by using ipconfig/release I receive this message: The requested operation require elevation. How can I resolve this issue and what is elevation? I am using Windows Vista Ultimate ...

Hi all! I just updated my Vista, home made, PC from an Athlon 64 3500+ single core chip to an Athlon 64 3800 X2 to take advantage of multi processing in Vista. Here is the problem. When I ran the benchmarks, Vista is performing terribly. I went from about 12,500 to abo ...

In the Event Viewer I've a lot of errors about "Event ID 6003 winlogon" from 30 January to 28 March (I performed a clean installation on 30 January). Is it a bug? Do you have these event id 6003 winlogon errors into Ev ...

Can I make the files in a folder be arranged by name but also subdivided by groups?Thanx ...

I went to the time settings and set up for Internet Time Sync but it says it is set but the Windows Time Service is not running to start it. I tried to start it bu ...

Anyone else having this problem? jf ...

I have a external HD adapter with a XP HD in it attached to a new vista utl laptop.When I try and copy the files over it says i dont have the correct rights to the source drive..I do I copy this info over ? I am just looking to get th ...

I would like to use my msn email account with vista version of windows mail.I can't do it apperantly... it's frustratingIs there a free email I can get that'll let me use windows ma ...

Hello on the first disk is XP installed, on second vista. That means vistas directory boot is on the xp drive Now I do not want to see the XP disk in vista therefore I try to delete the driveletter d: ...

hi i am having trouble downloading windows live onto my new laptop... can anyone give me and suggestions? ...

can anyone tell me why when I use Windows help I do not get the little picture usually at the start of an explaination. eg if it mentions Windows logo key I don't get a picture of it. ...

Hi guys,I had a hard time recently to get a network printer installed on my Vista 32. A newsgroup said I had to enable this UAC thing back on in order Vista would ask me either I want to allow driver install or not. So I did it, installed m ...

I have been using Vista for several weeks and it worked fine.I downloaded MS Save as PDF and installed it. I then uninstalled Adobe Acrobat 6.0. The computer rebooted and now Vista ...

I had to reinstall Vista. I already had it activated. Now that I reinstalled it, will the second activation fail ?When I had Win XP, I had to call India. and read them a bunch of numbers, and I had to explai ...

After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post. I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista. Wait out the t ...

Hello,I have the following problem, and is't nasty:In Explorer I cannot select more than one file or folder at a time, not using the mouse drag options, no ...

Dear Al,I seem to have lostthe recycle Bin from my desktop (Vista) Anyone have any ideas how I can get it back.Any help id very appreciated.Regards ...

After '_my_troubles_' (tinyurl.com/229a2r) with Vista, I decided I wanted refund.I phoned Microsoft's refund line at *18886738624*Here is the conversation (from Memory) I got the feeling from listening to the guy's voice that I was the 263rd pers ...

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After setting the personalization to account for two monitors with the secondary monitor placed to the left of the primary display and saving this setting when the PC times to a lock ...

How painless is the process of upgrading a Vista Home machine to Vista Business? Most of the walkin office supply stores sell notebooks with a Home version, but i need Business due to the remote desktop functionality. Any issues doing this? ...

DEP keeps shutting Internet Explorer down. Here's the "problem signature". Anything I can do to make it stop? I've tried truning it "off". IE is all it ...

Hey, is it just me or is the hour hand on all the analog sidebar clocks too big? It is just ever so slightly smaller than the minute hand certainly not the way I've seen every other clock I have ...

Hello!I have some DivX videos here. Some of them are shown upside down in the preview of DVD Maker (but not in the selection window). I wonder why this is and how to prevent this. Does anyone know of this problem?Kind regard! sap ...

Hello!I need to restart the "Windows Audio Service" (audiosrv) via C#. I'm using the ServiceController Class to do this. It is no problem under XP and no problem under vista if UAC is disabled. But with enabled UAC i'm getting a &q ...

I can not set up my email who is my incomeing pop3, or IMAP incomming server or my outgoing email server SMPT ...

can anyone help i cannot send or recieve attachments by email i m running vista home premium with Mcafee security center ...

Dear all, I am using WinMail developing, and when I call IStoreFolder::GetMessageProps, it always return an error code 800C013E. The source code is in the following: IStoreFolder *pSF_; ... if(pSF_ == NULL) { return NULL; } //pSF_ is va ...

deleted some emails but where is the undelete button under edit? i only have a delete button. i need to put them back in my inbox. help...before all deleted email is automatically wiped out. thank u, c fos ...

I have the Vista Home Premium. When I go to the "Control Panel...System and Maintenance...System" and click on the "System protection" Task, at the bottom of the System Protection window it says "Restore point creatio ...

in Performance Information and Tools all the ratings (vpu, memory,...) are gone and i don't know why it is just a blanck page under last rating and nothi ...

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Is there a way of saving the size of a window displaying a folder? I've tried most combinations of [key]+close, but can't get it to stay. Nigel M ...

Ok I couldn't find this anywhere so I'm going to ask.I installed Windows Easy Transfer on my XP machine and transferred files to my new Vista box (just files, not settings). My licensed music that I downloaded from Zune and W ...

I use IE7 on my XP Pro laptop, and of course, on my Vista Home Premium. When I use www.Alaskaair.com on XP, I immediately get a screen that offers to make a reservation. On Vista, I just get a few lines of titles. How can I trust Vista? What else does it leave out? ...

I am having a big network problem on my Vista computer. I just upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium from XP. I can access the network but I can't access the Internet (I'm using the Internet on my XP computer to post this). First, when I checked the Network & ...

Hi, i have been playing stalker on Vista64 with a few details turned down, thought i would install xp on a spare hard drive and try stalker on that!!!, wow what ...

Hi,I like Vista. I did a clean install of XP and then upgraded to Vista Business. Unfortunately, it is going to cost me another $2000 in software upgrades to be able to use it in my ...

Hello.Does Vista support Parallel Printing?Thanks ...

I'm regularly getting a BSOD when trying to convert video in Mainconcept, the weird thing is that it runs ok for about 67 mins then all of a sudden kicks out. I've had a temperature monitor running and none them really go up much, certainly not enough for that to ...

I currently have a sysprep'd Vista image sealed using sysprep /generalize /oobe /unattend:myfile.xmlThis image works fine if I deploy it onto Dell Latitude D820 (reference system it was built from), IBM Thinkpad G41, and IBM Thinkpad T60.When deploying to a Thinkpad T40 and T42 it simply ha ...

Help Required!I acquired a new computer a couple of months ago complete with Vista.........and it's been a complete headache ever since! Nothing is compatible with it, I receive driver errors all the time and now to top it all off I appear to be unable to receive Windows Defender Updates! I'v ...

I have been getting this message a lot on windows vista. I notice that it pops up at any given time. I have not been able to effectively determine what it causing it. I ...

Operating System: Windows Vistaâ„¢ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.0611012205) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name ...

I have no problem creating shadow copies for System Restore points that go back several weeks. It is turned on for all for all my hard drives.I also perform regular file backup ...

Please sign this petition online as HP ought to release drivers for these vista capable PCs.petitiononline.com/HPAudio/petition.htmlUntil then you'll have t ...

Any of you Vista Owners want to write about the new Hardware in your system ? If so please read the post in the VRG forum.Cheers drivers.vistareadygames.com/ www.VistaReadyGames.co ...

I am running Vista 64bit with 4GB of RAM. For no apparent reason, my computer fills up my entire 4GB of physical memory cache to 100%. Whenever I boot up my computer, it starts at about 30%...then steadily starts increasing up to 100%. It en ...

I installed Vista Business on Monday and I am running as a Standard user (I knoiw the admin username and password). I painstakingly personalized my desktop over the last couple of days and had to reboot today bec ...

Hello, Just purchased a new desk top from Future Shop with Vista Home Premium preinstalled and was not supplied with a recovery disc, as I understand is the norm these days. When first starting the comp ...

Hello! I have been trying to install Windows Vista for the past couple of days.Problem: When trying to install Windows Vista, the installation goes through the copying and expan ...

....I do NOT get to this window anywhere... I can't GET to share with my wifeI also renamed my computer RODand now I have Rod and RODS on my network RODS has nothing in it, cant be found, but is ...

For some reason when I got vista no all of a sudden my internet isnt letting me pay stuff thats on ebay. or when im on a messageboard. its like it take for ever to load. then ...

Please help me. I purchased pc in Jan 07 with Live One care. Kept receiving notices that I needed to resubscribe. I did, now my status is at risk. Had tech support work on it today, he said I had corrupt files ...

I am using the same email address, however I read my mail from two different homes. When I read my mail from one home, my server delete's it at once, I know there is a button somewhere ...

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I have been tring to send and receive mail got as far as connected and this pops up. Can someone help me. Account: 'pop3.email.msn.com', Server: 'pop3. ...

I've set up my mail in windows vista and I get some mail and not other mail??? I can't figure it out. It seems when people "reply" to my m ...

Is there a good tool to do a complete backup of your XP settings, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer ect ect.. and even personal files,( which I could easily just do manually.) I've used some third party software when moving from one xp machine to another.. ...

Hi all, I am running Vista and office 2007. Whenever i receive an email and do a "save as" and try to add anything to the file name it always saves off the file as some unknown extension. For instance I hav ...

When I installed Vista, it recognized my network adapter and network without any problems. But a few days back, I tried installing Nortel VPN client (meant for XP) and had no luck making it work on Vista. So I tried to uninstall it but had errors uninstalling it. I then decided t ...

I use a DOS program that I wrote years ago by using this 2 line .BAT file on my XP Pro laptop. When my program writes to LPT1: I get a small window that asks me to enter a file name to write to. NET USE LPT1: \\Pc29667308701 ...

How do I show cookie files in a user account. My default shows empty.Thanks ...

My wife just got a new HP laptop that has Vista Home Premium edition installed, and she is having trouble connecting to her work machine (running XP Professional) with remote desktop. She regularly makes this connection from another XP lapt ...

Once I set the columns to display in Windows Explorer for a certain folder, is there a way to propogate those columns so that all folders will show only those columns? From the Tools | View tab men ...

I have two Vista PCs at home that run Media Center (one Home Premium and one Ultimate).I would like to share the recorded TV shows between these computers without physically transporting the files on DVD/RW.Is there an easy way for Media Center PCs to talk to one another?Cheers.Bobby ...

Hi. My media player 11 on my 64bit Vista machine crashes whenever attempting to open a .wmv file. Mp3 files seem to play fine. all microsoft demos and webcast recordings are .wmv files. I have an alternate player, but I am fully updated and feel i should be able to get media play ...

Using Vista Ultimate Explorer 7 has crashing when I try to send email from my company's email website. The problem started by not allowing me to enter text in the message field and now has mo ...

As the title says,i listed my brand new vista home premium disk (express upgrade from moduslink) as i had already bought a new version . They contacted ebay and said the list ...

I have a PC dual booting from two drives set up as a single disc using raid.I have 3 partitions set on the drive, the 1st and largest with XP, the 2n ...

My motherboard has Realtec AC'97 Audio on board. I downloaded and installed the Vista drivers for it. However it doesn't show up in play properties. It does show up in recording devices as "unavailable" and if you click on ...

After using WDS on my XP I got quite spoiled searchinh instantly from the searchfield on the taskbar.BUT on Vista when I want to search from the Startbutton searchfield I ...

yea, it's that time again... MVP's in training... a primer (revised) apologies in advance to the few MVP's who really ARE worth their weight, you know who yo ...

Windows Vista reduce reboot or prevent reboots after Windows Update is installed. During Windows Vista Beta in 2005 i remember them talking about how Windows Vista will prevent or will reduce reboot because it has a new feature called restart manager ...

hi,i'm using vista ultimate,i'm unable to locate streaming movie clip from temp or temporary internet files after streaming ends....where actually the movie clips is located....thanks ...

Does any version of Vista support this like Windows 2003? I was hoping to mirror drives in software instead of buying a raid card. ...

First of all the Advanced backup feature found in Windows Vista Ultimate should have been included in Windows Vista Home Premium. How could a useful feature be disabled in Windows Vista Home Premium. I'm sure that everyone who ...

I got a new Toshiba laptop with Vista installed. Trying to set up the security WEP with Linksys WRT54G wireless router all is well without security. I can access the internet with no problems. But when trying to change the settings to WE ...

I am trying to sync my ipaq through windows mobile 6. I was able to then all of a sudden I started receiving sync errors. Wondows sync center was no help with just reporting that sync failed but gave now clues and cou ...

Anybody have the HP Laserjet 1022 printer working with Vista? I tried the XP drivers and they don't work and the HP site doesn't have drivers for Vista ready.The reason I'm asking is because if someone found a "workaround", then maybe it's wor ...

We have just installed a new Vista machine to our network.. It has fixed ip.. Fire wall is turned of, Defender is turned off..I can not ping the machine, and cannot find it on t ...

Hello, I am setting up multiple Laptops and have them connected to wireless. The wireless is a 3com system with open access but restricted by MAC Address. All three of the Vista (Business) machines connect to the wireless, pull an IP address, can ping ...

Hi AllI am trying to set Vista64 up to connect to my work place.In XP this is what i do: Have a VPN set up to connect to our workplace and then in my network places use search for computers and search for the serve ...

I'm using a hosted Exchange provider and have been connecting to it through Mozilla Thunderbird. Now that I'm on Vista, I decided to use Microsoft Mail. Everything is great with one exception. Microsoft mail seems to "time out" the IMAP connection and disconnects ...

Most of the links in my Programs menu are broken. They turned to blank white icons that do nothing when you click on them. How do I fix them? ...

OK I have two systems at home, 1 of which I am going to upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I just wanted to get a take on which system would be better to upgrade, and your thoughts why.System 1 is an ...

Hi,I have a Canon BJ200 (Black and White) printer.I have a driver that will run this printer under Win 3.11, Win 95, 98, and NT 3.51.Do you think this driver will run my printer under Windows Vista Home Premium.My reason for asking rthis question is that I need to buy a ne ...

I used a file yesterday, closed it, no problems.I boot up this morning and the file is missing & not in the recycle bin.My search for it didn't prove very useful.I do have an old copy, but would prefer not to recreate some of the data.Any suggestions?thnx ...

Can anybody help me with drivers for gforce 4200ti nvidia card with agp? ...

My ASUS A7S333 motherboard recognizes key presses on my Microsoft wireless USB keyboard to enter and modify the BIOS, whether the Legacy USB setting is enabled or disabled. Once the boot manager starts, (I dual boot with XP), I have to use my old legacy PS/2 keyboard to select which OS I want to ...

I purchased Ultimate and have been running the 32bit version. I just did a complete system backup and want to reinstall Vista using 64bit. I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing and want to make sure that I can reinstall a ...

I am running Vista Business. When trying to uninstall Win CE 4.2 or 6.0 it takes forever on the step "Gathering required information..." I can not wait hours just for an uninstall. Whats wrong? ...

When sending an email message in the To: box I hit the L key and a list on unwanted email address appear. How do I get rid of the unwanted address ...

OK I have Vista running through a wired router my xbox 360 is also connected to the same router. All works fine for about 6 or 7 hours then suddenly vista stops connecting despite still showi ...

Is there a way to print from MWTL? When I click Print all I get is a document saver, and, even if I say to save it, it still will not print. I have to go to my Printer in order to print anything. MWTL keeps making itself the De ...

Microsoft profits are up on sales of Vista.Read on tgdaily.com/content/view/31803/118/ ...

Why does Microsoft till have this dinosaur. Why havent they come up with a current solution to this printing delimma??? ...

Hi my name is Karen and after reading all the nasty posts regarding that Kevin guy (so sorry Kevin), I thought I would chime in. That Kevin was sure tweaked when messages were posted in ...

....I seem somehow to have turned this ON ... so old fashioned looking.... on the top of all my screens (Explorer, Control Panel etc).How can I GET RID of this toolbar please?Rgds Rod ...

Installed Vista over XP. Followed upgrade instructions and uninstalled Symantec: Norton Antivirus 2007 and several other programs. During Norton uninstall, Symantec gave me a product key (same as the one in the original Norton box) saying that the key would be required to reinstall Norton.Rei ...

Does anyone know when Microsoft will release a patch for this?My new Toshiba Satellite came with Windows Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I didn't had any problems until the second ...

Greetings. The problem is kind of annoying. If I let the monitors go to standby mode, just by leaving the computer idle, they turn off as usual; but when I m ...

I run Vista Ultimate 32bit. My computer keeps nagging me that I have devices for which I don't have drivers. I ran a system health check and it says I have 2 plug and play devices that don't have drivers. The problem is, both of them are called, "#UNKOWN#". I can't get drivers for a d ...

i was wondering if vista has builtin support for floppy drives or not. and if vista does what are the details of it are. (ex: floppy boot, floppy repair diskkets, and stuff like that.) ...

Unfortunately, I was impatient when ordering components to build a new system and intentionally bought OEM WinXP MCE with the "Express Upgrade" version of Vista, rather than wait two more weeks for ...

I have a laptop computer running windows vista and it broke down. Is there a way to deactivate windows vista and install windows vista on my desktop with the same activation key? ...

In the good old days of Outlook Express, I could block a sender in usenet groups, and the result would be that messages from them would not be shown to me. I have not figured out how to get this same be ...

New computer running Vista Home Premium and Windows Mail. Get an error that says "Bad Image" and the exeption below using Windows Mail when I open posts in a stationery Newsgroup ...

Windows Mail seems to only allow for English (US) as the spell check dictionary. There is only one "english" language option and the spelling checks are American not British. Is there a way to change the spelling dictionary? Preferably to Engli ...

Hi,short question. Is there any possibility to put Windows Mail to tray? Like the Thunderbird addon that puts the program to tray and you can see when you get emails! Thx ...

I recently bought a Dell with Vista Home Premium. When I press START (windows logo) and click on Help and Support, the Windows Help and Support screen opens but with nothing showing and I get the 2 error messa ...

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 business network and I hadn't had this problem until just a couple of weeks ag ...

I have vista home premium edition,windows media player worked for a little while, now i can not open it at all in all apllications any idea anyone ...

Hi,Weird problem, everytime that I reboot my laptop, the time is at least 4 hours late in Windows, and I did checked in the BIOS and the time is correct, what could I d ...

Hi, It's really funny, I live near the Microsoft hub in Bellevue Washington but when I tried to upgrade my Vista home premium following was the message.Thank you for your interest in Windows® Vista™. Windows Anytime Upgrade is not available in your country/region at this time. You can purcha ...

A question has arisen... I said something and he said rubbish.. Who is right? Read on...Don" Rubbish! John the West Ham fan housetrained@hotmail.com <>< So, who is right? Thanks, Don ...

I hope someone out there can help me with a permission settings problem. I, probably for the wrong reasons, was working with the propagation of permission ...

So here are my specs first: x6800 striker extreme 2 GB ram 2 8800 GTS 680w PSSo i had xp running smoothly with out a care in the world and along came vista. Now granted i dont need vista but ...

I use ASIO4ALL ver. 2 with RealTek HD Audio Drivers. The DAW I use is FL Studio 7. For some reason when I connect an analog audio input to either the linein, or mic input I can see input when I look at the Windows volume ...

Every time I shut down my computer and then start it up again Vista has to open this "Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program" to find my drivers for my sound card and my wireless ethernet card. This is the most annoying thing considering it takes like 5 minutes to find ...

There are no drivers provided for vista on the cdrom delivred with the modem. Where can I find them. I have already been looking on the thomson website, but nada!!!! ...

Trying to upgrade XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. 21% into Expanding files I received the following. "Windows installation cannot continue because a required driver could not be installed." ...

there is people that say that i can istall windows in my mac is that true? can i do that? how? ...

Hi all. I would like to know if its possible to do an online upgrade of an exisiting windows xp pc to windows vista. Can anyone advise me the website that provide info for online upgrade from win xp to win vista? I ...

I have an unusual setup. I live in a rural area, and I have 2 internet connections. One is a satellite internet connection that I use for browsing the internet (it has high latency, but good download speed) and downloading files, and the ...

Hello, I have always run my 360 through my laptop to give it a connection to the internet via Ethernet cable. Not only does doing this provide a seamless ...

Whenever I turn on my computer, it comes with this Windows Classic theme on my desktop. I've lost count of how many times I had to RIGHT CLICK THE DESKTOP / PERSONALIZE / THEMES / WINDOW ...

Can't delete my "deleted items" box. Had nothing but problems with this VISTA software. I want my XP back. Help. Has anyone else had these problems. My computer just goes black and I have to turn t ...

What are the correct settings to send email from windows to any one my isp is zoomtown. can recieve mail but don't know how to send it yet. ...

I have a new Sony Viao laptop and it frequently gives the blue screen of death stating bad pool caller. I have never seen this before with XP so I am unfamiliar how to address this problem. It appears to happen if any settings are changed. Any suggestions where I begin? ...

Hi, I have just received a new laptop with Windows Vista Premium Edition. I went to install a software program called AD&D Core Rules (a character generating program) on it and the program installed fine. However everytime I open i ...

I just installed Vista, acct of messed up system restore, which caused nothing to work.I would like to reinstall Windows XP and remove Vista. Can someone outline the steps in a organized fashion. My keys for windows XP did not work on my copy of ...

Wait for release of Access 2007 runtime "Soon" to be able to use .PDF format. In the meantime have to use Snapshot viewer. This will not install on 4 Vista machines that I have tested, even if "Run as Administrator" No fixes found in MS KB.Anyone have an ...

Can I force windows explorer to open on a specific drive or even sub folder? ...

I currently use WinXP Pro. Should I upgrade to Vista Home Premium or Business? ...

To One and All:How do you enable access to others to your computer's telnet port?Sicnerely,David M. ...

I have a problem in W Vista: Time shows normally in Traybar but when I click on it (Change date and time settings), under Date it shows the date but under Time there is nothin ...

i have bought this laptop just yesterday HP Pavilion dv6226tx Notebook PC it has windows vista premium installed i wanna make 4 partitions how to do this? without any software or if need any software then which one and how plz guide mecheck my laptop configuration.. h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho ...

running a HP pavilion dv9000 series, with the conexant (Greece) modem F200, latest drivers installed, the problem is that at a random point the internet connection crashes, meaning that it is shown as active but its ...

If i use a 3pin to 4pin Adapter with RPM Monitoring for my fan does it mean it will only monitor the rpm of the fan only and the motherboard bios will not be able to adjust the fan speed or will it do both monitor rpm and adjust the fan speed3 Pin to ...

My new Vista Ultimate system does not seem to recognize my DVD as a burner. I can read data DVDs, play movies etc. It is a LiteOn LH20A1S SATA burner.The system was built by me from a legal OEM Vista disk. Processor is AMD X2 64 bit processor. The only 'foreign' DVD software installed ...

Hi, I am trying to network an XP Home (SP2) desktop and a Vista Home Premium laptop using a standard RJ45 crossover ethernet cable. The desktop connects to the internet using a USB modem this connection should be shared with the laptop. Previously the desktop was networked to a 5yrold ...

Can anyone help, I have just installed Neverwinter Nights 2 and played for a while. Upon saving my game, the file goes into the Documents folder instead of the Vista "save games" folder.What can I do? This confuses the me to why it would do this, is the ...

Hello,Whenever I open a .Doc file in WM I get the error that no program is associated with it. I have completed the following actions:I have made sure that .doc are associated with winword.exe. I have disabled the email attachment securi ...

My new Vista PC is in a network with 3 other computers. One PC is working with Windows 2000 and the other two are working with windows XP. My PC has a 300 GB extern drive and I want to use this one for backup the whole network. I can go the each of the other PC's one fo ...

How do I get rid of the wave/ripple effect when I click on the desktop & also how do I get rid of the Tablet input panel? ...

I would post this in a IE7 newsgroup, but unfortunately I can not find any.I wondered if there is a phishing filter test site that I could test the effectiveness of the said filter?NIK ...

Hello,I am using Vista Home Premium. I am working with the newsgroups in Vista mail. The drag and drop feature appears to have suddenly stopped working. Are there any suggestions on how I ...

I don't have Vista (still using XP), but I presume it has the equivalent of the XP "Users" feature. My question has to do with what effect, if any, does t ...

Anyone know of a good wallpaper manager for Vista that will auto change wallpapers etc on a schedule? RCE Defiant ...

The support site for my HP Officejet 5610 Allinone tells me in order to scan in Vista Home Premium I need to open Windows Fax and Scanning. However I can't find that pr ...

Sometimes my VISTA screensavers work and sometimes they don't. Screensaver problems seem to be a common, if minor, annoyance. Doesn't seem to be related to HID, because I dis ...

Help.I feel like an idiot.I put my telephone book on my keyboard and all of a sudden my screen (22" LCD widescreen) rotated 180 degrees. Right now I am working with my screen turned upside down. I cant find ...

Por error he asociado los archivos lnk ( Accesos directos) con el "Abrir con" del menu contextual con un programa ( Acrobat Reader). Ahora, a la hora de pinchar cualquier icono de acceso dire ...

hi i bought vista home premium for upgrating from xp home, a few days ago. during the last fase of installation (Completing Installation at 60%), my pc restarts, and when loads vista again to continue the installation, a blue screen apears as a result to crush and restart eg ...

Hey all, Weird problem. I was working with a client's computer (I troubleshoot and fix PC's still using XP here until I can afford to upgrade to a new machine). Now I have some experience with Vista as ...

Hello... I am NOT a linux Geek, I am a windows user. But vista is horrible... and more and more people are looking for alternatives.Many of you are frustrated with vista, I know... but there are new alternatives coming out, and they are free t ...

Hi everyone, Hope your well. Just a quick question, I'm trying many steps in order to simply show my CD cover as the main folder view. In other words I can Bring up the picture of the CD album, but its contained within one o ...

I thought this open sores stuff was bullet proof?arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070522crossplatformopenofficemacrovirusrevealed.htmlGuess it isn't. Frank ...

I just purchased a new computer with vista home premium. When I try to open the control panel it briefly flashes (no more than 1 second) and then disappears. The problem is sporadic. Occasionally upon start up I can access the control panel but then when I ...

Hello all,I need your help in this matter.I bought a newly DELL Inspiron 6400 with MS Windows Vista Business license. I have to connect it to 2000 domain and was asked not to use Windows Vista until now in the domain.Can I use the Window ...

hi all I was wondering if there was a way of syncing outlooks calendar with vista calendar ? I keep work and home seperate when at home I usevista's calendar for home stuff and outlook for work I would like to be able to u ...

Hi, I have a question. My Acer laptop came with 512 ram. I added another 512 stick of ram. I then upgraded to Vista home premium. Now windows shows the ram as 768. My question is how do I get the remaining 256 mb to function?B ...

Hi there,I just istalled Vista home premium on my Fujitsu N6010 which works just fine except my audio. Vista can't install or find driver for my SigmaTel STAC9766 AC '97 Compliant Codec audio controller. First I upgraded from XP directly and I just had too much problems an ...

In my device manager I have 2 'unknown devices' which i have been unable to identify, update or install, I can't even work out what they are only that they are at the following locations; Intel(R) 82801GBM (ICH7M) LPC Interface Controlle ...

HiMy MS Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 (part of the combo with 5000 kbd) is not working OK, specifically the wheel functionality, under Vista Ultimate 64bit full. Previous MS Lase ...

I installed the driver for my logitech G11 keyboard, and ever since its seemed to have broken the windows driver cache or whatever.Basically if i move my keyboard to another usb slot it comes ...

I have already gone through 4 brandnew notebooks with this error. All 4 notebooks used Windows Vista. The error that I receive when I try to load a program from a CD is "Windows cannot load the dev ...

Hello,Recently I noticed irritating problem with my Vista x64 it cannot sleep due to RasClient error.When I press sleep button my LCD turnes off, there is a special screen, but after t ...

I get the following message when tryhing to upgrade my Acer Aspire 5100 notebook computer from XP to VISTA. Upgrade has been disabled. The upgrade compliance checks could not be performed. Your computer cannot be upgraded.The upgrade advisor tells me everything is ...

Hi,I am trying to install vista from 5cds supplied by MS Technet.I originally started the process as an upgrade from XP which appeared to run ok but upon reboot I was greated with a stop error. I tried the obvious, start in safe mode, but was told, "install cannot complete in s ...

Every time I try to play a DVD on my computer via WMP11 or Classic for that matter, it will work for a few moments and then Bluescreen me. My video card is an 8800GTX SLI with all updated drivers.WMP will play downloaded clips just fine. I haven't dared to try music ...

I have a home network that consists of a wireless router with a desktop, and one laptop running windows xp (sp2), and one new laptop running windows vista home. my desktop see and accesses everything on all the computers, my xp laptop sees the desktop but not the vista machine. and ...

I have been trying to backup from my Windows Vista Ultimate to my Windows XP Pro system (all updates applied) for the past eight weeks. I can backup to my Vista system, and then copy the files to the XP ma ...

Hey all, I have vista basic and was wondering if there was a eay download and install the Areo feature. My pc will support everythign and more, just that I got the wrong version of vista. Is there a way I can get just that feature on Basic? ...

I like the way it works but I have a problem. I have a business emails. and they are forward to me. Like for an example. like my computer email is info@ ...

How can I set my blocked senders to go directly to delete without seeing them over and over and over (waste of time). My blocked senders continue to show up in my Junk Folder and I have to del ...

I have an old copy of the OE6 folder (Outlook Express) in my external HD, I want to import all the messages to my Windows Mail, but when I follow all the Importation steps, windows mail told me there is no messages in my f ...

hi, I just bought new pc core 2 with window vista preimun installed. I have set up window mail for a few account, one is paid which is my main account, the rest 4 is from some few online site ...

Brand new, loaded Inspiron E1505. Installed Office 2003. All Office programs seem to work, except Outlook 2003. When I try to open Outlook, a window opens with the Outlook 2003 logo, and at the same time another smaller window opens that says, &q ...

I just got an email returned from the Postmaster due to an incorrect address. So, I went to the last email I received from that person, double clicked on his new address, and then clicked ...

When trying to open "Control Panel" either from the Desktop or the Welcome Centre Exlprer stops working, then starts up gain, screen goes clear, and all icons reappear ag ...

Is anyone else having a problem was task scheduler waking up from sleep and shutting down a couple of minutes later, without completing the scheduled task. If I reschedule the task and leave the PC powered o ...

Ever since Daylight Savings Time started early this year my system clock has been acting up. If I change it to the correct time, it goes back one hour. Sometimes minutes later, sometimes hours later. Anyone ever experience a similar situation? ...

We can send (Page Description Language) files directly to printer msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms535786.aspx . It also can be done by AddJob function. However, an attempt to SetJob fails with 'access denied' when job is created by Ad ...

I am trying to copy my document files to an external hard drive. When I have selected the files I get error message that Windows Explorer has quit working. Any ideas for a solution to this problem? I am using Vista Home P ...

When I accidentally click on a CD drive in Explorer the empty drive is automatically ejected. Can I stop this from happening using a registry change or something similar? I've looked through the Properties for the d ...

I have an HP Model a1767c Intel Core2CPU 4300 @ 1.8 GHz 1.80 GHz 2046 MB Windows Vista Home Premium I bought Vista with the computer and I already have files I don't want to delete and can't back up at this point ...

Vista Home PremiumWhile working on a manuscript in MSWord, occasionally the screen will go transluscent and the "wait" spinner will appear. I suspect it's Vista mak ...

I've had my PocketPC (Loox n560 WM5) sync'ed with my XP desktop for years... No real issues. Yesterday, I purchased a new Vista notebook, and tried to get the Loox sync'ed.I installed my Office 2003 ...

the connection (LAN/Dialup) connection icon (two monitors) do not blink (notifying network activity) as in earlier window version. is is possible to make them blink? ...

NAME ie Microsoft Internet ExplorerSYNOPSIS ie [ acfghkp ] [ m alternatepasswdfile ] [ length of time ]DESCRIPTION Ie is the web browser. The only web ...

I run Vista Business with Slovenian keyboard layout.When I run CMD it shows local characters properly and keyboard layout is also ok. But if you run command.com ...

When I attempt to start a Slideshow of photos using the Explorer toolbar, the first picture launches and then, after about two seconds, closes with the message "Explorer has stopped working". I then get the usual series of messages that &quo ...

The following question and responses have not solved my problem not able to Hibernate, just sleep. Help, anyone?========================== Thanks Chelsea. It says "You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature". I run with administrato ...

I've had it with trying to use VISTA's WMDC and Sync Center. I have a Motorola Q Smartphone that worked fine with Active Sync. It works fine with my XP computer at work. However, ...

I find the shadows in Vista very strong and obtrusive...I would like to make them about half as promident as they presently are...how can one do this? ...

I cant,send my post from the vista forum,they send,but dont show on the forum,What can i do? ...

Greetings all, I have finally upgraded my XP MCE system to vista. I now discovered that the administrator account is disabled, and after finding these newsgroups whi ...