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I have the link in the control panel. Unfortunately, when I was organizing the start menu, Vista decided to delete the Administrative Tools links. (I didn't delete them). Now, when trying to access it via the control panel, it says that the link in the start menu is gone and it can't run Admin ...

I have Windows Vista Premium and am working on a SINGLE machine. When I try to install certain programs (Itunes 7.1 and Windows Mobile Device Center ...

HiI got Windows Vista Business Edition as part of the MSDN Academic Alliance.I was just looking and the standard games such as inkball, solitaire etc which should be included are not there.Can you tell me if there is anything i can do to ...

I noticed there were new beta drivers version 101.41 thought I'd try them out. It seems to have cured a problem with Mahjong Titans flashing lines across the screen. (don't know if anyone else has seen that)Neil ...

I have the same "language issue" as most others. The suggestion to toggle to another language and back to English seems logical. I do not find a language option under "tools." Any help?Thx Bob ...

How can I foward an email with pictures when the message pops up that "pictures with this email could not be found" Gemma1942 ...

I am attempting to set up my email on Mail and it is asking me to verify my user name and password. I am entering the ones that I set up under the properties fo ...

Since I upgraded to Vista Windows mail from OE6 I have a problem when composing emails. Occasionally, usually part way through typing a word, the curser jumps to another part of the window or even to a di ...

My computer has just recovered from a case of BSOD and i briefly saw BAD_POOL when it was BSOD.This is the details after my computer recovered from the crashProblem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScree ...

I really dislike the Microsoft Photo Editor in Vista. What happened to the Picture and Fax Viewer that was in XP? Is it possible to run the Picture and Fax Viewer in Vista? I ha ...

I have installed HP LaserJet 1022 printer. That's a default one. And it's shared. But I cannot get it to print from Windows Photo Gallery program or if I choose an Windows Explorer. That printer does not appear at th ...

Can't get utorrent or bitcomment or nero to work with vista anyone know why would realy like to know thanks antone ...

On microsoft site I discovered that in Vista (and even in win XP) I can create domain server. however search gives only a lot of coments how safety this is and no word how to do this. Any idea? Aleks Kleyn ...

I am receiving an event id 100 error in the the event log. Microsoft diagnostic performance/operational, locale id 1033. Boot performance monitor. Also standby performance monitor error 300. Does anyone know what these are and how to fix? ...

I'm guessing everyone has run this on their PC before buying Windows Vista.So when you ran it what version of Vista did it tell you could run?I ran it and it told me I could run Vista Business when I could ...

Just thought you would like to know that FINALLY I have been able to see and download the Dreamscene Content Pack, Hold 'Em card game and Bitlocker Preparation Tool. Perhaps MS considers Sydney, Australia to be the end of the earth, at least as part of some phased im ...

When I send or receive pictures, it takes forever for them to download to Windows Mail. Last night my brother sent me 6 pictures in two different emails and it took over an hour for my mail to download. I bought a new pc preinstalle ...

I turned off user control and now i get a message saying your computer is not protected turn on user controls. How do i disable that message. Thanks in advance Rob ...

Want to move my data folders onto another partision (D: ). Vista seems to put these folders on the system disk (c:\users\my name) by default. I don't like. How do ...

After installing Vista on a test client I am having problems deleting files from the secondary partition when Vista is NOT the installed OS on the pri ...

Loaded vista Loaded Trackbal driver Error message says no disc space, I have 90Gb free ...

Hello All,I have actually got Vista installed and it is up and running on my machine, But my issue is I cannot get Vista to boot up when I connect my SATA Drive to the system (Sata 300gb Seagate Drive).. ...

I have a new Dell pc which came with Windows Media Center 2005 and I just upgraded (free from Dell) to Vista Home Premium.Prior to upgrade I used PCMover to transfer programs and files to my new dell computer from my old computer.Everything and/ ...

I built a new system just for Vista which consist of: Intel Duo Core 2 e6600 cooled by Sunbeam Tuniq Tower 120 Asus p4B Premium Vista Edition 4 gigs of Corsair TWIN2X20486400C4 ...

Been running Vista for weeks, no problems whatsoever. Rebooted my machine last nite and when it booted up Aero was gone. No Aero related options in my personalize win ...

I store my music, movies and pictures shared by other user accounts in the public folder. I would like to change the location of the public folder to a different drive so that, incase windows crashes and I need to reinstall, I don't loose my da ...

I have a small network at home were I am hosting a SBS 2003 server. I have upgraded 2 clients to Vista and both of these PC's are not able to view any site I hav ehosted on the server. These clients are not part of the domain but were able to access all sites befor the upgrade.For e ...

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 the same product after buying the upgrade ? ...

When I used XP, I had several address books, which I could open separately. I have successfully transferred each .wab file to my VISTA computer, and imported the "main" book into my contacts folder. When I attempted to open one of t ...

Ok, I've got a new M90 with 4GB ram (of course only 3.25GB show up), I put a high speed 2GB card in it for ready boost. With or without the readyboost, my system is constantly dying due to low memory.I've got a ...

Hi All, Weird...after installing vista in a dual boot situation with xp...neither xp or vista sees my floppy drive...bios sees it...any ideas out there???? ...

You know, I'm sure this question has probably been asked and answered elsewhere, but for some reason my search queries don't seem to be doing too well. The question I have is this: ...

With Windows XP there was a trial version which I got through buying a copy of MCDST SelfPaced Training Kit (Exam 70271) see link below, does anyone know of anything similar for Vista? ...

Hmm...I used vista as the host for loading some virtual machines, it seemed to react very well.. better than XP....However I am using the player in Vista, while I was using the server in XP... so I am not sure yet 100%This seems strange.. but if it is true.. this scores a point fo ...

I have a group of photos that are sorted by "date taken" in Windows Photo Gallery. When I look at the same photos in Media Center sorted by date some use "date taken" some use "file date created" and some use "file date modified" so they're all ...

I'm burning dvrms recorded televison shows to dvd. I'm using Windows Dvd Maker. When everything finishes the videos are only about 1/4 of the tv screen. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here or how to fix it. Thanks, Grickle ...

I have just installed NIS (vista compatible version) and all went well. It installed fine and it runs fine. It updates fine....... But I am having a small problem. If I go to the security centre in control panels it ALWAYS shows ...

VISTA home premium what I did: changed name of my machine from walravenpc to desktop problem:No longer get reminders from windows calendarIn task scheduler Library Microsoft Windows WindowsCa ...

I just bought a laptop with Vista ultimate installed by Dell. I am trying to repartition the C drive into two drives. In disk management there are currently 4 partitions preinsta ...

Hey does anybody know if i can downgrade my OS from Windows Vista to XP? Only thing though..is that if i buy a brand new PC with Vista preinstalled already.. would there still be a way to downgrade to XP (by any means possi ...

I need to restore a single file from a Vista "WindowsImageBackup" to a XP machine.Is this possible? ...

Is this possible, as it used to be in XP?Rgds ...

I recieved vista error(physical memory dump..) during installation(multiple times): "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to ...

Ok, I have a question that I hope is simple to answer.On Media Player 10, when you ripped a CD to the player the songs would all go into one large library instead of breaking up into each CD that is ripped.I've looked online and in the help section on Media Player 11 and haven't been able t ...

Whenever I open a video in Photo Gallery, the app closes and nothing further happens. It doesn't seem to crash but it's definitely a problem... any ideas? ...

Just got Vista OS and realised that the music played on the media player jerks for a few seconds at the end. It can't be the songs as i tried playing it on i tunes and it was fine. I also can't seem uninstall the programme ...

I frequently VPN to different networks to assist our clients. I've noticed that I lose the ability to connect to shares on servers on my LAN when I have a VPN session up. I can still PING local device ...

I have been doing some research and have found quite a few instances of people not being able to connect to the internet, but I have not found one quite like m ...

Im sure this question has already been answered but I cant see it. Ive recently upgraded my Vista Basic Home to Vista Premium using the anytime upgrade disc. When it had finished and the machine rebooted, the log on icon on the welcome screen for the administrator had disapeared. ...

I am trying to create a signature using a pic of our business card and windows mail is not allowing me to do it. This wasnt a problem in Outlook on old PC.Can anyone help me? ...

Is there any design templates I can use with my email in Windows Mail? If so, where can I get some?I saw some here: apple.com/macosx/leopard/gallery/index.html but there were only for mac's. :( ...

Hi everyone, Mostly when I'm watching a YouTube music video or watching live TV in Media Center my, practically brand new HP Vista desktop (Inter Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz w 4Gb RAM and Nvidea 7500GLE graphics card) just crashes. The ...

HiI need to edtit this file. The default setting for my country (New Zealand) are wrong. I want to change a line in the file UniqueName="New Zealand Broadcast" MinChannel="1" MaxChannel="49" ...

Message: We have a new CPU, an HP Pavilion A1730N We are using the trial version of Home and Student Office 2007 Microsoft will not let us access their help saying that the product ID number for Office is invalid. Is that because I haven't bought it yet?1. We ...

hi everyone .......sometimes when iam using my PC, i get this error which states that the program stopped working correctly and usually this error happen when i open my Mov ...

First off why did MS set the dwm.exe Priority to High on startup???I request that MS release a patch to change this back to Normal on startup? I waz wonder why DWM.exe waz lagging my pc for ages and I relases on reboot and start up that the dwm.exe gets a hig ...

is the ntfs file system still used in vista? is vista drivers compatible with xp? ...

When I run advisor on several of my computers, it recommends the Business edition. Does that mean that any other version will not work or not supported? Ray Lee ...

Is this normal for Vista?I remove my flash drive from my Vista computer by going to the tray and clicking the "safely remove" option. My thumb drive succes ...

I have vista x64 ultimate when i play media it starts the 32bit version of media player over the x64 bit version for some reason (checked via taskmanager) i have to manually load the x64 bit version and then open files. shouldn't it use x64 bit version by de ...

I bought a new laptop 2GB memory dual core,etc with OEM vista and Outlook 2007. Outlook is very very slow imgaine that to write an email of 3 lines it takes 15 min. Please advice hoe can i speed up outlook and be able to work! ...

After installing Vista, my communicator is giving me an error when I sign in. The erros is "There is a problem verifying the certificate from the server ...

I have a Sony Vaio notebook computer. I just loaded Vista on Friday. When the notebook is plugged in the hard drive light flickers nonstop. If I go to the Resource Monitor the Disk graph shows lots of activity. If I unplug the computer and run off the battery the disk activit ...

I have WinXP SP2. I ran the Vista Upgrade Adviser to see if everything on my computer would run under Vista. It said my Epson Perfection 2400 scanner wouldn't work with Vista. I clicked on the M/S link provided with that advisory and downloaded a driver tha ...

Help! On occasions, after I shut down a window or program or even the first start up popup menu in Vista....all of a sudden all the icons dissapear! All that is left is the backgro ...

(see article on bottom after my rant to the vistaboys that they have earned with much effort)Sorry guys its true....There have been too many reports that vista has a ...

When I first put Vista on my computer I had Aero Glass Interface and now I don't. My video card is running fine, I look in Device manager and everything looked fine and ...

Good Evening: I have several programs we use at work that I would like to install on my computer with Vista Home Premium. The programs are:1. SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2. Visual Studio 6.0 3. Visual Studio 2005 4. MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 5. FrontPage 2003 6. Office ...

I have the following hardware: motherboard Abit AB9 Pro 4 x 1Gb DDR2 PC6400, 800MHz KINGMAX RAM (two RAM modules are of model: KLDD48FA8KB5, and two: KLDD48FA8KI5) Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @2.40GHz CPUMotherboard correctly recognize all 4Gb of RAM (Info at the boot), but when I open basic informati ...

I recently bought a HVR1600 and it does not work in Vista Home Premium Media Center. I try to set up TV and it says "Tuner not found". i have t ...

All of my firewire devices work perfectly under XP Pro. I have a dual boot, with Pro on C and Vista Ultimate on D. No problems there (so far!). But none of my firewire connections are recognized under Vista. That includes an Epson printer (R800) ...

My microphone is always on and I wonder is this is a problem with Vista Home Premium or with the Vista driver from Auzentech? I think it may be causing feedbac ...

I am installing Vista 64 bit on my system. I have a 2nd HD I use for storage. After installing Vista, will it be able to read this 2nd (32 bit) HD or will I need to format the 2nd drive also??? If so, how can I save t ...

I installed Vista last week (an update DVD via Packard Bell & Moduslink). This worked find and I activated Windows.This morning I updated my BIOS as suggested by Packard Bell to the Vista version.Since doing this, Windows has told me to activate Wi ...

My media player has a problem with minimizing it to the task bar!!!! It does minimize but the miniplayer does not come up!!!!why???please help me!!!! ...

I know this isn't so important but I would really like to see more skins made for the media player 11 on Vista. I managed to get old skins and visualizations in this version but they don't work right. I really ...

DVD Maker works fine on my computer when I make a DVD from wmv files. When I try to make a DVD from mpg files I find I can add the files but when I go to "next" a ...

I tried several torrent clients includind bitlord, utorrents and even ares. None of them work. It seemes that i cannot download anything. The only downloads that work are the ones i performe with IE7. I get all sorts of errors: File Access Error(0). Accesss Denied, Error(11). Please h ...

Running Windows Vista Business 32 on a new Dell Latitude D820, network is structured around a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, Lexmark X9350 Allinone (802.11G wireless communication).I've been able to g ...

Logging on to a Vista machine via an XP or Server2003 machine to the Vista machine through RDC i get an authentication error (Code:0x80090330) just what the hell is this error? Nothing covered in any microsoft help page, also its not like it never worked because it used ...

I just installed the new Command and Conquer and the sound is all crackly and almost sounds like it's going in slowmo. Everything else runs fine. I had the same problem with HalfLife 2 after upgrading to Vista, but I fixed it by turning off Vertical Sync. T ...

I installed Call of Duty Radiant and whnn i open it i get this error saying:wglShareLists in WXY_WndProc Failed GetLastError() = 1073278755 0 An unrcoverable error has occured. Would you ...

According to W Mail Help, if I open Windows Contacts and I should be able to click New Contact Group on the tool bar. There is no such choice.What am I doing wrong and how do I create a group contact? ...

Sometimes, when trying to enclose a file as an attachment to a mail, I receive the message that Windows Mail cannot find this file! After a while, when trying again, this problem does not occure anymore.Does anybody ...

How can you tell from the screen whether you are Online or Offline?If you select the File menu item you can see if Work Offline is checked. Also if you place the cursor over the Offline icon when Online you get a background surround when Online, which ...

Can someone tell me why newsletters from forbes.com trigger the phishing filter? WM is not alone in doing this. It also happens in Thunderbird 1.5x. Just trying to get an idea of what the cause might be. Iron Feliks ...

Windows Vista wont let me run the software for my Sony Ericsson K610i mobile phone ???????. I want to download video from the phone to Media player ...

Using Windows Vista basic.........I have several large .mpg files on one hard drive, this is where I record video to. But I can't delete any of these files to make room for others. Windows Explorer han ...

Hi,I just bought a my book 500 GB external hard drive and have tried to perform a backup to it twice with no luck. I reformatted the HD to a NTFS file system and there are no files on the disk. Both times my computer froze but was able to boot right back into windows. I was using Media ...

I get this message every time I boot up. I haven't noticed anything not working (apart from the usual dose of funnies).Any idea what it is about and how I can correct it or lose it?Tha ...

I am unable to rate my laptop's performance under Windows Vista Business because I am getting this errorWindows was unable to calculate the Windows experience index because the user cancelled the assessm ...

Will Office XP work with Vista? ...

Hi, I haven't found an answer to my System Restore problem and since Vista doesn't have a repair Windows install. I decided to try to use the upgrade option to try to write over my original install. The original install was an image done at the factory and my DVD was an OEM. ...

Hi all, many times when trying to rightclick on a shortcut from the start menu explorer crashes. Some items are ok while some crash. On the notebook I'm using now SPSS, Cute FTP, Nokia PC Suite all crash, while all Wordperfect off ...

I am trying to upgrade from windows xp pro sp2 to vista ultimate. I have uninstalled my antivirus , firewall and graphics card , and upgrade advisor says everything else is ok. I have also updated the BIOS ...

Hi. I have installed Vista Home Premium upgrade on 2 Pcs (Yes, I bought 2 licences!). The install on my desktop is fine and when I switch on the Pc it goes straight to Vista. The laptop install also went OK, ...

I'm having a couple of problems with the Media Center feature on this new Windows Vista machine I have...1. That music that plays when you first launch media center doesn't play anymore....nor do I get those sound effects y ...

HiI have 2 laptops both working correctly through a Netgear wireless router. Both can access the Internet via the router.What do I need to do to enabl ...

Hi,Just installed Vista ultimate 32 and all is well appart from Combat Flight Sim 3 multiplayer. When I try to join a multiplayer I get an error...."You do not have the same set of aircraft used on this server. You will not b ...

Outlook express opens and works nomally, but it will not close. Once I attempt to close it, it will not respond to any further commands. ...

First of all, since I upgraded Windows XP to Windows Vista, my computer has being running quite a bit more slowly with frequent stops, lags, and freezes that weren't there when I was using Windows XP. These happen usually when I try to load or open progr ...

Hi, I've had 2 virus scans (Dr. Web & Bit defender) go into infinite scanning loops because of nested directories. I just killed one because it scanned over a million files. Even though there are less than 200,000 on my system. What is the logic of this? ...

My new PC has a Pioneer DVR111CD optical drive. I have Vista Ultimate ver 6000 and the help files tell me to insert a blank disc into my DVD drive and a dialogue box will appear. I am then told to click on "Burn files to disc", click "Show form ...

Howdy!Okay, I have a huge mega problem here. I'm not sure what happened between the time I got off the computer and when I woke up this morning, but Vista is forev ...

Short answer is Vista should ALWAYS (but does not) give the option to reboot later, rather than forcing a restart of the computer to install automatic updates. Forcing user into reboot can cause lost work as well as critical time loss at time not chosen by user. CHAN ...

Bellsouth newsgroups. I problem resolved today maybe. If this POSTS then I will explain. ...

Hello, I see that I can schedule Windows to run certain operations like Defrag, check for errors on my disc, run my antivirus software, etc. Question isIf I have these scheduled to start at 3:00 a.m. and the next at 4:00 a.m. etc. (as long as they aren't scheduled ...

For two weeks now, every time that I use Windows Vista Ultimate, after 10 to 20 minutes of use, I keep getting an error window saying "Windows Media Center Store Update Manager has stopped working and was closed". as yet, I cannot get any ...

Any Idea how to fix this? Vista Windows update not working Error 80071a91Windows update just fails to install any updates! the above error code! ...

Hi,I upgraded to Windows Vista Premium Edition at the start of February and it worked fine until last night when I tried to download some Windows Updates. I then got a message saying that my edition wasn't genuine (It is I got an OEM copy from the company that built my PC)I activat ...

I have been running Vista Premium since 31st January 2007. But on 14th April 2007 I had to change my Motherboard due to a nonrepairable fault. Since changing the motherboard I keep getting asked to reactivate my system whe ...

iam still have in problems with avg in stalling onto my laptop iam run in windows vista homepremium on a acer laptop ive download the new 1 off the web site and its still do in it can sume 1 esle help me iam get in ...

In one of the FAQ on support.microsoft.com it was asked if there had to be a password associated with a user name. The answer was no that a password was not needed but recommended. I have a friend who lives alone and just purchased a new computer. Everything that s ...

After reading this: forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=675971I too have discovered that uninstalling Outlook breaks email integration. Even fixing the "Control>Panel>Default Programs" settings doesn't fix everything.If I Start>Run and type " mailto ...

I have a lot of messages safed in outlook express witch i losted now, is there a way to recover these in windows mail, i already trayed with no succes via import. ...

I just brought a computer with WM and VISTA can't get it to work with my old bigpond mail. I called bigpond and they could not help as they are not yet up to speed with ...

I found my laptop (Thinkpad X60) has performance problem when I enable ReadyBoost on a 2GB Class 6 SD Card with the buildin SD Reader.In my case, I found when I use foobar playing music got many delay / choopy. I've everything I know and finally got the sou ...

Hi, Has anybody any experience installing it on Vista.I do not succeed on it. On first view the installation from the CDrom is succesfull. Trying to execute it, i got an error telling me that the relared maps do not exist? On top the DVDdrive is hanging and after deleting the program and restartin ...

I was trying to access a viedo and got pop up box : This file does not have a program assioated with it for performing this action. create an assioat ...

Hello, I am trying to install Vista RC2 inside VirtualPC but it will not start. I am using file: vista_5744.16384.0610031945_x86fre_clientlrmcfre_en_dvd.iso I have downloaded it from MS website last fall. Is that iso bootable or not? Jack ...

A clip of the two guys discussing their products.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHn08yLCpE ...

Where can I get a list of Vista Compatible (and Microsoft approved, if possible) 56K dialup modems? ...

I've been hanging out here for a few weeks, giving advice about a bug that I couldn't actually reproduce until today. I'm happy to report that I've been giving the correct advice all along :o)I used ...

Suddenly, I can't send email. Something about "authentication". I've followed the instructions for a fix through troubleshooting, but that's useless. Can anyone help? Tha ...

I need to flash my BIOS and have downloaded the latest one (fb51s037.bin). The instructions say – “Extract the file into a bootable floppy disk or into hard drive. Start the system with a bootable floppy disk or bootable C ...

I don't know how my recycle bin disappeared from my desktop. how can get it back? ...

I've contacted Intervideo but they don't seem interested in the problem I have, so thought I'd explain it here (hopefully someone can help or explain what's going on!)I installed the 14day trial version of WinDVD 8 Platinum (supposedly Vista compatible) ...

I have upgraded WinXP SP2 to Vista home premium. Every time I boot I get the message that Super Fast User Switching has been shut down. Any ideas on how to get rid of this message? Any help will be appreciated. Ev ...

I take my had off to Bill Gates for this initativenytimes.com/2007/04/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Software by Microsoft Is Nearly Free for the Needy In a ...

I have the TrueLaunch Toolbar docked to the right side of my diesktop. To the left of that is the SideBar. SOmetimes when I open an application (for example Word2007) the right edge of the application, just to t ...

Some sites (for example www.bbc.co.uk/drwho) only have video clips in the form of Real Media files. Is there a way to play these files via Windows Media player. I do not want to install the Real Media player and I do not wan ...

Can Adobe fonts which I purchased and used in Win XP be installed in Vista? ...

Vista apparently does NOT utilize the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root directory of the hard drive. If one puts a PATH command in it, it doesn't take effect wh ...

How can you backup only a selection of folders on Vista and not all types of socuments? ...

I have 4 HP Digital Media Center PCs and have "so called upgraded" 2 of them to Windows Vista Home Premium. My Vista system was activated and the genuine feature was w ...

When I run Windows Mail i get the splash screen open, but once the splash screen disappears the Windows Mail screen does not load?I get nothing after the splash screen.If i check the Applications from ...

Hello,Having big problems with my DVD burner. It will NOT burn a DVD! All the burning software I have are not able to make a DVD, only CD writing works. When trying to write to DVD, or the writing starts and af ...

I've tried time and again to get the upgrade to go, but it simply fails with no error and says it can not continue. I have no compatibility issues according to the setup program. It gets as far as copying all files to my hard drive (w ...

I keep getting an error message that I am missing the codec. where can i find visat compatible ones. ...

We have added a new Vista computer to our XP network. We have five or six XP machines all printing on two printers on one of the computers. When I added the Vista machine and tried to add a network printer I got a message saying...Windows can ...

Setup: laptop with Vista, minitower with XP. Tower connected to internet. Laptop networked to desk machine with crossover cable.Problem. For no apparent reason, suddenly on the Vista ...

I have a new Toshiba A205 Satellite laptop with Vista Ultimate Installed. I am having fits getting a consistent internet connection. I have two access points in my networ ...

first of all i am not that knowlegeable with computers. i just bought a labtop with vista and word 2007. i am setting up my windos mail which i have no clue how to even start. after messing with it i thought i was abel to send emails but that is not so. i keep get ...

Everytime I attempt to start Windows Mail, I get literally thousands of spawned WinMail.exe *32 processes. Eventually my system succumbs to running out of 4GB of physical memory and over 15GB virtual memory and crashes. No error message is ever displayed. After checking the Event Viewer after ha ...

Greetings,I have just upgraded to Vista. I was using outlook before and all my mail is stored inside a PST file. Windows mail got my address book imported jus ...

I have owned my new windows vista operating system for a few months. I have recently recieved some email with a attachment. This attachment is a .doc file extension. My ...

Wanted to get into Safe Mode earlier this evening. The F8 key would not function and I was unable to check the option in msconfig. Eventually I turned off UAC which enabled me to ma ...

I tried geek squad and fry's and tried cd dvd burners that have a logo indicating "WORKS WITH WINDOWS VISTA" and nothing has worked! i tried SATA and IDE and usb (inter ...

The WMI is crashing when i try to install windows features It seems to fail in the IIS components and aborts any other windows features upgrades on Vista Business.Error Information:Problem signature Problem Event Name: WINDOWS_WCP_AI_FAILURE2 OsVersion: 6.0 ...

Hello people, do you know any print server supporting Vista 64? ty Guido guido.munzi ...

TRYING TO EMAIL FRIENDS AND FAMILY BUT I FIND IT VERY HARD TO DO ON MICROSOFT MAIL ...

Any ideas on how to add a printer for Adobe PDF online?In XP, you could "Add a network printer", and use the http address for the web service typically "https://pdf.adobe.com/cpdf/Printer?id=xxxxxxxxx". This added the printer on an Internet port.Wh ...

Hi When I add a new user account I get the follwing error when I open that account. It does not happen on my account. Any ideas please?Microsoft.NET FrameworkAn unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the appli ...

HelloI want to develop a spreadsheet (Excel) which will have all the files in one of my folders as on of its columns!I have tried opening explorer , using copy & paste, but it doesn't seem to workCan anybody help pl ...

Hello list,Very new to Vista and I am having a problem Uninstalling a program. I get a message that says I do not have enough space to delete file. What's the best way to delete programs if you can't uninstall them the normal way.Thanks! ...

Well as i said i have decided to leave winblows vista has anoyed me for the last time. no i get random crashes hardware incompatiblity, and not enough drivers. so therfore i have decided to make the move to linux the safer more stable OS. i personall hope that all of yo ...

apcmag.com/5973/preview_gallery_windows_home_server_beta_2Has ever a Microsoft project flown more under the radar than Windows Home Server? For the better part of two years it was just ...

HiI have a brand new computer running windows vista home premium. After I installed my Speedtouch 330 modem I get the BSOD. Does anyone know of a compatibility issue with this modem? My ISP is Orange (Wanadoo) but they are pretty hopeless at helping.An ...

I just bought a new Acer desktop that came with the Windows Vista OS. I have had a few problems installing my old programs on this system, but, for the most part, I have managed to work my way around these issues with the help of updates, d ...

A company called transcend manufactures a device called "Disk on Module", basically it is a flash memory module that plugs into the ATA/IDE socket of a motherboard. I have one with 4GB. Can I use it as a readyboost device to improve Windows Vista boot tim ...

After upgrading my windows xp to vista home premium, my notebook does no longer boot (a bluescreen is shown during boot).I suspect, that this might be because I did not uninstall ZoneAlarm before upgrading (didn't know it was not compatible).Is there any way to disab ...

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I installed Vista and it is running well except for one little glitch, it did not install the help system. Whenever I press F1 to get help, I get a dialog box that says "Internet explorer cannot download / from wi ...

I don't know if anyone else has this problem. I just got a new PC preloaded with Vista, but when I try to sign in to anything on the internet the box that i need to type in fills up with ########## these. Each time i ...

I have a Sony Vaio VGNA690 and I recently performed a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate. The past few days have been spent locating drivers and installing programs ...

I turned onmy computer set a password tolock my 'puter...and have forgotten the password....how do I fix this I can't get past the first screen??? ...

HelloI have had a lot of problems with Windows Vista, the last one is with Outlook 2003, I configured the the mail account and always when I started Otklook there is a message that say that a programe is traing to get access t ...

how do i set up my email account i was with outlook express and now that i have vista i cant get my email to work?Mary ...

In my profile is the Documents folder which until a certain point used the default Vista ICON to display. I have not changed any ICONs manually on my sys ...

Hey I'm trying to register the files:ad2mcmpgdec ad2mpeginusing regsvr32When I drag the file it says "The module 'C:\Users\Fred\Desktop\ad2mpegin.dll' was loaded but the entrypoint DllRegisterServer was no ...

Hi everyone,I have just installed my copy of Office 2000 on my new Windows Vista notebook. Is there a way to make Office 2000 (or any other prevista application) use the new Windows Vista look & feel? When XP first debuted there ...

After I "wake" the PC from hibernation, the search results are empty when I search for emails, but if I reboot or restart the windows service (stop then start, as restart a ...

I am unable to open any attachments to windows mail. I have been unable to resolve the issue using tech support. I have two other mail accounts set up, outlook and thunderbird. Both of these accounts will open attachments and function normally. I am using a pavillion m7790e. So ...

I am using vista premium.Is it possible to sync in progress documents with a copy on a flash drive. Rather than continually copying the the updated document to the flash drive is there a way that I can just click to update the copy on the flash drive?Apparently sync centre onl ...

I got a dell laptop in which there was Dell recovery partition of about 10 gigs, of which only around 6 were filled. As i was already having 4 primary partitions and I could not create new partition for installing XP, i used ...

I can connect to my Vista machine with no problem from an XP machine. After disconnecting, when I go to Vista machine it is in some kind of sleep mode. I ...

Hello I'm in the market for a laptop. I know nothing about this, so I'm trying to learn before I buy. I'm looking to use it for surfing, office stuff, and perhap ...

I save a lot of internet shortcuts to my desktop by right clicking on the internet page. I then like to change the icons for it from the big E. The icons I use are stored in the C:\windows\ ...

When I turn on RAID on my mainboard (Intel DG965OT) the system stops loading on the file crcdisk.sys and reboots. When I then turn RAID off the system starts as normal. Any solutions the this problem? ...

Hello all, Using Vista Premium OEM on a Toshiba Laptop and had the following problem twice so far. I created a folder under Documents called My Downloads. After ...

After much messing around trying to find a solution to the screen saver not cutting in I disconnected my wireless mouse and keyboard and plugged in standards, bigo my screen saver works, problem found but not solved. What do I have to do to be able to use my Microsoft wireless hardware. I am r ...

I was on vista beta & when came out I updated all & ie7 was amoung them & now unless I have IE7 open in background if I am useing another program (say Quicken) & want to go onto web It will not go an ...

I recently installed Nero 7 Premium but have issues when I run Nero Vision 4.When I make a DVDVideo and add some avi files, the following error occurs. microsoft visual c++ runtime ...

what do u put for the POP3 and SMTP whats ever i put wont let me send or recive email ?!> ...

My email worked just fine until about a week ago. I don't know what happened but I can not send emails. I can receive but what I try to send sits in my Outbox. I called my internet server and the information set up in my system looks co ...

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Maybe this is a mor egeneral question that does not belong in this forum, but I will ask anyway.My "Help" does not work. Be it IE,Mail, or just Help & Support from the Vista &qu ...

i need to know what names to put in for the severs names if any one can help please do thank you ashlen ...

I can send text and pictures with Windows mail but if I try and forward an email with media player in it, the email will not go. Anyone had this problem? Ve ...

I'm really pleased with the Window Mail. Never used it until a couple of days ago but have had no problems. ...

HiDoes anyone know where the MailStore feature is for Windows Mail? In OE 6 it was under the Maintenance tab in Tools/Options but it's no longer the ...

I cannot seem to open these mdi attachments in windows mail. I have saved them to documents and tried to open them in word which seems to be effective until it comes to reading them. I am unable to read them, no option that word gives me makes them readabl ...

the story so far:i was using sony vaio, VGNFE48G/H, vista home premiumProcessor: intel® Core™2 CPU T7200 @2.00GHZ memory (RAM): 1022MB Vista home premiuum 32bit Operating system i ran a TuneUp Utilities 2007 scan and it stated : " your computer ...

One of my customers has Vista Home Basic installed on his Sony laptop. He has an HP AllInOne. I downloaded and installed the Vista printer/scanner software and everything worked fine. He called me back later and everything was gone (the original problem). He told me that he rout ...

When I try to print anything, I don't get any error messages, but in the print queue, all docs have the word "error" next to them, and they do not ...

Does anyone else have a issue with Adobe installing on their Vista? I keep getting a temp folder full or something.Can anyone help? ...

Just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium (stupid me!). Activation screens say my product key is invalid or already in use. So I called customer support. CALL 1; "read MS help KB931276". Followed carefully, won't activate. CALL 2; Resu ...

When typing in the address bar in windows explorer the screen seems to refresh randomly and clears out anything I have typed in there making it impossible to use. Also when I select shut d ...

The two I downloaded and installed today...May 9th...have slowed my computer down !! Especially Windows Maul changing screens and the same with Internet Explorer. That is an upgrade??? ...

I get this error message every time I open MSCONFIG. How to resolve this ? Thanks & RegardsS.Prasath ...

I am a Microsoft stockholder and a consultant who has made a very good living using Microsoft products. But the management of the introduction of Vista ...

I tried to use my DKU5 cable to connect my nokia phone, but I didn’t find the vista driver.I tried to install the XP driver, and it installed well, but the port di ...

I 'm still trying to print in my EPSON printer but the available XP driver doesn't work. Do you have solution to make the printer work? The ink control appear ...

Hello, when I try to open Windows Photo Gallery, a message pops up saying it has stopped working, then shows a button to 'close program'. First it said I needed to validate my Windows copy for WGA. I did, then restart ...

Hi I have just bought a Acer Aspire laptop (Vista) and I have a desktop running Win Me. The laptop has WiFi built in. In the desktop I have a Realteck RTL8319 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC which connects to my DLink DSL524T Router to give me my internet connection. In the des ...

hoe stel ik de spellingcontrole op in nederlands? het wil alleen maar in duits engels spaans en frans. A Adema ...

Using IMAP4 with Windows Mail on Vista. The checkbox to "check for messages in all folders" doesn't seem to work. More specifically, I don't want to check all folders (other than the inbox) when I send and receive, so ...

Some of my new messages in my windows mail do not word wrap. I can't find where to check to tell it to word wrap. I'm using Vista. Anyone know how to get mail ...

My new Vista system runs very fast and well. However, I ran SFC /verifyonly and got a 17MB file in the CBS.log folder. Lots of stuff there that "looks" really scary, but what do I know!Question: Later, I ran sfc /scannow and the result showed that some system ...

Is there a way that I can adjust the ink level used when printing. I used to be able to do it with my old PC under printing preferences advanced but am unable to find with Vista. ...

Help... I have a frustrating problem. I like the My Document folder to display small icons grouped by type. The problem is after I have set the folder uip h ...

Running Vista Business. I am trying to activate additional features eg. Games via Control Panel "Turn Windows Features on or off" and cannot d ...

Hi, My Vista Ultimate install is only 15.5 GB excluding the pagefiles, shadow copies and SR using Norton Ghost 12.0. According to the computer properties it is 102 GB mainly ...

I am running Vista on an HP laptop. I have figured out how to set the critical battery power levels for shutdown etc, but..... how do I set either an audible warning or a p ...

Help! I have installed the program with no problems, but when i try to open i get a message box come up that tells me " your registry settings for the ap ...

Hi! I work with power point 07 and avi files inserted, but this files don't work correctly with windows vista. Can you help me?Thanks ...

Hi thereI am an intermediate XP user, however, I was unable to answer over the phone a question my father asked me about his new laptop, with Vista installed. I have no experience of Vista, and would greatly appreciate your help.1) He cannot navigate to his d ...

Hello,Does anyone know how to avoid the "Open file Security Warning" dialog when running a program (.exe) from a server's network share? This is from our local W2K3 SE local server. I have made a shortcut to the Windows Vista start menu for some executables, which ru ...

Hello. I have posted the question about changing the font size, tooltip size, etc. It used to be found in the computer properties and then appearance. When I do this:Right click the desktop, select Personalize, then "Window Color and Appearance", fin ...

Hi,I am ordering a few mobile workstations from Dell, and according to sales, if we use Vista Business (Yes, still wish to give it a try for 12 systems), it cannot come with fingerprint reader, ...

Out of nowhere, i can no longer access the files in my encrypted folder on my standalone vista ultimate laptop. nothin has changed as far as password or folder owner. when i try to open any of the files, i get a windows security popup that says "you are encrypting a file or t ...

I'm planning to buy a new computer for my son by using his old Compaq computer with the tradein program from HP, the problem is that you must select a computer from a limited list of computers, these comput ...

I am using Remote Desktop on an XP laptop with VPN to try to get to my work Vista Enterprise Desktop. From the laptop, I connect to the VPN and then start the remote desktop connection. I get to the desktop and choose my profile and put in my usern ...

I did a full backup (windowsimagebackup) using XP before doing a clean install of Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I try to use Vista Restore it says that I have not yet done a backup. I need to recover my Outlook Contacts file (*.pst ?) to import ...

Thought this was an amusing find, so I'll share itStart > shell:SystemCertificatesand you'll see my folder ;) Jon ...

I see imaging software recommended here from time to time and I can personally say that Acronis True Image is absolutely GREAT and works perfectly and it's well worth the price BUT!!!YOU CAN GET IT FREE (maybe, there's a catch to it)! N ...

My second HD (D:) disappears from the listing and is not accessable until I reboot. It then appears and if the computer is left for a period of time, it disappears again. When it is available, it works fine. Any suggestions? It is an IDE 40gb if that helps. ...

I upgraded my copy of XP to Vista Home Premium just the other day, and am still trying to finish up. A major problem is that my laserjet 1012 will not install under Vista. Windows Update says that a driver for the 1012 is available, but whenever I try to install it I get Error C ...

I'm referring to the stack that powers MSFT's Keyboard Elite for BT and Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth. In device manager as: Bluetooth Enumerator............................................windows\system\driver\bthenum.sys Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth.................... ...

What is : Internal Error. Failed to initialize PalmOneRemoteLibrary. ????? Please help!!! richard.spradley@navy.mil richardspradley@hotmail.com Thank You!! ...

I have attempted to upgrade to Vista Premium on my Sony VGNAR21S laptop, using the Vista express guide and CD's provided by Sony. Prior to the install, I rebuilt my WIn XP MCE partition using an image I created when I purchased the laptop (Nov 200 ...

Hi there.A really funny thing happend on my way to the forum this morning :)After Microsoft's Update service installed the update for Visual Studio 2005 , KB932232 My Maxtor SATA disk completely disappeared (error (0x80070015) in the logs.According to the Windo ...

HiI have a Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD.The inevitable has happened, my hard drive has died and I have bought a new one, which I will install later today, how do I go about in ...

When I try to uninstall nero 7 trial version windows tells me that I do not have the permission required. I have turned off the acct. control. Can I do anything else to uninstall nero 7 demo and reinstall nero 6.John Hardman ...

On all my drives I have two strange named folders in the root directory. Something like D:\0fa08d9c08ef5fa0d75624c377b0790a Clearly they are something related to Vista/Security. If as an administrator If I open one. I see a file: msxml4KB927978enu.log The date seems to be ...

HelloI have an older PC running an eval of Windows Vista and I now want to put my licensed copy of XP Media Center Edition back on there.The obvious route was to boot from the XP CD, run install, and delete and reformat the partition that had Vista on it and install XP in the new partition.H ...

I would like to increase the audio levels on my video, but the volume control is already as high as it will go. Is there a way to boost the volume beyond this? ...

I am trying to share my DVD burner on my new Vista machine with my networked Windows XP machine. I think I successfully "shared" it from the Vista PC.When I try to acce ...

I saw this in the Microsoft TechNet forum and thought I'd post it here since nobody seems to have a solution and I'm experiencing the same issue.By default, the view option in Manage Wireless Networks is set to Extende ...

When i try to run PKR (poker software), it tries to update as it is the first time i run it. But it gives the message: "A fatal error ocurred during initialization. PKR wi ...

There's a wonderful NVidia tweaking utilitiy called RivaTuner that will do things the graphics card drivers won't do yet... the utility runs in Vista (I'm using the "Ultimate Edition 32bit)... but Vista UAC blocks it every time even though the .exe is set to "run as administrator ...

A message showed up in my Inbox today that can't be deleted. WM says "An Unknown Error Has Occurred" when I try to delete it.I've run WMUtil and done a database repair and compact. Doesn't help.Any i ...

Let me begin by saying that the built in Calendar is WONDERFUL. I love it, it has replaced Outlook in our home thanks to the fact it is EASY for our family to share calendars and keep up with each other.That being said there is a flaw in the system we want desperatel ...

Hvordan får jeg oprettet en mail adr. Med venlig hilsen Pia Karstensen ...

How do I best transfer everything from windows mail to outlook 2003 on my vista home premium system plus one newsgroup posting stated for increased speed I should uninstall the se ...

I am running the Dell version of Vista Ultimate and there is NO sound. In the device manager, all the sound drivers are yellow.I ran the RTM version of Vista Ultimate and the sound worked without any problem.My sound card is Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1. From all I have read, Vis ...

I need to significantly increase the VM on this Vista Ultimate x64 machine to handle large image files when scanning but when I set it to anything over about 4GB it BSODs on me. The first string is 0x0000001E if that is of any help but there doesn't ap ...

I purchased a HewlettPackard Pavilion Desktop with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6320 last week. Naturally it came with Vista. (The system is just different enough to cause me headaches.) Problem: Starting today while streaming musi ...

This is my first day using Windows Vista Business and I failed to find the procedure for removal of unwanted programs, which appeared after I installed Office 200 ...

Hi,My friend brought a Dell PC with Vista then decided to return to XP due to hardware compatibility issues. He had a Dell XP install CD from an old laptop that's now broken. Using this old Dell CD he trie ...

Provided to you "as is" without my "smartypants" comments I usually add.arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070529microsoftexecnextversionofwindowstobefundamentallyredesigned.htmlMicrosoft executive Ty Carlson spoke about the future of Windows recently during a panel discussion at ...

I don't know if this can be of help to anyone. I had a connection delay of 5 minutes with Vista Home Premium on cold boot or on wakeup from hibernation. Drove me crazy spent hours on the phone with HP (what a waste!). Finally one day I turned Windows Firewall off and, pr ...

When I try to connect to a Win2K server using the Vista RDP client I get a message box telling me that it is trying to connect to a older version and the default to continue is set to no. Is there anyway to either get rid of this message (as I always want to connect) or set the de ...

Just got an automatic notice from Apple announcing same. Am downloading the new version of iTunes. ...

Hi,I'd like to make a backup, but I don't know how much time it takes. And what files are backed up? My Documents? Windows? Program Files? Users: 54,5 GB My user folder: 10,2 GB Public folder: 44,3 GB Program Files: 10,7 GB Windows: 8,10 GB ( ...