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Is this discussion group the only Windows Vista help avialable from Microsoft?Is there anywhere to chat with a support specialist or have them remotely co ...

Hi all,earlier i workes with a standard user account and if i need administrator privilegs i logged on as an administrator directly or use runas to start the application as an administrator. I think this is the same security option like UAC. A ...

Hi I setup my computer two days ago and lost the password. no administrator account nothing. i didn't create a password reset diskso what do i do? help! ...

I also posted this in the Internet Explorer discussion group. We are using Vista Home premium. We have two user accounts on our computer. My wife's user account runs IE7 without any problems. When I run IE7 unde ...

On a few programs, that worked fine on XP, that I use (both cd & online), the full screen versions do not work properly. Instead of the program opening up full screen and able to move furthur with the program, it opens full screen ...

is microsoft comming out with a new driver for the sidewinder joystick for vista ...

I am a gamer. Microsoft operation systems have always been preffered by gamers. However recently when buying a new PC, I made the mistake of purchasing windows vista. I have 2 nVidia EVGA 8800's in my vista gaming rig, and the performance I've experienced is absolutely abysmal. In comparison ...

I am getting horizontal lines running down the left hand side of my emails. At first I thought they were highlighting my correspndent's reply ( or vice versa ) but now there seems to be no logic behind them. I currently have three lines running do ...

In OE I could display the names in my dictionary in several ways. First name first or last name first. In Windows Email I don't see an easy way to do this. I had to go through all the contacts and change each one.Am I mi ...

Since changing from Outlook Express (Windows XP) to Windows Mail (Vista) I have a couple of little niggles and wonder if anyone can help me please.1 On Outlook Expres ...

I want to change the location of the message store? I use the Tools>Options>Advanced>Maintenance>Store Folder. I set up the folder where I want the store to be. Windows Mail accepts th ...

i am not very computer literate, but i just recently bought an emachine with vista. everything was running perfectly until the next day. i will have installed so ...

I'm using FrontPage 2002 with Vista. Whenever I try to insert a hyperlink, FrontPage shuts down. Any ideas? ...

Hi allI have a weird one for you! I uninstalled Magiciso yesterday but everytime i reboot the computer keeps reinstalling the drivers for the virtual drives i created. How can i stop this from happening? All help graetly appreciated. Peter ...

Hi, I've just bought a brand new laptop Aspire 5584WXMi installed with Vista Home Premium about 1 month ago. I was able to use the 'Window Switcher' to do the 3D flipping but I do not know what happened few days ago and I am unable to do this anymore. The screen ju ...

Have had Ultimate since release day... everything was going pretty well until recently explorer.exe has to restart itself everytime i close an explorer window. What gives? ...

When I start Nero start Nero Startsmart I get only a empty window frame of Nero , so no menu with Welcome to Nero etc etcAny help would be great ...

I work in computers and know a lot about them. Did my first upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Business today.It was on a 15 month old PC that I built myself and that has run XP Pro with no problems since I built it.Ran Vista upgrade advisor and it said there were no problems.Began th ...

Hi all. I am trying to install my HP LaserJet 3380 on Vista Ultimate with no joy. Plugged in to a USB port and Vista says unknown device. Ran the HP print software and it can't find the printer at all. When the printer was on my server it could see the p ...

Hiin preparation for upgrading to Vista Ultimate from Win XP Pro SP2, I ran Upgrade Advisor and got No Compatability Data for:1. Intel System Management Bios Driver. I have downloaded a BIOS revision for my Intel D865PERL motherboard. I have NOT run this 2005 update as ...

we currently only have two pcs or laptops with vista.when I logon to our companny network with my vista laptop I get a message stating that it has found the other vi ...

I have Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate version and need a wireless card (PCI or USB). My ADSL router is a 54mb Netgear D834G router. I bought a PCI netgear WG311T card to find they o ...

pcworld.com/article/1294101/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws Vista UI Is a 'Step Back' for Microsoft French researcher says Vista's user interface suffers from more 'friction' than Microsoft XPThat's why I like to run in Classic mod ...

Hi,Recently I got Vista RC1 DVD from Microsoft. I upgraded my PC to VISTA. At the bottom of the desktop it is showing as "Windows Vista (TM) RC1 Evaluation Copy. Build 5600"The version is going to expire in ano ...

Hi, I have 4 pc's: 2 win 98's, 1 winXP, and a new win Vista. One of the 98 computers had the printer (hp deskjet series 5550). I took the printer off the pentium II win 98 box and installed the printer directly connected to the new Vista box. That went well. (enough). I added the printer as a net ...

Two issues that may be related: I cannot disable notification bubble that tells me "window has disabled certain startup items", plus in sec ...

Using windows Mail to read USENET it seems the "Block Sender" feature is missing from the "Message" menu.Please tell me MS has not taken away the ability to block posts from pe ...

when rightclicking in the Windows Contacts, MFC42.DLL crashes, with the following message (see infra).I read on newsgroups that this is a frequent problem, but no solutions are available (except the ...

Is it possible to do a Vista Anytime Upgrade via the DVD? Trying to go from Home Premium to Ultimate as a test but seems you have to buy online for this option.What is the b ...

Hi there, can I start the Vista Movie Makers with parameters or something so that I can get it work with my DX8 Laptop? Or else: Can I install the old Windows XP Pro Movie Ma ...

I haven't used this for long, but I've found that if I change the Power Management setting for my Ethernet Card to select "Allow windows to turn this off to save pow ...

Is there no way to get rid of that annoying "favoritelinks" windows/box that sits above the treeview in explorer? To mee it is absolutely useless and ...

There have been a few people offering explorer replacements for file management, but I'd like to know which ones you really like, and why, as I'm eager (to put it mildly) to try something else.All my nonMS apps seem to handle basic file operations just fin ...

I've been running Vista for about a month. I have three partitions on my hard drive: Vista160GB, Boot1.5GB, Free80GB (I'm running BitLocker). I want to install XP to the free partitio ...

Hello I am new to Vista, and have a dialup internet connection. I can connect to my ISP no problem.When connected, there is an icon on the taskbar (righthand side) for the dialup connection. Rightclicking shows an option 'turn on/off activity animation' .I cannot see any 'ani ...

My pc has two sets of sound jacks, one at the front and one at the back. Generally I have my headphones plugged into the front jack and the stereo plugged into the back ones for the surround experience.When i was ...

I found the following bug in Vista Explorer:I opened a folder with three subfolders holding some videofiles. I selected and cut a subfolder and pasted it to another partition on my HDD. While the moving was in progress I selected a ...

I'm finding the search (under the start menu) function somewhat limited. In XP, I could specify the file type and now it seems more generic. I was trying to find a specific video and realized, I can no longer search for videos. Also, I can't search for specif ...

Hello,I have many expriences of installing and running Vista before, but ths case is the first situato I have ever met.Prblem is ;When I connect devices that are verynormalandcommn like USB external drives Vista cannot find dr ...

I recently got Vista Ultimate for my X60 Tablet. I formatted and deleted the recovery partition, and installed Vista from scratch on it.After finishing install ...

I'm not at all sure how this permissions thing works on Vista Home Premium. My problem is this ... I have two user accounts on the PC the main one is for every ...

I am trying to save a power point presentation from my C drive to a blank CD in my E drive. It won't let me, the message is "you don't have access to the folder E; see your administrator for access to this folder". I'm the only ...

Well I seem to be one of the many people having problems with Battlefield 2142. It was bad enough that I removed Vista from my system and reinstalled XP (which works just fine). But before I throw Vista ...

Hi,I got the dreaded Error 43 message, after installing Vista and changing from single core CPU to dual core CPU on my nF3 motherboard with ATI AGP graphics card.I next used VistabootPro to shut down one core, an ...

I recently upgraded to VISTA pro from XP pro and went to reinstall my printers, but I messed up somewhere and tried to delete the printers so I can start over. But everytime I try to do anything I get the error "Oper ...

Somehow when I was deleting a folder in my pictures, it deleted the entire my pictures folder. I can't even access the my picture folder. how do I recover this? and why did this happen? PLEA ...

I need to have the Korean Language on my laptop. I heard you have to buy it but I don't know where. Could someone please let me know where I can get it.Thanks, Pete ...

I cannot install Poser 6 on VISTA....Have installed much older programs with no problem....have gone thru the compatability bit and it still doesn't work...have also contacted efrontier....wish I ...

i tried installing a virtual drive onto vista using alcohol program, vista is not at all compatible with a virtual drive.immediately a fatal driver error occurs.i actually had to restore my previous restore point to solve the problemDONOT try installing alcohol onto vista. i duno whet ...

will this run on Vista? ...

Does anybody know if the Vista download from the Microsoft Marketplace can be made in to a bootable CD? My concern is my HDD could crash and I have no way of booting back up to do a clean install from a disc.Thanks ...

Randomly keyboard quits responding after working for a while. Occasionally mouse stops also. Restart mostly does not help. Cold boot will work. Computer dual boots with XPx64, and ...

One of the hp tech's just told me that sp1 will be out next week? Has any one else heard that?? ...

it says that windows was unable to calculate the windows experience index because the user cancelled the assessment ...

Does anyone know if emc 8 will work with Vista. I'm not having much luck and have unistalled it but not sure if it's just me or if it's not compatible. I can't even see pictures from discs I've burned with emc 8 with the emc 9 that comes with Vista.Any input ...

Hi there, I've been experiencing blue screens ever since I've installed a 2nd monitor on my ATI Radeon X1300. Initially it didn't happen..and then when I've updated the drivers, it occurred every single time if I have the 2nd monitor plugged in. So I rolled back to the drivers that Windo ...

I have Exchange 2003 and Server 2003 and I am on a Vista system, everything x32 and I would like to get Active Directory installed, to see Exchange Tasks, with ADC, but I can't see to ...

I used Acronis' Disk Director to partition my hard drive so that I could dual boot Vista and still use XP if all my software didn't work. Now that ...

I just installed vista for the first time and and browsing folders on the c drive. I am the administrator by default but get Access is Denied when trying to enter certain folders. how can I get access. moondaddy@noemail.noemail ...

When I create a new email and type a recipients name, names that are not in my address book show up. How can I remove these names from the pulldown? ...

When I try to import a dvd into movie maker I get a blue screen crash. Even log below. Any help appreciated. Log Name: System Source: EventLog Date: ...

When I format a blank CD using the live file system, and then check the disc capacity, it says that ??? of space is already used, before i've even dragged any files onto it. Can anyone please tell me why this is? ...

I have problem that I would like to report to the proper persons or site.I receive a popup message from Windows stating;ATI external event utility EXE module stopped working and was closed Windows will notify you when they have a solution.The problem is, I have had this ...

I've been using Vista for a few weeks now. Last night, whilst browsing the web on Mozilla, I got a message saying "need to restart this program using administrator access" or something like that. Now every time I start Mozilla it UAC asks if it can start under administrator contro ...

A 1 Gb flash drive was present when my system was upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. This drive works fine. Any other flash drives I insert appear under Disk Management (no file system or drive letter). An ...

Anyone from MSFT wanna explain why ASP.Net cannot be installed from Control Panel? The option is there, but every time I try to enable it by clicking ...

I plan to install Vista Ultimate 64 on a PC which currently has XP Pro 32 on it; and apparently I need to do "clean install".Questions:1) Is it correct that a "clean install" does not require reformatting or repartitioning of the hard disk? ...

I bought a new laptop. I knew their were going to be problems with vista so i requested xp. Dell wouldn't sell the particular model w/ xp ( unbelievable..., that's another story). Sure enough, only 3 days old and I've spent all three fcking days correcting problems online with Del ...

Question on m4a files in ITunes; I have all the plugins to enable playback (WMP Tag Support and ACC Plug in support) but when I loaded my library on WMP11 it put the m4a files in the “other media” category and it’s only the title of the song, no artist, album, etc. appears. Also trie ...

Hi,My goal is to set up a VPN tunnel from our main office to our branch office.To accomplish this, I need a handshake between Vista VPN Server (main office) and DLink 804 router (branch office).For this, I ...

I thought with each successive update things would get better on Vista. Not the case with the last update, it indicates it was security updates.All was working fine with my network between the XP and Vista computers.Since the last update I am sufferi ...

Since I have installed Vista, I cannot stay logged on to Poker Stars. I keep getting disconnected. I had no problem with XP ...

How do I connect gmail with windows mail... I put in the outgoing/incoming server info suggested and nothing is working... does anyone have solutions or similar problems?!?! ...

Copied my email ccount settnigs from Outlook 2003 running on XP to same version installed on Vista.I have had email, including the test message from the account wizard, but I cannot send email from Outlook itself. Message is"The specified server was found, but there was ...

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Brandnew computer w/Vista. Sound was working (but not much volume), and suddenly now it's not. I checked through the control panel and it tells me that the sound card is OK ...

I bought a brand new computer last month, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, AMD Athlon Dual Core processor. Yet, when I open Media Center into a maximized full screen window it is very slow. So slow in fa ...

This is a Gateway GT5426E with vista installed by retailer. I have the windows locking up. Once powered off the system will not open windows desktop unless attempting a restart from the safe mode. Sometimes I get a ...

I work for a company that requires calls to be recorded. They supply me with a voice recorder box that gets plugged into the microphone jack on the back of my computer, then connects directly to the phone line. I make the calls and it records them, then automatically uploads them to ...

I installed Vista Ultimate (oem) on mij old 80 GB hdd. I had lots of problems (continues errors and bleu screens) and finaly I discovered that my hdd ...

Recently had a computer built for me at Computer Builder's Warehouse (unformatted). I bought Vista 64bit Home Premium (OEM) from them and installed it. Proceeded to find out that I would need to buy new ...

I have install Vista 2 or 3 times.. it works fine for a couple of days and then I start getting this error... Bad_Pool_Caller *** stop:0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x0000113d, 0x00090210,0x89001F40)Once I get this error Vista disable ...

Hello all, I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive discovered so far!) First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so choppy? Second, the typing is c ...

I have installed the new windows vista ultimate x64 on my computer, everythig went fine and the I installed the media center and a virusscan (McAfee 8.5i Enterprise). All worked well for a day or two when suddenly the system would't boot any ...

Hi.I have a new computer with Vista Business and are going to install HTMLKit.To get it work it has to run "as adminitrator" in XP mode, because it isn't Vista compatible yet.Does that me ...

I have read a number of the discussions and have become confused as to what to install for WP11. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't include it! Having said ...

I used to use TheGreenBow for VPN back to my home system via a Linksys router, but it doesn't run under Vista. Microsoft has a list of Vistacompatible VPN clients. On Thursday, they added the Fortinet VPN client. I just tried it and it works great lightning fast and r ...

Hi,Scenario Serveral Vista Ultimate users (IT Technicains) spread over Europe who have a central repository for user account information, budgets, etc. All excel files, all used frequently.Technicains needs t ...

I recently bought a new computer, running windows vista. under my husbands user name, we were able to configure windows mail, and send and receive with no problem. under my user name, i can send emails, but cannot receive. i have ...

How do I sync the contacts on yahoo mail with the contacts on windows mail?thanks in advance ...

I get many of these errors every day in my Event Log:"ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 28, function 5. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance"What does it mean? ...

Hi thereI am running Vista home premium and using a Panasonic Kxp6300 Laser printer (its a dinosaur but its still going).When I try to print a document through word or any other program with UAC turned off all is fine, ...

hello everybody do i need "run as administrator" mode if UAC is not active ??? i dont think that i need this mode anymore if UAC is not active but i have installed visual studio 2005 and service packs but it said " install service packs with run as administrator" after in ...

Hi,I have built my home Vista PC which is now running as required with all the software I need. For speed of future restores (If eveer required!) how can I best take an image of th ...

Trying to setup Media Center on Vista for online radio such as Live 365, however can't seem to get anything listed. All that shows is No Services Found. How do you get this ...

I am wondering if there was away to boot the operating system to its operating state rather than having to click on user name in the welcome screen . just after the round vista symbol appears .thanks ...

I’m running the Windows Vista Business edition operating system on which I’m trying to install a product during the installation of which I get the error message. " The Microsoft File and Print Sharing Service must be installed and ...

THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE (please don't dwell too much on "games" per se!)My Search Index is behaving oddly.I can't find e.g. Games at least on ...

This is going on too, too long. Every tim I check my email or browse the internet I get a 'blank' page that takes up the whole screen and the only way to get rid of it temporarily ...

Maxtor Mini One Touch 3 Gateway Desktop GT5404 Vista PremiumBackups have been running for over a month on schedule. Recently I began to get Could not create shadow copy, the writ ...

Hello. I have recently bought a Toshiba notebook Toshiba Satellite A100784 with Windows Vista Basic installed and I'm having some problems with it. The thing is about the screen which is breaking down every day several times a day. When the computer is working, after a whi ...

Yesterday i was pleased to recieve in the post the long awaited arrival of my Windows Vista Home Premium upgrade kit for my ACER Aspire 5102 Laptop. The upgrade process took forever but eventually got there. Now vista is installed and looks pretty, but it won ...

I do not have the Vista installed on my PC, I am asking on behalf of my Dad. I set up the Vista for them, and they do not have a password for the user account. My dad accidentally hit the "Lock& ...

I have a new Gateway FX530XM with 2 gig RAM, most of the bell & whisltes, and 2 DVD burners. I am having slow burn problems with RW disks ONLY. DVDR disks w ...

I recently added two additional 2 MB of memory to my system for a total of 4 1MB sticks.Vista 64 showed me that I had 3MB until I changed a BIOS setting under Advanced>CPU Configuration>Memory Settings where I changed &qu ...

I start my Laptop as usual and when i select on of songs that i rip from my cd i cant open wmp cause it comes up as an error heres a screen shot is much better descriptionMy OS is Windows Vista Home Premium Laptop is Com ...

Hi, me again, since I'm only running on an 80Gb laptop, I try to save as much space as possible. I currenty have a handful of MP3s encoded at 320Kbp which I want to shave down to 192Kbp to save roughly half the space.I use Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition's Audio Converter ...

I am running SBS2003 and have an L2TP/IPSec connection ended on the Cisco router that runs my LAN.I have imported user and computer certificates using the MMC Certificates snapin, jus ...

my wife (logged on as a regular user) can no longer acceess spider solitare, but she can log on as guest and play it from there.when she starts it, it starts up (in taskmgr.exe) and lives for about a couple of secodns or two, then quits. It never displays a UI or leaves any other information ...

I purchased a new computer with Windows Vista and haven't been able to access multiple identities from my email. I had almost given up and spent over an hour o ...

How do I find out what server to use when sending and receiving email?? How do I change it??? ...

i can get emails ok but when i send a email i get this One or more email messages cannot be sent. Details View the log After you verify your comp ...

This happens a few times when I restart the PC. Sometimes It don't, but it gets a bit annoying it will go past the boot menu and the Vista boot screen a few seconds later a BSOD could not read messages because the system wil ...

I have been doing some housekeeping on my vista home premium laptop, when I noted that I seemed to be using a huge amount of disk storage for which I could not account.I traced a huge 5Gb of it to the C:\Users\Gordon\AppData\Local \Microsoft ...

I am having problems with my internet and lan after a vista ultimate update I applied yesterday. Almost every website times out and those that do show up are dog slow. I also can't seem to establish a good flow of data on the W2k3 server box under RDP. There was no problem be ...

I'im new to Vista Nnew to movie maker. I finally have my video made but it only shows on a small square on my screen after it's published. Is there a way to expand it to full screen? Ques. 2: Is there a way ...

I have two computersone upgraded from XP to Vista Business and one with XP, SP2 connected to a Linksys router. Both machines are up to date on patches. I shared drives and folders on each machine and put them both in a workgroup called (creatively enough) ...

Every time I post a message I get a popup: ...

I am suddenly being told that I cannot make Appointments/Tasks in a calender that has been disabled. How did I disable it and more importantly, how do enable it again David ...

an errors triangle in email right corner ...

Is there a way to import your account from Outlook Express 6 to Windows Mail? ...

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and I cannot launch the WEI. It shoes my score but when I click the link a window comes up for 1 second and disappears. Also the icon in the Control panel for the Performance tools has a generic windows icon attached to it. A ...

When I first installed Vista, I set my ease of access to show the onscreen keyboard. Then I noticed the logon screen changed to show a onscreen keyboard seperate from the ease of access keyboard. I attempted to disable it as it loaded when win ...

In Windows Explorer I used to have Pictures, Documents, and something else in the Favorite Links area. Now they are gone and that area is empty. How do I put those items back and how could I add something else there? Thanks, ...

Soyo SYP4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 motherboard Intel Pentium 4 3.20 GHZ HT 2×1024MB pc3200 PNY RAM Windows Vista Home Premium PNY GeForce 7800 GS 8x AGP, 256MB (101.41 ForceWare) PCI Creative XFi XtremeMusic LG Flatron L1920P lcd monitorHey guys I've discovered a w ...

I am a university student from Ohio studying abroad in Germany. I was depending on my laptop to be my means of communication with my family and friends back in the States via Skype and AIM. I purchased a new headset microphone which arri ...

Hey people, I have Widows Vista Premium and I was reading something and it was talking about windows aero. What exactly is that?? Thanks a lot trev ...

I have a new pc with Vista Basic. I have been trying to copy files to a CDRW for the last 4 weeks without success. I can copy fils to a CD R but of course, I am unable to edit or change the file ...

I just did a new install have the Nvidia geforce 6100 nforce 405 video card running business vista. When I go and look at my wallpaper all the images in the thumbnails have the same picture. When I click on them the wallpaper ...

windows xp maximum hard drive space was 2.5 gig what is vista home premium?thanks jon ...

Even though Vista's Windows Media Player is set NOT to allow the screen saver to work during play, it comes on anyhow. Also, another time the video signal droped out and the screen goes blank (with a no signal notice on screen from mo ...

I know this will sound a little strange. I've noticed that the imported pictures on Windows Vista have the extension written in capital letters, for example, .JPG. Is there a way to make them all lower case? If there isn't here is a suggestion to Microsoft, since a ...

Is there any sane settings for types of files for superfetch to cache?Consider this: I watched a 170MB video, once. Later, superfetch decides to put it into RAM. I know this because I watched it in Process Monitor. So that's 170MB of RAM wasted to a vid ...

HelloI am trying to get support from MS but my Vista Product ID is not being reconised as valid by the online form. I cannot go any further with the submmision with this ID ...

Unhelpfully, the blog post below was closed for comments, so a list was never generated of just which bootable tools would be susceptible to this problem. I'm assuming that about 100% of them out there are not based on "some ...

Can u get Vista to see what songs are on your ipod so you can delete some songs?My Itunes library is NOT auto syncced as I have half of it on C drive and half on D drive of my computer so I manually manage the itunes library.But right n ...

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

Vista Home Premium already installed on new HP laptop. I am just beginning to do my setup. first problem, I can't change the weather gadget for my location. It is default on Redmond Wa [cute]. I would like to change it to my area. I have tried right clicking the gadg ...

Why I cannot install any of those two in my HP tx1000z CTO TabletPC running Vista Ultimate 64bit?Cheers, Gene ...

news.softpedia.com/news/DirectX10AvailableOutsideofWindowsVista53066.shtmldont kill the messenger.. im just posting an article I found.. I probably will not install this on xp anyway! ...

My screen saver use to work but for some reason it just stoped. the screens will still turn off, but the screen saver never comes on. I do not have any wireless hardware installed on this computer.Vista home premium. ...

The Vista application event log shows the following error event pretty much every 8 minutes. Any suggestions as to what is causing this? I have seen the same complaint ...

In XP windows kept a thumbs.db in the folder that ensured thumbnails were available quite quickly even with many pictures on an external USB hard drive. With Vista now no such file exists and a large folder opened with many ...

This may be a dumb question for some, but not for me. I have a dialup conncetion and I usually get a dialogue box when I exit Mail or Explorer aski ...

Our Kids High School has a web site where you can take a virtual tour of the new additions, when going the page it wants to install an add on for the virtual tour but Vista will not let it install saying "Windows has blocked this softwar ...

I clicked on Fax and Mail in the Control Panel, had nothing else open and got the message: "You need more memory or system resources. Close some windows and try again". Any suggestions? ...

I have not been able to get the USB ports to recognize anything on this computer that has vista. Everything works on our computer that has XP. I have checked the USB ports and they are fine. Do you have any advice??? ...

I have XP sp2 installed on my pc. I resized the partition, and installed vista on the new second partition. Now when I start XP, I can't log into my domain. I can log in under the admin on the l ...

I am trying to create a Windows Vista image and am running into a problem regarding the requirement that even volume license customers now have to activate Vista. I will be using a MAK to activate, but my problem is not with the activation but my ability to maintain the image over tim ...

Need some advise on the process needed to swap motherboards.I have a Windows Vista Ultimate machine on a AMD X2 3800+ motherboard. It only has AGP, so I want to get to a PCIe mobo. The installation was a clean Vista BUSINESS edition back ...

When I attempt to open Windows Media Player, I receive the following Error:The file wmp.dll has a version number of 26794.47964.26794.46305 where 11.0.6000.6324 was expected.Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. ...

I have a new notebook running vista, but I cannot use the print link to another computer which running windowme. in Vista, can not see other computer, any help is appreciated .thanksguowu ...

I'm trying to log on to my Mac OSX 10.3.9, but all online resources do not work. Any suggestions? I have tried the following site:articles.techrepublic.com.com/510010877_116174105.htmlchris.pirillo.com/2007/03/07/fileshari ...

Hi,I have a folder which I want to be completely inaccessible by anyone but one user. There are only two users on my system, one is only in the Guest group ...

I have a new HP desktop running Vista Home Premium and the latest Earthlink Total Access. Earthlink support admits that their email program is incompatible with Vista, and that I need ...

Is there a way to decrypt a file/folder that was encrypted with windows xp efs. I had a glitch with system and could not log onto system. I had to change the pw for the user account through the administrator ...

I would like to transfer several Distribution Lists from XP Prof., 2002 Outlook to VISTA HP, Windows Mail.The common format that I’ve tried is csv and it works except for all but the Distribution Lists.These DL’s are large and it would be pain to rebuid. Jim ...

Our system currently runs on Windows XP but we are considering purchasing a printer that runs on Vista. Is the printer compatiable to our Windows XP operating ...

Hey all, It seems I'm having a problem with Bittorrent and the downloaded files not showing up in the Explorer. I think it may have something to do with Vista, but i'm not sure. Anyone have any suggestions? BTW the files are there, I've seen them while browsing from another program. Thanks. Chis ...

I have my system downloading a rather large file and it would take several hours to download. I left thinking the computer would download until it is done. I came back and it had gone into SL ...

Hi, I installed Vista, but my computer crashed hard. I had to reinstall Vista. When I try to activate Vista with my product key it says “it is already in use.” which it's not. I'm not willing to buy anot ...

Hello,i have a PC with a Vista Ultimate (32 Bit) installation, which is running fine so far. I tried to install Virtual PC 2007 on it and created a virtual PC with the same Vista Ultimate DVD, which was used to setup the PC itself ...

I use Windows Vista Home Premium with latest version of Winzip 11.1. The extracting (or uncompression) process is so slow that I can measure the rate: approximately one file per second! What's the problem? ...

it seems like i have the same problem as everyone else i have looked on all the different posts and this is what i've done: windows+tab alt+tab personalization>window color and appearance>(however I do not have the option of "open classic for me differnt for more colors&quo ...

I mostly play Grand theft auto sanandreas, need for speed most wanted and halo. But after upgrading to vista GTA and NFS both lag and halo's sound is sort of choppy. Can ...

New update (yesterday) for Light Scribe software Includes control panelAlso, for the person who found the contrast lacking there is also a utility for increasing contrast. lightscribe.com/downloadSection/windows/index.aspx?id=810 ...

I am repeatedly getting an IRQL Not less or equal BSOD. I have checked my memory over night using memtest86+ and then again with mem test built into vista. This is driving me crazy. Here is as much info as I have at this time. Any ideas would be greatl ...

Hello, for some reason my first post got deleted :mad:. I have been browsing this forum and was interested in joining the community. This came at a perfect time, I was upgrading Vista from Home Premium t ...

Hi, Media player (11.0.6000.6324 on Vista Business) doesn't seem to open mpeg/asx files anymore when I click on a link on a website (or within Media Players radio station listings). Currently when I click on a Play button in the Featured Stations listing it opens the URL in IE which ...

is there any way to remove songs and pictures from windows media center without deleting them from the hard drive? ...

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

Hi all,I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit and 64bit, and am experiencing a strange problem with accessing a handful of sites using either Internet Explo ...

I have a Lynksys USB wireless adapter (WUSB54GC), I downloaded the Vista drivers, it connects to my router but only on a limited connection, I have yet to be able to connect to the interenet. Sometimes it will show it as c ...

Suggestion to MS: if you get curious and look in the junkemail folder it always shows you the last message, like all other folders but of course this one is different it shouldn ...

My outgoing messages just sit in the outbox. No error messages and server is in correctly. This happened suddenly. I sent a message and 3 minutes later it quit sending. Any help? ...

in this specific ng with only 2 post not readed, if i pick on icon to mark all as read the operation takes a lot of time, and no other operation can be done thus wm not res ...

I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!! ...

Something very stupid happened to me. Two months ago when I purchased a laptop, with vista installed...I forgot to register it. And now, if I understood right it's too late. Unfortunatelly, Vista stops working program by program each day. What can I do? ...

Just set up wireless broadband and screen saver does not appear to be working. Anyone else had this and know how to solve it? ...

Hi, This seems like a pretty basic thing to do, anyone know how to set up UAC to permanently block a specific program that it flags as suspicious? There is some piece of spyware or something on my computer and User Account Control is frequently asking me whether I want to run it. I always say ...

With XP, I could save login info as part of the RDP settings. This was helpful as I login to our Terminal Server as multiple people.With Vista, it appears as if only the last set of credentials used ar ...

I can't seem to get MS Outlook 2002 to remember the passwords when I restart a session.Anybody know how to get around this?RegardsSimon ...

i've tried rebuilding the index (several times) and checking index the entire C: drive, and still it can't find files which are there, side by side, in the same folder, with the same name and a different number (May 1.jpg, May 2.jpg, etc.).Windows Desktop Search worked in XP, but with Vista ...

Its the little things that drive you nutz! I have been unable to get Vista to default the Numlock to the ON state at boot up. I have set my Dell computer BIOS setting to ON for the Numlock, and it does initially go on at initial boot, however, once the Vista password login windo ...

2 Computers One with Vista Premium and One with XP Home woking off a KVM Switch. At moment the Vista machine is on Broadband via Ethernet. Question...Can I have an extra Ethernet Cable connected to the XP machine and unpl ...

I have recently installed IntelliPoint 6.1 for my new Comfort 3000 mouse.However, everytime I either log out and back in, or when I reboot my PC, the pointer speed and scrolling options always rese ...

I just installed Vista from XP, and i had several important files hidden on my computer. I didn't unhide them when i transfered them over into a seperate hard ...

OK, it's late and not getting it. Why can't I follow http links in an email when clicking (or double clicking) on them? I even tried the old Word CTRL+ click trick to activate the ...

We've had Vista and Microsoft Messaging for a couple of months and have 2 accounts ... my husband's email is the default and my email address is listed as (1). All worked fine until recently ...

My Vista (Home Premium) is configured to synchronize the time with time.windows.com server. However, it is done only on Sat at 9pm. There seems to be no way to change the automatic schedule. There is a ...

Hi, Im using Vista in a domain. While logging into the local user, I've got all icons and buttons and the quick launch icons are there to joy my day :) While logging into the domain account, they are gone and I can't restore them. I've tried anything I can think of and nothing work. Even when ...

Would like to have windows explorer open to my computer and not to my documents. Can this be done? What is public folder and how do I remove it?? Thank youOldgoat ...

I can unzip Compressed Installers in XP, but in Vista, no matter what I use, it wants to not only Uncompress the Zip, but all the Compressed Install Files in the Zip.Anyone know of a Extraction Utility that does not do this in Vista, or how to keep ...

Whenever I reply to an email, my signature is added, but the link in the signature appears just as text and not a hyperlink. What can I do to fix this? nizan ...

When I visit a page that has an iPix viewer it crashes Internet Explorer. Does anyone know why this is happening? ...

Hi All!I am automating Word/Excel 2007 in VC++ using type lib of Office97. Whenever i am opening any document in Word/Excel using my software, it gives an error "The requested member of the collection does not exist. ...

hey guys so i just bought a brand new laptop with Windows Vista Basic. i was happy about it, it's really great but once i downloaded Windows Live Messenger as it told me to do, i tried to sign in it says ...

I've just got this computer and am working with Vista for the first time. So far, so good. One thing that annoys me though: when I turn on the CP in the morning, instead of it going directly to desktop, it stops and asks me for a pa ...

When desktop comes up an error box appears "WMP11CFG.exe unable to locate component". Box info is "W32N50.dll not found". Just hooked up this new PC and is added as wir ...

Any known solution that actually work? I'm getting "Error 1719. The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur..." when I try to Install Virtual PC, but other applications install just fine. So far only Virtual PC seem to be cau ...

I have 13 critical vista and office updates; however they all fail. I get error 80070643. I have followed the instructions more than once and retired more than once. Still no go. Am I ever going to be able to update? Please ...

I am dual booting Windows XP with Windows 2000 and I will have a new machine soon.On my new machine, is it possible to quadruple boot Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Vista 32 and Vista 64 on 4 different partitions?My installation sequence: Windows XP first, followed by Windows XP ...

Hi,I am wondering is there any difference between MUI language pack for Vista and the localized versions? Say, I buy a Vista Ultimate and install a simplified Chinese language pack, is it going to be different (or, say any important difference) from the ...

Chris DiBona, Google's opensource programs manager:".. every time you use Google, you're using a Linux machine."desktoplinux.com/news/NS6083062770.htmlSo, you see ... even Frank can do it, thanks to the "ultimate KIS ...

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On my desktop, when I insert the usb key it detects the ReadyBoost. However if I put it in on my laptop (that actually NEEDS it) it tells me that it isn't capable.On the desktop, when you explore the drive, ReadyBoost shows up, but it sho ...

Hello, I recently bougth 4 memory modules from Crucial, in order to have 4GB of memory RAM in my system (1 GB each: Ballistix, 800) but everything woks fine WHEN I used only three of the Dimms (I have a MSI P6N SLI PLATINUM, 3 SATA II SEAGATE HD, INTEL CORE 2 DUO 2.66 MHZ, GEFORCE 8800 ...

I have a lot of software that currently needs Access 97. I bought a Dell laptop and the only OS option was Vista home basic which installs all the ...

does anyone know when WLMusic is released? ...

I play some mpeg files and they go great. Some files the video starts then stops (blue progress bar is at the right end like it was finished playing) but the audio plays at the proper rate. Help me out here. ...

Pan & Zoom slide presentations using Photo Galary worked fine for a while when recently purchased new Dell 1505 w/vista Home Premium, 1.6gh Intel core 2 duo, ATI Mobility Radion 1400, 2 gig Ram. WinSat score is 3.7; . Suddenly the pan & zoom is stutte ...

Whenever Vista Ultimate sleeps it loses its internet connection. Static IP. Eventually it recovers but the wait is minutes long or requires intervention by running repair. DNS isn't workingXP machine on same network works fine. Vista U. machine works fine too after it's " ...

I recently upgraded from my old Windows XP computer to a new Windows Vista. I setup a the network between the two computers and after a little playing around I was able to get it working and was even able to pri ...

Vista Firewall, a bit of a misnomer. One small step above XP's one way Firewall. it may stop a lot of stuff incoming, but very little outgoing. In fact everything MS and the PC manufacturer, among others wants outgoing, goes out, unknown to you. Go to www.grc.com a ...

This is very strange...My Vista profile is fine, but if my son logs onto his profile, then we switch users to my profile, my profile is not readable, Vista accepts my password, but displays a generic profile for me. That means my email is not configured, and my desk ...

I forget my login password. Is these any way to recover it? I have sony laptop with windows vista home preminum. ...

Hello,For some reason when I go to delete some files it won't allow me to even thought my account is the only account on the computer and is set up as the admin account. It says I nee ...

A multicard reader USB device caused Vista to go funky so I used system restore to go back to before the device was installed. Now, parental controls is blocking access to anyone who is ...

I need help on MapleStory!When started, it turns black!I only hear sound. My graphics is in too 1.0 ...

How do I delete my saved game? I managed (by accident) to save a game now every time I start spider solitaire i am asked if I want to continue my saved game (which I don't, cos it's in a losing position!). Thanks. ...

Hi, i have a problem that when i was receiving the emails, the wireless connection lost and some of the emails were damaged and could not be read in my inbox. However, they ...

I cannot copy and paste in Windows Mail, Why? ...

I have been receiving emails from friends of mine that says there is an attachment, but there isn't any attachment.I've asked them to resend and still nothing. I have cleared the "dangerous email t ...

Vista Home Prem and everything's pretty good really. Sorry about that <grin>. Just curious as to why every name in my Windows Mail contact list has ".contact" after ...

Can somebody tell me where Vista Home Prem stores read newsgroup files? XP had dbx files, what does Vista have???TIA, Irwin Opper ...

I'd like to add some new contacts, but I don't see a button 'new contact'. Who can help me? Thank you! Luc ...

i have a mail in my inbox of windows mail and whenever i try to delete that mail i get the error msg and that mail cannot be deleted. "An error has occured" due to this i am unable to do anything in win mailcan anybody help me plz? ...

I wonted to try ReadyBoost but I'm getting "The device is plugged into an unsupported interface." I have USB 2.0. I've tried three different flash disks already the error message is the same.Rafa� ...

Can anybody tell me why the actions in the Start Menu are so sluggish, and how to fix it? When I click on Start > All Programs and I hover the mouse on the items there, it takes a while to respond with the ...

Hello! I've been working on this for several hours and can't seem to find anything that addresses my issues. I am trying to send a fax with a custom calling card. I have the calling card information entered into t ...

I try to select all files in a folder with CTRL+A but it doesn't work, any way to solve this? ...

I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything in it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old. So, I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto the new HD, but leave ...

I take back 87.32% of all the bad things I've said about Vista. Even though Scandisk showed no problems, I was getting regular file corruptions, seek retries and general malaise of my system. I then ran SpinRit ...

The bar The <Recovery (H:)> is completely red and shows only 2.66 MB free of 9.83 GB. Consequently, on my taskbar I’m repeatedly getting a popup box that says < ...

i recently change my full computer name, and wanted to change it back, but i forgot my old full computer name, is there a way to find out? ...

Hi, I'm finally getting around to upgrading to Vista. So I purchased an external drive (Maxtor 3200) to back up everything on my Dell Dimension E520 prior to installation. I waited for an hour and a half while e ...

My apologies if there is a solution posted I have completed a search & have found lots of common thread with others with the same/similar problem, but I have yet to find an actual sol ...

Boycott Both Dell And Nvidia, Just FYI.Kevin John Panzke (MSDN Operating Systems Level Subscriber and Microsoft Technet Plus Direct Subscriber)P.S. Call or Write To Your ...

I am running Windows Home Basic. It is no longer allowing me to perform administrator tasks like installing and uninstalling programs. This is a new problem as of a couple of weeks ago.When I try to uninsta ...

Hello, I have a Windows Vista Ultimate, I just installed it 2 days ago... The aero feature not only doesn't seem to be working, but it doesn't even seem t ...

I tried to partition my 120GB Vista hard drive using the following:"Resize Partitions with Vista Disk Management Posted 6/28/2006 by Steve Sinchak Total Views: 22,896 Views Today: 25 In Windows Vista it is now possible to resize partitions without ...

Is there a way to put customer links in the start menu? More specifically, I want to create a link to my downloads folder like the links to pictures and music. Is this possible?Thanks ...

With Vista you have no real control over your security, the idiots generate it. The idiots being Microsoft. You may change things, but, if you do, Microsoft refuses connection. Time to st ...

Abit IB9 motherboard with an ITE 8211F IDE controller onboard. Vista loads the native Vista driver fine and the drives show up as DVDRW drives in Windows Explorer. But under PROPERTIES, there is no RECORDING tab. Th ...

I'm looking for help on this one, I've been trying to fix it for the last 2 days to no effect. If I insert any disc into into my Asus 1612BL dvd drive it green lights chunters for a minute or two and then goes dead, right clicking on t ...

I am having a new PC with Windows Vista delivered tomorrow. One of the first actions I want to take is to install on it connection to my existing Broadband vi ...

Inclosed is a screenshot of the error. I have tried installing about 5 times and keep getting the same error. I did the Microsoft update and still it doesn't work.img215.imageshack.us/img215/1934/pieceofshitvistafc4.png ...

HELP! I have looked everywhere for help on this. I tried loading my MS Picture It! Premium 10 software (stand alone version) on my new Notebook that came with Vista on it. It loaded fine but when I try to click ...

Recently purchased new HP computer and wide screen monitor with Vista Home Premium loaded. All images whether jpegs, video's, or web page pictures are wide and short. Everyone appears short and fat. I thought ...

I have just added a Vista laptop to my network. Three other computers on the network use XP. Have changed the workgroup name and downloaded the protocol for the XP computers. The XP computers see the Vista computer in the ...

Hello, Ive been having this problem for about a month now, I was able to upload on my network and on the internet. Then all of a sudden aim unable to transfer files over the internet or on my network I have other non vista systems on the network and they are fine I have the latest updates ...

We have a system that is comprised of 3 executables. They're all about controlling displays. 1) Service.exe A service (running as local system) 2) Main.exe ...

Recently, my norton antivirus 2007 cannot load its virus definition. Therefore, I reinstalled the software withou