Posted by admin on Dec 24th, 2006
Hello,I encountered a problem in gaming experience while using Windows Vista Ulitmate 32bit. I noticed a framedrop of more then 200 fps, this framedrop can be reduced by setting the graphics lower. My default settings on winxp for this game are: 1280x1024 32bit (quality ...
Posted by admin on Jul 26th, 2006
The Campaign Series by talonsoft sofware, while over 8 years old is still higly regarded and sought after in wargaming circles. The games have installed and run fine thru all Windows versions, until Vista. Vista appears to Make some changes in the actual files w ...
Posted by admin on Aug 29th, 2006
I have "inbox.dbx" from OE6 in C:\Mail on Vista. I followed the steps to import my messages into Windows Mail but I receive the following error messa ...
Posted by admin on Jun 24th, 2007
Hi everyone,I have a problem that i've never been able to solve: when i create messages rules that mark message as read and move it to another folder, i have the notification of new email. There is any ...
Posted by admin on Dec 5th, 2006
In Windows Mail under Vista, if I export contacts to a CSV file, the first line has 3 junk characters at the beginning. Everything else in the file looks normal. These 3 characters are the very first 3 characters. The line looks like this:Name,Email Address,Home Street, ...
Posted by admin on Apr 14th, 2007
I CANNOT START MY EMAIL ACCT SUCCESSFULLY ...
Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2006
Message: Two problems. Vista freezes & Upgrade disk (that came with the lap top) not working. When I am working w/Vista the program freezes. It freezes when I was fill out forums etc. ...
Posted by admin on Apr 21st, 2007
I am on a clean Vista install. Finally worked out all my network issues using Network Magic. Using IE7, I can browse any site for about 20 minutes then get a hourglass or waiting. I can b ...
Posted by admin on Oct 13th, 2006
Hi, every so often i lose all desktop icons and a meassage telling me explore.exe has stopped working,it's really annoying anyone any suggestions. Thanks. Robert ...
Posted by admin on Aug 29th, 2006
Hi,I have an Canon Pixima 3000 installed and shared on my XP Desktop. I try to connect to it and it asks me if I want to "install" the driv ...
Posted by admin on Oct 4th, 2006
Posted by admin on Jun 2nd, 2007
Is awful...Will ntbackup.msi from XP work if installed on a Vista machine?TIA,Greg ...
Posted by admin on Jun 8th, 2007
Will Easy CD & DVD Burn work with Vista? It was Creator 6. TIA ! ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2006
After a few days since Vista Installation an unknown user appeared in my Videos, Music and Pics folders. I formatted the HD, scared of some intruders, and again anbther user is arou ...
Posted by admin on Apr 10th, 2007
I am a college student with a huge paper due and I cannot figure out how to do the page numbers the way I am required to. I have a cover page, a table of contents, and the body of the report ...
Posted by admin on Mar 25th, 2007
On my Intel D955XCS system sleep powers down, and wakeup is fine. On my Intel D875PBZ system sleep powers down the monitor and hard drive, but the cpu and fan still runs. The bios is current. Is there something else I should do, or is this the nature o ...
Posted by admin on Sep 3rd, 2006
Hii recently posted my problem in a thread called "USB Flash drives not recognized" here which related to my USB flash drive not being recognized and i had to look for drive ...
Posted by admin on Feb 19th, 2007
I have spent hours trying to get my Vista Home Premium PC to see my XP Professional PC. The XP machine sees the Vista machine fine, but I can actually search for it in XP. I have set the W ...
Posted by admin on Oct 18th, 2006
I get an error message..."This briefcase cannot be opened because the disk is inaccessible. Verify that the disk is accessible" The briefcase is on the desktop and both users are administrators. Any ...
Posted by admin on Dec 12th, 2006
Everytime I reboot my computer, several of my icon rearrange. Mainly the bottom two icons I have at the bottom left of my desktop, to to the top of the screen, and the three rows above them are shifted down. Then serveral of the icons at the top left of the ...
Posted by admin on Aug 31st, 2006
I cannot import any of my old emails from Outlook Express into Windows Mail. I can see all of my .dbx files, but appearantly these are not the files Windows Mail is looking for. Also, when I do a spell check, it advises me that this language is not available anymore and I ...
Posted by admin on Dec 28th, 2006
Bonsoir,J'ai un gros soucis. J'ai Windows Vista et donc le logiciel Windows Mail pour ma messagerie. Tout fonctionnait correctement jusque maintenant. Mais j'ai essayé d'envoyer un me ...
Posted by admin on Feb 2nd, 2007
I recently purchased a new laptop with Windows Vista Premium. I have repeatedly tried to install my old Lexmark printer, and the installation has bee ...
Posted by admin on Dec 8th, 2006
Backing up to a USB drive. Using Vista complete backup program. backing up drive C an D (internal hard drive) Backup program stops. ...
Posted by admin on Sep 9th, 2006
I have installed 64 bit Vista on a computer and find that various programs do not function well or at all in the 64 bit Vista environment. In addition some hardware does not have ...
Posted by admin on Feb 17th, 2007
Having a problem installing vista home premium. The following is from the log:20070322 19:58:35, Info [0x0602b0] IBS AddDriverPackageIntoDriverStore:Successfully added the driver package [C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\TempDriverStore\system32\Dri ...
Posted by admin on May 6th, 2007
Where can I find a tutorial or equivalent type of manual on how to use the media remote control that came with my dv2000. I'd like an explanation on what each butto ...
Posted by admin on Jan 25th, 2007
Help please,I saved my Outlook Express email files (.dbx) prior to installing Windows Vista. Now, I am trying to import the .dbx files into Vista's Windows Mail, but when I direct "Browse" to the appropriate directory, the files are not displayed. Howeve ...
Posted by admin on Dec 6th, 2006
Good day, With Outlook Express, I could combine and decode .wmv or .mov files and just double click the icon to play. This no longer works with Vista's new mail application. I can't even save the file and play it. "Format unknown".Does anyone know how to ...
Posted by admin on Oct 20th, 2006
Greetings...Figured I'd bounce this out if anyone had found a fix. Have an Asus P5N32SLI Plus motherboard which has dual NForce NICs. Only one is active.Putting the computer to sleep, ...
Posted by admin on Mar 4th, 2007
my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots from a floppy, i have tried to ru ...
Posted by admin on Mar 20th, 2007
I have a sony laptop and it plays dvd's in WinDVD. All the play options are greyed out in Windows Media player. If I uninstall WinDVD can I play blue ray discs in WMP? Would I need drivers? If so, who sells them? ...
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2007
For websites we use an editor called Adminimizer Pro to allow updating of content. The company who made it no longer supports it but it works very well for us. After one computer was updated to VISTA, it no longer loads the editor window. The ActiveX component seems to be downl ...
Posted by admin on Dec 23rd, 2006
"I simply cannot believe that I updated to a new computer and put Windows Vista on it to find that it's not even capable of moving and deleting files in an efficient manner. The most basic of features that I use all the time is a slow train wreck. Who ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2007
I don't want Office 2007 format, I want my Office 97 Pro format. The system keeps converting everything I do to the new format. Not being able to find ...
Posted by admin on Mar 25th, 2007
Hi all,I just got Vista home premium a few days ago, and I ran the program to see if everything i had was compatible, and it was.After installation i froze just sitting on the desktop, so I rebooted and i ...
Posted by admin on Jul 30th, 2006
Running Vista Ultimate Retail with UAC enabled as per default, I am unable to:1 connect to the internet; IE will open and attempt to find the site, but runs at 100% CPU and never opens the site 2 change the User Picture; I ...
Posted by admin on Feb 21st, 2007
Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.Now Windows Ma ...
Posted by admin on Oct 26th, 2006
This morning, Windows mail started throwing up these errors when trying to start it from the "start menu" through both the top section and the "all programs" menu. However, when I click the shortcut on the desktop, it wo ...
Posted by admin on Jul 5th, 2007
My program will not run in normal but will run in SAFE Mode. Program ran fine in XP Media edition.I am now running Vista Home Prm upgrade.I have no problems with FSXThank you for any help.Walt ...
Posted by admin on May 4th, 2007
I have inadvertently changed all my program files on C:ProgramData\ to Adobe Reader, How do I change them back and what should they be????? Yes I am computer novice and would ap ...
Posted by admin on Nov 24th, 2006
Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we can order Vista from the States or will it n ...
Posted by admin on Oct 20th, 2006
I need to make an image copy of a DVD, including its AutoPlay stuff on a computer with but a single DVD R/RW drive.What is the fastest/easiest way?Thanks!Ross ...
Posted by admin on Dec 10th, 2006
Can any one tell me if Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6u1 is compatibal with Vista? ...
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2007
I recently changed computers and tried using Vista's backup program (Backup Status and Configuration) to backup my old computer. When I restored to the new computer, I restored all files to a single folder on the new computer while keeping the old folder structur ...
Posted by admin on Sep 15th, 2006
I have tried everything I know to get programs to run with windows vista. Compatibility issues all over the place! My wife needs to use this computer for work. (New Gateway Laptop with Vi ...
Posted by admin on Oct 11th, 2006
I tried to install Adobe Reader 8.0 and got this message Error 1935 An error occured during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft VC80.CRT,version="8.0.50727.163",type=" ...
Posted by admin on Jan 14th, 2007
I'm running Vista Home Premium (32bit) and installed a codec pack to try and improve on Vista's ability to play certain video files. After installing, IE7 will no longer open any links for MPG or MPEG files ...
Posted by admin on Jan 29th, 2007
does anyone knows how to get in my pc when I have forgot the password, there's only one user acc, in xp it was easy but I have not being able to do the same in vista. thank you ...
Posted by admin on Oct 13th, 2006
My Windows is an uptodate Vista Home Basic. There's something strange and very much boring happening: The current focused textbox/edit (in fact, any focusable control), every second looses and receives back focus. I've noticed this ...
Posted by admin on Sep 28th, 2006
I purchased a new computer with Vista Home Premium already installed. None of my hardware will run so I purchased a new full version of XP Pro. When I boot from the CD, Windows says that it can't detect the hard drive. How do I uninstall Vista and reinstall XP? Ch ...
Posted by admin on Jun 30th, 2006
Hello:I purchased a new PC with prelodaded Vista Premium Home Edition.Now, I would like to partition hard drive and have dual boot with Windows NT 2003 server on one partition and Vista on the other or alternatively XP and Vista.Question 1: PC did not come with installation CDs allowing to ...
Posted by admin on Feb 9th, 2007
I have a laptop with Windows Vista and would like to watch movies from the internet, how do I enable my tv to do this. I was told that i had to enable it in systems but cant find it. Help!!!!! ...
Posted by admin on Mar 26th, 2007
Hei all..Every time I try to shout down windows or even reboot, it it turns off my screen, harddrive, but the PSU still running, cpu fan running and all. Is this a known bug or do I haqvae to set something up ?/Thomas DK ...
Posted by admin on Feb 26th, 2007
Trying to do this. From Australia. From Home Premium to Ultimate.1. When I click on Begin Upgrade Process I keep getting "Connect to Internet Retry/Ignore". No amount of clicking on Retry connects me....Anothe ...
Posted by admin on Oct 19th, 2006
I run Vista Ultimates WMC, go to Library Setup and use the Add Folders option to point to my music folders. No luck. WMC just seems to get stuck with the smaller window "Adding Media" showing the "Searching for files..." ...
Posted by admin on Jun 22nd, 2007
how can i talk each other on the home network among vista and xp by no installing other company programs except ms company? please help me ...
Posted by admin on Jun 30th, 2006
I want to unlock my lptop sim card, from Sony Vaio Laptop. I did it, in my last laptop, using Hyperterminal, and I don't know how can I do it now. How can I unlock the sim card of my notebook with or without hyperterminal in Sony Vaio SZ460 with Vista Business? ...
Posted by admin on Dec 22nd, 2006
How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we could use OSVER.exe or even a 3rd party app OSVER61.exe to detect all versions of windows through Server 2003. When OSVER is run on Vista it returns nothing, not even unkno ...
Posted by admin on Jun 19th, 2007
why do I not receive some email pictures ? I receive a box with a red x inthe upper right corner please help old Geezer ...
Posted by admin on Nov 14th, 2006
how do i put the email account on my desktop like i once had outlook express ...
Posted by admin on Apr 6th, 2007
I have configured and reconfigured my pop address and server settings and cannot get Windows(Vista) Mail to send mail. It had no problem receiving all my mail outta my Yahoo account though! I do pay for my Yahoo account, it is not the FR ...
Posted by admin on Nov 19th, 2006
In Outlook Express I am able to break my address book into groups with common interests ( friends, business contacts, trave contacts etc). I am looking or a way to do this in Windows Mail address book as well. I can do ...
Posted by admin on Dec 24th, 2006
In XP, I could delete a printer driver in "Printer Fax > Server Setting > Driver Tab".In Vista, I see the identical driver tab in serversetting, and there are all my drivers liste ...
Posted by admin on Dec 3rd, 2006
I have a somewhat new Intel chipped dual core with Vista installed at the factory. I have an external FAT (probably FAT32) formatted USB connected hard drive that I used with my AMD Athlon Windows XP computer. I mostly used it to store files on it in case of a crash (I ...
Posted by admin on Oct 16th, 2006
Nuance has just released a Vista compatible upgrade of NaturallySpeaking Medical. I do not know if this version (9.5) is also compatible with Windows Server 2007 ( Longhorn Server). Details are at: nuance.com/vista/Robbie ...
Posted by admin on Jan 28th, 2007
Can't restore backup file error 0x810000F2I had made backup C:\ (not full backup) on drive D:\ . Yesterday I have format and install windows. I restore the backup file I choose Advanced restore >> file on the backup made on the different computer >> selec ...
Posted by admin on Jan 9th, 2007
Anyway, so as usual every year I bought my Norton and installed AND registered it online in January. In February I changed my internet provider from Cablecom to Swisscom. (I'm a Brit living in Switzerland)Already in January this wor ...
Posted by admin on Jun 18th, 2007
I'm getting these erros like every couple mins when I'm running this software. Can anyone help me out?ProductPartyGaming MFC ApplicationProblemStopped responding and was closedDate09/04/2007 12:51 AMStatusReport SentDescriptionA proble ...
Posted by admin on Oct 22nd, 2006
I am using Vista Ultimate. From time to time after surfing the Internet for a period (~ 2 hours), I will not be able to open new Window or new Tab in IE7. And I got an error for win32k saying "Desktop Heap Allocation Failed" in the Event Log. The only way could help is perform a r ...
Posted by admin on Oct 25th, 2006
Vista voice recognition youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwcResponse to above video from another user, Dragon Naturaly speaking youtube.com/watch?v=S9T3RXFDtfoAn actual demostration of Vista Voice recongition.... youtube.com/watch?v=IkeC7HpsHxo Vista is stupid (TM) ...
Posted by admin on Jan 9th, 2007
using vista compatability wizard advises interactive training will not work (incompatable) with vista home premium install . do I buy full version or is there a solution , thanks a lot :). I use xp home now Ms Marty Hagglund ...
Posted by admin on Jan 8th, 2007
The Vista replacement (Windows Contacts) for Address Book insists on sorting by first name rather than by last name. I can get around this foolishness by right clicking the column headings and displaying "Last Name" and then sort ...
Posted by admin on Jun 4th, 2007
How Do I Import All My Messages From Outlook Express? The Import Tool In Outlook Doesn't Promp Me For The Folder That My Outlook Express Files Are In? Is There A Trick To This? Jim ...
Posted by admin on Jun 26th, 2006
Starting using Vista about 3 weeks ago and I must admit I am amazed by the number of blue screens I have gotten. Just about all of them has to do with older versions of the software ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2006
Hi, Can anybody help please. I have just downloaded the latest quicktime and itunes so my son can use his ipod on the OS vista, we previously used xp, however I cannot access any music as a message comes up stating "error occurred" ref: 97.95f331751.1176205518.198f ...
Posted by admin on Aug 15th, 2006
I'm concerned about the performance of my Dell XPS 600 system. This is my system configuration:NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Intel Pentium D 3.0GHz 2 GIGS RamI ra ...
Posted by admin on Nov 17th, 2006
Everyone is recommending not to use comp as admin. on a regular bases but how do i keep the same desktop settings and view the same files like photos and documents th ...
Posted by admin on Oct 3rd, 2006
I woke up this AM to a black screen of death saying that Windows failed to boot because the file 'Winload.exe' was missing or corrupt. It told me to boot from the CD and repair my installation.I repaired my install and the system booted (wonder of wonders). When it came alive it ...
Posted by admin on Jul 26th, 2006
When I connect my Cingular 8125 to my laptop using a USB cable, Vista recognizes that a device has been connected. I don't get the Mobile Device Center dialog asking how devices can connect. If I manually start the Mobile Device Center, the dialog indicates a device is connected, and has allo ...
Posted by admin on Mar 5th, 2007
I just got done loading all the software on my computer with UAC turned off. When I went back to control Panel, User Accounts, User Accounts, Turn User Account Control On or Off and tried to turn it back on, it would not work. Bef ...
Posted by admin on Mar 19th, 2007
I currently have 11 of these running using up 118,000k. Are they all necessary?4 are for System 3 are for Network Service 4 are for Local ServiceThanks ...
Posted by admin on Feb 21st, 2007
After just doing the latest Windows update, Device Manager in Control Panel >System refuses to open. The only way it will open is by using "devmgmt.msc" command in "Run.& ...
Posted by admin on Aug 22nd, 2006
I need Drivers a albatron motherboard PX865PE pro .... i have looked everywhere and since it is my motherboard i cant use windows vista to help me find it. If anyone knows where i can find drivers for albatron motherboards for vista please help and let me know.. ...
Posted by admin on Dec 25th, 2006
Hi,I run a website which has 512kbps videos. I recently upgraded to Vista and discovered that the only format in Movie Maker was in HD. I need to carry on using the 512kbps format not in HD.Can anyone help? Nath ...
Posted by admin on Sep 19th, 2006
I have 3 computers on a wired network with a linksys router. Two are XP and the other is Vista Home Premium. All computers can see each other. The XP machines can access each other ...
Posted by admin on Apr 11th, 2007
i like to no why i cannot send a email using my hotmail.com account when i try to use my hotmail acoount says you have to have a drifferent account then hotmail ...
Posted by admin on Jul 8th, 2006
my harddrive as stoped playing dvds cds .also it does show as working ...
Posted by admin on Oct 20th, 2006
I am running a new Dell Inspiron E1705 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, 2G RAM) that came with Vista Premium. Every few minutes, there is a "hiccup" when playing MP3 files.I ran the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" and found that when the hiccups occur, there is a big spike in & ...
Posted by admin on Nov 6th, 2006
Hi,I am not sure what has happened but the following message appears when turning on my comp:Quote: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might ...
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2007
so i got the new vista premium and here's the problemmy screen saver still pops up whenever i paly a movie or music file,using either the WMPor the medya center,even though i unchecked the box that allows that in the option section in the WMP. does any1 ...
Posted by admin on Feb 2nd, 2007
When I tried to import a certificate the "trusted root certificate authorities" doesn't appear in the wizard. Any idea why ?Whereas when I try user CERTMGR.MSC, it appears there and when I try the import certificate option I ...
Posted by admin on Mar 22nd, 2007
The bit on the right hand side of games explorer that gives extra information about games has disappeared somehow and I can't get it back!Please help. ...
Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2006
Where does Vista store the old undelete files left behind from MS update? Sam ...
Posted by admin on Oct 11th, 2006
i have an HP laptop with the vista installed in it and here's my prob: the screen saver still appears when i play media[using WMP,media center and quickplay].i unche ...
Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2006
Like a number of other people I'm having problems getting WebDAV to work in Vista (retail Ultimate). I've been troubleshooting this for a couple of weeks and I can get it to work, but not consistentl ...
Posted by admin on May 27th, 2007
Does anybody know of a serial port Express card that is compatible with Vista? I just purchased the SIIG CyberSerial Express Card, but the driver won't loadapparently it is not compatible with Vista (works with WinX ...
Posted by admin on Sep 19th, 2006
Hi allI have Home Premium (came on the system when I bought it). I have installed my Logitech QuickCam with the latest drivers from their website and it works without any problems, great quality etc etc.However, every time I restart my PC, log into a different profile, or simply unplug ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2007
I 've just purchased a computer with Windows Vista Preinstalled. which came with a Samsung Writemaster DVDRW I use it with almost all my cd's and dvd's, but when i tried to read a couple of ...
Posted by admin on Nov 10th, 2006
After installing windows Vista Ultimate, when windows rebooted after the upgrade the taskbar is now hidden. The strange thing is that the start icon is shown, the taskbar area is there tranparent, but the items on the taskbar (clock, active applications, etc) are not seen. The machine is a Aspir ...
Posted by admin on Feb 23rd, 2007
I can't find how to create a network place so that I can use Frontpage 2003 to update and work on my remote website. Even though I am brand new to this I still can't find how to create a remote link to my website address. I could do it in XP pro easily. What am I doing wrong h ...
Posted by admin on Sep 17th, 2006
Okay, I've got a rather unique one. I mananged to get my network running smoothly (running Vista Ultimate on my main system, which shares the network with three XP Business systems), and yesterday, suddenly Vista decides that ...
Posted by admin on Apr 21st, 2007
I subscribed to the 90day trial period of ms onecare. I understand that windows firewall is NOT part of this package, but rather is an integral part of vista (home premium, in my case)but this under ...
Posted by admin on Oct 17th, 2006
I maintain a database of some 250 members who I email once a month. Windows mail or my server is only allowings me to email about 100 people a time so I have to do the same thing 3 times. This can't be right any ideas anyone? Thanks sw ...
Posted by admin on Jul 6th, 2007
I have vista home premium, I tried to make a recovery disk (with 2 DVD's) with the vista program and after the first disk was complete I put in the second disk in and at about 18% thru the secon ...
Posted by admin on Jan 15th, 2007
If your going to put in Color Management for the OS you need to incorporate CM with Internet Explorer. Less face it, if the internet was purely text based then no CM is required but it is graphic orientated. So why in the heck would you not let the System Color Management not ...
Posted by admin on Sep 18th, 2006
Hi, Is there a Microsoft program that check for errors in the Registry? I think I have a problem but I'm not sure. I download a program call Registry Boost (I think that was the name) and it stated that it found 69 errors in my registry. Of course it then wants y ...
Posted by admin on Nov 12th, 2006
I can get to network map by going in to network and sharing center, and then clicking on view map. How do I create a direct shortcut to to network map? ...
Posted by admin on Sep 10th, 2006
Vista Home Premium.Another milestone in Briefcase dysfunctionality.Anyone else had such dire "out of memory" issues especially in conjunction with the Briefcase as described below?Yesterday, while attempting ...
Posted by admin on Dec 30th, 2006
I'm poking around in Vista and cannot find how to do a search for *.xls in a specific folder, and look for documents containing particular text. Could some ...
Posted by admin on Oct 3rd, 2006
When I open the run command and type vssadmin /? to see how much space is being used by system restore. The black box opens fora second then dissappears. How can I get it to stay open so I can read the ...
Posted by admin on Aug 18th, 2006
Hi all, I am trying to write a program to burn data to blank disc(CDR or CDRW) in recording multisession on Vista Ultimate, but I had a problem in calling put_MultisessionInterfaces, which always return 0xC0AAB156 error at the first time, I refer to IMAP ...
Posted by admin on Jul 13th, 2006
Seeing one of the Windows/Mac commercialsapple.com/getamac/ads/particularly, the one whose picture is enlarged in the center, reminds me of something I have noticed in Vista for a long time entiltled "Computer Cart" that is appearing on major networks in the US today.It reminds me that Ev ...
Posted by admin on Sep 17th, 2006
Hi when ever i try to remove quicktime i get this the installer has encountered anunexpected error installing this package. this may indicate a problem with this package the error code is 2738. can anyone please tell me how do ...
Posted by admin on Dec 24th, 2006
After going to all the trouble of installing my HP supplied Vista Premium upgrade. I found I couldn't connect to the internet, so no browsing and no email. I called my Telus tech. and he checked it all out and said he could see my Modem and there was nothing they could do. H ...
Posted by admin on Jun 16th, 2007
I had huge problems copying data to disc and ended up reinstalling my Vista Home Basic. (Probably not a good idea) A bundle disc that came with the PC for Nero and LG Power DVD Sui ...
Posted by admin on Apr 19th, 2007
I have been using Vista 4 mos. successfully plugging in my USB hub and flash drives. Today I installed a 3rd gb of ram and the OS now doesn't recognize specific USB devices that previously worked.This is for 64bit vista ...
Posted by admin on Sep 5th, 2006
Question 1: How can I partition a drive that already has Vista installed on it?Question 2: Can I use the partitioning feature of Vista for this? I've read there's no need for Partition Magic any more si ...
Posted by admin on Feb 9th, 2007
I have upgraded to Vista and my Sony DCRHC21 is not recognised by my machine any more, no "new hardware found" wizards.... nothing! I have it connected via firewire into my Pinnacle 700USB ...
Posted by admin on Sep 4th, 2006
Last Wednesday my Vista machine randomly began being unresponsive for periods of about a minute at a time. By Friday this had gotten so bad that I had to do a manual reboot of the machine. Since then I can no longer connect my dialup or VPN connection. The connection ge ...
Posted by admin on Jan 20th, 2007
Trying to find a way around Windows mail not having separate ideates. Thinking of installing "Outlook" from Office Professional 2003. Been a long ...
Posted by admin on Oct 26th, 2006
I recently updated my Dell from XP to Vista and have no idea how to set up email. Help! Linda ...
Posted by admin on Mar 31st, 2007
Hi,In OE6, when I created 'Groups' for my contacts I was able to move each contact into the appropriate 'Group' where they would reside exclusively, no longer in my main contacts lists. I was also able to select in ...
Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2006
where is the safe Senders list saved? Wish to copy it to outlook 2007. ...
Posted by admin on Jul 25th, 2006
Hi,A couple of questions about signatures...1) Is there any way to specify that some accounts don't use any signature at all...? I have three newsgroup accounts ...
Posted by admin on Jul 9th, 2007
Hi,IE sometimes stops working while i am in a java application that i log into with IE. It simply freezes,and there is nothing i can do but to sue the task ma ...
Posted by admin on Jun 21st, 2007
Hi,I just received my copy of vista from Dell.. I understand that there are problems with Vista. I just read recently, it could cause some programs not to run or crash.I am now hesitant to install this program.I am running AVG free edition, Zone alarm and Scrabble online whic ...
Posted by admin on Aug 27th, 2006
Every day I check my mobile phone online account at this page.https://www.accountmanagement.o2.co.uk/o2Servlet?login=corporateIt works fine in XP (IE7 ...
Posted by admin on Nov 27th, 2006
Ok, I can understand and even like the fact that vista asks me for permission before running a program.But it really should ask only the first time not every single time I s ...
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2007
Any way to have Hotmail download to Windows Mail? ...
Posted by admin on Sep 5th, 2006
I recently purchased a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop and a Palm Treo 700 wx. I want to use my Palm as a modem that is why I purchased it since I am on the road with my job. I was wondering if anyone knows w ...
Posted by admin on Sep 23rd, 2006
A friend has a Dell Inspiron (running Vista Basic), which came preinstalled with all sorts of rubbish, most of which I have managed to remove.A remaining problem is repeated messages from Roxio software, saying that it needs to be configured and asking for the i ...
Posted by admin on May 28th, 2007
time ago(during beta times) my HP 5370 usb scaner was detected but not installed now with RTM it is installed but not functional i can't use it trying to force a new device install, in ma ...
Posted by admin on Jun 28th, 2007
It keeps saying when I put in the camera that I need a driver or a CD. Of course no one has a CD and the driver can't be located. The camera was supposed to be great becau ...
Posted by admin on Dec 20th, 2006
I have a hauppauge 350 that i use to record tv on my computer. I have Vista Ultimate x64 loaded and it does not recognize my multimedia video controller and therefore i cannot use media center to record tv. Anybody have any sugguestions, workaro ...
Posted by admin on Jul 14th, 2006
I was trying to instal a program and there was a messege saying that i couldnt becouse debuggers or reverse engineering are presumablly active on my computer. ...
Posted by admin on Oct 27th, 2006
I'm having a problem with running an .xml file on my PC which runs VISTA. I had no trouble with downloading and running when I had XP. At that time ...
Posted by admin on Jul 9th, 2007
I have XP installed on C, and I partitioned the drive, and loaded up Vista from the DVD, started the installation, but when the computer reboots during the install, it does not have the option to choose which OS, and therefore does not finish installation? I looked under system start ...
Posted by admin on Nov 15th, 2006
Hello, I have a purcased a copy of Vista home preium 32bit OEM and instaled it on my Hard Drive . Howver i now need to get a new hard drive. Will this mean i will not be able to use my current CD code.as it has already been activated on one hard drive or ca ...
Posted by admin on Jan 22nd, 2007
I change my wallpaper frequently and I usually just go to the file where I keep my wallpaper, right click on one and select "set as desktop background" Now that I have Vista this only works with jpg type files. I do not get this option for my bmp type fil ...
Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2007
I know there is probably a computer hardware forum someplace that I should be posting this question on, but I'm not aware of any so I was hoping someone on this forum would either be able ...
Posted by admin on May 9th, 2007
Hi, I hope you can help!Just bought an Acer 9301 AWS laptop with Windows Vista and am having trouble accessing the internet using the wireless adapter. I have no problem when using the ethernet cable. According to the control panel, I am connected to the network,but ...
Posted by admin on May 28th, 2007
HiI have a strange problem, i use the Nokia NSAS Client to map my network drives.The HTTPS / VPN Client seems to forward the 127.0.1.x to the network server i need to connect ...
Posted by admin on Dec 31st, 2006
I am configuring my children as standard users on the Vista system to take advantage of parental controls, etc.... I have found that a couple games require admin rights to run. Sin ...
Posted by admin on Jan 5th, 2007
I am new to Vista and Mail. When I click on Mail icon the program opens but does not automatically send/receive. I have checked the send/receive on startup button and have checked the check for new messages every 15 min ...
Posted by admin on Sep 21st, 2006
Er wordt aangegeven dat de sever niet korrekt is.Ik deze laptop met window vista pas 2maanden ...
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2007
no se como obtener una cuenta microsoft ...
Posted by admin on Jul 10th, 2006
If I don't have an internet server but am working on a wireless lan and have a free email account through Yahoo then how do I get the rest of the information about my email address through the Yahoo site (server) to set up my Windows Vista email. ...
Posted by admin on Jul 27th, 2006
I deleted McAfee. I ran Wmutil. It cleared out my Outbox. I tried to send another message & received the same error msg as usual....."The connection to the server ...
Posted by admin on Nov 15th, 2006
How to copy existing emails & contacts from Outlook 2003 to Windows Mail. ...
Posted by admin on Oct 13th, 2006
When I am working VISTA seems to change the window size between the maximized view and the restored view even though I don't click the icons in the right corner. Has anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? ...
Posted by admin on Jun 13th, 2006
I can't seem to figure out how to get my Gateway notebook keyboard to stop typing nothing but numbers and the random letter when I try and use it. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
Posted by admin on Aug 15th, 2006
I seem to get more "IE has encountered a problem and needs to close..." errors in Vista than XP. Why is that? (The IE addons are no different in ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2006
Hi allI have two systemA laptop with XP home single processor 2.8Mhz 1 gig ram (about 5 years old) A Hp station Viste home edition Dual core 2.8 2 gig ram (about 2 years old)The one with XP handel multitasking in be ...
Posted by admin on Dec 17th, 2006
hello im having a problem after a clean install of vista. this has happend after both clean installs this week. When i try to open and setup file either from my dvd/cd drive or downloaded i ...
Posted by admin on Mar 6th, 2007
I have noticed that when Vista Business or Ultimate boots up that I always manage to get a blank Internet Explorer page after everything boots up. I have to go to task manager and kill it each time. I tried to research on the web but have not fou ...
Posted by admin on Jun 4th, 2007
Hi,I have a problem with Windows Modules Installer.I only have the problem when trying to apply KB931099.What happens is the progress bar for KB931099 gets 75% to being complete and then I get the "Wi ...
Posted by admin on Jul 2nd, 2007
This started happening after working with a MS tech who took control of the screen. I've read the answers about it happening on XP and they dont seem to apply here as I cannot find ...
Posted by admin on Apr 25th, 2007
If I leave the pointer over a link for more than a couple of seconds,the link is activated.I have to be very wary of what i'm doing or I can choose option ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2006
Well you see, I have this hard drive, an Acomdata 120GB external USB hard drive. It is around 3 years old now, it worked just fine for all three of those years, until recently. For ...
Posted by admin on Apr 3rd, 2007
Simply put:Can I upgrade Windows 2000 Professional to Windows Vista Business or Home without deleting any files besides the OS files? ...
Posted by admin on May 9th, 2007
My 19" monitor requires 1440x900 at refresh 60hz. No other settings are workable (60hz is the only available rate at that resolut.) At these setting, Screensaver Photos optio ...
Posted by admin on Oct 17th, 2006
I'm having a bit of a problem connecting through the lan port 2 computers, one running Vista, the other XP, i cant share files and internet connection... ...
Posted by admin on May 30th, 2007
Hi, I am trying to connect from a Vista Ultimate 64bit desktop to a series of PCs on the same workgroup. All work well except a Tablet PC running XP SP2.Vista sees the shared directory and has created a Network Location, but when I doublecl ...
Posted by admin on May 18th, 2007
does anyone have info for yahoo setup to vista? (smtp, pop3, ports,etc) ...
Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2006
Posted by admin on Jun 28th, 2006
Hi Harold greetings from Harmony Hill. I am sorry to have missed graduation but situations held me to Harmony Hill. I do so very much hope to make it Conference in June. I have a question for you: I see in the Emeritus ne ...
Posted by admin on Oct 12th, 2006
In my email signature I want to type my details so I my website link is active, which works fine. But then I want to place my company logo above this.Is this possible with W ...
Posted by admin on Dec 10th, 2006
Hi, my laptop is brand new today, and I have set up the computer performance gadget on my sidebar. It shows the CPU usage and the RAM usage. The CPU has been changing as normal when I am doing different tasks on my laptop. Bu ...
Posted by admin on Jun 14th, 2007
heh allnew to this world so excuse me if this an idiots problem! i've just tried to print a document from word pad but the printer won't have it. when i click on file to print, the box comes up and then when i click on print it won't do it. when i click on search for solutions the whole program ju ...
Posted by admin on May 29th, 2007
This could be a very obvious question, but basically the background is I let a program (itunes) sort out the folders and file names in the music file folder on my computer. And it seems it only creates folders, and not delete the ones it mo ...
Posted by admin on Sep 16th, 2006
I have a second hardrive that I save all my data in, and all of the sudden today I can't open it? Window asks me to format , and It have files on it I really need. How do I access it without formatting it? ...
Posted by admin on Mar 27th, 2007
My wife ordered a Toshiba L30 101 machine from Littlewoods catalogue (only form of credit we can access) the machine comes with 512Megs RAM it appears from all ...
Posted by admin on Feb 23rd, 2007
Hi,we've recognized that after disabling IPV6 on vista machines in our enterprise our vista machines are running really faster. Since IPv6 is not yet spread all over the enterprise ...
Posted by admin on Oct 19th, 2006
Before upgrading to Vista Ultimate from XP Pro I was able to convert the .pwi files from my pocket pc to microsoft word but now that active sync has been replaced by windows mobile de ...
Posted by admin on Jul 8th, 2006
I have had my new Dell pc with vista premium for about a month now but can you tell me why, if you are using and application(word etc or checking your Antivirus) you then decide to open another program and nothing happens. ...
Posted by admin on Sep 3rd, 2006
Have setup Vista Media Centre but it does not show any of my videos other then the microsoft supplied sample videos. I have many avi files etc which it does show.I have monitored/added my c: drive in ...
Posted by admin on Oct 26th, 2006
Whenever I try to burn to a CD the CD is automatically formated. The CD does not need to be formatted. How do I stop this formatting? Barb H ...
Posted by admin on Feb 15th, 2007
This isn't limited to Vista, it's just Vista that I am using to do it.How does one go about taking a screen capture of a 2nd monitor's screen ? In this ...
Posted by admin on Jan 10th, 2007
Hi allI just bought a Dell Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 2.00 GB RAM NVDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Vista Ultimate I have Norton Security 2007When I receive the computer I had many problem With Window Mail and IE7. I would get many window pop up. I was told by Dell that my Computer wa ...
Posted by admin on May 19th, 2007
I have a samsung z5 mp3 player, I have heard vista has had problems with some mp3 player brands not being compatible. Can anyone help before I upload vista home premium on my laptop. Thanks... ...
Posted by admin on Jul 8th, 2006
I would like to install the meta font at this website:pps.jussieu.fr/~beffara/soft/frcursive/index.html.enI would like to be able to use it in a word processor, or even better, on word pad.How do I install a meta fo ...
Posted by admin on Jun 3rd, 2007
Hi guys I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and hopefully found a way round it!System I'm running is:AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2 Gig Ram Audigy 2 ATI Redeon x1950 with Cataslyst 7.4 Drive ...
Posted by admin on Sep 18th, 2006
i have vista installed on one hard drive and i also have 2 others in the same set up with programs and media on. (one of these 3 is failing)(clang clan ...
Posted by admin on Dec 24th, 2006
There isnt much out there on this one. I have a high spec machine with loads of ram and a good graphics card with a 4.6 WEI. Up until today I have enjoyed vista aero glass but it h ...
Posted by admin on Oct 27th, 2006
I have to software programs that wont start automaticaly when windows starts up? In both programs I checked the box that says auto start when windows starts up. But vista will not start them. I ran both programs in xp ...
Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2006
When ever I try to edit my config.nt file in windows\system32 to add more file handles to run DOS application in windows Vista Basic;it says it gives message like "could not access of create file or file ...
Posted by admin on Nov 23rd, 2006
Hello I launch my application with a breakpoint at the Winmain function,and I obtain the cpu windows stoppint just at the "ret" assembly command of the ntdll.DbgBreakPoint() function. What I have ...
Posted by admin on Jun 20th, 2006
I've just "upgraded" (I'm putting into quotes until I see something I like; so far I've been spending my time figuring out how to turn off endless permission notices and digging up a replacement for Tweak UI) to Vista. I have a backup program that back ...
Posted by admin on Jun 16th, 2007
I have a Dell Latitude D800 with a Dell monitor attached to a portreplicator. Shortly after Vista starts up, the external monitor goes blank and believes the system is in standby. But the notebook's in ...
Posted by admin on Mar 20th, 2007
I noticed on my new systen with Vista that when I click on the icon to make my usb memory stick safe to remove, when the message pops up saying it is safe to remove, the led on the device is still ...
Posted by admin on Dec 1st, 2006
I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a prolonged time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk Defragmenter.Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to do a far better (and faster) job then the native Defra ...
Posted by admin on Feb 9th, 2007
After installation of Vista I did have a nice Aero look (my notebook has score 4.5), but after installing soms sofware and rebooting my PC, the "Windows Vista Basic" and "Windows Vista Aero" themes are gone.In the Windows event log, there is ...
Posted by admin on Mar 27th, 2007
My copy of Vista was downloaded from MS. I need a bootable dvd on boot I get BOOTMGR missing to restore the boot files. How can I make one?Thanks in advance ...
Posted by admin on Feb 19th, 2007
After viewing a folder and Vista makes thumbnails, changing the file using other programs does not update the thumbnail image. There is no option to refresh the image. There is no thumbs.db fil ...
Posted by admin on Jun 13th, 2007
I have recently encountered a very strange problem with my computer: the sound/playback stops working randomly. For instance, let's say I've just rebooted my computer and have launched WMP 11 to ...
Posted by admin on Feb 12th, 2007
I've noticed whenever I have media player running, whether it is playing or not, the cpu temp gets from 814 degrees (Celsius) hotter. Nothing else is running. Is this a normal thing? Thanks ...
Posted by admin on Aug 11th, 2006
I recently bought a new Sony Vaio VGNFE870E/H Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition installed. I've since had an issue connecting to wireless networks that use a Linksys WRT54G router. I use this router at home and two of my friends do also. ...
Posted by admin on Apr 2nd, 2007
I have a new Vista Home Premium machine with Office 2007. I also have another (in a long list of posts) problem with Outlook connecting with my office's Exchange server through VPN.I have my laptop (XPPro ...
Posted by admin on Aug 13th, 2006
hi, i am using windows vista. But it can't connect to VPN. I am trying to use a secure connector from Nokia, but it doesnt work, and I try to use the link in the website, but it can't ...
Posted by admin on Mar 7th, 2007
My vista machine hangs if the wireless signal is interrupted briefly. This does not happen with my XP laptop ever. If someone walks in between the machine and the wireless router diminishing the signal..vista hangs for about 15 secs. ANy suggestions? ...
Posted by admin on Apr 28th, 2007
Is there an expected release date of the TCP stack problem? Thanks.RobertWhy, oh why, did I leave my beloved XP behind? ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2007
I am attempting to add my new laptop to our domain. I can connect to the internet no problem, ping the server by IP address and DNS name. I keep receiving an error th ...
Posted by admin on Aug 28th, 2006
I try to turn on sharing of my media on my network and I get the following error in the event viewer: Event ID 1000 Faulting application wmpnscfg.exe, version 11.0.6000.6324, time stamp 0x4549b53f, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception ...
Posted by admin on Jan 19th, 2007
I had an XP machine hosting my shared printer and all my other XP PCs and even MAC all worked fine.When I upgraded the central PC to vista it vanished from the network browsers on all XP and MAC machines.I can navigate manually to it using an ipaddress in ...
Posted by admin on Oct 21st, 2006
Hello everyone, my first post on this board.I have just installed Vista x64, but can`t find a porper firewall software that has the same functionality as ZoneAlarm. What I am basicly looking for is a software that can block internet access to programs, like prompt me first if I ...
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2007
My eMachine is dying. It has XP home edition on it. The only disk I have for this PC is a eMachine restore disk. As far as I am concerned I own a license to operate Windows XP home on any PC I want. I don't think it should have to be a eMachine. How can I ...
Posted by admin on Nov 3rd, 2006
i have just set my email account back up to windows mail, i can send email but do not seem to be able to recieve? my isp settings are correct as i have double checked them on another pc down ...
Posted by admin on Jul 7th, 2007
Hi All,Question:How do I prevent messages being marked as 'Read' (unbolded, for want of a better word) when moving them from the 'Junk Email' folder?If at all possible??cheers, ...
Posted by admin on Mar 12th, 2007
Have installed Vista and Vista Mail. in Swedish version . How do you find spelling control in Swedish. I can only find English, German and French, which is OK, but I need Swedish as well! //Erik ...
Posted by admin on Nov 9th, 2006
I have a message in my Inbox that I cannot delete.This is the body of the message or where the message was: Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for l ...
Posted by admin on Sep 19th, 2006
When I try to open mail I get the error message:" Windows mail could ot be started. initialize junk mail filtering. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full (0x80070002)" My disk is certainly not full. A ...
Posted by admin on Aug 18th, 2006
Windows Vista is a fine OS and a great achievement towards advancement just like every OS since Windows 95. Has a few bugs that they will probably fix when possible but the OS runs pretty darn good already. Windows Mail on the other hand is so bugg ...
Posted by admin on Jul 1st, 2006
Kodak easyshare is blocked. "To use online service, you need to connect to the internet. Connect to the internet and then click OK." No matter what I try it keeps doing this. ...
Posted by admin on Feb 27th, 2007
I have Vista Home Premium with Windows Mail. I converted my OE6 contacts and folders to Win Mail but I now need some of the flexibility I enjoyed with OE so I set up Windows Virtual PC and installed XP with OE6.My question is how can I convert Win Mail's contacts and fold ...
Posted by admin on Jun 28th, 2007
When I go to my computer then right click on the usb external hard drive, then select properties, select tools, then select defrag radio buton. I recieve a message that Defragment not installed on this compu ...
Posted by admin on Apr 29th, 2007
I have Vista Home premiu. I am trying to connect to someone using remote assistance. That person is on XP with sp2. All seems to work until the end. I get his email, click on the attachment, enter the password and is says 'connecting ...
Posted by admin on Aug 2nd, 2006
I am wondering if, short of a hardware upgrade, there is anything I can do to get this machine's Win Exp Index Score of 3.0 up. This is a pretty new machine, and it seems to me the score should be higher. I am posting all the seemingly r ...
Posted by admin on Jan 6th, 2007
I am hoping someone can help me? Please...I use web mail for work. I have recently brought a new PC that has Vista Home Premium installed. In XP everything was fine...I log onto web m ...
Posted by admin on Feb 22nd, 2007
So I have a PC (Vista) and a laptop (XP). They are linked through a simple hub for now and they both have access to the internet. I bought a wireless ...
Posted by admin on Oct 23rd, 2006
I have an HP 6110, and am using Windows Vista. I've set the print preferences for grayscale printing and use black ink cartridge only, but everything still prints in color. Is there anyway to get everything to come out in black and white only? ...
Posted by admin on Jun 9th, 2007
Has anyone got or can tell me where to down load usbaudio.sys refered to in KB 933262. It is used to hot fix the usb audio problems in Vista and all the updates so far do not include it. Cheers ...
Posted by admin on Aug 14th, 2006
Hi there,I have windows vista premium with Norton Internet security 2007 and internet explorer 7 on my system. When I try to download files from the internet and I select save it do ...
Posted by admin on Mar 6th, 2007
My neighbour has purchased a advent laptp running vista home, all os was pre loaded on m/c. I have been able to create a admin password and user password etc. but whenever the m/c is rebooted or restarted , you can log on as normal but the m/c just returns to the vista demo video. ctr ...
Posted by admin on Jul 12th, 2006
I am thinking Windows should have two different privilege user account for one user. One account will be a limited privilege account and is used to browser the web and get E ...
Posted by admin on Apr 12th, 2007
Vista came loaded with adware. The most annoying one is the pop up that trys to sell AOL and other Internet services. It contunually pops up and demands that we deal with it or tell it not to appear again. We tell it not to appear again and 20 minute ...
Posted by admin on Apr 11th, 2007
I've searched dozens of sites, read page after page of explanations and followed dozens of suggestions. I still can't download using any of the 7 torrent downloader programs I have installed. ...
Posted by admin on Apr 24th, 2007
New to vista. Having trouble opening a .dat file in mail attachment. Can't find an association that works. Appears to be a corel program, which I don't own. Had similiar issues with .tiff ...
Posted by admin on Sep 10th, 2006
I have the lastest driver installed (6.0.6000.16386) says Device Manager after checking the web for a later version) but the wheel will not perform a doubleclick. Worked fine in Win2k. Now using Vista Home Basic on a Dell E5 ...
Posted by admin on Apr 12th, 2007
I cannot uninstall "easy cleaner" program. Every time I try, "setup.exe" stops working igacici ...
Posted by admin on Feb 21st, 2007
Memory chipmakers to lose money, Vista demand over forecasted vista.blorge.com/2007/06/04/memorychipmakerstolosemoneyvistademandoverforecasted/Memory chipmakers brace for tough quarter due t ...
Posted by admin on Sep 6th, 2006
Have ultimate, CtrlAltDel, select task manager and all it does is loop back. ...
Posted by admin on Jun 20th, 2006
Vista Home Premium, Dell laptopBooted this morning, and my battery indicator is missing from the task bar. I went to taskbar properties, Notification Area, etc. and the POWER is grayed out.Plugging in power makes no differenc ...
Posted by admin on Jul 28th, 2006
I have an xp professional os with 2 drives, boot up is 160 g with 29 g of free space; and 80 g mostly filled up. Within the last month, the computer would freeze. I can't figure out the cause of the freezing, but now it just keeps beep ...
Posted by admin on Oct 23rd, 2006
At present, the sound is working properly from my Vaio laptop's internal speakers, but when I plug in the headphones to the headphone jack, I don't get any sound. The driver is a "high defi ...
Posted by admin on Jul 29th, 2006
I just purchased a new pc with VISTA. I have just about everything installed and tweeked except for two things that are really bothering me.One..Something is constantly accessing my external usb hard drive.TwoSomething is constantly accessing my i ...
Posted by admin on Aug 21st, 2006
Hi! I recently bought a new laptop and installed Business Vista and MS Office 7.0. Here is my environment.I am on a domain which runs Windows Small Business Server R2/SP1. It also has MS XL 2003/SP2. Finally, it ...
Posted by admin on Apr 5th, 2007
I can no longer use the "Restart" option: neither from the Start menu, nor from an installation dialogue requiring a restart. The PC shows a lot of hard drive activity, shuts down Windows, shows a black screen and a hard dri ...
Posted by admin on Aug 23rd, 2006
I copied images from my memory card to the cd, watched them as each file was copied, and can see on back of disc that it was used, but when I try to view them, I get no files found. I have vista home premium. Plea ...
Posted by admin on Jul 3rd, 2006
I have posted three times, gotten emails saying I have replies, and never found anything in the discussion thing. How come you say I got answers but they really aren't there? Do i have to buy something else to read ...
Posted by admin on Aug 1st, 2006
when i hit the "play/pause" button on my keyboard.WMP 11 always opens up. how can i stop it from doing this ...
Posted by admin on Apr 10th, 2007
Hi, in XP when you opened an image to preview it, and zoomed in, it would do realtime optimization to remove the pixellation, giving a nice Photoshopesque enlargement onscreen.In Vista's Photo Gallery viewer, it ...
Posted by admin on Dec 6th, 2006
I just purchased a Vista laptop (previously running an XP laptop) and have had trouble getting it to print. The printer is physically connected to an XP desktop. I added the upgrad ...
Posted by admin on May 29th, 2007
I have an issue with some IE settings from a GPO not applying to Vista. For testing/isolation, I have an OU with two computers and a single user (Not a roaming profile). One computer is XP SP2 with IE7 the other Vista Enterprise. The domain ...
Posted by admin on Aug 1st, 2006
I have created a home directory under profiles in Active Directory all computer except Vista get the home directory drive letter. Anyone know why vista does not see the home direc ...
Posted by admin on Jul 31st, 2006
Hi. I bought a brand new machine last sunday. It came with Vista. I promptly uninstalled all Norton and Symantec stuff and downloaded windows live onecare. That is all that is on my mac ...
Posted by admin on Nov 24th, 2006
Hai,I have created 2 new acounts, one administrator and one standard. If I try to open them (either one) at in the Welcome window I get a message like 'service userprofielservice does not allow to open this user'. It seems there's no profile to open. How come? ...
Posted by admin on Sep 5th, 2006
Does anyone know where I can download Chess Titans? I got Windows Vista Home Basic..Thanks in advance. MiniDawg ...
Posted by admin on Jul 7th, 2006
I used the Easy Tranfer, but old email messages and contacts are not there after the transfer. Any ideas? ...
Posted by admin on May 5th, 2007
In my 'open file/ save file' window that I get when dealing with attachments I mistakenly checked the box that says 'don't show me thos window again" I would like to get this window back. Can a ...
Posted by admin on Feb 24th, 2007
Je suis bloqué avec windows mail. Impossible de lire mes mails stockés dans mes dossiers. Impossible d'envoyer, ni de recevoir. Comment réparer cela. Ou bien peut on désinstaller windows mail et le re ...
Posted by admin on Aug 25th, 2006
Please help me how to do Windows Mail automatically list address on To field when I type mail address ? Thank you This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To ...
Posted by admin on Dec 23rd, 2006
I have been trying to send a group email message but I keep getting an error saying that is does not conform to RFC2822. Can anyone please tell me wha ...
Posted by admin on Jul 26th, 2006
i have business & personal contact folders but when i foward or create mail and click on pecipient i get all the contacts from all floders. No folders are shown to select from. i am sure it is a simple fix but i can't find one. (next will be wireless network bugs) ...
Posted by admin on Jun 29th, 2006
I have earthlink as my primary and have a wireless internety connection at the moment in Europe. Now I can finally get my mail in Widows mail but can't seem to send mail got it to work once but hen I couldn't receive mail. Someone help or please direct me to a ...
Posted by admin on Mar 30th, 2007
I have an Acer laptop with Vista Ultimate pre installed My problem is at startup I receive a box containing the following message ". Failed to load control ’socket Xctl’ from socket.OCX. Your version of Socket X,OCX may be outdated. Ma ...