Windows Vista Home Basic

When I try to send email with excel, I get message that excel does not support a hotmail address, so it will not go through. I have set my default to windows live ...

I just installed MS Vista in my new computer. My web based Email from Earthlink works fine, but my web based Email server at work (ihc.com) allows me to receive messages, but I can't reply or send any messages. What to do? ...

Hi,Another question,( related to the last one). If I get the Geforce 6200 card (compatible with Aereo) my fear is: will using Aereo all the time can damage the Card? What I mean is, Aero is like playing a 3D game all the t ...

When I open COMPUTER and look at my C: Drive, it shows 69GB of 127GB free. That translates as 58GB used.However, when i doubleclick the C: Drive and h ...

I had my system running 32 Vista Business, I was rating a 5.1 on my CPU and a 5.9 on my Memory. I just bought Vista 64 bit Ultimate and installed it clean, with my drivers in place my CPU is 5;0 and my memory is 5.0.The CPU drop is minor and of no ...

New windows vista with a KonicaMinolta 2430Dl laser printer. Printer is insntalled but the port defaulted to File. Added a tcp/ip port and i was able to print a test page after the installation ...

vista 64 premiumI have a black gold tv tuner card but require drivers for it so that I can get media centre to work can anybody help? ...

HeyI've been running vista ultimate for some months now, but in the last few weeks i have experienced a major step down in performance and speed of media center, it just lacks all the time, even when only using 20% of CPU power. when i restart media center it works ...

Its been 2 weeks now that i am un able to send any mail due to the email un ex plained error message which keep popping up every time i try to delete the email has MS resolved this problem? ...

i`ve used vista bussiness,and i usually connect to internet at night.but it usually hang up. my pointer can move, but IE stop responding. my clock at side bar stop too. i`ve no other option but to restart. at the restart, it has no send information just l ...

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My small URL shortcut icons are just simply black. Anyone else with this problem? I can make this happen with a search from the Start Menu, or by making a shortcut that links to a URL and making the icon size the smallest. Th ...

I just bought a new computer that came with Windows Vista Home Premium preinstalled. My, now dead, old computer was running Windows XP SP2.For all practical purposes, ALL of the software that ran perfectly well on XP, that I depend on to survive, has ...

I am waiting for a Vista Home Premium upgrade to arrive on a recently purchased HP PC. Can anyone tell me if the Vista version they ship is an OEM version or an Upgrade version?I have access to an OEM version from another machine I upgraded and was wonde ...

Hello, I am running vista ultimate 64bits on a SATAI 80 Gb HD. I would like to upgrade it to a SATAII 500Gb HD by cloning. I have also a IDE 160Gb HD that I use for archiving d ...

I had same problem that a lot of other people had. Screen saver did not work. I googled it and found this. It worked. Download microsoft optional update. HID NonUser Input Data Filter. update.m ...

Hi Anyone else getting this problem,when i try to update from the utility i get an error sayong "sorry servers are'nt ready to serve!" could this just be down to high server load .any suggestions ...thankyou in ...

I purchased an OEM copy of Vista Business, but now I would like to upgrade to Ultimate. The DVD itself says "includes Vista Anytime Upgrade", ...

When i try to print a faxed tif file with foto manager's print option, the file gets printed buth with swapped length and widt so it's distorted. Tried to adjust printer settings for printing standing up and lying down but nothing works. (I have dutch language installed so don't know if i got th ...

Has anyone experienced this, yet? Everything else works with Windows Mail but as of yesterday, it stopped saving changes such as whether or not Details are expanded when the mail check popup appear.This mornin ...

my Pc : Intel pentium D 3.4GHz Asus PW5DH duluxe 1.5GB DDRAM2 dual graphic asus 7600GT 200GB hard drive I've just bought the windows vista premium edition last week. I tried to use the c ...

Hi,I can't find a newsgroup on this one for Word. But thought just maybe I could help someone else if they have this problem... I had made many Microsoft documents on Word 97. Some of them are opening in 2007 with a bunch of symbols instead of with the f ...

Why is it that so many hardware manufacturers seem to know less about Vista than I do? I've had two instances, now, in which the information provided by the hardware manufacturer was sim ...

Is it possible to set gmail for mailto links?It seems as Vista makes it hard to use anything but Microsoft products for email. I uninstalled Outlook because it woul ...

Do the videos on this site work for you in IE7. They don't here. Flash is working on other sites.Display fine in SeaMonkey (Firefoxtype suite).Suggestions? ...

ok, something very weird has been happening. Got a few XP boxes on a LAN and just included a Vista machine. Sharing files and working through the LAN h ...

I have a Vista machine in the lab that is joined to our Windows 2003 domain. I would like to know how to modify the contents of the Programs menu to remove miscellaneous items such as Movie Maker, DVD Maker, Media Center, etc for all use ...

I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's back again. Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed to do to get it working again? ...

Hi all! I just updated my Vista, home made, PC from an Athlon 64 3500+ single core chip to an Athlon 64 3800 X2 to take advantage of multi processing in Vista. Here is the problem. When I ran the benchmarks, Vista is performing terribly. I went from ab ...

Hi anyone know why defender icon is not on my notification area although it says its enabled in the security settings Thanks ...

About 90% of my mail "Cannot be found" when I try to view it. However a "Search" of "Windows Mail" took me to all of my documen ...

When I clickon send/receive box, the box that opens whilst sending or receiving always opens with detailed view even when I previously closed it without error details, any suggestions? Phil. ...

HelloI've been putting my PC to sleep instead of shutting down. Every few days, my computer will wake itself back up which is annoying. Looking in the Event Viewer, under System, the first message is:The system detect ...

Whenever I boot my computer, the Gadgets are rearranged. Is there a way to lock them in place? Thank you. ...

Request info on a patch for windows vista ultimate for a printer LEXMARK 83x print/scan/copy machine urgent.25/03/07 ...

How can I chance the colour balance in my computer if everything (pictures, internet,etc) is cold and blue? How to change the date in calendar (if time zone is correct but th ...

Hi all,Can any one please help me to increase the number of remote logon session to a VISTA machine. by default its one.thanks in advance!! sudhansu ...

I have a vertical column of dead pixels (locked yellow) that has suddenly appeared on my laptop LCD.It is not a problem with the LCD itself or the video card because they are not visible during the BIOS stage of ...

I have a custom build running Windows Vista Business (x86) edition. When inserting a DVD, be it commercial, burned, or blank, it is not recognized properly. For instance: * A blank DVD+R is not recognized at all and I am instructed to enter me ...

I have tried and failed several times to install Kb 929399 which is windows media format 11 SDK for windows Vista. The error message I get is 80242006 which does not exist . on the Knowlege based we ...

I recently upgraded to Vista from XP. I have set my screen resolution to the highest setting, but the screen keeps blacking out for a second, then setting the resolution to the lowest setting.Any help is appre ...

Why is it that when clicking on my hyperlinks to files containing spaces in their titles, the result I get is as follows: ************************************* The address is not valid Most likely ...

I have a computer set up to dualboot to either XP or Vista (prerelease build 5744). XP is the primary or "first" OS and is on drive C. Vista is on a second physical drive (drive D).I'm done experimenti ...

I am having printing problems and cant add a printer or even start the print spooler service. I get the following error in the event log The print spooler cannot start because the PrinterBusEnum ...

what is the status of Vista and support for OpenGL? ...

Just bought a new laptop the other day. Right out of the box and the machine won't turn off. Try to use the shut down through windows but the machine just restarts, and i have to end up shutting it off manually. Seems like i ...

So randomly a couple of days ago, after putting in my password at the main login screen for my user account on vista, the only one on the pc besides administrator, the login took alot longer than normal, and after 30 seconds or so it logs into a default desktop saying it was unable to load m ...

Vista: Hot or Not?In the wake of Microsoft's announcement that it had "sold" 20 million Windows Vista licenses during Vista's first 30 days of general availa ...

Is anybody having slow resumption time coming off screen saver? I'm talking 10 15 seconds using the picture screen saver. Suspect 5200 128 mb grapics card might be issue, but not sure ...

I am running Vista Beta 2. I have more errors than I could possible count, and I am not even exagrating! 1) Explorer 7 can't run unless I open it as an Administrator (I have to do this manually each time) 2) Changing File Folder names (Each time ...

When playing music with WMP 11, I noticed that clicking the "x" button to close it does not actually result in exiting the program. My song files still play and the WMP11 process is still active. In order to completely close the ...

According to this old article and others on the web Microsoft was touting a game tweaker for Vista Ultimate. I don't see any such feature in Vista Ultimate. Where is it?winsupersite.com/showcase...ions_final.aspWindows Vista UltimateThe best operating system ev ...

every time when i start my 64 bit, it keep pousing for 30sec or 1 min when i do any thing it just keep pousing and i dont know what to do, i reinstall the vista and it all the sam ...

Annoying little issue:How can I stop VISTA asking for permission EVERY time Iopen Interent Explorer?Advice is welcomed.Thanks ...

I have an Vista Ultimate 64 new system that has Office 2007. After installing web Expression and Visio, both apps always do an installation process each time I try to run them. Other have the same problem see : blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/02/15/probleminstallingexpressionw ...

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium Brazilien Portuguese. The system is installed at a SATA HD 250GB. Now, I tried to install my old EIDE Hard Drive (120GB) ...

I did a full install of Vista Ultimate. I installed the Texas Hold'em card game and it worked fine. I had to reformat my drive and reinstall everything. However I was NOT offered any Ultimate Extras!!! Where can I find and install the Texa ...

Getting a peculiar message in the event log after wireless networking temporarily suspends. The message is "The service temporarily stopped publishing because of a power event." When this occurs, wireless networking stops and all open connections are cut. Vi ...

are you to a victum of vista??? felt ripped off??dissapointed with the new OS? cos its let you down?..............................................well i would like t ...

Phil"Ltel" wrote:Had same/similar problems with webcam on my HP 9292eu, tried lots of fixes even new driver Vista fix from HP which didn't work. HP help were not much saying it is an issue with some.So far, few days I have it working by uninstalling i ...

when I first installed Vista Home Premium I was running a 128Mb Geforce 6600GT PCIx video card. Aero was happening and everything was fine and dandy. However after upgrading to a 640Mb Geforce 8800GTS the Aero interfa ...

First of all, to compare with other users are my full specs:ASUS M2NSLI Deluxe MotherboardAMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4600 (2 x 2.4Ghz)4 x 1Gb OCZ 667Mhz RAM (4Gb)2 x 7950GT 512Mb RAM Graphics Cards in SLI ConfigurationJeantech Storm ATX Power S ...

I have some Altec Lansing Speakers with a subwoofer, & I cannot get them to work with Windows Vista. I went to their website to download drivers, but none were available. I never needed software before, they w ...

I have a ACER Aspire 5100 and on doing the initial setup and getting around to doing the Windows Live Messenger Installation, the latest release 8.something comes up with a DEP erro ...

Hi ! I have installed VMWare in WindowsVista but I now want to uninstall, but there is no entry to uninstall it in the Add/Remove programs section. Posted at author's request, using fully moderated WinForumz.com/SetupInstallationforum ...

I have just bought a new Lenovo with Vista business. My original DVD burner came with Nero 6 OEM, which I attempted to install on my new PC. Does Vista support this rather old software? I have been unable to work out how to get this information from Nero. ...

I HAVE A TV TUNER I am able to watch live tv but i have only got 4 channels but I should be getting more channels so how long does it take to get the channels? ...

Just installed Vista Ultimate 64bit version a few days ago. Defender was working normally. A day later, possibly coinciding with having installed the updates from Windows Update, the Defender service will not start automatically or manually.I tried ever ...

After bstartup of game the reselution is bad. Haw can that be fixed??? ...

I had already download the DirectX in my system, but my online the net game still could not found this . ...

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Hi folks!I'm trying to import my emails that I have saved the .dbx files from windows xp home 32bit to my new vista ultimate 64bit.Can anyone tell me why this isn't working please? They just don't show up in the folder they are in when I try to import them into windows mail.Thanks in advance! ...

When I open my Contacts folder from Windows Mail, every contact has the annoying and unnecessary ".contact" extension. I can fix this by tu ...

Windows Calendar is not working. I can enter appointments etc but the calendar will not pop up the reminder. Please help. ...

I have a new computer with Windows Mail installed (no other mail client) and I need to import my pst file from my old Outlook.When I try and import the file using File/Import/Messages/Microsoft Outlook, I get the following error:"Message ...

Some days ago, I wrote a message to someone who sent me an answer with my original message. My original message was printed "in red colour" and my correspondent specified in his answer that my message was a "followed one". Could someone explain what ...

Hi, my problem is that although my microphone works fine and calling out is no problem, I can't hear what other people are saying into their mics, it happens on everything I have tried it with MSN, Games (like bf 2142). I hav ...

well i have some problem saving Ip in my hosts (its for a game) but it wont save the ip adress it says it cant it says (translated form swedish so ma be some wrong )C:\Windows\system32\drivers ...

I have had a problem getting my computer to start up and it appears that a file may be corrupted, possibly the crcdisk.sys file (I found this out by boo ...

as above i have no sound, and im not sure what drivers i need, the mother board is a abit kn8 sli, i have installed the nvidia drivers for it, and i have tryed the realtek drivers ...

I have installed vista on my computer at home and thought that I had registered it after installation. Now it it telling me that the registration key for that copy of Vista is already in use and I need a new copy or new key.....What do I do? ...

Okay I found out how to get the ctrlaltdel for the logon, but with xp/2000 you would then be prompted to enter your user ID and password. with vista you get to choose from a list of users. I don't want a list of users shown. I want users to have to enter a user ID and pw. how can I set vist ...

I have a laptop with windows vista home premium operating system.I opened some video in real player and the system got stuck. I have forced power down my s ...

Is there a way to have windows explorer open with my C drive instead of with my Documents? Shirley ...

Hi,I have been unable to get SyncToy v1.4.0 to run nightly, using Vista's Task Scheduler. I'm wondering if this is a known issue or if it's due to the way I set up the task? I followed the scheduling instructions in the synctoy help. Task scheduler's history indicates that the task has ru ...

Hi everybody, today, I found out that my PC had been hibernated and I suspect it was due to the UPS battery that was running low. How can I find the corresponding event, just to be sure it was a automatic ...

'Windows Vista no longer starts after you install an earlier version of Windows in a dualboot configuration.' I saw this in the recent newsletter and read it as "install XP after Vista ? to fix boot see here": wrong."Technical troubleshoo ...

I am not an extremely tech savy individual and do not know the licensing agreements very well. There is a local individual or business, acting under a business name, that is advertising downgrading a Vista system to XP Pro. They are doing it for $75, so I k ...

Hi,I have recently purchased a new computer which runs Vista, I have tried to install my printer which was from my previous computer running windows XP, h ...

I have been having problems with Windows Updates and after a handful of emails Darrell has solved my problem. I still don't understand this but what he suggested seems to ha ...

I can't seem to get my ASP.NET applications to work on vista. The problem appears to be the MIME types for .aspx are missing. There are a lot of references to ASP.NET throughout the setup but it is all enabled as far as I can tell. I'm sure I wouldn't have to manually ...

Is the Vista File System NTFS the same as XP / win2000? If I hook up an IDE with Vista (all flavours) to a Windows XP machine will the XP machine read the drive and its files OK? I haven't done it personally myself yet but was just wondering ...

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I have a USB Storage disk that used to work perfectly with XP. When I put the disk in, it comes up with the Auto Play, with only two options. (It used to say open to view files, pictures, sounds, etc.) Now it just says "Ru ...

I just had my computer rebuilt. Vista 32bit ( for all my programs ) intel core duo Quad 8 gigs of ram 512mb video card. the Bios says I have 8 gigs. the tech put a program in the system that says ...

I have a new Profile 6 and I was able to finagle my way thru Device Manager and remove the check in the enable analog box for my CD/DVD player and I could hear my music on my hea ...

I have bought the above mentioned version, and am about to install it on my system. However, I am going to buy a new PC in a couple of months (self build). I have heard that i ...

i am unable to play avi files as dream scene background video it only plays wmv files. is there any way for playing avi or mpeg filessecondly can i convert avi or mpeg files into wmv file ? ...

Does anyone have an estimated date of when this might me coming. I'm holding off upgrading my laptop till I have this.Thanks. ...

It shows 36 items and will not clear with the empty deleted items key. Also even though they appear you can not delete it with the delete key with out a message can not find ...

I can send mail, I can also retrieve mail from my comcast mail account. But I cannot receive any mails to my windows accounts. I have received these errors. This when I try to send mail to my windows email address from my comcast account Permanent Failure: 550_5.1.1_User_unkn ...

I have a problem with Windows Mail in that when I compose and send an email it does not send but just sits in the Outbox unsent. I have checked the 'sent' tab in options in Mail and all seems fine. 'Send and receive' does not give and error messages but mail does not send! The emails were ...

How can I restore windows mail to it's default "factory" status ? It seems that you can restore some things and items cahnged but not the whole program. If t ...

I have been using Microsoft mail with no problems for four months. I do have a small business domain name. On Friday I changed companies hosting the incoming ma ...

Gee wiz, it's nice to back on XP. On a Core 2 with 2GB of RAM, XP flies. MS can keep Vista for now. I eventually removed Vista and went back to XP of much deliberation. Even though I have XP here on 2 other machines, I had ...

I upgraded to Vista Ultimate. The first time I faxed, it worked fine. The first time I scanned, it worked fine. The, next time I tried to fax, I can't make it work. After I type the message and click "Send Fax" it goes to a "Prin ...

Just purchased my new computer today. I am trying to get into pogo to play games but it wont let me download java. Does anyonw please have any sugestions? ...

trying to add an XP machine through a wireless connection to the router which is wired to a Vista machine and the network map shows a dashed green line to the XP ...

I had problems with Vista freezing up so I turned off all power options. I have noticed since then that Vista still freezes up. It seems every time that it does Messenger is running. I haven't tried running Vista without Messenger to see if Messenger is "hanging" Vista ...

Hi,I recently purchased Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I come to do a clean install, it asks me for a CD / DVD driver.After reading several topics in here, I discovered that it was looking ...

How does Vista deal with nonroaming domain user profiles?On XP, when a domain user logged out their profile was left behind in Documents and Settings ...

When ever I try to open an attachment on any of my emails, no matter what type file extention is has, it locks up, goes Not Responding, whatever. No matter how I try to open it. I have checked the security settings and everything I could possibly think of but then I do ...

www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/trust me... I couldn't figure it out either... but now I have all three my accounts on Windows Mail. You don't switch around.. they all show up and you get to choose which I ...

can't set up windows vista to recieve emails, i'm a complete amateur at this only got my first pc a couple of weeks ago can anyone help me ...

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How can I disable this? It comes up everytime I open something with RAR and since I have to use that a lot I'm tired of getting the prompt. Any help would be appreciated. ...

When I try to run a program UAC comes up with something like "unknown program xyz.exe is asking for access to your computer" and when I allow this the program runs ok. However, I am asked to do this each time I run the program. Is it possible to make Vista remember that p ...

I have a MS Project 2007 file which I, at the bottom just over the status bar in Windows Explorer, would like to add an author and other information to. Well, one thing is not as supposed I think: ...

I have windows vista home premium. Does anyone have any idea why Windows Media Player takes 3 days to burn a one hour and 40 minute movie to DVD? ...

Currently, my system is being dual booted with XP and Vista Ultimate. The original installation was with XP and I used my second hard drive to install Vista. ...

We have purchased Windows Vista Enterprise with Software Assurance for our IT Department. One of the reasons we did this was so that we would be able to run up to 4 virtual ...

I was copying files from an XP computer to Vista over the network and copying just freezes so I try to wait. The animation keeps going, but the statistics are the same. ...

Hello Everyone,Please bear with me as i am new to newsgroups and this is my first time.I have Vista Home Premium and really like it but one problem i got is that sometimes when using speech recognition that it either tak ...

Hello. We have a computer with Windows Vista Business 32bit on a Machine here in our Lab. We are trying to figure out why some of the files in our software are always hidden. We are logged in as administrator, and we ha ...

Folder views dont stick and keep changing random types of view, anyone else experiencing this or know how tae fix. Its a bit like the good old days of XP. Reset Views in Folder Options works, but only for a short time ...

Is it possible to set the desktop so icons and files saved to desktop are placed on the right side of the screen rather than the left? I have the sidebar on the left side and anytime i save a file to the desktop it gets placed under the sidebar. So, to get to the file, I have to close ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate, and today I encountered a blue sceen of death. It occured while I had the Itunes application open and opened windows Mail.After the reboot, I relaunched the itunes and got this error: " C:\Windows\system32\ODBC32.dll is either not designed to run on Win ...

Hi, I got windows vista ultimate 64bit and am currently trying to install it. But every time I get to expanding files it hangs at 1314 %. Then it says error 0x80070003 ...

I have two Vista machines, both using Vista Business."Machine 1" had many large files on the desktop (iso files I downloaded, etc). I deleted them all.I logged onto Vista " ...

Windows Live one care is what Microsoft offers for Vista and my 90 day trial is up. You can get it for 3 computers for $50 which is a pretty good deal. The only problem I have had is Defender keeps going off because Live One wants to do the job. ...

Hi I have Vista Home Premium. The box asking me to connect to the internet keeps popping up every 15 minutes or so this is very anoying when watching Win TV. H ...

I'm trying to install real player on vista, and it's coming up with decompression error and goes nowhere. Tried several times. Any ideas as to what's causing this ? Does real player work with vista ? more pix @ members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html ...

All of the USB ports (5 on motherboard, 2 on the front and 2 on the back) have stopped working on my pc. They are still showing as working on my hardward manager and I have installed every USB update I can find on this forum ...

The scroll wheel on the mouse only scrolls the register up no matter which way you turn it . The slider bar works but not the scroll wheel. Anyone else with this problem or solution. I co ...

My grandfather has a MS LifeCam VX6000 and uses Skype to chat with me. Since last week, his picture is upside down in Skype. He said he didn't do anything and the camera is not physically upside down. What could ...

Somebody please help. Three computers in my wireless network, two xp home and one vista prem. The two xp machines can see into the vista machine and the vista machine can see, map and see shared files on the xp machines, but as soon as I try ...

Hello,Please, does anyone know if it is possible to programatically connect (via Native WiFi and XML profile) with Vista Wireless to an AP with configuration 802. ...

Hello,I am running an peertopeer network with Vista Utlimate & XP Home. Both workstations are behind a NAT Router. The peertopeer network always worked without any problems untill I replaced the hardware of my Vista workstatio ...

Hi, I'm using Vista Home Premium, and up until now everything's been going fine. Today I decided to install an addon for firefox, which worked fine, but when I closed firefox Vista popped u ...

Well i've been a minesweeper player for years... ever since Windows 3.1 (or is my memory filling in the gap... not sure that minesweeper existed back then). In any case, I have noticed an incredibly high number of showstopper issues with the fielddes ...

I just got this new Vista 2 days ago. I have an email address that I use for work. I use my email through Microsoft Email and used Outlook Express before I got this new computer. Unfortunately this ISP has been having major problems and I'm ...

Hi,As all know that in Outlook 2007 has contacts and address book. In my address book of Outlook Express contains all email addresses that I use. However, I want to move/copy those emails to Outlook 2007 addres ...

Hi I can't find the setting that applies When I reply or forward an email, the original one is gone and the next email is showing. I don't want that in case the next email is something I did not want to open. In ...

Using Vista Home Premium edition. AMD Athalon 64X2 4600, 2 Gig RAM. Attempting to send a small email with a 422 Meg attachment. Continue to receive the message: 'The message could not be sent. There is not enough memory.'I have no other programs running at the same time, just wha ...

i can send pictures just fine, but i dont recieve pictures. my default server recieves the pictures if i send them to that account. ...

Hi. Well my windows Xp all of a sudden stutters about every 34 seconds whenever i play something such as music on windows media player or youtube video or any sites with video on it. It ...

Windows Photo Gallery does not show my installed printer (HP 2600n home network) only the Microsoftt XPS writer. Yet all other MS and other programs show the printer when I go to print (Even ...

My Vista Ultimate Laptop will not go to sleep when connected to my Bluetooth Cellphone with Dial up Networking. Just to be clear, I am not using any special software, just the built in Dial up Networking to a Bluetooth modem.WHen I press Sleep or otherwise try to get my computer to sl ...

Does anyone else have issues with the Log Off button in the start menu not having a confirmation box? I cannot find any group policy to force it to confirm logging off either. ...

File Types and Offline Files tabs are missing from Folder Options. ...

Hi,I have an old DOS program that I still like to use ocaisionally but I can't seem to get it to work because it's fullscreen is there any way of getting a fullscreen DOS p ...

I just bought an HP Pavilion desktop about a month ago. Wondows Vista was alread installed on it and I did not receive a backup disk or anything like that with my purchase. A few days ago after I logged onto my computer a message popped up stating "The Windows Vista Home Premium product k ...

I've no idea where to put this but my Vista Speech Recognition has been on a crash course of failure.When I first begun using Vista Recognition, it was okay for the first few d ...

Hi,I have a Vista machine connected to workgroup. Since it is not connected to a domain, i could not use group policy to disable changing of desktop wallpaper. I need every user to have a fixed wallpaper. They are not allowed to change the wa ...

In Vista, compared to XP, the options for saving movies have changed in Movie Maker for the different quality settings.On XP I preferred "Video for broadband (34 ...

I put vist a into a sleep mode but it shortly wake up,is there a fix for this,Thanks ...

Hello,I turned off 'User Account Control' to prevent Vista from constantly dimming out my screen and asking me to confirm what I want to do. Now, e ...

Why cant i use windows live messenger when i got windows vista????????????????? ...

Hello. Help please?I have Windows Vista.I am trying to figure out how to make all my music folders the same. I have a music directory with sub directories containing the music cd's. I want all my folders showing to be the same width, have the same ...

WMI Reverse Adapter keeps crashing every hour or so. The Windows error message, offering me the option of checking for a solution, is very disruptive. I have tried stopping WMIrelated services, but obviously I cannot disable the WMI service itself. I'm not sure what the Reverse Adapter does or ...

HOW I CAN DO MORE SPACE ON DISK C,THE DISK ON MY COMPUTER IS FULL ...

Hi, I have continuos problem with atikmdag that stop and restart by windows and crash system 0x000000EA BSoD. I saw that's problem of many user with VistaHP 32bit. I'm using Radeon X1950GT with 512 MB ram GD ...

For those that don't know about it bring up properties for a drive change to the Hardware tab select a drive and press properties button change to the volumes tab press the populate buttonon 64bit vista the window closes on 32bit the tab g ...

I've just upgraded to Vista from XP using the Upgrade path, and I seem to be having permission issues.It first manifested itself with a problem trying to access Windows Explorer or ...

I am unable to attach a photo to email (or any other attachment) in Windows Explorer in Vista. For example, with a photo, I rightclick, select "Send to....Email Recipient", select size, slect "Attach", and then not ...

I'm dual booting Vista and XP (primary OS) and when I open common Office files in Vista, that I have created in XP, they open in Readonly mode. When displaying the the Security SSID for the file on Vista, the file shows the unresolved SSID for my ID from XP (Account Unknown S152 ...

I'm running a Acer E380 (AMD64 X2 4200+) system with the Vista Home Premium that was preinstalled on the system. I installed the Trend Micro Internet Security 2007 package to have a Vista certified firewall and antivirus. Se ...

I recently bought a new LG Laptop that has Windows Vista ome Basic on it. I recently changed my password, and now my computer won't let me on...it says the only way to reset m ...

Attempting to log onto a LAN with my username and password, logon fails and the next logon window shown has a bogus username assigned by Vista: [Computername]\[Username], where [Computername] is the name of the local computer I am using to log in from. My server will only answer ...

The option was checked to delete any suspected junk email and there are no emails in my delete folder. How might I retrieve those emails (which I got a pop up that told me to check my junk email folder) so I can double check? ...

Half of New Incoming Emails cannot be displayed. Popup with subject message appears and indicates an unexpected problem occurring. Suggests we check for low memory or low disk s ...

I have just switched from XP to Vista but am using Word 2002.When sending mail with Vista Mail my old address book is visible and working but if I try to send a document from within Word no address book is found.How can I get my OE address book so that Mail can use it?Thanks,Fab ...

I bought an alienware laptop a month or so ago and it came preloaded with vista home basicup until a couple of days ago when the lid of the laptop was shu ...

I am able to boot my Vista system into safe mode via the F8 key. However, after Windows loads I am not able to do anything. When I click on Start or any shotcut on my desktop, nothing happens.I would appreciate any help or advice in solving this problem.Larry P. ...

Hi AllI have a problem where my file system from many years and PC's now has many folders containing files of the same name but different date versions, I ...

I am currently running vista HP 32 bit version on the following spec machineAsus A8NE Mobo Athlon dual core 64 x 3800+ 4gb Nvidia Geoforce 6800LE 300gb HDD DVD RW Blackgold TV tuner Card Realtek AC97 audioI have a rating of 4.6 on the windows experie ...

I have noticed that after windows update has completed and it asks to reboot the machine then the system gets stuck at the boot stage (before windows has loaded). Yet, if I switch off the machine, then switch back on it boots normally.Can anyone explain thisThank ...

I'm trying to download real player on Vista Home Premium.on new HP Pavilion DV2000 with constant "can't decompress" errors. Real has suggested tur ...

Hope I am not annoying readers here but I am really tearing my hair out trying to solve this problem. It has been going on for weeks now and few suggestions have come from t ...

under vista, i'm setting punctuation symbol to SBC case, but, i'm restart computer or close programm, the setting will resume to DBC case.what's solution? thanks. ...

Can someone give me one functional reason for having glass boarders???To me its a mixup, a disorienting visual NOISE that makes the screen less readable (and by the way you cannot discriminate among what window is activ ...

I am in the business of industrial electronic repair. I repair machinery in all aspects of manufactring. I recently perchased a gateway laptop for my programming needs only to find out that NON ...

I have two DSL accounts each with a different ISP (one for international and one for local cap due to pricing differences). I like playing online games (Battlefield 2142) w ...

I'm trying to set up a Home Basic laptop to access the Internet through a broadband router using an ethernet cable. This should be easy, but Vista seems to only off ...

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this is an on again off again problem that is now permanently on. Here is the exact error messageYour server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Poss ...

Hi, When i send email I put one person in the 'To' field and the rest I like to put in the "bcc' field. In XP Outlook Express I would highlight the remaining ...

It would be a very good idea to reintroduce Windows Fax in all versions of Vista. Meanwhile it should be available to download. Why has it been removed anyway? Ho ...

I created a guest account recently and i just logged in and my normal account I log in with, now password proctected by my doing, no longer has the local files associated with it. It's like it is another guest account, but it ...

I have some tags that i have entered before and misspelt the tag when entering I have since corrected the misspelt tags for the files associated but the initial ...

How do I make more folders in my documents? Connie ...

Hi, I had set the documents folder to be Drive D, using the customize feature and moving the location. When I clicked on the Documents folder in the Favorite Links section of explorer, it said the shortcut was no longer valid and asked if I want ...

I'm running chkdsk on Vista at boot time.It reports a couple of errors with two files (itprobasic.h1s and comctl32.dll.mui) Chkdsk goes through the motion ...

I can't get IP to work with any hardware(copper or wireless) after upgrading to Vista Premium from Vista Basic. How can I fix this or downgrade to Basic without losing all my programs and files?Jeff ...

Hi All,Is there no way to change the way i have to logon to a domain using a windows vista workstation.I am tired of typing each time domainname\username. With XP I only had to type username. the domain was in a drop do ...

It took me a while to track this down, so I thought I'd share it.When copying files in Explorer, I started getting a "Windows Explorer has stopped working" error ...

I am running Vista Home Premium. Is that possible to add some IIS options (Windows authentication) even it's not a part of distribution?Thanks ...

I was making changes to a document that was originally an attachment in an email, and rather than hit "Save As", I hit "Save". Now I can't find the modified file. Where can I find this file (in Vista OS)? Thanks! Steph ...

I use Window Vista premium and am new at the windows movie maker program. I have a video tape containing several events, It all downloaded into one project folder in t ...

I'm having issues publishing a calendar from Windows Calendar to a WebDAV server (the server is running Apache on a Mac OS X 10.4.9 Server system). I have had no problems ...

I recently purchased an external 300+ GB drive (a WDC WD32 00BB00KEA0, for what it's worth...). The hard drive isn't a problem when it's running off one of the two USB 1.1 ports on the T23 ThinkPad with Vista Ultimate (a postbeta nearRTM build 5840). That's the build that Microsoft passed out ...

I was reading a document about Vista. It mentioned that certain things happen on the secure desktop. Such asDisplays the UAC elevation prompt on the s ...

I have been experiencing three "flavors" of lockups under Vista Ultimate 32bit since installing it cleanly on a new drive. All may ultimately be attrib ...

i Bought a acer laptop which has capabilities to run windows vista. i was using it for nearly two months without activating its product,thought to activate later, after at all i cant start windows, ...

Even after changing video cards i seem to have what the best i can discribe as screen coruption at least 2 to 3 times a day.every open item on the task bar become unreadable garbage, all piled on top of each other by th ...

Hi All, Dont know how its happened but I cannot access any removable drives, DVD Drive or USB cards. The DVD drive has a round circle through it and USB cards will not ...

Seemingly lots of web traffic about vista not seeing dvd drives. I found a solution from microsoft. It was the regedit and change filters. This was ...

My old computer bit the dust, and new one runs Vista Home Prem. I can't get Outlook 2000 to set up. Getting messages about "missing wab.dll" I'd appreciate any advice on setting up or how to get into my old email file, (.pst?) I have the hard drive out of the old co ...

In the last 34 weeks I've noticed that vista has suddenly started to ask me to reactivate, seemingly at random. One day I'll fire up and it was ask, the next i ...

Hello: I have ordered a new P182 Antec case that will hold 6 hard drives and want to increase my storage capacity to 3 TBs. I think there was a limit of 2 TBs in MCE2005 but I wondered if I can use more in Vista? I am already approaching 2 TBs in my Vista pc and want to add 2 more hard ...

Greetings,I live in Australia and currently use Vista Home Basic (OEM version from DELL, new PC). I am planning to change to Vista Ultimate I did not purchase the 'upgr ...

I have been running Vista on my laptop, but have recently rolled back to XP on that so I can install Vista on my new desktop. Any ideas how to release the product key from the laptop so I can use it on Vista. Unfortunately I rolled t ...

I tried using MC to record a television show while the computer was in standby. When I went to watch the show, it was in black and white and had no sound. I haven't had any problems recording shows while I watch them. ...

I recently (last month) bought a new HP Pavalion a1730n with Windows Vista Home Premium. I have been using Movie Maker and DVD Maker wihtout any problems until today. ...

I got a new laptop with Vista a few weeks ago and so far everything has worked perfectly. Today, though, I haven't been able to connect to the internet, it says "wireless networks are available" but the list of networks to connect to is bla ...

I recently purchased a computer running Windows Vista Ultimate. When I attempt to go to a website containing videos or music, I get the information bar ( "Did you notice the information bar?" ) The i ...

I'm trying to get to OPScore Network Performance Test that Dlink provides at the following Link: games.dlink.com/testyournetwork/index.asp Exact error: Windows has blocked this software because it can't verify ...

Is there a way to get this working in Vista ? I asked a question of the makers, "Aspyr" and got a polite "Couldn't give a toss" answer. If this is the reaction of the game makers, is there any hope of ever playing this game on Vista ? ...

WHO DO I COMPLAIN TO AND GET A RESPONSE FROM (I'VE SENT TO SURVEY WITH NO RESPONSE) THEY DELETED MY PRINTER AND I CAN'T REINSTALL. HELP SOMEONE ANYONE! ...

Can anyone walk me through the steps of importing my windows mail add. book into a new Incredimail account? Seems like there is an incompatability problem with them and Vista. ...

When I am reading newsgroups, I am using Ctrl+U to advance to the next unread message. When I reach the last unread message in the newsgroup, it asks if I want to advance to the next unread new ...

How do I get my contacts list on the left side under my local folders list, like it was in outlook and outlook express? ...

I had several folders of groups I used to access email address faster. Is there an option to group people into folders in Windows Mail? ...

I need help get my digital id to work with my email, I installed it but its not showing when i go to select it to use with my email. I hope someone can help ...

QuestionWhen I try to open an attachment my systems locks up? Why does it take so long to open an attachement ? The only service i have running is defender, should I shut that off as well?Does anyone know why?Commen ...

Hi, I´m using windows mail, I can received mail but I can´t send. I´m in VenezuelaI stared to have this problem two days agoPlaese somebody help me ...

Can anyone tell me why my cursor moves to wherever my mouse arrow is while I'm typing? I will be typing an email and have the arrow off of my email screen and after a sentence, my typing cursor will disappear and I will be lo ...

Hey guys, i'm trying to do a system restore... i select the system restore i enable the box with the text saying to show restore points with more than 5 days but...th ...

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

Since installing Windows Vista, iTunes is not working. No surprise there since lots of programs do not work any more. There apparently is a download of iTunes 7.1 that is available for download to correct any incompatibility issues.W ...

i ve installed vista a week ago, i run scans with my spyware doctor antispyware and when a scan is finished a get this message:system restore point creation failed. error(2). what does that exactly me ...

I have attempted to unzip files but I get an error to it (Vista program or WinZip 11.1) making a new folder or even unzipping into a folder I have made.I have administrator rights.The only way I have been able to "unzip" is to drag and drop t ...

ok, its like that. i bought vista ultimate 32bit serial key from an ebayer, he gave me the download link of 32bit ultimate from windows marketplace,i installed it and the key was genuine. now i realize that my co ...

i am having problems installing windows livemessenger on my new laptop, i can download the installer but when i double click it i get the error message ''Error creating process <C:\Users\JB1~1\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.TMP\bootstrap.exe CSAD_MARKET=xx~xx&g ...

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 for a while, when I return there is often several of these messages w ...

I have saved two files with docx extension in a folder. They are AFile.docx and SFile.docx and are listed in Windows Explorer display as follows:AH(1) A ...

In trying to create a restore point, I get told that "Restore point creation disabled by Group Policy", and the "Create" button is grayed out.I've not used group policy at all! Anybody know what's going on, and how to enable that button?Th ...

For some reason all my pictures in their folders are the default Windows Photo Gallery Icon, no actual picture thumbnails. Also the directory does not have pictures showing coming out of the directory. Help?! ...

I have a Dell E1505 laptop that's running Vista Home Pemium. When the computer awakes from sleep mode, the display resolution will change by itself to a lower setting, from 1280x800 to 1024x768. Dell techs can't solve this prob ...

Some time ago, I installed the last Vista beta on what I called E:, which was the middle of five partitions on my disk. It set itself up there as C:, and renamed all the other partitions, C ...

In trying to install/turn on my IIS Web Application Development Features, I'm hitting a brick wall: when turning on, for example, ASP, I get the OK button, my system churns for a considerable amoun ...

If I upgrade from wildows vista premium will I lose my data such as my music and what not? Also will I lose my windows media centre and everything that gows with it? ...

I have just upgraded from XP pro to Vista business but have not been able to carry over the Raid1 configuration that worked fine on XP.The raid controller is Intel ICH8Rbased. At a point in the upgrade a reboot failed with STOP 0x0000007B. The only way t ...

When I received my new computer with Vista Business I registered the Windows and had a confirmation that the Windows were a genuine Microsoft Product. Since then I encountered one or two problems with the Windows and wanted to avail myself to the 90 days of free of charge advise from Micr ...

i am having problems installing windows livemessenger on my new laptop, i can download the installer but when i double click it i get the error message ''Error creating process <C:\Us ...

I have been running Vista Home Premium for some time now and do not like it. I want to reinstall my system back to Windows XP Profess. Can any one please help me with all the steps I must do and or Take. My files are already backed up. ...

I have been trying to get into safe mode by pressing F8 at startup, but all I get is "which order do you want to boot from? I choose my hard drive and then hold the F8 key again and it just starts Vista in the normal mode. What am I doing wrong? ...

All I am using a Dell 1505e laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium running on it. Everything has gone smoothly since receiving the laptop back in February .... until a couple days ago. I imported some pictures into my laptop ...

Hi,I am running Vista Business OS now since January this year. So far there are goods things about Vista and there are definatelt bad things occurring that i need help with.My PC is Pentium 4, 3.06Ghz, 4G Ram, Nvidia 7600 Card, Cr ...

Looking through here so far, haven't found anything with this yet. Googling gave me a couple ideas for disabling the autotuning feature in the IP stack, but that doesn't seem to fix this either.RDP into any end point XP Pro, 2000, 2003 server, and randomly t ...

Just puchased a Windows Vista Premium edition laptop, trying to get it to connect to our server, which is a Windows 2000 machine, but am having problems. I cant even get it to see the Win 2000 Machine. We have several XP machines and they all sho ...

partitioned drives C & D/ create a restore manually, all drives are checkedfor restore, but when I go to look for restores points available the C drive is greyed out, unchecked with a warning that all drives are not included in that restore point ...

Anyone with any suggestions. Please, at this point i am so disgusted I will try just about anything. 2 months ago my hard drive went wacky, (i had a ...

Please help I cannot send mails via micrsoftmail using vista ( new laptop). I recieve the following errorThe connection to the server has failed. Subject 'wed', Account: 'pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk', Server: 'smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk', Protocol: SM ...

Hello,I've just purchased a second laptop and this comes with Vista. However, although I can connect to the internet the connection seems to get dropped after a while. Is there a setting that I can make that will keep me connection until I decide to end the session?Many thank ...

Hi,I am running Vista Business OS now since January this year. So far there are goods things about Vista and there are definatelt bad things occurring that i need help with.My PC is Pentium 4, 3.06Ghz, 4G Ram, Nvidia 7 ...