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I just got a new laptop with Vista and IE 7 already installed. IE7 was working when I connected at work until a few days ago. Now it says it has stopped working and ...

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I removed Games via the 'Turn Windows Features on or off' function in the Control Panel as I was getting an error message to set the file association when I tried to open via the Start Menu turns out this was ...

I see the Vista drivers are out so just ordered one, any comments on how good it is?ThanksJerry ...

Out of the blue I suddenly no longer have access to my documents folder. When I check the security settings for the folder it has a check mark next to all the types of ...

I have a Gateway laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed. I have run Windows update to get any new updates. When I put a CD in my CD/DVD drive, ...

I just got a new PC yesterday (HP A1740N; 2GB RAM; 320GB HD; Win Vista Home Prem). Once I got thru all the 'First Time Start' stuff, I got the HP Total Care Advisor screen, which told me that my D: drive 'Recovery (D:)' was full. Looking in Windows Explorer with show hidden files turned on, ...

P4 2.8ghz HT, 1.5gb memory, 160gb HD, Ati Radeon 9550 256mbEvent Viewer log or performance log is showing that ntoskrnl.exe is impacting the performance of Windows. ...

I had created a link for my dialup (DSL) onto the desktop. It appeared a nice icon with 2 blue screens and a little device (a modem?).After a couple of system starts, that icon changed to a different one, seems like the notepad icon or so.I have searched ...

Vista keeps informing me that an update is available. the specific update (MSXML 4.0 SP2 Security Updat (KB927978)), published 11/13/2006 is already ...

I did a full system backup before switching to another raid controller. I used the same two HD's but Vista would not restore to the partition because the ...

I have TIF files that I want to view / print from the Windows (Vista) Photo Gallery When I open it, it shows Page 1 of 2 / 2 of 2. they are the same picture but one looks to be more of a thumb nail size However, when I do properties it shows just 1 pic 2560 ...

I have reput Windows vista into my one computer 5 times I had to take it out the last time cause it locked up when i tried to activate it. I have this comput ...

I bought my Vista Ultimate as part of a new system, so it arrived installed. I also received an OEM DVD of Vista, appropriately shrinkwrapped, with a nice little booklet from Microsoft.Well, I finally opened up the DVD packaging so ...

Hi all, I have a Toshiba A135S4427 Notebook that came preinstalled with Vista Home Premium. I want to use Partition Magic ver8 to repartition the HDD into 3 total partitions, in other words I want to creat 2 additional partitions. I read on another boar ...

I just got my laptop with Vista Business. As an experiment, I paired a Bluetooth headset with the laptop, to see if it worked; it did. The problem came later, when I went out with the laptop a ...

The first minute of one of my video clips is rubbish. How can I cut it off and retain the rest? The Help file doesn't seem to cover this. David ...

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How can i remove the onscreen keyboard on the logonscreen before a user is logged in? Any ideas it nervs me evertime i boot up the OS.thx for help,buzzlyear ...

Hi,Is it normal that Vista take more than 60Minutes to to either a shutdown or a retartMy Computer is as follow: CPU : AMD 5200+ x64 x2, socket AM2 RAM : 4Gb DDR Video : EVGA Nvidia 8800GTS Motherboard : Foxconn C51XEM2AA8EKRS2H Running Vi ...

This eliminated the "unsupported personality" errors and seems to have fully enabled the printer under Vista...I think it would work for any in the HP 1010 series.Use the Vista Laserjet 1015 driver. One the driver is installed, open the prop ...

I am having problems with setting parental controls. The first night I set them up for one person without any difficulties. However on the second night I was not able to set them up for anyone else. When I go into the user to set controls I get a brief glimpse of the screen and then ...

Last night I upgraded to Microsoft Vista. I have an Officejet 6310 AllinOne printer and am having trouble printing. I have the printer connected to my home network. When I send something to the ...

I have a cingular 2125 and Vista Ultimate (final release retail version)and cannot get sync to work. I can connect and see the files on the phone, but get an error message "ActiveSync encountered an error on the desktop" and syncing fails. Can you offer any help ...

I have one computer with Home Premium installed and another computer with Windows XP Pro installed. Both computers use the firewall that comes with the ...

Can a Vista Update be expected any time soon for the multiple problems many users are experiencing in their attempts to access the internet wirelessly? Most connectivity problems had been resolved within the Windows XP community. Now many u ...

Since buying Vista I have had some issues with using outlook express. I did something wrong and now can not access any emails or old addresses from the old computer. It keeps telling me to download a link. I have tried but no success.Also I am trying to create a Contacts shortcut o ...

rundll32.exe will fail continuously until the next OS. And then we'll be beset with a whole new set of failures. I guess the one good thing about these M$ OS's is that it isn't a car crashing from one point to the next.And I'm betting M$ will never find the problem causing rundll ...

When I hover over a highlighted test block, the cursor stays in typing mode on my XP system it recognized a block of selected text and changed to the normal cursor so you can see what you are doing. ...

I would like to run 3 screens on my new Vista Home Premium computer. There is one PCIe connector and three PCI connectors on this computer. There is an onboard Nvidia VGA output which does not seem to work when a PCIe card is in the system. Any suggest ...

I just installed Vista on my new PC (680i EVGA Motherboard) worked great, still does, but after I did the vista online updates and rebooted it won't shut off my pc!!? Vista itself shuts down ok, my keyboard also, but my motherobaar ...

Please help! I recently purchased a Dell E521 Dimension with Windows Vista Home Premium. Prior to that I was using a older Dell Dimension with Windows XP SP2. I also have a Dell X300 Latitude Laptop running Windows XP SP2. I'm ...

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support.microsoft.com/kb/932246/enusThe March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update is a package of software updates that address common application compatibility issues in Windows Vista ...

I have just got a new Dell Dim 9200 with Vista. Every 5 10 mins (not exact) it hangs, if I have the CPU monitor open, it goes to 100%!. It stays in this state for around 10 seconds.The caps lock & num lock do not function during this period, nor does ctrl alt del. It ...

Home network with 3 XPs (2 with a printer set to shared) and 1 Vista computer Tried to give Vista PC access to shared printer on one of the XP units Of course, I tried Add Pr ...

I have just been organising the drive letters/paths on my hard drive to incorporate a dual boot partition but 4 of my PC's Card reader partitions have suddenly disappeared, how do I get them back?I have no A drive (no floppy drive)C drive Main Partition D (50gb Unallocate ...

As an administrator right, how can I delete the folders under C:\ Program Files? The folders left there was due to the weakness of program uninstallation.Thank ...

The string below returns a file not found when trying to play an NPR stream when windows media player is selected in Vista using IE7 this is a new problem that occured after a program installed perhaps NE ...

HiThe problem details are:Setup: I have a Windows Vista Home Premium machine with Intel Graphics card. The DirectX version 10.Problem: When I run my application which uses th ...

Howdy,I'm on Vista Ultimate (Thinkpad Z61p with Lenovo updates), and I LOVE IT!. However once in a while my internet connectivity stops. I can't browse or ...

Hi I have a very frustrating problem with Vista X64.I have tried to install a Netgear DG834G v3 Moden/router to replace the USB modem I was using. Vista refuses to recognise it, IE will not talk to it's setup b ...

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Hi,I have an old 40 gig laptop hard drive, and i put it in a USB2 case so now it's an external hard drive that works via the USB2 port. Can you copy your vista install to it, and then if your working version gets borked, copy it back via the ...

For the first time, I'm trying to backup files using Windows XP.As the system apparently won't let you backup to a DVD, I'm trying to backup to an external harddrive instead.However, the 'Backup or Restor ...

A Scheduled Task Does Not Run When You Use Schtasks.exe to Create It and When the Path of the Scheduled Task Contains a Space...The same in Vistasupport.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/823093That solution ...

Hi All...I noticed several posts regarding issues with either sending or recieving in Outlook.This issue is exceeding frustrating me...I have just setup a new laptop at work for one of our new staff members. Firstly Dell and Microsof ...

Hi, Is there anyway to have the sidebar default to the tray when I start windows? If so, is it possible to have only the notes and calendar gadgets auto show on the desktop with the sidebar in the tray? I am obsessive about maintaining a "tidy" desktop and sidebar is really becoming a ...

Until nowI found three great problens with Windows Vista Home Premium (Brazilien Portuguese):Mail: where is the brazilien spell check?Windows Photo Gallery: when choose to send ...

Hello. I am new to Vista. I was a longtime user of XP. I bought and installed Vista U and and found that allthough it worked, my vista experience rating was only 1.0. I was unable to use the 3d effec ...

For some reason the track list that usually shows on the right hand side of the now playing tab has disappeared can anyone tell me how to get it back?Many thanks Vicky ...

I'm interested in the ability to securely connect my home PC similar to how I connect to my work computer with GoToMyPC. The Vista Ultimate support information mentions remote access to corporate infrastructure, but I'm not sure it that's equivalent to remote access ...

I have installed Vista in my network with OneCare. The windows firewall is disabled, the ICMPv4 inbound is enabled in OneCare Firewall, however I still cannot ping myself by IP address. The strange thing is s ...

I have Windows Defender running normally on Windows Vista (the taskbar icon is showing that Defender is on and running ok) but the Security Center is telling me that Windows ...

I am interested in creating a rule to send mail from a particular account into my 'Sent Items' folder. However, it appears that Windows Mail does not have this option. Am I missing something?The reason I ask is Gmail inc ...

Hi I'm running the Home Basic version of Vista. I am able to access my ISP without any problem however, I keep getting a small dialogue box appearing wanting to access my ISP this box pops up at ...

Hi, I was wondering how I could make my own Virtual folder in Vista. (I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64) I would like to make new folders like the preconfi ...

My household has a grand total of about 7computers (1 Mac, 6 Windows). I want to backup all of the important files on each computer. I also want to keep the entire backup offsite (as in, school, work, etc. buildings so that if, God forbid, my house burns ...

I just upgraded my HP Pavilion m1000y Media Center to Vista Ultimate 32bit. The sound button on the bottom right corner has an X over it and says "No Audio Outpu ...

I was reading the latest edition of TechNet Magazine that I received in the mail this week; when I came across an article that inadvertently associated itself with one of the issues th ...

Wow what??Here's a good start windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/enUS/community/default.mspx opens with "The hunt for drivers" Why does this need to ...

Hi all,I've got some weird problem with my sidebar here. Everything was working perfectly fine until today. After starting up my laptop, my sidebar was totally black, no blending or anything, and I couldn't see my gadgets. Well, I could only see my clock, which ...

Hi all,I'm having real problems with WGA. I'm sat here unable to use Vista properly as I've been asked to reactivate Vista (for the third time I might add...) Having managed to get in contact with ...

I have a 9k file with 101 identical copies of this text. The file is called debug.txt. At 1st I'd expect it to be something Nero related. But since th ...

As I have predicted vista will be the biggest target ever for all kinds of attacks. It will be brought down to its knees by the hackers. Why? Well because MS boasted about it being secure... and everyone knows that this is a lie. Now all the hackers have to do is play! Although I wish no ha ...

Is there a way to select precisely which files I backup on Vista, like I used to be able to on XP? ...

Problem: Whenever I start Explorer, it asks me for permission to launch!I have disabled ALL addins and extra programs....However, when I disable users for the whole system, Explorer does not ask for permission ...

I was shuting down my pc a while ago and let it do its thing while I ran some to take care of some bussiness. I expected for it to shut down with any problems but it didn't. I'm running V ...

I have a HP a1520y that I purchased before the vista release and came with 512MB of memory. It is vista ready. I got my free vista upgrade last week and installed it over the media center OS. Two days ago, I finally got my ...

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I installed Vista 64 Ultimate on my PC about a month ago. Drivers were installed from the CD that came with the Intel D975Xbx2. Everything was just fine. A few days ago I checked Windows Updates and found "S ...

I've edited a photo to be square, and I'd like to print it out so that on paper it winds up being exactly 3"x3". It seems, though, that if I use the Photo Printing Wizard, my best ...

I have no idea what happened between yesterday and today because all of a sudden Windows Media Player will play my DVD's but there is no sound. It will play CD's just fine, sound and all. I opened the same DVD in Nero Showtime and it plays fine. I don't g ...

At our school we have run into an issue where no one with a Vista machine can access the WAN from a wireless connection. They are only able to estab ...

Hi, here’s hoping you can help solve my Network problem.When I access my correctly mapped network drive, Vista (Home Premium) asks me for my username and password even though I provided it when I mapp ...

I purchased a new HP DX2300 a week ago. I have spent countless hours (Days) trying to setup ICS with no real success.In my desperation I performed a restore on the Vista PC wipi ...

RD client on Vista Home Basic connecting to Windows Server 2003. Local printers are not importing, even though I have checked the "Printers" box in the "Local Resources" tab of the "Options" dialog of RD. Su ...

FWIW department...I finally was able to connect to my Vista Ultimate desktop PC using a secure Windows Internet Computer name. In my case the router is a Belkin F5D72304 ver 6002 running the F5D72304_US_8.02.25 firmware release. As an admin user I generated a secure Windo ...

In Vista Ultimate system restore gives an error when trying to access it."not enough storage is available to comlete this operation(0X8007000E).I have more than 35GB free in the HDD and have 2GB Ram.Wh ...

Is there a way to change the run as to use domain admin instead of local admin ...

Does anybody know if there is a way to rename the builtin Administrator account with the unattend.xml file? From what I have read it looks like the CopyProfile setting will keep the builtin Administrator account as long as i ...

Today i bought a game, Lord of the Rings, Battle for Middle Earth 2. When I wanted to play online, it said i needed to download a patch, so I clicked okay. After I click okay it says, 'You need administrative rights to download patches.' What is conf ...

How can i make my computer compatible to maple story? Because when i try to play it, there is always a popup that tells me that i can't play maple because my window isnt compatible. I want to know if there is a way to fix this problem. Can someone h ...

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I have been having a problem receiving emails on Windows Mail via Vista. Sometimes they don't arrive at all and sometimes they are delayed by several days. I checked my settings and from my ...

in outlook express i had 2 email accounts and switched between these 2 by clicking on switch identity. we each had our own seperate inbox, etc. but shared the address book. i just set up these 2 on v ...

For the life of me I CANNOT figure out how to include my business IMAGE LOGO in my signature when using Windows Mail. It will NOT allow me to add images to my sig.Th ...

Before I install Vista, should i save all of my pictures, programs, etc. that i have on XP? Or will they be saved on my hardrive, and pop back up on Vista? ...

Can any one tell me, which popular video converter program will work well with VistaI have Power video converter and I am not sure whether is will workI am very happy with Vista it works very well but a "heavy" up to date computer is a must ...

How do I change paint.exe from opening each time I click EDIT from the Windows Explorer rightclick menu? ...

Hi, when I click on the 'Switch Between Windows" it is no longer 3D but instead a box. I really loved the 3D look. I recently downloaded a new updates for my comp that said it was really important. And since then, I have a b ...

All my burned dvds play well with my Premium Vista on HP notebook with either Windows Media Centre or QuickPlay(hp's).. but nothing wants to play my ...

After starting Vista I received the message, "Problem caused by ffdshow codec". The message suggested that I visit sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ where I could join a forum discussion abou ...

hey on my friends myspace page, when i try and click on their pics or blog or any like from their main page pr goes to this website dsadsaddd.br.gd/ and says unable to open ...

I just want to use the voice dictation for emails ...

I'm using ReadyBoost on my CF 2GB with Transcend card reader. It works well. However, when I temporarily remove CF card from the reader and reinserted after a while, it seems that Vista can't recognize already created ReadyB ...

Okay, I have no internet. I live in the dark ages and my little flat doesn't understand the term broadband.I do have internet at work but not at home where my nice shiney ...

I installed a netgear print server, and it worked great. Then I restarted my Vista system. Now it shows as offline, and nothing I do can get it online again. I turned off the Windows firewall, ...

Hello, lavasoft showed me, after a scan, two windows vulnerabilities that are the following ones: ArchiveData(autoquarantine 20070411 113009.bckp) Referencefile : SE1R165 10.04.2007 ==================================== ...

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My brother is having problems with his scanner and Windows Photo Gallery.He has a Canon CanoScan N670U USBpowered flatbed scanner connected to his PC, which is running Vista Home Premium. He has installed the lat ...

I have a Dell laptop E1705 with the Sigma Tel High Definition Codec sound card.Here are some details found in a txt file for the audio card Title : Audio: SIGMATEL STAC 92XX CMajor HD Audio Driver Version : A02 OEM Name : SIGMATEL OEM Ver : 6.10.0.5343Eve ...

Just upgraded to Vista today, I usually use my middle button on my laptop to scroll up/down pages, when I try to use it to scroll up now, nothing happens and if I use it to scroll do ...

i have encountered code C001197 while trying to listen to my music. where did my music and how do restore it ...

I used this on xp. downloaded to new vista home premium.( cp burned up. ) Worked great. Now on Vista I cannot use the crop tool. It jumps all over the place. Everything else is fine. I downloaded it ...

Upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate from Win XP. Since the upgrade the sound was never correct. It would stop for one second every three to five seconds. I had updated ...

I just updated to Vista and when I try to launch my RDP client I get advised the program has been shut down and the help advises that Data Execution Prevention seems to be blocking it. I can't find the .exe file that runs the program so that I can add it to allow it to run. any ideas? ...

when I receive a email, windows mail usually show sender's email address even if sender is in my contact list. so how can I let windows mail to show sender's name? ...

I recently got a new PC with Windows Vista. I am not really PC savy. I had RoadRunner put on my PC. Then I realized that I wanted to also be able to use Windows Mail. Well, it's great when you first setup because it walks you through it. But, unfortunately I had the SMTP information i ...

I had a problem this morning. I have windows vista and use window mail. I went to open up my mail this morning and I saw my mail boxes scattered all over the place. Ie: inbox, deleted, sent an a coupl ...

i am unable to open window photo galley in vista the loading cursor appears for sometime and then vanishes. ...

Hello,I had to restore my entire hard drive and used the restore feature which comes with Windows Vista. It worked very well. However, now I have no system sounds. I went into "Personalization" a ...

After upgrading my Dell notebook to Vista, the scrollbar feature on my mousepad no longer works. How might I resolve this? ...

When my system returns form hibernation it opens a window containing the root directory of my external hard drive. The manufacturer (LaCie) says it must be a sch ...

I own a HP Color Laser Jet 2500n printer and it’s installed on my network, however, it shows up as “Offline” to my VISTA computer but it prints just fine from my XP Computer, and my dau ...

Hey Does anyone know how to get rid of the favorites pane in explorer? Tools/Folder options/Use Classic Windows folders doesn't seem to do anything on my syst ...

I have had this new computer and vista for two months now and had no problems but when i turned on the computer today a window pops up saying windows explorer has stopped working and it is searching for a solution, then another window pops up saying it is restarting window explorer. It is ...

After installing Vista (32bit), I was surprised to see the dualcore startup window. I wanted to keep many of my files when i installed Vista. I have no need to run XP and want my pc to start up exclusively in Vista. Can the dualcore start up be safely removed and how? ...

why I am getting the above message?!! I am the administrator!! ...

I just bought a new dell with VISTA installed on it and tried to burn a movie on movie maker after 1hr on line with Dell support they told mme Microsoft does not have a update ...

Trying to get to www.vodafone.net it says the page is not available.However my XP box on the desk next to it running IE7 gets on no problem so I presume it is a Vista problem.Any suggestions? ...

Hi,I hope I'm not making a NG faux pas by dropping in with a quick question, but if someone can post an answer it would really help a LOT. I've already looked all around for an answer.I've built a new system from scratch. It's done, and now ...

hi, does adobe photoshop elements 5 work on Vista Home Premium? I would like to know before i buy it incase its not compatible,Thank you ...

I am wondering if anyone else has run into this issue. I use my sidebar and all my applications are on my favourite gadget the AppLauncher.However, I notice that off and on when I click on the desktop the sidebar and gadgets disapper. ...

I bought a new laptop which already came with vista business edition preinstalled, with no original cd for vista installation. I discovered that some of my old sofware do not work on vista, so I have to either switch back to xp or see if I ...

I bought an Acer desktop with OEM vista. It comes without a DVD and without BOOTSECT.exe the utility to fix boot sectors and patch them back to Vista's m ...

Can anyone help please...i have just purchased a system from gateway with vist premium installed . The problem I have is that I am unable to burn DVD video from WMV files, Picture formats ie jpg i can burn Data dvd no problem. I have ...

Hi, I just have a question. I have a laptop running Vista and a desktop running XP. The laptop is hooked up to a wireless network with the desktop. I just want to know, is there a way to communicate betwe ...

Hi,I have a DLink Router DI604 (wired). How do I share the internet connection between Vista and WIN ME?I tried connecting both to the router, only the vista connection works but ...

Hi,I installed apache 2.2.4 on my vista ultimate and each time i start my computer, windows defender display ApacheMonitor among "blocked startup programs".How can i do t ...

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Normally when you click to a given email address at web pages or email's, the NEW MESSAGE pop up with the email address under To: appears... but with Windows Mail it doesn’t work so every time have to click on create mail, put in the mail address... I ...

When I print a received email the edges of the body are slightly cut off, causing short words not to be printed. I have tried several things to correct the problem, both in Vis ...

I have a Genius ColorPageHR6X usb Scanner, but windows Vista can't install it with bundled driver CD. please help me. Thanks :) ...

In Windows XP, when I used to "Set Program Access and Defaults," such settings I chose applied to the entire system. In Windows Vista, on the other hand, I have seen th ...

My question is Does Vista Home Premium comes with Windows Journal?Can someone answer this question. I am looking to purchase a tablet PC tomorrow which ...

Not found the drivers ATI RADEON 9000IGP for Windows Vista, and the resolution is fast.Thanks! ...

Background: ========= I have a Vista laptop and a CompUSA router (at my house). I was having a XP tablet PC which worked like a charm I open it, plug in the Ethernet w ...

We use a 3COM IP phone system. Our network cables run first to our phone and then from the phone to the computer. We have never had unusual problems with this configuration.I swapped out ...

Hi, When I click on the dropdown arrow in the address bar I get a popup window that states "A website wants to open web content using this program on y ...

Just booted my pc this morning to find I cannot:1. use Windows update update via start bar, I have to get updates via My computer and use update from there.2. open Control panel via any given icon, the control panel window opens and then closes automatically. ...

Hi there , DVD maker shute down when trying to publish a movie from WWM. Comes up with Impdg10.ax regsvr32 and suggests to ?unregister this. However when I try to do this Vista ...

It takes Windows Vista 5 minutes for the firewall to figure out to let you get on the internet when you first turn your computer on. Vista has some serious problems. They need to come up with alot of updates fast. Microsoft expects people to leave their computer turned o ...

Well this is my first issue with vista after 2 months...Ive used it before and know its in the accessories...anyways i went to make a picture of desktop yesterday and the tool is gone and search won't find it...where could it be? ...

The MS fanboys and their supporters constantly say that phone activation is "no big deal". It seems, then, that when one calls, one is always activated. If so, what's the point?Alias ...

I just updated Vista, and now my desktop background pictures are all stretched out. i have fiddled with all the resolution setting and i can't make the picture look proportionate. is there anything i can do to fix this? ...

I am running Vista Ultimate.Yesterday I began experiencing video problems with MS FSX after installing Nvidia Driver version 158.18. I uninstalled the driver and the Game. I then went to run a Direct X c ...

I installed Skype on Vista (first normal version, then Beta), the program runs perfectly. I see it on the menue bar below and even a small preview, but when I click to restore it doesn't open in the full window. ...

I have a new computer with Vista Home Premium. My monitor is ViewSonic VX922 I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS video card and a ASUS P5N32SLI Motherboard.My problem is that I cannot switch my monitor to digital display, when I do i ...

Every once in a while randomly my computer will suddenly "go plaid." For instance the computer will run fine for a full day then the next morning when it boots up ...

I recently bought a laptop with a 64 bit processor, but the 32 bit version of Vista is what it came with.Would it make it perform any better if it had come with the 64 bit version?Is there any way to g ...

I currently have two systems, a desktop running full version of XP Pro, and a notebook running full version of XP Home. Want to upgrade the Desktop to Vista Ultimate and then upgrade my ...

Hello,I'm trying to connect Vista x32 Ultimate to a windows 2003 server. This is the error I get:The following error has occurred attempting to join domain "home":An attempt to resolve the ...

Hello, I am trying to create a restore point for Vista Home Edition Premium and I keep getting an error message stating that Access is Denied (0x80070005). I have tried running the create a Restore Point ...

I have a problem. At exactly every 15 seconds I have a stutter on the system. When working with programs such as word processing or browsers it is not noticeable, ...

I already added the Korean IME but I want to change the taskbars and the whole Vista system to Korean. I bought a Vista HP laptop for my mom for Mother's day and she needs the whole system to be in Korean. Please help! :confused: evielee ...

The shortcut for email in the start menu no longer works for me. When i go to customize the start menu, the drop down box that usually lists email apps(Windows Mail, Hotmail etc) is empty. It wasn't like that before. I think it has to do with CCleaner, because it was the latest program i insta ...

I got a new computer with Vista Home Premium. With this system I cannot preview any thumb nails of attachments in yahoo emails to my yahoo mail account. It is NOT a yahoo problem because my old computer with XP does not have the same problem, on ...

Can we offer Remote Assistance from a downlevel machine(like XP/2k) to Vista? ...

Hi I have a new Gateway computer and I have McAfee Security and it has Vista. I was able to do things just fine and then suddenly I am unable to get to my email with Yahoo. I did a systems restore and that didn't work, I reinstalled McAfee, I uninstalled Yahoo.... Nothing has worked. ...

Where can i find a file cabinet icon to use on a toolbar with VISTA? Looking for one like found in winfile.exe in Win98.Thanks Mike B ...

informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203891&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop The efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47; a $ ...

Where do I find/add the website folders. In XP you could view them from your network places, but now I can't find them anymore. Does anyone know where it went?Chuck ...

I have a new Sony laptop with Vista and am getting an error screen very similar to the blue screen of death but it says "bad loop caller". I have no idea what is causing this but ...

Hi, I'm on Vista Home Premium 32Bit. Whenever I do a restart, Vista does ok with it, but I get the Windows Boot manager every time and either there's a 30 second countdown for the computer to automatically choos ...

HII use eBay a lot and when typing out the descriptions, sometimes things go wrong! When typing, I will occasionally look up at the screen to see what I have written, only to find that half of what I have written ...

How do I configure Vista so I can switch between languages (e.g., English default and Arabic sometimes), esp. for Word, PowerPoint, etc.? Has anyone used the old Microsoft onscreen ke ...

Received these messages Windows Explorer has stopped working IrFan Viewer has stopped workingHad to restart. Using Vista Home Premium 4G RAM powerful Intel Chip ...

I THINK my motherboard is a socket 7 (?).I have 2.8Ghz Celeron.How do I find out exactly what sort of motherboard so I can (?) upgrade my chip?CAN I upgrade the chi ...

Hello, im having a problem with my sound card. I was using win ME and i could ...

I am having trouble burning a DVD with Vista Home Premium. It keeps coming up with a "Catostrophic Error" at around 33%.I have made a Movie in Movie Maker and when I go to burn it I have the above error. The movie size was a 25min movie. I thought it might have been a corrupted ...

Hi All, We have a new computer with Vista along with an ADSL2 modum which is connected via network USB. The problem we are having is that the computer starts quickly (th ...

i added a laptop running vista to home network of 4 xp running computers. vista laptop sees only itself in the network and none of the others. cannot figure out what i am missing. ...

Orange ISP technical suggest downloading outlook express as my windows mail can send but not receive e mail. OE 6 refuses to download as there is a later edition on ...

Way can I not set up two email address on one page and switch back and forth like I could with outlook? If I can how do I put in two email address and switch identities?? I had an IT man in and he could not? Way does my name not ...

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Is it prossible to Syncronise Windows Mail with a Cell Phone , similar to how Outlook does, for Reminders and contacts? ...

i have internet email acct end in verizon.net, pop3 and smtp will not work verizon claims it's yahoo.verizon, but it does not work ...

Please answer me. Am I not doing this right? I've never used this before. I need to be able to receive my email into Windows Mail. I posted the error message in my pre ...

I have tried REALLY HARD to like Vista and MS Mail. But, it's driving me crazy with the thing (Mail) freezing and giving me the "(Not Responding)" all the time. It happens on about 50 ...

I am also have a problem with Windows mail sending emails in only one user account although the administrator account seems to work ok. I have called McAfee and have removed it to this point but as indicated by Gary the ...

microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/0506WLHotmailLaunchPR.mspxNote this:"More to come. In the coming weeks, Microsoft will introduce an additional email client optio ...

The rejected email address was'tcox46939@hotmail.com'. Subject 'hello', Account: 'pop3.kconline.com', Server: 'smpt.kconline.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 5.7.1 ... Relaying denied. Pr ...

I've installed my printer (HP PSC 2110) and i've been trying to set the printing preferences but the widow won't even show up. When as soon as i click the printer preferences button, i could see the window disappear in matter of seconds. I'm so l ...

I just purchased an external 250GB hard drive to backup on my new 'Windows Vista Business' PC ... and have already reformatted the drive to NTFS.When I try to perform a Complete PC Backup, I receive an error message ... ...

I have an ASUS P5RD1VM motherboard and each time I restart my computer or insert a disk to my PC, I get an error "blue screen of death", with the message IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. The driver ASUS supplies isn't for Windows Vista (I have ...

I was running a dualboot system between WinXP & Vista Ultimate.I had issues with XP and had to run the "fixboot" and "fixmbr" commands from the WinXP CD, which wiped out the Vista Boot Loader.Is there a similar command on the Vista DVD to restore the Vista ...

Help! I just purchased a new computer with a Vista operating system. Photos I transferred from my older computer, loaded on a thumbdrive and plugged into the new computer are all stretched horizo ...

My problem has to do with my wireless networking connection suddenly and without reason losing connection to the internet while still being connected to the LAN, or at least SAYING it's connected to the LAN when in fact it has completely locked up. On XP this wa ...

Does anyone have any idea why I am starting to receive emails which are being sent with an attachment, but 1) no paperclip is appearing in the inbox 2) the size of the email is large so I know there should be an attachment and 3) when I open the email ...

Can anyone help with this problem? I keep getting a message in Vista that states:"Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for l ...

I have a hotmail account and I don't know anything of how to fill out the Server page? HELP!!!! ...

When trying to connect,receiving error messages ie user name and password not recognized ...

Well it seems DEP has made it so Vista will never get any worse than it is already. It's disabled windows installer. I'd like to try and set it so DEP ignores installer, but it seems t ...

I am receiving this error when trying to copy the dat file from a virtually mounted VCD. The utility I am using to mount the image is Daemon tools 4, I have also tried Magic ISO (I did not receive an error message using Magic ISO but it would not copy the AVESQUE01.dat fil ...

Two parter: 1. Is there an online, comprehensive listing of all native WSR voice commands?2. Is there an online comparitive article regarding Dragon Naturally Speaking and WSR?thanks all! Your info is always helpful. /amelia ...

How do I change my taskbar color? It's the ugliest color I have ever seen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...

Article ID : 272623 refers to enabling printing of the directory listing from within Windows Explorer in XP. This does not work with Vista, is the a way to do the same thing in Vista? ...

I got a notebook for my daughter with windows vista. I was trying to add vista to my desk top. but i have trouble with the key. what can i do. or do i have to buy another key. if so how can i take vista off my desk top. cause right now im lock out o ...

Any windows that I have open on my desktop (IE, Word, Outlook, etc), automatically resize themselves to half the screen; and the icons automatically move around the resized window. This happens a lot, by itself. I tried resizing the windows (minimizing, resizing, maximizing), but no luck. Any id ...

Windows Vista has a service that can synchronize the system time automatically with Internet Time Service. The interval of each synchronized time can be set in register. Default value is 48hr. The question is how to know th ...

I am experiencing the most annoying problem with Vista One half the time when I click on a program to do an operation, such as in IE to save a file, the window resizes itself, rather than does the action it will then continue to resize back and forth with every click. ...

Why does microsoft think they know best how to allocate my valuable display real estate? Why can't i configure IE 7 with one thin toolbar at the top with the buttons i ...

I archived my email in a 350 MB zip file that contains 82,000 files. When I move this zip file to a flash drive the system slows down hugely and Process Explorer shows 100% CPU use, with a large fraction being explorer.exe. The slowing lasts at least half an hour. When I insert the flash dri ...

Windows Vista Home Premium (All Languages) Email Support Response Time: By the end of the next working day. 90day nocharge support begins on the following dates: From the date you place your fir ...

Please help, i was using vista home premium and all was well, then aero stopped working. i have not knowingly changed anything. can any one please help? i have tried resetting the properties to aero b ...

When I open Outlook 2003 it pauses every three or four seconds for about two seconds. Nothing can be done during these pauses. Does anyone know of a solution? It's gotten to the point I am thinking of going back to XP or getting a Mac. I just wan ...

I have tried to install my lexmark allinone printer to work on my new computer with windows vista and it says something to the effect that windows is missing a file that I ne ...

I have Vista Ultimate installed, my USB devices on the MOBO are all USB2.0 but Vista claims they are only USB 1 is this something I am doing wrong, I've downloaded all the drivers from ASRock, and Windows Upd ...

I have a MediaPlayer that is not able to be detected by my Vista PC anymore. When the media player is connected to other PCs, it is able to be detected. Thus what has went wrong to my Vista Machine? ...

I recently upgraded my new Dell notebook from business to ultimate. I used the upgrade anytime dvd that came with the pc. I thought about what if I need to reinstall and did some research. It seems that there should be an icon for digital locker in the control pane ...

How do I change the MIDI output device in Vista?I want Windows Media Player to play MIDI files through an external synth. ...

Hi, I have a slight problem with enabling Media Sharing on Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium edition. When I go to the "Network and Sharing Center" I wanted to turn on Media Sharing, bu ...

Using Vista Ult I have my network icon showing on the task bar tray. How come sometimes when there's a red "x" through the network icon meaning I'm not currently connected (I'm always connect ...

I'm trying to map a drive to our sharepoint server that is hosted on the net (seneca.sharepointspace.com) and am unable to do it from Vista Business. I'm able to do it find from other Vista machines and Win XP. I need it to connect Groove to Sharepoint, so if the drive ma ...

I have a Windows XP desktop computer that has a printer on it (a Samsung CLP510) attached and open to use by others on the WiFi network. When my laptop was using XP I could change the printer pro ...

So I have a server on my home network.this is a VISTA ONLY problem. XP machines have no problem.Situation: I have a network share called "share". with directories... \foo \barVista can see foo, bar, and all of their contents.On the server I renamed 'bar' to 'bat ...

Dear all,I have develop a client application runing on .NEt 2.0 which is running on a Windows 2000. That client application is calling a remote object component hosted in a Windows service ru ...

I deactivated my password list by clicking on "no, and don't ask again" when prompted to save a password to the password list. Now I can't save passwords in Outlook associated with my e.mail accounts. Can anyone tell me how to reactivate the password list feature? Pleas ...

hi just bought 2 x 1gig memory sticks(DDR2 667 1GB X16) same brand and speed. motherboard 775DUAL VISTA with INTEL CORE 2 E6420 2.1 GHZ. using DDR2 667when install both memory the system hangs after 3 minutes or so. but if install one only (either) it works fine. unfortantely i loose DUAL CHANN ...

I just need to know what to fill in the boxes to make my mail work. My mail that I use is nc.rr.com. So, what do I type before that in those 2 boxes to make it work? So far, I have had no luck. Thanks. ...

Hi,I know how to Export/Import OE6 Data on Win.XP, but will someone with the knowhow point me in the direction of instructions on how to Import this Data to Win.Vista Mail please. ...

I have stopped scanning incoming and outgoing mails with Norton, but I'm afraid to delete it before I restore my emails prior to May 10. I tried system restore but that just made matters worse and eliminated the mails totally. ...

When I delete a message in my inbox it comes in my deleted box but there I can't delete it anymore. The headers still remain, but the text is deleted. How can I get a empty deleted box? ...

How do I get Windows Vista to send mail from a hotmail address. ...

When sending new email, the message stays in outbox. Also after pressing send/recieve (all accounts) nothing happens. When closing mail, messages are being send. What can be the problem ...

I have 3 email accounts. With Outlook Express the replies always had the address the original email was sent to in the from line, but Windows Mail is putting the default email account in the from line of the reply.email1 <default> email2 e ...

I�ve imported via Easy Transfer, WinXPSP2 Outlook Express Mail and Contacts. Even with AutoComplete enabled, it does not work Why? What�s happening? ...

Can anyone suggest why sending messages from outlook express cannot be received by Windows mail? It is able to receive messages from other email accounts ie hotmail but can't get anything through from outlook express and the ...

On Windows Vista Ultimate I made a complete backup using the Backup and Restore Center ("Back up computer") to a USB 100Gb portable drive. It w ...

When I was considering to buying a PC with windows vista the first thoughts that came to my mind was everyone telling me that they heard that it isn't good and it breaks programs.... I thought you know what got to give this a try.. So I go ...

I have just installed Vista Home Premium on my computer. The windows look "basic". Is there any way for me to improve my machines graphics without ...

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 clo ...

I us putty to create a secure connectino from my remote windows xp computers to my server then I use the Remote Desktop Connection to connect and run access.If I setup my vista ultimate computer with the same putty file and configurati ...

If Restaurants functioned like Microsoft.... If restaurants functioned like shrinkwrapped (Microsoft) software:Patron: Waiter! Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support Waiter. What seems to be the problem? Patron: There's a fly in my soup! Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won ...

I am trying to install a program from a cd and half way through it crashes and I get the above message, can anyone help will post the message and more info if needed. Thanks ...

I have a Samsung ML 2010 Lazer printer which just wont mount on Vista 64.The error is as follows:THE PRINTER DRIVER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH A POLICY ENABLED ON YOUR COMPUTER THAT BLOCKS NT 4.0 DRIVERS. Please help me, I cannot get my printer to work, I desperately need to print my Re ...

This problem is strange!i have 3 pcs on a home network, network location = network, workgroup = workgroup (this is identical on all pcs)1 vista ultimate (clean install) Desktop which we will call 'A' 1 vista ...

I'm currently running Vista Ultimate 32bit. The other day my Windows Sidebar disappeared. I try to start it and I dont even see the process even popup in task manager. ...

Just got a new CPU an Visa ultimate yesterday. I having trouble downloading anything. I keep getting an error windoe that reads: Internet Explore cannow download site name.Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavaila ...

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I just got a new computer with windows vista which I am fairly new to. I am trying to insert test in the MS paint, but the button is disabled or something and will not let me. Anyone know ...

I installed Vista Enterprise but can not chose from different display options. When I go for the option "install display languages" then I have to browse for the location. But where can I f ...

I have a lap top Acer Aspire 5570 with Win Vista Home Premium. The configuration of the lap top is following: IntelCoreDuo T2250 1,73GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2 Mb L2 Cache IntelGraphics Media Accelerator 950 160 HDD 2Gb DDR2The pr ...

When I first used the Snipping tool and asked it to send to an email recipient, the Windows Mail email client started running the new account wizard. I ran it to completion but I want it to use MS Outlook 2007 which is my default email program. I used the 'default programs' tool to ...

Our site is geared toward people who use computers but don't consider themselves technogeeks. We have now launched a guide called Getting the Most out of Microsoft Vista, the operating system that ships with most new PCs.This guide, like everything on my site is free. Our goal is ...

I'm running Vista x64 with a RAID 0 hard drive array using ICH 7 64bit RAID drivers.Ever since installing, I have been seeing BSODs (multiple different codes) b ...

When i was using Windows Vista beta, everything seemed to work fine. Once I purchased and installed the full version (March 07), my computer slowed a bit. Everytime I use media player, even when ...

I have recently bought a PC that came with Vista Ultimate.I am using a SiemensFujitsu LCD monitor (Scenic P192) and every time I receive a Windows update it causes t ...

windows update downloaded vista drivers for built in sd card reader. I had already installed the vista drivers from the hardware maker prior and they worked. now that windows update installed its own drivers it doesnt work anymore. What can I do to correct this? ive already ...

Does anyone know how to set/change the default for home directories in Vista Home Premium? If so how can it be done?Gordo ...

I am trying to install Vista Ultimate on my current XP Pro machine. I plan on doing a clean install. As I proceed through the installation process I get to the section where I select a hard drive to install Vista too from t ...

I have upgraded my Dell laptop from XP to vista. vista now comes included with microsoft windows media player 11. but i don't know there is something ...

After a bad system crash, I would like to reinstall Windows Vista with a full format, but when I try to reinstall Vista Home Edition it does not give me the option of a full format, just a quick format.Is there a way to perform a full format? ...