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Whenever I login to my account I get an alert popping up asking if Logitech Setpoint has permission to run. How can I get rid of this popup and always allow the program to run? ...

I am trying to run Age of Mythology on Vista but the game constantly minimizes to the taskbar. The game seems to run fine after I maximize it again but it's very annoying to say the least. Anyone have an idea of what could be causin ...

I'm having too many problems with the Online games I play to continue with Vista. Most of my issues are caused by the Nvidia Drivers. I really doubt tha ...

I have an annoying problem. Years ago I used a feature where I put a message to be sent to anyone who sent me a mail. I cannot seem to get rid of it. I have changed operating systems and had my stuff moved to my new system and it follows me!! How in he## do I get rid of it?? ...

Okay how can I edit my profile when I keep getting a Run Time Error message? ...

Complete PC backup (to DVD) was one of the first things I tried with my new Windows Vista (business) pc. However it failed with this error (from event log): "Backup started at '18/02/2007 15:43:13' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation ...

I'm getting the following error in my application log:Log Name: Application Source: VSS Date: 2/28/2007 1:17:12 PM Event ID: 8194 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A C ...

I have this error in the Event viewer. Can someone tell me what it means, and how I go about fixing it. It is appearing quite often. 1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S1521190381210624288396691432 ...

have Windows Vista Premium on a Dell 1501 Inspiron.I replaced X2 512 Ram with X2 1024 Ram.The system Bios reports:633 System 1964032 ExtendedBios Version 2.1.0Windows Vista still reports memory as being 895. (ATI Radeon Xpress Video Hyper memory takes u ...

I had a serious problem that when I opened "My Computer" that Vista would just hang for 510 seconds before displaying drives and locations.I ...

I'd be interested in finding out what gaming rating Vista users with either of these 2 video cards are getting. Thanks, Bob ...

I just upgraded from the beta RC2 version to a purchased version of Vista. I was using Ultimate and purchased Home Premium. When I try to restore the backups ...

I just purchased a new laptop that came installed with Vista. I'm working out all the bugs, which have been considerable. Anyway, much of my work requires me to be away from the office and I have the need to print documents in the field. I've used the small ...

I have windows vista home basic. I just got a scanner, but i don't have Fax and Scan. Please help me. Thanks. ...

I have a brand new laptop w home premium and get error 2738 when attempting to install quicktime 7 or palm desktop. It happens in both cases just after MS installer begins. Since this ...

Whenever I open a folder containg video, and use the thumbnail view, this "COM Surrogate" stops working epeatedly until I swith to "details" view or cose the folder.This also happens when I use Media Center to try playing the filewhen Media Center goes to pull up the th ...

WHY WHEN I DELETE FILES OUT OF EXPLORER AND MY RECYCLE BIN DO THEY REAPPEAR 5 MINUTES LATER? I EVEN SENT SOME FOLDERS TO A ZIP FILE ONLY TO HAVE THE FOLDER LATER SHOW THE ZIPPED FILES AND THE FILES AS THE ORGINAL FOLDERS. IF I HIT DELTE I MEAN DELETE! AND THE SEARCH THING ONE TI ...

I have recently had a new pc installed in the office. it is running windows Vista home premium.I need to do two things....1: delete obsolete network connections on the 2 other office PCs (running XP)2: Set up ...

Hello folks:In my folder of mp3 files, I've got a system file of albumartsmall.jpg. I've also had another bunch of jpg files pictures of album covers. I don't even have most of ...

i have a zen v series 1Gb that I purchased for my son. cannot get the computer to recognize it. tried installing software several times. ...

HiI'm looking for 2 IE7 add ons, if they exist, to help me get some functionality I had in Firefox:1) One that will allow me to rightclick a link on the Links toolbar (I h ...

having recently installed vista i am having problems with my curser stopping an inch from the right hand side and an inch from the bottom of my screen making play impossible.i thought it to be a warcraft problem till tryi ...

I installed my Palm software and had it working no problem. I made the mistake of installing the Documents To Go software b4 I checked compatibility. After locking up the computer on hot sync, I uninstalled it. but now when ever I reboot I get this error: The Notifier file 'C:\Program Files\D ...

I HATE/LOATHE/DETEST (pick your favorite) the fact that I can not watch the progress of defragmenting on vista. Is there ANYWAY to change this so I can see where it is at in the deframentation? ...

"kazerothalliance.com" is not set up to establish a connection on port"FTP service" with this computer. that is the message i get when trying to ...

I have Vista Home Premium installed on one hard disk and XP SP2 installed on a second hard disk.By keying F8 during bootup a list of bootable devices is displayed and I can select either Vista or XP.This works fine and I can use either OS as required. ...

FYI:download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/beta/index.html#downloadRead the notes on the web page before you use it, as there are some issues. ...

Hi, I have a problem with my Vista in that when I attempt to open Word 2007, (or any other Office 2007 application) my explorer.exe crashes with the following error det ...

My Compaq NC3120 Fast Etherent NIC has not been found by Vista, neither did an old AcerLan that I had, just as I had thought as both came up in the No Compatability Data section, so I am not too per ...

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,/SELECT, C:\ make an icon to C:\Windows\explorer.exeon the desktop and paste this line in the target lineyou should get the tree displaying all the drivesC:\, D:\, etc. ...

I have Windows Live OneCare on my Vista Home Premium computer. I also noticed that there is a separate entry for Windows Defender under All Programs, but every time I click on ...

I have setup Vista RC2 and enabled file sharing. However I can only connect from Vista to XP SP2 machines, not vice versa. None of the XP SP2 machines can connect to the Vista share. I have the same user logged in on all machines, and have given that user access perm ...

I just bought a new computer with Vista (not my first choice), and iTunes doesn't work properly (surprise!). Someone suggested running the Compatibility Wizard and making iTunes run as if still us ...

Almost everything he posts is totally negative towards Vista. This SURE helps people coming here for their problems with Vista. Kirk probably has nothing else ...

1. I setup 2 additional identities but all Vista allows is outgoing email. We need to be able to view all incoming email for all 3 user identities; for our business needs. This is creating as a mess for us. Is ...

I explored fixing this myself only to come across this advice:"add your account to the netmon users group" Ok. I type in the Help and Support "Netmon users group" only to get 0 results found. I then look at my user account which only asks if i want to change my pictur ...

Is it possible to change the color of the selected newsgroup ? Now it is light bleu, and not so goog visible, i like to change it in a darker color. ...

VISTA home premium what I did: changed name of my machine from walravenpc to desktop problem:No longer get reminders from windows calendarIn task scheduler Library Microsoft Windows WindowsCalendar I get ' An error occurred for task Reminder ...

Vista is much maligned for some reason, but it works well for me. As a matter of fact, I hooked up a digital camera that's about seven years old. So old it holds 16 or 32 pictures de ...

I first put Home Premium on C: drive Can i put Ultimate on D: drive and have adual boot system ? Norm ...

I installed a program but found it did not work correctly, so I tried to uninstall it. I get a message "The system Administrator has set Polocies to ...

POP3? Please Help ...

I need install an application on the network. I mapped a network place as a drive (Map Network Drive). When the install is started a installator need administaration privilage. But ...

I've been running Vista Ultimate x64 since early November and since that time I've used various Beta and RTM drivers for much of my hardware. More recently, I think every driver and utility I was using was RTM and Vistacompatible, so I decided I would cl ...

I have had numerous problems here. Thank goodness for Acronis Backup. I have been away for a month and started doing my backups. After downloading all language updates it crashes. I now a ...

Please help!! I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista. I have three different word processors, with Microsoft Word being one of them. With ALL THREE programs, any file that I save DIRECTLY to the C drive is automatically readonly and I can not modify it. However, if I save it IN A FOLDE ...

ive just installed vista ultimate on my toshiba g30 and the audio now fades in and out,any ideas? ive tried uninstalling driver and reinstalling.down loaded lastest driver from toshiba website.still no good. ...

Hi All, I have problem with wireless connection in Windows Vista. I have used Windows XP and upgraded to Windows Vista since it's released.I experienced this error that I will be disconnected from my wireless connection, after browsing for several hours. I am actu ...

I was just wondering I was looking at the Live Search website and I saw the QnA section and I was wondering if it is free to create an account to use it or do you have to pay? ...

My large expensive 21" crt went pop a couple of days ago. Got a reasonable 17" LCD but I cannot reduce the resolution on my vista machine to the range my new monitor can display. Have tried the following: Safe mode and changing RDC from ...

I quote:"In sum, Microsoft engaged in bait and switch assuring consumers they were purchasing 'Vista Capable' machines when, in fact, they could obt ...

I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium from Media Center 2005...before the upgrade, my DVDs would not play through Media Center & Media Center would crash if I tried to watch something from the My Videos folde ...

The is a fold named "searches" under the users (me) drop down menu that keeps log of everything from emails in my inbox to recent pictures uploaded and more! How do i stop this folder from ...

When I try to use the help and support program I get the following error message "Scriptlibrary.dat The script could nopt be verified for digital ce ...

I did a clean install of RTM on my home computer and was able to find and install any ultimate extras. I had the RC demo version installed on one of my workstations at work. Extras were not available for the RC demo version. I ran a successful upgrade to RTM on it, but extra ...

Hi All I am settng a Vista Enterprise Edition OS and am running into trouble getting DVDs to play on WMP 11.I initally would get this message when trying to play a commercial DVD movie:Windows Media Player ...

Photos imported into Vista from a camera seem to be stored in jpeg format. How do I change the format to tif? ...

I too had this problem.I found the answer after looking around the Internet and would like to share it here.Problem:Viewing photos in Windows Vista Photo Ga ...

Can anyone help?Windows Media player 11 was working fine on my new Vista laptop then suddenly it stopped playing my music (mp3 mainly) files. They ow crackle for a second and then play with no sound (slowly). Video work fine. THe music files also work fine through real so its not the ...

I have a TV tuner hooked up to my desktop and was wondering if it is possible to set up my laptop which is also running Vista to watch live TV. I have Vista Ultimate on ...

Wireless network set up OK and Vista can see 2 other XP PC's and they can see and access the Vista PC.Only problem is when accessing 1 of the XP PC's from Vista. When I try this, a 'username/password' window pops up, an ...

Say, for example, I set up a new Vista Ultimate on a domain and logon as the domain administrator, and then install all programs and set up the desktop and all that the way I want. Next, I want to logon as another domain user but tha ...

Are there currently any games available designed to run on Vista 64 bit. Or non 64 bit games that will work well? I wandered in to Best Buy the other day, and the games sales person told me not for at least two years . . . Huh? ...

I want to reinstall Windows Xp soon, as I got a virus and after cleaning the computer doesn't work as smooth as before. I gives some strange erros and sometimes it justs hangs up... I want to backup Outlook Express emails and settings before reinstall, and restore af ...

I have just converted to Vista and trying to go wireless and succeeded via an unsecured network to do this however I cannot get mail because I believe my connection settings are wrong. I have gone into Accounts and thenmy email account then properties and t ...

my father and I share the same computer. I am able to send and receive with no problem. My father can receive emails no problem. He gets and error wh ...

HiIs it correct that Windows Mail can't sync with a PDA (Windows Mobile 5) and you still have to install Outlook in some version? If yes, then i beleive th ...

I bought a new computer running Windows Mail under Vista and have been trying to transfer my emails from my old computer running Outlook Express under XP. I have tried a number of ...

I just put in a new video card and wanted to refresh my windows experience score. It ran fine but at the end a box came up and said it couldn't finish because of a device or program. Any fixes to this????Thanks, Bill ...

Several services which are set to start automatically are not starting at all. For instance, the Windows Audio service, though set to start automatically, needs to be started manually. Everything works perfectly once started, but ...

I have 2 user profiles both set up with admin privs, on my account if I click "Help and Support" I get the help box on my screen but it always says "Topic Not Found" then below it says so ...

Can somebody tell me the file path in Vista for the recycle bin, please?Thanks Donny ...

hi when i go to print a document it won't let me print it says spooler subsystem app stopped working. how can i get it working again i really need to print up some things thanks cotrice ...

If I Press F1 or Help (menu) View Help I get an error message stating:"Internet Explorer cannot download / from windows."If I try Help and Support from the Start Button I get an error message stating:"Internet Explorer cannot ...

How do you prevent Vista Microsoft Narrator from starting ? ...

I'm logging on as Administrator but if I try to access some Folders, I get an "Access Denied" message. Why is this? Thank you, Bill Reply to NG only please. ...

is there any software out there that can do the same or better job than norton ghost?symatec haven't got their act together yet and ghost 10.0 isn't vista compatible.i need an alternative. can't be bothered waiting for symantec to catch up with vista.steve. ...

I have Asus (P5ND2SLI Dleuxe) motherboard, and i have a windows vista of 64 Bit. what i am looking for is the driver of SM Bus Controller for windows vista 64 and other driver for this motherboard for windows vista 64bit?Thank you ...

As posted on the Routing and Remote Access blog...blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/archive/2007/04/08/troubleshootingvistavpnproblems.aspx Al Jarvi (MSMVP Windows Networking)Please post *ALL* questions and replies ...

Hi,Briefly...We have Vista Ultimate installed and we are using Windows Mail. I have set up two (2) separate personal accounts for my wife and I. Both are from the same ISP. All SMTP and POP3 server settings were correctly added. No mistakes were made.We are sharing the same physical comp ...

I do not see a real improovement using 2GB Readyboost Flash on my laptop with 1GB, running Vista Home Premium. However, I could imagine following improovements to ...

Today i upgraded from XP to Vista Home Premium. I had a lot of videos stored on my computer. And now I can't seem to find the folder anymore. When i click ...

Hi,I have hard drive with 2 partitions with a dual boot setup with vista & XP. How can I remove the XP boot, so Cista is the only booting OS ...

How do I reload the Windows photo gallery application?I have done a search and it is missing:(( ...

The following code works fine in everything except Vista. I have removed the name of our server and stream for security reasons. As noted below, the call to RenderFile() fails with a return code of 0x800402 ...

blue screen ati2dvag.dll ...

whenever I turn on my computer I get the following two warning error messages during vista bootup stage: AirPlusCFG.exe entry point not found WZCSLDR2.exe entry point not foundmy computer still connects to my wireless router and to the internet but I don't know what is causing these mes ...

The Vista machine is a member of the domain.The User logs on as "cci\<user name>".But he sometimes likes to log off and log back on LOCALL ...

Okay, this just started yesterday and to be honest, I don't know what I did to cause it in the first place. When I'm in AOL checking mail, when I click on a particular email to open it, the computer makes a very loud alert "beep ...

Hello Everyone!This is my first posting to this group and I am quite excited about it.I have some questions regarding system restore as I was under the impr ...

so see if "Vista Experience" base score would improve but primarily so GET better performance. My baseline score went from 2.0 (Video for Aero / Windows performance) to 3.6BUT better, for a 9yo box thats gone thru : WIN3.1/WIN95/WIN98/WIN98SE/WIN2000/WINXPProwith RAM up ...

Is there a way to use Speech Recognition without using the headphones? There should be a way to hook up the computer to speakers so you can come into the room and start talking to the computer? ...

Hi all,How do we specify a search path in Vista? Thanks.Regards, Hoi ...

I am at a loss here. I cannot play DVD without it crashing after about 510 minutes. It does not matter if I use PowerDVD, WinDVD or whatever. Same thing happens. Vista does not crash, but the DVD software just freezes up. Is this a Geforce 8800 d ...

I picked up vista on monday and haven't been able to get it to load. I can get my computer to have the "windows is loading files" bar go up to full, then it goes to blue screen. The stop is : 0x0000001E with (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, ...

Hi everyone,I've been doing some test environment installs using Windows AIK (really enjoying it btw) and though for the most it's been going quite well, I have some doubts:1 Even if I set "fDenyTSConnections" to "false" in x86_MicrosoftWindowsTerminalSe ...

i have just installed vista, everything works find,except the media player, I cant look at movies, not even the samples attached in the media player!Any ideas ? ...

I am trying to play .MPG video files that were created by my JVC Everio digital camcorder. The files come off the camera as .MOD files and if I rename them to .MPG I can pl ...

Im using Vista 32bit along with a DSL cable connection. Ever since I got my new computer with my new vista, I am constantly losing my internet connection. My router never shows a problem, it is always connecting and I used it with my old computer and had ...

When offering remote assistance. Says "owner" connected. I want to replace Owner to my network name. How do I do that? ...

Just a note to say thanks to tou guys for comming to my rescue I was really in a lot of pain!! I was real close to calling the ambulance but Ididnt want to make ...

Hi,I use windows vista home premium, windows mail, mcafee (anti virus), and Yahoopops (connects smtp to yahoo mail).When I try to send messages via windows mail, Mcafee thinks there is a problem and stops me sending my messages.Can anyone tell me how to stop mcafee blocking messages that I send ...

I am trying to add my yahoo email address to Windows Mail. I am unfamiliar with email servers but really want to configure so that I can use it as my default. Any idea ...

Having happily (performance/usability wise) used XP SP2 for many years. I was looking forward to installing vista home premium and making use of the new securi ...

I can't find the setting to turn on the color behind the desk icons and i have trouble with my eyes and i would love to find the setting ...

Hi guys, long time listener first time posterI have been using Vista in all the pre releases etc and since buying this computer have been using Ultimate. Since day 1 of Vista release. 2 Days ago my laptop failed to boot and gave me an "oper ...

having problem trying to add items in dvd maker as soon as i click add item and highlight an avi file to add. the program freezes and i have to go into the task manager to end the program. the file im adding is xvid an ...

I am able to connect to my office (Win XP peer to peer) Network from my home (Vista Ultimate) machine. The netwrok connection connects ok and I am able to browse computers on my office network which belong to one workgroup. However I am unable to see other workg ...

Automatic spell check does not work anymore, when I send an email. Is there any fix for it at the moment ...

In XP, I was able to set a preference for my deleted items file to be emptied every time I closed Outlook Express. Is there a similar option in Windows Mail? ...

Two questions:1. Vista Home Premium insists on repopulating the recently used programs list on the start menu with Welcome, IE and other programs that I hav ...

How do I delete a gadget from the side bar? I know I can "detach" but how do I remove the software from my computer? TIA Paula ...

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

When will Microsoft come up with a sync solution that works with Vista. Activsync worked fine (mosf of the time). WMDC is a sick joke. It is hard to belive that it was tested. I feel like we are back to ME times. ...

Hi I've had Vista for about a month now and think its great (once all the eyecandy crap is turned off..).I found it simple to install and update and I have'nt had one lockup in a month (apart from during t ...

I am having two different problems, so I thought I'd put them in the same message. First of all, when I try to open a picture in Windows Photo Gallery, lately, the gallery opens, but the little circle just spins. This wasn't happening aftrer I first installed Vista, so I don't know what' ...

Following my attempt to flash the BIOS on my MSI K9N4 SLIF board I now have an unusable computer so I presume I destroyed the BIOS as all I get is a black screen.I ordered a replacement ...

I've recently bought a new PC running Vista for home use, I'm still using my current keyboard, an MS Office Keyboard like this;amazon.com/MicrosoftE1700002OfficeKeyboard/dp/B00005NVBOWhen I tried to install the MS Intellitype Pro drivers Vista tells me ...

Anyone else out there experiencing problems with their bluetooth keyboards. Dell quickset is supposed to display the actual charge of your primary and keyboard ...

I have just upgraded from XP to Vista. I have reinstalled OneNote 2003 under the new Vista. The print driver for OneNote is now missing. I have reinstalled and still no print driver. How do I get t ...

I'll add another one to the pile of similar messages.I bought a new computer with Vista Home Ultimate installed. The DVD burner in the system is on the HCL.I normally use another program to burn DVDs and it works great.However, I decided to play with Windows DVD maker for a project a ...

Ive never been able to get my XP and Vista machines to see each other. after messing with things for the last several hours, i finally got my XP machine to atleast see my Vista machine and the shared C drive. Only prob wit ...

I just got a new PC and am I'm trying to set up an account in Microsoft Windows mail. My ISP Is SBC (now I guess AT&T or did Prodigy buy them out?) I do not know what to put in as my incoming and outgoing mail servers. I looked at the SBC ...

With XP I used OEbackup is there a simple effective backup program for WinMail?ThanksBill ...

This is a crosspost; I accidentally posted in Installation & Setup.My ASUS A7S333 motherboard recognizes key presses on my Microsoft wireless USB keyboard to enter and modify the BIOS, whether the Legacy USB setting is enabled or disabled. Once the boot manager sta ...

This is a repost of something I put up a while back on other newsgroups with no luck. Will try here. One person in the microsoft.public.office.setup group said he saw a microsoft pat ...

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At some point yesterday this started happening.When I either open the "Computer" entry in the start menu or explore to my computer I see not only what I would expect to (all the drives, etc) but also the entire contents of my user folder. These are not copie ...

Did anyone else happen to see Gates' appearance on The Daily Show? Jon Stewart asked Bill, rather incredulously, whether beta testers would get to keep using their " ...

Nero says 7.8.5.0 is certified for Vista. Vista generates an error message saying it isn't compatible. Which is correct? I think they're incompatible. One serious operational issue noted, s ...

Dual booting Vista and Windows XP. I cannot use the scanner in Vista because there is and there will not be a suitable driver for the device. The scanner works fine in Window ...

hello, bought a HP Laptop, with Windows Vista Basic :) my friend have the same thing, But he doesent seem to have the same problem that i got... When evver i play WoW ( World of ...

i was wondering if vista has builtin support for floppy drives or not. and if vista does what are the details of it are. (ex: floppy boot, floppy repair diskkets, and ...

Hello,Why do I get the "Location is not available" box with the "Access is denied" error when I try to access some files and/or folders through Vista's Windows Explorer?I'm the only one who accesses ...

Can anyone recommend an inkjet that works with this pesky Vista???Lexmark doesn't! ...

Tha addin "C:WINDOWS\system32\fxsext32.dll" could not be installed or loaded. This problem may be resolvrd by using Detect and Repair on the help menu. Unable to l ...

I noticed that all outgoing emails for the past 2 days were still in my outbox. After several sessions with my ISP, Comcast, I succeeded in getting rid of all but one of these. BTW, they never went out, not ...

In the past using XP, I have had a few tasks scheduled (mainly batch files) to perform basic maintenance, such as defrag, delete temp files, etc. Obviously the defrag is not needed, as it is now scheduled automatically. Can anyone suggest any new ideas I can put int ...

Is there any way to clear the reliability monitor, after you figure out what went wrong with the computer? It's driving me crazy. The system just had some driver issues. ...

I am using the right click menu to send folders to the desktop as links. The strange thing is that when I right click on the link on the desktop, the highlighted default item is MOVE or RENAME AUDIO FILES. There are no WAV files or other audio material in any of the folders t ...

I do graphics and other work that requires a really precise mouse movement. I need to move a single pixel at a time (on my 1920x1200 monitor). Well, using my old mouse (MS infrared) I was getting 23 pixel movement, ...

Every time I boot up with Vista Home Basic I get a message telling me that Windows Calendar has stopped working and either I can go online for a solution and close the pro ...

Good evening, peeps.Right now, I own a XP MCE 2005 and I want to get a Vista Premium or Ultimate. My question is: If I buy an upgrade edition, can I install it ...

I've been trying to install Vista Business onto my desktop. The installation goes alright until the computer tries to go through one of the multiple restarts that occur during the installation. At this point, the screen flickers and I get a blue screen of death, telling me that an inf ...

I am trying to create a shortcut on the desktop from an Internet Explorer Favorite. When I right click on the Favorite, neither Create Shortcut nor Send to Desktop will create a shortcut. Nothing happens, not even an error message. Can anyone help me with ...

My WMP11 has spontaenously "broke" so to say. Previously, in the Library tab, when I left clicked on a playlist, the contents of that playlist would appear in the main section and I would be able to select individual songs to p ...

hi, I am running Vista Ultimate. Trying to install LIVE MESSENGER but it does not let me even download this. My Explorer gives the followinsg error Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The website is encountering problems. There m ...

I've just got a brand new Sony VGC LA2 with Vista Home Premium and am thinking of upgrading (swapping) the hard drive from the 300GB it came with to 750 GB to turn it into a super personal video recorder (this PC has a ...

I have a 2week old HP Pavilion PC with Vista Home premium. I bought a retail box of Ultimate upgrade and tried to install it to upgrade. It took 2 hours to upgrade but in the end after rebooting it gives me the following error: "'The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unex ...

Has anyone succeeded in using Fdisk to create one active partition for each OS on one drive without deleting XPs restore points or interfering with the programs and data for eac ...

HiI am about to upgrade to Vista Home Premium from XP Home. I use ActiveSync 4.5 at the moment to sync between my pc and my iPAQ hw6915. But I know that I have to sync via the windows mobile device centre once Vista is installed. Howev ...

Hello, I just installed Vista Ultimate a few hours ago and I'm now playing with the DreamScene features. I've fully updated windows and was expecting to have 5 videos to choose from. Unfortunatly I only have the o ...

Obvious, since Microsoft does not monitor these forums.I've seen the question "publish this file to the web" feature in XP several times and not one definitive answer from Microsoft. Lots of "this might work" type replies, but nothing squarely stat ...

Just installed Vista Business. Before opening Internet Explorer 7 i have to go in to the internet setup, advance options and "reset" the whole thin. I can then open ...

After going through all the groups testing and suggestions, I noticed that Windows Defender is listed as "Hide", Could this be one of the problems that keeps it from running ?If so, how do I "UnHide" it ? I can't get into the old Wi ...

hi folks,i have installed medal of honor allied assault on my new pc which has Vista. And the games works. But when I tried to install the first expansion o ...

The message could not be sent. An error has occurred I am unable to digitally sign my Email messages however I do not have a problem when I don't. I would ...

To Whom It May Concern, SearchWindows Vista Home PremiumWindows Mail Results in two Nonsensical links at the bottom of the page. ...

I am travelling around in a motorhome and am being connected to the internet by a Vodafone data card. Although I use tesco.net as me email address they are no longer my ISP ...

Even though I went to change the way the power button behaves it still acts the same and just puts the PC to sleep. I want the power button to shut down my PC. ...

I noticed in IE7 the background color in the address bar is grey and turns green for secure sites, is there any oter colors and what do they mean? ...

Hello,I have a laptop running an OEM version of Vista Business Edition. I am willing to downgrade to XP Pro since I am facing to many performance and compatibility issues wit Vista (15 minutes to boot, ...

I think there may be some problems in it. ...

To synchronize my mobile device I need Outlook. When using outlook 2002, or synchronizing my mobile, vista keeps popping up a window asking me to allow a program (obviously outlook) have access to email addresses. Answering No, locks up outlook and Yes gives m ...

Help meI can't install sync Windows vista saysNokia Modems Nokia 9300i USB Phone ParentData de instalação: ‎10‎05‎2007 09:17Estado da instalação: FalhouDetalhes do erro: Código 800F020BTipo de actualização: RecomendadoNokia Modems sofware update released in April, 2007Mais infor ...

I had a problem installing Vista from my XP system. I finally got it to go, but it gave me sometihng I didn't want. I have two hard drives, one of which has my XP system and the other that now has Vista. Installing vista changed the the drive lette ...

I've been trying to upload some videos from my digital camera and the audio doesn't seem to upload with them. Audio works with other videos on my computer, just not the ones that I've uploaded to my computer. I even uplo ...

Hi!I have a question on this:A program not intended for Vista get installed with elevated privs. as it should in the Program Files folder. A user later makes changes to, say, an INI file by using the applications GUI to make ...

I've had the XBox 360 controller laying around for so long time now, I can't remember why I bought it. I decided to install the Vista 64bit driver and plugged it in. Now if some one will be kind enough to suggest tit ...

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My computer is not allowing me to send any emails stating that there is a worm in my email? I'm running the McAfee scan now anything else I should do? Really need the ability to send emails. Pleas ...

Whenever I use Vista x86 Fax to send someone a fax from Word 2003 (or anything else) all they get is a blank page with the date stamp on at the top, and they don't get the attached doument faxed to them at all.The document part ju ...

13 of my microsoft updates failed inculding Code 8007000B and Code 643. Don't understand what to do next. savannah ...

My situation is that I want to create a simple batch file to kill a running program by using the process name. I can to this in XP but can't get it to work in Vi ...

Can you use Easy Transfer to only transfer specific files and folders? OR does this depends on what option you used to create the transfer file?ThanksHMD2M Ray Lee ...

Hello, my "windows explorer" lists all my personal folders twice (yep, with twice the SAME name!) ... No other fooder is listed twice, freshly made ...

My screensaver will not go on. I do not have a wireless mouse. I do have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, but it is up to date. I unplugged it to see if that was the problem, b ...

Hello everyone,how can I set up my system so that when I open links in web pages etc, they open at a decent size? At the moment when I follow a link or open IE7 I have to keep dragging the page to increas ...

my dest top wall papaer will not chang.. i folled all the instruction.. and it still stay s the black screen.. i selected from the windows desktop pictures.. and the wall papaer still will not change.. help ...

When I right click on an EXE or DLL file in XP, I can look at its version information.Vista only seems to offer a subset of this. Is there any way (for example) I can read the "Speci ...

Decided to upgrade from 2GB to 4GB RAM on my Vista Business system. Swapped the original 2 sticks of memory out and inserted 4 new pieces.... and started Vista up...I had 3 days to activate...So tried to reactive...... told I could not do so and had ...

Before opening items on Desktop etc. I keep gettimg eroneous error messages e.g. "Windows cannot find " https//memberservices ....... /login/"?targetmy images. Make sure you typed the name correctly & then try again "I then have to click ok before the ...

just installed vista home basic and it is painfully slow. I am running an AMD athlon64 3000+ on an asus K8V SE Deluxe board with 512 ram. The time to launch programs and navagate the web is not satisfactory at all. What should I look at first? ...

Hello and thanks for the help. In Windows 2000 I could go to the computer properties, select the appearance tab and change universal things like: menu font size, tooltip appearance, icons spacing, window background, etc. I can't find ...

I have some songes with blank music tags except for the sone name. I try and edit through vista and some other software. After editing, the revised tags do not show up in the song info. Any idea what I am doing wrong? ...

i want to backup selected locations. e.g. c:\Developand that's it.What program can i use to backup in Windows Vista? ...

After downloading free wallpaper from what appeared to be a Windows site I got a virus in the bargain. I thank Avast for their assistance. It appears that the Microsoft, Windows, and Vista logos are used by every con artist out there. How can I tell the real Microsoft sites from the f ...

i have a new hp dv9000 desktop and vista became corrupt so i had to re install everything because of a bad file.....now my webcam 1.3 MP (builtinto the screen top) is not working. the "driver" says ...

I posted this in the music, pictures, video, newsgroup but didn't get a response so thought I would try here... I can no longer import pictures from my camera with Vista Premium. I connect the camera and click on 'Import Pictures Us ...

Vista O/S made the local news in Los Angeles tonight. Consumer Report states that it has a few good features, but is slower than XP and has compatibility problems with both hardware and software. Maybe Bill will stand up and take notice! ...

TweakVI is now compatible with Vista 64. V 1.0 build 1060 Download Link: (Free) '_totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvidown.php_' (totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvidown.php)Regards, Shawn brink"Practice makes perfect, then you reinstall" '_vistax64.com_' (vistax64.com) Pleas ...

I would like to purchase an external hard drive to use for Vista Back Ups. Several people have recommended Western Digital, but I'm not sure what model I should get. How many GB do I need? ...

Microsoft says:This timelimited release of Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 will expire on April 7, 2008. After this time, you will need to uninstall the software or upgrade to a later release or a fully licensed v ...

I have a Dell Latitude 820 Laptop and 2407 Display on a docking stationI use the 2407 as the main monitor. Every time the computer is put in sleep/hibernate/restart/shutdown, the main monitor status returns to the laptop.Is there anyway o ...

I am trying to install software for an older camera and I am getting a message that I need to reinstall the VGA.DRV. How and where do I get this driver? ...

How to use Windows Flip 3D: vistaarticles.com/articles/356/1/HowtouseWindowsFlip3DDisable Transparency or Glass Effect: vistaarticles.com/articles/358/1/DisableTransparencyorGlassEff ...

Hi all hope you can help. I recently purchased Vista Ultimate and installed it onto an older laptop and all worked fine and dandy.I have since sold that laptop and purchased a new one and am now installed Vista Ultimate one this one using the same discs that I purchased originally. ...

I have 2 hard drives and installed vista on the 2nd and kept xp on the forst (incase I wanted to go back for some reason). I am pretty happy with vista and n ...

When booted first I selected option of Memory test n didnt find any error...n when I proceed for Installation process I got one error with blue scree..Error that I received is mentioned below..... { stop c00002 ...

I have a question, I have 2 PCs with XP Pro, one with a 256mb GE Force video card and the other with a S3 Savage 32mb Video card...Can I Install Vista Ultimate on the PC with a 32mb Video Card? ...

Hello all, i hope some one can help with this is there any way to remove a hard drive from the media center library?the prob i have is on one of the drives i have 2 folders 1 filled with f ...

Can anyone out there advise under XP, if you click a direct link to an mp3 file on a website, the audio streams and plays directly from the web page in windows media player. In Vista, the mp3 file starts downloading. In fact, initially I had to s ...

Have Vista Ultimate on one computer and XP sp2 on other...can the My Docs file in both be synced using VISTA SYNC CENTER? They are networked successfully but not via peer to peer....have not been successful w ...

Setup : PC#1 1 vista (cabled), PC #2 1 XP pro (WiFi), PC #3 1 laptop XP pro (WiFi) Linksys router WRT54GSFrom customer offices, we need to access via RDP our PCs, i.e. physically access our desktop.For some reason, I can access one PC at a time via RDP. Assigning ...

Hello~Have this annoying REPEATABLE problem with Excel 2007 running on Vista Business saving to a share on Windows Server 2003 (not SBS). On the client, Vista and Excel all uptodate with SPs, the machine is part ...

If you haven't already done it, goto Control Panel > Network and Sharing > and turn off Passord Protection Sharing Cheers Wendy ...

I have Windows XP and Vista RC2 installed on my computer. Through the XP Recovery Console, I can receive a (DOS) prompt to logon to either OS. For XP, entering nothing works fine. However, when t ...

I am using Vista Home Premium. I always logged in from administrator account and still it doesn't allow to install softwares like ActiveX controls or updates fom Dell like Bios updates.It always prompts me to lo ...

I just got started with this new computer and already want to throw it out the window. :)I am trying to download and setup the games and sites that I've always liked.I am getting the message that the regid.exe is not working... bu ...

I changed the location of the Contacts folder but when I open contacts it continues to open to the original location according to the navigation pane. The location bar at the top ...

Is there a way to delete winmail and return to outlook?\Heres is my reasons 1) SEND / Receive always cuts off my dial up service 2) the blocking system far to often sends good mail to the junk box 3) I cannot access win mail from explorer 4) I too often strips attachments. 5 ...

With Windows 2000 and word, used to be able to send mail " as attachment" but with vista it is no longer an option. Any solutions? It only sends as a copy which is not correct format for recipients. ...

I would like to try Windows Mail. I presently use Mozilla Mail and would like to import all my saved message from Mozilla but I donot know how. ...

I have had new Vista for about 3 months now using Windows mail with no problems until about 2 weeks ago. All mail I create stays in Outbox and is not being sent no matter how many times I have selected Send all and send/receive all. I still seem to be ...

email outbox seems frozen, what is wrong? it suddenly froze. I was told by BT that my security system was identifying all emails as spam! Also had error coming up when trying to connect to emails which showed: account: protocol POP3, popgate unknown command, port 110, error 800CC ...

SLUIT Windows MEDIA PLAYER (klik op het kruisje rechtsboven). Klik opnieuw op het .wav bestand. Het gaat wel goed. CLOSE MEDIA PLAYER and try again. Toelichting: Bij ontvangst van een email met wav bijlage ...

The Spam Killer is destroying my messages, unless they are being stored somewhere where I can't get to them. Several of them are very important! What can I ...

After opening the Create Mail" window and clicking on the icon against the "To" slot, a list of contacts appears for me to choose from.There is one contact in this list which I do not need (it has already been removed from the Contacts which can be opened ...

looking for a printer that is compatible with ADVENT ERT2250 which includes vista premium,nothing all singing and dancing,just to use for everyday pinting ie emails and word documents. please help... ...

If you cannot send or receive email and get an 0x800CCC0F error, try turning off your firewall, then quickly send an email and immediately turn the firewall back on. This worked for me after spending 3 hours try ...

The new Desktop Window Manager error keeps popping up telling me that there's an error and it needs to shut down. If that's true, then why does it keep sh ...

After a full start of my system, my Wacom tablet works correctly and I can use the pen like a pen. If I put the computer to sleep and then wake it up, the ...

I have windows vista ultimate .. am trying to wun windows update but it gives me this error Windows update error 8024402CI have tried all the options in Help section but the same error persist.Please t ...

I installed Vista on my M1400 motion tablet and for some reason vista isn't detecting my bluetooth device. I tried to install the Widcomm drivers but it says it can't detect ...

Vista home premium.When I try to search for a file in windows explorer, the window stops responding after I have typed the first letter of the search name.When I attempt to delete a file a window appears saying "Calculating time remaining" this just hangs; attempting to close the ...

Vista Ultimate x64, 4GB RAM.I am unable to process some image files of less than 512MB in size in various image manipulation applications as they complain that there is not enough memory. The virtual memory is setup as 512MB ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Pentium4/ 3GHZ PC (2 gigs of RAM) with Radeon X1950Pro video card, and I'm having crashes (Blue Screen) once or twice a day.After rebooting I got this message: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS V ...

I'm trying to migrate from Outlook to Windows calendar. I've imported my calendar.ics file from Outlook no problem. But Windows Calendar is extremely slow to respond, even to simple requests like clicking on a different date to show the appointments (about 7 seconds!). What's lik ...

Hola, tengo un portatil toshiba y me gustaria saber como puedo eliminar los iconos de las teclas de funcion que me salen en la parte superior de la pantalla. Normalmente están ocultas pero al pasar con el raton por encima de ellas aparecen y no me convence esa opcion.Gracias ...

When compared to XP on the exact same machine, my 3DMark06 scores are still at least 5% slower under Vista using the latest nVidia drivers. This is an improvement however as they used to be 15% less using the earlier version ...

I have turned on Show hidden files and folders and two icons for "desktop ..ini" are now showing on the desktop. One comes from User\Public\Desktop, the other is User\<user profile>\Desktop. Windows XP always managed to keep ...

I am not a guru Windows PC person, at least I don't consider I am very good at Windows PC. I develop software, so I am going to install Java, perl etc. Are those software available for Window Vista??I h ...

How do I add a file type or association as I think they're called now in Vista? ...

I was originally able to change my internet shortcut desktop icons on my brand new computer. However, today one third of them still remain the way I changed them and the rest go back to the generic internet shortcut logo. When I try to change them back the changes will ...

Vista is great isn't it? I mean it has added so many new features to XP and improved the interface. Like the new network and internet status icon in the status bar. Now all the useless information ...

im giving up on vista. my job depends on it and this OS is not letting me open, copy, or sometimes even erase random files or folders. its too much and ...

.......if you had the chance to do it again?I am in the throws of buying a new PC. I am reluctant to go for Vista, having heard so many bad reports (just a few good comments). Particularly with regard to one's current software becoming incompatible.I run apps su ...

I would like to remove desktop icons and start bar options for other users on my Vista Ultimate. XP did it when I went to explorer. Not so sure in Vista.Thanks. Tango ...

ok,I got my vista dvd yesterday,and install it right away.I works fine until today. I copy disk to disk about 200Gb files,but everytime vista tell me "n ...

I have a philips external HD conect to my PC (FireWire)... when I change disk folder settings after a will the directory table seems corrupt. I thinks it has someting to do with Vista, under XP everything works normal and there is no problem ...

Thanks for your input guys.I still feel agrieved as I was quite happy with the drivers I had under XP and it is Vista that disabled them.I bought an Xmod but my 5.1 speakers dont have a 3.5mm line in socket so on top of £50 for the Xmod I am looking for £40 £50 for rep ...

So finally Windows has a builtin DVD decoder! Sadly, I'm not sure it works...So since installing Ultimate, I haven't been able to watch a DVD. With Media Player or Media Center, the DVD has no sound. In WM ...

cannot get pictures from my Pentax optio 330... says everything ok...... I tried downloading drivers from disc and pentax site everthing seemed OK when I go to "start"..."windows photo gallery"..."import pictures an ...

Hi,Wow, they made some serious changes to Vista. So far I have these questions:I have an XP that has a shared printer, but when I try to connect to it from Vista it crashes the spooler. How do you install a network print ...

I have Windows Vista basic edition upgrade. I first installed it ok and was running fine then my hard drive crashed.. I have another hard drive now and installed my win xp first and then put in my Vista upgrade. When I p[ut my product key in i ...

About 6 weeks ago I purchased a new DELL computer running on VISTA premium. I installed Microsoft WINWORD 97 and Excel 97 from original installation disks. I h ...

Hi, running Vista Home Premium and have come across this message a number of times. "Error 1907. Could not register font. Verify that you have sufficient permissions to install fonts, and that the system supports this font".It then gives me three ...

Does anyone know how to do this? I have tried the standard appwiz.cpl and show installed updates and windows services but cannot find anywhere to remove the app? I want to remov ...

Is there a way to upload content from a DVD onto my PC? I've got burned DVD's of home video I want to upload so I can share it with others. ...

The problem I am having is when I install programs (mostly games) lately (since using Vista), the screen displays the game screen split to opposite corners: i.e., what should be the lower ...

I have a mixed XP home/pro and Vista home/business network with a Buffalo TeraStation Pro NAS for network backups. XP home/pro has no problem accessing the NAS, no password required. However ...

I have read in the past that Sync Center in Windows Vista has some issues, I will describe my issue and see if I can get a suggestion for my problem. Machine with Windows Vista Business, fully up ...

We have a Samsung laser printer/fax attached to our server which is shared by all users on the network. When I try to install this printer on a new computer with Vista, a dialog windowdisplays a message 'Not enou ...

Hi How do you or where do you have to go on windows xp to see the shared folders of my windows vista. ...

Just purchased and hooked up a WRT54G (v. 8) wireless router.My wired connection goes to my old Windows 98SE PC. Since my ISP (Cavalier Telephone aka Cavtel DSL service) provides me with a static IP address, I needed to configure the router's settings accordingly, but ...

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