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My brother got his new computer with Vista on it. I'm still getting comfortable with Vista. He has his own user of course, which was the one created first, then I made my own user. I made sure to make myself an aministrator. If you look at ...

Hi to oneandall: I've got a small problem with Windows Mail: When I right click an entry in the address book and select "send mail" as an action, I get a message that says "an error occurred while attempting to invoke the default email program". As usual, any a ...

I select all the messages in my Caught Spam folder and delete them. They go into my Deleted Items folder where I again Select All and delete them. Then, they go right back into my Caught Spam folder. This cycle just continues endlessly and I have to use another client li ...

Winmail wont use Lycos or Hotmail, yet GMail seems OK Anyway I can get my Lycos.co.uk & my siungle Hotmail.co.uk to work in WinMail ? ...

With 2gb RAM and Vista Ultimate on my PC, I found that (unlike XP) several hundred mb would be written to my pagefile (2 pagefiles on 2 drives) especially after exiting a demanding program or game. I measured this with Doug Knox's XP Page File monitor ...

My new HP 1710, that came with Vista, and over a gig of RAM, keeps locking up....especially when I minimize the browser....even the task manager is affected...I added another gig of RAM, and it still continues...also, I have been unable to play the XM radio player.it tell ...

Ok, I went into device manager and noticed my drivers for the above gfx card were 7.10, dated 2006 sometime.Now I've always been told it's very important to have the latest gfx card drivers, so I went to nVidia's site ...

I just bought an HP Vista Home Premium computer 32 bit and when I go into Microsoft works 8 spreadsheet to print a document I get the message that "MS Works 8 has stopped working. Other applications are able to print without any problems at all which proves that the pri ...

For all those of you who love the idea of DRM...megachip.info/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=3626 Stephan 2003 Yamaha R6君のこと思い出す日なんてないのは 君のこと忘れ� ...

i cant get my newly installed sigma tv tuner card to work on windows vista ultimate. the driver for the card is only compatible with windows xp and i tried to visit the website but there`s no available driver that`s compatible with windows vista.Is theres any work around to m ...

Hi, i am using Windows Vista Business and my connection sometimes drops due to my router. However after my router reconnects to the internet, my PC which is linked v ...

how do I get my spellchecker to work with windows mail, it puts a pop up saying this langauge is not used anymore ? ...

OK I did a clean install of Vista Premium. So then it tells me to upgrade my Catalyst Control Center. So I did to the latest version. Great. im able to use the Areo Glass or whatever ...

A bit OT perhaps, but may be of interest to others. What is the best way to make a generic bootable CD so I can read a file on my hard drive to update the BIOS? I've got Roxio software, but I need an image fi ...

I back my data up to DVD+RW using Backer 6.6. On my XP machine I have DirectCD loaded and the transfer rate writing to the DVD+RW is >= 3 MB/sec. ...

Is it possible to have just ONE default view in Windows Explorer? I REALLY hate the fact that Vista changes the view based on the type of files in a folder. Then just when you have spent days setting up all your view the way you want, Vista wacks out and start changing views a ...

I hibernate my PC and it wakes up with no issues, yet if I hybernate again it won't even go to sleep (it freezes up and I must manually turn it off and then on again ...

hello every one >>u must download an update to your xp computer:microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f01a31dee46481eba1137f485fa34ea&DisplayLang=enthen restart the both compu ...

I removed an incompatible antivirus program from my Vista. Upon restarting the computer, it would not fully reboot. I would get a taskbar, and a blue screen. When I moved the pointer into the taskbar area, I received a "working" indication. I performed a Vista r ...

When trying to drag & drop files between different directories windows explorer restarts and it is not possible. Any ideas? Thanks ...

When trying to get into Vista help and support, I get the message: "Windows Help and Support has stopped working" "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the progr ...

I had Vista Home Premium running great, then decided to upgrade to 64 bit version (Don't say it) New installation disk wanted to format C, so I did a complete backup on a clean spare HD. Now the 64 v ...

I wanted bluetooth on my computer and is there a chip to install for it? ...

my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run ...

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I want to configure FlashGet to scan its downloads with AVG. But I don't know which AVG file to use. If I use AVG.exe it just opens the main scanning console when the download is done. Anyone know which AVG file to use s ...

i am having problems with sending email i have phoned our service provider and asked for advice also he took me through the process of finding out what it was wrong ???? Aft ...

Receving emails ok. Out going go into the outgoing box and stay there. This started after I removed laptop from cable and used it away from desk. I did not use a wireless. When I reconnected I had a problem. Settings stayed the same as I compaired them to my other computer With m ...

I bought a new computer with Vista Home Basic installed. I now have everything I want on it and want to do a back up, but every time I do it fails. Here are the steps I've taken to create a back up. 1) Righ ...

I can't seem to download anything since upgrading to Vista. The download goes as usual, but when it finishes the window disappears and nothing else happens. ...

I have a question, I'm a fairly new computer user. Lately when I run, or play certain games my computer freezes up. It causes inability to move my curser, or any of the control buttons. When it does t ...

Question: I have a PC with OEM Home Premium. I also have a brand new retail Ultimate Upgrade DVD(received for Birthday). Can I use Ultimate Upgrade DVD to upgrade my home/premium to ultim ...

I added 2G memory had 2G computer starts fine with 2G, but when I add 1G or 2G computer starts ok, the bios finds the added memory, then I click start vista, a few seconds later I f ...

Does anyone use a Logitech Harmony remote with Windows Vista?Logitech does not say when the drivers will be out for it but in the meantime, I am interested in finding out workarounds etc. in getting my remote to work again.How do you do it if you do use the remote with Vista? :) ...

In XP is was easy to turn of the wireless. You simply rightclicked on the wireless radio signal meter in the task bar and choose to disable the radio. It appears to me that in Vista you cannot do this w/o going through about three windows. Am I missing somet ...

Hi, there. I apologize if there's already a thread on this matter. I'm really worried that I've lost all of my documents.Anyways, I bought a laptop with XP Home installed. I then downloaded the beta 2 version of Vista, and had it install over XP. So, for a while, Vista was th ...

Is it possible to kill or diasable the DRM in vista? ...

I want to import the Microsoft Outlook messages to Windows Mail. File > Import > Messages Selected Microsoft Outlook, click Next then Windows Mail ...

Ik krijg steeds de volgende melding in mijn Postvak Uit als ik een bericht wil verwijderen : Er is een onbekende fout opgetreden. Hoe kan ik dat oplossen, want ik wil die berichten er wel uit. Alvast bedankt. Dom Blondje ...

after i trained my first pc for the new amazing voice recognition, i found NO way of transferring the training files to my second pc running the same vista business version? very frustrating. ...

I installed vista for the first time and when I did I was expecting to see my 4gb of ram to show up but it only shows me that I have 2812mb of ram. Is the ...

I want to share the Vista Calendar between to users on the same PC. Each user has their own profile but I want to only one calendar that both access. I don't want to publish the calendar to the Internet. Is t ...

the short wont come up and i need the video for our navy son. can u help? ...

My guest account is set as administrator. How do I change the account to Standard User?Steve ...

I set my desktop icons for "Medium" and they keep changing back to small size. Any ideas on how to fix this? ...

I have Windows Vista and Windows Mail. My problem is that I would like to send links and/or web pages via email. I did this before with Windows XP and Outlook Express. Only now, on the tool bar where it says page, you cann ...

I cannot get my display to sleep with DreamScenes running! nVidia 7900GS, latest nVidia Vista drivers. Mike Matheny ...

My computer spec is rated at 4.2 with the following AMD 64 3500 nvidia 7600gt 2 gig ocz ramMy problem is that i cannot dreamscene to run i can in the preview but when i come out of preview the scene just go to a solid picture.The right click option is also greyed out on ...

I purchases a new HP dv2000t without vista and recently upgraded it to vista a few days ago, and now I have all these problems. My webcam no longer works, my screen saver doesn't work only on the choose user screen ...

I saw the web site that allows the purchase of the 64bit Vista DVD for about 10USD if you have a valid Product Key. When I built my PC back in January, I also purchased Windows XP Pro with free upgrade to Vista. Unfortunately I received OEM Vist ...

I have DreamScene running on my desktop. I downloaded a .pdf file and saved to desktop. The downloaded file did not appear as an icon on desktop. The downloaded file was present in the desktop when viewed in an Explorer window. By rightclicking on desktop and selecting "Refresh" t ...

....the MS Golf game, works properly on my VISTA setup. ...

I have recently upgrade to Windows Vista. When I go to the Windows Experience Index I'm told that new hardware is detected and that I should refresh now. When I do I receive a message that Windows System Tool has Stopped Working. Then I r ...

"...One of the devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it..."I already tried deleting infcache.1 but it had no effect. tex ...

I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed. I also purchased a webcam that will not run with vista, but works on my older machine (XP)Also, I cannot find patches for autocad o ...

I purchased a HP computer in January therefore came with XP. I sent in the information for the Vista upgrade, but I have been advised the wait time may sti ...

Hello,My portable HD crashed (shit happens) but I'm well organised, I use Vista Ultimate Back Up program for the system, I also have back ups of my data on my server ... so data lost, avoided. But I cannot regenerate my system ...When I installed Vista + Office 2007 + Acrobat Pro 8 + ... a ...

I have a little problem that I have no idea how to fix and am hoping someone can help. When you go to the Start menu on my desktop and click on programs it says "empty&quo ...

Hello,I have setup a test network that is NOT connected to the Internet. I'm brand new at setting up servers and networks. I have 3 computers on this test network, a server running Windows Server 2003 SP2 (with a domain controller, file server, DNS server, and print server) a Wind ...

I have been connecting via VPN in Windows XP and using Remote Desktop in Windows XP for years and now have a notebook that has Windows Vista and am having trouble connecting to the same Windows XP Pro workstation in my office. ...

i have set up a wireless connection to access the internet which works fine.plugged into my ethernet socket i have got a dlink media lounge. this setup worked pe ...

I have a wireless network which allows 2 PCs runnung XP to connect to the network and internet. My laptop running Vista will connect to the network, but as "local only& ...

I have just installed ADSL BT Broadband internet onto a new PC running windows Vista. The same connection works perfectly on my old XP machine. However, with Vista some webpages, such as bbc.co.uk load instan ...

I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete or change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator ...

Hi,I was playing FEAR with Windows XP with no noticeable problems, however, since installing Vista the game is now unplayable in any outside areas, even if ...

Does anyone know how I would/can find the servers names for Hotmail and Gmail. I'm trying to link them up to my Windows Mail and I can't find the information.ThanksCurtis ...

Is there a way to keep windows mail "working online"? It seems to go off after 1015 mins... I connect to an Imap server and the connection does n ...

Help!!I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with each of them...Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be nice to have ...

I started to have these long black lines appear to the left side of the message. They appear in some of the messages that I receive or am sending in reply to. How do I get rid of them? I didn't have them before, but now they are here. Still Spinning,Bob S. Sp ...

I'm running Vista Home Premium on an Acer 5100 series laptop. Vista is the OS that came installed on this machine. Everything has been great at least up until the April 3 patch update. Ever since then, Vista has been hanging up on the final shut ...

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My Vista Home Premium machine has a 320 GB Sata Hard Disk.I'd like to cut it in two partitions : Can I do this from within Vista ? What comfortable size should I give to Vista itself (20 50 100 GB) ?My idea is to move all my user files to that ne ...

I just installed Vista Business (retail purchased copy) on a computer that already had XP on it. I installed Vista to drive D (a separate physical drive). The installation went smoothly everything works as expected. Except for the extra "Vista" entry in the dualboot m ...

When Vista's system Font Size (DPI) is set to certain custom sizes, for example 100 DPI, the Start Menu is not adjusted properly. The graphical On/Off and Lock buttons are scaled up but the menu's width is not increased to match.Screenshot: farm1.static.flickr.com/243/452028145_98e6fefe87 ...

dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/03/windowsmediaplayermetadatabackup.html?q=rebuildingHow Windows Media Player stores your data Rebuilding your Windows Media Player library database Backing up ...

hi! I've just reinstalled vista in my hp pavilion dv1000 and just like the first time I installed it,I totally had no audio but like what I did before, I got it to work just fine after installing the Microso ...

I don't understand...since I'm not that computer smart and all...so i don't exactly know what a Macro media projector is. But is says that it's not working and it m ...

This discussion was significant so I pulled it out of the thread... I am posting my reply to stephans post.. under this reply, you will see what was said before by stephan and another guy. Stephan gives the technical background on wha ...

Hi,How can we actually make the Texas Hold'em AI players harder. The advanced AI is so weak it is almost impossible to lose. I only started playing the game and 15 ...

Has anybody come up with a way to do this? is it even possible? (there are others asking for it as well: windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/enus/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management&tid=9a7d765f1ad54b28903dede3700cc4b9&cat=en_US_80EED63A90344C95A8053 ...

When you Rightclick on a group of files and they are of a different type (for example one powerpoint and one Word file), you cannot open them. In XP you could rightclick and select open and they would all open in their respective applications. It there a way to fix this in ...

Can anyone shed some light on the Download. I registered as a partner, used the download tool and started to download the OPK for Vista. This took forever but once done I could not open it. The file is an ...

This has been asked many times here, and the debate is heated among many, which makes it hard for unbiased opinions.Here is a report that used two identical machines, so it puts the question to rest.blogs.zdnet.com/ ...

I just downloaded the new extras...which includes new MPG videos my laptop has the vista capable logo and i have windows ultimate 32 bit! when i try to use one of those new videos as my background i get this message: WINDOWS DDREAMSCENE has ...

I have a new computer with VIsta Premium. I can't download or run any of my olditems off a website. Also can't run some other items. I tried compatability etc. The items aren't compatible with the new Vist and they don't know when they will be. SO question: I would like to go back to win ...

I find it very interesting that you can find absolutely no help anywhere on the internet for the Windwos Easy Transfer program. It simply does not work and no one from Microsoft is offering any answers anywhere.For m ...

I recently built my own pc using components I have purchased. I have since upgraded the computer by adding a faster graphics card and installing an additional hard drive in a RAID formati ...

Is there a way to back up the licenses for downloaded music? Or where are these files kept so that they can be manually backed up? ...

I've never experienced such difficulty in setting up a network. Is this impossible? All I have is a Vista machine and a 2K machine. I can't get them to network for t ...

....it was as simple as Firewall setting in OneCare being adjusted to allow for file/print sharing.1 second job, all fixed.I feel like a knob! And thanks to all here that assisted!!!Rgds Rod ...

Everytime I boot, i get the reminder that my windows firewall is off. I then exit the security center. Is there any way to permanently turn off the security center reminders or keep it off the tool ...

Copy and paste link for safety. One may want to pass this on.support.microsoft.com/kb/932246 ...

That's fine, it works but is still not right!!!!!! it should save the attachment from the orginal email andyb ...

I have WM set to read in plain mail only, but have always been able to click on the attachment icon on the right side of the info bar, click on the .jpg attachment and choose 'open' in the resulting dialog in order to view the image with Photo Gallery. In the last few days, doing t ...

How do I import messages en contactpersons which I exported form Outlook into a file named outlook.pst into Windows Mail? I get a message that messages cannot be imported from MAPIclient. ...

I just went from Outlook Express 6 to Microsoft Mail. My old Inbox is not visible in the new MSM nor are my Local folder mail visible. Obviously I need to move these ove ...

I have a new HP a1730n computer. It has an Athlon 64X2 4600+processor, 4 gigs of memory, A 300 Gig and a 500 Gig Hard drives. I have the ATI 1300 Radon video card with 512 memory. I routinely update it with the Windows updates. I run Trend Micro's PCCillin Internet Securi ...

My Printer Spooler Service stops for no reason, this machine is a client on a SBS 2003 Premium server any ideas??? Kevin ...

Has anyone seen this? Every time I log off and back on (or hit refresh) my desktop icons realphabetize themselves. If I change the sort criteria, it will resort by that (size, for example). I haven ...

[Vista Home Premium]1. Where is all the clever syntax for Search described ("from:", "about:", etc.)2. What does "Null Filte ...

I have a brand new install of Vista. I am using IE7 (obviously) for Outlook web access (OWA). I can read my emails. Howerver, when I use new email, it ...

I cannot get Windows Mail to stay as default mail program although I have checked it to be in the Tools Options. Any ideas what causes this and the fix? ...

I have just installed Vista Home Premium, Error when i try to use mmc.exe (Hardware management in control pannel)Here is the error report : (French)Produit Microsoft Management ConsoleProblème Fonctionnement arrêtéDate 17/04/2007 13:07Statut Rapport ...

I have been trying to email pics but I can seem to only send on at a time. I have found that you can select a whole row or group of pics. I want to email more than on ...

Hi;With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2, I have next trouble...I lost a user's profile, and delete it for rebuild it. But after this can�t open files .zip from network sites or download this files type from int ...

I think that most of the games problems have the Direct X 10 architecture, and it's noDirectX8 compatibility. ...

Our new HP LaserJet 4350dtn printer don't allow me to print copies of Excel doc's. Everytime I try to do so, I just get an Error page. **** PCL XL error Substystem: KERNEL Error: IllegalOperaterSequence Opertator: EndChar Position:28 ******Anybody how can hel ...

For anyone who used to play with Sticky Notes from Microsoft Tablet PC. You can still use it on the desktop. Either type STIKYNOT.EXE on the startrun line, OR Create a new shortcut, using STIKYNOT.EXE, and na ...

A new problem (for me) with Vista. I uninstalled McAfee Securit Center after the free copy expired. When I restarted I had something come up about unable to find Produ ...

With Vista / IE7, I hate the history bar functionality revision. Hopefully someone can point me to a setting somewhere to get back to the "old" operation.With XP, history bar inside Internet Explorer used to only show a history of web site addresses that I had typed. ...

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As a long time user of Win XP I have gotten very used to the single left mouse click acting as a [double click] .Have not found the method to change from the double to the single mouse left click ...

Hello all...I have a computer system running Windows Vista Business. It's an older homebrew box, assembled sometime in 2004 with components that fell somewhere in the middle range of performance at the time. Most everything works greateven the onboard VIA/S3 "Chrome&quo ...

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5100 with an AMD Turion dual core 64 bit processor.Here's what I found: The AMD TurionT 64 X2 processor (TL50/TL52/TL56/TL60) delivers 64bit performance with longer battery life and enhanced security, based on AMD's innovative Direct Connect Architecture ...

A feature of Vista Windows Explorer that is personally annoying is that Explorer opens with the address: "My Name > Documents" requiring me to click the address bar ...

I've used "agents" for years, but can't get them "talking" in Vista. The following components have been installed ( just as in prior versions of Windows), but all I get are "chat bubbles" without sound.actcnc.exe SpchCpl ...

Where do I start. Initially when I installed Vista Home Premium my Norton System Works 2007 wouldn't work. I wrote them and in not so many words they shafted me and said I needed to buy "Vista compatible software". We ...

Since installing the Dell upgrade to Vista my Logitech QuickCam Messenger only works on video the is no audio. I have installed the new Vista compatable driver from the Logitech website but on t ...

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when I put a CD or DVD in DVDRom drive , it automatic eject and the eye if DVDRom always move up and down . I can close this device until I turn off laptop . I'm using Dell 640m . Please help me . Thanks ...

I had a Vista Ulitmate (upgrade) installation running on a RAID ITE8212 (IDE PATA drives). Because performance was slow I upgraded to SATA drives using RAID INCH6R. After reinstalling the Vista Ultimate upgrade it asked me to activate again (after one week) and when I entered my serial ...

Has 3D Pinball been removed in Windows Vista? If so, why?D@ny ...

I also had that problem, go to windows help on your computer and search on compatibility program. Start the program compatibility wizard and follow the steps to installing the game. You may also have to run it under administrative mode for it to work. Hope this is what you needed. ...

I've recently installed windows vista and nvidia driver 101.4, i have 2 nvidia 7300 gs graphics cards. I can open the nvidia control panel and select ena ...

FYI.WinMail used to drag badly when opening. I just increased my RAM from 768MB to 2.5GB (on a P42.66GHz). The improvement in WinMail is significant. I also upgraded my GeForceMX440 AGP (4something, anyway) to a GeForce 6200 LE/256MB, b ...

I recently bought a Vista computer and had my Outlook Express mail converted to Windows Mail. I'm finding the performance to be VERY slow, where Outlook Express with XP had no delays with half the RAM (now have 2GB). When I create a new email, the new message ...

Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10 hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software. It's just that problem that a few people have, where the C ...

Hi, I need some help with my backup hdd. Its getting verrrry annoying. My problem is that every time i want to open,copy,edit a file or folder it will ask me for permission and i will click on OK and than after tha ...

hey guys i just installed vista home premium and for some reason i noticed that i'm loosing space:i have a 250GB Hard drive and after installation i have about 230GB. Afte ...

Ok I have not complained for quite a while. Not that the Vista experience has gotten any better, (it just gets worse).Windows Mail, when (or whenever) it just happens when it wants to will start giving a msgbox "An error occurred while atte ...

Will office 2003 run ok with Vista home basic? ...

Hi all, I am trying to write a program to burn data to blank disc(CDR or CDRW) in recording multisession on Vista Ultimate, but I had a problem in calling put_MultisessionInterfaces, which always return 0 ...

First thanks to everybody for hosting me and excuse me to post a thread with a very already discussed problem.I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit (Italian language) with a Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 without any scree ...

OK, I'll say it ... Linux is not for everyone. It is a complex highly evolved operating system that is being developed by Open Source developers. It is NOT ready for every desktop out there, nor for those people that lack some basic computer skill levels ...

I downloaded yahoo toolbar for IM but each time I get on IE whenever I try to close a page it closes all open pages, sometimes it won't close so I have to go to task manager and end program, and sometimes it shuts down IE and restarts again. So I unistalled yahoo toolbar for now but I would ...

Hi.The Help and Supprt content in Vista Ultimate wont display correct. Have look here: tommysserviceenterprise.gmxhome.de/Capture.JPGWhat I found out about is that it was related to an older version of Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks which ...

Installed Vista over XP to avoid reinstalling all of my softwareComputer sound was fine before installing VistaNow no sound and keep getting message in Media Center "Error Code C00D11BAChecked for driver updates on Sound C ...

I turned the User Account Control feature off in my copy of Windows Vista Business. I can see why Microsoft implemented this, but as an experienced computer user, I find it more annoying ...

dear sir, I purchase one new laptop hp its built in windows vista premium, you are said window vista compartbel with yahoo massenger 8.1 but its not working still when i made down load massenger it not working is saying always try ...

Hi,Has anyone experienced the below problem and more importantly found a fix for it!I am runnng Vista Ultimate on a Toshibia Laptop with Intel 3945ABG wireless, connecting to the internet via a Linksys router.Normal wireless internet access ...

I just got a new laptop with Vista and am trying to do file and printer sharing with other XP computers on the network. Two are fine, but the third is asking for a user name and password. I have uninstalled ZoneAlarm and AV software; set up user accou ...

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Can someone recommend a PDF reader that works well with Vista beside Acrobat.Thanks ...

Hi, I am having a problem with windows vista 32 premium. The connection icon at the lower right of my screen, the one with the two monitors, has a red X between them. I try to check my network connections, but when the window pops up it sits there loading for about 5 ...

I just installed 64bit Vista Ultimate on my PC. I'm using 32bit FireFox. I went to Sun's website to download Java. I used the offine installer, but the Java plugin doesn't seem to be working. When I go to websites that require the Java browser plugin, I ge ...

Hi Windows media player won't start, I keep getting this problem. If I do a system restore it works again, but don't want to keep doing this.Is it possible to reinstall Window Media Player on Vista, if so how and where? Thanx ...

Hardware:Dell Latitude D620 w/ Nvidia NVS 110M Dell 2405FPW (24" Widescreen)Issue:Typically I run at 1920x1200 @ 60Hz. At this resolution/refresh rate ...

I have a Asus motherboard P5B Deluxe/Wifi with 4 HD implemented as RAID10 with the Intel R8 . When trying to update my Win XP SP2 with Vista I get the error Ox000007b .When I run the update advi ...

How do I transfer pictures from CD to Media center. I was able to transfer to media player, but I really would like it on media center. Thank you for your help, dhkhth ...

i had Xp to Xp before with crossed cable and it worked fine.. just had autodetect on everything and it was never a problem ..i been reading alot .. trying everything ,, nothing works .. :( i got the internet connection on my Vista with wireless internet ...

i am the addministrator and the only account holder and i cant delete or rename files with out it saying i neeed oermission so i click continue and it declines. why is this ...

I have a folder under the Windows directory of my Windows Vista OS. This folder 'orclobi', was created when I installed a piece of software.I have set ownership of this folder from "Administrators" to myself and have "Full control" selected under the ...

Hi Ive been reading the post here about direct x but I dont really understand all of it. I have a question that hopefully someone will know the answer to. Ok, everytime I try to install my game onto the computer it installs but when I try to play, it gives me an error msg about d3drm.dll not b ...

Starwars Knights of the old republic II (the Sith Lords)Had a hard time even seeing the CD to install it, but once it did I had to install using " run as Administrator" to ins ...

I keep getting an error when setting up gmail on windows mail. Account: 'pop.gmail.com', Server: 'pop.gmail.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: 'ERR not supported 38pf5143300nza', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC18I f ...

A new release of a fix for those with Windows Mail problems in Vista has been released. I cannot give enough praise to Steve Cochran who has worked on it and fixed mine. I believe it should ifx most, if not all. Go to oehelp.com/WMU ...

Hi y'all,I've googled this and come up with nothing that works (I've tried copying, adding myself with full privileges, etc.). I cannot import my outlook express messages into Vista Mail. It keeps saying nothing is there or a progr ...

As I've found with many other individuals, I too am fairly disappointed with Vista's backup feature.Recently, I did a "Back up files" and chose Additional Files, not paying attention to it's description that it doesn't back up pro ...

right click on the speaker icon at the bottom right. select Playback Devices highlight the icon with the green check mark click Properties click the Advanced tap uncheck Enable audio enhancementsNot sure if that will lower the sound quailty but at least my l ...

Using Vista Home I think I have too many program crashes Using Internet Explorer and Windows Mail no problem'Wanted to switch to Corel Photo Paint........Problem event is BEXa rec ...

hello, i've the proplem below in windows explorer and i hope i'll find the solution throw your experiences every time i logged on to my pc windows explor ...

When I put my PC to Standby mode, and have mirc and live messenger running, will their internet connection be cut off during Standby? I was hoping I could put the PC to Standby and have those programs still connected online. ...

Can anyone help me w/ getting xp pro installed as my VPC machine?This is what i've done....i am running vista home premium, which i know is not supported by microsoft, but from what they told me it will work fine, i just have to figure it out myself. ok, so this is th ...

Please Help I waited past the 30 days to install my windows so now its asking for my product key I did that but its saying that it is in use so what do I do? Can some one help me please????? I cant even get to my desk top . ...

Today while using Citrix to access my work desktop from home I am having problems. Instead of connecting to my desktop I get an error message suggesting my registry size needs to be increased. My help desk said to google for directions on ...

Previously the Kensington Mouseworks Ver. 6.2.2 software would not install properly in Vista. Now it does. So if you have an Expert Mouse trackball (which is the highest ...

Hi, Is it possible to launch wmp11 veryfirst setting window ? When I firt launched wmp, I had an option for making wmp my default player I can't find this option in wmp settings. I know that you ...

We are having a problem with the applet that allows you to resize a photograph prior to attaching it to an email. The applet works as far as allowing me to resize but when you press the "attach" button the applet disappears a ...

I have been having problems ever since I upgraded to Vista on my notebook with .mdb files not syncing properly. I keep all of my files on my desktop machine, and use offline files to keep ...

Im having issues on loading my maps slow, but my FPS is great around 5070 but my load times are horrible takes me about a minute to join and my friend has almost exactly same computer but his load ...

My Epson RX850 has worked fine for months, it disappeared and now I cannot reinstall it, I get error code "0x000003fa" the scanner works fine however?I have tried to install a different printer and get the same message. I printer works fine on my XP machines. ...

HelloHelp with "GREP" and VISTAI have used several of the grep utilities that are shareware and they seem to have the same issues. When searching a specific file or for * ...

Hi,In XP I was able to designate the location of "My Documents". For ease of backup etc I located it in a separate partition.How can I do that in Vista? ...

I've allocated a program to open some of my files. It worked fine for about 2 weeks. Now the association has been lost and I can't allocate it again, the allocation block, list is full, how can I redo the allocation?? ...

Does Windows defrag optimize the System Volume Information folder?James ...

Hi computer people, I recently (03/29/07) bought a new toshiba laptop with vista home premium all installed beforehand, when i go to use office (2007) it asks for the product key ive tried numerous times putting in the key code (and yes its correct)fr ...

Hi everyone, hope you can help me with this problem. I just bought a new system (see link for specs) and so far in my first day of owning it, it has ...

I am running RC1 as a dual boot with XP on seperate physical drives and will shortly upgrade RC1 to Home Premium. Since last year I have used Vista backup to make a weekly backup. As a clean install is the only option for upgrade from RC1, I will ...

I was wondering if MS are considering on updating or fixing the Weather Gadget. Many people have complained and me too. When I freshly install my Vista Ultimate the ...

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If I setup to record something that's for a future date, and the desktop is turned off, is that going to work, I guess if the desktop has a way of knowing that there is something to record, so it tur ...

I have an OEM 64Bit Version of VHP. Many of the programmes I use will reportidly run on Vista 32 but do not appear to run on the 64bit version. Is it possible for me to delete the 64bit version and reinstall the 32bit ver ...

I just migrate from 2k to vista. I have heard a lot rumours about product key and activation etc.Is there a way to find out the product key of my vista computer if I lost it?Any also how to get a copy of ...

How do I retrieve my system history logs to review what was done on my PC? Thanks! ...

Every time I switch on my PC I get this message during the bootup procedure. It is caused by the updater programme for my Logitech Mouse and Keyboard software.Its a program I want to run.Can SKS tell me what to do to allow the program to load without getting the warni ...

I am looking at purchasing a Vista Home Premium laptop. I currently have a HP Entertainment PC desktop running Windows xp Media Center 2005 which I use to record TV s ...

When writing a message like I am writing this now, under the Subject there is Post Type: Comment, Question, Suggestion. On the list of messages to scroll through, out of the 60,000 or so messages, only a few have icons under the ...

I have upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate and I want to backup my PC to be able to restore it to it's current settings. However; The Microsoft Backup for this doesn't work it keeps crashing and I have to shut down my computer by holding ...

I have two vista machines. I wonder if If there is a way to copy from one computer and paste it to another. Thanks. ...

Hi. I have the following problem with my vista home premuim. whenever i change my desktop background to any background, the background stays there until i turn off my computer. the next time i turn it on, the background is black again. any ideas? btw, i have dell inspirion 6 ...

We've recently started upgrading our machines to vista and on a couple of our machines we've got the problem where the user account never seems to be able to retain the profile information. When we first set up the machine we set a generic account (user name delete ...

If you post messages with links to every story on earth about XP being great and Vista being stupid then you need to Subtract from your I.Q.15 Postings 10 points 615 Postings 20 points 1640 Postings 30 points 4165 Postings 45 points 66 + Postings You t ...

Has anyone else experienced this?Go to a UNC share (navigate from My Computer)Now in the right pane... rightclick on a folder and Rename itWhen the rename is completed, the folder will disappear completely from the folder list on the right pane.You will have to go to ...

I have encounter a problem, My video card :Nvidia geforce go 6100 and the driver version 7.15.10.9755 the error Description A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.Problem signature Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent OS Version: 6.0.6000 ...

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Just a quick note to mention I solved several of my Vista problems in one fell swoop. Symptoms: 1) "Welcome" sound stuttered 2) Video driver would crash and restart as soon as I logged in 3) System would sometimes hang on restart and shutdownSolution: Open Device Mangler, open p ...

I have a very special problem.Specs first: Intel E6700 ASUS Striker Extreme OCZ PC26400 2x1024MB 800MHz Fist HD (OS): Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 8MB 10000RPM *_Second_(storage):_Hitachi_Deskstar_500_GB ...

Hi,I have recently installed Vista Home Premium (64 bit) on a new machine, and am having a problem with the display settings. I have a GeForce 8800 GTX and 4GB of system RAM, but the display won't go above 1024*768.I know the monitor I have wil ...

My new power supply seems to be off more than I'd like it, but before I complain, I'd like some other opinions.I am reading from the BIOS. I have already had two power supplies on this system and the BIOS ...

I have a machine built with an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard. I have a 400GB SATA disk and an IDE DVDburner.When I try to run setup off the Vista DVD, it boots the installaton with problem and I can select the initial installation options. But, after clicking on "Ins ...

The online Express Upgrade is expired, but i still want to upgrade my already Windows Vista Home Premium HP laptop to the Ultimate Vista without having to ...

I have an application that has worked fine for years with XP and 2K. When I install on a CP with Windows Vista Ultimate (must be Ultimate), I get a message box saying ...

I'm planning an XP Home>Vista Home Premium upgrade and I'd like to verify my upgrade plan. I verified my PC meets Vista upgrade requirements.XP is currently installed on C: with all other programs and My Documents installed on E: After I back up any IE and Outlook data, I want ...

Hi,In preparation of upgrading to Vista, I had two copies of XP on my home PC (Professional for work, reinstalled Media Edition as qualifier for Vistia Upgrade) both on differ ...

Can someone give me a link to the web site for support where I can deauthorizeauthorize my msn music purchases? Everything has changed and I keep going around in circles! A week ago I could play all my d/l from MSN music and now all of a sudden I have ...

Have home network and have the 3com internet 25 as a firewall issuing DHCP addresses. Everything was fine under XP (i have three other xp boxes working ok on the n/w) but the machine running Vista 64 Business will no ...

I have a network with 2 computers and a router. My desktop computer has windows Vista and my laptop has windows XP. All is working and I can see both computers in my network. Now i want to share some maps between the computers, so I did sharing of maps on my ...

im trying to share files outside the public folder but when i set up the shared file it wont let me access it from my other computer, also running vista. i get an access denied message, ive tried with and without passwords ...

Hello. Just purchased an Acer Aspire 3680. Neat little machine unfortunately it will not connect to my DLink router. It SEES the router but will not connect. Getting 100% signal. Issue is, there are 3 other laptops that worked perfrctly out of the box, including an Acer 5610 with Vis ...

dear sir/mrs i bought new lap top "dell "with windows vista , iam trying to use msn live messenger but it is stop working as soon i sing in , i have message from sys. say that i stop due to "Data Execution Prevention" i need help to use your live messenger it is essenti ...

Hello,Windows VISTA Business on an SBS2003 network. Every time I boot, I see: Windows Firewall was unable to notify the user that it blocked an application from accepting incoming connections on the netwo ...

Running Vista 32bit Business Edition. When I Go to Control Pannel, Turn on Windows Features, a box comes up with different selection box's. I choose Games (or any other for that matter) and it starts to load (or I think it does). Then an error message is displayed: "An e ...

How can i delete a message in the out box when windows don`t find the mail. i have moved this message from the deleted to the outgoing account ...

I just purchased a XPS 410 from Dell with the new Vista Home Premium system. When I try to send an email from Windows Mail, I get a McAfee Window titled "Email Message Problems". The message says that "one or more email messages cannot be sent After you verif ...

I cannot send any pictures by email. I just keep getting errors. ...

I just got a EVGA GeForce 8800GTS and after I installed it, the toolbar at the bottom went Windows 2000 style. Everything else was the style too. But I still have all the Windows Vista ...

I just purchased a new gateway laptop with Vista, and I'm hating the fact that Vista locks down the Refresh Rate to only 60 hz. I've tried updating drivers for the ATI video card, and while the instruc ...

Hello, since a day or two I got this weird issue that when I hover over a button of a window, the live preview won't show up.The only thing I get is the text message that should be shown above the thumbnail (wich is not there at all)."Always display icons, never display tumbn ...

Hi I am using HP 7400c with fax and scan. Yes I can scan into fax and scan, but can oly save file types .bmp, .jpeg, .jpn and tif. For documents tif's are huge files. ...

I'm a new Vista Business user, have no manuals and moving from Win2000 the interfaces are not very intuitive.I have an existing home wireless network comprised of a Linksys a/b/g wireless router connected to a Linksys wireless print server th ...

Just had a intresting email dong dong with Epson on IEEE 1394 printer drivers for R800 & R2400 printers.Apparently and I quote the extract:"In answer to your email, the Firewire ports on the printer and scanner are currently redundant in reg ...

I have some PDF files that were organized by their titles. After installing Windows Vista, I have lost all the files' titles, i.e. the title column appears e ...

Cannot be seen even on show hidden files setting, any idea please ? ...

Does anyone else get the effect whereby sidebar gadgets move a few pixels to the left with each successive reboot ?I run in Windows Classic mode with calendar and clock detached and the sidebar closed. With 20% opaque gadgets superimposed on a particular area in my own desktop backgr ...

GuysAny help appreciated. I have searched the net and found some references to this sort of hang, but never to do with the actual Wireless or network connectivity.The issue ONLY occurs (to date) when the wireless card is in use (3Com 3CRPAG ...

hi there has anyone tried to use sky anytime on pc running vista yet and can they get it to work all tips appreciated martyb ...

Hi, We have recently supplied a Vista PC to a customer. They have a requirement to backup various files and folders, and we are fiding that Windows Backup supplied with Vista doesn't have the flexibility required to select ...

We all know that MickeyMouse's idea of innovation is to either buy it or steal it. Too bad that MickeyMouse's Surface computer is a projection device, req ...

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Highly frustrated with fixing continuous issues with Vista!!! Having email issues where I can't send emails and I cannot locate my application folder to try and correct the problem? How can I see all of ...

Does QT load quickly for any of you using Vista? For me, it takes 7 or 8 seconds even with no video, just the player.In XP, it was more like 1 or 2 seconds, as I recall, on the same machine. P4 3Ghz, 2GB RAM, Fast 7200rpm disk.BTW, why isn't there a vista_ ...

Hi all,I have just installed, vista 64bit and am loving it at the minute.I only have a few small niggles. I have installed 2 programs that I used to ...

Color me stupid but I can'f figure out why after moving folders the originals (minus content) still reside on the HD. ...

How do you change the worksheet tab size in vista? In xp, control panel, display, appearence, etc., or right click desktop, appearence. Now where is it? ...

Hi,I've installed Virtual Server R2 SP1 on a computer running Vista Ultimate. The virtual machines starts, but I cant set up network connections.In Virtual Server config, when trying to add new virtual network, it tells there is no network adapters on phy ...

I tried to install Yahoo Jukebox but the instillation is stuck at 99%. I've tied to uninstall it but I get nasty messages about the program being in use. On my old computer i would just have pressed ctrl, alt. delete then shut down that program. Apparently I can't do ...

I accidentally subscribed to some thing called crosscard the other day they just asked me for my email and name and I wanted to know if someone knew how to unsubscribe to it can an ...

Suddenly when the shift, ctrl, alt or altgr buttons are pressed alone or in combination there is a popup on the screen that displays that these buttons are being pressed.How did this suddenly start? Most importantly, how do I disable this? It's driving me batty. ...

I have Windows vista and also 2 hard drives on my notebook. I went to transfer all my music and pictures to the 2nd hard drive and now the start menu buttons for music and ...

I have recently purchased an Acer Athlon 4200 PC, with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. The PC will not correctly recover from the sleep mode, the mouse or some other function always locks up on restart. Acer indicates this is a Vista problem ...

Hi, I just installed an Epson 4180 scanner on my Vista notebook. It appeared that everything installed correctly. When I click on the desktop icon the program opens but when I click on any of the icons within the ...

Hi I know this is a vista forum but I've tried the ASUS forum and like most of the sections of their site, it's too slow to function or comes up with empty links...so..... ...

On my new vista pc there is line down the right side of the monitor about 1 inch from the edge ...

hi, i see on Windows vista heve a "Share Memory Sistem" of video Card, I have a GeForce7600GS 256MB, 2GB of Memory DDr2, and the sistem memory added 495MB on Video. how disable this option?Thanks!Desculpe o ingles, é porque sou brasileiro e não entendo muit ...

I am using Vista and can not burn a CD now. The error message reads to please insert a blank CD...even though I have a blank CD inserted. I have tried different progr ...

I had a problem loading a HP compatability file for VISTA, for my New scanner, the HP Technical person suggested I download Windows VBScript 5.6 because of the error code 2738. The instruction stated to go to Microsoft and download this file for your computer. Their is not ...

Hi,I've got a new PC, which suddenly lost the 8600GTS graphics card on it and started coming up as a standard VGA adaptor with 4MB of memory lol. Anyway i tried sorted the drivers for the c ...

I have a laptop with Vista Business (English) and would like to be able to switch to German sometimes. I understand that I need to get a German version, which is fine for me, but I do not want to overwrite m ...

OS: Windows VISTA Business 32 bitRAM: 6GB RAM (only 3 able to be fully utilized because of OS limitations) Processor: Dual Core, Workstation class machin ...

I have been having an issue with Windows Phota Gallery on one of my two Vista machines. My Dell Laptop works fine, but my Dell Desktop with a BFGTech 7950 card is having problems displaying photos properly. Photo Gallery seems to have an overall yellow tint and is therefore ...

I have a home network with 2 computers running XP Home with SP2 on both and a DLink DI 624 that has worked very well sharing files and printers. Now I have a new HP lap ...

How do I configure Windows Desktop to open at the same folder that was displayed when last closed?I was able to do this with XP but can't remeber how! Thanks ...

Vista home Premium is the version. I have a small network of computers at my house using XP and Server 2003. I just got this HP laptop yesterday with Vista on it and connected it to the lan. Changed the workgroup name to match the others and nothing appears in the list but ...

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