I'm not familiar with Virtual PC, but have been running Vista on a separate partition giving me a dual-boot option, and have had quite a bit of fun looking it over. It dies next May, at which time I...

it should be fine on that system, ...your CPU, vid and Mobo are all better than mine, and mine runs Vista as well as Vista can run. With all the eye candy the gig of RAM seems a good choice (mine's...

..yup, it's there as you say, ...definitely illogical as Gold mentioned ,...what I did just now was whack an icon onto desktop and moved it into quicklaunch, ...I use that "accessory" all the time...

...M$ might actually be able to help in this case, ...there's a "Feedback" icon on the Vista desktop that provides all kinds of panes to describe a glitch like that. The "Restore" in Vista should...

me too, ...I did as Alc said above, my HDD partitioned so that I could install it on "D" so it gives me the dual-boot option. My Nero7 wouldn't install, and the bundled "Windows DVD Maker" wouldn't...

two basic things which you've likely already checked: be sure the 'mute' is unchecked, and ensure the speakers are plugged in the green hole. In Control Panel you can see if the Mobo thinks the...

...good when problems go away by themselves, ...you'll likely find the modem still sitting in Device Manager, so next time you're bopping around in there just r-click it and choose 'disable' so it...

...in that cae I recommend the 'sledgehammer solution', ie save your data and format your HDD right down to the metal, ....that wipes everything including all the squirrelly windows problems. While...

Nizzy's right, ...that's your old dial-up modem, so if you're using high-speed, ie ADSL or cable you can pull that old phone modem out and stomp on it prior to throwing it out (responsibly in...

have you done anything different on the other end of the splitter? ...could be a bandwidth issue, although it should still work, just slow, ...hmmm ....I hope somebody else wades in on this one, ......

I'm interested in the answer to the "not support IDE" question as well, ...any I've seen with SATA had both, ...re the original question of external HDD cases, mine are called "enclosers" and the one...

I'd bet if you run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy, both D/Ls available free on the <PCWORLD.COM> site, one or other will knock out that pest, ...let us know how it works ... "the Old Geek"

...if you're sure you have everything you want off the hard drive, and have your WinME CD handy, follow Greg's FDISK procedure above. As he says this wipes everything off the HDD (hard drive), but...

these have a "quick boot" option in the BIOS, also if you set the HDD to "manual user" or whatever instead of "auto", it won't need to autodetect the HDD on every boot. Where there's no drive, set it...

great so far Greg, ...WinME CDs aren't bootable but have 'setup.exe' on the root. So the the A:\ line type CD d: (aka change directory to your WinME CD). At d:/ type 'setup', hit enter and hang on!...

I've found "missing files" like that by running them on Google, ...hits include discussions of what they do (yours likely relates to the dreaded MSN), how they get kiboshed, how to download them and...

Hi David, ...thanks for that, ...it worked, ...I also found a note in run>msconfig>startup tab and zapped it:lol: ....Dennis
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