Windows Vista Home Premium

Jimmy I already loaded the patch from the company and the software does allow me to operate as the administrator as long as the program is running. The problem comes in after the program is closed and t ...

ddose AA work on vista ULT? i'm talking bout AA 2.8...THX! ...

With roughly half od my games (including new ones), the game will resize, then only display the upper left corner of the screen.I've tried fumbling with drivers and restore points and patches and FSAA and everything else I could imagine. Sinc ...

Barely any of my games will recognize Vista as an operating system. I have tried running programs as admin and as XP under compatibility tab. Getting missing d3dx9_25.dll error, downloaded copy, now Vista cant find it. My Pc is Emachine W3609 3.33 GHZ 512 ram Nvidia GEforce 7300 ...

Hi, when I send photos by attachment they are huge. How can I make them smaller to send via email ...

I have tried all the answers given on this topic. I get an error message; Relay access denied', Port 25, Secure(SSL); No, Server Error: 554 Error Number: 0x800CCC79. Any other suggestions? ...

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An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C0148 ...

I just loaded all my contacts into a group, when trying to e mail the group I get a message that there are no recipients i.e the group that I entered all the ...

I like most everyone else am having trouble with opening Vista file/folders when on my XP. I get the dont have admin rights, etc.....Does user account control have to be on in vista when sharing files? ...

Help, no matter how little of a delay I have, my screen saver NEVER turns on. I can leave the computer for 8 hours only to come back to the desktop still there! I have tried different screen savers, different wait times, never activates...help! ...

Hello,I have multiple drives in my PC. My 'C' drive (a speedy 10k 36gig scsi drive) has Vista and applications installed. I have two Seagate 400gig SATA2 drives serve has daya drives.I w ...

hey , i installed windows vista on my computer but it didnt installed my LAN driver i.e. "ADNtek AN983 10/100 PCI Adapter " and " USB host dri ...

I am buying a Laptop and would like to get Vista on it but I am worried that it will not be compatable with other computers without it or my printer (Lexmark 4300 all in one). Previously my scanner ...

XP was able to undo System Restores. Vista can not undo System Restores. Anyone know why this feature would have been left out of Vista. Seems like a ...

keznews.com/2528_Microsoft_Is_Touching_Up_Windows_Vista's_LicenseMicrosoft announced that the Windows Vista enduser license agreement will be modified in order to include ...

I got used the installing the interactive Step By Step course for XP owners. Now, I don't see any hint of a free interactive Vista course, mandatory or volunta ...

We have now added more working games and also work a rounds. Please add games that work and help the community.www.VistaReadyGames.comCheersVRG Admin ...

I have a folder I copied from another computer, which contains a bunch of stuff.The problem is I'd now like to move some of the stuff out of that folder and into the proper ...

I installed Vista Ultimate on my desktop computer yesterday. After running perfectly well for most of the day I found that after visiting Windows Update and installing various updates I was unable to access my wireless n ...

I log on to You Tube to view video, You Tube tells me I need Flash Player. I go to Adobe web site and download latest flash player. It tells me downlo ...

Hello,Today I bought Home Premium Upgrade. Upon installing after the first reboot I got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Dead (BSOD): STOP: 0x0000005C (0x0000010B, 0x00000003, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)I called Microsoft Technical Support, we tried several things but to no av ...

I read that the simple file sharing was stoped on Vista but if i share an external USB2 hard disk i can acess it from other systems with Vista or XP without setting any accounts on Vista OS...can some one explain to me how was this possible? Even i set the accounts on Vista from an administra ...

I just upgraded to Vista and now have an issue with my external speakers. When I go to the Control Panel to "test" them, they work fine. When I play ...

Hi,I am using Vista Ultimate and almost all the time that I boot and after I try to use Windows Explorer, it happens a crash. It points to APPCRASH in differ ...

Bought the above new and loaded without issue onto my HD. Ran disk defrag and left it to run. Came back some time later with the screen saying it had a read error. No matter w ...

Seems that I have tried everything. The number of emails prevents me from simply forwarding the messages. ...

Windows Vista came with my new Emachines comp. I was able to set up an email account and send/receive for a few days..... then.... NOTHING!!! I have tried everything that I can think of and ...

Brand new unit, comes with Windows Vista installed, specifically an hp a1710n with Dual processors, loads of Memory and a large Hard drive.Purchase Windows Live One Care as antivirus and Firewall. Machine comes with an hp &qu ...

I'm having trouble configuring the program so that I can store my sent messages in a specific "Sent" folder I have on my IMAP mail account. My sent messages are only stored in the predefined "Sent items" folder in "Local folders&q ...

hi ... i have error in MBR but vista boot correctly ... tell me any please how fix mbr in vista ...on Win Xp was command fixboot and fixmbr ...on vista isn´t ...

I found that my Logitech optical mouse was the source of the problem with my monitor not going to sleep.....and it didn't change anything by switching the transmit ...

I have a IBM R32 LAptop with Vista Business installed. It was an upgrade form XP Pro. It worked fine for a month. Out of the blue (nothing installed or changed) it stopped g ...

hello,the sounds on my laptop are gone since I've installed vista, can anyone hlp me with this? Acoording to the system the divece works and songs are playing but I can't get any sound from the lapto ...

bloghdtv.com/news/turn_any_laptop_into_a_touchscreen.htmlI wonder how much precision this has... and touchscreens work with your hand too... Im not sure this does... ...

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 about 12,500 ...

Hello.I bought a new LG Double Layer DVD Burner with Lightscribe. Vista does not allow me to install the software bundle (Nero 6 and Cyberlink Power DVD) that came with the driv ...

Hi guys, I am facing this problem with windows media player on vista business if i double click on a song, media player opens up, but it takes a while to play the song. between 5 and 20 seconds to play the song. and for some reason if i close media player while th ...

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

I have seen more questions on this subject, but no answer. My friends Windows Mail tries to dial up even though he has a broadband connection (he did have a dial up and ...

This KB article explains it all. I used the steps in the Printer Sharing section to successfully share my LaserJet 2500 with my old XP system. Here's the article URL:microsoft.c ...

OS: Vista Business all patches installed Hardware: HP XW6400 workstation Xeon 5130 dualIssue: Control panel System dialog box indicates I have only "Memory (RAM): 3071 MB" In reality I have 6GB of RAM installe ...

I have a decent sized monitor and like to keep the sidebar on top most of the time. Sometimes I want to see more of the application I'm working on, so I want the sidebar to slip into the background. It would be aweso ...

is there a trial version of vista as there was with xp 32 and 64 bit. i am looking for a trial on vista ultimate 32bit. thanks. moose ...

Greetings, I've been using AutoCad 2000 on my Vista Desktop for the past I dunno couple of months?All of a sudden today, I go to start up the ACAD, and get a:"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library ...

I have tried many times to place a song I purchased from itunes onto a slide show of photos I am making in Windows photo gallery, but I keep getting an error signal about a missing codec. I have read all the threads tha ...

I accidently pressed the deny permission to my 'C' drive and can no longer access any programs nor view my 'c' drive. An error message says I do not have permission even though I have admi ...

I was using Mozilla Thunderbird in my old computer because OE had corrupted files and would not run. I would like to transfer my address book and old mail to WM, ...

How do i change it if it comes in as incorrect? ...

When I open Windows Mail Security Window appears and wants my user ID and password.When I put it in the window keeps popping up. I cancel and cancel and get error message 0x800CCC92 I can access my email ...

Help please,My Event Viewer repeatedly reports, The KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with servicespecific error 2147949014 (0x800719D6).How do I fix this?Th ...

Ok, so I got another BSOD and rebooted. After logon, and the message about windows calender crashing, Vista tells me there is a solution to the problem th ...

Has anyone else noticed that the vast majority of compatibility problems people are having seem to be confined to just a few vendors?Here's my opinion of the major brands that people should steer away from ...

Where do you enable / disable offline file capability in Vista? ...

My Documents and Settings folder is not accessible. The error I get is "Location is not available. C:\Documents and Settings is not accessible. Access is denied." The icon shown for the folder is a shortcut icon. This computer is a m ...

I received my new laptop with Vista earlier this week. The day I received it, I was able to start a cmd prompt with "run as administrator".I have loaded several software packages and last night there was a larger number of updates installed.Today ...

I recently installed some Vista Canon print drivers on my friend's Home Vista setup. Afterwards Explorer would not find the web although other applications could. Only a system r ...

How can I turn off the help box that opens below the mouse curser as I scroll the mouse over links and buttons. I am running Vista Home Premium. Thank you,Bobbo ...

Tried posting this half an hour ago, but it's gone missing. When trying to pull a shortcut from an app to the desktop (vista home premium, new HP Pavilion a1700n), t ...

itwire.com.au/content/view/11063/53/I knew it was only a matter of time.I quote:The suit alleges the "Windows Vista Capable" stickers were deceptive and ...

With TweakUI you could set an x windows like effect, i.e., a window took "focus" or was "brought to front" when the mouse cursor hovered over it... any way to do this in Vista ? Can't seem to find it... ...

Some interesting reading here for those who blindly assume that Firefox is safer than IE7..blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=461 Mike Hall MS MVP Windows Shell/User msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ ...

Hi there,When I double click on the tray clock then the "Date & Time Properties" screen pops up. I would love to see the week numbers in front of the weeks.Is t ...

Can Streets & Trips 2006 or 2007 with GPS run on Windows Vista Ultimate or is it only avaiable to Windows XP SP 2? Is there a fix that can be downloaded to work on Vista? ...

If you release for sale to the general public a system that you advertise as being the "WhizzBang of all WhizzBangs" (as Microsofts commercials portrayed this new Vista OS to be) Then in the words of Captain JeanLuc Picard o ...

Hi,I have a fairly decent machine: a T2400 duo core with 2gb of ram and an ATI x1600 mobile video card. Recently i upgraded from XP to Vista Premium. I installed a 2gb SD card to ...

I've seen other posts about missing CD rom drives, but I think my problem may be different? I have Windows Vista basic, on an eMachines PC. I have a DVD rom drive AND a CD rom drove, both recording drives. O ...

If someone knows what I ought to be doing to get these devices recognized, please, please speak up. All of my IEEE 1394 devices work perfectly in Windows XP Pro, which I am dual booting in another partition. Can you point me to ...

Does anybody know how to synce my usb with some folders on my computer... vista business... When i start sync setup it opens windows media player, i turn off automatic sync but still will only open with m ...

i still use some dos applications, and need to know how can i manage umb (upper memory blocks), and how do i get the normal conventional memory "programs and services" ...

Hi all, I need to reinstall vista because I cannot get the printer software to install properly (network printer). I built 2 identical machines running home premium 64bit, had to wait several weeks to get software that was compatible with vista and had a successful install on one machine wit ...

I have four computers in a work group configuration, one running Win XP Home, one Win 2000, one Server 2000 and one Vista Business. The Vista computer sees the other three and can access th ...

i cant find a site to download free music that is vista compatible does anyone know of any sites to go to or how to fix it ...

Sorry if this is a repeat I don't see my post from last night...My home network consists of a Windows XP Home SP2 machine and a Vista Home Premium machine. Bo ...

I have detected a very strange thing in (probably) UAC. I have an application called AudaUpdate.exe. This app has a "run" entry in the registry. When Vista Business ...

Hello,I have Vista Ultimate installed on a PC on which I am the only user. I paid a bill online and when I tried to save the receipt document as an Adobe PDF file to another drive, I got the mess ...

I am a novice with a new computer and vista premium. I want to know, if I never had any other operating sysstem or security protection software on this computer is windows ...

I am presently handicapped to the degree that I can't use a keyboard or mouse so Windows Vista voice recognition of the godsend. It works really well in most circumstances however whenever it secu ...

Hi there, I have a service running that points to an exe file in my windows temp dir, every time I end the service the exe file disappears and will reappear later, every time the file appears it has a d ...

Time of this report: 4/6/2007, 16:26:37 Machine name: MIKEPC Operating System: Windows VistaT Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.0611012205) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: GATEWAY System Mo ...

How can I open old DBX files (from Ouloook Express), containing my old message folders (e.g. inbox, outbox etc.), in the new Windows Vista Mail? I tried to import them, by it did not work... Could anybody help me?Thanks in a ...

I would like to setup an account with Windows Mail. I click on it and it brings up a box with questions. For example: Display name, email address, and then it goes to a box that wants the pop3/imap/stmp? information. W ...

I've got two Vista accounts (one standard and one administrator) that I want to share a single email account. I can create email accounts for both Vista accounts, but they have separate local folders (deep in the AppData folder) so when I download email from my POP server in one Vista Account ...

I figured out how to get the spell checker to work in Vista mail by selecting the Toos>Spelling button but I want to know how to turn on the function to automatically underli ...

I installed a media program and then deleted it. Now when I put in a CD the AUTOPLAY options come up and some options to run the deleted program are still there.. How can I get ...

I wasn't sure where to put this question. I am having a similar problem with IE7 as well as certain other programs. When i want to download something, ever since I installed Vista, the box comes up asking me if I want to save or run the file. If I choose "save&quo ...

Hi all. Ive had this problem for quite some time and have tried to speak with microsoft support to no avail. Originally while running XP Home I downloaded and installed windows defender beta 2 from microsoft but forgot to uninstall it prior to upgrading to Vista Premium. After the vista install ...

During the upgrade from WinXP MCE 2005 to Windows Vista Ultimate(upgrade version), at 22% during the expanding of files, the computer restarts and I get a blue screen with the following error message: worker_thread_r ...

im jose from chile. i buy the original windows vista home basic and i install it perfect but now when i put my cd key to activate it a messege said than i must buy another windows because someo ...

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Windows mail does not respond to any commands after it has been running for a while. I have it set up to send/recieve about every 10 minutes which it does for a while then it stops responding. I can reactivate by turning it off and on again. Also I am now having problem ...

I have emails stuck in my inbox. I have tried all of the fixes, and I cannot get rid of them. What if I delete the inbox from my Windows Mail folder, and copy/paste the Windows Mail inbox (which is working perfectly) from my laptop into my Desktop Windows Mail fol ...

recycle bin glass stays full when it's empty with no files. How do I fix this problem? ...

I am running Home Premium on a singleuser desktop and, today, when I click on Start|Control Panel I get my Power Desk equivalent of (My) Computer. Prior to this I was dealing with what I thought was a copy of my Vista boot partition on anothe ...

Hello, I just purchased the Vista Home Premium Edition and the vista aereo won't work... I checked all the requirements on my PC and the PC met with all of them. I tried solving the problem with the troubleshooter, but ...

Is it possible to sync Vista Windows Contacts with Windows XP Address Book? I have two computers (Vista Home Premium & Windows XP). When I make changes to my contact list, I have to remember to make them on both computers. If not, could I sync two Vista Home Premium? ...

I have no more my shut down button on my Start menu and if i try to shut down the system i get this message:"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator"Notice i'm administrator of my PC.I also tried ...

How do I know if ReadyBoost is speeding my machine?I have one gig of RAM, and use a one gig flash drive for ReadyBoost. Abhishek Baxi, 'Abby' www.baxiabhishek.info ...

Sorry if this seems to be an old question I searched the group and couldn't find a posting that was ontopic.Is there any news with regard to syncing Windows Mobile 2003 d ...

Just bought a new acer e380 and for some reason I can't hide the menubar in open windows like my other pcs. I've trive Organize>Layout>Unchecked menubar but it does nothing. In ie7 it works as it should, I can push Alt and it appears. Any ideas? ...

anyone know of a fax program that works on vista... apart from the business edition.Thks. Sonny ...

I am having a problem with the drivers not working correctly after a reboot. Some of the display options don't work and it won't load game profiles. I have to reinstall the driver if I reb ...

I believe that you can put files into your public folder and make them available offline to other users. the folders synchronise when the computers connect.I cannot see this option in my version of Windows Vista HE Premium.Should it be included? steve. ...

Hi all, first post here and hopefully someone can see what Im missing here, coz its driving me nuts!!!Ok here is the scenario. I have my desktop PC installed with Windows Vista Ultimate Ed (32 bit). This PC is hard wired into my WRT54G (tomato ...

Does anyone know how to export mail from Windows Mail to Outlook Express? ...

I have four mail accounts, all coming into Windows Mail; for some reason the default account receives two of everything. . . why come? I have the settings so that the downloaded mail is saved to the server un ...

I set up 2 different email accounts for my parents on 2 different user profiles, they are able to send and recieve email fine, EXCEPT occasionaly an email which was meant to be downloaded ...

I can not seem to get my indexed search working. I am running Windows Vista Business 64. The Windows Experience Index is 4.8. This is on a Dell Precision 380. If ...

I have a client application that usually stores .log and other files in the C:\Program Files\(specific app folder).With VISTA, these files are saved in hidden folders such as: C:\Us ...

Hi, I've used the Roxio software included on my Compaq desktop to copy a DVDDL. At the end of the copy process, it said I would have to use the finalize tool in order to read this DVD on preVista systems. Since the DVD still had over 2 gigabytes free space, I decided to add three f ...

Hi I'm on Vista Home Premium and I have a Maxtor One Touch II USB external hard drive...Vista does Not see or recognize the hard drive in 'My Computer', but it does show up in the Dev ...

I have a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive on my computer ( I have a lot of data on floppies) and after I upgraded to Vista from XP, the A drive changed to the B drive. I cannot cha ...

Okay, I'm using Vista Ultimate, logged in with an Admin account, yet when I go to save a Favorite in IE I get:Unable to create 'Website': Unspecified errorIf I tr ...

when I cold start the computer ultimate vista keeps installing new sound driver, digital, but does not install analog driver. I install it get sound. If I cold start it does it again and I have to reinstall the driver for analog. ...

After two days of trying to get the desktop pc running xp home and the laptop running vista to work, and reading so many similar problems from others I've finally got it working. So I thought I'd post this here to ...

Hi: I recently purchased a new computer with windows vista Internet Explorer 7, also use aol powered by vista and mozilla, I cannot find out where to manually delete the history and cookies and content !E ...

One of the most annoying and common mistakes people do at my company, is dragging and dropping folders into subfolders by using the left mouse button in explorer. This have been an annoying "feature" of explorer.exe for ages. Do anybody know if it's possible to block this in ...

Is there a list of all the MSC's in vista? and their function ie. gpedit.msc lusrmgr.mscseems like a lot of these settings are not exposed through the normal control panel.Thanks, Fred ...

How can I delete / reformat a memory stick that I've used for readyboost? I can't simpley delete the file it will not let me and trying to reformat stops because the stick is in use! any ideas please? ...

Is it just my system or does Solitaire really utilize between 70MB and 90MB of RAM? Just curious. I'm not saying I'm complaining, but I'm just checking. Thanks. ...

I have just got a 2 new computers with windows vista and therefore windows media player11. I am having problems on both computers with the playing of my audio files in both wma and mp3 formats. The problem is that the songs are skipping and jumping in the last 10 se ...

Hi, I have problems to access to computers that has password on it. I know there is a way to save computer names, user names and passwords of other computers in the one that has ...

friends how can I search for PC in the network using IP Adress like we use to do in Wondow XP ...

When I try to start a CompletePC backup i get this error message: "It occurred a error which is not temporarily on the printer. If you try to run the backup again, the error probably will show again. (0x800423F4) ...

I received an email with background sound. I would like to save the sound file but where do I find it? This is within the source =_NextPart_000_00EA_01C77B12.E46B1800 ContentType: audio/wav; ...

For the life of me, I can not figure out why it is not possible to create a mail rule based on "any header". That would give the user the power to delete mail with certain IP addresses blocks and dom ...

Recently I've been receiving emails that have nothing in the From or the Subject fields. But I find no rule in Windows Mail to cover emails such as this. Bad part is the everything thing is disabled in the Junk EMail message context menu so I'm unable to tell Mail ...

I am attempting to transfer my email (messages only, not address book entries or settings) from OE6 on my old PC running Win98 to Vista. I exported the email files (all .dbx files) to a CD, but ...

Hi, I am dutch so my englishe is not very good.Since i have Windows Vista my pc stops after 30 minutes. (sometimes shorter and sometimes any longer.) When i am s ...

.....so far as I know doesn't exist.However, is there another prog people recommend for the same purpose that being primarily to improve boot speed?My Vista Business has been slowing down by degrees every day and even after it is booted can be slow. So, wondering what people are using that may ...

Hello AllI have a new computer running Vista. I am having problems when trying to copy and paste from a document in one program to another. I can copy from and paste ...

This is the weirdest thing we have Windows XP clients on our switch and they can all connect to the 2003 Server on the same switch. However, the one Windows Vista desktop that we have cannot connect to the server. We have tried everything imaginable to get ...

Hi,I'm running Vista Ultimate. I need to run some .net applications over my network shares, but I get an error. I'm pretty sure I need to set .net to ...

helloI did a clean install of vista on a former XP system, in my XP system i had two hard drivers the master and slave, the slave had nearly all my media on it. W ...

my computer is slow booting up everytime I log on. I got to the startup programs and I don't know which ones to disable so computer boots up quicker, (Iwas told to do this) I have new Vista, and am having one hard time dealing with it. Sever ...

Hi, In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista Business Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc from my old computer (that runs WinXP) into my new co ...

I work with a lot of autocad files, which I have discovered vista hates! When I get drawing files for a project they are usually in DWF or DWG. On my vista machine, when I put the CD in or even if I transfer to my desktop, the first few folders in the dra ...

HiI am using Vista Ultimate.I am trying to use Windows Backup to do a backup of my entire PC, which has two hard drives, the whole backup is said to require several DVD,s so I am using RW DVD's.The first DVD goes okay ...

Yep, that's right. Vista is njot even compatible with media player. When trying to look at a video contained in a browser window (such as with CNN.com) it simply sayes ...

Recently i have bought a new laptop with the following config Intel pentium Duo processor T2250, 1.73 Ghz, processor with 1024 MB Ram. It is having windwos vista home premium operating sytem.I have bought it just a month back. From the day of buying i am really facing a pr ...

Can anyone help with this? I am not able to play wma sound files from the Sound program, which apparently only can handle wav files. Also, wav files transferred (via disc) from my old computer (Window ...

Compare IP Addresses from My Original Post To The Imposter's Additional Post's, Just FYI.Kevin John Panzke (Microsoft Beta Tester and MSDN Subscriber).P.S. Only The Original Post Was Mine, Last Night, Just FYI.P.P.S. Someone from the State of CA, is the Imposter, as I li ...

New to Vista and loved it until this. Everytime I try to open the control panel I get this:Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Application Timestamp: 4549b091 Fault Modul ...

The safely remove hardware icon has disappearred from the taskbar. I finally had to disconnect my ipod anyway. Now I find my ipod is corrupted and all podcasts, music, etc. are lumped together under 1 categor ...

Hello. First time here, I have a dell desktop that needed a new hard drive. I purchased a 200G Maxtor and Vista o/s, I configured the HD with the CD that came with it but after rebooting the pc to start v ...

I am having a similar problem as another user has explained on the forum with this code. I upgraded to Windows Vista Home Basic from Windows 2000 Professional (OEM) beca ...

I upgraded to Vista Ultimate from XP SP2, the upgrade went fine, but either of my browsers can NOT resolve names via DNS. If I enter in enteries in the hosts file, the browsers see this. nslookup, ping, tracert and programs like AIM work fine (AIM logs in) I have tried everything and se ...

I have a friend that is having trouble installing his OS. Can you look here:'_Annoyances.org__install_error_0x8007003_(Windows_Vista_Discussion_Forum)_' (annoyances.org/exec/forum/winvista/t1177552 ...

Are there known problems using Web Folders in Vista? We have a Xythos HTTPbased file server where I work. There is a Web Foler link once you open the page for your folders, but when I ...

I am working with a client's Vista Business laptop and want to make a folder on his SBS 2003 server available offline.When I do so, I get HUNDREDS of errors:"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." (Just over 500 of them now, and countin ...

Hey all, I'm having a little bit of trouble with BitLocker. I don't have TPM and have enabled it to use a USB flash drive. Well, the actual encryption ...

Emails I see on my isp's web server has attachments, yet when I download them into Windows Mail under Vista, the attachments disappear.How can I get them back?? ...

I AM EXPERIENCING SOME PROBLEMS WITH SENDING MAIL WITH WINDOWS MAIL. I HAVE A BRAND NEW HP LAPTOP WITH VISTA. I CAN RECEIVE MAIL AND THE MESSAGES I AM TRYING TO SEND SIMPLY DON'T REACH DESTINAT ...

When Win Mail ask me for a folder to store the exported messages, I browsed my folders' tree and created a new one. Then the folder appeared twice in path: c:\users\me\documents\mailcopy\mailcopy and the wizard crashed with: CANNOT FIND FOLDER Is this some bug o ...

How can I adjust the gamma on my laptop? ...

Running Ultimate on Dell Prec490, duoprocessors, dualcores, 4 Gb ram, 2 drives. Only Office and a few other applications loaded to date, Live One Care protection. Computer has transitory but frequent hangups that last 30 sec to 3 min ...

I have a K80xi all in one printer connected through USB to an XP host PC ("Host"). The Host is connect to a wireless network. I have multiple XP laptops successfully sharing that printer on the wireless network, but I distinctly recall having t ...

I moved my pictures and music into Disk D, how do I change my Pictures/Music in the start menu to take me to Disk D instead of Disk C? Changing properties doesn't work ...

ok my bro gave me this site to get vista ultimate and the activation oem hack for it at www.********.com can i report it? plus will i get a reward for reporting it i means it has allot of that st ...

Every friggin website requests I install Adobe Flash Player which is already installed. Huh? Vista Ultimate 64b ...

When I go to favourites on the toolbar it shows the top level items, but when you scroll across the sub folders they appear to be hidden behind the web page so you cannot read them anyone any ideas?(If I go to the favourites by the star icon its slow, but they are all ...

After whining about Vista and then disabling UAC , the minor issues I had have all been solved by the members of this Newsgoup !!!!!!! Thanks to you all... !!!!!!!!!!!! ...

Sometimes I will have to reset my router if media center has been playing a dvd for a long time, in order to restore internet connection. Is this normal? Thanks Matt ...

Hi,I recently bought a new computer (core 2 duo, 2.13 ghz, 2gb ram, vista premium). Included with the pc were two vista disks, one 32 bit another 64.I just deleted the preinstalled 32 bit version, and installed the 64 bit version. To my surprise, all third party ...

I have a Gateway MX6433 Laptop that came with windows XP Media Ceter. It also came with a free mail in upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I had perfect audio with XP, ...

I can add and delete files to my website (at @home.nl) but can not upload or delete files at the 50 meg privé section of my 'home space' (or whatever @home.nl calls it).I know I am not alone with this as there is a message posted by another user at one of their newsgro ...

I've had a sudden loss of all audio twice this past week. A reboot clears whatever's grabbing my sound.The first time I lost it was while Media Player was operating, but the second time I was just sitting here doing normal office stuff when I noticed I had no sound.I've checked "device m ...

On logging into Vista Home Premium I get the message appear:DNS Failed to load control 'SocketXCtl' from SocketX.OCX. Your version of SocketX.OCX may be outdated. Make sure that you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.The file doesn ...

DVD/CD Rom and other external drives locked by vista. so when you plug them in or try to run a cd it just comes up with the messages optical device locked ??Any idea how to un block them. ...

Hi guys, I have waited months (a while anyhow) for Lexmark to release a driver for my printer. Now when i go to the site to download i'm told i don't have permission and access is ...

Hello, I'm new to this 'group. Using Windows Vista Home Premium.I've been searching the WWW for Bluetooth dongles. More or less all the ones I find claim to work with Windows XP among other version ...

number keys on right side of keyboard do not work.Vista sys. ...

i did a MIG file with easy transfer and format my HDD, i put the mig on iPod and a Dvd for security and when i have installed vista open Easy Transfer and it read my Mig file but in 100% it says: Error reading files. Easy T ...

hi,I have just tried upgrade from xp home to vista home preimum, my system specs meet the requirements of vista and i uninstalled all software which it recognised as being incompatable.. The installation seemed to go fine unt ...

I'm having some trouble figuring out what's supposed to happen when you remove or ignore a previously monitored folder in WMP 11. Let's say you've monitore ...

Hi.I found this little program on my Vista system and don't know where it came from. Before I had Quicktime Alternative installed and that's the only thing where I think it might came from ...

i would really appreciate some help from anyone!I have Vista basic with Spyware Blaster, AVG and PC Tools firewall. A "conflict with firewall program" is preventing me from seaching for web updates for Spyware Blaster. It says to check the c ...

Hi folks !I just installed a brand new PC :Intel DQ965GFEKR (tpm version 1.2) core 2 duo E6600... 2gb kingston ram... 2x 250Gb Raid1 etcAnd I setup TPM according to ...

I've seen this posted here, but nobody ever had an answer, so I'll ask it again. When I first installed Vista, Chess Titans worked fine, recently, however, I get the following message on startup:could not find texture (Media/Table ...

I did a search for something in Vista using the Start Search and came across jpg files on my hard drive. I have on occassion looked at those pretty jpg files in various alt.whatever in News groups but was surprised to learn that they had been stor ...

In windows mail I have three accounts listed and recently I am unable to send mail from just one of them?When i go to the service providers site and log on I can send mail from the accopunt but ...

After mporting my OE messages into WinMail, I "moved' the folders from the Imported Folder to the Inbox. After shutting down WinMail and restarting my computer I no l ...

I cannot import my OE addressbook from OE to Windows Mail. Have imported my message folders from OE to WM, but they arrived all in a folder rather than individual folders. How do I get rid of the folder and have my message folders listed as all other local folders.Thanks. lady ...

My mobile phone is running WM 2003 SE, when I connect my phone to mobile device center it shows my device and files but when I try to set up my device the program errors and shuts down...what's the problem? ...

How do I turn off the Password Manager in Vista Basic,I have no intention of storing Passwords even if encrypted on my Laptop. ...

I recently purchased a Notebook that came with Vista Home Premium preinstalled in United States English.I'd like to know how I can change ALL interfaces to "Simplified Chinese ...

I get this info bubble every five minutes from WIndows Defender? It is really irratating and there does not seem to be any way to stop it from telling me. ...

I have an HP laptop that originally have Windows XP installed, after upgrading it to Windows Vista Home Premium everything went well.... i recently installed Office 2007...... i open some word file, and do some editing on the file, wh ...

Hi!I bought an Asus laptop with Vista Home Premium preinstaled. After install an demo copy of Alcohol120% the boot sequence of Windows vista crash with a 0x07e error. I know that it's caused by the Alcohol virtual drive driver but I can't disable it because the system don't boot on safe mode no ...

I have just upgraded to vista business from win XP running Office 2003 Pro and now all of my office files apear as encrypted or read only and i cannot open them. have ...

I am trying to get my new Dell Dimension 9200 to connect with my broadband account, without much success. The system has an Intel doublecore 2.3Ghz CPU, 2Gb ram and loads of hard drive space. My modem is DLink DSL320T ethernet, which works perfectly with my Toshiba lapto ...

For my home banking I have this external USB smart card reader (Ingenico Banxafe) with numeric pad. The secure website of my bank insists on using Internet Explorer AND Microsoft Virtual Machine to communicate with the smart card reader.If I turn UAC fully OFF, then my home banking wor ...

Hello, I have moved to Windows Vista Business recently and am facing an issue with installng my networks cetiicate in the trusted root authority. on c ...

I have Vista Business. This is a personal machine, so there is no domain controller or anything else enforcing policies. In the local security policy, under Local Policies / Security Options, I have the following: Interactive Logon: D ...

I saved my signatures in html format, but whenever a new message is to be created the comment is displayed stating your file is too large ...

I have my regular C:/ drive for my program installs but I also have a D:/ drive to store all of my document, pictures, videos etc. Im using Vista x64 Ultimate and was wondering is it possible to use the built in back ...

My computer will boot to the login screen in about 30secs which is quite good. The problem is it takes a further 90secs to get from the login screen to the desktop. It never u ...

I have a KonicaMinolta MC2530DL printer (March 2007 Vista Drivers) USB connected to a HP notebook. I cannot print with the UAC enabled, the print job hangs in the que with nothing in the status column. Al ...

Need help on how to unassociate a file. I associated *.3gp with Rhapsody. I think it would be better not associated at all. Even though I have Roxio, I want all *.3gp files to have no pr ...

I use MM 2003 business deluxe because the newer ones have features I don't want and cant turn off. I bought MM 2005 and shelved it. Vista stores my MM files in users/../appdata/local/virtualstor/programfiles/microsoft money/ I read that wi ...

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Instead of paying Nero $80 for their software so I can burn CD's and DVD's. Doesn't Vista have a built in DVD burning software so I can burn my DVD's? ...

Can anyone recomend a good free tool to extract icons and images from Vista?Thanks. moondaddy@noemail.noemail ...

I just spent over an hour trying to talk (by phone) an elderly person (70's) through finding a "lost" document using the search engine. For half that time I wasn't at a Vista machine, but finally had to boot up a test machine that is very slow in ...

I've just upgraded from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Business.I'm trying to use the bundled Windows Mail Application as my Newsgroup Reader. However, one thing that dis ...

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In Windows XP I can modify the start menu items that will show up for the default user in "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Start Menu". However, I can't find this in Vi ...

All of a sudden the Vista Calendar has become "read only" and will not let me edit it at all.I have been to properties and the read only box is unchecked.Any help would be appreciated.SFF ...

I ordered Vista Ultimate upgrade version 66R00003 online and the company sent version 66R00025. It's marked "Service Desk Upgrade" I couldn't find anything about it at Microsoft's site. What's the difference? I really don't want to return it if it doesn't matter. Is it st ...

documents folder, control panel, all those don't know what's happened. ANY ideas? email and IE and programs frequently "not Responding". Do i have a virus?? i thought it came with pr ...

I have just installed Vista, and am tidying up my start menu (classic view), however there are some folders that it won't let me delete.When I try to delete them, it comes ...

My computer crashes to the blue screen each time it awakes from Sleep mode. In problem reports it tells me:"Download and install the driver for Away Mode DriverThis problem was caused by Away Mode Driver. Away Mode Driver was created by Intel Corpora ...

I want to use remote desktop as I used to do in XP, how to activate it ?..., I tried to connect, ask me the user & password but It says that It cant connect to that computer...some help please,,,Newbie in Windows Vista... Advanced user on XP.... ...

I have an interesting situation here at home. I currently would like to run a specific screensaver when our computer is on the login screen of Vista. Unfortunately the screensaver uses direct ...

After performing the most recent Vista autoupdate installation on 5/23, my desktop has been changed and I get the warning that the system can't find:C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desktopHas this happened to anyone else? Is there a way to undo the update or restore my desktop settings? ...

i have lost my ability to use vista aero (all of a sudden) after being able to use it for 5 months and my WEI has dropped from 4.6 to 3.0, why has this happened and ...

I am trying to play a media file using Vista. The file name is not going to the program correctly. There are square characters displayed in what appears to be random positions throughout in the file path.Th ...

Why does it take so long to open websites, or windows live mail. I find that I'm really just waiting for some ad to load at the top of the page that I don't really care for. I tried blocking some ad sites, that helps a little but not enough, still having t ...

Incorrect Parameter box appears when I try to turn on file & print sharing or password protection in the network sharing center. ...

if anybody knows how I can import more than 9 seconds of video into movie maker 2 on vista, I would appreciate your help. If by chance more than 9 seconds gets through, it skips all over making the clip ...

I installed a couple of programs and every time I start them I get the requestor telling me it is an unidentified program... cancel or allow! How do I tell the opera ...

Hi All,Since Vista only does the ZIP format:This new version of 7Zip *(FREE open source)* works on 32/64 Vista even though it's not listed as so. It adds a full context menu to shell. Just be sure to pick the newest version for 32/ ...

How to change the display settings(namely,the screen area/resolution (in pixels) and the color depth(in bits) by using the registry) in Vista Ultimate? I have the Intel 82810 chipset graphics controller in my m ...

I installed a WD Raptor under IDE mode, which was a mistake. I'd like to change it over to AHCI or RAID. If I change from IDE to AHCI in the bios I get a BSOD, which I expected. I have all of the drivers necessary for ACHI and raid ...

Any idea why this cable is not recognized by Vista (actually it sees it and starts trying to load the drivers, then says no compatible drivers found). Everything loaded fi ...

I am triing to get Adove reader 8 to install. I have on UAC on but getting this message while triing to get this to install: "Internal Error 2203. C:\Windows\Installer\8a26a.msi, 2147287008". I am getting other errors while tr ...

I used the Sony disc from the express upgrade program to install Vista premium, but did not use the recovery disc to reinstall all apps because my laptop was suffering a bsod on its compeletion. So I decided to run disk 1/3, 2/3 and then insta ...

I tried installing the trial of Sony Vegas. It installed but crashes on the initial loading of the program always where it says 'Initizing DirectX P ...

I am unable to download the latest software for Kodak Easy Share Gallery, which is supposed to be compatible with Vista. Every time the download starts I get a message that Windows has encountered a program and will close ...

Whenever I try to launch Windows Media Player from the start menu, nothing happens. What can I do to solve this ? Thanks,Matthieu ...

I have one lap acer with windows vista bussines but have proble when connection with folder, this folder this in one computer with Windows Server 2000, but I make to connection for network, I see windows it solicits to me user and password, I have Pasword and user the administrator t ...

I play in a semionline old time baseball simulation league where our games are simmed daily by our league commissioner and the results are avaiable to download and update into a standalone game p ...

whenever i try and update it says error code 0x80240029 ...

Hello,After having downloaded the update KB930178 the installation process has started up. Unfortunately the process does not complete the installation. It run ...

I was setting up a standard account; and activated the password required feature while in the standard account not the administrator; and now I cannot get into the administrator account. I tried admin ...

Hello everyone! I just picked up my laptop from Bestbuy. It was taken care of because of outside spill damage. It was not nesessary to log in in my computer during repairing process so I didn`t provide my account password. So, right after I picked it up I log in an BAM! here is no ...

I cant rename folders in my new VISTA because I "am not authorised" and to achieve that I have to answer a hopelessly confusing set of questions of which I am clueless what it means or implies. How do i get rid ...

Just new to Vista after some years of XP. In Windows Contacts there is a File As field available. I assumed it was the same as in Outlook, but I can't see h ...

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I noticed that Windows Vista comes with Window Contacts and Windows Calendar which is what helped me to decide that I didn't need to buy Outlook 2007. Unfortunately my new smartphone on Win Mobile 6 will on ...

Hi All, I had trouble with mail out with my new PC with Vista. Used the downlod file on this site, now all OK. THANKS STEVE COCHRAN. Marshall. ...

Depuis que j'ai installé Windows Vista, je ne peux pas me connecter à windows mail. Impossible de se connecter à POP3, le serveur SMTP ne répond pas. Philippe ...

I have several hundred emails in Outlook 2002 which I want to import into Vista Mail. The import options don't seem to give me the .pst format.Mark ...

Hello,I am having a couple of problems with Windows Mail. When I open Windows Mail, my folders do not load correctly. I usually see all my folders in a le ...

Thanks Gary for your help. The other problem has been bothering me so much, the stress has clouded my thinking.One thing: can I get my email messages back after the Spam Killer has hidden(?) or deleted them? ...

I have never had any trouble sending emails to my daughterinlaw until now. For some reason they are returned to me with a message from MailerDaemon@Orange.fr which says, ": host mail.j***e****.co.uk[**.***.***.***] said: 550 5.7.0 Your server IP address is in the SORBS DNSBL datab ...

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Office Pro 2007 and OpenOffice 2.2 repeatedly crash when opening/saving filesfor most, if not all, file formats.I haven't as yet experienced this with other apps the past three weeks ...

It there a way to get Internet Explorer 7 to automatically delete all browsing history when the browser is closed, or when shutting down the computer?I see there is a s ...

I used to use an opensource addon to XP that allowed a right click that you could choose the color of the folder, it would automatically change the folder icon. I was hoping vista had something like this built in without having to go through the trouble of ...

I have a Laptop with Vista and connection to an XP(he) workstation via a wireless router. I have shared the XP's "my documents" folder and can write and save to it. I'v ...

I'm running home premium and aero was working beautifully, then all of a sudden, it has stopped.I go to 'Personalize/windows color and Appearance, select color scheme and it's set on Vista Basic, I c ...

is there anyway to get nero 6 to work on vista yet, like an update or whatever? thanks for any help in this matter. ...

Does Real time defender cause this BSOD when trying to install? ...

I note that Vista now includes DFS Replication Service, and that it is used by Windows Meeting Space. I would like to use DFS replication to transfer files between 2 Vista clients. The MS article KB930516 states that you can't include ...

Its a very random thing, no matter what program I am in if I open a Open/Save Dialog sometimes the dialog will freeze for several minutes. If I open a folder from the run box, same thing. Lets say I'm in WMP and I ...

Exist's some way to change the Aero or Basic theme, something like XP Plus! or Twak UI PowerToys for Windows Vista ... UI is nice but ... ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the rece ...

I have Vista Home Premium loaded and WMDC 6. My Pocket PC phone running Windows Mobile 5 was sync'ing fine up to about a week ago the stopped. WMDC a ...