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Hi, On most program i try to open are change the preference status vista says i havent got administrator rights even thou its my computer and there is only one account. How can i stop this from happening once and for. I am using ...

Hey there, anyone know how to run a command from CMD in elevated mode (or whatever it's called..!)For example, how would I run SFC /SCANNOW with elevated permissions direct from the command line? I can't be bothe ...

i downloaded WarCraft 2 off of the Microsoft Marketplace for free. when i played the game i get this pop up...."This system does not support fullscreen mode. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". now i want to know how to fi ...

with my xp, i was able to read a foreign language in my yahoo email. how do i do the same with my vista. thanks. ...

I have 2 computers with Windows Vista and Windows Calendar. I want to store my Calendar file on my Y Drive (which is my NAS device) and accessible by BOTH computers. Both co ...

hi communityfirst of all i wanna let you know that i am using the german vista but maybe you can help me.after i sent an email, it stayed in the "outgoing". i tried to delete it but it says "unknown failure" everytime.the ...

How do I get the BCC line to appear (along with To: CC: and Subject, on the new message screen?It used to do this with Outlook Express. ...

I've just imported a load of emails, folders and contacts from Outlook and although the folders are visible in Windows mail (and indicating the number of unread items) the messages are not visible.Has anyone got a fix for this? ...

I've made my subject a keyword string to match my problem and to hopefully help others with the same problems as me. Excuse group cross posting but I've posted this where I have found others discussing power managment issues. ...

what does it mean when your diagnostics reports, in the warning part says the average disk queue is 1.093 and the disk may be at it's maximum transfer capacity due to throughput and disk seeks ...

Around a month ago, my computer was getting random bsods and made weird noises. I ran memtest86 and found a bunch of errors, so I thought it was the ram and replaced it ...

I have been trying to update by Laptop with MS Vista and an error messege pops after searching reading Windows could not search for new updates with Code 80072F76. The Get help feature does not have the code error explain ...

hello im trying to install a windows xp ( pcdj ) programme into windows vistait gets so far then stops can anyone help thankyou ...

What is the difference between the Microsoft Community "microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup "microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server "news.microsoft.com&qu ...

I have one Intel Gigabit network adapter, but in addition to this one legitimate network adapter, I find an additional five listings under "Network Adapters" in my Device Manager, all of which have exclamation points. The first one that showed up was "isatap.sbcglobal.net.& ...

Hello Everyone,I have a question and hopefully someone can help.I used to use IrfanView with XP but with Vista I am (or trying to) use the builtin Photo Gallery. The issue I am having is that when I import images from my camera via a memory card, I ...

from Ipswicht I can't access to admin of the dsl router (192.168.1.1) with Vista Bussiness. No problem with other sites. Also I tried with Filezilla and same problem, false login. Any idea? Thanks. ...

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I go to a lotus notes web site for my work email. When I wen there the first time after recieving my new laptop with windows vista home premium, the activ ...

I just purchased a hp computer which has the vista pre loaded on it. Great machine. I have a question, how do I change that awful gray that comes up for the menus? Thanks. Catherine. ...

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On xp I could change mouse to single click but can't find that option on vista. Any help out there? ...

I have a home network that has a Vista laptop, a Windows 2000 desktop and a desktop that I just upgraded from XP Home to Vista Home Premium, which would be considered the "server" of the workgroup. The newly upgraded Vista desktop is conne ...

After manually invoking Sleep or Hibernation on a Dell Dimension 8400 with Home Premium, the broadband cable connection is lost after the computer wakes. It ...

My Windows Vista Business does connect to my server which has windows server 2003 remotely. Please help ! ...

Hey When you uninstall some thing it brings up a lil pop up sayin are u sure you want ot uninstall this nt here is a lil tick box to click and it says to never c this again tick this some thing along those likns w ...

After upgrading to Vista Home Premium, I lost my preinstalled Sonic program. Can I get it back? ...

In trying to get a program to work correctly I checked the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox in Properties>Compatibility. Sinc ...

See if you can fabricate a plausible explanation for this:I recently purchased something online, from the "XYZ" company. I recall getting a "Thanks for your order&qu ...

I just noticed that the URL no longer prints when I am printing a webpage. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Canon Pixma MP150 Peter Toronto, Canada XP ...

I keep encountering this error. no help in windows, does anyone have any suggestions. ...

i am using aol9 and paint shop pro when my friends make me a 'tag' for my emails i find with vista i cannot save them as .gif only as .bmp which when in ...

Awhile ago I posted in here asking how to access a network share from a XP machine to a Vista Machine and was told that both machines need to have the same login and password, since I fix computers and plug mainly XP machines into my rou ...

I have been reading this forum for quite a while and utilizing all the suggestions and still can not for the life of me get my Vista computer to access my XP computer. ...

having installed windows live messenger I get the message that it wont open because of DEP data execution programme. I have tried to follow the instructions to over ride this but don't seem to be able ...

I had my Documents, Pictures, etc. folders relocated to another hard drive and the drive letter got changed when I installed a flash card reader that took it's drive letter. Now Windows doesn't recognize the location of the ...

HiWhilst watching movies on dailymotion.com and Veoh my system crashes without displaying any error message. The screen just freezes and i cannot move the mouse ...

These 78 year old brain cells are still not clear on the question of 32 bi over 64:When upgrading from WinXP Media 2005 with SP2 32 bit to the Vista operating system the option of installing 32 bit or 64 bit is the back biter.I util ...

I have just learned, that while having dual boot system (XP and Vista), each time I boot to Vista it will erase my restoring points (System Restore) in my Windows XP. Is that true? Where I ca ...

Just thought I'd pass on this little story maybe save someone some time and frustration:Using a brandnew computer (Lenovo) with Vista Business on it. It's equipped with a DVD/CDRW drive that seems to work ok in that ...

When I double click Administrative Tools either from the control panel or the start menu it brings up explorer and the folder is empty. How can I get to these settings and tools??Thanks, James ...

Hi, can anybody help me? Today I get a new program "�windows mail" and I try to send a test to my internet adress. It was working. But when I try to send ...

I have three emails that I need to access on one user account on my computer. Outlook Express would have a 'switch identity' option. What am I missing? ...

Hi!I have in the Music folder many Folder.jpg files. I just pasted some new folder art into some currently existing Album folders, but the Music folder doesn't seem to have updated the large icons with the thumbnails. I tried refreshing but it's done no good ...

I got me a New laptop. did everything i was suppose to. Registered Windows Vista. In the process Internet explorer crashed. I haven't had time to go on computer until today. This is the pop up message I get. The Softw ...

Well I have solved the sleep problem for my computer. My computer would only go as far as powering down my monitor, but the computer itself would not sleep. After trying everything (and I do have a wireless keyboard and mouse) I found my culprit. I ha ...

I own a Windows Vista Premium. I have been trying to install Office 2003 Student and Teacher for awhile now. The first time it installed but no files were found. I restarted my computer and tried again. All I g ...

Hello! Is there a qfecheck.exe released for Vista? ...

Vista Home Premium. How do I copy a file from one device to another?Click and drag actually moves the file. I tried copy and paste and that worked from C: to A" drive. Is that how its done or is there a copy command?Thanks ...

My HD is partitioned like so:dev/sda1 ntfs boot dev/sda2 extended lba sda1 is formatted with nothing on it. sda5 has XP MCE. After using the Linux program GParted to alter the partitions, I can no longer boot XP MCE. I get the error, ...

Hotfix KB932063... will resolve your connectivity problems. It's not live yet....sadly. ...

I have a 64bit Ultimate machine connected to a 32bit Home Premium machine. I can see the 32bit machine but not access it. Have shared the "E" drive on the 32bit system, where I keep all my storage. All users full access. User name on 64bit and 32bit system is the s ...

My inbox, and sent box, etc appear empty, but a look in the folders shows the mail to exist. How can I make Windows mail see what is in the folder? ...

In control panel, I can't change any settings for indexing because 'Indexing is not Running'. In Services, I select Start for the Windows Search and it proceeds in starting partway but ends with the message '...Can't find the ...

i was installing driver for an off brand digital camera and mistakenly put folders from c drive under the ulead program, i did not realize it before i started to delete all of these files. there are 84 files in the recycle bin, i tried resto ...

Is it in any way possible to synchronize the new Windows Contacts and Windows Calendar with a Pocket PC via Windows Mobile Device Center? This should be the default option if Outlook is not installed in my opinion. ...

Hi, Installed Windows Vista Home Premium but I am facing all problems now cannot detect external hard disk, every time asking for driver files when ever I connect USB Thumbdrive or External Hard disk, some it is not detecting Seagate external drive, my laptop generating more heat after vist ...

After I created my recovery discs, a box came up like as if it wanted me to insert CD, not DVD. I closed the box and it said, Bootable Diagnostic CD creation was aborted. Anybody have any idea what this is all about? ...

Hello, and thank you for any help you can give me.I am the only user of my computer, and thus am the administrator. I'm using VHP. When I try to add or remove programs, I'm told that I don't have permission to do ...

I've read so many differing statements regarding whether Outlook 2003, Vista, and free Hotmail can work together. Either they can or cannot. Please, M ...

I loaded the Vista upgrade disc that came with my computer didn't read it closely enough to realize what I was loading. Want my old operating system back, but the restore software is gone! What do I do? ...

Hello,I have a clean install of Vista Ultimate on my laptop computer and have noticed that Windows Defender is not updating. I've forced an update but not joy I receive the e ...

Running Vista Home PremiumWhenever I boot the system, the taskbar shows at the top of the screen rather than the bottom, even though I placed it at t ...

how do i install .wba themes....or how can i have it convert to .msstyle to have it installedthanks alot aqeel ...

I have been using Vista Business for 2 weeks with no issues but after installing a windows update today i have lost my user profile ?When i now log on to our company domain, all my settings are as if it were the first time i logged on ?If i personalise anything or create and save file ...

Vista Ultimate:Just wondering. Something new to Vista. C:\Windows\Winsxs uses more space than \system32 (which is a lot). What is this folder for? ...

Anyone know of a good high quality collection of desktop icons for vista? Free would be great. ...

had repeated BSODs got lots of dmp files Is there a place I can send them to to find out the cause? ...

My apologies in advance for this silly OT question. I have an msn.com email address and access my emails using MSN Explorer and various broadband connections. What are my send/receive email server names?Thanks very much.Bob Feduniak ...

Short of uninstalling and reinstalling, is there any way to go back to the old setup routines to change the settings? I just had a cable upgrade and want to make sure it sees the new cha ...

Hi, I have a new computer with Vista Home. When I plug in the removable drive, Vista asks for driver and disk (no disk came with them as they were not required in XP). The manufactirer does ...

messanger downloaded, have a shortcut on desktp but wont open, need help ...

I am not sure why, but whenever I watch a video in media player 11 there is no time showed on the bottom left. Is there a setting somewhere that I am not seeing? ...

I cannot click on any streaming audio link without the player freezing and cpu usage shooting up to 100%, forcing me to close it with task manager. Neither will it play radio over the internet, som ...

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I have two machines on a home LAN: one wired and one wireless. Both are Vista Ultimate. They have the same workgroup name.From my wireless machine, I can access folders and files from the wired machine, copy them to the wireless machine, etc.When I go to s ...

Has anyone had any experience with VISTA and Navy & Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI) smart card DOD CAC cards. VISTA sees the smart card when inserted but say it is unable to read it. Wondering if I could use my DOD CAC card w ...

I bought my computer with Vista Business intalled. I've been using the administrator profile (as my profile) up until yesterday when I switched it to a "user". I ...

I'm having problems with mail going to the junK mail box even after I've told it it's not junk mail. The email address of this mail is even in my address book. Anyone know of a fix for this problem it's getting rather annoying. ...

How do I add holidays to windows mail calendar? ...

I'm trying to upload my old emails to Windows Mail, but am having difficulties. Can someone assist? ...

Has anyone figured how to drag and drop messages between newsgroups in mail. I have a new machine that had vista home premium installed already. I am not able to drag and drop messages from one newsgrou ...

I notice that when I want to move or delete a message, I have to select it naturally. However, as soon as I rightclick on it to select the desired action ( move to, delete, mark as read, etc., ) the message opens. This seems t ...

If I create a scheduled task in Vista, set to wake the computer from sleep mode, Vista wakes correctly, but goes back into sleep mode before the task is finished.I've seen a couple of posts here mentioning similar problems, and I'm wondering if Microsoft are aware of the pro ...

Windows Vista wants the update KB929777 and can't have it. Ends up with an 0x8000FFFF failure.The help window within Vista says "Help and Support search term: WindowsUpdate_dt000&quo ...

I originally had the screen saver won't start problem on my RC1 Vista Release. On the final release the screen savers start but after a few minutes they stop and I get the dialog asking if I want to go online to find a solution to the problem. This happens on ALL the i ...

i recently upgraded my toshiba laptop to vista home premium but i am running into problems with programs not working correctly. after spending hours on the phone with microsoft most of the issues are resolved but there is 1 new issues to resolve. Does anyone know ...

Hi, I am running Home Premium that came on my Toshiba laptop. I have a Konica Minolta PP1400W laser printer , with their Vista driver installed. I am running it with ...

This is addressed to former CPP participants who have purchased and installed Vista.I am running RC1 (Build 5600) and XP as a dual boot on separate hard drives and this setup has worked fine with no ...

I did a performance rating with a SKT 478 3.4EE CPU installed and got 4.3 and changed it to a standard SKT 478 3.4 CPU and got 4.4, shouldn't the Extreme Edition CPU's be faster? ...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but in Vista, my Canadian English (US layout) keyboard keeps resetting after Sleep mode. My ? changes to an unusual E, my ' becomes `, that kind of thing. All of the alphabetical letters are fine, it's the punctuation that s ...

I have an old drive that was my XP boot frive. I wanted to put in in my new Vista machine as a second drive but it fails to boot up when I do. Note another drive worked fine, but it did not have any XP system files on it.I suspect my only option is to reformat the ol ...

In XP, when navigating through files and folders in a FileOpen dialog box within Office 2003 programs, the operating system or program seemed to "remember" the folder level you were last in. When you next clicked on FileOpen, it assumed you more than likely wanted to be tr ...

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Grrrr. The Realtek audio function on my Foxconn 865 motherboard is refusing to work after I changed from my beta copy of Vista to the retail version of Ultimate. It was working before with the beta drivers I downloaded from Realtek, but nothing seems to work with any version I use now. ...

Grrrr. The Realtek audio function on my Foxconn 865 motherboard is refusing to work after I changed from my beta copy of Vista to the retail version of Ultimate. It was working before with the beta drivers I downloaded f ...

Ok this is Strange. Installed Vista 64bit ultimate. network found but would not connect. (dell truemobile 2300 router) if i remove Cat5 wire from router and plug directly into ...

I just came form my old XP pc, and i thought i recorded all the info i would need to transfer my email over to my new vista pc. i took down the account, server, protocol, and port. when i try to finish, it asks me to log in with a username and password, and i have abs ...

this email program is not worth a penny..............still having problems ...

When trying to delete message get "AN UNKNOWN ERROR HAS OCCURRED." WHY? And how do I get rid of this message ...

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find information about Vista's windows mail spam filtering rules? Sometimes when I send email from where I work to a user that is using Vista Windows Mail email reader it ...

I am an email packrat. I have (had?) every email since 97... Win 2000, XP, Vista Beta... emails have always come along! I've never had problems backing up, or importing them after... until NOW.Yesterday I went from Vista Beta Ultimate to Vista Home Basic. Before saying goodbye to B ...

Hello all. After installing VISTA Ultimate 64 BIT, I can't use my printer. It's a HP LaserJet 3052 connected by USB cable. (it's a multifunction unit with printer, scanner and fax allinone ...

I had two files with the same filename in two different directories, e.g.C:\Dir1\Test.png C:\Dir2\Test.pngI opened the first directory, selected Test.png and pressed the "Burn" button in the Explorer toolbar. The file was added to the list of ...

Can anyone tell me how to set the time stratum in my computer so that the sync requests are not rejected with the message? "Peer's Stratum is le ...

I bought vista prem. and installed it on a new sata drive. before hand I had windows xp mse2005 on another sata drive. I unhooked the drive with xp mse2005 on it bef ...

I purchased ThinkPad x60s it comes with Windows Vista Business Edition.1. Will i be able to play Flash Video. 2. I downloaded IPASS dialer Software from www.ipass.com and install it in my machine. It appear to have successfully install ...

I am running Vista Business and have a couple of Internet Connections set up.One stores my user name and a password which is longer than the correct one. The other one shows no user name or password.I can click the Settings button and change these valu ...

I've scanned many threads, and still have Questions. I've been asked to build a computer for a friend's son who is graduating HS & heading for coll ...

when I right click on my computor in network view it opens the media player.........help ...

hi therei'm trying to get the solutions to install Windows XP in my notebook as i have got Windows Vista Preinstalled. I have tried all the way i know but it didn't workand even the system doesn't allow me to format C:\ can anybody help me out with this stuff........ because i have to use some ap ...

As we all now know Vista forces NTLMv2 authentication which means you cannot access some NAS deviced unless you change the authentication level.For those that have a Buffalo TeraStation Pro you can download firmware that gives you root access to your TeraSt ...

It seems many people have had this problem, but I have not yet found an answer as to how to fix it. I am trying to connect wirelessly to my router/modem (Zyxel Prestige 600), and thence to the internet. While my system (running Vista Home Premium, upgrade from XP) connects to the router ...

Situation: Dual boot betwwen XP Pro and Vista Business. OE store is located on a separate disk. I want to configure Windows Mail to use the same store, but it will not let me.Is there a way to share the same store so I don't have mail in both clients? ...

When I import my calendar from Outlook 2007 the subject of the entries does not appear. Each item just reads "busy". Kind of useless.Peter ...

HiI seem to recall using an expiry option for Usenet messages in Outlook Express. I have looked through the Windows Mail options but either there isn't such an option, or I am somehow missing it.Any pointers? regard ...

I'm using Windows Vista and trying to figure out how to print an updated file of my contacts. Can someone tell me how to do this??? ...

I have mistakenly deleted the bluish green "downdloads" user folder and am unable to locate it anywhere. Does anyone know how to recreate it? ...

HiFor some archaic reason my boss has overwritten the default for opening ..zip files with Internet Explorer and would like to reset it, can someone please tell me what the default setting for opening zip files is?Tjeers and thanks in advanceSteve ...

Windows XP offered a dictionary tool for importing all the words in the Microsoft Office dictionary (custom.dic). This is a powertoy that does not work in Vista. This option provided an easy way to significantly increase the vocabulary that handwriting recog ...

I have been hearing about Linux Free O/S's for many years now, and I have decided to try it out on one of my older P/C's one that I built from parts purchased at PC Club which I have replaced with this one (hp Pavillion). Checked the Ubuntu website and v7.04 will be released on ...

I can remember seeing a site that had a list of vista compatible cards... both for ati and for nvidia...or does anyone know where I can find lists for compatible cards? ...

Using a vista cleint with RDP and connecting to a server using outlook 2003 we encounter an error when using calendaing "the messaging interface has retunred an unknow error&quo ...

My dvd/cd burner vanishes in Windows Vista Ultimate and I've had to do 2 system restores for windows to find it again. Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so, how were you able to correct it (if it was correctable)? ...

Hi, I am just setting up VISTA Ultimate. I have the OS and all programme files on drive C:. I have 2 other partitions (D: and I:) on the same physical drive as C:I can share folders on D: and I: with no problem. I cannot share folers on C: (with the e ...

I have a vista laptop connecting through wifi to a Belkin ADSL modem wireless g router and a desktop connecting through an Ethernet cable to the above router. I have changed the workgroup on the desktop to match ...

I'm trying to create a complete PC backup on Vista Ultimate. I'm using an external USB harddrive NTFS formatted.I have already backup once, as noted by the "Last backup:" information, but I had to format the ex ...

It seems that I can't search for text in .PST or .PDF files. Is there any way to enable this search capability in Vista?Thanks ...

Hi, Can someone that was in the Tech Beta report this to MS for SP1?If you have a 1 GB flash USB drive with a folder that is 900 MB and you try to update it by copy/paste. ...

I have a vista system...want to upgrade my processor and motheroard. Do I have to reinstall all my applications...hope not!!! ...

I need some help with something that I just can't get figured out on my own yet. I am not sure how much info to put in so please let me know if I need to add more. I have just upgraded from XP to Vista home premium. I have a USB/MIDI keyboard that was working perfectly fine after the upgra ...

As above, don't those MS marketing morons feel like right idiots, are they liars? I couldn't find *any* "wow" factor in vista, I even had the opportunity after buying a laptop ...

Hello! I switched from a MacBook to a PC. On the Mac, I was able to type "special" characters (i.e. accented characters, the section symbol, etc) using a combination of the Apple key and a letter. ...

Hiya,When I received Dell Laptop, there are already four partitions in the laptop Harddisk.. 1. EISA Configuration (about 100 MB), 2. Primary Partition – I don’t know for what (2 GB), 3. Priimary Partition – C: ‘Vista OS’ (About 100 ...

I knowthis the wrong dept but I can not fin an other way. would like to back to XP I can not find any thing it is to compecated Caan you help me? Reggie rhkorte1@verizon.net ...

Greetings RebootKidFL hereI have this customer with an Acer notebook and Windows Live Messenger doesn't connects and gives an error message. Do I have to play with the Windows Vista' F ...

I am in the process of switching to Vista. I have had my Vista Business edition for about 3 weeks. Suddenly today, the DVD device is unavailable (red circle with line thorugh ...

I have installed my canon LBP 2900 printer with vista drivers downloaded from canon.When i turn on the printer vista loads its own drivers which appear to be the same but the canon advanced printing control d ...

2 PC wireless home network; 1 vista home premium, 1 XP PRO. Transfer exe installed on both. Attempt to transfer files, etc. from XP to Vista produces message: error scanning the data on your system. Numerous attemp ...

Can this system be changed back to the XP style? The current "Calculating Time Remaining" is uneccessary and slows the whole process up, something I do ...

I HAVE TROUBLE WAKING THE DAMN UP. TAKES ABOUT 2 HRS ...

Recently I had to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro. On this drive on partition 3 I had Vista installed. When I did the reinstall of XP, of course changed the bootloader, so I have boot.ini. I edited boot.ini to ad ...

When I launch IE7 from Vista, I get "An unidentified program wants access to your computer: ieexlplorer.exe." "Unidentified publisher." I find this hard to believe. I can cli ...

In between blogs about breast cancer, bottled water, et al… I feel compelled to share with readers a new technology for stress relief. It is called Vista The Ver ...

I installed this tool, v1.4, Vista compatible, on Home Premium. The window remains empty, with no keyboard display. Thanks for any idea. ...

I have a new laptop with Vista. My C drive is 105GB, I can only account for 10GB I have a mysterious something that is taking up 90MB because my harddrive is full, I barely have anything else loaded, ITunes with about 20 songs. C ...

I have a SiS 661FX AGP motherboard with an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT video card and under windows vista all games including the built in card games (solitaire etc) have severe graphica ...

Is there a place that I can purchae the Vista version of the Media Center remote control? ...

Hello All,I have a new system running 32bit Vista w/ an above mentioned device. I was able to successfully read contents from CD's and DVD's. However, since this past week Vista is not accessing ...

I have tried to upgrade to vista many times all the time on the Final Stage (Completing the Upgrading) but it gets to about 59% then it automatically reboots without no warning ...

I have no sound anymore. I installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 on my Vista Ultimate computer. I had no issue with the installation and even did the DLA patch that Roxio provides. After the installation reboot, I lost all sound. The first thing I did is completed a System Resto ...

I have a Home Theater PC that runs Vista and I want to set it up to connect to our office PC that runs XP. I have the HTPC connected to the wired cable modem and ...

For the past two weeks, I have read and reread the solutions to the problems and I have done everything and nothing seems to be working. I sent out an email to a friend of mine on Windows Mail (I am running vista). The email never got sent. It is still sitting in my out box. When I ...

I have a ghost email in my outbox and have tried for hours to fix it, did not work. the windowsmail.msmessagestore refuses to be moved or deleted, as do 2 other files in the windows ...

HiWhen I install a game for my daughter the shortcut for it also appears on all user's desktops. My wife hates having shortcuts on her desktop other than those she specifies and so del ...

I am using Vista on a new laptop and I am the only user and logged in as administrator. I want to open the folder Documents and Settings but when I try I get a dialogue box "Acce ...

When I click at Help and Suport all Information apears without code for better view. It seem like lose some style sheet information...Can somebody help me to correct ...

I need some help from you guys,I've turned on my PC today and everything goes the usual way, however after finishing to boot, load all startup programs, the vista screen becomes dark (just as when UAC dialog appears, or w ...

hi all i am at my wits end with this problem.i download photos and when i click on the file/photo the web page reloads,this never happened in xp but i don't know how to stop it in vista premium any ideas? jon ...

Please help, I just purchased a dell notebook with vista. Everything is great except I can't access my gmail account. It keeps bringing up security certificate error. Please help, anyone else experience the same problem? ...

I have Vista Home Premium for my OS and I have recntly reinstalled my system. The problem that I am having is I need to type in Japanese sometimes and I cannot get the Japanese IME to function correctly with my system. In addition, my system on ...

According to support.microsoft.com/kb/926185, Vista uses shadow copies to store backups and restore points, and dualbooting with XP makes you lose those.Suppose I back up to an USB disk: it wouldn't seem logical ...

I am stuck Vista will not allow me to save a download from Adobe for Acrobat 7.0 because I do not have permission to save in the My Programs folder. When I try to change the permissions to my user name in the securi ...

Ok, bear with me because this one's a louie....and it may not be Vista's problem....but I can't say for sure, and I should say upfront that this may take several ...

I had a power failure while connected to a remote machine. Now when I try to connect TS tells me I already have a connection to the console on the machine. Ho ...

Incase of a hardware failure...can someone post me the steps for restoration? Also how should I pro actively backup my stuff...? Any tips... TIA OS:Win Vista ...

When is the projected release date for a new version of windows vista that can support Quad SLI technology that you get with such cards as 2 x 7950GX2 ...

my device driver software installation stopped responding and closed. i am needing to install linksys to my pc, so what do i need to do to get this to work? ...

Hi my basic problem is I dont know enough .I purchased a new Compac Presario SR502 with Windows Vista basic preinstalled. This came complete with 512 Ram which based on my previous home PC , I thought would be a great s ...

Recently purchased Sony VGXXL3 that includes the ATI OCUR support for CableCard. Comcast installed the card and everything worked great... For 24 hours. Now machine refuses to play a ...

I have had problems with video in Vista since I installed it. Video will play, but becomes extremely choppy after a few minutes. Sound is fine. I have tried every possible combination that I can find of codecs and display adapter drivers (nvidia GeForce Go 79 ...

Ever since I downloaded the latest RDC for Windows XP Professional, I cannot connect to my Windows 2003 Server... I get the following error message: "The client could not connect. You are already connected to the console of this computer. A new console session cannot be established."I' ...

Hi, I'm getting my feet wet with Vista. Some of our users are running vista home basic. I've looked at some posts and come up with a manifest file to give our app Administrator privilages at run time. The app seems to work okay if we check the "run as administrator" checkbox in the ...

When I play games online or on LAN, my game freezes and unfreeze randomly. single player works great, but online game cause the game to hiccup.I'm using a WUSB54GC whic ...

All, Reformatted HD for other problems......... Trying to re establish mail acct and am unable to do so. Note: the first time setup worked fine. Now I have t ...

I am having problems deleting emails from my sent folder, not my delete folder. And I can't move them to my delete folder to try the "alt, etc." post.Anyone have any suggestions? ...

My old computer crashed and I bought a new one with vista. It has Windows mail, not outlook. Is there a way to recover my Outlook messages ? (My provider doew not have them backed up). ...

I have gone from 98 and Outlook to Vista and Mail. Frequently get jpg images from artists for viewing. Outlook had Quick View and I used it all the time. On Mail it shows on the drop down but is dimmed. Does it exist or am I only seeing ...

Under OE our separate user mail went into one inbox as bulk delivered by the ISP. They combined the various e mail adrresses at their point not mine. This suits as ...

There was an update today, most of it was for office. It had 1 for capicom, and the other for defender. Now every time I close IE7, it tells me there wa ...

I know I dont have the best system:P4 2.0ghz 1gb ram Nvidia 5700 128mb rambut the bubbles screensaver is very jerky and stutteringshould it be? ...

Like a lot of people when I installed Vista on my computer I found that it was underqualified for Vista. My CPU was too slow (Athlon 1.5gig)and my hard drive was too small (25 gig). So I made the decision to build a new system so I could take advantage of the cool feature ...

Can someone tell me if this version will run on vista home Prem.? "Lost in Windows"ShellP ...

I have read through the restore from a system image backup procedure. My question is, rather than having to create DVDs to save the 200 GB on my complete Pc backup, I have save it to an NTFS external hard drive. Can I restore from that rather than from the DVDs? Is the p ...

i have windows xp 2004 media center editionwhen i go to administrative tools in the control panel, i open services and next to windows installer, under the status, it is blank and under startup type, it says automatic. when i click on windows installer, i go under servi ...

when I add music to my slideshow, the windows dvd maker finishes with a message: windows dvd maker had encountered a problem and it will terminate. Can you help me to solve this problem? ...

On trying to reply to send email, after installing Vista, I can no longer send email through my Server 2003 Premium Edition Outlook ebAccess. I try and and in t ...

I cannot delete messages from deleted items folder. I have plenty of mem, tired to find .dbx files as on suggestion, but not dbx files on computer. How do I get my system to work? ...

When I try to open System, in Control Panel, it takes me to a page and says "the page failed to load." Does anyone know how to fic this? ...

This has been asked before but with no results: anybody knows how to change the size of live preview windows when switching applications using AltTab in Vista? Ideally, I'd like the previews to more or less fill ...

Dear Marcus,Thank you for contacting HP Total Care.After referring to your email, I see that you wish to change the Operating System from Windows Vista to Window XP. Let me assist you in this r ...

While I was playing with the system managment, I turned on the automatic speech recognition.My problem seems to be strange, but how can I leave this ?Please help me, since I don´t know what to do. Alexandra ...

When I click on Switch Between Windows, I don't get the stacked windows; I get a box with icons. Does it matter which background you're sing? ...

I have Vista and a XFi Audio sound card.I have set it up so that I have 5.1 sound, I checked it through speaker config on control panel and all 6 speakers work. When I play an MP3 I only get sound through the front left/right and centre. I have read ...

I want to run a URL in Task Scheduler. It's an internet radio feed and I want to open it each morning at 6h45, etc...Problem is that Task scheduler do not seem to recognize a URL as a valid action. ...

Here's hoping someone out there can help me...I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on an AMD Athlon 64 4200 with 2 megs of ram and runing GForce 8 series video card. I have two dell 19 inch flat panels conected to it. If I only have one mo ...

I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my computer this afternoon (clean install) then I installed Visual Studio, then the Visual Studio Service Pack, then the Visual Studio Service Pack for Vista. When I click on the Icon on the ...

I recently upgraded to vista and now I am trying to sync my Shuffle and it give the following message:"Attempting to copy to the disk “name” failed. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation. Itunes could not save to your Music Folder be ...

Actually things are far worse for Vista., because they are using only a benchmark program to count various aspects... However in a REAL life environment Vista performs inc ...

Looks like I will have to come in and take a look. I came down with a bug yesterday and it isn't any better today, so it will probably be Monday.I've att ...

In trying to install a new HP printer, an error code came up and, in their language, they told me I had a corrupted script 5.6 and needed to get a fi ...

Vista Ultimate 64 bit. 32 bit IE7.I have Flash 7 preinstalled with a new machine. Uninstalled using the latest official uninstaller from Adobe website. Tried to install Flash 9. I keep getting pop up boxes warning that it needs to do something outside of Protected Mode. Doesn't se ...

Does microsoft have a fix for this problem. Everytime I try to view any videos I have this problem. Furthermore, why do we have to pay the geek squad for any repairs when microsoft is the one responsible for this mess of a program? Shame on you Microsoft! oceanriver ...

Hello Everyone,All of a sudden, when I try to open Outlook 2007 running Vista Home Premium, nothing happens. There is no error message or anything. I'm able to open Word and Excel w ...

I recently installed Vista Ultimate edition and cannot find any drivers available for it on the Microsoft website, regardless of the fact that it states that the Lifecam is supported. Can anyone point me to where these driver ...

Somehow my pc when i try to bring up my webcam shows a tv show how can i correct it so my webcam shows and not my tv. I have the drivers installed i can do a search and bring up a ...

Here's hoping someone out there can help me...I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on an AMD Athlon 64 4200 with 2 megs of ram and runing GForce 8 series video card. I have two ...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. Dell is clueless (no huge surprise there) amd Intel won't help me. At Vista startup, my NIC/Lan connection comes up in the tasktray with a caution ...

Hi,I was told by Dell sales that Vista Business does not support current fingerprint reader.Does anyone use fingerprint reader (any brands on any systems) with Vista?Thanks in advance. ...

Hi! I've read many of the posts already discussing this problem and have not been able to resolve mine yet! I have a new Gateway computer with speakers that came with it...Since loading Vista, I get no sound. Te computer recognizes thhe driver in the device manager and says it ...

When viewing the directory tree under computer the hard disk for my pc displays with a network card picture instead of the hard disk picture that displays for the other drives.Does anyone know what might cause this and is there a way to c ...

Using Belkin Easy Transfer USB cable to transfer docs and setting from old Win XP SP2 computer to new Vista computer. Transfer fails midstream; when restarting, there is no recognition that the ...

Hi there, We are deploying Vista in a lab environment this summer on PCs purchased from Dell. We are planning on creating a master image and then, through BDD or Ghost, pushing it out to the other 40 systems. Since we are getting the PCs preloaded with Vista Business, will we run into problems wi ...

Being a student at my university, I am entitled to a free copy of Vista Business. While this is very nice, at some point I would like to upgrade to Ultimate. Is buying the retail upgrade package the only way to go here or is there another method that I would be able to use to ...

Hi, I have the following problem, when I try to edit a AVI files (not all) WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER insert the file in the AUDIO section instead the VIDEO section, so I'm unable to edit the file........ ThanksMarco ...

I have Vista Ultimate on my laptop. I read about Dreamscene, did nto know I had it on my system, and decided to try it. Well, it looks cool and all, but I wanted to go back to t ...

I cannot complete a cd burn in either media center or i tunes. Media center shows errors on about half of the songs, i tunes gives error messages ...

i resently got windows vista everytime i listen to music it lasts about 30 minutes then stops and i have to restart windows to get it to work ...

how can i import selected pictures from a digital camera, instead of the intire folder ...

Hi All, Why when you close Media player half way through a DVIX or XVID does the sound still play. CtrlAltDel shows as a process still.???Is it the codecs causeing this or Media Palyer.???Cheers anyone ...

Hope someone can help me...I only have one week to finish this video for my son's graduation and I've got a problem I can't figure out. I will try to explain it the best ...

Home Network consisting of WinXP Pro machine & Win Vista Home Premium + NAT Router. Internet is fine on both computers. Both Computers can see all shares. Vista machine can browse both computersI set ...

Hi. I have been messing around on my Newly Vista Ultima setup on 2 pc's and i still havent manage to get online for more than 1 hour. Every thing was working well when ...

I am running Vista home premium with a broadband dsl local area connection using PPPoE. My connection is fine except that I can't figure out how to get Windows to auto connect at startup (I have to do Start > Connect To , and then click conn ...

so i switched from XP to Vista last month or two and i did the device manager to get my internet back. it worked but the last week or so the connection has been horrible i been getting "firefox cannot connect&quo ...

I have 2 computers running Windows Vista Ultimate both are setup the same, computer 2 can open all files on computer 1, but computer 1 cannot open files on computer 2, both can access the ...

User Account Control appears to be dropping privileges from inbuilt groups other than just Administrators (except Authenticated Users)?I use a separate logical drive for data and use "standard" user accounts. The partition is NTFSformatted ...

I just bought a new laptop with Vista Ultimate. I then installed MS Office 2003 on the new computer. However, whenever I want to open an MS Office program I get a message that says "you must accept the EndUser License to use this software. If you don't accept, this ...

I am runing vista ultimate. How can I make users create a password when they first log on.Regards, Mike ...

Anyone know how to access Microsoft's large cache of box art for games?In the registry, the BoxArt entry is something like: images.metaservices.microsoft.com:80/games/prod/AMG_CoverArt/drg100/g131/g131562fzlx.jpg ; however, ...

Anyone had any luck getting medal of honor series running on vista? mine runs spash screen goes into open gl control then to black sreen and stops. ...

Windows Vista is stopping me to play games online i.e. literati at yahoo games. I think it got something to do with the active x controls. Please can somebody tell me how t ...

Hi there,I am having a problem which obviously occured in recent Windows / Outlook Express versions before, since Microsoft Knowledge Base 290684 ("Save password setting not retained in Outlook or Outlook E ...

I regret having bought a new laptop with Vista preloaded I hate Vista because it hates all my non MS software which is much better than anything MS ha ...

I have a mail in my outbox that I can't remove. I get the message "A unknown error has occured". What can I do, because I can't send no more mail now. I also have tried to move the mail to the trashbox. This is also impossible. ...

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one of mail when I delete, windows reply "some unknown error occured", then reject the above process, the above mail still show in "inbox". Actually, I already delete the above record at folder, but it seems doestn't work! Please help. ...

Warning: You will loose your Emails, save the ones you want to keep by using the Export/Import Messages option under FILE (in Windows Mail).1. close Windows Mail if open then (to make sure it's completely closed) A) press Ctrl ...

I have Office 2003 installed on my PC so I have no need for Windows Contacts. Is it possible to uninstall this feature? ...

what is a outgoing and incoming server for sending mail? Michael E. Hem ...

I had a major problem with my installation of Vista Ultimate 64 and had to use my Windows Image backup to reinstall. Since then I occasionally get an error box saying MS DTCconsole has failed, look for a solution o ...

Hi As I can see on the vista community discussing groups site “WinVista” has A big sleeping problem but I wasn’t able to find a solution for my brand new PC.My OS is Vista Business 32 bits. If I try to put my PC Desktop to sleep either automatically or manually it shuts down sort o ...

Hi,For the past couple of days, I've noticed my CPU usage is very high at idle (>50% on one core of my Athlon64x2).I finally got annoyed enough to try to work out what it was, and it turns out it was the readyboost service (I used task manager and the proces ...

Hello , I'm getting this error when trying to install 2 Lexmark AIO applications (1290 & 6170) on 2 different Vista based machines. img2.tapuz.co.il/forums/1_98534565.jpg This happens with the Vista driver from Lexmark websit ...

Where do I add contacts so they are accessible to send faxes to?I have added them in Windows Contacts and Outlook Business Contacts but the fax contact list is empty when opened through the fax program???Help ...

When ever I download a file whether it be to a Folder or the desktop as soon as it finishes it disapeares..I did search all over the drive etc..but the drive is still showing space takin anyone have ...

How do you add a Drive, File, Document etc on the "Send To" tab... please help..... ...

I've had my new Dell and Vista Home Premium for a couple of weeks. I've carefully arranged about 20 desktop icons in related groupings. But this morning when I turned on the computer, they were all lined up a ...

Windows Vista UltimateWhen I open a folder in Windows Explorer and drag multiple file to another location, the Windows dialog box shows the 'From' folder and the 'To' folder names, but not the name of the file being copied or moved. Is there a way to enable this ...

I have shortcuts on my desktop that I can't get rid of because when I delter them they're automatically copied. Same thing happens with pictures. The originals are deleted but then ...

After having read some of the posts here, now that I understand what Vista has done with the legacy folders left over after my upgrade from XP, where would I find shortcuts that would have gone into the "All Users" folder (XP), so that the application ...

After turning on my computer I am unable to automatically connect to the router (Orange Live Box). If I turn the wireless network switch on the comp ...

I am getting an odd message when I use Vista.Occasionally, a box popsup on the screen advising me: "Failed to save user profile because of the following error: (5) Access is denied."If I leave my PC f ...

I've been using Vista Ultimate Media Center and Media Player now for over a month and have had no problems playing CD's and DVD's. All of a sudden I've been getting the "Media Foundation Protected Pipeline.exe has stopped working" message and the music stops. I can restart it an ...

I installed a new came a few days ago. Now it's time for my scheduled backup, and the baclup is busily storing all the image files from the game. Surely there must be a way to configure backup on the basis of file path as wel ...

I do a disk cleanup and get this as one of the options. Its saying there are 51.5 gig of files that I can remove. My drive is 160 gig and I've only taken up about 15 gig worth of space. I create a command prompt and do a dir. I ...

Hi,I can't view gallery.live.com/results.aspx?c=32&bt=1, it just says loading, I can view vista.gallery.microsoft.com/vista/SideBar.aspx?mkt=engb but clicking any of the browse category links takes me to the loading window.Any suggestions?, I've checked Flash & Java installation a ...

Hi, media center in vista ultimate has stopped working for me. I will detail the problems below any help would be much appreciated. Thanks In Advanced.Description Stopped workingProblem signatur ...

I have been using Cuneiform 6.0 OCR software for many years on my old WinXP2 system and it works wonders. Before I install the software on my new WinVista machine I wanted to check for any installationoperation problems and/or any other knowledge regarding compatibility. Better safe than ...

if you have the following prob with windows calendar not working ref: KB933942 Microsoft want to charge £40 + to get a hotfix! If it dont bother y