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When I attempt to alter, remove or change my primary password under the users interface I receive an error that windows is unable to change the password. I can create a new user, create, alter and delete it's password. I have also noticed that I have a "switch us ...

The problem I see most is that windows resize randomly and to random sizes. When I click anywhere on a page, the window might minimize, or reduce to a rectangle on the left (or right) side of the screen. It's maddening. Any suggestions? Thanks. ...

I'm trying to run FSX on two monitors with the two outputs on my one video card. My specs are:Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 ASUS EN8800GTX PCI Express Video Card ASUS P5NE nForce 650i motherboard CORSAIR XMS2 2GB SDRAM etc..The first monitor is a DLP pro ...

I have power point viewer installed on my pc using vista.But when I try to open an email containing a pps message I get a warning message saying this file does not have a program associated with it for pe ...

Even though I've entered all the correct server (POP and SMTP) information in the account information, I am asked for a username and password in order to ...

Windows mail problem.I can receive email, but I cannot send it. I get an error message : 0c800CCC0FDoes anyone out there have a solution that works (preferably the first time!)?. ...

All of my newsgroups show items unread in the footer, even though there are none when scanning and none are found when Cntl/U is used as it also reports no unread messages. Each has a different number and the number in ...

I remember on my old system *XP* seems like you could close out of outlook and still get a new email notification on the toolbar, i like to keep my email open, just dont like having a window open for it. ...

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to change the default folder for recorded TV? I'm guessing it's done by changing something in the registry. Thanks. ...

Anyone ever received this? I'm running Windows Vista Business, the full version, on a Compaq Presario V3000.My computer froze this morning, and when I tried to CTRLALTD ...

The disk defrag in vista does not show much. Is there a way to see the details and at what point it is, or when it will be finished? ...

While I was in email, I received a message about updates having been performed on my Vista Home Premium. There were several "ha ha's" in the message. I was given the option to restart now or restart later, but I couldn't restart later. I found this very annoying and wonder ...

I just wondered if someone could help. I increased my RAM by 1GB but don't know how to configure Vista to it. Any ideas? ...

Where can I find the windows fax application? Is there one in Vista? I'm used to faxing directly from my PC. ...

I am trying to help a friend install a printer. The installation stalls at the same point insisting that it must done by an Administrator. My friend is the only user set u ...

I have a message in my OUTBOX that won't let me send out. THIS IS WHAT IS DISPLAYED IN THE MESSAGE Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your comp ...

dear all please help me i am new to window vista.. i just bought a laptop with vista basic (RAM 1G). the sidebar gadget is telling me i am using 7080% of my RAM even though i had not running any application. sometime it stay at 97% wh ...

With Vista seem to have lost my ability to insert photos (rather than attach) in Photo!Mail. Found nothing on Yahoo help, only that they don't menti ...

I got from HP a vista 32 DVD to upgrade XP32. I want to install Vista64 not vista32. Is there any way to get it exchanged to vista64? Thanks. Pra4908 ...

Anyone know where I can get a DVD Decoder to work for my computer? I have a Radeon VisionTek X1300 video card and all the updated drivers to get it to work properly with Vista. Everything works good with it, but when I go to watch a DVD on the computer I can't get it to work. If I t ...

I have a visual basic 6 program that requires that I log in as an administrator in order to run it. For the life of me I can't figure out why. I have tried a number of other programs, some of which are very similar and they have no problems.Can anyone give me any ideas as t ...

Just got a new HP computer with Vista Home Premium. I love it but after I did the 14 suggested updates I get black screen with a vertical yellow line during start up. It didn't do that before the update. ...

Hi anyone had any success installing the Trust spacecam 360 in vista,i can't seem to be able to find drivers for it,any help wouldbe very much appreciated Thankyou In Advance Robert ...

Vista will not recognize paper over 8.5 by 14. Specifically it does not see that printer an take 11 by 17 paper ...

Ok, A $400 Full Version Vista Business Ultimate/NEW OS that stops 30 minutes in and asks "Please insert the driver disc" Which driver I ask myself, wow....any given motherboard may have upwards of 20 different d ...

When I got on my PC this morning I got a message from Windows Defender saying that it detected Win32/zlob on my system. I clicked remove and about a minute later I was instructed to restart for the removal to become permanent. After reboot I a ...

I am trying to modify a file in the Program Files directory (a properties file for Visual C++ 2005 Express). It appears that the directory is read only though. I am an administrator and I have UAC turned on. I also can't modify files in my root director ...

Can you import a csd file full of emails to windows mail? ...

I can't backup my hard drive becuse the backup programe only shows my recovery drive and I inly have 200 mb left on it how do I save the recovery on my hard drive ...

I understand that retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate comes with two CDs, one for x86 and other for x64. Suppose I initially installed x86 version. Then, am I allowed to install x64 after uninstalling x86? ...

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

I'm using windows vista business, in the windows mail i can't save my password in the "incoming mail server", however I have click the "remember password", but when I click "send/receive"(include ...

I know I'm just doing something wrong that's OBVIOUS, but I can't figure it out ... hope somebody can help.When I "upgraded" (I use the term loosely) from my XP to a brandnew Vista computer, I copied ALL of the DBX files from my Outlook Express repository of emails into a folder on t ...

Hi!Im using Windows Mail on Home Premium.I have an email in my outbox that i cannot remove or send. When i try to remove it or move it to another folder i just get an "An unkown error ha ...

I would like to remove certain program entries from the "Open With" list in the rightclick context menu.Any help with a registry fix is greatly appreciated!Cheers, Marty ...

If I try to attach something while using a webbased email site, I will look for a document on my desktop. However, when it shows me the things that are on my desktop, it shows ...

Hello all,Is it possible to have messages that are identified as "Junk" and moved into the "Junk Email" folder automatically marked as read?Thanks,/johnd ...

When I attempt to add a tag or rating to my photos, I get the message "An unexpected error is preventing the operation" and "Error 0x88982F50". Does anyone have a clue about why this is happening and what I could do ...

How do I set Medium Icons as the norm for every window using a few keystrokes as opposed to changing the Views > Medium Icons in each window?W S Jessup ...

I'm trying to share a printer that's attached to an XP Pro machine on Vista Home Premium. Vista finds the shared printer no problem but tries to get the printer driver from the XP mac ...

When is a fix for the Vista wireless Internet problems going to be issued?! If you're not familiar with it, when your wireless computer (any model/make) goes int ...

I play at POGO.COM. I don't have any problem with load to site or the homepage load. My problem is when I enter game room and click on PLAY the window game loader does fine until the last minute it quickly shuts off and disaperars and error on site page ...

I have loaded Civ 3, PTW and Conquests onto my new Laptop with Vista as l game alot and wanted better RAM memory etc. They instal okay but as soon as l try to launch conquests it brings up a error mesage. Game error no. 28 font not found... Does anybody know why it is doin ...

How can i change the langue in spelling to Danish? ...

I dont see where to turn Windows Aero on at ...

Recently purchased a BenQ Joybook Rv55 with Vista Business installed.I used to schedule system shutdown using the command prompt and desktop shortcuts on my old XP SP2 machine: eg. shutdown.exe /s /t 1200When I tr ...

I cannot get Vista premium (In my Dell E510) to deal with *.vro files. I use Panasonic DVDRAM a lot and every time I try to copy from a DVDRAM disc, which creates .vro files (which I understand are MPEG). If I am using the file within v ...

I have a new PC with Vista Ultimate. I recently had some error messages when I switched on my PC (Display Driver R300 stopped responding, and has recovered) firstly, is this a serious problem? Seco ...

I had to reinstall Vista. I already had it activated. Now that I reinstalled it, will the second activation fail ?When I had Win XP, I had to call India. ...

I bought a DVD RW which includes the Nero Express v6.6.0.14, InCD v.4.3.12.0 , I installed them into my Vista Basic and try to burned some data. However Windows leadme to Nero website for updates whichI did but still I cannot burned. Does anyone here expe ...

Have gone to programs, startup and disabled and removed several times, but it keeps reattaching itself. "Roxio_central33.exe" Solution? TIA ...

I have got 2 Geforce graphics cards the driver is installed but one of the fans for the GPU is on all the time and quite a higher fan speed. As people call it a case warmer. Is there any where I can sort this problem out, its griving me ...

I've been plagued with not being able to connect my PDA to Vista x64 like many of you. I finally figured out the problem but don't know how to fix it. I launched task manager to see what was going on when my PPC was connecting. Without WMDC running, ...

i have an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. when a new driver came out for my ATI card, i tried to install it. i got an error message. after that, my computer ...

Is it possible for me to go back to Windows XP Pro? mrstutman ...

Hello !Each time I shutdown or logoff, there is a warning in the event viewer (applications). Using "tasklist" just before the shutdown, I determined the responsible software is Windows Defender (process 964 in the example). If the computer stays on during the whole day, I get 150 ...

When trying to install our self developed VB6 application, we have run into a problem, which I believe shows a conceptual VISTA problem.The scenario is: install an application under a "normal" user account.The setupprogram needs adminrights, so we sup ...

I bought a new Dell computer almost two months ago with Vista Home Premium pre installed. I realize just about every thread here deals with problems .... and I've had a few with Updates. Before I bought this new c ...

My ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 grabs 256NB of system memory. Any ideas how to limit/disable this feature ? ...

I am a hardware enthusiast who upgrades and maintains is hardware maybe 34 times a year. Include motherboards, hard drives ect. I also clean my system at times with a full format due to unforseen issues ((such as viruses that sometimes occur))I recently bought two full copies of windows Vista U ...

I used Easy Transfer from a win2000 machine to Vista Ult. All the files transferred properly, but nothing associated with email transferred.Is there a trick to it, or is email one of the things that just doesn't work from win2k?Thanks! ...

I'm running Vista Premium with an ATI TV Wonder 650 card. It is connected to both my cable (no set top box) and an amplified antenna to pick up HDTV OTA signals. When I go through the TV signal se ...

hello, i just got a new laptop so im pretty new at this.. my webcam is built right into the top of my note book, but i don't kno how to turn it on or use it. i wou ...

Using Windows Vista basic.........I have several large .mpg files on one hard drive, this is where I record video to. But I can't delete any of these files to make room for others. Windows Explorer hangs and will not p ...

I cannot play any videos in my browser? somthing about the javascript not working. I have installed java over and over. I try to play videos on myspace.com page and they won't play, what is worng with my computer? ...

I made movie with Windows Movie Maker on a DVDRAM which played on my computer. However, when I played it on my DVD player ( which recommends DVDRAM ) I got a message saying that the disc wasn't formatted and I would lose any data if I formatted it. I formatted the disc and made the mo ...

Here is the problem. . . My parents are in Guangzhou, China Country code 86 They have two new computers one computer is a DELL running XP the other is a Dell running VISTA (the vista machine ...

Hello all, I have a huuuuge problem connecting my Acer 5100 Vista Home Premiumrunning laptop to my work network, meaning that I can't. I have spent the better part o ...

I have set up a smal network and am running Vista on PC and lXP on laptop. Network set up ok except for sharing printer. This is on PC and when I try to acce ...

I have sent seperate user profiles for my family. I gave my wife the same permissions and I have as adminstrator, however we have found that she can not do anything such as download ...

I have two emails in my inbox that won't delete and I can't move them to a junk folder either. They display a messege that windows encountered a problem and couldn't open the email. ...

I see severl people have this issue. When try to send email(have aol) I get error message: Account: 'map.aol.com'Server: 'SMTP.aol.com' Protocol SMTP. Port: 25 Secure(SSL) No. Error 0x800CCC19 Any ideas? I ...

Where did the "old" stationary go in Windows Mail? Joan M.Lee ...

Error Messge appears in the text part of each email: Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. Windows Mail I am experiencing a problem with Vista Win ...

When I reply to anincoming email the original message is not included in my reply. Tools/Options/Advanced/include original message does not solve the problem. Does anyone have the same experience or a way round the problem. Allen ...

Can anyone please tell me if I can transfer (using Easy Transfer) my old email (in Outlook Express) in my XP PC, to Outlook in my new Vista PC, or do I have to transfer to Windows Mail. Thanks ...

Hi All,I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop. I have a small home network running which has an XP Pro machine as the "server".Windows Backup used to work fine backing up my laptop to one of the drives on my server, but I recently changed the network ...

I’ve a Vista Ultimate installed on a DELL Latitude D620 laptop. The problem started a few weeks ago when Symantec Antivirus reported catching Clone War (1) on my computer. I’ve since done a few clean scan ...

I just did a complete reinstall of Visat Home Premium. Don't ask!! After doing the install, I copied by data directory with my documents, favorites, music, etc, back to the users directory. Everything seemed OK, un ...

A problem I am seeing on most Vista machines, and hearing from many users, is that streaming internet media is very spotty under Vista with many temporary hiccoughs while the source is reacquired/rebuffered. XP machines on the same networks N ...

Somebody stole my laptop and stupid me had autologon enabled. I KNOW the cops wont get it back so if I see it online, and I can if they don't mess with my settings, I can remote desktop to it. How can I completely screw the system either by deactivating wind ...

Hey Folks,Time on my computer is correct. Windows Media center is hooked to a cable TV outlet, and I downloaded the correct guide for my cable provider.When I g ...

Is it as simple as buying a USB2 card and whacking it in my PC to "upgrade" from USB1 technology??? So as to take advantage of Readyboost properly?Rgds ...

About a month ago I bought a dual core 2 gig Acer with preinstalled Vista Home Premium. I had all manner of trouble from day 1. See mindprod.com/jgloss/windowsvista.htmlThen it refused to boot saying the registry was corrupt. I can examine the registry in service mode. It won' ...

As I used to do in Outlook Express, I created an HTML signature for use with Windows Mail. Have selected it in Options/Signatures however Mail doesn't automatically add the HTML sig to outgoing mail nor can I add it manually. Just blank. If I doubleclick the relevant H ...

I am running a Vista Ultimate 32 bytes. Suddenly my Pc crashed and declared that the free syze in Disk C is 0 bytes. The total size of C is 250 MB and the used space was only about 70 MB. So i deletes mails, ...

I added an HP duplxeor to my printer which I was touted to work on my new printer? The item was recieved and installed but will not duplex/ ? Is there a solution to this problem other than banging heads at HP? my operating system is V ...

A while back on this forum I found out how to delete some troublesome files by using a command prompt. The large files were making explorer hang, and use 100% CPU. The forum ...

Delux Portfolio Mgr when you run you can't get the left hand menus, you have to close and rerun, then you can get them. On the first run you get a message that the toolbox c ...

I'm setting up Vista and I have installed TechNet. After a succesfful install when I try to run it I get an error that the DTE.olb cannot be loaded. I treid a repair and that had ...

I apologize if this question has been answered before. (I did a search and did not find anything relevant.)I bought an Averatec AV2150EH1 laptop back in Feb ...

pcpitstop.com/news/dave/200704.aspPrevious Versions keeps backups of your documents, but they're inaccessable in the Home editions; buying an upgrade to Ultimate makes them appear. ...

Dear all; my Vista Home Basic seem to be automatic tick the "Always show icon and never thumbnails" lately in the folder option upon the shutting down of th ...

I have a new computer installed with Vista. I very much want to install XP over Vista but when I try it won't recognize my hard drive. Setup is all in Vista mode, which I'm ign ...

Hi, I have upgraded to Vista and now my Outlook does not run. It tells me that the Outlook Express 5 or later is required and asks for ie5setup.exe from the CD but the ie5setup.exe would not start ...

I purchased an "express upgrade" from Microsoft and installed on my Sony Vaio. I am not satisfied with this running over XP. I want to but a full OEM version and install it on this machine. When I complete my clean install of the new Vista software, ca ...

I will be dang if I can figure out how to create a new folder, when downloading, and am the file save window. Right now I just download the file, and then go create the new folder, and move the file to the new folder. One step that I shouldn't have to do. Any s ...

hiI just installed Windows Vista Business Edition x64. After I set the sound device to 5.1, i got the problem that mono sound is played on the center speaker but i would really like to have it on the two front spea ...

I have a clean install of Vista Home Premium 64bit version that doesn't seem to recognize anything in my PCI slots. I'm trying to install a Soundblaster xfi extreme, and a theatre 55 ...

It initially did. I have an XPS410 from dell, had it a coupel of weeks. INitially it ran fine. Media Center still does. However, since I installed Urge to check it out, Media PLayer will no longer start, from anywhere. I reomved Urge from the sys ...

Help please? I can't figure out how to recover my address book from Outlook Express, does anyone here know how? ...

System date and time are both accurate. Reliability Monitor displays only a single month, December 1969. Unable to change date.Is this a bug? ...

I'm really frustrated with HP. We bought this Officejet 7140xi because it's networkable and has a duplexer for doublesided printing. Per HP neither of these features are available in the basic print driver in Vista. Since Feb ...

From a Vista pc I can install a shared printer in a Win XP box, but when I print nothing happens. I was wondering if this is a Vista flaw or just a setup issue on my part. ...

I am beginning to test Vista for a planned deployment in July and have run into an odd situation.I've created a test GPO and am trying to enable the "Administrative Templates/Network/Offline Files/Administratively ...

So far that's the only device that I can't make work in Vista. It *says* it's working properly and all that, but it isn't. I'm dual booting Vista and XP and am using Vista more and more. But I have Skype contacts that I talk with freq ...

hi all, i have a new vista machine and the same processes are running multiple times in vista. Here are a few items that are running multiple timesati2evxx.exe 2 times cli.exe 3 times csrss.exe 2 times svchost.exe 13 times (s ...

Greetings,Did anyone have difficulty with Windows Vista Ultimate noticing your USB mouse? I've tried two USB optical mice and the plugnplay is not even noticing the ...

I can't get Vista to recognize my 3400+ to have a frequency of 2200 Mhz or at least to run it at 2200 Mhz. I tried everything around those energy plans, no change! PLS someone help me!I have a Vista System in a different language, so please post every answer step by step or I might not be ...

what is the file name of the vista download when you download it from the digital locker, i have downloaded it but i forogt the name, it may also be helpful to know where it is saved too defult? ...

Is a repair install as with Windows XP available with Windows Vista? The purpose here is to change the CD Key. ...

I added Office XP to my new computer running on Vista Home Premium and transferred all files from my old computer. Everything transferred and the calendar still has all my events (birthdays, anniv). The problem is that I can not edit any of these events. I get error me ...

Hi,I purchased DELL PC with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. It was working great but from last few days, I am getting driver not found message for all the USB devices even for Optical Mouse. I tried inserting the driver CD which came along ...

I have TT(Typing Tutor), that i want to run in Windows Vista but the error message is "This system does not support fullscreen mode", it is also displayed in t ...

I realize this is more of a hardware question, but since I'm familiar with "the work" of many respondents on these two groups, I thought I'd tap into the wisdom of these crowds.I'm using Vista Ultimate 64 on a socket 939 board. I'm thinking of upgrading CPU before all the 9 ...

I posted this question in the Video discussion forum but received no answers. I have searched for an answer everywhere I can think of but can find nothing on the subject. I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I have a 320 GB ha ...

On the face of it, when reading newsgroups...If a post has been cross posted to several of ones subscribed groups reading a post in one group results in it being marked read in all group.There was nothing more tedious than reading the same post time ...

I moved my Internet Explorer Favorites folder from C:\Users\Michael\Favorites to F:\Data\Favorites F: is another partition on the same phycical disk as C: and I normally can w ...

I cannot get two "Vista certified" drivers to work with devices I need to use. I cannot get streaming media to play without hiccoughing or stopping altogether. I cannot get Vista and XP computers on the network to consi ...

Hello,I've just added the BBC ticker program to the Windows Defender list not to scan but it still isn't updating. It's not updated the news since 18th April. I've rightclicked on it to select to update but nothing happens. I know it works on a Windows ...

Considering True Image 10 for Vista Home computer. Any isses I should be aware of? Mark ...

Anyone installed and using it?Rgds Rod ...

OK, I built my new PC and purchased Vista Home Premium 64bit (OEM) as I was told it was ok wto buy this with a new build ONLY.Everything went fantastic, installed well and Actived!!I decided to install my Nforce4 64bit driver for my M ...

Need help, I bought new laptop with Vista windows, I did installed Yahoo Messenger but unforetunately, I can't SIGN in the PASSWORD...always saying "plea ...

Well, I returned home to find that my install I left running overnite failed. Stupid me, but I forgot to load the drivers for my RAID/SATA Controller after I reformatted the hard drive. I guess that's why ...

I was having a problem with my network. My computer wouldn't see anything other than my modems, it wouldn't access any networks at my place of business. On top of that my CD/D ...

How do I transfer a Windows Mail data file from one Windows Vista computer to another Windows Vista computer?Thanks... ...

The end goal is to recover about 5 years worth of emails. The story: My hard drive crashed on my old computer. Luckily or unluckily I had the files backed up on an external hard drive using Windows One Care. The unfortunate part about this is that Windows One Care is not compatible with a ...

For about the last week (I guess since the latest Vista update), my computer won't shut down; I have to do a hard boot. Microsoft Update is set to run automatically every morning at 2 AM and like this morning, I came home at 7:30 AM to find Windows in the process of s ...

Hello,When opening the latest edition of Firefox on Vista, the screen jumps up and down the whole time. Very annoying. Any idea on how to fix this pro ...

I want vista to let me open excel files (.xls extensions) with Corel Quattro Pro. I've gone thru the various methods of changing the file associations, but can't get it ...

Hi can anyone please help I have just got a new laptop with windows vista installed,when I search the internet everything I have searched for appears when I do a new search how do ...

I've noticed that despite having sound when using my Vista Media Player, and having checked that the sound settings are ON, that when I try to listen to an article ...

I'm still running Vista RC 1 Build 5600. When will this Beta copy expire. (I expected it to have stopped working by now.)Thanks ...

I have just updated from XP to Vista, but IE7 won't launch. Instead I get the above error message with the advice that "Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." I follow ...

Hi,I reinstalled my office 2007 enterprise on my vista home premium, now, when i try to open any program the install goes into the setup & configuration screen, it says "windo ...

i have aero installed and working on my system, however when i maximaze a window i loose the cristal effect on the window and the window turns this ugly black color. does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent this? i would love to keep the aero effect when the window is ...

I'm trying to install Outlook 2003 on my Vista machine connected to our domain. I ran setuppro.exe as an admin and then ran Microsoft Update to install about 16 updates. When I open it, there's a couple of seconds of it saying 'Installing' ...

Folks,I have three computers in my home network. A desktop wired to a Linksys Wireless router and two wireless laptops. The LAN is secured with WPA2 and a 32 character alpha/numeric key. I would like to let my neighber, an elderly gentleman, access my wir ...

I am using offline files to synch between two vista machines. Is there a way to change the physical location of the offline files, e.g. storing them on drive d: instead of c: ?Thanks ...

I have seen several reports about how Vista allows the builtin Firewall to be configured to control outgoing connections.Is that something limited to Ultimate, because I can't find any access to it or refere ...

with many tabs open in vista IE7, IE stops working when you right click. it no longer brings up the right click menu. happens everytime there's a lot of tabs open. only way to fix is close and re open IE7. ...

Are there any more Desktop Background choices other than the ones preinstalled? I'm used to being able to change Desktop Themes frequently with XP and I'm getting t ...

I just purchased a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium. I clicked on Regeional Language setting and added Korean language like I did on another computer that has Windows XP. I see the Korean language bar at the bottom of monitor, but I can't ty ...

I have installed a fresh new copy of VISTA ULTIMATE and FSX. When using FSX it has been crashing lately and the DEP (DATA EXECUTION PROTECTION is being activated). When I visit the VISTA CONTROL PANEL for DEP it does not all ...

I find windows mail and contacts not very rewarding. I am using outlook XP and am happy. I want to delete both Mail and Contacts safely, and am in need of assistance.Thank You MilGar ...

I would like IE7 (running with Vista Ultimate) to always open windows maximized. When I open IE, I get a maximized window, but if I spawn a new window by clicking on a link it doesn't. Any way I can fix this?Thanks, R ...

HI I have this connected and running over a wireless LAN (Linksys) after a period of time say over night I can no longer print to the printer, the printer says its connected and has an ip address. I have to reset the connections on the printer and put them back in ag ...

For more than 3 months I have been trying to get a Vista driver for this printer from HP. On their website they stated last week that the XP driver should be fine, however this morning HP said the driver is not compatible with Vista and that a driver update is ''under stud ...

Hi, I bought Vista Ultimate and running it on C2D 2,4 Ghz (E6600), Asus P5W Deluxe, 2GB RAM@800 Mhz, Asus EN8800 GTS and having 5,0 overall but sometimes my desktop crashes ... all of it's components are mixed up, i'm not even able to press Windows button (I made a shortcut on o ...

Clean installed this OS and now having a problem with sound reproduction through the Media Center and also Nero 7. Using Creative XFi sound card with Vista drivers and they wo ...

HiMy MS Wireless Laser Desktop 5000 shows some problems under Vista Ultimate 64 and 32bit and Virtual PC 2007 that are typical of drivers not fine tuned, despite the proclaimed support: In VPC 2007, the mouse wheel ...

Well, I'm getting a new computer with Vista preinstalled, and I have a hard drive that I used on XP as extra storage, but I didn't install XP on the drive. Can I use the data already stored on the drive without formatting? ...

i have tried everything to install my vista got new updates even upgraded my pc everytime i try to install vista i get part way through then i get this error WHY??? I am at my wits end the store where i got my software will not refund as i have opened the product rather expensive ...

I purchased a copy of Windows Vista business edition. I installed it on my HP notebook and all was fine. Then my notebook failed. Instead of getting a ...

Hello All, Can you help?Every time i play an MP3 with windows media centre the sound glitches as the track comes to an end. If you have the visualisation running it seems to coincide with the track det ...

Is there any MP3 id3 editor for Vista on internet?Thanks,Scott ...

i recently put some cds into windows media player 11 for vista, however only some work, none of my cd's are scratched and when i put them in my computer windows media does not respond ...

My laptop is a XPProSP2 machine. I am running Vista Business on my desktop. My XP machine is a member of a domain CORP and I log in using cached credentials. First of all I cannot ping from V to X but I can from X to V. My goal is to ...

I'd like to disable offline files on my machine but the button is grayed out when i go to offline files in control panel.The computer is on a windows 2003 domain and i have the group policy setting "Allow or Disallow use of the ...

So I just upgraded to Vista from XP. Had a few issues with security, couldn't open Control Panel or windows Explorer, was getting "Windows Cannot Access the Specified Device, path. or file" etc.That was until the Windows updates are installed.Now, it's asking for authent ...

I just installed Office 2003 on my new laptop with Vista Home Premium OS and installed a wireless network in my home. Every time I open Outlook I receive a notice from Windows Defender that a program is trying to access the email contacts I have stored and asks if I will gran ...

Okay, my mother, father, and i all have our own admin accounts on vista. Is there a way to make so that when they install a program, it will stay on there ...

I've just upgraded to Vista and, at first glance, am very pleased save for a few niggles. Most importantly, however, Outlook will no longer archive folders because, it says, I don't have the permission required. Needle ...

Dawn of War Dark Crusade has troubles looking for Spooge driver somewher in DirectX.'System Initialization Failed!ERRORS: Spooge driver not found. Verify that DirectX is properly installed.' It said.I try install DirectX through ...

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Although I am getting email, it is not being displayed properly. Mail comes into my inbox and I can see the number increasing but I can't see my mail.Have tried ensuring that settings show 'show all' even when off line and this was working temporarily howev ...

If I activate Vista Ultimate while running under Vmware running on licensed XP pro for testing purposes till I upgrade my machines peripherals (driver support issues) But I still want to ...

Hi... I have a new Dell Dimension E520 on the way that was only available with Vista, and I'd like to immediately switch it to XP Professional. I have XP Pro in the form of an iso file from my MSDN subscript ...

I'm running Vista 64Bit, and while I was searching my machine, I did a search for metadata. I got a list of over 100 files (xml documents) in c:\Users\user name\Documents\Downloads\MetadataWell, when I click on 'open file location', I get &q ...

I have Windows 98SE, my sister has Vista. She wanted a .wav file that I use for my new mail alert, so I sent it to her via email. She uses Outlook 2003, I use Eudora. She saved the file I sent her to the Documents f ...

Does anyone have a way to force vista to popup a confirmation box when logging off? I'd like to have one similar to the way XP did it. ...

I have vista ultimate 32bit installed and I would like to dual boot with ubuntu or kubuntu(what would ppl recommend?)..I have a spare 250gb HDD so what is the best way to go around this...obviously I dont want to reinstall Vista Ultimate ...

Tried turning the Telnet Server on. [Control Panel : Programs and Features : Installed Updates : Turn Windows Features on or off] The process appeared to work, but I cannot get the system to accept telnet connections from another system, and can find no way to set the s ...

Microsoft has released the following security bulletins today:MS07023 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (934233) microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07023.mspx Affected Software: Office 2000, Excel 2000, Office XP, Excel 2002, Office 2003, Excel ...

i cant close my account. and i cant delete my contacts adresses . ...

I would like to get my email from Yahoo.com to come to my computer through Outlook Express? Does anyone know how this is done? ...

What a mess Microsoft created by dropping Outlook Express and changing to Windows Mail. I use MSN as my internet provider and cannot use MSN in Windows Mail. I set up a Gmail account and every time I try to open Windows Mail I get t ...

My first reaction to the "all or nothing" approach to backup was negative... I want to decide what to back up and when. But after I've used it for a while ...

When I try to update vista, I get the error code of 8007000BI've used the Get help link and followed the instructions (80070002, as there is no help for 8007000B) about 20 times and it still doesn't work. MS su ...

I'm using Vista Ultimate x64 and find that when I share a folder for network access, the system selects a share name for me and doesn't allow me to change it. This forces me to name the actual folder ...

Upon starting my pc I get a message saying that Windows calendar has stopped working, and that Windows is looking for a solution and will be back once it's found. Well, the calendar works fine, so what do you think is the problem?Best regards ...

gurucharanT60p lenovo new, vista home premium, everything fine then after last auto update can not select text in word 2007 with touch pad or with usb mouse. I can move cursor with arrows. I can move mouse arrow to control functions and it works in ot ...

Hi, I'm having a few annoying problems with IE& on Vista, and I wondered if there was a way to reinstall the IE7 components.I'm running Windows Vi ...

You may get this error message if you have turned off the System Restore feature, it sets a System settings restore point if you inadvertently turn it off then this error statement m ...

Last time I tried TrueImage with Universal Restore to make an old Windows installation into a VirtualPC virtual machine it didn't work. I heard that Universal Restore was not working ...

Hello All,I can connect fine to my office Vista machine (via Remote Desktop) from my XP box at home. However whenever I get back into the office the monitor o ...

we have been trying out the sidebar feature and using custom gadgets downloaded from the marketplace (multimeter,dopplar, and such) and have noticed a peculiar behavior. ...

I use Windows Key and F to get the search box up. Type something in. Nothing happens. Anybody know what's causing my issue please? RCE Defiant ...

I did a clean install on a brand new second drive, with XP on the other.. over a month has past, I disconnected the XP drive and all is swell. A couple of old programs did not work, but other free programs were out there to replace th ...

TheAutoplay is set to use and "ask me every time" for all media and I have ah premium flash drive Vista approved connected correctly.Problem is autoplay never appears so I can choose what to do either readyboost or ...

I'm trying to format a new DVD in my DVDburner. With a fresh, unformatted DVD, Windows is telling me the DVD is write protected, although it *looks* like it's formatting.Huh?Thanks!Ross ...

At one point, I had excluded Windows Search from indexing my 'hotmail' account in Microsoft Outlook (I have Outlook configured to pull my Exchange mail and personal POP3 mail along with my hotmail account). I ended up removing the hotmail accou ...

In Windows Explorer, when I sort by type, Vista conveniently places the file folders at the top of the list. However, once I group by type, file folders become classified as ...

I changed the SIMM settings in my webmail options and when I send email I get knocked out of the system.Help!! ...

When i have shared folders or files, clicking on the Shared By Me search feature returns an empty result set. Does this feature work for anyone? If it does, did you have to do anything unusual to get it to function? All the other canned searches return ap ...

On my system (an AMD 64 3200+ with 1 GB of RAM) it takes Notepad a full 9 seconds to launch. Why so slow? Word 2007 launches in about half that time. Of course, everything in Vista runs much s ...

Sidebar starts up and then says it has an error and shuts down. Maybe a gadget is causing this, but how can I remove gadgets and start fresh when Sidebar won't run? ...

I have a PC with Vista Home Premium operating sys and wireless Microsoft mouse. When I open a document in Word 2007 I can the pointer in the margins of the document only. It disappears behind text. Does anyone have a fix for this ...

Hi all,I've just installed vista business on my girlfriend's computer and neither her ipod nor her digital camera (sony dsc p52) are working. Vista dete ...

I just got D975XBX2 to replace eVGA 680i SLI. But I'm having trouble with Vista x64 installation. Whenever Vista x64 installation finished loading files before going to set ...

I have a generic Ritmo 4port USB hub that works fine on XP, but not on Vista. Vista doesn't recognise it at all, and I can't find a driver for it on the net!This seems crazy because it's such a generic plug and play device.Any suggestions? Thanks! ...

I'm going to install a new motherboard later today. All other hardware will remain the same. What should I expect on starting the system for the first time. Will I get away with simply inserting the Vista DVD and doing a repai ...

when i'm opening my MSN client (The regular) I get a wrong mesage that it contained virus. And then it was ...Ehh, shutting down (The app) I normally speak norwegian btw... So my english is bad :S But WinVista says that it own app contain virus :S omg... ...

ok my friends warned me but i went ahead and installed vista. i need to get it off my other computer now. i cannot find anyway to uninstall it. ...

I bought a new machine with Vista Home Premium loaded Since I had no Internet access at the time, I assumed Explorer was refusing to startup because no network was detected. Anyway I am now conne ...

are there any reasons you cant upgrade vista home primuim to vista Buisness.is it that easy you just run the vista buisness disk...can you help? ...

Hi,The problem I am having is that I can play the content I choose on my computer through Media Player 11 or through Media Center on my PC (PC is running Vista Home Premium). I can go to the Media blade on my Xbox 360 and choose Media Center and I can play the music I have on my ...

My videos are playing with the audio and video not in sync with one another. The audio seems to be about 3 second earlier than the video, making for some very annoying playb ...

Is there a way to copy downloaded/purchased music files from itunes to windows media player??? If so, then can it be downloaded to an mp3 player? ...

I'm experiencing lots of problems with Vista Movie Maker and I wonder if there's a possibility to remove it completely, download a new one and install it? ...

I have a home network that has a DSL modem connected to a Linksys BEFW11S4v.2 (with updated firmware) 4 port switch WiFi router. I have several XP machines hardwired to teh switch and all have conectivity. I have a cable runnin form the switch approximately 50 ...

Intel DQ965GF Latest BIOS 5882 OS: Vista X64 Ultimate TPM: ST Microelectronics 1.2When I disable Bitlocker and want to reactive it I get an error. All I can is to de ...

Hi,Sometimes when I'm working on a file, located in my Documents folder, I suddenly loose permissions on the file. Obviously, the file is still there. For a short while that is, because after about two minutes, th ...

I am migrating ASP pages from an XP laptop to a Vista Business laptop running IIS 7.0. The ASP pages query a MS Access database. Everything is on the local machine, althoug t ...

I lost somehow the use of Disk Management (under Computer Management) The message states "unable to contact Virtual Disk Service." Can you help with a fix? ...

Does anyone know how to get Microsoft's Train Simulator to run on Vista? It worked for a couple of years just fine on XP, but now I'm running Vista Home Premium. It seem ...

below is the error message I get when trying to send an email....can anyone help?? The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing email [SMTP] server. For help solving this problem, go to Help, search for " ...

how can i speed up opening up a reply or reply allit is extremely slow? also will i be able to go back to using outlook instead of windows mail soon? Windows mail is very frustratingtxs lj ...

I have written an application that starts a ManagementEventWatcher and uses WMI. The application takes around 01% CPU in XP whereas in Vista CPU usage is 40% continuously. Is there a fix? ...

My monitor display goes blank after a few hours or so despite the fact that the computer is still in use. Along with that, the PC will not be able to detect the keyboard as well. The cpu and fan is still r ...

I want to have my windows vista machine to act like that of server 2003. How do I set the large system cache in vista to do the same thing?I know in older systems it was: large system cache = 1 size = 3Is this the same in vista? ...

HiI have a PC running Vista Ultimate, it has the following specs CPU P4 3.2 HT 2.5 Gig RAM 256 Meg Graphics Card. 2 x 160 Gig Hard Drives (1 is 10,000RPM)Both hard Dives are a bit less that 40% full.Defrag has has been running for 14 hours so far, is that normal? (last defrag was in May ...

Hello,Suddenly my Documents folder disappeared from my Desktop. I don't know when and how. I tried to find it but in vane. How can I restore Documents folder to the Desktop? ...

The mirrored volume it's only supported by Windows Server family on dynamic disk, but for Windows XP one thing can be done to create mirrored volumes. This guide show how to do (tomshardware.fr/monterunsystmeraid5avecwindowsxparticle ...

Some guys in here asked about the following informaton: I dont reply to trolls directly anymore. yeah I know... educating the vistaboys and vistagals for one more time....MS thought NTFS was fragmentproof and did not provide defragmentation tool See second paragraph. lascon.co.uk/d ...

I have Vista Ultimate and note the following issues. Is anyone able to suggest a fix?:1. The notification icons (volume, network, power) intermittently disappear and are ...

Hello everyone! Is this is bug or can repair by change setting? ...

How does one turn this off? I played around with it the other day and now I want to turn it off, but can not find the switch.Appreciate any help.Thanks ...Chip.. ...

How do I get "Hibernate" added in between the "Sleep" and "Shutdown" choices on the right edge of the start menu? TIA, Paul ...

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 p ...

Hi,I need to backup some files to other disk in Vista, but i don't want to backup the system partition with the files. What should i do ?Thanks!Aggie ...

I am from italy and when I use the microsoft tool to localize problem and obtain solution I obtain the indication that there is the solution, but when I click on appair a page in wich t ...

If I go on holiday from UK to USA and buy Vista there, will it work in UK? (I am asking because it costs half as much in USA.) Chris ...

Seems to be activated because mouse pointer disappears but no media scren menu Pat ...

Hi currently have the Vista 32bit full package of SW installed for the HP7180 wireless all in one. After some problems I decided to uninstall and reinstall the SW as I could not launch the solution center kept getting a parser error.The SW won't ...

I am trying to burn a dvd using dvd maker at the end I get the following erro messages The owner SId on per usersubscription does not existsI cannot find and solution or infora ...

I have a Sony Vaio laptop with the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (T5600). The spec tells me this is a 64bit dual CPU processor. When I look in task manager performance I only see 1 CPU [i have selected one gra ...

Hello. I have just bought a HP Pavilion dv2315us Laptop and have installed the Windows Vista Home Premium software which came with the product. I was able to register the software and laptop but I am unable t ...

Is there any version of Vista (Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate) that allows for password protecting a folder? ...

HiI managed to work with my newly installed Vista Home for a few weeks. Yesterday I installed a docking station for my new Sony Handycam and the corresponding drivers and from that moment all my usb devices have failed to re ...

Hello, In windows XP when i want to use my headphones i connect them to the audio jack in the front of my PC and turn off the power to the speakers(connected to audio jack in ...

Just got a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista. My floppy drive will not work. The system sees it in the bios, sees it during boot, and will let me access it in safe mode. Device manager say ...

My Vista PC read and writes to the system drive C: every second the entire time Vista is loaded. This didn't happen with XP. What is making these regular disk reads and writes? ...

In Vista, as it was possible in XP, is it possible to select, in Windows Update, only a selection of patches? I have tried to untick the ones I dont want but they keep coming back?Any ideas? Thanks ...

HELP! I'm trying to upgrade to Vista Premium. When it begins, it goes thru the "collecting information" stage but I think I'm having a problem ...

I had 15GB of iTunes compatible videos which worked great under XP 64Bit. I did an express upgrade and now iTunes reports that the same untouched files are no longer compatible. When I click on the video file in win ...

I'm trying to upload a personal DVD to post for friends to view but I can't figure out how. ...

Hi When i try to see the shared files on my windows xp on my windows vista by going throught start > Network the windows xp computer shows but when i ...

Hi am trying to acces my windows xp shared files on my vista laptop i have a router and the laptop has wireless and my xp is wired. when i got to start > network i can see the computer but when i double click it to see the files it says cannot access \\NORT ...

Hello,I have a new Vista computer on our corporate network that connects to the internet via a gateway system and proxy server. I have setup the computer just like we usually do with XP systems to communicate with the internet over our internal LAN (setting the IP address, gateway, na ...

We are connecting to wireless at home with no problems. When we take it on the road, we are able to connect at some places and not others. All of the sites we are attempting to connect to are set for OPEN access. During one of the events that i could not get internet access ...

Hi,I have an xbox 360 and a brand new laptop running vista home premium. I have been trying for several days to connect the xbox 360 as an extender for windows medi ...

I recently downloaded a file for my wife and told it where to save the file. Vista then told me that it placed the file in a temp folder for safety. I had to go search for it to move it where it belonged.How do I disable this feature? ...

I am running Vista Home Premium on a new Gateway laptop. I set up my password usiing the laptop keyboard and things went well. Then I added an external, full sized USB keyboard. Now when I enter ...

I can't install my new hp printer software. Pop up says "This software cnnot be installed using th 'Run as...' command. Says I must log off then log on as an administrator. But I am an administrator. Please help me I am getting very frustrated. biddy ...

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