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Hi AllI just installed Vista a few days ago and can honestly say I am very disappointed with it. First of all, the display looks like garbage. The graphics resolution seems fine when I open up a photo but like the icons look ...

I know you can type slmgr rearm to continue using the trial period for a total of 120 days. However, I can't get to the command prompt, as all I see is the web b ...

ok....if vista is a beta why not do beta "TESTING"! first instead of just releasing it!? i mean how stupid is that now i have vista and its giving all kinds of problems...first and foremost is NOT COMPATIBLE with moast of the games ...

Free 248 page guide to just about anything Vista. I've only started to read it but so far it's excellent. Lot's of explanations how to use Vista's built in features.tweakguides.com/TGTC.htmlBob ...

I can't seem to run windows vista backup. It keeps saying it's due to an internal error, it then says it can't do a backup while running on batteries but I'm not it's a desktop machine on mains power!Any suggestion ...

When I go into program sounds to change the wave file that plays during an event, I am unable to select a new sound. Normally, I can select a new sound, but that is no longer avalable to me. I have to use regedit. How do ...

Vista freezes for me everytime after a cold boot. Once Windows loads it's normally a couple of minutes before it simply locks up. When I restart it is fine, can use it for hours on end. But if I shutdown rather than restart, then switch on again, it freezes.Any ideas? ...

Hi I've noticed in Vista Ultimate that when I launch "Customize Colors" under the "Appearance and Personalization" area, each time I try to launch the 'classic' appearance window via the link "Open Classic Appearan ...

Both my printers, an HP Deskjet 895cse on LPT1 and a Canon Pixma ip5000 (USB) are attached to my Vista desktop on a wireless network with 2 XP desktops.I had Vista printer sharing turned on and both xp machines were seeing ...

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Hi, I have a Lexmark E120n printer and I have vista 64x. For a long time Ive tried to print 2sided, since I have to print 100+ pages for school I like to prin ...

My machine normally goes just fine. However, every now and then it bogs down like I am running it on a P3 1ghz (I am using a P4 3Ghz with only 1 gig DDR on an 80gig IDE which I k ...

When I run any file shredder on my Recycle bin (for example, i just ran the one in AShampoo's WinOptimizer for Vista), they show that they can delete some of the files, but the rest are being used by the system. The icon is empty and when i open the Recycle Bin, the file explorer sho ...

Perhaps this problem was address already but I could not find an exact circumstance: I have a computer that has a 80 gig drive with XP. I UPGRADED to Vista Home Premium. I then installed a Larger 320 gig drive. With the ...

Hi I have recently purchased a new computer with Vista Home Basic on it. Today I have tried to open Windows Movie Maker and received the message "WMM cannot start because your video card does not support the required level of hardware or h ...

Its not so much of a problem I just don't know why windows mail is doing this. I deleted the windows mail store files and it rebuilt the database and I was able to send and received messages again. But now everytime I start windows mail like 4 or 5 files startin ...

when u add files to a cd to be burned it does not tell you when u reach the max capacity of the cd.it only tells u when u try to do the actual burn.this is extremely frustrating and annoying ...

Hi ,Since I've installed iTunes 7 in my computer running Vista Business I have no automatic standby or hibernation anymore, only manually. I had this issue before with Palm Desktop software and I had to uninstall it to have standby and hibernation working again. Now ...

thinking of getting AT&T dsl this month. Is AT&T/yahoo adsl devices offer compatible with Vista already? ...

Hi!For using an Access application, I need to register the MS Windows Common Controls (mscomct2.ocx) in Vista. I copied the ocx file to system32 and tried to register it using regsvr32.exe, but an error occured which said that Vsta couldn' ...

Does anyone how I can get a list of the available commands at the Vista DVD repair command prompt. The command "help" is not supported.TIA, john ...

I just upgraded (sort of; upgrade wasn't an option, I needed a "clean" version of Windows) from Home Premium to Business (Vista). In doing this, I lost all of my games. ...

I made a shortcut on my desktop to the "Documents" folder, but my Music and Pictures folders are not in there. Do I now need a shortcut to all three of these folders on my desktop? I have an icon on my desktop named for me (UserProfile folder?), but it contains a bunch of other folder ...

I would like to know how can I get all the folders in My Documents to look like the main one green and slightly translucent? I know it's kind of trivial, but I like the symmetry when all the folders look alike and the old manila folders are ugly. Anybody ...

I have a program that has an ALT+T shortcut that takes me to a different tab on the program screen. When I execute it, it not only jumps to that tab but it also pops up my windows screens to select from as if I had just pressed ALT+TAB and ...

why the icons on the desktop are so big,can i change it into small size like 16*16? ...

When my computer wakes up after hipernate, Internet Explorer doesn't work. It can't find any internetsites, and it just freezes. After a restart, everything is back to normal... And it's not the network that causes the problem.Regards, Kim ...

I want to rename one of the folders I created in Computer > Local Disk (C:), but when I go to rename it and press enter, I get a message saying "Destination Folder Access Denied...you need permission to perfom this action". I'm the administrator on the ...

I have an error message when opening a .doc file attachment, it reads; this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the set associations control panel.i have set the association to open all .doc files w ...

Probably a bit of a hard one here.In Explorer windows, one very annoying thing is how narrow the Name column is set in Details View by default. It is such a pain to have to make it wider all the time.Is there a way to make th ...

I have recently built a new PC and installed Vista Ultimate (non OEM). I think my motherboard is faulty and I need to get a replacement. Hearing all the stories about Vista's activities to prevent software piracy, will this have any consequences. Can I do it and if so, will it reduce my ...

What is current Vista rating? is it 5.9 or..? In future, it will increase than 5.9 till , 8, 9... or? ...

I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but as soon as I try and run the game all I get is a blank screen and the THQ logo sounds, then after a few seconds I just get kicked back into Vista, here are my full system specsAMD Athlon 64bit X2 4800+ 2GB RAM N ...

Why do I get a synch icon in my startup tray and synch shows an SQL server ? ...

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my machine. This machine is networked to another PC and to a network drive. I made the mistake of Sync'ing my network drive to my main machine. I stopped this but now the network is constantly ...

I have an hp laserjet 1012 which worked fine on my old computer with XP. Is there some way to install this? I have downloaded several drivers but am getting nowhere. Also, the computer doesn't even recognize the printer usb, it shows up ...

I am getting a new Dell computer for my far away birthday and it comes with Windows Vista Home Premium, but than I talked to Shawn a family member who works with computers and he told me Vista has a problem and should not be put on a computer. Wh ...

Contrary to what a Microsoft Support person told me today, no one "owns" their copy of vista. According to Microsoft, we are all leasing it and after three hardware upgrades your lease runs out. ...

I am the local admin, I am unable to set any exe file to run as admin on the compatibilty tab of the file's properties. THe option is greyed out. I have ...

If my mouse pointer is off my a millimeter it will minimize /maximize the screen. It's driving me crazy and I cannot figure out how to fix it. Anyone else having this problem?TIAAbbastanza ...

Hi, wondering if anyone can help.Vista Ultimate takes around 10 mins to boot up everytime I start the computer. When booting into Safe Mode, it hangs on crcdisk.sys and still takes a ...

I got vista home premium a week or so ago, and Sony has really made it a nightmare getting things working properly thanks to horrible driver support and poor instructions. Although I got everything working, for some reason just tod ...

I am attempting to install a Visioneer onetouch USB scanner on Vista Ultimate. It recognizes the scanner and finds a driver on Windows Update. The install fails. I am well aware that I should wait for the vendor to re ...

I'm running on Windows Vista Home Premium and I'm having some trouble with Windows Media Player. At first I couldn't see the video I was trying to play (could only get audio), so I downloaded the following codec ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a flat network with a single domain. When I click on the network, it takes anywhere from 25 30 seconds before it shows me the computers on the network. It's almost instant in XP. ...

Is there any way to sync Windows Mail's logical folders store with the actual file system mail store?I ask this because I imported my folders from OE. I then logically rearranged them in WM. However when I search from the shell the results appear in \Local Folders\Imported Folder ...

I am unable to retrieve all the files from the internet temporarily folder. For instance: After visiting certain sites where there are certain flash animations (.flv) or videos or mp3, I am unable to find them inside the internet tempora ...

In general, am I going to notice the difference in performance running Vista x32 or x64? I know a server will work better/faster with x64, but how a ...

Happened yesterday........how do I make the "from field" show who sent mail. In columns it is ticked but still shows a blank from field??? Before the 28 th of March it was fine. Running Vista Ultimate 64 all updates applied.Any ...

I have been monitoring the Vista newsgroups and have seen several references to Red X in URL and the Vista Sidebar. I have the problem of Red Xs in the Help and Support Menus. The items all work, but I've noted in the Manual that there should be an ...

Vista Fax AccountsAddConnect to a fax server on my network\\mycompany\faxThe mentioned fax server is not available. Please correct the server name and try again.Why does Vista not find the network fax we have not ch ...

Can anyone please tell me if I can transfer (using Easy Transfer) my old email (in Outlook Express) in my XP PC, to Outlook in my new Vista PC, or do I have to transfer to Windows Mail. Thanks very much for your help. Steve ...

For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't launch on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further. I purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big fan of touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen save ...

I have been using the picture viewer that is included with Vista. I really like it. It allows me to add captions and tags easily. When I search for ima ...

For no apparent reason, the icons in my QuickLaunch toolbar disappeared. If I unlock the taskbar and open the Quick Launch folder, the icons appear normal in the open folder on the desktop. On the taskbar, however, the ...

I just installed Vista on my laptop a few days ago (Dell Inspiron 9300 w/ GeForce go 6800) and so far I'm liking most everything. There are a few small issues that are keeping me from being extremly pleased with it and the one that is real ...

Hi, i would like to know about which version of Windows Vista is supporting ..NET software?Thanks. ...

When I click on the sleep button, my computer acts like it is going to sleep, but then at the very end of the process, windows comes back up again. The only thing weird I did ...

I tried to change English Language to Germany, for that Display Language should be visible under Keyboard and Language. To view Display language LIP should be install ...

I have tried to install Adobe 8.0 over the internet. It downloads the program but rejects the installation with the message that the drive is not accessable or that there are no writing rights to the Temp folder. Could any one help me.... ...

Trying to turn system restore on, I am getting this small window "System Protection" Shadow Copy Service used by system restore is not working. Any help will be appreciated. Don ...

Posted this on April 3: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 n ...

Just to let everyone know roxio has a patch that fixes sonic driver error for EMC 9.Willie ...

Hi,hope someone can help.I recently installed vista home premium and had some problems with realtek's sound card(5.1 not working).I found out you have to enable "speaker fill" to use all speake ...

we just bought a bunch of Sony Vaio laptops that come with Home Premium, and want to upgrade to Ultimate. However the website states: Windows Anytime Upgrade is not available in your country/region at this time. You can purchase the edition of Windows Vista you are interes ...

Hi,Anybody knows how to install WinXP Pro on a Win Vista Home PC? I put XP Pro CD in, created a 40GB partition and install XP on this partition. However, when boot the pc up, it automatically goes to XP and doesn't give a choice to boot between Vista and XP. Why and how to fix it? Th ...

Does anyone know what the cost of upgrading from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate is? I bought a new laptop and like it but need ultimate so I want to upgrade. There is an upgrade CD that came with but they tell me if I open it I will not be able to return the ...

I'm trying to rename some of my music files in WMP 11 and I get the famous 'C00D11CD' error code and nothing happens. All my files are not DRM protected. I'm running the Ultimate version of Windows Vista ...

Hi,From the Vista i can see and access the other PC and copying files from tthe Vista vice versa.When i try to print a document on the other PC from the Vista it doesn't work.PS: the printer is not yet active on the Vista because the related drive is not yet available for VistaRegards Huib ...

New Vista Business machine. Mapped to a network drive and can see many of the files and folders but not all of them. Can't think of anything unique about those particular folders. Also having issues with Excel VB macros not se ...

Hi, I encrypted some folders\files, on xp pro. But when I tried to decrypt them the encryption came off, but I still couldnt open files. I dont have permissions to move, view, copy. I took o ...

If you have any problem with your current MCEtoXBOX360 configuration and you have to set up a new connection (with new XBOX password), you may end up with the following issue:old Mcx1user will not be removed from your MUSICPIXV ...

i am using windows vista home premium edition. i'm trying to run a program that helps recover deleted files, but it tells me that i need an account with administrator privelges. i am logged on as the administrator but it won't let me access my har ...

Hi guys when i run the everquest patcher it goes straight into saying:Internet download error.Please check your internet connection and try again. error parsing XML file. File scan complete.Then patcher ...

Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit AMD 2600+ cpu 2.12Ghz 2G system ram BFG Geforce 7800GS OC graphics card 256M Logitech Force feedback 3D Pro stick Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2 with 6.1 Intellipoint softwareMy issues are: 1. System freeze when s ...

Is there a way to have the "mail notification", at the bottom of the screen, only show new mail if it's regular mail, and not show if it's junk mail ? I don't want to check the mail if it's only one piece of junk mail. I'd hate to turn up the ...

I can recieve but not send. If I select the send option from send/recieve, it shows no tasks for sending email, but says all tasks were completed successfully. Trying to send on exit does not work eit ...

hi, i like to be able to have to sign in instead of it just open i don't want other people to have it so easy to get to my email so if you could tell me what steps i take to do it i went in to tools, edit and file and i really don't know where to go i don't want my email just opening ...

I got a new video card so I want to run a new WEI score. It runs the whole way thru then when it is about to finish a box comes up and says a program or device is keeping it from finishi ...

My barebones computer preinstalled with Vista Home Premium had only one IDE port which now has the DVD burner and one HD attached. No secondary. So I bought a couple of USB ...

Are there any keyboard shortcuts to change the transparency on the fly? I'd like to read my email or newsgroups with Thunderbird while watching TV underneath in the background. But be able to change the transparency if ...

I bought a usb to 9 pin and a 9 pin to 25 pin printer female, and I do not know how send my printer jobs to my hp laser jet 6p. My lap has no printer port 25 pin, that is the reason I bought adap ...

When I ask IE7 to print or print preview a page I get the message:"Cannot find 'file:///D:Temp/Low/3III8J41.htm'. Make sure the path or Internet Address is correct." (file name varies)When I close the popup dialog, I ...

I always hit the caps lock button accidentally when I am typing password. Wt can I do to let Windows notify me when Caps Lock is on? P.S. I don't have a light indicator on my keyboard ...

I have downloaded files like i usually did when i had windows xp pro.now when i dl programs it says bc file and it won't let me open the file.can anyone help me with t ...

Trying to install a prog produces an error saying I need .NET Framework 1.1.4322 When I go to try and install .NET Framework it tell me I have the wrong OSHelp please? ...

When trying to enable write caching in the HD disk properties of Device Manager, the aforementioned (subject) line appears just below the tick box to enable it. However, the following registry entry is set to &quo ...

Home lan ADSLrouterPC1 XP SP2 Sharing internet wired PC2 XP SP2 conneting to internet through PC1 wired XBox 360 wir ...

I have Vista installed on my box at home and occasionally I will get a BSOD and restart of the system. I have tried running the DUMP through the WINDBG application but I am not that familiar with what I am supposed to be looking f ...

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Hello,I have a problem with Windows Vista and my TPM chipset after a BIOSupgrade. After the upgrade I cannot control the TPM chipset anymore. My program (Infineon Security Platform Settings Tool 3.0) tells me to activate the TPM chipset in t ...

I have two HDs which are spanned. I'm currently running Vista 64 bit, but need to downgrade to 32 bit due to some software compatability problems. (FYI Microsoft offers a 45 day exchange on V ...

I just got this error. Hopefully I haven't screwed anything up too bad by running 3rd party registry cleaners! How can I fix this?TIAKoka ...

I have Windows Movie Make for Vista and cannot import audio files. I keep getting the error about the file being proteced by DRM and cant be imported. Is their anything that I can do to get these songs on my M ...

Hi folksThis is the first game I couldn't run. Any ideas how to make this work, it was originally designed to work with 98SE, ME, and XP, as far as I'm aware. TIA. Yours Chris ...

I exported a contacts file from outlook (cvs) and tried to import it into Windows Mail. After partially importing the entries the process stopped with a message "an error has occurred". Only the first 28 entries ended up in my W ...

I used Windows Easy Transfer and do not see my contacts. I see all my folders and messages. How do I migrate my contacts over? Will I still be able to bring groups as well? ...

To Whomever Was The First Person In this Newsgroup Who Recommended Foxit Software Reader 2.0, I Thank You Very Much, Just FYI. I Installed Foxit Software Reader On My 2 ...

[Vista HP] I have turned on indexing on a removable drive: after several hours the indexer still hasn't indexed the 5000 files there.If a removable drive is indexed, must the index be completed before a dismount in ...

I use a number of thirdparty software, example WIN PATROL, REGCURE which have programs to control the notification area. * Win Patrol was purchased to control the notification area plus i ...

(1) File name: {ca0a01b4d58c11db8afb0013720efba8}{3808876bc1764e48b7ae04046e6cc752}.(2) Partition is NOT System partition.(3) System Restore on this partit ...

I have a Motorola Bluetooth Dongle. Drivers installed fine and it shows up in Device Manager. I can't find where to manage it.The help in Vista Business says: Click the Start but ...

I bought a Memorex DVD Burner which doesn't work with Vista so does anyone have a solution? ...

Hi I keep getting the error message shown in the subject box above whenever my calendar is supposed to remind me of an apointment. Does anyone know why this might be and/or know how to solve it? ...

Could someone let me know the default Window Vista registry keys and values for .avi and .AVIFILE? I deleted them few days ago and the live thumbnail in Explorer doesn't work for avi.How come I deleted them? This is a quite a long story:I prefer to use another media player for playing avi files but ...

Hi,I am unable to get a working connection from my Vista home computer to my Vista computer at work (my small business). I have set up the client computer to accept VPN calls, and I have set up a VPN connection at home.Ever ...

I have Vista Home Premium installed on a shiny new Dell computer, along with a Buffalo Tech Terastation, but due to the Terastation being Unix based, Vista keeps telling me the username and password is incorrect when trying to get on it. Buff ...

Hiya, just wondering if any knows of a good firewall/AV for vista 64?? Tried PCCillin had problems with it.... Currently using Avast but doesn't update!!! Obviously not wanting to go norton or mcafee but if i can't find anything else..... ...

I have a new Vista machine, with Microsoft Professional loaded. I activated Windows Mail, which is working fine. However, when I activated the Microsoft Professional programs, Outlook asked if I want ...

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Does anyone have any info on this and a solution to why I cant download this update on windows vista ? ...

Uhmmmm so this just started happening. I have a desktop computer that suddenly decided to start popping up this message every 2 seconds. It's annoying. There are NO USB devices hooked up right now. Inspeciting the connections in D ...

How does one go about modifying the persmissions on a system folder in Vista? I have an application that, after installing, I need to add a user to the System32 folder.I'm logged in as a ...

I have Vista Home Premium. Is Outlook Express just no longer avaiable now after upgrading to Vista?I really liked using Outlook Express for newsgroups like this one,....Frank ...

I receive an error message when trying to download a printer driver update through thelexmark website. It reads "this is not a valid Win32 application." But right before it does that, a p ...

Hi,Can i install XP, server 2003 on the same computer where Vista is installed? Vista takes over the boot menu and the system can still boot to older versions of Windows but not sure what happens if installing older versions on a Vista machine.ThanksTimmy ...

Hi,I'm trying to deploy Windows Vista Business with WDS on Windows 2003 SP2 server. I succefully add SCSI drivers to the WinPE and now I'm in trouble with unsigned driver.I have some drivers to ...

I have 3 computers all running Vista Home Premium that I am trying to share a printer and files between them. On 2 of the computers, I can access the printer and files without a password. When I try to do this on the 3rd computer, it asks me for a user name and password. ...

Imported messages from Windows Mail and Outlook Express 6 into Windows Mail. Merged imported messages into local folder. Selecting Show All Messages all messages were visible. Selecting Group Messages by Conversation and imported messag ...

I have a new one, my wife and I have 2 different user screens in Vista. The problem comes up when my wife switches from my screen to hers, my Windows Mail shows up on her user side. Make se ...

"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer and then restart the installation."Hi, I'm new here and I have a big problem with installing Windows Vist ...

I have a AMD 64 CPU. If I was to get Vista 64 bit version. Can 32 bit programs run? or would I need Vista 32 bit version (is Vista in 32 bit?)? ...

Hi AllHope somebody can answer this.Have a brand new computer delivered with Vista Home Premium.Once every day when I first start the4 computer there is ...

helloon boot network adapter is not there restart will not fix must shutdown then reboot software or hardware? ...

I am looking for an MVP who is willing to be my Remote Assistant partner.Anyone...? /s/ Neal Weissman (212) 5911531 ...

Hi, Can someone please explain, how does an admin takes complete control over a regular user sesssion ? The problem begins when the regular user have has to enter a password for th ...

I am trying to use Windows mail with my Yahoo account..and it doesnt send or recieve any emails..can someone help me? ...

I have been trying to set an email account with the new windows vista mail program, "Windows Mail". I get as far as entering my email address, but I cant seem to get the software to take up my "new" windows live account which it ...

Can anyone remember how long after the launch of XP did SP1 come out? Just so I can pencil a similar gap into my diary from the launch of Vista... (yes, yes, yes, I ...

Please help. Whenever I try to open a program from another program (ie attach a picture to email or browse for a file to open from photoshop), the browser just hangs there. If I try to print from note ...

In the standard HP Vista protocol for deleting Restore Points, all the Points are removed except the most recent.Is there a process whereby the oldest Restore Point can first be saved and ...

noticed yesterday that epson ahs added form new vista drivers for some printersmulti function devices. got my cx3810 drivers for vista 64.mikeyhsd@comcast.net ...

Windows error codes Recently the following undocumented Vista errorcodes were found. Microsoft forgot to explain them in the manuals, so they will be spread via the internet: a.. WinErr: 001 Windows loaded System in danger ...

I have a problem with equations in them on a microsoft word document. When i copy the problem and paste it to the powerpoint slide it gives the whole problem excep ...

I was trying to move the my documents folder to my Data Drive (D:) I think I changed the location of the Desktop folder to be D:\ When I click on properties of D:\ and try and change the it back to C:\Users\Rob Laptop\Desktop by pressin ...

I have an Optiquest V95 external monitor for my Dell Latitude 131L. Vista uses it as the primary monitor in all user profiles except the one originally created.For example, in any other profile, when I righ ...

All,When WM executes a send/receive command a dialog box come up to indicate the progress. I can't seem to either hide this or get it to come up in the smalle ...

Hi there , DVD maker shute down when trying to publish a movie from 1 reply How are you trying to unregister the ax file? Using a command prompt with admin rights should work.Start / Programs / Accessories / < ...

Hello,I have a question considering subclassing Windows Photo Gallery (on Windows Vista). It's a simple question. Is it possible to hook into Photo Gallery when opened, and draw some shapes o ...

I downloaded and installed an optional update recommended by Windows updater. I had a feeling that it didn't install correctly so I uninstalled it through the control panel. I went back to Windows update and forced it to look fo ...

Does anyone know why when I click 'enable write caching on disk' in device manager/disk drive/policies that it wont stay ticked on a vista machine?Its got an SATA disk fitted if that has any bearing. Maybe with SATA disks you cann ...

I'm trying to use Vista Ultimate's 'full system backup' to backup to an external disk attached to another Vista system. I can see the external disk and contents just fine (shared out for f ...

Hi All,Has anyone come accross this one when I empty my wastbin it still shows as full untill I press F5 to refresh the desktop.Using Vista Ultimate.RegardsDave ...

Every once in a while, I must hit some combination of keys which then results in typing "E's" with various accents over them, instead of the original ...

I purchased a Gateway MX6426 this past December and just installed Windows Vista about a week ago. Now, my computer will not shut down at all. I have seen other posts that mention their computer doing this intermittently, but mine seems to be an everytime occurence. I also do not h ...

Hello,I use Windows Vista Business und Ultimate on two computers. (both 64 bit). Now I bought a new Polar Irda USB 2.0 adapter. Installing this device on Vista Ultimate is no problem . The correct drivers are installed without any problem. Bu ...

hey everybody,I'm desperately looking for drivers for my Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 so that it works with Vista. I called Microsoft Support several time ...

HiI have Vista installed on a SATA Raid, the installation went well and everything is working as planned. However when I try to add a new SATA drive (not in the RAID array) my BIOS sets this new drive as the default one, and so unable to boot into Vista.My problem com ...

Hi all, I had before Win XP Media Center Edition and recently I've upgraded it to Vista Home edition. I'd like to go back to the old XP , but I cannot erase the primary partition. It appears ther ...

I am trying to burn a CD and the play list I have does not have space between the tracks, but when I burn the CD, there is a space between songs. Can this be eliminated? I need the CD to play straight through ...

Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.0I am currently using vista and I cannot remove the damn program. I tried the removal tool, and the clean tool. I go to use the removal tool and it says "first remove symantec antivirus 9 or later in add remove programs" but I h ...

I have just bought the new HP TX1020 with vista on it and I want to install office 2003 and when i am trying to do so i am getting errors saying i do not have sufficient rights to write to the registry even after right clickong on the .exe file and running as the administrator.Please could some ...

Yes please, help required to use message rules to sort mail into different login accounts. I am using Vista, Windows mail and we are on the same computer. I have missed a generation. I have gone straight to Vista from ...

The Windows Mail Help says that import can bring in messages from many mail formats, including Eudora and Netscape. But the import wizard only offers Microsoft formats.Is there a way to import Netscape format ...

I've seen a few vague references to improving Vista's performance by using a flash drive to augment available RAM for the operating system.Can somebody point me to a resource that provides basic details?Specifically, I would like to know if there is an upper limit ...

I have Vista Home Premium factory installed on my new computer. The Task Menu does not have Hibernate as a choice. I changed the Change What The Power Buttons Do and to Hiberna ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate with an HP OfficeJet PSC950. When I first plugged in the printer (usb) it was recognized, windows installed the drivers and all was good. The next day I couldn't print to this printer. ...

I've seen a couple similar posts but no answers that seem to solve my problem. I am on the administrative account, and when I create a folder on my desktop to try to organi ...

Well i just bought a new PC with Vista Home Premium >< Wanted to try out the latest version of movie maker But to my bad , it doesn't work. I can't import videos , ever ...

on a new HP M8020 Vista Home Premium PC, I can record TV fine to DVR MS files with Vista Media Center, but cannot then play the DVRMS file with WMP11, it says no codec found blah blah blahAccording to my googling, WM ...

I don't always agree with what Microsoft thinks I want, and which they try very hard to keep me from getting what I want. In particular this day, I've had Vista Home Premium almost a month now and the thing that bugs me the most ...

HiIn Vista if I go to the windows symbol/ All Programs I notice some of the program are in yellow and some are in white, why?Thanx ...

I have a mapped drive to a server (H). I have taken the entire H drive 'offline'. All files are fine and available. However, when I open the H drive and then search for files, no results are returned until I select Advanced Search and then check to 'Include nonindexed, hidden, and system files ...

HELP!!! I upgraded to Vista and am now trying to reinstall itunes. I cannot uninstall itunes due to this message, "The Installer has insufficient p ...

I see CPU usage jump 10%50% every second on HP M8020 Vista Home Premium with all user apps off, just running task manager, but task manager doesnt show any process ever hitting 50%, only 2% ...

In the System Log on my Ultimate machine I get an error whenever my flatmate turns on his laptop. It's the usual: The master browser has received a server announcement from the comput ...

When I first got this computer (Saturday) I could right click on a picture while on line and then click "save as" now when I do this nothing is highlited and none of the options are clickable, is there any ...

Error code: ox80240029 . Last update I got was Definition Update for Windows Defender KB915597 (Definition 1.17.2520.1)Installation date: ‎19/‎04/‎2007 10:06 PMInstallation status: SuccessfulAnyon ...

HiFor some strange reason my Windows Media Player has stopped working.When I click on it to open nothing happens, it doesn't load up.any ideas?Thanx ...

Somehow, I've damaged the functionality of the TaskManager (taskmgr.exe) program in my Vista. Attempting to run it, from any direction (CtrlAltDel > Selecting it on menu; going to Explorer > C:\Windows\System32\ta ...

I too have the same error code 80070020....Has there been a solution or suggestion on it yet?......please help! ...

Is there a way to speed up unzipping using Vista's own unzip? I have 7zip installed, but sometimes it's just less hassle to use Vista's builtin unzip.. if it weren't for the painful slowness of it. I know some people say XP was also slow: well, it wasn't ...

Two questions for MS Redmond;How should we understand of missing two important News Groups from the "Microsoft Communities" Ngroups; News://microsoft.public.windows.vista.internetexplorer and News://microsoft.public.windows.vista.ou ...

Hey guys,I'm having some real problems getting the sleep function to work properly. I've tried everything I can think of but nothing is working. Basically, if I set the BIOS to S1&S3 it will go to sleep and then restart, the OS will then load a ...

Greetings. I'm preparing to upgrade my system from an AMD 4800+ to an Intel E6600 Conroe. The motherboard I've chosen is the ASUS Commando. I use two Raptors in a RAID ...

To allI have a year and a half old computer with a 1.6 Dothlan (Pentium M rev just before Core) and 2 gig of pc 4200 ram (the fastest it can take) with a ...

im using vista ultimate 64 bit and a asrock945dvi mobo, im tring to put an hitachi hdt725032vla360 working as a 2nd master sata drive and the vista instaled the drivers but the shor ...

i cant find mine dvd/cd rom drives they just disappeared vista wont read them HELP!! they wont show up in my Computer folder at all and there not in my d ...

I've recently "upgraded" my Compaq computer to Vista (HP) and have been studiously upgrading all my drivers (inluding Firefox for IE7 it keeps on "stopping" despite reseting the damn thing) and had got around to MS Int ...

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) keeps closing the Windows Photo Gallery that came with my version of Vista. This normally occurs when I try to add a file from a camera or sc ...

My home network is 2 computers, one is XP (the one the printer USB is hooked up to), the new one is Vista (the one that is connected wirelessly to the network). I was able to set up the network and download the driver from Lexmark's website but it still won't print. It says it can't communic ...

I have Windows Vista Home Premium preinstalled on a new computer and I really need help with the following problem, can anyone tell me how I can hide my email address so that it doesn't so up in the body or whom it's from? ...

Perhaps my problem is that I have the 2002 edition of Word, but I'm unable to send a document that is attatched to an email. I have to be able to do this for my jo ...

Helping a friend set up a new laptop with Vista Home Basic, we impotred contacts from a csv file and all worked okay. However we now cannot add new contacts or edit existing contacts. When clicking on the add or edit button in contacts a new screen appears for about half ...

I am able to send mail but impossible to receive ??? ...

I have an email stuck in my outbox and i cannot delete it, it's been there since Tuesday i know cannot send any emails at all and my provider is saying its a Microsoft problem and there is nothing they can do. Can anyone help please.Thanks ...

I was wondering if it's possible to send pictures or a text message from my computer to a cell phone....Anyone have any ideas?? ...

Hey all, the new nForce Vista Drivers are out :)nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.24.html 32 bitnvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_158.24.html 64 bitGames seem to be running better now, they are nearly there !!!!Comments on these Drivers ? Post them here please:vistareadygames.com/showthr ...

I'm getting this error message when I try to print in IE7 in Vista/Ultimate.An error has occurred in the script on this page. Line: 1828 Char: 1 Error: Unspecified error. Code: 0 URL: res://ieframe.dll/preview.dlgAll my oth ...

I have one question abut fax error in Vista “Fax & Scan” function. Can anyone help me if you know how to fix the problem? In the beginning, I run the fax (from my home even I use Vista Business) function smoothly. One da ...

Hello, I'm using Vista Home Premium.I want the SORT BY/TYPE option available for each folder. The SORT BY/TYPE option is not part of the Sort By menu, by ...

I have XP Pro now and would like to upgrade to Vista Home Premium with dual boot. I saw somewhere that there are problems doing this. Have any of you done this su ...

Well, that worked, but it was marked as a question. This is marked as a comment. If this goes through, whatever caused it is gone. ...

Hi allMe again, this time is to ask to those who deliver vista ready logo to stop authorise the use of the logo to those who sell laptop with 1 gig of ram or less with cheap video card with share memory.I have a station and base on my experience vista need at leas ...

Hi all!I've experienced such problem lately: my local profile can't be loaded on Windows startup. Has anyone found any sulution for that issue? I'll be very pleased for any kind of help/adv ...

Windows notified me of a update KB931768 but when I go to download and install it keeps failing. I have called microsoft support several times and no help. Any suggestions. This failing of ...

Hi, I am using windows vista business edition. I like the color scheme used in the windows vista ultimate (the black color). Could any one tell me on how to change the color scheme to as of like windows vista ultimate.Thanks ...

I am using Vista Home Premium and want to flash a DVD player but every time I try I get the error message "Access denied! You must have administrator privilege to flash drives. I ran the program as administ ...

I have just purchased a new PC with Vista and cannot get my HTC S710 smartphone (WIndows Mobile 6) to synchronise with WMDC. I have installed the software from the CD that came with the phone, but when I connec ...

Hello. I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate from XP Pro. I'm using WMC for the first time after having my HTPC all set up using Media Portal. In Media Portal, I accessed my ripped DVD's (.iso files) and using an Intervideo codec I was able to watch the movie. When ins ...

My problem is this: 1. New vista home basic notebook wirelessly connected to home network peer to peer via router. 2. Samsung SCX 4100 printer attached to windows XP SP2 machine via USB. 3. Vista notebook can see the printer on XP machine fine. 4. Have tried a ...

There are two OSes installed in my computer, one is XP, the other one is Vista . 1. Under Vista: I Logon the Vista OS by administrator accounts , When I copy the folder (the XP's windows dir ) "d:\WINDOWS\assembl ...

I feel like a loser!!! I am having trouble signing on to Yahoo games. I bought a entire new system in Feb. This is the first time I have tried to sign on to yahoo games using the windows vista program it won't load the applet the game or nothin ...

I have a dell 410 which i upgraded to vista home premium. i am running 3 gigs of ram on a intel 6300 dual core 1.86. it is a standard system with no funky hardware added. here is the problem. vista works fine except at random times every twenty mins? or s ...

I have a Windows 2003 Server (R1) with Vista Business Clients. I have configured a mandatory profile and it works fine except for printing. The server shares 2 printers (HP Laserjets 3500 ...

All, I was just wondering if anyone has experienced a loss of the ability to view Nikon camera RAW thumbnails in Explorer? I can't say exactly when it started to happen however I know it was after this months upda ...

I have just some how deleted files via a mapped network drive. any ideas where the files went? they are certainly not in the recycle bin!! :(( cOScossmo @at gmail . com ...

Will I be able to run aero features with an Nvidia GeForce TI4400 (128MB, AGP) graphics card? Other current specs are: 1.5GB system RAM, 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 (32bit, single core).Thanks.:BazookaJoe ...

HelloI am deploying x16 Vista machines and every thing is going absolutly fantastic, what a step forward Vista Business is.I have a question I hope microsoft do read this ...

Is anyone having any luck? I can't get Windows Mobile Device Manager to sycn. It does not recognize the device. ...

Recently experienced a crash after which the computer would not reboot.Starting into the Intel Matrix Storage Manager showed an error on one of the four hard drives. The status of the Volume 0 ...

Basically my problem is that since i have installed Norton 360, browsing the internet is really slow. When clicking links on websites, i click it, and then there is a ...

Vista sucks. If you are reading this because you thinging about upgrading. DON'T. I have spent 2 hours killing off all the grabage that came with Vista. My Vista computer will never see the internet. ...

Does Defender stop spam? I have Vista Premium with it. I also have Lavasoft Adaware. I ran it awhile ago and found over 60 malicious spams. I kind of thought Defender would stop this. ...

Where is the setting to change the default shut down selection from Sleep to Shut Down in the Classic start menu?Thanks, James ...

En el anterior Outlook Express, se manejaba muy f�cil el sitio de almac�n y pod�a uno personalizarla en una ubicaci�n especifica.�Como se hace ahora en windows Mail?Quiero tener el correo en un sitio en mis documentos, para que no haya problema de perder los mensajesGracias ...

I have installed Irfanview and then I found I made a big mistake.The thumbnails changed to the little red deveils. I decided to uninstall Irfanview, then all of the thumbnails are keeping the same. Don't know what to do.Any suggestion?Thanks ...

I'm trying to set up a folder like I used to have in XP under My Network Places. I've found how and where to do it, and that's all fine, but it doesn' ...

Hello MSN!I recently purchased a PC with Vista. I would like to set up a network between that PC and a PC running XP. I created a network on the XP and saved the info to a CD to load on the Vista ...

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I was installing a game on my new computer with vista and about 95% in, I kick a switch and the computer crashed. Vista see it as an installed game, but the program doesn't work. Then I uninstalled ...

Hi; I have PC with preinstalled Vista Ultimate; am going to set up dual boot on this PC with either Ubuntu or XP. What I also want to do is run ANOTHER PC with either XP/Ubuntu FROM my Vista PC is this doable? I have lots of apps ...

Is it permissible to change the evironment variables to have temp files placed on as second hard drive (where the OS is not installed). I changed the location to T:/Temp and now there are problems installing Acrobat Reader.Originally, the partition was on the same hard drive as the OS, and this ...

I recently configured a raid 5 on my nf4 motherboard with the nvidia raid controller onboard. I am trying to do a clean install of vista and it says the "hard drive" is unacceptable, I tried to load nvraid.inf and the sata.inf files, but it wouldn't accept those drive ...

About two weeks ago I lost sound from my motherboard. It has been working fine with Vista 64bit for almost three months then bam outta nowhere theres nothing! When you click on your speakers etc it says that everything is working fine. But ...

Hi I did a reinstall and was moving all the "My Documents" related stuff. I accidently deleted "My Picutres" and "My Music" permantly. These folders were empty. I'm not w ...

Hello, first of all id like to say im quite techincal so the obvious things like firewalls have been covered.We have one 2003 server sp2 running exchange and some new laptops running Vista business, we also have 3 network subnets ie 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3. Whenever a Vista ...

Hello I launch my application with a breakpoint at the Winmain function,and I obtain the cpu windows stoppint just at the "ret" assembly command of t ...

I work for a DSL ISP. We do not "officially" support Vista yet, so our policy when someone calls in with Vista is to tell them there is nothing we can do, but I like to h ...

Hello,I have Vista 64 + Sync Center and also PDA with WM6 on board. Unfortunately upgrading from WM5 resultated in strange problem each time I connect my device to PC the system asks my to ...

I am the only person who uses my computer. I got tired of having"if you started this" question so I made myself a Standard User and created another name as the Administrator. I forgot the password for the Administrator I created and now can't do anything online ex ...

Quite often when I am plaing minesweeper (a missioncritical application), it freezes for no apparent reason. The game box goes white and the rotating wait indicator shows up. It then no longer responds. The only way to get the game back is to close it and restart. Ha ...

When posting to MS public NG(s), all of a sudden over the last two days, I get this error message. I save the post as a draft, logoff the machine and then logon again, a ...

Anyone know how to find lost email folders that I saved on my computer in the Hotmail program? Thanks ...

Auto complete addresses doesn't seem to work right. Under tools/options/send I have checked the box: automatically complete email addresses. It only completes to contacts I have sent a message to all ready. (which is only about 10 contacts out of a few hundred, since my computer is new)Help, I' ...

Just bought a brandnew Dell, with Vista. Imported old emails and email folders from Outlook Express 6; worked perfectly (messages appeared in an "Imported Folders" heading). I then successfully moved messa ...

HiI have rules setup so certain email go to certain folders within the INBOX.I have found that the spam filtering only works on the Inbox (root) and not on the emails moved into specific f ...

I'm new to this. I was on a website and clicked on a "contact us" button. it opened up email. I can't send anything using Windows Mail, but that is what opens up. Is there a way for me to have the link open in msn mail or hotmail? Thank you DRP ...

Does anyone know of a faxing software package that works in Vista Home Premium 32 bit and a Lexmark X6150 AllInOne Printer/fax/copier/Scan? I have ADSL ( ...

How can we link the Outlook 2007 contact address book to the 'Windows Fax and Scan' address book so that we do not need to keep importing and exporting contacts? We have been told that this link sh ...

I may ask for help. I installed the Printer (Konica 1350) and try printing the documents. However, pc usually show the "print to file". I cancel it but I can't print. I click the button" save" ...

I'm trying to add Docs, Files, etc to the "Send To" tab. I tried this but do not have all that was suggested C:\uders\your_login in name\ (cannot find app data?\roaming?\microsoft?\windows\sendTo"none of those are o ...

Was splitting up a file and lost most of it. I only have what I cut out. Have no idea how. How can I find the original. Thanks ...

I have just purchased a new PC with Vista home addition preinstalled. I log on as an administrator nut when trying to load certain software from a cd, i.e. BT internet, it ...

Hi, my windows version is vista business 64 bit. When I rightclick in a random folder and open the 'new' context menu, there is no 'new text document' although this is set in the register*. What can I do about this? Kind reg ...

I have recorded a couple of programs via Windows Media Centre on Vista Ultimate I want to find these videos through the normal interface as I want to trim the videos be ...

after downloading a few programs off the internet i try to install them onto my computer but a message pops up saying ... this is not a valid win32 application. these are programs that ive had on my old computer with windows xp but they dont seem to work on vista. how can i fix this? ...

I have Windows Vista business from MSDNAA.I installed and activated them correctly.But, I had to format my disk , so I reinstalled my system and now it refuses to activ ...

I just purchased a new computer with vista operating system. I have microsoft office 2000 professional from my old computer. can I install this on the new computer with vista? is it compatible? ...

generally the best fix is to clean the ms configuration utility. All installed programs load an automatic start with windows comment. 90% of the time if you disable the aut ...

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 tried installing XP on Vis ...

Anyone aware of a mouse utility to map the directinput mouse buttons to specific actions? I have a logitec mouse and can't use the extra buttons in vista because of lack of vista support. I'm looking for somethin ...