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I upgraded to Vista about a month ago, installed Office 2007 and everything worked pretty well until yesterday. I turned on the system and as it booted there was a message about needing to checkdisk. Then for the next 5/1 ...

I recently purchased a computer with Vista and Windows mail. We've been using it for about a month and suddenly today when we open Windows mail we are prompted to enter our user name and password to open the program.W ...

Can anyone help me out with an isue I'm having with installing this game. I was able to do it on XP, but on Vista the directions don't work.... are there any compatability programs I can go through to install it, or do i ha ...

ok all i am seeing is how games dont work, i have been trying to get age of empire 3 to work and now luck there. so what games do work with vista. ...

I am changing from Outlook Express to Windows Mail. I exported/imported address book with no problem.In Outlook Express, email addresses would complete soon after starting to type in the name. That does not happen on Windows Mail. How do ...

Really weird. I don't have a problem with opening most links from my mail, either "http" or "https", that's not the problem. The one site happens to be &qu ...

I just got a laptop with the windows vista program and the new windows mail program. For the life of me, I can't set up the mail program using my wireless broadband router connection. I have contacted my ISP company, HP computers (wants $60 for consult) and microsoft for help and they all rou ...

I'm sooooo closeI have now managed to "uncheck" TWO of the three files Windows Mail was associated with through the registry. But it will NOT give up on "mailto." All the instructions I ...

Is there any way to backup the new windows mail??? Outlook express had several programs which could be used to back up mail and address book. appears there is nothing out there so far for the new windows mail. anyone ...

When I close Windows Mail and try to reopen it, I get an error message that my Windows Mail is already running. I then have to go onto task manager and end WinMail.exe which is for unknown reason still runnin, then I can start Windows Mail. This problem only happens afte ...

Hi, allI was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix a weird problem that just started happening to me todayWhen I boot up my computer, I do not g ...

I have the Vista backup scheduled for a nightly backup, and after just a few days, it runs out of room on a 120 GB hard drive. It's backing up approximately 40 GB of stuff from my primary hard drive. Something seems to be wrong with the backup si ...

Setup: Samsung SCX4100 MFD connected to a Windows Vista Business computer via the USB port.When I try to install the scanner, Windows Vista Business sees this as a XEROX Workcenter Pro Scanner and installed that driver, w ...

Canon says they haven't developed any drivers yet for the Multipass F50. Anybody have any suggestions? ...

Hello,My Canon CanoScan 3200F scanner is installed (using Canon's ScanGear CS v8.5.1.1) and recognised by my Vista Ultimate installation (it appears as a "CanoScan 3200/3200F" in Vista's Control Panel/Scanners and Cameras applet).Howeve ...

EUREKA…. fixed it + correctif francais (en completant la reponse de Troels) Voici le detail et les etapes (=>) pour reussir la mise a niveau: Pour installer une des imprimantes HP laser jet avec sortie USB utilisant un port DOT4 virtuel sur vista il faut utiliser les procedure ...

I changed the location of the default Documents folder to a separate HDD. I accepted the prompt about merging the two locations or whatnot; However, when I open up my Home folder (C:\Users\Brian) there are two documents folders displayed. The Shell folder (I beli ...

ok, i have vista home premium and my internet is screwed up! There is nothing wrong with the connection, it says that my internet is fine(in the status) (it is, I connected it to my laptop and it's working there). But when I open my browser. It says something like &qu ...

I set up 2 email accounts and I do not know how to switch between them? ...

I've Had Windows vista Ultimate installed since March 1st As of today the feel of it seems slow not sure why event viewer showing alot of errors there's no answers or solutions ...

Hi Everyone! I will soon be a new vista user, and I'm wondering if the new (2007) Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security software programs will be an adequate security arsenal. Also, would these render the "Defender" thing obsolete, or should I continue to us ...

I was just wondering if anyone else has problems with running oblivion under vista. Cause most of the time i fast travel or use a gate my pc freezes up.I know i got enough ram, cause i have 4 gig, an ...

I have Windows Vista 32bit and downloaded the cleanup utility from support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/290301. Once the download is complete I double click the program and instantly I get an error message that ...

Hi All,I use the Feed Headlines gadget in the sidebar. I have set it up to use the RSS news feed from the BBC website. The problem I have is that the refresh rate of this gadget is hopeless. It doesn't appear to be user settable and the headlines displa ...

Has anyone had this problem, Everything was working ok up untill now, I seem to have lost my theme sounds in Vista. I do not hear any startup or exit sounds or any other theme sounds in Vista. I can play music alright without any problems. When i go to the media ...

If I attempt to launch an application software(Powerquest Drive Image 7), the following message is displayed:You do not have sufficient privileges to perform this operation. See help for more information about security settings. I che ...

I want to play DVDs on my computer, but I have Vista Business which apparently doesn't have a dvd decoder so you can't play DVDs. I clicked on the "Web Help" when it gave me the message that I ne ...

My Icon keeps showing up in my toolbar indiciating that I have mail but most of the time I don't. I have to close Outlook and open it again to rid the icon. ...

Hello! Have seen many complains last week regarding Wmail not opening attachements, but is there already a solution found, don´t see many comments lately?? _______________________________ Christian van Velzen Tel ...

Hi all, I am trying to backup my files to DVD, I have a lot of music and pictures (on an external HDD). I get an error code right when it begins to backup to DVD, the error is "The parameter is incorrect 0x80070057". My question is, ...

I have just noticed that just above the system tray area the following is displayed:Windows Vista(TM) Build 6000 This copy of Windows is not genuine On the other hand, other place(Control Panel > System and Maintenance>System) indicates "Gen ...

How do I fix any registry errors in Vista? I got 9 of them 5 of which were not even Index and so these errors keep reappearingHow do I fix this ? There's no performance or function issues with thease. Just they ...

I was viewing a group of photos, 12 fullsize wallpapers, in the Picture Gallery and decided to try out the slideshow feature. It worked fine until I chose, "Collage" under the Themes options. Now, all I get is ...

I am trying to migrate all of my files / settings from a WinXPPro box to a new Vista using the infamous Windows "Easy" Transfer utility....After everything is connected and the "process" starts WET almost immediately ...

Hi one and all,Not sure if anyone can help me with this as the problem seems widespread in various forms.My particular problem is that when I installed Vista (Home Premium) on this new build, it gets all the way to the "completing th ...

Hi ! Sometimes when I close WMP, it closes the window but starts using 100% CPU and it seems it will never stop, so I have to kill its process... My Vista is up to date, but I disabled s ...

Well I too am having major problems with wireless networking with Vista. I had an old xp laptop with a Netgear (b) adapter and it worked fine. Now I have a new Toshiba S ...

Every time that my Dell Dimension 9200 goes into Sleep mode, it drops the Network link and is unable to resurrect it without a full reboot this problem has only occurred since upgrading from XP MCE ...

I want to add a shortcut on my desktop to activate the Vista screensaver but, doing a search for what used to be screensaver filename extensions.....*.scr ...there are none on my ...

I'm not that familiar with Mail. Is there a way to block a sender in the newsgroup so I don't see their posts?TIA, Art ...

Windows Mail is driving me crazy. I used OE on my XP Pro, with no problems. I successfully moved my folders to Windows Mail, and set up the accounts. No problem. But (a) Wh ...

I've been using windows for 79 years. With Vista, if I don't see rundll32.exe fail at least once a day, I think the OS is fixing to self destruct.Anyway's I've found one item that's causing rundll32.exe to fail. But I really don't feel like paying M$ $99.99 to ...

Hi,Unable to get Messenger Live to connect.I am pretty sure that it is doing something. It will logout MSN from another machine (XP).It must be vista (he says) because on the same router an XP machin ...

I've purchased an addon wireless cellular network minicard for my laptop that allows high speed network access via my cellular provider's network. Each time I boot up my laptop and establish ...

When I open "allowed items" it only lets me remove programs and there are no programs listed to remove. When I open "software explorer" the program I want to allow is not listed in any of the four categories. The program I want to list is Money 200 ...

My apologies if this appears twice. Windows Mail tends to hang when I post to MS Communities, and some of these show up days later while other just get lost...I am really starting to hate Vista's UI bugs. Anyway: I've got a bit of a dilemma. In a nutshell, I turned off admin rights to my account ...

I'm just a josephine average kinda user and I'm struggling with Vista (I was forced to buy it when my computer crashed and I had to get a new one.)I want to install my data on my new co ...

Hello I just got Vista and so far it is going fairly well I just have one question concerning this Toolbar EULA it is a popup that appears everytime I log into the computer and it states "This program cannot display the webpage" and I've clearly tried to remove o ...

I own the retail version of Ultimate and am facing a motherboard upgrade and new video card this weekend due to a vid card failure. Can I expect activation problems or should most upgrades go well (I tinker a ...

I've got an interesting one.This morning, my HDD reported 80.5 GB FreeInstalled two pieces of software, went to check how much free space was left on my HDD, now it's reporting 92.5 GB Free...Is this a new feature in Vista that drive space actually increases as you install software? ...

i believe everyone would have installed in the windows live messenger in their laptops/computers, but my laptop is lagging like nobody's business after installing. i seriously need someone to help me with this problem! whatsmore ...

I installed windows vista on one of my hard disk partition it is working properly and showing all other partitions of that hard disk but It is not showing partition from other 2 hard disks in device manag ...

How can I send my emails stationery that I make with music and pictures. It says one or more of your pictures was not found. ...

I have a new Dell laptop running Vista Business and every time I open Word (2003) I'm asked to accept the "enduser license agreement." I see that this is a known problem, but the only ...

If I have the ultimate version of vista is there an extra expense if I want to tell it to use korean as my language instead of english?Thanks, Pete ...

I currently have the version of Vista Business in Japanese (I live in Japan). I want to purchase the Anytime Upgrade for Ultimate, but I've checked the FAQs and there's two questions I hav ...

I am trying to download the Skype Sidebar Gadget fromgallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=ddf438331a4146538347ce4a887dcf51&l=1ortinyurl.com/35rgopBut getting nowhere! Has anyone else managed to download it?I do not have a live account. ...

Hello,I'm trying to download the latest drivers for my MS Wireless Desktop Elite keyboard and mouse. I go to MS hardware page, select Downloads, then select the p ...

Hi,Please see attached. There seems to be no place to "apply" the checked box. No OK to let it accept my selection not to have this come up again. How can I get rid of it? It comes up every time I try to go online. I don't need it anymore.Thanks, Nancy ...

I would like a desktop shortcut to send my laptop to the logon screen then put the laptop to sleep. Any way to do this? Thanks ...

i have vista installed build 6000 activated and english version, but when i go to updates, dont show no extras, any help? ...

I have Vista Business Edition on an IBM ThinkPad (Xseries). No special software besides the usual: MS Office 2007 (incl OneNote), Firefox, WinAmp, Acrobat Reader. Plus the IB ...

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When I attempt to launch "Help and Support" on the Start menu I receive an error message of "Internet Explorer cannot download from / from help. Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet ...

Is there a way around this? I just downloaded a Vista driver from Motorola for my modem. It installed fine but alas Vista wont let it run without a digital signature. XP allowed the user the option. Is there a way to train Vista to prompt me instead of making the decision fo ...

I have a laptop with Intel 82852/82855 embedded video. Any Vista driver options other than generic VGA? ...

I have a digicam HP photo smart 435 but everytimeI put the sd card it reads that it is unsupported card and im trying to have that software so i can use tha camera please advise regarding this matter but everytime I use normal of built in memory ...

After spending way too much time troubleshooting my audigy 2 soundcard, I finally got it to work recently by reseating the card into another slot. It was working fine until I clicked on the recommended "creative audigy" update within Vista Update. Immediatel ...

How is one supposed to check for errors on, and reformat, a USB flash disk? I assume these things all have some specialized geometry, and a standard command line CHKDSK or format is g ...

Hi,I am wondering how to repartition my hdd to add a third partition.Can XP be installed anywhere on the hdd (in its own partition)? Do i need to use partition magic to add this partition,so that no ...

Hi I installed 64 bit Vista RC2 beta. I am having trouble so I now want to upgrade to a full version of Vista.Here are my questions:(1) I dont want to go back to XP then upgrade to vista. I just want to go straight from beta to full. Can I do this? (2) I will be going from 64 bit beta to 32 b ...

Hi i installed an OEM version of vista, it all set up perfectly until i had a hard drive failure and had to reinstall it, now its saying the key i used for the first installation is being used and wants me to enter another o ...

I am trying to do a clean install and pressed a key when it asks to to boot from the DVD. Than, it loads the files and brings up an error screen. Any suggestions? I have the upgrade version and tried upgrading too and the same thing happens. ...

I have the following:Primary drive (80Gb) divided into two equal partitions. Partition 1 (C:) has XP pro installed and is my 'working' OS and drive Partition 2 (D:) has XP pro installed that I use simply for testing items like addins, software, toolbars, other utilities, etc.boot.ini ...

i am trying to send pictures from my picture gallery in emails but i cant for some reason i was told to email them as attachments through windows mail which is fine but i want to resize them and the only way i can do this is if they are sent through the picture gallery is the ...

When booting up my Vista Buisiness PC, network drives are automatically mapped by the domain. However, during this process Vista pops up with a message box "Please insert ...

the programe Battle field 2 that the D3DX9_25.dll is missed ,the programe cann't run. ...

I wanting to recieve a receipt when sending out mail to clients. How do you set this up on windows mail for vista? Missy ...

I am linking windows mail to Yahoo mail. For some reason I can send mail ok. I can receive mail no problem if I close and then open windows mail. However, if I windows mail is open and I send/receive, I get the "noise" a ...

Error de conexión con el servidor. Cuenta: 'pop3.terra.es', Servidor: 'pop3.terra.es', Protocolo: POP3, Puerto: 995, Seguridad (SSL): Sí, Error de socket: 10060, Número de error: 0x800CCC0E ¿Que puedo hacer? What can I do? ...

Although XP did not automatically instal a Clipoard viewer, it could be winkled out and I always found it very useful. Now that I have switched over to Vista, however, I hav ...

I am still trying to get to grips with my new PC with Vista Ultimate on it and get back to being able to do stuff I could do on my old PC. Latest is the series is sending a fax.Microsoft ...

I've tried some of the fixes on th boards but to no avail. I can see my XP computers and shared printers. I've made all files and printers shared. I can add the printer on my XP to the Vista but it won't print. When I try to add the print ...

Running Windows Vista Business 32 on a new Dell Latitude D820, network is structured around a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, Lexmark X9350 Allinone (802.11G wireless communication).I've been able to get the printer/s ...

My sound was working fine untill I installed Vista. Now, in the task bar, the speaker icon is crossed with a red X with the message that there is no audio device installed ...

Microsoft Technical SupportOne of Microsoft's finest techs was drafted and sent to boot camp. At the rifle range, he was given some instruction, a rifle, and bullets. He fired several shots at the target. The report came from th ...

I have Vista running on the 80G G: drive and would like to copy everything on the G: to the 115G D: drive...........is that possible or do I reload everything from scratch???Thanks ...

I went through many discussions and still coudnt fix Aero for me. Its from the begining not showing me the Aero Theme. My Display adapter is Intel(R) 82865G Graphic Controller is it compatible? ...

I am clueless about these things. Here goes. I left the computer on overnight, and it was showing the log on screen. This morning, the computer was on but the monitor would show nothing. I ...

I installed a floppy drive on my computer running Vista. My bios is showing the drive but when I boot up into Vista, it's not showing the drive. I've installed ...

I dual boot with XPPro and Vista Business. My DVD drive works fine in XP, but as per all the other threads is visible in Device Manager and not in Computer. Business was a clean install so no remaining drivers. The ...

Hello! I am facing rather an annoyance than a problem. I have Vistaâ„¢ installed on my notebook. Wireless configured and working properly but after booting i ...

At home, I have a lap top using Vista Home Premium while two other PCs and one other lap top are using XP. The XPs connect with each other well, sharing files and a printer by a router connected to one of the PCs. How can I connect the Vista with ...

support.microsoft.com/kb/926183/enus#appliesto talks about administrator accounts.It says: "By default, the following conditions are true in Windows Vista: . The builtin administrator account is disabled. . The builtin administrat ...

The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing email [SMTP] server. The rejected email address was '& ...

A lot of times when I reply to a message I click the Reply button and no composition windows pops up. After the second or third attempt I get one. When I look in the ...

I got 2G RAM and task managed reported 0 Free memory, with the majority gone to Cached. So is the free memory number real? iTech Consulting Services Limited Expert of ePOS solutions Website: itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852)2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 ...

Since the upgrade to vista it will not print automatically with the duplexer ....any ideas.... ...

Since this error is so generic, I have no idea if this is a Vista issue or Office 2007 issue. Opening a simple Access Database file on a network drive produces an error that simply states " ...

Can anyone help me. Is the a way to have two profiles loaded on ...

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I have been using the excellent VOIP software Skype for around a year now, and i really love it! I upgraded to Windows Vista and have been reading that Skype just does not work! Is this true??? I have around $20 of Sk ...

hi, i have a netgear WPN824v2 wireless router, and ever since i have this router my opera bittorrent downloads are very slow (less than 10 kb/s). I try to config my wireless router but unable to get good result ...

I'm pretty sure I used TweakUie to do this in XP....Is there a simple way to do this in Vista?thnx ...

msHi thereInstalled Windows Vista Home premium, downloaded Live messenger, it says it has installed correctly, however everytime i turn on my machine or double click on msn messenger to start nothing appears.If i use tas ...

I built a new a computer a couple days ago and i've been trying to install Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit with no success. Everytime i try, it completes the "installing updates" part, restarts the computer, returns to "Completing Installation" but then abruptly reboots. ...

This morning I was having issues with Internet Explorer, and in Taskmanager requested to be taken to the process causing the problem. I know that should be Iexplo ...

Running Vista 32bit Enterprise...In the Device Manager, under Other Devices, I see a device called Data Interface. It's current state is:"The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)"I don't know what this is or how to find a driv ...

This has probably been asked ... but google didnt find an answer and I didnt want to slosh thru all the hits.Can we install the vista upgrade on a clean (new) disk?I want to put in a new big disk and do a fresh install of vista and not bother installing it over the old smaller disk that has XP ...

I would like to know if I can install MS office XP (should be 2002, I think) on Window Vista. I am thinking of buying a notebook which is loaded with window vista, however afraid that I can't use a simple program such as excel or word ...

My partners dads just got a new PC from Dell and is using Windows Vista Home Premium. He wants to create a seperate user account for him so his kids can't muck about with his stuff but it won't let him.We have tried clicking the add a ...

How can I stop every time anyone signs onto messanger from being added to my address book, its annoying having to delete them everytime. ...

I just noticed that I've got a slew of very similar .log files in my Vista Ultimate TEMP directory. They're named in the format of "lpksetup<date/time stamp>.log". It looks like I've got two for each day (or maybe for each boot) going back to ...

When viewing a pictures slideshow in home premium there seems to be no zoom function can this be enabled. ...

Microsoft decided to play the Police/FBI/CIA/whatever (DRM) watching everything that I am doing with Windows media Player. There are other Media Players nowadays that offer t ...

Hi,I have a new x60t with vista and installed the support for the Microsoft Notebook Laser Mouse 6000. The mouse works but, now the middle button on the laptop nav keys behaves the same way as the wirel ...

I spend 2 hours on the phone this morning with the Vista team of Microsoft Customer Support and the end result was "talk to Dell or Seagate". So I'm hoping that some of you other MSFT support folks have some info or know of someone that I ...

I am not a gamer. However, Ghost Recon was provided with my graphics card. The game starts and guys parachute out of a plane. I can moved one soldier around and fire his weapon. That's it! Big deal! How do I get this game going? I don't hav ...

I installed Outlook on my brand new HP Pavilion a1709n as I didn't want to use Microsoft Mail. I am able to send emails but cannot RECEIVE emails, I get an error message: "Task 'mail.2xtreme.net Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC92): Your email ...

Everytime I close windows mail a pop up says "you have unsent messages in your outbox, would you like to send them now".Does anyone know how to get ...

I've got a 2GB video file that has the wrong file type extension. How do I change this file type? I can't do it from its Properties, or by Renaming, or from its Folder, and of course it won't open with Notepad etc. I don't have any compat ...

Does anyone know how I can put the Synch schedules I have created back to a 'zero' state?VISTA is telling me now that there is no way I can create any more SYNCH schedules, and that is is just not possible.Also ...

I have been using Forte Agent for several years and the newer versions seem to be getting a little complicated to use. I will be going to Vista before long and thought maybe it would be a good time to try a new news r ...

Seems microsoft is not listening. There is a stupid bug left over from outlook express that is still in the reincarnated version "Vista Microsoft Mail&qu ...

Hi i am trying to remove windows.old i was tould i can do this by useing disk cleanup i do not see the windows.old folder in the list. where do i look for it? thank you ...

I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit. When I try to open the device manager, I get an error message that says "Class Not Registered". When I click OK, the error message closes and nothing else happens. What can I do to fix this? ...

Hiya, Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum before, Read the post below re slow vista, we have also got a Dell E520, the suggestion was to up the Ram to 1gb or 2gb.... mine has 1018Ram, core 2 duo processor E6300 (1.86Ghz, 1066MHz, 2MB) and Vista is still painfully slow, only upgraded 2 days ago, ...

I've recently installed windows vista and nvidia driver 101.4, i have 2 nvidia 7300 gs graphics cards. I can open the nvidia control panel and select enable sli, the gagdet bar then closes and i'm prompted to restart my machine. Once it has i'm back to an 800x600 re ...

Anyone else having issues with Bluetooth with Vista? I have a Bluetooth keyboard that doesn't seem to charge or at least display the correct charge with my Dell quickset software. Dell says its MS's lack of Bluetooth drivers that's t ...

I am running Vista Ultimate and when installed I had no Bluetooth devices. I have added a Kensington USB Bluetooth device and was able to install the device drivers successfully.I still do not have a control panel Blue ...

HiI've got a autounattend.xml that works great, adds machine to domain etc set up ready for gpo to take over. However, what I'd like to be able to do is presever the name of the machine when vista goes on.According to WSIM microsoftwin ...

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the hard drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a pc.I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup option in the xbox interface. It says workgro ...

32 bit vista home premium.control panel>problem reports and solutions."Service Admin Works Agent X8 hung on starting" is a common incident., and has been so for 5 weeks.notwithstanding that I have no idea w ...

I was doing backups on my E:\ but my D:\ is larger, so I deleted my backups, and figured I just create a new one in the D:\ so it wouldn't have all the differentials, and start out with a new baseline backup. Now it gives me an error when I try to ...

I just started using Windows Mail this morning and can't send, although I can receive. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks. Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject 'tes ...

Occasionally, I will receive an e mail that when I try to open it, Windows Mail closes. I receive an Error Message saying: To help protect your com ...

Hi, can anyone tell me how to get rid of the halfpage at the bottom of the INBOX that shows one of the messages open, so you can't see all your inbox? I'd just like to be able to see all the message titles, and only have the one open that I click on.Thanks Lesle ...

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Does anyone know where I can find out if my current software is compatible with Windows Vista? (Microsoft Office 2003, ACT!2006, etc.) If it's not, do I have to purchase all new software or is there an upgrade that I can download??Thanks! ...

Hello,My daughter just upgraded her one year old desktop computer to Windows Vista last week and all was running smoothly until today. Now suddenly, whenever she tries to load a ...

All, For the past 5 days, I cannot install/uninstall/repair any programs as I get the error above. I tried uninstalling some windows updates, rolling back to a backup, and could not find anything on blogs, ms.com.I ...

Hi , everyone ,! I have one computer , ins tall windows Vista Home . Now , i can not connect with internet by cable . When i insert cable in to network port (Rj45) . connections show "access local only " and i only connect ...

Hello, I recently bought a computer that has windows vista on it. However, when I pull up my work email(outlook) i can read my mail but when I go to send or reply , something happens and the outlook window closes and my homepage restarts. This happens ...

I installed Vista Home Premium as an upgrade to XP Pro. It saved my XP installation as Windows.old.Is there a way to uninstall Vista and rollback to my previous installation of Pro?TIA, Barry ...

Can anyone tell me if the chinese version of vista can be switch to English interface display? ...

To AllI manage about 400 people for State gov and I wish to use the photoscreensaver.scr as the default screensaver. The only problem with that is that if there are no pictures in the \pictures folder .. th ...

Despite signs that businesses are lukewarm to Microsoft's Windows Vista, the company on Thursday said it achieved record third quarter profits partly on the strength of sales of the new operating system. For the three months ended March 31, Microsoft said net income r ...

According to my CPU Meter (sidebar gadget) for some reason my CPU has "wound up" to 100% and is staying there continuously. This has ONLY just happened in past hour or so. You can "hear" the fan (I HOPE that's what it is?!?!!) whirring away at full ...

When I close the lid to my laptop the screen should turn of but it doesn't. Instead it just turns blue and stays at the same brightness and i can't help but think this is bad. Why would it do this? ...

I'm using a Logitech MX1000 laser mouse with the 64 bit version of the setpoint software. My problem is that spontaneously, the cursor jumps all or almost al ...

any suggestions as to which brand?Like which is most likely to actually RUN and SUPPORT vista?my gateway couldnt >.> ...

At exactly 20 seconds prior to the end of every song played (repeat every single song, every single song, every single song) on Windows Media Player 11, there is an unmistakeable and highly annoying "hi ...

I have a new installation of Vista Ultiamte 32bit, and I am completely unable to access the internet.I am using an HPnx9420 and have up to three NICs available to me: * onboard cable (Broadcom NexXtreme G ...

I've got a Network Storage Device that I'd like to keep up to date with documents and other files on a dedicated drive on my PC. I know that Sync Centre doesn't recognise the device, so I wondered about a batch file run daily by Task Sche ...

Hi, Has anyone experienced the below problem and more importantly found a fix for it! I am runnng Vista Ultimate on a Toshibia Laptop with Intel 3945ABG wireless, connecting to the internet via a Linksys route ...

I am having problems with one of my BT accounts in windows mail, I can receive to it but unable to send. when I try to send from this particular account windows security pops up requesting my user name and password s ...

I've just set up Windows mail today and I can receive emails but when I try to send them they don't go past my outbox and I get the following error message "The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Travel bug....', Account: ...

Hi all. I recently installed Vista Ultimate 64, and one problem I've noticed is that I will randomly lose all internet connectivity. Here's the odd thing ...

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Hi,Am I missing something or is it true that:(1) Sort By Name for program links in All Programs is gone?(2) I no longer can manually arrange program links by draganddrop? Example, most frequently used is on the top of the list.(3) How can I make sure all program links in different ...

I tried to run my sonystage yesterday but vista closed it, then appeared the next message, vista close this program no matter if i reinstalled it several times Did anyone know what to do? thx Nomb ...

I have recently installed Vista. I am having a problem with .zip files. I know that Vista has a built in feature that you can work with .zip files by just double clicking on them. But, I installed a program to o ...

Hi GroupOld desktop has XP, new laptop has Vista. The settings transfer wiz from XP produces a .DAT file which Vista doesn't open/process automatically. Similarly Vista's "easy transfer" doesn't communicate with Xp. How do I get my settings across to the new lapt ...

For months now, it's been constantly downloading and attempting to install Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, and bugs me daily that I need to install it, despite th ...

Hi,I was wondering if its possible to sync your PDA with Windows Vista mail and calendar? and how can it be done? ...

It started when I first installed Vista Home Premium. Some days the DVDROM wouldn't show up in Device Manager or My Computer and then some days both the DVDRom and CDRW wouldn't show. I could restart the computer and they would show up, but the next day they wouldn't be there again.Well ...

Hi,Here is my situation. My friend downloaded a nongenuine copy of Vista on my computer. Since then the registration has expired as i didn't have a product key, hence basically locking me out of my computer. I can use some files and ...

The Short Version: Any 32bit application that tries to access the internet terminates unexpectedly. 64 bit applications seem to work just fine.I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit edition on an Intel C2D E63 ...

I want to test remote smtp server port using TELNET but the screen is freezed after issue the command "telnet ipaddress 25". How do I fix this problem? Thank you. ...

Is there any way to use emoticons in Vista Windows Mail? ...

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Is there any way to set Windows mail to open a new email in the full screen version rather than the minimize size so I do not have to maximize it each time? I am running Vista Home Premium. ...

I'm usually the one handing out advice instead of asking for it, but this morning the tables are turned. After one month of flawless operation, Windows Mail reports "Message cannot be found" when clicking in the message list on any of the 12 most recent messages in my Sent Items folde ...

sony vaio, VGNFE48G/H, vista home premiumProcessor: intel® Core™2 CPU T7200 @2.00GHZ memory (RAM): 1022MB 32bit Operating system now i ran a TuneUp Utilities 2007 scan and it stat ...

So i've installed the VP onto my computer. Its asking which system. Do I enter the current Vista or the the xp? Also how do I install xp (home) onto the VP? Or will it just go ...

Is there a way to do this? There is no option in the disk managment dialog box. After converting my disk to dynamic, I can only do the following: * create simple volume * create spanned volume * create striped volume I tried to do it from the command line with diskpart, and when ...

how can i change the size of system restore in windows vista home premium, it's taking about 6gigs , there is no settings to change,apart from turn off. A know there was in windows xpthanksIQON ...

After lots of fiddling and checking i got my computer ready for vista, i did the compatibility check, there was logitech quickcam on there, so i unplugged it. i began the install and it went fine, firs ...

if youtube will not work with windows vista download the flashplayer ONLY FROM filehippo.com. then it works like a shot no worries ...

I have installed Win Vista to my DV5230tx HP laptop. Intitially the proper drivers would not install but this has been resolved, but now I only have sound via my heads ...

I had Windows Vista Ultimate installed, and then, unfortunately, something (a power surge, I think) basically fried my hard drive, so I bought a new on ...

!!!! I found it!!! Is anyone looking to sort the Contact list?? It's not under Organize.Skip ...

For some reason I can not empty my deleted mail file. can you help ...

Anyone know how to edit desktop.ini (or otherwise) to eithera/ Set a background colour b/ Change the text colour of file names, properties etc. c/ Apply a background imagein explorer windows?IconArea_Image/IconArea_Text either don't work ...

Had happened to you that you are typing in word, or MSN Messenger, or anywhere else, and sudendly a popup from another window comes "up" in front of you and as you were types, you accide ...

Hi,Is there any way in Vista to get all folders view as "list" automatically?Thanks, Rick ...

I have just bought a laptop with vista business preloaded. I have core 2 duo 166 with 2GB ram, 80GHD. I thought I have enough ram and cpu to make a reasonable fast response. I my feeling of Vista is ...

Can anyone tell me if there is any way to increase the size of icons in the Notification Area (System Tray) without having to increase the size of all text and icons? ...

When I rip song into WMP 11 on a Vista Home Premium machine the songs rip ok, but when I play them back from the library the song ends 20 secs early. I played the songs from the CD in WMP and the songs play correctly. I also tested the rip and playback on an XP machi ...

Does anyone have a link to any official Microsoft verbage regarding downgrade rights from Vista to XP Service Pack 2??? I've read alot of information from the Vista EULA, but that's about as clear as mud.Thanks in advance.cheers,Bri ...

6 weeks ago I purchased HP pavillion with vista, after 6 weeks and 10 hours on hp tech line I returned it and replaced it with identical model. before returning it I made a backup disc. How do I use it to install my pics, documents, favorites, into this computor, Also I have one email that wont s ...

I am about to by a new laptop. It will be equipped with the new Intel Santa Rosa, 2GB RAM, the new Nvidia 8400 and so on. But then I run into the following problem:It doesn't matter which provider I choose (Sony, HP, Acer, etc.), when it comes down to the selection of a Vista Ver ...

When my system has booted up and I have logged in to the desktop there is a short period while programs load and appear on the taskbar.Just as the process completes there is a sudden drop in t ...

I am installing Vista over xp2 The system stops installation with error 0x80ff0000 the error message reads " Windows could not set the offline locale information Errorcode 0x80FF0 ...

I have an ECS K8M800M2 motherboard with onboard VIA video. When I was beta testing Vista, Windows Update offered a beta video driver. I have since installed OEM Vista, Windows ...

Necesito saber que puedo hacer para solucionar el siguiente problema: Windows Vista no es compatible con NVIDIA nForce System Management Controller ...

I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a prolonged time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk Defragmenter.Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to do a far better (and faster) job then the nativ ...

System_Service_Custom (?) and a byte ending in 3B. It sent a message to MS after rebooting. I checked Event Viewer and there were numerous items listed in the Last Hour column but the only one I saw that seemed releva ...

i have disabled some programs from startup and now keep on getting a huge bubble that tells me i have programs disabled from startup ,i know i have ,i just did it,it is a huge bubble and very,very annoying as ...

Hallo, somone could tell me what usbirda adapter buy to work with Vista ultimate?I can't be able to find no one that support Vista Ultimate. Thanks in advance, Vittorio Dante Cotti. ...

I would like to use my air mouse with Vista. I can't find any info about driver availability for this device. Anyone using this successfully with Vista?Thanks ...

Hi all What's the difference between a ReadyBoost Compliant Flash Drive and a non compliant flash drive. And wil a non compliant flash drive work with vista if ...

Running Vista, latest and greatest Ultimate w/all the frills and laces. No compromises (...or so I used to think). I keep getting this "Driver_Power_State_Failure" BSOD most of the times (always?) when I wake my computer out of sleep via mouse. I ...

I own a toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium.I've decided to unistall AcrobatReader v.7 and download and install the version 8.After downloading the program and pressing the "Run" bottom in order to install it a windows installer message appears and says that &quo ...

Hello, I am trying to install Microsoft Office 2003 and I keep getting the following error message Error 1913 Set up cannot update file C:\windows\system 32\mapiscv.inf. Ensure the file exists in your system and y ...

How come I can not download movie info for the dvd library in media center for the movies I have saved on my hard drive. They are all DVD file (VOB,IFO) type files. Is their something or some how I can do this. also am I doing somet ...

Hello, I need to use my notebook (without parallel port) with some old applications that required to print on LPT1. In Windows XP I add a card called Microsoft Loopback, I configure it's ...

I have a process called fdgbeb.exe that runs at start up and connects to 193.37.152.161 :(port number). It seems to overload my internet connection. I have no idea how it got on my ma ...

I'm having trouble with windows defender every time I try to open it up a message suddenly appears that says," application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba." The message continues by saying, "a program caused windows defende ...

from Vista Home Premium. I am unable to make a backup to restore because he backup tool doesn't work. Should I have to restore to it's original configuration how do I get Vista Ultimate back without having to pay for it again. Thanks ...

how do i pin my contacts to the windows mail window (underneath the folders list) as it was in outlook express? why will only some mail addresses be found/completed automatically but not others?such a pain to go to the contacts, then r ...

Windows Vista Ultimate. How can I stop the popup message reminding me that there are new newsgroups? I now follow some 31 and don't need nor want any more. ...

The first time I sent an email to this specific person, I typed their email address wrong. Now I've corrected it, but how do I get the wrong address out of that automatic thingy? You know how when you type in the first letter of the email address, every address you've ever used that starts with ...

Wow! This is a new one!May 21, to rid my Inbox of an email that wouldn't delete, I followed these instructions:Close Windows Mail Inserted from <forums.techarena.in/showthrea ...

I really don't want to have to deal with all the crap about either Vista sucks, or it's not Vista, it's my computer. I just want to know what to do. A lot of people have described computer ...

After opening several windows in IE 7, after a while a window will open but will not load. If I close a previous window, sometimes the new window will work on a second try, but the problem repeats until I can open no win ...

I had an interesting experience with my new one month old Dell 1505 Inspiron Laptop. I let it go into sleep mode and tried to restart it. It would not reload vista. After a 2 hour phone call to Dell service, we ended reinstalling vis ...

When I try and carry out a BackUp I get the following Error Message: The backup did not complete successfully An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error: There is not enough s ...

I am using windows vista home premium with 2 monitors. the first being a standard 19" lcd running through a vga cable and the second being a 32"widescreen HDTV through a DVIHDMI cable, i can both displays to work fine and can even extend the desktop t ...

Hello.In windows, I know it's possible to rename multiple files or folders by selecting them all and renaming one and windows will rename all of them with a consecutive number behind the filename for all of the selected files or folders. ...

"MICHAEL" Have used Ashampoo burning suite 6 on VISTA since last June06 on beta through to RTM then HomePremium. Never had a coaster yet it's basic but does what it says. ...

OK first off I would like to say that the fact this is happening is a joke. I pay 300 hundred dollars to have this happen. Ok So from the beginning. I installed Microsoft Windows Vista Business 32 bit about 5 days ago. Today I get a message sa ...

I did an express upgrade of my Dell E521 64bit 6days ago. I'm about ready to blow it all away and go back to XP. Can anyone help with how to diagnose the causes?Error on the blue screen: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL0X0000000A (0XC0C00400, 0X00000000, 0X00000000, 0X81C2B453)It didn't list any pr ...

All I was trying to do was GHOST over my Vista install from a 120G Samsung to a 150G Raptor I bought. Skipping all the pain up to this point, the 120G Samsung is ...

Is there a quick, one step way to open multiforwarded emails using Vista's new Windows Mail? It's a small issue but I doubleclick and wait for the spinning wheel, and then do it again, and again, etc. !!! How do most people open attachments anyway??? Clicking on the paper ...

It is evident that there is a problem with Vista where a PATA and a SATA hard drive are both installed in a computer. It is also evident that Complete PC Backup does not work when SATA and PATA drives are used in combination. Having rec ...

Until recently I backed up Quicken 2007 on to a Western Digital Portable Hard Drive. For the past week I have been unable to back up Quicken data to my WD Hard drive. When I try, a window pops up stating, "the disk is not ready." Yet, I can copy and delete files on my WD HD which se ...

Hi allEven though Duel core cpu is set in my bios and is listed under device manager within Vista. Yet when I check the performance manager, only one cpu is bening used. i.e the graph in performance ma ...

All Vista, all day! We have completely switch over to Vista Ultimate 32 & 64 bit for our daily production work and have completely removed XP Pro from all (except one) of our box ...

After hours of wrestling to get ITunes to sync with my IPod ShuffleI was afraid to try my bigger IPodsafter the newest, supposedly Vista compatible version of ITunes was downloaded...I found, in a tech forum, someone who always uses Winamp to sync her IPod. ...

I never thought ad say this but is there a crack to bye pass the activation on vista can not keep phoning ms every couple of days just to keep my box running smoothly,AND NO AM NOT A ...

When I open Windows Explorer it expands the tree under Local Disk (C) i.e., <C/Users/Don/Roamings/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs>How do I set it to open to show just the local disks, dvd drives ...

Slowness everywhere. Is it possible to easily return to XP? It was a mistake 'updating'. DB ...

My current system spec is 3000hz AMD Athlon processer MSI K8NGM2 (Scoket 939) mother board 2 GB Ram 3200/ 400 Hz Samsung 8X DVD writer 250 GB Hitachi HDDAccordingly my hard ware should not have any problem ...

I just bought Vista and love the way the opened programs display looks on the box. Where all the open programs are lined up vertically when open. how do I change the s ...

Hello,I took a quick look around the discussions and the website, but have been unable to find a list of fonts installed by Windows Vista, which i would like to have.I have installed several fonts after installing Windo ...

Is there any way to either get the Power button on the start menu to either disappear altogether or ask me what I want to do? It is so big and easy to accidently hit when you try to restart your computer. ...

I'm trying to install Office XP on Vista. Get error message on missing fonts (such as ANTQUABI.TTF). Any idea what shoud I do? ...

I didn't make a note of the modem type before upgrading to Vista on my HP510 laptop HP site doesn't have itanyone know the driver to use? ...

I have been using Windows XP since day one. I have never had this condition using XP. I installed Vista over the weekend and when the system reboots for driver installs ect. the hard drive head ...

I installed vista home premium on to my pc. once installed i activated successfully. Then i had to reinstall vista cos my pc packed up. now i cant activate using my product key. i get the message "the software licensing service determined that this specified product key can only be used for ...

helo , i need your help on a problem with "windows vista" installation . my motherboard is elite (ECS) RC410L/800M v2.0 for first time i tried to install on that m/b "windows vista". i could not walk through instalation because after the first file copy of i ...

After installing a program that needed .net 1.1 i tried to install .net 3.0 assuming it was backwardscompatible(maybe it is, dunno) when trying to inst ...

Hello, I am create one USB deploy install for Windows Vista. But, I have this error:Boot\BCD 0xc000000eWhat is this? this have solution? Thanks.Jonildo ...

Hi I am tyring to set up my Xbox 360 as an extender through media centre. It has gone through the configuration process and set up fine but once i get in I can't play any videos or music via the xbox. All t ...

I'm trying to set up Automatic file backup. I have Windows Vista Ultimate on both pc's.When I try to set it up, I get a msg that "\\xxxx\f is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use the network resource." (where xxxx is the name of the computer).I ...

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 ...

Yes, I know everyone is complaining about how slow Vista is to copy large files over a network to nonVista machines but I am not so sure that the following benchmarking has been ...

I am trying to take Readonly off of a folder and all sub files and folders in the Properties area I deselect Readonly (I don't even know why it was set to that to begin with) and click Apply then ...

I recently updated one of my programs and during the process I think I accidentily blocked it from the internet when the popup came up. I was trying to click another box but anyway... Now I cannot find how to und ...

Yesterday I installed 13 updates 12 were listed as important and were for Office 2003, however after I installed the updates my mail changed back to Out ...

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i have email addresses that ive deleted from my contact list still in my address book. how do i gert rid of these? shawna ...

UK RESPONSES ONLY, please.I'm still dialup but looking to go Broadband with either Tiscali or Orange. Any info' on the following would be much appreciated:(1) Are there any problems configuring to Vista's Window Mail? ...