I have been using ubuntu for quite some time in a dual boot with windows and I have a few questions I would like to ask people with the valid knowledge and opinion.


Will Ubuntu ever take over...

hehe Im not a netowrk admin I just play around with server 2003 lol :P how can I change this policy

Well I will get the memory soon!

How do I do that?

How do I change it to allow fo rme to print?

Im not at work today so I can tell you that I am on a network and a brother laser printer I think and its on another computer through a parrallel that is running windows xp I think it is home I am...

I have been in MSCONFIG and tunred everything off apart from AVG 7.5 so I dont think that is a problem and I only got a few programs like macromedia studio 8 and camtasia studio and office 07

And...

Is it a laptop or a PC if its enw have yoiu got a warranty? you can get it returened

I want to connect to a network with windows xp computers and when I try and connect to a printer i get this message

something about restricting nt 4 drivers I think

any ideas

what will happen if I turn off all the services?

it hasn't made much of a difference, is they anyway I can make it faster?

superfetch, what does this actually do?

Did you try to Install the driver just by double clicking it and following the installation? try going to device manager,

Right click my computer
properties
device manager and then is they a...

I have a lenovo r61 and it is running pretty slow on 1gb I am upgrading to 2gb soon but I want to make it faster, if I turn off some of Windows vista's services will it make it faster? and what...

well if you buy from a big company say dell it will be OEM but he is getting OEM becasue he told us :P

XP OEM has no problem with reactivating it is just vista so stick with XP pro for about a year until this rubbish OEM rippoff is sorted out.


Hope you get what you want.
Bondi007

This is what my boss told me they are being taken to court for it, and if you phone them up the will blacklist you but i think you could get away with it if you phone it through because do you...

It turns out that with the vista OEM once you upgrade something you cannot re-activate windows vista, and if your hard drive goes down you will have to buy a new licence of vista OEM. Microsoft are...

Ok if your connected to wired try getting a Ethernet to usb and it should connect to the internet then you can get a driver update or something

The ethernet to usb is really cheap

When you upgrade your hardware and when you start to activate windows and it says it cant activate, there is a thing called phoning it through. this means you can say to them you have had to...

i am dude trust me its so good and i can get the OEM

well yea its pirate so thats prob the problem

but i dont have aero it isnt in my like package its a version that fits on a cd so it takes some stuff out so i dont know what to do

Its his first post lol also IT was irelevant

there is this game called soldier front and its free


256 ram is minimum and 512 is for recomended and 64 megs of ram if the same and it only uses a p3 for minimum
Thats the system recuirments...

well any ideas on what to do this is the best game ever and i want to play it any help

thats what i am doing lol

Ok,

I got i got virtual pc of microsoft and i am installing windows mce and its slow because i set it on 120mb lol so once installed should i beable to install my games on it?

how do i do that in vista anyway its too late i have re-installed windows anyway can you tell me for future

have you seen his specs i dont think he has a isa card on his motherboard lol anyway how about taking all the the hardware that might be conflicting with vista have you got raid or anything?

I tried dula boot and it messed up my drive so i had to reinstall windows again so any other options? i really need this game to play any help

ye windows vista is a bit flaky with wierd hardware like isa cards, but isa card are only in old machines arnt they now?:-/

ok i have got acronis os selector and i have partitioned the drive so it should be ok to do it i will let you know how it goes

cheers mate

i will check it out what is it called?

is it free
if it isnt is there nay other solution

i just wanted to know how to get it to work are there any trial or free prgrams that i can use like i heard of acronis boot loader would that work

nice setup;)

anyway i think jbennet is right win 2000 was like a business edition when it came out so i think it is trying to maintain only buisness upgrades if you get what i mean so have you got...

well cant you try installing a evaluation copy of vista dn enter the key or you can get xp and upgrade from that, or when setup appears ask it to load drivers to your hard disk and insert the cd with...

I have vista on my machine but games dont work on it so how can i install windows xp to so i can have both running on one machine so I can you use the delights of vista but play games on xp?


any...