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I got Ultimate Upgrade which I used to buy 2 additional license keys for Home Premium Upgrade, unfortunately I couldnt upgrade my laptop because I found out it needs a retail installation, t ...

I am a Domain Admin on our Network which is in the Local Administrators group on the Vista PC. I'm still getting used to Vista but I would think since I am in the Local Admin group I shouldn't be getting Acess Denied in diff ...

Dear newsgroup,strange thing about Vista Ultimate: After booking a Hewlett Packard TC 4400 notebook to a domain it looses the user profile information after every restart. The domain user was booked into the loc ...

I just tried to run EA's Need for speed carbon on my Vista rig...The message comes up " Please install correct cd or dvd " I have tried compatibility mode as well as disable themes even tried other part ...

I'm mean I realize that majong is a best seller with the 50 and older crowd but you'd think they'd include some kind of next level game. The most avance game I've seen Microsoft ever put on on these things was the sill easter egg in Excel ...

every time I try to delete an unwanted contact to the contact folder I get the following errorexplorer has stopped workingdetailsProblem signature:Problem Event Name: APPCRASHAp ...

Hi ThereI dont know if this is the proper place to ask this but I recently installed Windows Vista, I have a Pentium 4 2.8GB 1GB RAM and a Sapphire Radeon 9250 graphics card. My Windows Expirience Index is 1.0 because of ...

in home premium....i have 1gb of ddr2 ram. my system is showing a constant usage of at least 50% of this simply when i am logged into windows and running windows mail and ie7.as i type this message my system is using 72% of 1gb of ram. why is this?ie ...

Help! I just purchased a new HP computer with Vista already loaded. I have an HP printer and a scanner. However, loading the software for them the computer won't accept the drivers and s ...

No, I don't have answers, I am hoping to entice people who have ideas into saying what works, no matter if that means turning features off or not.One thing I did to make a HUGE difference ...

I have finally updated the beta ultimate to the Business version. I had various problems with it. When I installed the beta version, I started from scratch. And I ...

I got an hp with preinstalled vista premium. I once made a bootable xp disc using iso option of a burning software. Is there a way to do this with vista and roxio? I would love to have a bootable vista ...

Our business is upgrading/downgrading from Winfax since no longer supported. MS Fax seems to be the next logical alternative but I have some questions. This applies to a SBS Server w/ clients using ...

While I think generally the Vista experience is pretty good, lack of support by manufacturers for timely repsonse to AT LEAST the level of functionality before switching to Vista is deplorable. This is a definite image hit/customer relation ...

Have a new HP computer with vista. Bought a c3180 printer/scanner/copier to go with it. Software included is only good up to XP, as you probably know. Downloaded ...

I'm trying to run some programs on my computer and when I do a pop up come up stating limited user accounts are not supported???? I also see a 3rd user on my PC tha ...

:confused: Hi, I recently purchased the Vista(home basic) 32 bit upgrade while in the USA for only $99. I went for this as I use third party programs to do almost all the other things the more expensive versions seem to do. On returning ...

I already have the tool, just have no idea how to find it on a regular basis yet. using this vista machine, I used the system info tool on a regular basis, and it gave me a printout file like thisSystem Information.txt Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:46:17 PM *Operating System* ...

I have two Operating syatems on my compaq laptop. they are both windows xp and both run the same files. The only differance is that one is windows xp home edition, and the other is the same, but it has a (bootscreen) written after ...

I have a problem with Vista Ultimate. It does not recognize my NEC 3500 DVD writer as such. It says it is a cdrom player. How do I fix this? ...

Hi,Does anyone has same problem or is it just me? When I publish a video the Video Maker split that video into 2 portions, the top portion is the video and the bottom portion is a big ugly green pixel. Any help is much appreciated. ...

hello all hope your all well i have just bought a brand new acer machine dual core etc and everytime i load windows half of the stuff wont work i.e the side bar wont come up with the clock on and cpu meter etc and when i load windows med ...

Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. Is anyone else having this problem? I go along fine for awhile, maybe a day or so and my connection works fine. Then out of the blue, I'm not connected. When doing a repair I'm told there ...

I am unable to open jpeg and sometimes gif filrs in my hotmail messages. if I right click on it, it does not give me the option to open it with a certain file. Has anyone else experienced this probelm and wh ...

I had a problem with "copy & paste" of an inactive link received in Windows Mail. After forwarding it to my AOL account I was able to perform the task ...

I have a HP LJ1220 attached to a machine running Vista Ultimate 64 Bit edition. I have shared the printer, but cannot seem to install additional drivers to support the 32 bit XP machine. I have downloaded the latest ...

While my sound works I cannot hear anything when I am in Control Panel/Sounds and click on "Test" to hear a selected sound such as an email alert. While the selected email alert does play in real time when I receive email it does ...

I have an issue that is very strange: Vista has and will boot up normally, showing the login screen most times, but occasionally it will boot up to a blank login screen. The monitor says no video ...

After upgrading to Windows Vista I can't set my resolution to 1600 x 1200 anymore. The highest res i am getting now is 1440 x 900, icons are huge. Any ideas, am i missing something or do i have to wait for a later driver? ...

In Outlook I was able to switch between accounts. This enabled me to receive messages of my private mail without receiving business mail (and which I do not wish to download if I am not working, since my co ...

I moved a 3dmark06.exe file onto my desktop by mistake, now it will not let me move it again or delete it. I have tried everything i know about vista permission requirements. when i try to delete it the caution comes up "destination folder access denied" I push continue and ...

Hello,I'm running Vista Ultimate.For some reason I cannot register any dll, when I run regsvr32 I get this message:Microsoft (C) Register Server has stopped workingAs a result dll is not registered.In the Event Viewer I see this:Faulting a ...

Hi1. I installed Vista once but then deleted it and installed it again. I now have two lines for windows vista selection at the startup. How can I get rid of one line? I was able to ...

hELLO ALL , i've been having this "windows explorer is not working...restarting windows" thing for more than 4 hours! it's impossible to do anything on the computer, cause this thing never stops popping up!SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if someone could tell me how to fi ...

ok well i started doing it the regular way on my laptop and left it alone for it to install but it froze. so i did it over. once agian it froze. so i did it once more but left it over night in case i was be ...

Just installed Vista Business and now I lost my News Icon in Outlook 2003I have set Outlook as my default under IE 7.0 but no luck. It is missing from the Command Folder.How do I get ...

Has anybody seen such driver yet and would giude me? I am in bad need of such. Thanks!Cheers ...

I recently received my Windows Home Vista Premium CD with that HP upgrade kit thing, where you buy a Windows XP computer, and you'll get windows vista shipped to you. Okay so, when i installed it, i was excited, because it looked pretty cool and stuff. And like, after ...

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Hi!UAC is a nice feature, but I've noticed two things with Windows Explorer and UAC that I don't like at all:1. It's not possible to start Windows Explorer in "run as Administrator" mode. Well, you can start it like that (and confirm the UAC dialog), but ...

I see the server fax as a printer in Vista machine but it insists on setting up an account. When it asks to type a server location the following appears. The mentioned fax server is not available. please correct.... I ...

I found the following bug in Vista Explorer:I opened a folder with three subfolders holding some videofiles. I selected and cut a subfolder and pasted it to another partition on my HDD. While the moving was in progress I selected and cut another subfolder. This subfolder w ...

recently i installed a game called prince or persia the two thrones by ubisoft. that game has a file protection feature which was blocked by vista a ...

Hi, I just purchased a laptop with Windows Vista. Is there software that comes with Vista to duplicate CDs? I have data cds that I want to duplicate and I can't see any way to do it. Thanks, Phil ...

How do I get quickbooks pro 2006 to work on microsoft vista? are there downloads needed? ...

Can anyone suggest how I can get this keyboard to work properly in Vista. There are no driver updates at Microsoft that I can find thet enable all the features that I use. It is a model ...

Good day..I have 2 Windows...Windows XP SP2 on C...and Windows Vista on G...but now I have some problems with Windows xp...and want ti format C and Reinstall XP...But I Know that Windows Vista will Disappear from boot screen...wha ...

I'm having an issue with Windows Vista Ultimate. There are certain programs like Windows Live Messenger and BOINC that use Windows Installer & InstallShi ...

This previously posted in MS Access, but informed that this probably is a Vista problem. Trying this area, as one of the problems is Networking error. Cannot see where ...

Hi,I am trying to Backup my drives and files under vista, to a 750Gb removable hard drive. It originally worked when I first installed the software, but now it shows the error desc ...

If I copy files from a CD to a folder and then copy that folder to another hard drive Windows Explorer hangs and doesn't copy the files, or just a few of them.If I reboot and then copy the folder it works fine. My hard drives are all SATA. The CD's contain photo files, aprox. ...

I just upgraded to Vista on My Inspiron 6000 laptop and when I type my letters jump around the page. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this? ...

Can anyone tell me how to turn the speak recognition OFF, get some crazy emails in the office !! ...

Ok as they will be both on the same computer is it allowable to create a dual boot system for 32 bit and 64 bit Vista. I have the Vista Home Ultimate Edition at the moment and will have to get the 64 bit dvd but am interested in going th ...

I know, who uses animated cursors anymore, but I was intrigued that nothing of this was posted here yet.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx......."The SANS Institute's testing, however, contra ...

Hello,I've just put a clean install of Vista Ultimate on my laptop, so far only a few problems. I use a NAS external drive to store all my data files (PSTs, music, pictures, software downloads, my docs, etc.). So one of the first I did upon install ...

I've done this with every OS since win98. To see all the commands available for DOS, you type HELP. instant screens full of commands. The MORE command allows you to pause this mess one page at a time. Until Vista.help : more does NO ...

After reading in here that some had installed Spybot Search and Destroy. I downloaded and installed it. I did a couple of scans, and all seemed to run well (it only found se ...

Anyone, I never use the Vista File Indexing service, plus it causes much hard drive thrashing. Which is the best way to disable it permanently, and will this cause any future "problems" with my excellentrunning system? Thanks ...

I just installed Windows Vista on my Dell System. Everything went fine with the installation but after i did windows update all my folder and drive icons ...

For some reason Vista Business has started to reboot whenever it feels like it when I am not using it. This has started this morning and has happened three times today. Can anyone su ...

Whenever I bring up a gadget the bar that sits above it with the plus sign and the two arrows always sits up top where the minus, maximize and X is. does anyone know how to move it? Thanks ...

hey i wanted to ask if anyone has or know how to change the login scrren to be a different graphic. i know with xp there were a bunch of programs and other apps to change the login to have different background image and move the text box to a different part of the screen.. i never like having a ...

Hi I upgraded to vista home premium and now I am having porblems with my video card (ATI Radeon X1600pro 512 MB) Crashes to blue screen after loading a game.So I ...

okie dokey...I'm not sure what happened, but if there is anyone out there with a solution, i'll forever be in your debt.I'll explain...I was playing a game and got called away to dinner. When I came back One Car ...

I recently installed Vista Ultimate x64 and connected my Zonet Bluetooth USB dongle. Windows detected the dongle as a BCM2035 Bluetooth radio. I could pair my Blueant ...

Hi~ I'm having a heck of a time installing Vista Ultimate. I had XP on my PC originally and did the Vista test from the Microsoft site and it said my computer was Vista ready. When trying to install V ...

Hello!I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit on my notebook as test version from a Vista Business Update DVD. Now I got Vista Ultimate and I tried to enter activate the testversion with the Ultimate Key. But the activation server is telling me ...

tried installing twice and same thing. vista hangs up at 54% goes into re start then black screen with green scrolling bar that never go aways. did software advisor and upgraded all that needed t ...

Ive had my new PC for a bout 2 months (bought it with vista already installed) and now it keeps asking for the product key and I cant get beyond it. when i retype the product key given it says its already in use. Can anyone help me...starting to hate vis ...

Hi All,Anyone know of a current workaround for the installation of unsigned drivers in Vista 64 bit versions?I know there were workarounds on prerelease ...

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We recently bought an HP slime line for our daughter. It said it came with Vista home premium?? on the cd that came with it it said upgrade anytime. Is that a full os or do i have to purchase something else? ...

There is a dimmed file on my desktop named desktop.ini with nor folder info in properties and showing the following text when opened:[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%Sy ...

I'm running Vista Enterprise, and my offline files service will not start.The event view shows the following error when I try and start it:The Offline Files service terminated with the followin ...

The game installed and ran fine under my admin account, but when my son tries to run it under his standard account it says he does not have permissions. I have allowed the game in the Parental Control and have checked as many permi ...

Why do I have to type out most of my contacts, when I had outlook I could just type the first letter and the whole address would appear. It does do that on some, but if I don't use the address for a couple of weeks it fortgets it. It also seems there should be a way to go to ...

I CANNOT DELETE MESSAGE FROM INBOX. WHEN I TRY IT COMES UP AS ERROR OCCURED. CANNOYT EVEN MOVE TO ANOTHER FOLDER TO TRY TO DELETE IT FROM THAT. ANY SUGGESTONS, THANKS. ...

Hi does any body know if you can or how to sync email and contact from windows mail to windows mobile like Outlook 2002 does that comes on the disc with mobile phon ...

Having difficulty installing my printer. Have been to the Cannon website, but got very confused as to what to install software, driver have my own cd from the printer, do I still need to use that as well. sorry, but ...

When I install MS Streets and Trips 2007 on Vista Home Premium I get a message saying it needs to install the MS speech and text engine and I click OK, and then the window disappears and nothing happens. It never installs.I looked in control panel and speech and text is installed so I don't kno ...

I have a Toshiba laptop that I was using earlier. I was downloading a program called Comicster (madprops.org/comicster/) and surfing the web. While the program was downloading, the computer started to go into hibernation. I plugged the laptop in ...

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

I'm trying to burn some files to CD or DVD but when I place a blank CD or DVD in my Samsung DVDRW SHS182D burner there is no dialogue box to ask me what I want to do. I am following the basic guide here to burn a disc ...

I have these two errors, any help about fixing will be appreciated. #1 Description: Configuring the Page file for crash dump failed. Make sure there is a page file on the boot p ...

I'm new to vista. Having problems playing certain avi and mpeg files. Getting the message "windows host process rundll32 has stopped working". Help! dhans8887 dhans8887's Profile: forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=24448 View this thread: forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=7 ...

On Vista at the moment. This may sound dumb but i kinda deleted the main desktop icon from 'documents'. i can go around by going through start menu and accessing the documents and ...

Hi Everyone: I've just purchased a new desktop HP m7780n. Trying to get support from HP is like pulling teeth, I've learned! So, I'm hoping that someone on here can help. All I want to do is capture analog video from my Son ...

I need to straighten pictures. XP's Picture Manager allowed rotating a picture a degree at a time. I don't see this feature in Vista. Is it there somewhere? Will MS add it at some point? ...

After using Windows mail for a couple of hours I get this message. I can't see any of the emails. Before it gets to that I can't move emails to folders. Is there something I need to update or do to stop this problem?I am using Outlook 2007 and ...

I can not delete a message from my inbox. This is the first time I had this issue. Are others having the same problem ? ...

I used Steve's fix for my stuck emails in my Inbox. After I did the message import, I moved the imported folders into the main Local Folders folder and deleted the Imported folder because it was empty. After I was ...

Are there any partition programs (excluding Microsoft's Drive Manager) that currently work with Vista?Is Partition Commander or Acronis' Disk Director compatible with Vista? Ted ...

From: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Subject: Windows Vista Server Beta 3 Escrow is Now Available to MSDN Subscriber's, Just FYI. Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:24:57 0500 Keywords: < Not Specified > Lines: 2997 MIMEV ...

I'm running Win Vista Home Premium on a Gateway GT5238E with 2 gig of ram and dual core processor.System restore will create restore points manually, also before instal ...

...and can't get it back. I think there may be a bug in Vista. Twice now, when drawing the cursor across an Icon in the "Computer" window, the cursor has picked up the Icon and when it slid under ...

Upon reviving my computer from its low power state (Power button) I get the message boxes detailed below. This has only started to happen within the last three or four ...

I can not transfer my Files, because the "old System" have had a different language than the new one!And now????? What can I do?Greeting! ...

I once had a happy wireless network using XP. I have recently added some PCs using Vista. Now some of them work and some of them don't and some of them work ...

Join Microsoft Experts for an Online Chat!EAPHost and EAPMethods in Windows Vista and Longhorn The Enterprise Networking Group(ENG) is hosting a webchat about EAPHost on Wednesday 0 ...

since I instaled mcafee & now vista I have not been able to recieve emails get error # 0x800ccc92 what can I do HELP ...

I copied and pasted the old PC's Vista Mails to the new PC. However, I have strange problems such as the mail folders are copied by the Vista Mail, and it takes a long time before I can really see emails on the Vista Mail interface.Could anyone nicely let me know what is the proper way ...

I run XP and Vista as dual boot. Fisrt I had XP, thereafter I installed Vista on a separate partition. Turning on my computer and leaving it unattended results in bootin ...

When I try to view anything on YouTube, I get an error that says I either have javascript turned off or don't have the latest flash. I do have the latest, and everything else that uses javascript works. Anyone have any ideas?Vern ...

I have just loaded vista on an AMD Anthlon 64 FX55 with 2 QB of ram and an A8V Deluxe motherboard.Vista recognizes my boot drive and my two of my drives that are raid'd. There is one drive that I used for backup and was reconized with no issues under XP.I went an ...

I am trying to get a Billionton Compact Flash Bluetooth card to work in Vista Home Premium. Vista says the original drivers are not compatible and not to install them. I have tried all the Broadcomm, Widcomm, and anyother BT drivers close to no avail. The card is ...

I have upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimateall of my files are gone. I do not have a C:\Windows.old file nor are any of my files located in the $INPLACE.~TR or $WINDOWS.~Q files. When I do a search on a file name it finds a shortcut to the file instead.Please help. jmartini ...

I have Windows Vista Business edition on a new computer that I'm trying to connect to an existing domain. It's giving me nothing but grief.I've setup an account on the machine as a local adm ...

The "Assign" button doesn't turn off if you click on it. This happens only in menu "Option" Tab "Security" in Windows Mail in Windows Vi ...

Is there a simple way to export address book and emails to Outlook 2003?RegardsPer ...

jdlsk is popping up when I try to email ...

I have searched the archives of this forum and Google and have not been able to find a solution to my problem. On my computer, Sleep worked fine for a few days after the install. But then one day my computer start ...

I am running Vista Business system. Often when a notebook document opens, it appears encrypted. How can I set up my system to display everything in English only. I am running a Norton Internet Security program. Could this be an ...

This may sound a bit strange, but I have a huge amount of imagefiles and they all work fine in Windows Media Player, and still none of them are recognized by Windows Media Center. I have managed to get TV channels running in WMC, so it doesn't seem to be totally f... aulty. What could be ...

I purchased a logitech external mic. Plugged it in and it worked fine, but everytime i plugged it into my laptop Vista asked me what i was plugging in. I always answered microphone. But the last time i did i told it microphone but ...

When I try to instll windows vista, when the first reboot comes up, it shows a "windows boot manager" screen with earlier version of windows and windows setup. When I do earlier version, it takes me back to windows XP. When I do windows setup, ...

Will someone please explain in plain language of the uninitiated what are the advantages of 64 bits Windows over 32 bits Windows.Will it be possible to upgrade from 32 to 64 once all the drivers for Windows Vista 64 bits are available?Will the upgrade be only pos ...

I have just loaded DS legends of aranna onto my computer (Vista Home Premium) and there is a message that says compatibility problem when I come to run it.Can u help me jamiebanjo ...

Iinstalled the new driver and on the Uninstall Programs listing it now shows the nvidia driver with an install date of 04/21/2007, which is correct.But under Device Manager/Display Ada ...

Purchased 3 new Vista systems from my supplier. Installed them and left the users to figure the OS out. All three users said the system reported the code invalid and they HAD to call MS to get the product activated. Third user asked why this is (as XP is ...

My computer behaves in a strange way when I tell it to shut down.The hard drive shuts down but leaves the picture on screen. The hard drive then starts up again for a few seconds and then shuts down again with picture still on screen. ...

Hi fellows. I've 5 CD ISO/images for Windows Vista installation. Even though I will be able to setup/install Vista discbydisc, is there anyway I'm able to co ...

Hi, i'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, and I can't save a movie with Movie Maker for the usual error that papajohn described accurately in his site: papajohn.org/MM2IssuesCantSaveMovie.htmlMy dll version is 11.0.6000.6324, ...

can anyone help ? when i play avi.movie files in the preview box all i get is jagged multicoloured lines .the same video worked fine in XP. ...

I have removed some folders from Vista MCE monitoring, namely sample stuff from microsoft, since i have my own media to play. But, folders like sample ...

I recently came across this while wading through ms's instruction/explanation notes:=================================================================Win32/Alcan creates a hidden folder for itself under the "Program Files" folder and copies itself there. ...

Hi all, I am trying to recovery (as a test) the bitlocker key that was stored in ADI have extended the Ad schema and ran the ListAces.vbs from the Bitlocker guide and get the expected output.When I run this: cscript GetBitLockerRecoveryInfo.vbs I do not get any output.Has anyone ...

New display drivers 158.18 are available from Nvidia nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp SLI will have to be reenabled after driver installation. Jim ...

There is a message I tried to send a long time ago that has been sitting in my Outbox and not sending. Every time I open Windows Mail, a notification pops up that says, ...

Windows Vista The Official Magazinewindowsvistamagazine.com/US/ Regards,Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address)Quote from George Ankner: If you knew ...

I leave my PC on all the time, when I move the mouse and bring Windows Vista back up, I have no netowrk connection! WHen I was using XP this never happened. Also when I go to restart the PC it takes for ever for it to shut down!, ...

I want to change the "password must meet complexity requirements" of my PC to "disabled". But the pushbutton is greyed. Why is it doing that??My Vista PC is in the active directory domain of my 2 ...

I am using Aver Tv's A800 TV Tuner in a Windows Vista OS environment. I am also using their TV Utility software to download the tv services. All works fine I can scan successfully for TV services and the relevant guide.Whilst setting up my Windows Media Centre within Vista I decided to u ...

i have just updated one of machines to vista and a friend would like to do the same, is it possible to buy another product key and use the one disc or do we have to buy a hole new disc grapes ...

Vista Business. User mapped drive but initially had wrong credentials didn't use the DOMAIN\ prefix. We rebuilt a mapped drive which works fine. The remote machines are not doma ...

Hello,When tryinng to connect to windows update i get an error 80072EFD. i have tried adding microsoft.com to the allowed site lists. but nothing.office update also doesn't work. ms word 2003 keeps crashi ...

Hello,I have a problem with my SIL 0680A PATAcard. When I connect an IDE harddrive to the card, Vista wont boot up. When I disconnect the harddrive everything works as normal. It's very annoyi ...

I have a Motorola Q phone and when I installed Vista I installed the latest Mobile Device Center. At first, each time I connect the phone via USB, the Sync Center would open and ...

If I have no Data to transfer from another PC where would I find instructions on how to set up OE6 on a new PC with Win. Vista? ...

how do i uninstall movie maker from my machine??? windows vista home premium ...

When I Right Click on a Windows Mail contact in an attempt to delete the contact in Windows Explorer, the following error message occurs:"Windows Explorer has stopped working. Wi ...

One particular received eMail I cannot open neither delete it: leser@condenast.de "Glamour Umfrage Mitmachen und Gewinnen" ...

Hello,Sorry for my bad English, I'm Flemish, but I could'nt find the right answer for my problem in the Dutch group .... I use the Dutch version of Vista Home BasicThis i ...

Why can't I view reply and forward when doing so with a message? Message appears on bottom tab but I have to maximize it to see it. Can't find what to do to "repair ...

I am running vista when I access my servers to edit live or put in a hyperlink vista shuts down my fp and starts all over.....HELP help ...

Dear Friends...I want to know what is your target and achievement this year. . Do you want to have fancy cars? . Fancy house? . Have Big Business? . Financial Freedom? . Wealthy and proper life?BUT... How to have all of them? . Need BIG capital? . Must get ...

I bought Vista Home Premium and loaded it on a new hard drive. What I failed to notice is Remote Desktop is not a feature of Home Premium. I need that featu ...

I have read every article at least twice and tried every suggestion I've been given all to no avail. I am not able to enable the missing Hibernate feature. A couple of the articles state that the feature make have been removed during a Disk CleanUp. ...

Ok..so i recently purchased a computer with Windows Vista on it....but I have been heavily dissatisfied with it. I now cant play any of my games (Battlefield 2, GTA, ETC) and other programs normally shutdown with the usual Illegal Error message. It just seems that nothing is working wi ...

I think is related to my sound card drivers, but this happens on both my Sound Blaster XFi card and my mobo's onboard sound, so I'm wondering if Vista x64 is responsible for this too.Whenever I click on a link that brings up WMP, it wil give me a BSOD and reboot the ...

Degrag is set to run weekly at 1:00If the pc is off at this time, will the defrag run on logging in, irrepective of time.Thanks ...

Looks like linux didn't work out as expected for Big Blue.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.htmlFrank ...

Is there a fix to the 2B22 problem. I can not install SQL sever because of it. I need SQL to work so I can get my Office PRO accounting to work. I would appreciate any help.Mike Holcomb ...

Anyone else out there experiencing problems with their Bluetooth keyboards. Dell quickset is supposed to display the actual charge of your primary and keyboard batt ...

Whenever I turn on my computer, it comes with this Windows Classic theme on my desktop. I've lost count of how many times I had to RIGHT CLICK THE DESKTOP / PERSONALIZE / T ...

Folks I need to figure out how to edit the Safe Mode boot menu (F8, Advanced Options). I want to prevent a backdoor to Internet Access, by essentially removing the "Safe Mode with Networking" optio ...

Had trouble upgrading to Vista from XP on my ACER laptop. The upgrade gets to the final bit and then Windows will not start so I went back to XP.After a few exchanges of emails I was phoned by ACER today and they suggest that there may be a fault on the disc.They ...

Problem: Two locations, both Static IP. One laptop. Question: How can I create a network profile so the user can switch connections? In other words, is it possible to have two diff ...

The reason i ask is that i may have found a possible security flaw, but would appreciate it if anyone else who has the above operatings system can also check to see if this was coincident or is a flaw in vista's securityScenario 1 PC Running Vista 64 Home Premiu ...

Use to run Spysweeper and loved it. Just upgraded to Vista 64bit, and Spysweeper no longer works with 64bit version.A) Are there any true 64bit AntiSpy ...

Does anyone know if there is a way to print or export the results of the Reliability tool in Vista? ...

i am new to windows mail. where do i find my windows mail email addres? ...

Is there a way to set up to have items in the deleted folder permanently deleted after X number of days? ...

I use Bellsouth for my email. I am unable to open attachments when logged into my email account on a new VISTA machine I just bought. It works fine on my home computer with XP.The files I cannot open are Word and Exce ...

Somehow, I've damaged the functionality of the TaskManager (taskmgr.exe) program in my Vista. Attempting to run it, from any direction (CtrlAltDel > Selecting it on menu; going to Explorer > ...

We are running a network using one of the computers as the server. Someone shut down the server computer and when we brought it back up the printer is offline and I can't get it back online. This happened once before and I had to add the printer again in order for it to ...

Hi, I am running windows vista home premium and when i connect my external hard disk, the screen goes blue or sometimes different colours, i have to turn off my PC and restart it again. I am tempted to go back to XP, for various reasons, I just dont like Vista. What are ...

I have a Windows Vista Business 64bit OEM license. The thing is: I´ve noticed that some of the software I use works much better in the 32bit version of windows. So, my question is: can I downgrade to Windows Vista Business 32bit using my serial number, ...

hi, when I right click on the picture and choose send to> mail recipient, choose the photo size and then nothing happens. Window mail doesn't pop up. Anyone has the same problem? ...

i have jus bought a new com with vista. wen i switch it on there is no sound so i have to go into realtek audio manger and change from line in to front speakers out. then if i shut down again it resets itself. ...

It also switches from the new message compose screen to the read new mail screen while I am composing a new message about every 60 seconds. I thought it might have something to do with th ...

recently for some reason there are yellow lines going from top to bottom on the right and left side, and they don't appear until i watch tv or play a recorded show. When I play the recorded shows on a different player the lines aren't there. ...

I formatted my computer with windows vista business dvd and then installed vista it took about two to three hours to copy and expand files but when it restarted then it went into ...

When my computer goes to screensaver, and I log in to my account again, my Internet and network connection is gone. The only way to get my network back up is to reboot. Is th ...

I have downloaded everything that was supposed to from AOL and I still can't send out emails. I can receive them from AOL, but can not send them out through windows mail. can someone help me with this? ...

When I first set up my Windows Vista computer, I created a file called Audio, and have a lot of mp3's in this file.I decided to rename the file. I right click on it, and when I try to click rename, I'm told that I do not have permission to do so.I am the only user of this compu ...

Hi,I have Vista Ultimate installed on 2 machines with latest updates via Windows Update. Both are having problem with the Start Menu about 1 week ago. If I click any application in the Start Menu (the one that appear if the Orb is clicked), some applications do not start. Cu ...

Hi PalsI Got Dell Dimension 9200C/XPS210 with ViiV Core 2 Duo E6400I am getting the error Event Info: ERROR: SqmApiWrapper.TimerAccumulate failed; Win32 GetLastError returned 10000105 Process: DefaultDomain Object Name: Media Center Guide When ever I run DVD movie, the ...

I am a long time Windows user and find that XP is now a very stable and usable operating system (SP2 + subsequent fixes).Vista seems like XP with some superficial changes that make it b ...

Ripping music takes time, and this is the way you can put any or all of your XP WMP tunes into Vista's WMP 11 *instantly.*1) Pull up the XP "My Music" folder by typing in run box or Explorer Folder address bar:XP Drive\Documents and Settings\XP Profile\My ...

Read the following this morning. Can we rely on this not to move to Vista at this time?microsoftwatch.com/content/operating_systems/consumer_windows_xp_gets_another_lifecycle.htmlHome >> Operating Systems >> Cons ...

First question: why is the Administrator account disabled in Vista (Enterprise 64, if that matters)?As a general SOP for folks in my dept, when they get a new computer (for their office), I set their userid to have Admini ...

Horror of Windows Vista technocrat.net/d/2007/5/16/19975Microsoft Violates Patents arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070516linuxtorvaldsonmicrosoftpatentthreatitworksbothways.htmlLinus R ...

Consistently receive msg about 16%20% into xpanding files. Setuperr.log shows following:20070516 07:38:18, Error [0x0600af] IBS SetupUICallbac ...

I am getting a blue screen crash and memory dump almost daily. When I reboot I get a Microsoft Windows error message saying Host Process for Windows Services stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows w ...

I am using Microsoft Mail as a newsgroup reader, however I have found that it displays some posts as watched, even though I haven't chose to 'watch' them.Anyone else ...

I'm having problems with the windows vista sidebar. It was working fine then suddenly it stopped working and I can't seem to view the gadgets properly. The ...

This makes no sense to me but want to see if this could create my issue.Yesterday I install Vista on an extra HD I have for my Dell Lattitude D810. On my orginial HD I have XP install which was working fine until I installe ...

I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista and have frequent Screen Freezes. This is very disturbing and I am wondering whether I should have upgraded. The only opt ...

i bought this new toshiba labtop with a Pioneer DVDRW DVRK17A ATA Device, 3 months ago. it worked good for the first two months. now it just doesn't read cd's any more. when i try to play a cd it just kicks it back out. i don't get any error codes. all it says is to insert a d ...

in sound the line in is shown...but "currently not available"..tried to enable...it doesn't...what next? ...

From HP.com site I've downloaded the latest driver. No Viastversion available so I downloaded the XPversion. When application is running and I request a scan I get an error 2117. Tried with " ...

How can I get rid of the following:WINDOWS NO DISK"Exception Processing Message )xc0000013 Parameters Ox75Ceo23c Ox84134Df4 Ox75CEO23C Ox75CEO 23C" Any solution please, I've been annoyed with problem since installing Vista Ultimate. Thank you Very Much Aubrey ...

Ive just reinstalled Vista on my laptop. I had it activated when i got it and today i had to wipe the hdd and reinstall it. Because my copy of vista was an upgrade the coa was stuck on to the disc case cover and now ...

I am building a new computer and am using a new ASUS DVD, model DV1814BL, which is advertised to support WinV64. It appears to read the WinV installation DVD ok but stops in the data gathering stage asking ...

Hello,recently I have noticed that media streams from the internet have not been working on my Vista Home Premium edition. They work fine if I copy/paste the link into Windows Media Player 11 (or a ...

i have tried putting in my music cds, and it is not reading at all, i just get an error saying put in a disc please help, it is a bit of a pain in the back side ...

can one put a picture into a clip, so that while the clip is running there is a small picture in the right corner? ...

I have user with a Vista Business laptop joined to a 2000 AD domain. I am trying to make his network share available offline for him. When I right click on the network drive there is no option for "Always av ...

Within Vista's Network and Sharing Center screen when I access the “Connect to a network” screen I am at a lost to remove one of my previous wireless connnections. ...

Any ideas as to why I can connect to the internet in safe mode but not in normal mode? ...

Each time I go to "Network"....Vista rediscovers all our network. It may take 2 or 3 minutes. Is there a way to speed up this process ? ...

I have recently acquired Vista Ultimate with a new PC. I am trying to setup EFS and have a few questions:a) Before I even thought of setting up EFS, I ...

Hi! I am using Live One Care on my VistaLaptop. Every now and then it tells me that "I have to do some action". That is inappropriate, as this is ...

When I first open windows mail any mail in the outbox is sent but then I can't send mail. I can receive but only send if I log out and then log back in. Have checked out other t ...

When I try to get my email, I get the following message: An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0x800C013ADoes anyone have any suggestions? Gary, are you out there? ...

All of the messages in my Inbox suddenly disappeared. My Inbox is empty! Under Local Folders it shows I have 8 unread messages but my Inbox is empty. There are mess ...

I am trying to respond to a thread and it says message cannot be sent, no sender specified. And I am replying to the group thread. Please help Kimberly Dromgoole ...

How do I get my contact groups from OE to Win Mail? I have tried exporting contacts as a csv and importing but none of the contacts in the groups were imported at all. So I cant even rebuild them manually.Dont want t ...

Hi, my pc is Core 2 2.13 gb with 2 gb ram and using wnidow vista home preimun preinstalled by Acer company. I notice that when it goes to sleep mode and return, always it become unstable. is that normal? when I open 2 internet explorer, it will hang. if I use pc for about 3 to 5 hours, it will al ...

The back up utility estimated that I would use between 21 and 37 DVDR discs to back up my 160gb hard drive. I am currently on disc 39! I am concerned that if I continue, I will be just wasting more and more DVDR discs ...

Hope that someone can help me, while beta testing Vista, I kept asking Microsoft when giving feedback, to incorporate a 'secure folder' where the user could keep such stuff as passwords,and anything confidential. I asked that the folder could be secure ...

Hi,Just purchased a Dell 1505 with Vista. It has been a difficult install for programs, printers but my biggest pet pieve is that the license agreement comes up everytime you open a MS product. Is there anything you can do about this? I accept each ti ...

After running Vista Home Premium with no major glitches, over the weekend I was presented with a warning that I would need to activate windows in two days, then one, etc. Since I activated immediately after installation, and had made no changes in hardware, and no significant changes in softwar ...

I am trying to set up a new vista home basic machine onto a network with 4 other XP pro/home machines. For all computers, I am able to sit at them and put files onto the Vista machine. But if I am at the Vista machine I am unable to pull those same files.I have checked a ...

Seems I hit the nail on the head once more when I kept asking the question: "Where is the REAL Vista that was promised to us with longhorn?".. it seems that these people are trying to find it.. ...

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is it important for you to watch fight between MS and Linux? if it is, why? competition increases the quality, softly said. I have used MS for years, and still goes. Now one of my computers (i call it tes ...

You have to register. The site says it is Vista compatible. I have not installed, yet. I offer no claims as to its reliability. However, I have seen numerous folks say they like it.ashampoo.com/frontend/registration/php/trial_step1.p ...

what if you dont av'e a phone to activate vista, av'e posted this message before,MS cannot expect people to go to the payphone to reactivate they copy of vista, It should state on the box that an internet connection is ne ...

Received a message: Event 6, KernelWHEA Machine Check Event reported is a fatal memory hierarchy error. Trasaction Type: 1 Memory Hierarchy Level: 1 Request Type: 7 Address: 0 Any ideas, Armin ...

I booted up Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) this morning, and in the time it usually takes for it to boot up, I notice that all I get is a black screen with a cursor on it. This is after the green bars that scroll across the screen is displayed.Instinctively, I bo ...

I have a graphics of 2.9 for desk top and Gaming graphics of 2.6 thats my rating does that mean i need a new card to get higher? ...

Can someone advise me if the accompanying USB BT receiver provides audio headset profile so I can connect stereo audio headset in addition to mouse.Thanks,Scott ...

Lets see how many others have this problem.Yesterday I noticed my gaming was slow, and today I get fed up and checked the device manager and lo and behold Vista was using the WDM drivers.I thought hmmmm how strange is that.So went to install ...

Attempting to install vista on a HP vectra , furing file expansion proccess i get error"windows could not configure boot configuration,caanot complete install. I have played with boot pryority in BIOS with no success, any suggestions????? ...

Hello everyone,I have a little problem: I cannot find the settings that used to be in Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages.In the Languages Tab (in winXP) there used to be a box (Supplemental langu ...

I recently replaced an older GeForce FX 5200 card with a GeForce 7600 GS. I am using Windows Vista 32 bit Ultimate. In the control panel, there are two icons. One for NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager and one for NVIDIA Control Panel. I believe ...

Clean install of Vista Ultimate. The system run for 4 days. Now, after it boots it comes to the screen that I'm supposed to login and the only thing I see is the mouse cursor. The background black. If I type my password and ...

I have a TON of pictures on my computer. The photogallery looks kind of cool; I've been avoiding the picasa/adobe photogallery/yadda yadda, but I'm starting to think about ca ...

I've been having some problems on Vista lately related to a module called Stackhash, and I have no idea what it is. Has anyone had problems like this? Applications crashing and showing a Stackhash module error (WLM, Phot ...

Laptop with vista business, desktop wih xp pro. Laptop has wireless A/G card, desktop has wireless g card. Niether system will see the other. Installed MS KB fix for xp that allows xp to show up in vista network map. L ...

I want to connect my Vista notebook with my Windows XP PC using RJ45 twisted pair crossover cables. But even after connecting the cables to the RJ45 network jacks , the XP says "A Network Cable Is Unplugge ...

I have a desktop with Vista Home Premium. It connected properly to Internet until I had to reinstall Windows and Drivers because of a Trojan. Since then, the connection is very slow and when I run the Diagnostic I get a message saying that I can ...

Hello All: I have a wireless router that is wired to one computer with xp on it and connects wireless to a laptop that's running Vista. Connects fine both access internet no problems. The problem is with sharing files between the two comps. I thought that it was xp not ...

When I select a program that in the Software Explorer area of Windows Defender that I want to remove, the Remove and Disable Buttons are greyed out. How do I remove this stuff? ...

I created an MSI package using the VS2005 tools to register a DLL for use in a Vista gadget. For the gadget to recognize the DLL, it must be visible through COM. On machines with UAC ...

Is there anyway to, when you have two or more mail accounts, to make them come into another folder than the Local Folders, so they both end up same place?In for exempel Outlook and Thunderbird you can make a ...

In beginning to set up Windows Mail I created address : radioprof@microsoft.com. This was an error.How can I delete this entry? Ashford & Co. ...

The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Re: Census Form', Account: 'pop3.sbcglobal.yahoo.net', Server: 'smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(S ...

Hi there, I appologise on the post regarding System Restore, and have read all the other posts without anything seeming relevant. I also posted it in the security section by mistake. I see others have posted here.I have got a new laptop from Dell running Vista home ...

How do I keep Vista from asking me if I want to run a proram I've installed and run before. It asks for permission each time. Isn't there a way to shut ...

Is there a way to directly add annotations to scanned pages, scanned images, or pages of an attached document? ...

hi when i have a task open such as windows media player at half screen size, it is not transparent. could someone please tell me what to do 2 make it transparent. thanks ...

How to find Tools/Folder Options/File Types/Advanced tab in windows vista?Thanks ...

Hi..just like many other people, I'm having issues with Vista's ability to save folder views and templates as they're constantly changing on their own accord.This was a lit ...

i want to install windows xp .currently running vista basic.do i have to format drive before inserting installation disc? ...

Hi, is it possible to install netframework 1.1 or 2.0 version? , thanks very much Carlos ...

I decided to see if Vista may have ironed out the power management kinks I used to have under 2K and XP, so I recently turned it back on. Works very well, except I don't like having to reenter my password when it w ...

Windows Explorer folder view settings will not remember your settings. EX: Detail instead of Large icons, etc.......Go to this link for full details on how to reset it and allow your settings to start to be remembered a ...

My fren is using Vista Home premium and the photo screen savers has many other themes and photo transitions. Meanwhile, I'm using Vista Business and the photo screen savers has no themes and photo transitions. Anyone can h ...

When I shrink drive C:, it gives an error mesage: tells me it can't do it and I need to look at event viewer. So I go to Event Viewer and see event ID 11 has to do with authroot.stl from w ...

Well... There we go Microsoft. Every new OS release is a desapointment, one step further from what genuine computering showld be. They are suppose to make your computer experience easier and faster, but on the contrary, i ...

Using my upgraded Vista computer (XP to Vista Home Premium), I had no trouble with it until one day, I click on my sleep button and woke it up founding that my computer have restarted!!!. ...

My HP printer and Windows Vista have a lovehate relationship. They love ignoring each other because they hate me.Every week there's a new problem with the HP driver. This week, I had to reload the driver (which has always resulted in an error during installation). The womderful surprise this ...

Hi,I want to connect and establish a network bridge from a HTC 710s or HTC Touch with Windows Mobile 6.0 over WiFi or Bluetooth to a LAN connection in Vista and connect with the internet Live messenger over the LAN instead over the expen ...