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Why does the activity reports for Vista's windows mail not show activity, when I know there was? It says "there are no emails events for this user"...etc. ...

My Vista Game Explorer has stopped working. When I dclick on a game in there now, I get the following error:"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. ...

I have verified that all my account info is correct and that my internet mail works. I have deleted my mail account and rebooted prior to adding a new account with password checked before and after entry (depending on the attempt). While I am able to receive mail, I can not sen ...

Hi, I don't know what I did, but my Task bar/system tray/start menuthat strip that used to always be at the bottem of the screen...always appears on the left side...what happened? Can I return it to the bottem? ...

windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close the program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I use messenger daily ...

I've brought my work laptop (running Windows Vista Ultimate) home and connected it to my home network. I can connect to file shares on the other computers on the home network, but I'm ...

I need to lower the MTU size to 1300 or so to get a network app to work. I've read almost every post on the subject, but none of the advice works (works in XP, but not Vista). Does anyone know how to ch ...

1. I purchased Vista Ultimate and installed on my desktop PC. 2. Used Family plan online and purchased 1 copy (new product key) and installed Vista Home Premium on my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000). 3. Used online upgrade and upgraded my Laptop to Vista U ...

After updating Vista Ultimate with Windows Update, I cant use any of my commands! help...NO! slmgr...NO! even format....NO! Anyone got this problem? (my buddy does) ...

After having made a base image and a couple of followup images, I tried to make another image the other day, only to have the backup stop in the middle (briefly showing a blank screen) and immediately start re ...

I am having several issues with Vista. First, in Itunes, when I am downloading I can no longer resume when the internet connection is interrupted. As I am in Iraq this occurs often. It resets back to zero and restarts. ...

I have bluetooth headset of NIKKAI model # BES005 from maplin electronics. I have successfully paired it with my laptop and I can hear sounds but there is problem with its mic. Though it is properly installed and showing message that bluetooth microphone is working. But infec ...

7.8.5.0 on their website: nero.com/nero7/enu/nero7up.php ...

i upgraded from xp home to vista home basic, the activation key on the cd is not recorgnised, why? ...

Hi, During Vista intallation I divided my HDD (400GB)to 3 partitions, only for 2 partitions I did format and as a result I doesn't see my third HDD in my comuter (I see only C drive 78GB and D drive 244 GB), need your help to recover\find my last part of my HD ...

Just upgraded a Dell laptop (1705) from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. Now we can't get onto the web. It tells us the firewall may be the problem, but with the OneCare firewall turned off it still will not get onto the web. We don't have any other firewall or virus prog ...

I removed the McAfee 90 day trial software that came on my Vista computer, but the Security Center still shows it is running and is uptodate. The McAfee software is ...

In vista mail cannot send background sound, even though it plays in the mesage. Error message is "picture could not be found". Help please! John ...

UAC File Virtualization is enabled as well as UAC File Virtualization logging, yet not a single log entry, despite errors generated by applications attempting to write to P ...

Hello.We have a Cisco VPN 3005 gateway at work.Our remote access clients use the Cisco VPN Client 4.0.5. Clients are Win XP Pro until now a Dell Laptop with Win ...

Very strange, suddenly sound is not working on my creative usb audigy 2nx. I looked in device manager and somehow the default vista driver for my creativ ...

Is there a way to change the gridsize for automatic placement of desktop icons? Perhaps somewhere in the registry? I'd like to cram more stuff on my desktop in an orderly way ;)Cheers! ...

I have Ulead Photo Express, but after uploading it onto Vista I have problems, to do with saving images. Is there an upgrade anyone knows about to make it Vista compatible? On the Ulead site, ...

Hi Just bought Vista with Windows mail, seems to be fine but I can't open the attachments in my Inbox mail, getting a warning message saying "Works was unable to open the project you ...

Hello, We installed the latest Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 on a client machine. Now, when connected to the terminal server, none of the Windows Shortcut Keys work. ...

....along with a nice shiney DX19 graohics card. But wait! Where's DX10? And what about the games when are they coming out? So just HOW long do we have to wait? Methinks MS have mislead me. Isn't that unlawful? Grumps ...

on edit profile click i get script saying error ...

I am unable to access my email using Outlook 2007; I keep recieving the message:Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers. 'reported error (0x80040604) : 'A folder by th ...

The county libraries have an extensive database of eBooks that are available for download. There is a mechanism for licensing the downloads for a 21 day use wh ...

I am planning on giving my PC an overhaul this weekend, just wanted to see if replacing these parts would require me to do anything special besides a safetynet backup beforehand:1. replace MSI K8N Neo4 ...

Ok here my problem....I installed the Creative Sound Blaster XFi Xtreme Audio Sound Card and installed the updated drivers from the Vista driver from the Creative Website.The CD player is fine, however I am unable to use MSN Voice or Skype, in both of these I can hear perfectly, but calle ...

I used HP system recovery to restore my system to original shipped status and I used the backup program in the sytem recovery to backup my data.I have recovered my system but now the backup program, Resto ...

I have just brought an Acer Laptop with Visa Basic installed. It came with a program called Data Execution Prevention installed. It's preventing me from running programs I had no trouble with on xp. I want to know if this is a windows program or one that Acer has ins ...

If I go back to a restore point, are things like Word documents and emails created since the restore point wiped out? Or does Vista preserve these and just adj ...

New install of Vista with installation of all of the latest updates, ATI video driver and wireless network card. Any suggestions or direction to proceed would be appreciated.If I use Shutdown.exe, ...

I have come across lots of people having this problem and believing it was due to Outlook when it's actually due to a Vista setting relative to using one of server types listed above. I put it up here ...

Hello,I have a Toshiba laptop with Vista. I had a shrink problem with the default partition size. I downloaded PerfectDisk to defrag and used BootIt NG to do the job. I noticed then that when using the defrag tool, it told me that the partition (C:) had : 21.23 Mb per blockI had a problem ...

Hi, I have a COMPAQ presario SR2120LA, I have VISTA HOME BASIC and I'm having too many troblems with MSVISUAL BASIC.NET & SQL SERVER 2005, I wanna uninstall V ...

hi, i've been trying to make movies that are in two parts one part by using windows move maker but as soon as i open the program, it instantly crashes and wants to send an error report and all it says is:AppName: moviemk.exe AppVer: 2.1.4026.0 ModName: qedit.dll Mo ...

When listening to music my speakers start to make a crackling sound then fade out and not at loud volume but then I have no sound. I tought it was Windows Media Player so tried Zune Play ...

I hav a new laptop loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. In trying to learn about the new OS, I was attempting to set up network issues, like workgroup, sharin ...

Hey guysOk, I was one of those who was searching frantically for a solution for my wireless connectivity problem after upgrading to Vista. Finally after endless searching, I found the solution. Here are the steps I've taken... ...

Hey, I just installed vista business on my desktop. I found out that all vista builtin games are not installed. So, I went to control panel and programs to open ...

Hi Guys and Gals Some time between last night and this eavening my recycle bin disapeared from my desktop. Can't find it with search. It is still on my pc somewhere because it is listed in windows explorer , and I can open it and has deleted files in it yet. How would I go about fin ...

I'm trying, desparately, to print from my Vista Home Premium laptop to a shared printer on my home wireless network. The shared printer is connected to an XP Home machine. That machine is hardw ...

when I download from my email and try to retrieve the file from a zipped file it tells me that it cannot be opened because format not supported, I have been having so much trouble with this and its very frustrating. I need ...

I use a seperate drive for all of my documents I want to use the Vista documents icon for that drive. Where can I 1) find the document icon 2) change the hard drive icon ...

HELLO PEOPLE...i downloaded ACROBAT READER 8.0 from the acrobat website. After running the executable package , i get an error message : the temp folder is on a drive that is inaccessible.Free up space on the drive or verify that you have write p ...

I have sync'd my iPAQ HX2790 with outlook (2007, running under MS Vista) no problem.I am trying to sync a different iPAQ now, using a different account on Vista. When I set up the device using Windows Mobile Devi ...

how do I change to a single mouse click instead of a double click in vista?I cant seem to find it. ...

I recently bought a computer with two drives in a RAID 1 mirrored state. Later I undid the RAID configuration so they are two separate drives. Id like to reformat the second drive clean and start using it as a new drive ...

Hi hope someone can help, Kind of in a bind, PC hp a730n I installed Vista, everything great worked fine, changed power profile (created a new one) monitor does not go off, computer does not sleep, and disk alway ...

This vista came already pre configured and set itself up with no intervention by me on this HP a1723w. No OS Disk so fiddling beyond is an iffy process at best.It took me some time to add my ...

I upgraded my palm software to 4.1.4e after upgrading to vista. now all that is showing in my hotsync option list are local serial, network, modem and network. Palm can't figure out why there is no usb anybody have any ideas. ...

I guess I downloaded a virus this morning and vista started freaking out. I suddenly could not access Internet Explorer. A scan came up with information on what had happened and how to get rid of it, however I had to purchase that software in order to do s ...

I recently did a complete backup using vista backup and restore then I reinstalled vista premium but when I go to backup and restore it says cannot access ...

I am looking to buy a laptop and eventually upgrade to Ultimate. Must I have a dedicated video card? I am looking at a system w/core2 duo 2Gz processor and 2 GB of memory. Thanks! ...

HelloI have upgraded from XP to Vista but I have no games and no screensavers.I had no sound but managed to get a Realtek driver to work.Anyone got any ideas...any at all.Vista won't give an option to install extra features... Cheers ...

i have a desktop with intel GH965HW motherboard with VISTA installed. 2gb ram(ddr2) all of a sudden windows media player11 has stopped playing wav files selectively. on trying to play files not supplied with vista it says "system is low in memory a ...

Is it possible to add my Downloads folder after the Games item to the right side of the Start menu? This would be very convenient. ...

neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39284Bink is reporting that on Tuesday April 10, 2007 Microsoft plans to release the following updates as part of its Patch Tuesday cycle.Security Updates: The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable usi ...

I bought an OEM version of Home Premium.I like to format my harddrive every couple of months and reload.Will I be able to reinstall Vista multiple times?James ...

I'm a big fan of firewire and I'm looking to buy a HD capable firewire TV tuner for my PC, preferably something that might be compatible with Vista, or if not Vista, at least WinXP Media Center Edtion. I've seen a few firewire boxes using google but ...

Hello MS Gurus. I am having a heck of a time decrypting the new sysprep process for vista and could really use some help. My envirionment consists of Vista as a guest on VPC 2007. I am TRYING to use Wi ...

Hi all, 1. I just bought a new PC with Vista Home premium. It does not allow me to access the accounts section in the Control Panel (nothing happens) or the Parental control sec ...

Ok, I little trick that I've used on every version of Windows that had a toolbar "Quick Launch" feature, doesn't seem possible with Vista.The trick, I like to place a history toolbar on the taskbar. In pre ...

Can anyone tell me where Media Center stores the TV recordings it makes? Thanks in advance ...

I can download the music that was already loaded into my computer into my mp3 player, but I cannot download anything I get from the internet. I always get an error notice. Thanks ...

since loading vista, I've noticed that all the album art from my music folder has been added to the picture library a bit odd when you set it on slideshow! Anyone know of a way round this? ...

hi is vista vista compatible with novell border manager 3.7, this firewall in nnon upnp.thanksDidier ...

I am new to Vista (like most humans), but I've been messing with computers since the TRaSh80 days. I am finding it frustration for Microsoft to be telling me that I do not have permission or access to a file or Folder, when it's in MY computer. I've heard the st ...

After unsuccessfully trying to find a tech support email address of verizon wireless and then having waited for over 45 minutes on the tech support line of verzon wireless (while listening to an endless barrage of sales pitches), I am getting fed up w ...

I got a message that said Windows Mail can not connect to webbased emails. What other type of emails are there? ...

When I create a new message and go to my contacts (address book) the names seem to be sorted at random and there's no way I can get them sorted alphabetically. Am I the only one ...

Now that I am using Vista and Windows Mail Every time I try to open a .pdf file attachment it says no program associated. However, when I look at my program associations it is clearly set to open with Ad ...

where do you obtain the .csv file info to complete a exporting / importing of a address book? I've looked everywhere that I can think of. I'm stumped. ...

I have had 16 emails stuck in my inbox for the past week. Since I am going to be stuck with them for a very long time, I have decided they are my email friends.I took the snippet "If I coul ...

Hi, I'm using the windows mail under Vista with gmail acount. It works fine for send and recevie emails except that I cannot see emails I sent to my self.Does anyone knows this problem or know ...

While I do not know how this "Event Log Online Help" is meant to work, I do know that when I tried to go to microsoft.com/Windows/Help/Event manually, the webpage displayed the following. "We're sorry, but there is no Microsoft.com Web page that matches your entry. It ...

This may not be the proper way to report a bug at this time for Vista, but I cannot find a link to do so. I was a beta tester for Windows 2000 and XP, but am now retired. I just purchased a new system with Vista installed and have started to set it up.The probl ...

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All, I saw the past posts regarding finding downloaded files, but didn't see anything in them that answered the question and was wondering if there's been any update on the situation. My specific problem: downloaded a demo version of Acrobat 8. The download was handled through some downl ...

why cant i go back to XP...vista is the suck! This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote fo ...

I bought a Vista Ultimate OEM system builder pack (not upgrade) for my home/family computer. I have a corrupt XP and my Internet Explorer will not work. (I already tried updating) The package k ...

Can I use Real or maybe Quicktime video as dreamscene? .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. linuxsxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.20.6 ^ ^ 14:27:01 up 1 day 21:18 0 users loa ...

Crosspost from shell: revealed, shellrevealed.com/forums/thread/6856.aspxClicking in the details pane of an Explorer window sometimes does not activate the window. If the window that is clicked on is beneath another, it will not rec ...

I've been trying to get my remote working with Vista for a while and still cant' figure out what the problem is. Its detected by Vista, drivers are installed, and I can even use the remote for certain functions (play, pause, stop, etc). I can't, however, use volume control, channel ...

I bought this computer about a year ago, and it doesnt have a sticker that says Windows Vista Compatable. I ran the upgrade advisor, and the only thing it says I need is more ram. So I bought more ram, and was wondering if I need to update the BIOS. Thanks for your help! ...

Just purchased new toshiba laptop with vista home basic. Having major problems staying connected. Screen says it's connected, with excellent coverage. Error scre ...

Using Vista Home Premium and want to give myself Administrator privileges. When I choose to change my account type from Standard to Administrator, the "change ...

Auto Update downloaded a driver update. Failed to install. Error message 80070103 that driver not compatiable with system. On reboot, system does not start and have to use the restore point. How can I eliminate t ...

When I try to install the Cisco VPN client on Vista, I get a message saying: Error in custom action. The Library C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\{B5CB09552A4342F4A44F5C2BFC52 ...

Hallo!I've installed Office 2007 on my Windows Ultimate system. Because I need to use both Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail I want to search both, but Windows Desktop Search doesn't recognize Windows Mail as data sourceAny ideas? Outlook 2007 items can be found, but ...

Hi I just posted this but it has not come up in the groups even after 3 hours. so resposting..I have a silly question on vista. I have a .bat file calling an .exe file both in the same directory in vista, but every time i right click the .bat file and ask it to "run as adm ...

A 300mb folder with many files will take seconds to copy to a flash drive in XP but minutes in Vista? Why is that?amenx ...

When burning an image file with IMG Burn, it sometimes happens that it just stops after starting the burn. Sometimes it resumes but not allways. Today this happened again and my HD led was flashing like c ...

I have just upgraded all our PCs to Vista and now sometimes I wish I hadn't bothered.Despite the fact that all our PC's are now brand new Vista 'Originals', everything seems much slower than with XP. The constant nagging screens to confirm this and that (yes I know yo ...

Hi all when i execute disk cleanup i can see a lot of Kbs of error files ready to be sent to MS how can i force the send instead deleting them ? SaludosAntonio ...

OK, so I finally figured out what my problem was with the event viewer service not starting. It is a severe permissions problem. I granted administrator ownership to the win32\logs folder. For whatever reason, t ...

I just switched my mouse from an MS Wireless Explorer 2 to a MS Wireless Laser 6000 mouse. I was already using Intellipoint 6.1. Everything works great but my system w ...

Hello,Is there some .dat file or whatever that holds the play count details, ratings, last date played etc. etc. that I can copy for when I do a reformat? I know it's not exactly mission critical but I would like to hang on if possible to my ...

[Win Vista Ultimate 32bit]Is there any way to find out what portion of my memory address space is free, or how much has been used up?Essentially I want to find my system's maximum amount of addressable physical RAM, before ...

I've got a system here that won't launch the Vista installer..It'll boot from the CD and it gets as far as displaying the Vista wallpaper (the blue/green type wall paper) but the installer never la ...

I have a new laptop with Vista, but I liked the old Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard from Windows XP a ZILLION times better than the import options given in Vista. The new wizard is entirely too restrictive.I want to put pictures into a predetermine ...

I am having a huge problem with my pc connecting to the XBOX. I connect wired via the PC. I have tried direct connection but this also fails, i can ho ...

Whenever I'm trying to open the event viewer the following error appears: MMC could not create the snapin. The snapin might not have been installed correctlyName: Event ViewerCLSID:FX:{b05566adfe9c4363be057a4cbb7cb510} I also tried to create a new MMC console ...

I just had a highend PC built for me with the Vista O/S.I installed BattleField2 and the 1.41 full patch.BF2 runs great, but when I try to reboot the system, it hangs and will NOT come up.I created a System Restore point just prior to the install and did a restore after failing to boot properly ...

Senders addresses from incoming email are automatically placed in my contacts. Is there a way to keep that from happening? I want the option to decide whether or not I want to save the address. Thanks in advance ...

Hi, I recently got a new computer with vista home premium. The total hard drive space I am using is 130 GB including all of my data and any system files. I have a 450 GB external HD plugged in that I would like to use as my backup device. Through the Vista maintenance menu I selec ...

Hello everyone,I have just loaded Vista and my computer will go into sleep mode on it's own even though I have told it not to.This has got me stumped.AMD Anthlon 64 FX 55 2 QB Ram ...

I want to add text and other special effects to photos like you would do in Acrobat. Is there a way to do that in Vista? I looked on my computer and didn't find anything. ...

I did upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista Home Premium, my question is Windows Vista create a special folder to keep files from the previous OS. If ye ...

I'm an admin on my box. When I click the Documents and Settings folder, I get a message that it is not accessible and access is denied. Has anyone gotten this and knows a fix?Thanks, Brett ...

Hello, I just upgraded from windows XP to Vista Ultimate. I am having a very hard time connecting a second monitor/TV to work together, "mirror" When I connect my TV ...

The Vista PC on my metwork shows other Vista PCs on the LAN, but does not show the XP's. The XP's do show in the network map (I do have the LTTD patch installed on the XPs) ...

I lost a couple of fonts from the original control panel font folder. How can I restore my original fonts in Vista? ...

Can anyone tell me what I can do to make my Windows Vista Home Premium run Quickbooks? I am always getting an error message and then it closes down. It is driving me crazy cause when it closes down it won't save my e ...

I started a drag and drop of just over 200gb of movies from a 250gb PATA in an external firewire box to a new 500gb SATA running at 3ghz.Estimated duration of transfer was 2 hours, 20 minutes and that seems to be fairly accurate.That comes d ...

Hi I think I pressed something by accident and now when i connect my smartphone (TYTN) it connects to the media centre and doesnt sync my files and stuff.I know somewhere there is a proper sync but I cant get it to workPlease help it is ...

Hi i am a big time klutz when it comes to computers. my question is does anyone know if norton goback 4.0 is compatible with vista yet? its help me in the past i am thinking on buying it i have widows vist ...

I once found the way to activate the Administrator Account but now I can't remember where? Can someone please help?Thanks very much. ...

The following error message occurs while trying to upgrade from xp to Vista. I have tried (3) different DVD drives all with the same result. The Vista DVD is brand new, no issue with it. No issues on my computer, just the simply fact that Mircr ...

I just activated my Vista and my pda will no longer sync. Any suggestions? Harry ...

I have a VGA Leadteck GeForce4 TI 4200 agp 2x/4x 128mb ddr video card. Is this card suitable for Vista Home Premium aero, etc? Ultimate? tia ...

Right now I am using the onscreen keyboard to type this... I have had this problem before, not so long ago, and I decided to reinstall my entire computer. ...

Hey guys,I have a brandnew Dell Optiplex 745 with Windows Vista Ultimate. I'm trying to get it to drive three monitors.For this purpose, I've bought: a Gigabyte ATI Radeon X1650 PCI Express card with 2 DVI outputs an EVGA eGeFoce FX 5500 PCI card with 1 DVI outputAfter turning off ...

I set up vista on both my laptop and PC and opened media player only to find i could remotely share files (i'm a bit slow).I then spent the best part of 2 hours trying to get it to work.bo ...

Hi! I just recently started to get the logon Vista Mail window asking for username & password everytime I run Windows Mail. This happened to me today, after a long time I've installed Vista x64 Business. Even when checking "Remember Crede ...

How do I specify a message rule with a space on the end.That is, I want "XYZ " The three letters 'X', 'Y', and 'Z' followed by a space. Bill ...

Header download for the 'mail' folder did not complete. Could not select 'mail' on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folder list to synchronize with the IMAP server. Account: 'mail.noisecontrolpublishing.com', Server: 'mail.noisecontrolpublishing.com', Protocol: IMAP, Server Respon ...

Hello.I am trying to make my USB Bluetooth Adapter (class 1 with a range of up to 100 meters) work with Vista. Vista installs the Generic driver but this driver has no profil ...

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I am not a fan of the Navigation Pane in Windows Explorer. Every time I open Windows Explorer I have to go to Organize/Layout and uncheck Navigation Pane. Is there a way I can control how Explorer opens so I don't have to do that every time? Thank you ...

Hello,I'm thinking of upgrading from WinXP to Vista.But I'm not sure if programs for XP, which I currently use, can also run well under Vista.Can they? ...

using windows vista... tried to disable one program and disabled all of them. How do i enable programs again. ...

Is there a driver for DLink's WUA 1340 USB wireless adapter that works with Windows Vista? I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit. ...

every time i go into the computer and click on acer or data section of hard drive com surrogate comes up stating it has stopped working can some one help ...

Hi,My question is pretty much in the subject. All I need to know is if hard drive space can be used as memory as I heard this may be possible. Thank youb ...

I posted this on the general discussion board as well.I have a new Panasonic PVGS300 mini dv camcorder which I purchased in December, 4 months before I purchased my ...

Hi, W. Vista recognized and downloaded the driver for my Genius Videocam Messenger but when i open messenger to configure the cam it only shows a blank screen, how can i fix it? thanks ...

Just got new PC with Vista Ultimate. Transferred my classic ASP program over and can connect fine to the site and the Access database (thanks to your IIS7 forum). But I can't get my session variables to set i ...

if I install the version of movie maker 2.6 for non aero that is made for non aero vista computers (HERE)microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6ba5972328e4df78f9d068fc0f80cfc&DisplayLang=en#Requirementsand then at som ...

I cannot get Vista working with VPN. Specifically, I can't connected to a XP Home VPN from Vista. It just keeps verifying user name and password for a few minutes, then fails. Any ideas? ...

When I "right click" a picture that is stored on my computer and then click "sent to" and then "mail recipient", I get a window asking what size I want to send the picture. I then pick the size and a new window comes up and says " No profiles ...

Two updates show up as failed. They are: KB929399 and KB932246, both from March 15. Is there any way I can try to reinstall them? Thanks very much. ...

Thank you Hartfree for the information on the Narrator. Like everyone else, I tried out the Narrator and couldn't get it to turn off. I searched help as well as the microsoft website and still c ...

ik heb een Medion laptop aangeschaft bij Aldi met Vista en Media Center. Ik probeer met behulp van de bijgeleverde kaart tv stations te ontvangen maar krijg bij zoeken naar kanalen steeds de melding er zijn geen kanalen gevonden. Toen ik vorige week in Duitslan ...

Could any one help me? About 2 weeks ago I havent been able to download anything. I've tried everything from restoring to reset IE7 but nothing is helping. Been using Help & Support but cant find anything ...

I upgraded to vista home premium from xp mce 2005 and made the mistake of entering the validation key. The upgrade was very buggy, so i decided to do a clean install of vista. Now, when ...

Anybody have any idea why my aero isn't working in Vista. I have a gig of RAM and a 250mb video card. Thanks ...

Is there a way to force Vista to save a previous version of a file while you're making and saving changes to a file?I was modifying an image file. Saved it. And then I proceeded ...

Hi all, I'm trying to figure this out, Whenever i push Shift, or alt or Ctrl, a little window pops up, near the top of the screen that says "Shift" ...

I have an HP 8250, and on my XP machine I had option (In photoshop) to pick profile for paper/printer combo, and the results (calibrated monitor) were very very close. But now that I had to buy a new computer with Vista. The printer drivers/profiles did not work. HP had a limited ...

Windows Vista Home, 30gig harddrive Ipod. If I plug in the IPOD it causes Itunes to freeze (stopped responding). Once I unplug the IPOD everything goes immediately back to normal.Thoughts?Sean ...

Hi folks, I just got a Motorola H670 wireless headset, it works fine with my phone but I really want to use it for Speech Recognition in Vista. I haven't found drivers to make it work as a mic. The bluetooth headset is recognized ...

I did the configuration of my new Vista Home Basic PC using Easy Transfer, form my old one. Actually I need to undo this action reestablishing the original configuration. How can I do it ? thanks Marc ...

I bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite A135s2276 with Atheros AR5006x wireless network adapter. The system only connects to about 50% of the wireless networks that I attmept to connect to. For example, Hampton Inn wireles works great, next door at a S ...

I am not seeing the "all users" profile in Visata that was always in XP. Were did it go? Or, where do I put shortcuts I want to show up on all desktops?Thanks,Kerry ...

New Acer laptop. Everyting ok for setup and minor installs, shutdown for night. Boot this mourning, put in password and this "The Group Policy Client service failed the logon. Access is denied." An ...

I can not empty "deleted items" folder or delete items indvidualy. I believe I already deleted these items but "Windows Mail" did not rempve them from the list of items. I cannot display ...

Have installed Windows Live Mail Desktop and it works fine but I still have the old Windws Mail as well. Should I uninstall the old version I cant see a eason for it to be there now I have the new Live mail. Anyone any ideas please regards eddie ...

When I go to delete messages in the deleted items on my email. it says there is an error: message cannot be read. It then proceeds to tell me to check for low memory (which I do not have low memory). HELP! ...

I recently purchased my Dell PC with Vista Home Premium. I am always connected to internet w/DSL.When I open Windows Mail it will not connect w/server,I must close WM and reopen.It will then connect a ...

Is there anything that can be done to speed up the file processes Move, Copy, Delete. They take about twice as much time as they did on XP64. Its like Vista is thinking about what to do its painful. This is after upgrading to a Quad processor, a 10K Raptor drive, and 4GB of R ...

I am able to send and receive faxes using Windows Fax and Scan when my computer is running. However, my computer does not wake up from sleep mode to receive faxes. I believe Vista Ultimate is supposed to wake up on receiving a fax. Do I need to configure anythin ...

Hi,Bought a computer with Vista Ulitmate 32bit OEM installed. Love it, great OS. However for future proofing, are there any incentives for us owners to move to 64bit?Links, articiles etc appreciated.Thanks in advance.smithy ...

Is it true that windows xp will be phased out within 2 years, if it is true will people still be able to get updates after the 2 years. Shame I think windows xp was a great OS. And is it true that wi ...

Boy, How do I explain this so that you all understand what actually happened since I really don't KNOW WHAT happened. Well, I'll give it my best shot. Let me begin by with a little background. Currently I have a s ...

When I want to shutdown Vista with the on/off button the computer is turned off right away.Vista isn't logging off and shutting down.You get the same effect if you hold down the powerbutton for more t ...

Hi I just got a new Dell desktop with Windows Home Premium, and have some questions.1. Is there a s/w compatibility list floating around? I would like to load VB6 among other programs, and was wondering what i ...

Hey,I just installed Vista on my computer and something went wrong. Not sure if it was me, or vista itself. I was trying to make a folder on my external harddrive private for me, so users on the standard account could not access it.S ...

I have motherboard ASUS P2WDG2WS with MARVELL 88SE6141 SATA II controller. When I install VISTA 64 Ultimate I can't find the driver for my motherboard's controller.I have checked ASUS and Marvell websites and can't find one that will install (they all say SATA RAID driver and these wil ...

Due to making things a bit neater on my computer I somehow managed to delete my Default user. With the help of someone here (to solve my Update problem) we recreated the Default user and my Update problem went away.How can I recreate al ...

Just upgraded to Vista Premium. System is 1 year old Self Build with AMD Dual 4200 and ASUS A8NSLI, Nvidia 7600 X 2, Audigy 2. (To bad nvidia did not write drivers for the SLI). I did install on a brand new WD 10,000 RPM drive. It was a snap, compared to XP on this hardwa ...

Is there a way to tell Windows it should only connect to preferred networks, like you can in XP?Although I have an excelent connection to my own (secured) wireless access point, Wind ...

I have an issue with Vista reconnecting to wireless networks.There are several wireless networks that I use both at work and at home. None of these networks broadcasts their SSID. I have set up each of these networks manually in my network center. When I ...

When attempting to open Attachments get notice that "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this function. Create an Association in the Set Assoc. Control Panel". Cannot find Association Control Panel. Not certain what to enter when I d ...

Hello there guys. All the received mail in Windows Mail go into the Inbox folder, and, no matter how many mail accounts you have (I have six), they all get together with no division/organization. Does anybody know how we ...

I have Vista Ultimate installed and then installed Kubuntu as a dual boot setup...all went sweet and I followed the instructions from a Linux dual boot site and I would deffo recommend Kubuntu as a dual boot with Vista, I am a total novice with Linux so I'm having a play about with it, i ...

I am trying to allow the Username:Password@www.webpage.net login to password protected web pages. In IE6 the registry key was the way to gain this ability as follows:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE] & ...

i just bought a laptop with windows vista home premium, and when i am playing world of warcraft, or watching a movie on my dvd player the screen goes black and then a message appears saying that there was a prob ...

Is Silverlight meant to replace Flash and (or) Java? I uninstalled Java and Flash, installed Silverlight...but websites tell me I need to install Adobe Flash. ...

Possible driver issues aside, what other drawbacks are there from running the 64 bit OS?Does Windows 64 still run my 32 bit programs? Can I install office and Visual Studio? What about a 32 bit versio ...

The folder c:\windows\winsxs uses a lot of disk space in my PC (~4gb)How to reduce it. Help me. Is the data in it vital for my PC to run ...

Hi All,If someone has found a way of getting your contacts on the same page in Vista mail like you could in Outlook Express I would be eternally gratefull. I k ...

This is my second post at this from a few days back hoping somebody can answer me.On all my drives I have two strange named folders in the root directory. Something like D:\0fa08d9c08ef5fa0d75624c377b0790a Clearly they are something related to Vista/Security. If as an administrator ...

The 64bit browser freaking drives me nuts with its constant security pop ups to install flash or whatever it is over and over. ...

I have an Apple MacBookPro that is partioned for both Mac OS and Windows Vista Ultimate, I use an Apple bluetooth mouse, when I boot my system in Vista partition the computer will not sync with my mouse, I have to remove it from bluetooth and rein ...

I plan on upgrading my motherboard, CPU, and graphics card. Since I am changing the mobo and cpu, i will have to reformat my hd. but my version of vista is a Home Prem upgrade disc. When I ...

I am trying to upgrade my Windows XP to Vista Business but after a lengthy process of checking compatibility the setup program claims I have DeskView installed on my Fujitsu A7640 laptop and wants me to uninstall it before installing Vista. I think ...

Hi,Before I waste a DVD. When you use DVD Maker to make a slide show of Photos on a DVD, will you be able to add more photos to the DVD after you burn the project later on or is it once you burn that's it?Thank you, ...

I am trying to make a DVD of my daughter's Kindergarten play. I can add the ..vob file to the menu, but when it shows up it only recognizes the first 8 seconds of the file.How do I get the ...

i can have a video call with my contacts but they can't hear me and i can't hear them either.What could the problem be?please am getting so frustrated i want to take it back to the shops today.I have a logitech webcam and the pics are brilliant but NO SOUND!! When i ch ...

14th May 2007Running Vista Ultimate, my PC has 2 network cards. 1 is connected to my wireless router, and second one to office network. The problem is that every system restart, my ...

Just added a laptop to our home network the Vista Home laptop is wireless and the two desktops (one Vista Ariel, the other XP Home) are connected by cable through the wireless rou ...

Hello,I have a WM5 based device (HTC Wizard) and Vista Ultimate x64 on my desktop. I would like to share my dialup Internet connection over wifi.Using conncetion createor I made proper setting so desktop works as a gateway (192.168.0.1). I tested the setting using my laptop with Windows XP (IP ...

Hi, Can I deactivate my legal, genuine version of Winows Vista on my old computer, to be able to use it on my new computer?If not, you could guess how I'd feel about that....Bye, Keno ...

It wasn't so much a game as it was a facinating simulation of AI. There used to be a program that let you pick out any number of musical instruments and the computer would put together a song intelligently using those instruments. It was a lot of fun to play around with but i ...

My favorite gameing controller for RTS games. But it wont install on vista, and Microsoft dont support old products.The issue.Installation consists of 2 parts 1 software installation (runs smoothly) 2 Driver / Device setup (cant connect with soft ...

Windows mail (Vista) used to work fine for both my accounts. Since a couple of days I am no longer able to send email from my standard account. Sending email fro ...

Why do I get duplicate mail in my inbox? Happens all the time! Tom in Ohio ...

Hey Guys,I have gone from Vista to XP, my mail client has changed from "Windows Mail" to OLE. I have backed up all of my emails from "Mail" and was hoping to import the messages into OLE. I am having problems when trying to import them.I have tried importing them (File > ...

I can't recieve emails with Windows mail but I can send Mail. I have vista home installed. With my laptop(XP Home) all works fine. Please can You help me!! ...

When I open mail it sends and receives. Later I open mail and it gives me an uknown error. I restart my computer then I can check for more mail. HCC ...

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Mail.If I have an email open for reading in the viewing window (not the preview pane) and I forget that it is open when I shut down the computer, then W ...

I have completed an upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Business. Outlook will not open and states the above message. Retry no result Cancel Outlook closesSo I went to Control Panel, Mail, Email accounts and the same message was displayed.Out ...

I can't use my msn account with Windows Mail... WHY??? ...

This question has been asked before and recently. I've followed the advice but still have the problem and am confused.I get a message "Windows Mail could not be started, initialize junk filtering ...

The only Dictionaries available on Windows Vista Business are: English, Spanish, German and French Where is the BrazilianPortuguese dictionary? ...

Is this possible? I have tried 'windows easy transfer', but allthough it indicated this could be done, I could not find a way. Ideally I would like to be able to use one computer as an 'email receiver' and be able to import newer emails into the secon ...

Hi,I have just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and have noticed some performance issues in comparison with Windows XP, where everything works fine. CPU usage reaches 100% percent even if there is almost no activity. When I start an application CPU usage of that proc ...

I am triyng to install a USB Lexmark 810, and it looks ok after the setup, with no errors ( I have rebooted also). Will not print. The error message is :"Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print troubleshooter for assisrance?Operation comple ...

Hello All: I have a wireless router that is wired to one computer with xp on it and connects wireless to a laptop that's running Vista. Connects fine both access inte ...

I just noticed this yesterday, so presume it has not been happening before this when I restart my computer running Vista, upon restart the folders which I had open are still ...

I have two Windows updates that Vista keeps saying are available. I tell windows to download the updates and install. I have autoupdate on. The downloads for both fail with the following error number, '800736CC' and '80246005' ...

I would love to have a very small utility to display images on my desktop, with no controls other than the ability to open, move, resize and close them. I don't want ANY bord ...

Help I have lost my start button icon My start button is there and works but it has no icon on it ...

I have an ultimate install with the microsoft remote and a TV tuner by hauppauge. The setup worked fine execept for the occational lockup but now I tried to set it up again by running th ...

Although I have never had a problem with live messenger on vista I keep reading here people saying that they do have problemsperhaps the most courageous of them might want to sign up for the new 8.5 beta th ...

I have an old Dell Dimension 8200 (original P4 2.26Ghz, 512MB Rambus RAM, nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB, 2 HD one 80GB and one 60GB), bought in Aug 2002 with WinXP Pro.Suddenly I realized that I would like to test d ...

I have a whole partition dedicated to my pagefile, and it has the barely minimum left of free space. I keep getting the low disk space notification for it, is there any way to disable it? I've tried the XP registry approach, with no luck... ...

I just installed Vista on my computer and I'm having trouble using a program because of this error:"Log in has failed. Error 3280: This is not your fault. Contact yo ...

Hi all,I have just purchased a new HP Notebook with Vista Home Premium installed, but I am having problems finding out how to connect online in 1 easy proces ...

I dragged and dropped an mdb file from a folder I call Data Files which is the Documents folder that I moved the location to. But the properties of the Star Menu ite ...

I started getting this error message about every other time I boot up my pc since 6/1/07. I have no idea how it started popping up. Anyone with any ideas what on earth this means or how to resolve it? Log Name: Application Source: WerSvc Date: 6/2/2007 8:45:40 PM E ...

after installing opera originally, it had file associations for .mht and ..mhtml files. the association then dissappeared. i tried reassociating those extensions, but vista would not let me. i tried doing it in control panel/default programs/associate a fil ...

I have been using Vista since the Beta version and extremely happy, one question which I've been meaning to ask for a long time is regarding the Disk Defragmentation tool.When I go to defrag, it doesn't ...

I've had this problem for awhile on my HP Pavilion a1450n. Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Periodically, usually 1 to 1 1/2 days, my DSL connection will disconnect out of the blue. I have a wireless connectio ...

After Remoting to my Vista Business PC, I got on it locally and the whole desktop was black. I had to reboot and once I signed in, I know have black boxes showing where the folder icon shou ...

It might not seem releated to this newgroup at first.. but keep reading...(this is mostly for regular users of this newsgroup, who know who is who)Enjoy....Did you get the monkey brain?YES!Is it fresh?Very! I have it on ice for n ...

How do I add a destination to the 'send to' menu?Thanks, AL ...

I solved the driver installtion problem as follow. 1) The Kaparsky antivirus removed a necessary file in the system although it admitted afterward it is not infected. It was windows\syswow64\se ...

Hi all,It appears that I'm one in a growing number of people with this problem, so I figured I may as well jump in! I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate an ...

OK, Tim,Now, let me get this straight: the tuner IS VISTA CERTIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!!! but no functionality at all. From the recent analysis of the situation, it might b ...

Hi. I've been running my machine with XP Pro with a two 320Gig SATA Raid and with two different sized SATA disks(non RAID).Anyways, Two days ago I installed Vista Ultimate to my machine. Installation went just fine, it asked for the RAID ...

Does Vista work as well with Mozilla and Netscape? Are IE7 addons or plugins completely functional? Thanks. ng ...

I'm trying to import an M3U file to movie maker but I get an error message that the class isn't registered. I was wondering if it's possible to change the format. I'm not very "computer literate" s ...

Recent I build a new system and all the drivers were loaded into the Vista basic. When I plug in (normally the green colour port/jack) my ear piece there is sound but when I change into ...

Hi all,I'm a newbie in networking, but had been able to hook up my 2 XP PCs at home about 5 years ago and been happy ever since. I just purchased a new Vista PC. I removed one of the ...

I have a Netgear wireless router wired to a Desktop computer and a Laptop with Vista. I am able to network the two computers when no security is used over the network (Open) but w ...

HelloI am using Vista Home Premium. At the User Login Screen, where I have 3 accounts set up, when I selevt my admin account (or any account for that matter) the login fails. Windows fails to ask for a password, the mouse shows the "loading" animation "donut" and acts if i ...

Hi, I've also been using windows mail for a month or two, and now find that as of 25th May I can receive but not send mail. All sent mail shows as sent, moves to the sent items folder but does not arrive. I can't send to mysel ...

I know my servers to use in Windows Mail, however, when I set it up it worked fine I got all my emails. Then it kept giving me an error message about my pop and smtp servers, but it still gives me my incoming mail. However, I ...

Hi, I have a question.I recently purchased a new computer and tried to set up my Windows Email (with vista windows) I need the name of the incoming email server and outgoing email ...

I can open mail sent to me, but when I complete a new email, and type in the dialogue window, mail frezes and enters text very very very very slowly. If I type some text it might take 3 or 4 m ...

Trying to work through solutions re: 'recovered messages keeps expanding every time I log in to mail'. Moved everything to a sub directory in documents. Went back to mail to delete all entries (felt safe to do so as I thought I now had ...

I have try to add LDAP setting, I use import to put it from my Outlook 2003 to it, but it is not working, I have check with my IT colleague, he said it must change some setting on registry, is it right? if yes, I have another question ...

Hello I have a very irritating problem,the mail is stuck in the deleted items folder and no matter what I do I cannot delete those messages. Very annoying and frustrating!The WMUtil doe ...

When going to mail and more on my computer, I have no information on old or new email. The folders are blank not even any writing indicating inbox, outbox, or junk mail is not there. Help me!!!!!!!!!!!! ...

I posted a question on 6507. I was never able to actually see it there, yet I have received a message in my email box which says someone has replyed to my question... subject line....."Can't send email after (d ...

i've tried to make a mailaccount with my name in but it wont work, can somebody help me with this one??thx grtz ...

My old system used WINXP updated daily. The Outlook Express was the latest version of 6.0.My motherboard died, so I trotted out my newest computer running VISTA Home Premium, but no ...

amd64 3000 3gb ram 512gb video ram 160 gb sata hard drive vista premiumI have upgraded from 1.5 bg ram to 3 gb and it only see's 2, what do I need to do to get the use of it all ...

Hi, I have a Lexmar 7170 printer. It's attached to the family computer running Windows XP Home. Other printers in the network can connect and print without a problem. However, I can't get my Vista Home Premium notebook to connect to the printer. ...

Anyone found a Vista compatible replacement for the free multiple file renaming utility, Multiren, from www.pcmag.com/. Running it under Vista crashes Windows Explorer. Doug ...