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i`m searching for a new trial password for my Vista,Where can i find one? ...

Hi All I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall I buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games and games only. I will be buying ultimate.Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.Asus Crosshair motherboard AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu 2 ...

In Internet Explorer links to web pages could easily be included in email with a couple of clicks. A blessing. I'm just getting started in Vista but already Windows Mail is annoying me by telling me I don't have a "profile" and it will not (or cannot?) perform this extremely useful ...

When I try to create a new message (email), it defaults to "New Message Unicode (UTF8)". This has only just started happening. How can I go back to 'normal' New Message? I have checked all the 'tools' settings and I can't fins a solution. Does anyone know why this suddenly st ...

I have just moved my files from XP to Vista on a Laptop. The address book has moved into something now called contacts. When I started an email on XP, I only had to type the first letter or two of the email addess and Outlook would find the full email address. In this new Vista mail ...

I used this under XP and no problem. Vista changes network connection to limited when VPN connects.Situation: SBS2003 server with 2 NIC's. one to local switch and one to ADSL router for internet. My PC connected to switch to SBS2003. My PC also has satellite card i ...

Running pretty fast system e6600 oc'd to 3.6, 4gb pc8500, 10k raptor raid boot drive, 8800gts, vista64Problem is I have a VERY large music collection ...

Hi I firstly would like to point out that I know NOTHING about computers. I have Windows XP and I would like to clean up my C drive via Disk clean up. It came up with various files such as; Temporary Internet files, set up log files, webclient/Publisher Temp ...

I just ordered a new Dell XPS 410 with Vista Home Premium already installed. The person at Dell who helped me with each "part" of the computer said that Vista would work well with the basic ch ...

Having some trouble with my defragment task. I set up a scheduled task to wake the computer and run defragment. The computer at the appropriate time starts, but shuts off approximately 2 minutes later for a minute, then starts up again only to keep repeating this until I actually logon. I h ...

I've got a 2nd drive (D:) that I use just for backing up Drive C. There is a System Volume Information folder on that drive that is taking up 60GB. My understanding is that this folder contains restore points. The pr ...

I have a Dell PC that came preloaded with Vista. My Canon MP700 printer connected well to the PC (I can print). However I've tried to install MP Toolbox Ver. 4.1.1.0mp01 (Windows Vista) from the Canon web site. When I run MP Toolbox and click on "Settings" ...

Using Vista Ultimate, how can I display external subtitles in WMP 11 when watching avi files/movies?I have all relevant codices installed and can easily play avi movie files with their relevant subtitles using the Classic WMP v6.4.9 ...

Hi I've bought a copy of black and white 2 and when i get to the start of the intallation and it a window comes up and tell my that DirectX 9c wasnt installed and to restart the intallation to finnish this process but when i restart the installation it comes back up!! Ca ...

Does anyone know how I can receive news feeds in Windows Mail? Would be much easier to view feeds in Windows Mail given the fact that I view my email and newsgroup in Windows Mail already. I have tried some searches to find a solut ...

Have lost abillity to INSERT (rather than attach) photos in Yahoo Mail. Their PhotoSite site doesn't even mention Vista Is a fix coming? ...

My Vista problems seem to be neverending. I don't even know if this really is a Vista problem. I created a spreadsheet in Works, which came with Vista on my new ...

I tried te establish a network between a laptop with Vista Home Premium, by using a hub and two other computers, one (PC) with XP pro and one (laptop) XP HE. Both other computers recognize the Vista laptop in the workgroup but the Vista laptop doesn't recogn ...

Can anyone tell me the steps to install oracle database 10g on windows vista ...

Some of my folders in Explorer offer "Extended Tiles" option and some don't offer this option. I think I observed it on my external NTFS drive ...

Hi all Here is the problem and it seems to have recently popped up and is happening on all my Vista Ultimate installs.Normal Expected Behavior: While exploring the contents of a folder on a loca ...

HEY CAN SOMEONE HELP ME I AM A OWNER IN A CHATROOM I USE A BOT TO HELP CONTROL ROOM. THE PROBLEM IS IN XP I COULD GOT TO REGEDIT THEN FOLLOW PATH TO GET TO ...

Http no longer supported by vista (utlima let down) I would assume when I buy a product 5 or 6 times in a row they are all backwards compatable and i can use t ...

After having made a base image and a couple of followup images, I tried to make another image the other day, only to have the backup stop in the middle (briefly showing a blank screen) a ...

Windows Vista Home Premium.Using windows explorer I see the following:C:\programdata\application data\ folder contains an entry for 'application data' folder which in turn contains an entry for 'application data' folder which contains .....The same is seen c:\users\< ...

Since I updated to Vista, I have been having trouble downloading larger files. For example I am trying to get the new driver for my sound card which is 10.4M. But when I download it, it only goes to about 1M to 4M and then stops and says its done. I would have though ...

The new Media Player will play some avi files but not others. I have downloaded several codec packs, but none of them have solved the problem. Anyone know of a pack that will fix this? ...

I currently use Vista home premium OEM and have reinstalled a fair few times. Why? Because I can't stop messing around with my setup and breaking things.The hardwa ...

I installed Vista Ultimate 64 on a dual partition, the installation was good and Vista was working very well. I then attempted to install Linux on the second partition, however Linux didn't start the intall in the second pa ...

I have activated my copy of Vista Home Premium obtained via OEM upgrade.Due to certain incompatibilities with software needed for work, I need to downgrade to XP.If I downgrade to XP, and later choose to upgrade to Vista again, will activation fail? ...

We have noticed an issue with out licensing server that relates to issuing licences for all versions of Vista.We query the WMRMChallenge object to extract the client attributes for a request, when the client PC is a XP or 2000 then all of following client attributes can be read:ClientVersion, S ...

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 run it on my laptop ...

Wordpad's message box font doesn't reflect the font I choose for the message box font in the Advanced Appearence. Although it appears all other message boxes do. Any ideas??Thanks, James ...

Yesterday MP3's would play with any player I have. Today they won't play on any player. Volume meter shows rises and falls in volume so it would appear th ...

My PC has been running for 4 days and I have noticed the the size of Explorer.exe has grown to a whoppung 520MB in working memory usage. as ststaed in the Reliability & Performace Monitor. Is this a bug or nornal for Vista? Current memery usage is over 950MB. ...

Hello, Core Duo 2.13 XP Pro 2002 Service Pack 2 2GB Ram I just received my upgrade copy of Vista Business. Have a second empty hard drive and want to install Vista there so that I can dual boot and just & ...

What is recommended keyboard for Vista USB or PS/2? ...

ok so I got vista ultimate and just put a TV card in that I have been given. my problem is when I finally got it all installed I went to set it up in media center but I get the error message:TUNER NOT FOUND The TV signal cannot be configured because no tuner hardware was det ...

Is there a scenario where a new Vista PC delivered to your door would NOT try to do the Genuine Advantage phone home? Could vendors do that before shipping, without setting up user accounts? ...

How is it that I make it so that I can listen to the linein jack on the back of my computer through my speakers. I know that my hardware is working correctly because I am able to ...

I installed windows vista ultimate, but I cant get online vista doesn't recognize my compaq nc3121 NIC fast ethernet card. I've tried to find drivers online to make it work but can't find anything. Please Help Me ...

Ok, I just bought a £2,000 sony laptop (that's $4,000 US). I started it up... waited for the first use setup process to go through... selected uk keybo ...

Hi,Suddenly my Vista install can't boot into normal, safe mode or last good configuration, before reaching the login screen a BSOD flashes and then the system reboots the BSOD happens too quickly to read any information from it. Bootin ...

I bought an Acer laptop with Windows Vista Premium preloaded on it, but after a couple weeks it started having a lot of problems. So I did a complete reformat and reinstall, everything works now but the drivers for all my USB devices. Devices ...

When I try to upload a video to www.utube.com, it starts to upload, then the uploading bar says it is at 100% but it doesn't take me to the next step. It should redirect me to the next page but it doesn't. I use OS Vista Home Premium. On my OS X ...

Hi, I am using Windows Vista Business and up to like a month ago Remote Desktop stopped working. No matter which user I use I get a "Required file not found" error when I try to connect to my PC. Anybody know of anyway to fix it without reinstalling the entire OS? ...

I try to chage a few letters for a progrom to run. Needs to be modified and running vista and with all these blocks wont let me save it. Tried to change all my settings to run as admistrator too. If have an answer plz help me. ...

Hallo! My problem is: I use vista busines, in my local network i see server 2000 and all files wich are shared. But when i vant to copy or open file then mesage: "Destination folder acces denied, you need permission to permit this action" I am in domai ...

Thanks to paradox, who makes this great tool... I guess the original crack on OEM Vista is from China.. But that required a risky BIOS reflashing... until now... I must say, here in Thailand, more and more PC freaks are start using "legit" ...

Hi!First of all, sorry for my english! Then ...SO: Vista Home Premium3 disk disk 0 : sata, ~400 gb disk 1 : pata, ~300 gb ( ide 0/0 ) disk 2 : pata, ~120 gb ( ide 0/1 )partitions (all NTFS, created by vista)disk 0 : volume 0, 48 gb, letter C, boot, system, p ...

Is it possible to change the size of the fonts that the tray clock uses? I am referring to the one in the lower left hand cornor of the desktop.Thanks You ...

When running a .msp, logged in as an admin, we get an error basically saying insufficient privileges. It does not bring up a box to escalate credentials t ...

Backups have been running for 1 month. I freed up same space on external hard drive. Now when I run backup. It fails and I get "The system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002). What file did I purge that it ...

The beta for Ultramon has finally been released. This brings improved Vista support, and is a great program if you have more than one monitor.www.ultra ...

I got an alert a few minutes ago from Update about a new patch, which I assumed was the ANI bug fix. Downloaded it and installed it; computer would not restart. After the repair routine, tried to restart again with no luck. Second time throug ...

how do you increase your memory index from 4.9 to 5.9 ...

Dear friends:Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I received m ...

How would I enter a license number or key to an existing vista trial version? It is currently installed ...

I installed Vista as an upgrade to XP. After the upgrade, I had the program Roxio which I never had before. I only had Nero. It also installed Norton Antivirus, which was not installed on my computer. After the upgrade, I was having problems with some of my programs, so I decided to ...

I run Vista Home Premium (32 bit)When I start the machine the Bios tends to get stuck (freezes) before completing.Any idea what might be causing this, and how to cure the problem.I have been to ...

Just for infoI am running Dell Dimension XPS (liquid cooled) 710 quad core 3.2. with high spec guts, and recently upgraded to vista ultimate.Even after installing the latest graphics/sound card drivers etc from the relevant manufacturers (which dell ale ...

At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440 seats to Vista. The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media player. In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select the option to allow WMP to open mutiple v ...

All,I have a machine running a didicated Nvida Geforce 7600 GT 256 Megs of ram. My Machine is running 2 gigs of ram. In Vista in the about section it shows I have Total availabe graphics memory 751MB; Dedicated graphics Memory 256 MB; 495MB S ...

I have a Creative Labs Web Cam Live which doesn't work with Vista. As I bought it AFTER Vista had been released, I didn't bother to check to see if it would work with Vista but, now that I've installe ...

I can not get my sound loud enough on my acer 5050 ever since I upgraded to vista. I tried everything, I updated the driver and turned everything up but it is still v ...

I received a new desktop from <insert name of whitebox manufacturer here> with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. Unfortunately every time I reboot the machine, the System Preparation Tool window pops up. I grow weary of canceling the window after ...

Hello everyone,I've always used Windows as a "limited user". When I needed to update drivers, install software, or configure security, I would log in as the local Administrator, perform that work, and log back in as my limited user account.I planned to do the same at home ...

OS Vista/ I use either MSN explorer or IE7.. I click on the bar and select run, then Live Onecare has to be installed, i install it, then it tells me to lauch Live onecare, so after i hit the launch button is when i get the bar that says ...

How do u reinstall Winmail in Vista Ultimate? ...

I'm still in the testing phase of Vista and have run into something I can't explain with Windows Mail. I installed Outlook 2007 and had no problem opening the old PST file from the XP version and getting 2007 working flawlessly in Vista. Then, I opened Windows Mail and ...

When I use the export funtion in Window Mail to export to Outlook 2003 it seems to export or at least do something, telling me its going throught the folders. It also finishes with no error messages. But when I open Outlook none of the messages have been transferred/imported.Anyone have a ...

Using Vista Ultimate...I cannot send any mail because every time I hit SEND a dialog box requesting dialup properties opens.We're running broadband only and don't even have a modem installed! (on a ...

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The DMA setting for my ATA Cd Drive keeps resetting to POI. ...

Screenshot here: spencercommunity.com/systemperformance.gifThis is how the system looks merely an hour after booting up, with minimal applications launched (WMCenter, one IE window with single tab). Here is a list of processes running: spencercommuni ...

FYI:Got a Vista X64 SM56 modem driver to install for my Vista X64 Ultimate from this site : radarsync.com/vista/ Sent and received a fax successfully v ...

I'm having problems printing with my canon i560 using windows vista. It as working just fine but suddenly it refuses to print. I get a msg saying that the ink cartridge is "almost full" and to hit the resume button for every document. It's a pia to have ...

Anybody know of a way I can get my HP Photosmart 7760 printer to work with VIsta Home Premium? ...

I just bought a new Dell Inspiron 1501, 2 gigs ram.......with Vista Home premium. out of the box the cd/dvd did not work, I had to download a new driver, not a good way to start. I installed MS office, itunes and Firefox. The system is not useable due to the slowness of the sy ...

Hi all, I have a new Vista Premium notebook and am in the process of setting it up to my liking but have one question.How can I add shortcuts to the Windows Explorer tool bar? It does not have the "CUT, COPY ...

After my computer has been idle for a few hours I find a dialog box with the message saying the Host Process has stopped working. When I click the close button, I see a help ICON in my system tray. When I click, up pops a Windows Help and Support box. It's open to a section ti ...

Are jpg photo disks created with Vista no longer readable in XP?!!! ...

Hi,I have a Legit version of Vista and yet I ALWAYS get the 'validation' required whenever I try to download something from MS.I have installed all the Updates so ...

I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no dr ...

I presently run the FX5200. Aero works fine. Everything (bar the bloody NETWORKING with my wife's XP Pro machine!) works fine. But my FX5200 only has 128MB RAM onboard.Will upgrading to FX5500 with 256 MB onboard RAM make an apprecia ...

Any ideas where the best place to import music for DVD movie maker? I have tried peer2peer, itunes, and windows media player files. The wma files from ...

Hi! I bought a Sony Vaio notebook with Windows Vista preinstalled. I interrupted upgrading when I realized it takes several hours because I had no time. Next day I tried to d ...

I am unable to rename a new file or folder on a network share with Windows Vista Business Edition. When I try, it pulls up a "Copy Folder" dialog box. This is what the box says: The Z:\Docs folder does n ...

Hi I'm using Vista home premium, upgraded to ultimate.No previous versions are listed for files or folders. manual & automatic restore points are being created. Full restore works, but nothing is listed for previous versions NTFS disc, 81Gb free, VSS ser ...

i no longer can send emails from my charter acct. i keep getting the following error The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'kk', Account: 'windows mail', Server: 'smtp.charter.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secur ...

As you may know, the "Fixed: Windows Calendar has stopped working" bug has now got a hotfix, see:MessageID: Has anyone got a copy of the dialog box that appeared? I'd like to add it to a FAQ I'm writing. If you still have the problem, could you do an ...

I recently was given a laptop with Vista on it. I prefer to have XP on it like my pc. Is there a problem with installing it on top of Vista? ...

I have the ultimate which has it's own system backup but the only thing bad is the backup is 20 gigs. When I could use Ghost 9.0 I could compress it nicely and then Ghost 10.0 came out and there were no compression on it. I would ...

Is there any way in Windows Update for my Vista system to not have Update list out all 15 language packs for the rest of my Vista life? Every time I run Update, I get the "15 updates to install." I don't speak Finnish, nor do I plan on learni ...

A lot of times on Vista, when I take a screenshot, I go to Paint and go to paste, but it's unavailable. Also, sometimes when I do go to paste it, it says that it couldn't get the clipboard data. It doesn't always do this. Is this a bug? Thanks. ...

I program a lot in Quick Basic 45, but on my new wide screen laptop I am blocked from using a graphics screen, with the diagnostic: system does not support full screen operation (or close to this; it specifies my qb45 s ...

Every time a plug in my jump drive this thing turns on. Can this automatic operation be turned off? ...

I have an AMD Turion 64, MK36 on a computer that came with XP Media Center Edition. The "64" after the AMD name tells me that the processor must be 64 ...

I downloaded and installed BT 5.0.7, which they claim is compatible with Vista. It slowed my system to a crawl and gobbled up nearly 1.5G of memory. Just about all other programs simply became nonresponsive. Once I uninstalled BT the problems disappeared. ...

Hello,I have Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. In the last five weeks, I have noticed that, whenever I leave my computer in Sleep or Hibernation mode, it wakes up itself the next day exactly at 10:00:00 AM local time. From the Task Scheduler, I disabled the UserTaskRoam ...

OK so I've only been able to run Vista 64 when setting my DRAM Frequency to 200MHZ on 'this' (i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/xcingix/IMG00048.jpg) pag ...

hi i am trying to figure out how to shutdown a vista 32 machine while remotely connected from vista 64 machine while connected i can use everything no problem. but i would like to be able to shut it down when finished as its in another room any help appreciated is it possib ...

When you create a DVD from a HD OTA DVRMS recording the 5.1 audio gets downconverted to 2.0.Is there a way to make the 5.1 carry over. Should be able to move the AC3 over without any processing. ...

How do you set up stable filesharing to a Soundbridge?I have a new HTPC running Vista Premium. I also have a XP notebook, 3 other XP machines, a Netgear router and 2 Soundbridge media devices. I have my media files on a network drive (Maxtor). All have worked flawlessly (but a bit noi ...

I am new to Vista (Ultimate) and trying to run a DOSbased program. The program seems to load and work but I am having trouble printing I get an error mes ...

I just got a new computer with vista home premium on it. I installed steam, updated my graphics card drivers, and installed cs:s and it worked great for a few days. But now, whenever I try to launch cs:s, it just takes me to ...

Is it possible to get Windows Mail to remember your email address but not the password? ...

I recently installed windows vista home premium 32 bit on my home pc. I connected my hp printer and it automatically downloaded the necessary drivers. The printing function works ...

Folks, Does anybody know how to use Windows Vista Backup utility to copy my main hdd to a smaller older ATA hdd without copying or backing up the videos and recorded TV? The full backup requires14 ...

I have had similar problems installing a number of programs under Vista (Paint Shop Pro X and XI, Roxio MyDVD, Acrobat Reader V8.0, even a Microsoft Word 2007 file compatibility patch for Office 2003), though most progr ...

On my Vista Ultimate the music link on the startmenu is no longer working. right clicking it brings up an empty properties window. And on the "Start Menu" tab in "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" window, music is no longer an o ...

Just starting using vista and I've found a file with AN attributes. I know what A is but not N. attrib /? gives no help. It certainly makes the file hard to share. I've created some programmatically using standard fopen()... fclose().CACLS and ...

I had a chance to connect this same eSATA drive to another Premium Vista system. It acts the same way: Vista doesn't see it unless the bios saw it upon boot.Besides for Will, has anyone tried bringing an ...

I have a Dell XPS 710 that have a Creative XiFi Xtreme card that worked very well under Windows Vista Home premium. I upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate today and the driver selected give a Code 10. I went to the Dell site and downloaded the newest ...

Hi, Is their a way to watch the movie from my video camera directly through media center (or any other buitin software) without actually importing the video onto the disk?Thanks, Vishal ...

i was sending a message to a friend and to save time i replied to a old message but changed the subject, when i pressed send a error massege appeared! the message then went to my outbox but would not send, neither would any oth ...

before i installed vista i was able to click print then properties so i could change how i wanted it to print like fastdraft or print in black ink only now i cant click the prop ...

Vista Ultimate explorer window is too small for me. I have to resize it larger each time I explore a folder. How do I get it to open in the larger size with ...

For the first week or so after I installed Vista Ultimate x64, the Indexing Service ran almost continuously. After a few days, Vista complained that it was running out of room on my Drive C:. The index file was taking over 10 GB on that 20 GB volume, crowding out everyt ...

I think it is this one, just to make sure, I am posting the other error report that I recieved below this oneLog Name: System Source: nvstor64 Date: 4/17/2007 3:50:16 PM Event ID: 129 Task Category: None Level: Warnin ...

I have a dutch OEM package of Vista Home Premium. On startup the texttospeech program starts to read everything, which is kinda awkward as the only voice that came with my Vista is english. I have not found any way to download or install other voice ...

Hi Guys, Im having a vista prob. After finding a vista driver for my audio chip, I installed and it works fine, but after turning the machine off then back on the driver has dropped and rev ...

This is just a data point that all is not perfect.I downloaded and installed the new nvidia driver for my 7950GT. I did a spot check of various programs to see if there were any changes. The Mahjong Titans g ...

There is so much talk about being a Postal Employee here in the Vista group, I was wondering if anyone had information on how one can become a Postal Employ ...

I have Vista Basic Preinstalled. Now I would like tp upgrade to Ultimate edition. I heard that there is an Upgrade edition available which is cheaper but I am not sure if it will upgrade an OEM edition. Is ...

Subject: Re: Internet Explorer in Vista Home Premium 4/19/2007 8:26 AM PSTBy: Richard Urban In: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general "Davy49" **************************************** ...

I have spent three weeks with Vista. Problems are more and more frequent. Many programs cannot run on Vista, even Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer, which have to close regularly. Even Sony, the manufacturer of my new notebook, & Ericss ...

Are there any usb tv tuners that are compatibble with vista premium? ...

I'm trying to upgrade from XP to Vista. The installation interrupts saying I have to convert from FAT32 to NTFS in Command Prompt. When i try to do this I keep getting an error message "Conversion from FAT32 to NTFS. Volume not available ...

Hi when I synce files from wmp11 to my mp3 player, it puts mp3 files in folders, so i have various folders for each artist on my machine, I would rather have one folder with all the songs so that i can randomise the playlist. The only way i have found to achieve this is ...

Hello everyone, I have seen various postings on this issue but no resolutions so I would appreciate anyone's help as it is very dissappointing. New computer and I have been working for a few hours on Movie Maker and it is just progressively getting worst. At this po ...

i have been trying to work this out: have a home network adsl router with wireless connecting via ethernet to a xp desktop and a vista laptop wirelessly. the vista can see the xp through full network map: vista === WAp===Gateway==internet ...

I was noticing odd disconnects running networked application on my laptop since installing vista on it. After quite a bit of delving, what I'm seeing is this.I'm using ping as a way of checking for network connectiveity, it is a basic but seemingly effec ...

I have a Vista PC with some network drives mapped to folders on a network disc and on an XP PC. In Windows Explorer these initially show after bootup as 'disconnected' with a red cross on the icon but become connected when they ...

Does Vista Home Basic have the IUSR user account? I can't see it in the list of user names. Can I create one if it doesn't exist?Thanks ...

Is there anyone out there besides myself who have had a positive expierience with vista? I have Vista Premium with a Pentium D 805, 2 gigs ram, 2 gigs ready boos ...

OK, With my xp contacts list, I had a sub folder with a group (WWII) of people in. When I went to send an email to some of that WWII group. I had a drop down, reg ...

I can receive, but not send. Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject 'test', Account: 'c ...

Ik wou daarjuist een mail sturen met 2 bijlages (25 en 29 kb) en dan krijg ik de melding : sommige bestanden zijn niet gevonden en kunnen niet bij het bericht worden gevoegd. Wilt u het bestand toch verzenden? Wat moet ik hiermee ...

Hi all,I need to Reinstall or repair Windows Mail in Windows Vista x32 but in the INF folder on C:\Windows\inf a dont found the .inf to reinstall the application like a IE.if in Windows XP.Anyone knows how i do this? r ...

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This is a repost of something I put up a while back and got no response! Would like to try again. Hopefully somebody out there has an idea or suggestion. Her goes:I have a problem w ...

Hello.I just got a new computer with Vista Home Premium, and have a question about Windows Media Player. I've searched various help documentation and could not find the answer, so I'd ...

While I'm playing WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, Vista always restarts on me after I'm like 15 mins into the game. Before the restart, it freezes up and I get the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). PC Specs Intel® Centrino® Duo ...

Hi, can anyone help please. I had a power surge kill my old PC and had to buy a new one, it has come with Windows Vista installed but all of my old software was installed on my old IDE drive from the broken PC. I am trying to fin ...

I was recently responding to a post where a user had accidently unticked the "Always ask before opening" box in IE7 for file downloads, and discovered the key (no pun intended) in rectifying the problem was to delete t ...

Why cant I see the "legend" in defrag anymore ? I have NO idea how long its going to take !! ...

How do I change the network name in Vista from workgroup to something else? i wanna change it from WORKGROUP to MSHOME. Also is there a wizard in Vista for setting ...

Is the GA8IK1100 (Rev 1.x) motherboard compatible with Windows Vista OS? ...

Status bar doesn't show file size when no file is selected why? I can highlight a file and it shows size. In all previous Windows versions this worked fine.This has to be a programming mistake. Will it be fixed in a serv ...

I have a belkin wireless g network card F5D7000 installed but when I start vista it comes up with a blocked startup program message wlan starter utility. How do I stop this from appea ...

I am running vista 32 ultimate and have been updating fine with windows update then one day it stops installing them also the windows defender wont start up or update either so i think the problems are linked i have tried with ...

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

I have Vista Premium Home edition. How can I copy my vinyl collection to the hard drive? RjI waited months to get a computer with Vista. Oops. ...

I'm receiving mail for just one of my email accounts and I have 3. I have attempted to import my email accounts so that they all flow into one email inbox. The message that appears states that importing the email accounts have already been done but then ...

I have chosen 'frost' for my color in the color and appearance section, but when I maximize my windows the tops become black, as does the sidebar and taskbar. is there some way to make them stay white/clear? ...

Hello, I have saved a short video on my hard drive and emailed it to a family member. When I play the file back, off my hard drive, the audio and video are in sync but when I open the sent email containing the attachment, the audio lags behind ...

i am running windows me, and as we know all updates are all gone, can some one help the cheapest way to get a upgrade? also what is this windows vista?? also i am still learning about pc, should i even get a upgrade? well thank you ...

Hi there, I've just bought a new notebook with Vista installed... each time I launch a program, Messenger for ex., Vista asks me if I really want to launch that program (naturally YEAS! otherwise I wouldn't click on it!!!)... it's really boring and useless!!! Please, how can I turn off ...

Hello, I put together a VB login script for XP and I'm trying to get it working in Vista. I'm currently having some trouble getting Vista to realize that I've changed the desktop wallpaper.I am able to apply a new desktop with the script below but ...

Ok, ok ... I know.The problem is that there is an old program written in Access97 that is still used here in my office. And none of the users want to migrate to any of the canned ...

Hi, I have some problems with Vista. When I try to download a certificate on a smart card I connect to a CA, running on Windows 2000 Server, (CAservername/certsrv) the problem is when I would use the advanced option, in the last page when download t ...

Back when I had XP on my PC, I ran a cool little utility called VirtualCD (written by MS). Basically it would run a driver which would allow me to mount .iso images as a drive letter. Q1: is this functionality builtin to Vista? Q2: if q1 is ...

I have Word 97 running on Vista Business.When I try to send an email through WordFile Send to Mail RecipientI get an error message that states log on failure, you must log on exchange to access address book.I am u ...

My CPU Heatsink have a preapplied thermal grease. Do i have to buy a thermal grease for my CPU heatsink or can i also apply thermal compound? if i can then which one is better? ...

Here is my hardware setup:AN8 Ultra motherobard AMD 3800+ X2 processor 1 GB RAM 7800GT video card DVD drive and separate DVD +/ RW 160GB IDE hard drive (2 partitions: 40 GB (named Vista) and 120 GB (Vista_Data)) 250GB SATA II hard drive (2 ...

Hello, when I open an artist with WMP all songs have his own symbol. But when I open the folder with this artist with the fileexplorer only some songs are displayed with this symbol, some of them have the default mp3 symbol in ...

I have recently acquired a laptop preloaded with Windows Vista Home Premium which included a TV tuner card. At first I had no trouble buring Recored TV to dvd but today when I tried this Windows Media Centre crashed and I received the following erro ...

I'm having an issue with my home p2p network. My setup: 3 xp home, 1 linspire linux, and a newly built vista ultimate. I also have an lanserver enclosure with a 250 gig drive used for backup. I can read and write to the shar ...

I'm trying to install VMWare v 1.0.344356 on Vista x64 but keep getting an error that windows requires a signed driver. I've tried restarting and selecting Disable Driver Signing option, tried Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON, and gpedit changing the Code Signing for drivers d ...

Hi,how can I set password for my folder in local computer ? when I open particular folder I should ask for password. Thanks & RegardsS.Prasath Vista Expert ...

I am dual booting with XP so no chance of keeping system restore. I am still mainly using XP. So after not having used Vista for 3 weeks I booted into Vista ...

If I play Fifa 07 windows media player will then not load. Any ideas how to fix it? ...

My wife and I both have web mail accounts set up and as of the last couple days her account will not allow a message to be sent. The system beeps but does not show an error message, then leaves the message in the ou ...

just a quick question, on my work computer using outlook my email is displayed by sender along the main part of the page not down the left hand side and I would like to change microsoft mail on my laptop to this layout as I find it ...

I'm new to Vista and so far so good one little thing I don't like I'm using Windows Mail, not MS Office Outlook. I haven't used the wizard to set up Office Outlook and don't care to.When I click on a web page's email link it always brings up Office Outlook inst ...

I've just converted to Vista and have Outlook setup and working fine. Using Windows Vista Mail seems to get lots of errors and I'm wondering if using Live Desktop Mail as my newsreader would work better. If so, is it possible ...

With Windows Vista Email, I have multiple email accounts for business and personal use. When I reply to a message from my Inbox, the email program automatically selects my Default email account as my FROM account rather than selectin ...

De functie importeren van berichten vanuit Outlook Express 6 (*.dbx) naar Windows Mail onder Vista lukt niet. Importeren van het adresboek geeft geen problemen. ...

I cant delete messages out of my outbox and because of this i cant send any emails, it wont let me move it to another folder, i have also tried www.eohelp.com/WMUtil and downloaded that program on to my computer but it wont clean out my outbox... would th ...

If I open a window while flipping through all the open windows, suddenly Flip 3d has turned off. When I reduce the file, everything is back in standard format, and I have to hit the switch between windows button again to get back to flip 3d. ...

Which Windows Vista edition has 64bit or 32bit? Home Premium or Home basic? ...

I attended at TechNet presentation today and they mentioned the guided help feature in Vista Help. I thought it would be a great tool to show my users, both the "do it for you" and step by step options. When I access help on my ...

I am trying to decide whether I should buy Vista or not. Among other places I went to microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/activationfaq.mspx to get some info about the reactivation r ...

Since I did updates today I am having trouble on a couple of sites where I can't see the whole screen as now I have an extra tool bar at the top of the page. ...

To my comrads,When I resize the Windows Update window horizontally, explorer locks up.Start "Windows Update" Click on the right resize portion of the window Drag it l ...

My OS is Vista Home Premium. I purchased and installed Office Outlook 2007. I chose the academic version. I wanted a Word proceesor that would handle the many .doc files that were generated with the 2002 Word and I wanted Ou ...

Why can't I change the icons for Internet shortcuts? I go through the entire change icon routine but the icon doesn't appear on my desktop.Is this anothe ...

Hi,I do indeed have a problem with my SD card being recognized on my HP computer. I bought this computer with Windows Vista Home Premium already installed. When I try to install U ...

I can't find a similar problem anywhere in hte newsgroup or on the web. I apologize in advance if I've missied it. I recenetly moved my favorites folder to a different partition through the location tab in properti ...

I have the problem that my MS fingerprint reader (built into the keyboard) works fine when the computer boots up and when it wakes from sleeping. However, it stops working after a few minu ...

Microsoft products and especially Vista are the worst programs I have ever seen in my entire life and if I hadn't just spent $1200 on this computer I would go out and by a Mac rig ...

I have Windows basic and when I open an email attachment that has Wordpad it makes no sense. It looks likean ants nest. Is there a setting I need to adjust? Thanks ...

Hi there. I got my first notebook computer (Toshiba) a few weeks ago and it came with Vista preinstalled. In general it's worked pretty good. Last week I started having problems logging onto the internet. I was ON, but the computer declined to ...

It looks like nothing works in Vista I try by subject, date nothing comes up. Dis Microsoft screw up. I never had any problem with XP ...

For some reason, my CD/DVD and any flash/external hard drives I connect are inaccessible. They appear in Windows Explorer with a red circle with a line through it over the drive icon.They were working until very ...

I don't know why if I convert my video to MPEG2, Vista's DVD maker insists on ReRendering it again anyway. I didn't have that problem with my old PC (Using Sonic/Roxio, whi ...

Anyone know how to access this feature, the xp nvidia drivers still have it, but now i'm on vista the new drivers dont have this.Can anyone suggest a free lcd/crt colour calibration software as the video is rather washed out.smithy ...

I have written an application that starts a ManagementEventWatcher and uses WMI. The application takes around 01% CPU in XP whereas in Vista CPU usage is 40% continuously. Is there a fix? ...

After using Windows Vista Business Edition for several months, I became utterly frustrated with all the compatibility and "see your administrator" problems (I AM the "administ ...

when i turn my computer to windows vista basic theme i see the mouse arrowkeep flickering when i move it and i hav the lastest update for my graphic card so why this happen .GC: GeForce 8800 GTX ...

I want to establish remote connection to a computer which is in another city and connected to the internet.I have looked at the information in Vista help on how ...

Could anyone tell is there any way I can run ms office 2003 in Vista please. I've tried but the key for the software won't allow it to run in Vista.Many thanks Shir ...

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Is there a way in folder options that will allow me to set up all the views the same in explorer? As far as viewing by group and sizing the width of the name, date modified, type, ect.. columns? I know how to use the apply to folders in the folder options. But unlike XP, Vista does ...

I installed Office 2003 Basic with my new Vista OS computer and everything runs fine, except I get the UAC administrative prompt every time I open Outlook, Word, and Excel. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong? It seems strange to me that I need to give permission f ...

Hi, I want to share my hard disk like XP does, without user and password dialogs on the client, there is a way to do it?I tried activating Guest account but there are no changes...help please...Giancarl ...

I just received my Dell E521 Desktop. Since I started it, I have had a consistent cpu drain ranging from 2% 60%. The usage bounces around and it does it when the computer is idle. It bounces between percentages every 2 seconds or so.It only does this when connected to the ...

I have recently bought a new pc with vista (home basic) already downloaded I bought windows 2007 (home/student) seperately and downloaded it.My problem is that when I send emails from my home ...

I have been trying to activate my copy of Vista and keep getting the following error message:Error code 0x8007232CDNS request not supported by name server.I have 12 days left to activate and would be ever so grateful for help. ...

Hello everybody. Somebody know why when I try to FIND COMPUTER (CTRL+WIN+F) appear this warning: The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable. Thanks. ...

I receive an error message "this application has failed to start because DCIMAN32.dll was not found. I have found this file and deleted and reinstalled it again. However I still receive this message. Any suggestions? ...

Hi all, I've got a problem with using the microphones with windows vista. I buy a new microphone, it works fine, and vista ask me to allow the use (and I say yes) and after some days, from night to day, it stop working: the laptop does not recognise it anymore. At the beginning I though it w ...

I am using EXPstudio Audio Editor with Vista Home Premium. When I used this application with XP there was a recording device "Microsoft Sound Mapp ...

I have Windows Vista Ultimate and i downloaded windows media player 11 and installed it, but after installing i discovered that i needed the 64bit download for wmp11. when i try to install the 64bit version it says that i cannot go back to an older version, how can i uninstal ...

I apologize if this was answered yet but is it possible to install Vista to an external drive? During beta period I had attempted to install the vista beta to my WD external drive and was told by tech support that it wasn't possible (at that time). Has this changed now so that it ...

ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER (122): The data area passed to a system call is too small.When installing our hardware in Vista, our setup program gets this error when calling UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices. The setu ...

Hi,I'm trying to restore a PC from Vista to XP using the Windows.old folder. I understand most of the instructions I find here:Z:\Freelance\May 2007\Uninstall Vista Upg ...

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit Had DreamScenes running, now all I get is a black screen, any idea? Thanks K.Bean ...

I have a new dell vista with plenty of "stuff" for pictures and movies however, for whatever reason and may be it is because I am older and not technical oriented to some extent, I cannot import from my mini dvd camcorder either in Windows moviemaker ...

Hi all,I am trying to automatically save clips from my DV camera so that I can organize them like pictures (YouTube style). Windows Movie Maker detects the clips fin ...

I can play my .avi's in WMP fine, but when I import to Windows Movie Maker it only imports the audio (even though WMM recognizes it as a video file with an ..avi extension). I get no error messages anywhere. ...

I've got a small network consisting of a PC running XP connected by a wire. A laptop with Vista Home Premium with a wireless connetion and a HP 841C printer that is conntected to the PC with XP. How can i enable my laptop to to pr ...

Hi. i'm looking to upgrade from xp home to a version of vista. I would like to get a version that makes it easy to set up an FTP so i can transfer files at work ...

Can I assume that you should not have two (or more) phishing filters active simultaneously? How does IE filter stack against the 3rd party type? Grateful for you opinion R. E. CREAGH, MD FACS Heartburn Center DM Heartburn! WHY! ...

hi i have windows vista basic, it came with norton preinstalled 1 month trial i removed and installed avast on line. All was ok but now i cant download anything, i have tried to save to locations but nothing. i even removed avast to see if that was the problem, which made no difference, an ...

I am running windows vista ultimate as administrator but when I want to set a program to always run as administrator I go to privilege level under compatibility but "run this program as administrator" is always grayed out under any applicati ...

Account: 'wanadoo.nl', Server: 'wanadoo.nl', Protocol: POP3, Poort: 110, Beveiligd(SSL): Nee, Foutnummer: 0x800CCC19 ...

When I block a certain sender. I can still recieve there email. and what I want when I block a sender I them get a return email said "Email can't be se ...

I cant send or receive email. It states something about the server. How do I change the server names? How do I get back into that screen?Thanks Aletha ...

I was able to get rid of the unwanted deleted files thanks to Gary VanderMolen, so a big thanks. But now the messages I need to keep in my inbox on ...

When I check my email in Windows Mail the window comes up with the details portion open all the time. When I was using Outlook Express I could get it to reset without th ...

I have tried many different fixes but keep comming up with this error message.firewall is set and i have pop enabled in gmail(Your server has unexpectedly terminated the c ...

When using Start>Start Search...then type in a few characters...a message show up under "communications" with the icon with a pin on it. I can click on the item as see the message which is one I read on a newsgroup. How do I delete this thing??? Or ...

alThe message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing email [SMTP] server. For help solving this problem, go to Help, search for "Troubleshoot Windows Mail", and read the "I'm havi ...

I have Vista Premium but can I see the progress when defraging like you could in XP. All I can see is the program saying Defrag in progress so have no idea how long it is going to take as there is no progress bar ...

In Windows Vista, I am frustrated that I cannont conduct a "find exact phrase" search of all of the documents on a CDROM. This was easy in Windows EP, using Advanced Search it was possible to search the contents of the files on a CDROM with Word do ...

Like Task Manager can be set to? ...

I am trying to connect my asus a8js with Vista Home Premium to my tv and am not having much success. I am able to get the desktop extended on to the tv, but what I want ...

I finally decided to get rid of my dual boot setup. As stated by me a few times I haven't had any trouble with Vista ( Business 64 ) ( touch wood lolol ) So I did a gut and clean and installed Vista as a stand alone. Naturally after doing this I found that I had 3 days to activate it so I ...

I was trying to load iTunes and received a message to reregister my vbscript. I used the command prompt and typed "regsvr32 vbscript.dll" and received the following message:The module "vbscript.dll" was loaded but the call to DIIRegisterServer fai ...

I have two drive on my computer so when I save my data to a drive is there a way to mirror it so it will be saved on both drives? ...

I have just received my Vista disc from Modus Link to upgrade my Toshiba Laptop. If I use this disc to upgrade the operating system and I am not happy with the result, will it be possible to return to Media Centre which I am running now? Thank You in advance for any r ...

keeps popping up saying."the feature you are trying to use is on a network that is unavailable" "enter alternate path to a folder containing 'status'.msi' I am NOT ...

I have been trying to resolve a Vista/Internet issue for a while, even after my ISP came out and proved their modem/line were OK. Vista told me that all my hardware drivers were fine and uptodate, but after nothing else would work, I started going ...

So I did the same thing a lot of other people did and deleted my recycle bin when I first got my laptop and Vista...but for my trash can to show that it's empty I have to right click on the desktop and click refresh even if I empty it..so how can I fix it so ...

I have been having problems for about a week or so where it keeps popping up with errors in my c:\users\loginname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\TemporaryInternetFiles\Content.IE5\T28GTS27 folder ...

Trying out some software, the Webroot antivirus/spyware SpySweeper package, I found the product unacceptable for my needs. So I removed it/uninstalled it. It requires a reboot when you do so.Upon the reboot I no longer ...

I installed a Vista Home Basic yesterday. Was on RC1. Have a total backup on DVD disks of the RC1.Find I cannot restore my programs, files or setting ...

Does anyone know what this is? I'm using Vista Ultimate now for over a month and have been playing music on my PC (from my own CD's ) with no problems. Today nothing plays very long and I get th ...

I have finally got Task Scheduler to create System Restore Points. Why it stopped, I have no idea. Maybe something to do with the reload recommended by ...

this is the report. Product WindowsProblem Shut down unexpectedlyDate 6/4/2007 8:43 PMStatus Report SentProblem signature Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768 ...

It can be easily found in XP but in Vista. Any idea? ...

I recently upgraded my operating system from Windows XP to Vista Premium. After loading Vista I can no longer send emails containing Russian Chara