Windows Vista Ultimate

Hy, I cant play any game on vista, games start runing but after couple of minutes stops, and like that all time, what is wrong, i even try change compability, but even then they dont run. Please help me ...

I have one dell laptop running Vista home premium and a number of XP computers. The vista computer can run AOEII:C on XPSP2 compatibility mode and join any multipla ...

Operating System : Vista Ultimate7900 GTX Video CardWhen you try to bring up FSX it just flashes uncontrollably. It's both the sound & the video. I made ...

I can't open email attachments that require PowerPoint....any solutions!Thanks ...

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Grrr...I have checked the box in the tools...options...general tab for windows to automatically check for emails at startup. But it won't do it, nor will it check for new emails every 15 minutes like I set it as. Any suggestions? Getting tired of having to hit the send/receive butto ...

I have read on here that there are some issues regarding the sending/receiving of mail. I currently have the issue where when I click "Send/Receive", my one mail account checks as normal, but the other one (my college accoun ...

I want to close one email and go back to the inbox. Windows Mail goes to the next email and opens is. Does anyone know how to change that or stop that? Thanks. Marty ...

How can I disable Sync Center? I don't use it, but sometimes I see mobysync.exe running. ...

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 the Card. I want ...

Ever since installing Vista HP, I can't sign into WLM I get error 81000306.Everything is exactly the same as I had when I had XP MCE on this PC same login for WLM, same WLM version, same router, same ISP, everything. And I never had any problem while using WLM on ...

I rarely shut down my computer, however last night i installed some "optional" updates and rebooted, and I noticed that the load time is extremely long. I'm not quite sure if this was before or after the updates.Here are my system spe ...

I have a not too old Epson Perfection 1650 photo scanner for which neither Epson nor Vista have a VISTA compatible "Twain" driver. The closest thing I can find on ...

Hello All, I have a Xerox DocuMate 262 scanner. Xerox has not yet provided a Vistacompatible driver, but has had a release date for one sometime in May 2007.The HCL lists the DM262 as compatible with both x86 and x64 versions of Vi ...

Does somebody now the availability date for the Vista printer driver HP Color LaserJet 4550? Best regards Ingo ...

I recently inherited an older printer from my dayjob office (HP Laserjet 3100 allinone), and I'm thinking "Great! Free laser printer!" The only problem is I can't get it to install a ...

vista premium x 64bit Asus A8NE mobowhat drivers do I require to get my multimedia controller working? ...

I dual boot with XP and Vista, but this wipes out Vista restore points. Anyone know of a work around for this? ...

I'm trying to install software on new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium. My version of Office XP is an upgrade; the original full edition is very old...Office 3.0. Had trouble loading Office 3.0 so I used t ...

I used to be able to burn video DVDs from Media Center but now I can't. I can still burn data DVDs but every time I try to burn one in video format I get the 'Burn F ...

I am using my vista laptop to view pictures on a network drive (xp) and it will bring up the icons and start to display the pictures but then stops and just displays the generic icons and not the image itself. Some of my other network drives will display but not the one I need. Anyon ...

With XP I could copy and paste pictures, now with the Vista I can not do this Any suggestions ...

In Xp, selecting right click "Help" when in Services, provided a list of all default settings for services. Is there a way in Vista (Home Premium) to set the mutitude of Services to their defaults? Failing that, is there a way to see a list of the defaults? ...

I wonder why in Vista, the Sound Icon in the System tray has a large gap next to it. It doesn't look right when positioned next to other icons. XP wasn't like that. ...

When I create a folder shortcut on my desktop, open the folder and navigate up the folder tree, it takes me to C:\Users\Bill\Desktop instead up the actual path the folder is on. I would like to have the same behavior as XP where going up ...

I just bought my computer in Feb. and it came with Vista Home Premium. I have the disk for XP Home Edition. I can"t install alot of my games and programs because of compa ...

when i first instaled Windows Vista on my PC, it didnt find any driver to my webcam, so i tryed to search on Windows Update and it found and installed it. Some days ago i had to format my HD and reinstall Vista, but now, when i go to Windo ...

There seems to be a "flaw" or what look like an Flaw in Microsoft Outlook 2007, when i start outlook 2007, I insert my name, and other credentials, ...

Installed Mozilla on my new vista work PC (vista home premium ed)I went to d/load flashplayer add on for mozilla, install corrupted and everytime I try to run mozilla it tells errors.I tried unistalling and reintalling but no d ...

Hi all,I've searched all over the net and can't seem to find anyone with the same problems I am having, so I thought I would try here. First of all, I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit. And this is what is happening:1. I can't run anything "as administrator" fr ...

In XP you could disable FUS by setting AllowMultipleTSSessions to 0 in either WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, OR Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System (the policy took prece ...

Loaded Nero latest release now getting errors with Nero home & message saying windows has to close program. anyone experiencing the same??? ...

Can somebody help me with fixing this problem? The Task Scheduler in Vista is not showing any history for any of the tasks that I create. I get the error as shown in the attached file when I attempt to view the history. I've tried clearing the event log for MicrosoftWindowsTask ...

I have found that I get an error "Sync cannot be started because you are not able to log on to the network and access information. Restart your desktop computer ans Sync again. If the problem presists, contact you ...

I have a Danish encyclopedia but apparently it is not kompatibel with Vista. Is there anything I can do? I get the message: SDE.QZ_ stopped working ...

I really dove in. Purchased a new HP Laptop with Vista Ultimate 64 Bit. Sure it's different and takes some getting used to all in all I really like it. I loaded my PC up and out of all the software I've been using for YEARS ...

om my new notebook running vista premium the hard drive sometimes clicks, there is meant to be an issue with cerain WD drives clicking and a patch to run to sort the firmware, ...

On windows Xp: 1.First click on the nortan Icon. 2.Than click on Nortan Internet Security. 3.Than click open on settings. 4.Under web browsing click Personal Firewall. 5.Click configure. 6.Than click programe control. 7.Scroll down until you see two of the same c ...

As human beings we understand the importance of being normal. Fitting in. Being part of the gang. Blending in nicely. Having that sense of belonging. But have you ever stopped to think whether this might be important for files and folders too? Do they need to know ...

Hello, I've been trying to send a newsletter I created in Publisher 2007 as a message but the only option I have is as an attachment. I saved the newsletter as a single web page which gave me the additional option to send as a message but sometimes the message is sent complete an ...

Does anybody know how do I change windows vista from English to Spanish? ...

Why can't I delete my email? It is starting to get to me ...

Dear MVPs... and other vistaboys,there is a known problem with Vista and flash...If you have installed vista, and have not installed the flash player from the adobe site, b ...

I am running Vista Home Premium and have successfully installed my Leadtek PVR2000 TV capture card. Vista recognizes it. When setting up Media Center, it wil ...

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I have been trying to install Vista Ultimate (64 bit version) for days. Literally. Tried swapping hardware, changing BIOS settings. Disabling everything but the minimums to run. No luck. C ...

I've been stuck on this issue all weekend, have calls into MS tech support, etc, because basically I'm locked out of any admin tasks. The problem I'm ...

In Flight Simulator X, I hit semicolon in the middle of a flight to save it, put in a name for a saved flight and a description, then hit OK. The dialogue windows disappears without an error message of any kind, but then I can't locate that flight anywhere. I pick Free Flight, ...

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I have a PC with XP Home installed. If I install Vista on top of this will I have the facility to dual boot or will I have to mess about repartioning the hard disk ?Regards ...

please help!1. everytime i download a video or something from the internet it automatically goes to my download folder.....but eveytime i visit this folder, it co ...

Leading up to the release of Vista there was a lot of speculation about end users turning off UAC. Can the "evangelists" and "naysayers" here offer their experiences? ...

Bug: Adobe Reader 8.0 Fails To Install When Logged In As The Built In Administrator Account.Affects Both Windows Vista RTM And The Latest CTP Preview ( Febuary 2007) Of Windows Vista Server Edition.Kevin John Panzke (MSDN Operating Systems Level Subscriber)kevpan815@hotmail.com ...

I backedup my personal files (not a Complete System Backup) on my system last week using Vista's backup program, a USB 2.0 connection and a Maxtor 80GB portable hard drive. Ever ...

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When I placed my camera into it's cradle when I had XP, auto play kicked off and the transfer software started up. In Vista, nothing happens, but I can manually go to the camera drive letter and copy. When I right click, there's no auto play option. It's not recognizing that it's a ca ...

The following steps are what I discovered over about a 4 day period. My system is Vista Home Premium and I have a LaserJet 2500 color printer. I was previously running XP Home SP2 and I figured it would be easy to move the LJ2500 over to my new Vista m ...

I have my first new machine with Vista and Office 2007. They are usability disasters as far as I am concerned. It seeems as though an awful lot of deve ...

"upgrading" to Vista from XP was the worst mistake I could have made. There was nothing wrong with XP.. I just thought Vista looked cool and would be fun! Wrong!! Not only did I have to buy another stick of ram (2 512's), it was the wrong kind. So I h ...

Soyo SYP4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 motherboard Intel Pentium 4 3.20 GHZ HT 2×1024MB pc3200 PNY RAM Windows Vista Home Premium PNY GeForce 7800 GS 8x AGP, 256MB (97.46 ForceWare) PCI Creative XFi Xtre ...

My aero 3d stopped working I also lost the option to preview the open tabs. Instead of the 3d windows I just get a list of icons in the middle of screen. Does anyone know how to fix this? ...

Hello, i recently bought windows vista ultimate and i installed it onto my computer. I activated it and everything worked fine. I just bought a new hard drive and installed windows but my product key was activated on the other hard drive. is ther ...

A strange problem with icons on desktop. When I create a new icon on the desktop (either new program installation or "send to desktop"), the new icon are added to the desktop in alphabetical order. Anyway ...

I have a SHARP camcorder that records onto HI8 tapes. And i noticed that my new Gateway computer has holes for audio and video input... like my TV does. I was hoping to be able to import my home videos onto my computer this way and possibly burn the videos into DVD. Does anyone have the soluti ...

Hi i now buyed a Ati radeon X1650. I try to install but, after rebot, after loading screen the monitor switch off... ??? but the Vista login.. ( ...

Everytime I've tried to load media centre that came with my vista ultimate it crashes about 15 seconds after loading. it keeps sayin that it media centre stopped working and it has to close.is there anything ...

i'm having a problem with the offline help in vista. Instead of pictures its only showing the red crosses, like it couldn't find the picture. The same goes for my Sidebar and the gadgets who needs Pi ...

My USB port doesn 't recognize a plug & play device (for my digital camera), in that the computer doesn't see the USB port. However, other USB devices do work.I tried the device on another computer and it works fine so it is not the device.My Lexmark print ...

Does anyone know why I am unable to change my Office help assistant from the paper clip to anything else?I've tried to right click on it and then left click on change assistant, but absolutely nothing happens after I do that.Brian ...

Hello Newsgroup,Not really a question about dual booting, more on the lines of reading disc formats. I have one physical disc that will be my system disc. This will be partitioned with XP Pro SP2, and Vista Ultimate. So far all is well.I have a 2 ...

Last week I acquired two new computers with OEM Vista Home Premium. Yesterday I installed on both computers Canon Printer MP600, using the downloaded Vista driver for it. Printer worked OK from both computers. When afterwards I tried to ...

My new computer does not have a parallel card to allow me to hook up my printer.Is there anything special I need to look for in a parallel card for vista compatibil ...

hmm i got a prob when suing msn it says Messenger has stopped working :A erroe made the progam shut down and you will be mseesged if there is any solution to the problem (that was translated from swedish so it dosend stand the same in t ...

Since a few weeks ago i got vista running on my pc i have a big problem with my mouse. Sometimes my mouse wont move for like 2,5 or 10 seconds. And sometimes it does totally nothing after a while. And sometimes my mouse goes crazy it flashes tr ...

hello, i just got a new laptop so im pretty new at this.. my webcam is built right into my notebook, but i don't even know how to turn it on and use it. i would really apprieciate your help, please and thank you! ...

Periodically my Logitech optical cordless mouse seems to stop working. The red light is on underneath as usual, the batteries are fine, but the pointer just freezes and I have to reboot to get it to work again.My (corded) keyboard is always ok.If it matters ...

does vista have a fix that will allow devices that are working on xp and older systems to be compatable?I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed, I also bouht a new webcam. The cam works ...

I have 1 harddrive, 230GB, and have XP home on it right now. I want to resize this partition, to say, 190GB, create a new partition with this free space, and have Vista RC1 on the other 40GB partition. How can I do this? I know there's Partit ...

Here’s where I am and what I’d like to do:Where I Am:I was a happy XP user and installed Vista Premium the day it was available. Since that time I have spent tens, maybe hundreds, of hours trying to get some of my hardware and software to w ...

My problem is that I cannot hear anything from my speakers, in Windows Vista Home Premium. I have Asus p5rd1vm mother board with a built sound card (6channel CODEC). I have installed Windows Vista Home Premium on this computer. First of all, the was a speaker ...

I have just upgraded to vista ultimate but i am having problems with security centre.it will not pick up my nod32 antivirus when others that have this ...

I have an email address that is being remembered by my computer, however, it is not in my address book and I want to delete it. I am using windows vista. Thank you ...

I've learned I can't use my yahoo acct., it's a freebie, but what about my bellsouth.net acct? I have bellsouth dsl & have no idea how to set it up to email. Is it POP3 or IMAP? I'm puter illiterate & it's getting late. ...

I have had 16 emails stuck in my inbox for the past week. Since I am going to be stuck with them for a very long time, I have decided they are my email friends.I took the snippet "If I could turn back time, I w ...

windows mail will not send my email = anyone else with this issue any ideas how to fix.Kathy with questions ...

I am having problems with Works printing in Vista Premium. I have Vista on two seperate computers. One has Works 7 the other Works 8. When I try to print on either machine I get an OUT OF MEMORY message. The ...

I have been trying for the last week to install a couple of programs that have multiple discs. They install properly only when I choose the typical installation but cannot be installed when I choose complete installation. Considering that I have way more harddrive space ...

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Hi, when i go to event viewer and select 'system' vista crashes with a bluescreen or to be more precise a wannabe bluescreen. The blue screen appears but no text shows up. That's even worse than a normal bluescreen. :( Once in a while i got other bluesc ...

I dualboot installed Vista to a system which had XP on C:, my data/programs on D:, and an empty E: (all on the same disk). I was trying to do an update/repai ...

How do I change the menu selections to the titles I placed into my movie? ...

My windows XP used a program called "Sonic" (since it didn't come with nero) to burn DVDs. This program allowed me to make a perfect 1 to 1 copy of my DVDs. Now that I've upgraded to Vista, this program i ...

Comp A: Laptop with Home Premium, wireless connection speed as i would expect for 802.11g. Internet speed ties in with what I am used to from my cable connection. ...

When User Account Control (UAC) is disabled and a Standard user (non Admin) clicks on the Resource Monitor button in Task Manager, the system goes into an endless loop trying to launch pe ...

My Wife and I are running windows XP on two new Vista based laptops. Once the machines are shutdown and powered up again they both dump the mail password regardless of how the "save password " options ...

I would like to know how I send a newsletter to multiple people without breaking peoples confidentiality by displaying everybodys email adresses. I hope you can help Thank you ...

Error Code pX000006ba Local Print Spooler is not Running no printers anymore they dissapeared Kirk ...

I moved my docs folder to another partition and changed the permissions so that no other user could access it. I also changed the ownership to my user name.now, it won't let me in, saying that i don't have ...

Hi.I've been to the Adobe Flash download page, and 'successfully' downloaded and installed v9. I say 'successful' as, that's what Adobe says. BUT for the life of me, no web page I go to that requires FLASH plays. They all say (as does Media Player for online content) that I ...

Hi guys I've downloaded an EFX navigation trade demo but I'm not connecting error number 216.52.236.18 some help would be greatly appreciated ...

HelloI am using Vista business on my Dell Latitude D820 with a second monitor.I generally work with a second monitor setup to extend my desktop to the left.When ever I boot up ...

Hi, I'm having problems installing SQL Management Studio in Windows Vista. I'm using a SQL Server DVD to install only the Management ToolsWhen I try to install I get this error message: "Error 1706: Setup cannot find the required files. Check your connection to the networ ...

An error message has appeared since yesterday and cannot get rid of it. It says "Content Delivery Engine Component has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if ...

My problem is a legal one : Am I allowed to install multiple copies of Windows Vista on the SAME computer?for instance could i have one copy for the childrens games and one for my wife.The intention of the copyright law seems quite clear ie to prevent people copying windows onto ...

I installed Vista last weekend all seemed well after I had visited the relevant websites to obtain the Driver Updates to enable my hardware to run. The only problem I seem to have is my 'Windows Mail' will not allow m ...

How do I add a folder to the Start Menu? I can delete items, but I can't add a folder or move the items in the start menu. ...

Hi. I'm running Vista business. I just tried to disable a program in the start up group but the Enable/Disable/Remove buttons are greyed out. Can anyone help please? morrisg ...

i have a new compaq presario with windows vista home premium and i am experiencing problems with realtek HD audioMy sound is enabled in the BIOS start up... The only time i hear the ...

I have the Visiontek Theater 550 MCE video card and I'm using the latest 7.1 drivers for Vista. I noticed that there is the Catalyst driver, the Theatre 550 Pro drive and an ATI Northbridge Driver.If I install the Northbridge driver, it c ...

I am trying to set up Vista in a clean uncluttered way. There are a TON of areas where MS has deemed it that I have to hunt for ways to turn on/off features that I dont need. Most of these are 100% redundant and do noh ...

I have recently purchased the 32bit version of Vista, and read that it is possible to obtain a 64bit version by contacting Microsoft and ordering the 64bit DVD for around 10 bucks. Can anyone tell me if this is true? I am running a Pentium D processor ...

My mother unknowingly got a copy of vista home premium which was already used. After the 30 days, it locked up. I am now trying to get the data off her computer to revert back to xp media center which was on there before but vista wont let me ...

How do you repeat videos in Media Center? For Windows Media Player, it's under the play menu. ...

I've used my Windows Media player11 to rip Cds to my external hard tdrive for about 2 weeks now, This week when I insert a CD into my latop it keeps reading Track 1 Track 2 etc. This is for store bought and burnt CDs. Is there any way to circumvent this problem because it's really a pain to t ...

I have a message in my inbox that won't open, and I also cannot delete it nor move it. Whenever I click on it to choose an action, I get an error message that just says there is an error. All other mesages act normally. The message i ...

how do i create a second contact list not just a new group? a group is a subset of the main contact list but i need a couple of contact lists for several organizations and import separate lists to each one? thank you adonin toronto ...

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I am still unable to send mail with windows mail, has there been a solution? Can someone help me please??? ...

Hi All,I know I can browse to any recorded shows right in the Media Center, but what's the actual location that the recorded files are kept, please?Thanks Donny ...

I GET A BOX ON MY DESK TOP TELLING ME THAT WINDOWS WAS UNABLE TO DOWN LOAD A MODULE.THE ONLY OPTION I HAVE IS TO CLOSE, THE BOX I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE TO GET ...

If I upgrade from windows vista home premium to windows vista ultmate or business will I lose everything that I saved on my computer if I don't back it up??? ...

It would be a understatement to say that I am disappointed with the services provided for Media Center. I have a dual core box dedicated to Media Center with a Hauppauge TV card wish is adequate but provides no HD tv in fact, it is unclear to me at least where to find a reliable ...

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

I am using an external monitor through the VGA port on my laptop. When I close my laptop lid, the external monitor's resolution goes down to 1024 x 768. I looked in the Mobility center, and it says that ther ...

I recently set up a adhoc network and the 1st time i used it worked great. following that i have had problems with the connection. The remote computer connect to the host system no prob but it only has a local connection only. ICS is enabled on both my ...

i am missing all sorts of icons. in explorer especially. all the folder icons from shell32.dll and basicly all icons from that file show up as generic if they are not on a large size. in explorer the folders list is not scalable so they all are just generic icons. and even on my desktop if i do ...

Does anyone have a clue how to do the following...On Windows XP you can configure (through the advantage button on file types) your machine to launch the appropriate MS Office application when selecting a link to an Off ...

I've built simple C program on MSVC8 (2005) with platform settingx64 and codegeneration: /MD. /MD: is to link CRT dynamically. Im trying to run this program from WInPE 2.0. It gives me error: "The application has failed to start beca ...

I bought Windows Vista about 3 days ago. When I got it, I opened it up and took out the disk. I placed it right next to the computer. Then I relized I had to go to work. So I placed it down went. When I came back, the disk was gone. I looked everywhere and I am ...

Is it possible to run Windows XP and Windows Vista on the same PC. I have some applications that don't run on Vista. My PC is duocare with 2GB RAM. In booting up, can I select which O ...

I'm trying to find out if a drive compressed with XP/SP2 will work with Vista? A little history: I have a P4/3.06Ghz, 1 Gb Ram. I have 4 drives in it, one being a 300 Gb SATA. I have compressed the drive ...

Hi Im not a windows vista expert and I'm not very good at explaining. But bare with me. So far after upgrading al the drivers and essental programs to get ...

Hallo! i have windows vista home basic and i tried to import my old winxp outlook express identity with a free program called 'Outlook express freebie back ...

I have a PC with Vista Home Premium on. My Hauppauge TV Card is Media Centre Compatible. Is there a way I can share live TV with other the other XP PCs on my network? ...

Background: ========= I have a Vista laptop and a CompUSA router (at my house). I was having a XP tablet PC which worked like a charm I open it, plug in the Ethernet wire and it gets connected, no problem. But with Vista, it d ...

How can I add a "Close" button to the toolbar in Windows Mail when you have a message open? There doesn't seem to be such a button available in the toolbar customize option. ...

Can someone please point me in the right direction ! Just upgraded to Vista and have a new printer. I understand that the printer isn't completely compatible with Vista...yet...but that there is a work around solution..Can anyone advise me in plain ...

I have a Dell 922 AIO shared on a box with Windows XP SP2 Professional installed. Until just a few days ago my laptop, running Vista Home Ultimate, printed just fine. The Windows XP box still prints fine.I have, since, reinstalled Vista and Office 2007. I still have the same ...

Hey microsoftI wish to know when you will come up with a certification for Windows Vista and/or related materials. As I am certified in the Comptia A+ and Comptia Net+ I want to know if there is any m ...

New computer running Vista Home Premium and Windows Mail. Get an error that says "Bad Image" and the exeption below using Windows Mail when I open posts in a stationery Newsgroup containing scripts. I have no trouble viewin ...

I must have clicked on custom (clean) install instead of upgrade because all my software did not 'follow' to Vista. Anything I can do now? ...

I just bought a new computer with Vista Ultimate and i am using Media Center with xbox 360. I can only see png's and gif's in the "pictures" area no ...

having laptop problems, packard bell sw51201. i have 2gb ram, only 128mb graphics memory but can assign up to 512. how do i do this? cannot do it in bios!!! than ...

Can anyone tell me why when i preview the movie, its showing upside down? ...

When using AOL mail settings I get the following error. Account: 'imap.aol.com', Server: 'imap.aol.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: 'ERR Cannot connect to POP server 64.12.171.248 (64.12.171.248:110), connect error 10060', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0 ...

Okay, I uninstalled/deleted McAfee Security/Virus from my system. I received detailed instructions from my ISP (COX) re setting up Vista Windows Mail & it is straightforward. Pop Server is: pop.east.cox.net. SMPT Server is: smpt.east.cox. ...

I can't send messages. I have a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite, a month old, with Vista). I haven't had a problem sending emails until this week. All of the sudden Windows Mail just stopped le ...

Anyone knows why this happens? WM crashes all the time and restarts itself after showing the failure message ...

I have just reinstalled windows vista ultimate and I am having a small but irritating problem. The problem I am having is that all my cursor files do not show the contents, all it shows ...

I've been having random (approx. 75%) problems getting Windows Vista to enter either S1 or S3 sleep states since installing my new XFi Fata1ity card. The card itself works great (would like to see Vista support ...

I am having a hard time simply locating the file path to my CD drive. In my case I am trying to locate my "D" drive where my CD is located. Could someone please tell me what path to take. I ...

Some weeks ago I installed Windows Vista as a new installation on drive D. I kept Windows XP on drive C: as a dual boot option until I had tried Windows XP. Later, when I had found Vista to be working ok on my system, I decided to install Vista as an upgrade on Drive C, so that I ...

Sorry if this has already been dealt with but I am a new lurker. I have finally been sent my Vista from the voucher I was given with a new computer last November. I do not particularly wish to upgrade from XP, but I would like ...

Hi, I have been using Vista ultimate for some time and it seems all files i download that are of the type .exe have a big chance to get corrupted, At first i was told my HDD was faling me so I got a new one but the problem stil remains. It f ...

I have a brother laserprinter attached to a XP pro desktop,. On my vista ultmate laptop i can no longer print to the printer attached to it. (It works when i boot back to XP on same laptop). I'm able to pri ...

This is interesting:<quote> In the coming weeks, Microsoft will also ship a new public beta version of Windows Live Mail (Figure), which will work natively with Windows Live Hotmail. I've been using a beta version of this Outlook Express/Windows Mail derivative fo ...

I having a %$^**!! of a time geting Linksys USB wirelss adapters work with Vista. I had a WUSB54G ver 4 (little blue/black box with antenna) and had con ...

When i start up my PC, The on screen keyboard allways comes on the screen at start up. I made a mistake by putting a check mark just one time. But i took the check out, and why does it still come up. I don't use the on screen keyboard. How do i perm ...

I had an issue where my Vista install wouldn't activate due to a key issue. It then expired and went into reduced mode before I could resolve the issue. My Vista install is now activated and validated, but my start menu is still gone a ...

I got my company to spring for the computer of my dreams but Vista has turned it into a nightmare. I cannot organize my thousands of photos as there is no way to easily move pictures to another file. You can drag and copy which is useless ...

I'm trying to import video from my JVC video camera using the DVi lead into a firefire card (just like i did on XP), but vista tells me there is no video detected. but it does allow m ...

I have a Sanyo Xacti video camera that only records in MPeg4 file format. The software that came with it (Ulead DVD Maker 3.5SE) worked fine in XP. Now it does not work and according to their website, none of their Vista products support the file format. Surely there i ...

Have had a Dell XPS 410 running Vista Ultimate for 2 months and it still is dropping my Internet connection 14 or more times a day. Have to restart to connect again. I have a wired connection to a AT&T 2wire router and DS ...

Hi, I've recently made a clean install of Windows Vista. The other day i changed my username, which seem to go correctly at first... the user account name changed, the folder name on my desktop changed to the new account name. However when i look into C:\Users\... ...

How do I setup newsgroups? I have a listing for Microsoft communities, but I looking for other groups to subscribe to. Thanks.Henry ...

Epson C60 printer and Canon scanner. Both drives appear to have been installed. Printer works when printing from the web!! ...

I downloaded a plugin to watch a video. Consequently a spyware or malware or virus appeared. I tried to uninstall it when my computer told me I need to reboot. I did so and the windows explorer has stopped working is restarting cycle began. How can I fix without using windows? It won't l ...

Hi,I have been trying all the solutions I could find, but no luck yet. We have SBS2003 as our server Succesfully upgraded SBS2003 to SP1, all 5 steps Even appli ...

How can I set and access favorite explorer links, such as c:\program files, c:\downloads, and etc. Otherwise I have to navigate to them from My Computer. ...

In the Microsoft Vista Home Premium edition, i' ve noticed that some apllications don't work. I have licences for 10 users in my company. If i downgrade the operating system to Windows XP, will i need t ...

Don't like IE7, not nearly as good and interface as IE6. Is there a way to uninstall IE7 from Vista and replace with IE6? ...

Hi AllYesterday I my internet explorer 7 did something different, when I open IE7 the first page automaticall closed and a dialog box opened asking me ...

Greetings,This is more of a programming question, and doesn't appear to quite fit into this newsgroup. Please feel free to direct me to a more appropriate forum (if one exists).I have an application (compiler) which dumps its whole parse tree into a file, and then reloads it later (for pre ...

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I just installed Vista Home Premium in my laptop, I get "This device cannot find enough free resources...(code 12)" error on my video, it is an ATI Radeon IGP320M with 128 meg shared ...

System is Abit KN9 SLI mobo with Realtek ALC883 sound on Vista Ultimate. I cannot use digital & audio outputs at the same time. Previously, in MCE 2005 ,I could do this. I have b ...

I can synchronize my Cingular 2125 phone to Vista using Mobile Device Center with no problem. What I can't do is use my 2125 as a DUN connection (which I could do successfully when my notebook was built with XP SP2). I have created the connection and when I do ...

I just got a hard drive that's larger than the drive that I installed vista on. I would like to move my vista to the new hard drive and wipe the smaller one. How would i do that? ...

This sounds like a strange thing to do, but the plan is:(1) Buy new motherboard with OEM Vista DVD; (2) Replace motherboard in existing computer (Windows XP); (3) Once XP is working, perform an upgrade to Vista.This is to keep all the installed softwa ...

I opened up Windows Media Center and tried to use the online content. I clicked on the Jazz Station. After the window opened and the list appeared, I started to scroll on the list. When I did so, the screen flashed a coupl ...

I have Vista Home Premium networked with my laptop running XP. I have enabled sharing on folders and printers, I can see both of my computers and their folders, printers, etc. If I try to ...

Account: 'YahooMail', Server: 'pop.mail.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: 'ERR invalid user/password', Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92What does this m ...

"Hi i upgraded from windows XP to Vista ULT." *If i right click on a folder to change its icon property. *The viewer opens and desplays icons from windows XP. *Changing my icon or selecting basic icons such as "folder" (when applied) will ...

I know i'm being real lazy here but when I save a file to a specific folder I look through the folders, for example, my computer: my pictures: holiday then it saves okay yet wh ...

I had to reinstall Vista in my laptop after my user profile information corrupted and would not allow me to log on. Very disturbing to be locked out of my computer because of a power failure, anyway, I did the reiinstall of vista, which mo ...

I am unable to select an image is my desktop background the only option I have is to choose a color. If I try selecting an image nothing will appear on the desktop. How can I fi ...

When i try to open a setting with a shield next to it it says C:\Windows\system32\FirewallSettings.exe The specified path does not exist. check path and then try agiancan you tell me why this pops up ...

Just a quick question. Is it possible to repair WMP11 on a Vista PC? My issue is this: I have an MP3 Player which is properly detected within Device Manager as well as My Computer. When I first purchased the Mp3 Player, WMP11 detected it properly ...

Hi All, Dont know how its happened but I cannot access any removable drives, DVD Drive or USB cards. The DVD drive has a round circle through it and USB cards will not open. I've tried to finfd group policys but it reports non are available as I thought this may be the an ...

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Sometimes I can't close my Internet Connection i.e. when I click on disconnect that dialog box always shows "disconnecting" from internet but it doesn't finish and that dialog box goes in stall without ending. When this problem happens, I see with netstat command a connection from ...

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I have Vista Home Premium and Dell XPS 410. Media Player does not work because it loads at start up and it should not do that. When it does open (closing it thru task mgr) I cannot ...

Hey Everyone...Im just wondering how to make this shortcut to my desktop...i can do it with almost everything else on my computer but i cant get anything for my dial up internet connection...any one got any advise for me on this ???...I cant seem to find anything with this ...

Windows Modules Service Is Broken In Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 Web Server Addition. Try Installing All Optional Features At The Same Time And The Install For At Least Some Of The Features Will Always Fail. I Filed 2 Bug Reports Today. Just FYI.Kevin John Panzke (MSDN Operat ...

I have been using a wireless laptop to browse the web and use MSN and Skype, for a long time with no problems. All of a sudden I switched on my laptop but cannot browse the web, neither use MSN or Skype. I can however see the wireless router (good signal). Other laptops on the same ro ...

My Taskbar In Vista Premium is set to Autohide (I have everything checked in Taskbar Appearance). It was working fine, autohid then reappeared whenever the cursor passed over it.At some point it began to hide but I can only access it with the Windows + T keys (or just Wi ...

I am using Vista Business 64 bit. I had an exchange account in outlook 2007. I had deleted it. Now I want to add it again but in control panel when I am clicking 32 bit elements computer displays an error : windo ...

Is there any way to make the seconds appear on the Clock in the system tray? I've got the time format set to HH:mm:ss but seconds do not show. I always had this problem with XP too!Thanks in advance ...

I want to share calendar between users on the same computer. NightOwl posted this and fixed it himself but didn't say how. Can NightOwl or someone else help me?I published my calendar from the admin account but when I try and find it from other use ...

I think I got all the crapware off my laptop (Dell could give Vista a bad name with all this junk, Vista runs much better with out it). I just can't seem to get rind of Dell's name in the titlebacr ...

I saw someone using Guided Help on his Vista machine during a Technet event. I've been trying to find it on my machine (Ultimate), but cannot. Is there somewhere to download it from? ...

i have this old 3 com card and i try to get it to work do anybody know how. this is because my lan onboard from asus (p4p800se) (lan marvel yukon) will not wo ...

There is a problem with the pt880 ultra and Gforce cards. The basic driver with vista kind of works...well it is stable but slow. The 97.46 driver also has problems. ...

I am not able to find the settings that were in XP, that allow you to have all voice come in through the headset, instead of the speakers and the rest of the sound come from the speakers. I have my headset working, but whe ...

Hey all! This is my first and I don't think my last message to the board. I'v used and tested all Windows Vista beta versions I'v gotten my hands on, and now ...

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I have a machine with 2 hard drives: one for XP Pro and the other for Vista Home Premium. The XP side was working perfectly fine until I installed Vista on the second drive. AFter in ...

Hi, I have a two part question.1) Is it possible to register my copy of windows vista from another PC? I was determined to avoid connecting my new PC to the internet in order to keep it &qu ...

I am getting an error when booting my computer. It says "BOOTMGR is missing pres CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart." I read online that to fix this problem I need to boot off the CD/DVD and select Startup Repair. I am unable to do this b/c whenever I boot off the ...

Is it acceptable to install Vista using the option for it NOT to search for updates? The reason I ask is that I am about to reinstall Vista for the 8th time because it keeps insisting on installing the wrong drivers for ATI and for my Motorola Bluetooth dongle and the system se ...

For no apparent reason, the themes in slide show suddenly stopped working. I just get a black screen. Pressing the "escape" button will get me back to what I was doing. The only me ...

Every time I go to listen to music that is downloaded into the hard drive, after a random period of time, the music will start skipping, go to the Blue Screen, then restart. It is a brand new computer, and I am running Vista Business Edition. All I use the computer for is mus ...

Hello all, i am new, When looking though my videos and pictures i get a COM Surrogate error message pop up, i have tryed these things the try and sort the problem but i am still having this problem howtogeek.com/howto/windowsvista/fixforcomsurrogatehasstoppedworkingerr ...

Does anyone Know of any bolt on for, or how to get, additional effects and transistions on movie maker in Vista? I've found the standard ones a bit basic and limited. ...

I am trying to access a shared printer (on an XP machine) from a new Vista laptop. Networking is configured correctly enough so that the Vista machine can see the XP machine in the workgroup, and can see that the printer is there. However, when try ...

I've tried before and today I decided to give it a new go. I'm running Windows Vista x64 Ultimate on my pc. I only have 1 HDD in my pc but maps some network drives for added space ...

Just recently got a new PC with Vista and only have an administration account now.Four main problems I am having:1. Vista refuses to allow me to create additional users, I've tried a ...

A multicard reader USB device caused Vista to go funky so I used system restore to go back to before the device was installed. Now, parental controls is blocking access to anyone who isn't an administrator. Even if parental controls are ...

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 password on m ...

Hi,i just bought an imedia 2579 and battlefield 2,stalker and countersrike are all freezing within 10 mins of play every time,once the game has froze i cant do anything i have to turn of pc,i h ...

I have discovered that if you run the software after checking the run as administrator it will load for you. Does not solve all problems though. I am still working on games that won't run because of the 64 bit etc.. but it's something ...

You can remove the Windows Mail Splash Screen by following simple steps: vistaarticles.com/articles/78/1/RemoveWindowsMailSplashScreen ...

i'm receiving a lot of spam when i post to ng's some of it containing dangerous viruses (swen32, eg). being less naive now, i want to change my return email address to be botresistant something ...

I have a problem that I have a few days. I use Windows Mail under Windows Vista. When I´m answering an email, I can send the answer, and the mail I´v ...

how can I receive mail and still keep a copy of the mail on my server so I can download to another computer? ...

I have several unwated newsletters that I have blocked for over a thousand times now that keeps on being sent to my inbox despite my Anitivirus prog ...

I recently bought two new Vista computers to replace two XP computers on our network. Everything works fine, except for email. I have followed the instructions provided by our ISP to the letter (spent an hour ...

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I was using Microsoft Outlook for years. Now I have Windows Mail and I don't know how to import my contacts from Microsoft Outlook. Is it even possible?Thank you for taking the time to read this. ...

Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but my problem is: everytime i start Vista for the 1st time and i try to access Windows Explorer using the "Computer&quo ...

I am beginning to be tired of all the bugs in Vista.1. My computer cannot see my WLAN network with its name. It only sees an unnamed network. If I try to connet to the unnamed network, I get an error message. I must know t ...

Hi!I've got Vista Ultimate (32bit) on my DELL D420, 2GB RAM.I've got the problem shutting down the machine takes about 5 min or so... I've heard others have the same problem, too, but don't know ...

I have Vista Ultimate and would like to backup all files to the second internal drive. Vista's backup program does not recognize drive D as approreat for backup. There are a few files on D some of which I can't delete b ...

I have a problem installing Adobe reader, tells me the temp file is full or my hard drive is full. The first one, I don't which temp file and the second, I have plenty of space. Could someone help me with this?Thanks,Fernando ...

I have a problem running Outlook 2003 under Vista, it refused to install, I 'm getting an error"Cannot start Microsoft Outlook MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version....."I reinstall, with the same result all the time, I need help.......Thanks,Fernando ...

I can not see how to aware consumers to not buy ANY computer that has Windows Vista. It not only affects my job, it also affects my time, I have to keep looking for vista errors in the internet and see how can I "fix them", even Microsoft don't know about the errors that v ...

Like many people, my system (vista home premium) takes a century to copy large files. First, the File Copy dialog just sits there with title "Calculating time remaining". Then, it gets going and ...

Using Window Vista Premium I have had this machine less then a week. I was installing high quality software like quicken, and HP Solutions. On computer restart, I notice that I do not see a drive letter for any of my DVD burners or CDrw even the one on the original GATEWAY. The message I ...

Hello,About two months i have vista installed on my PC, and don't see any important feature to tell my clients to upgrade to windows vista, if compare to windows XP (SP2 + IE7 + Windows Desktop Search) y cannot figure out why i should buy more memory and pay a lot for upgrade to ...

As brief as possible: We are using Vista Small Business and have an admin and standard user account. We need to always allow admin access, so this has to be set in properties compat ...

For the past month I've had a problem whenever I attempt to start any program, multiple openings occur. For instance when I open my Internet browser, two or three openings will occur ...

I'm experiencing unexpected shutdowns of Vista at apparent random times. It just closes every program and happily turns off and restarts my computer out of the blue. I haven't been able to make any connection between this ...

I do alot of online classes in college. We have a program called blackboard. When I go into to blackboard you will usually have a question and a box like this one that I am typing in to answer. The problem is that now since I purchased a new computer with v ...

With the introduction of Windows Vista I can no longer run Domain Administration tools as my Domain Admin account. I am a Network Administrator and require runn ...

Hi!When I dblclick a folder name in the right pane in the explorer window, Vista suddenly has startet to open that folder in a new window, even if the "Open each folder in the same window" ...

Hello everyone!I am trying to connect an external screen (Samsung SyncMaster 205bw) to my laptop (Zepto Znote 6615WD). I have done this once before without trouble when I ran the OEM Version of Windows Vista Home Basic. Now I have installe ...

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Hi there,If I power off my laptop with Vista it takes a few seconds to shutdown (about 20 or so). If I close the lid on my laptop before it shuts down completely, Vista will go into sleep mode. The next time I open my laptop it will wake up, just so that ...

Has anybody tried the new Lavasoft Adaware 2007 on Vista yet? It worked great on an XP machine, but on my Vista machine, it scanned and found infections but as soon as I went to delete them, an error message popped up, and the program had to be terminated. I don't remember the exact ...

How do I keep this message from displaying everytime I plug in a USB flash drive?"Do you want to scan and fix *name of thumb drive*" My 2 options are "Scan and Fix" or "Continue without scanning." I have t ...

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My computer had compatibility issues with Vista. The Motherboard and sound card were not compliant. So I changed the mother board and I got a larger hard drive and of cours ...

Please join us for our ExpertZone chat for discussion with Microsoft employees and MVP's regarding Windows XP and Windows Vista!Here is the URL to the chat:microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzon ...

the subject says all. I have had my computer for 5 days. My boyfriend has the notes (postit type) in its session but it is not in mine and I really want it. I ...

I'm trying to upgrade from XP Home to Vista Ultimate 32bit. I've run the Upgrade Advisor several times and it always tells me that there are no issues. It does tell me that the drivers for the ethernet adapter and the ...

When I start to install Vista64 the install stops right at the start. When I start booting off the Vista DVD and select Windows setup the screen changes to "loading files" then a black screen with a green image\icon moving back and ...