I think I got 1 on my laptop. yeah, it's pretty sad.

Because we all want to run DOS on our Core 2 duo's. And who wouldn't want windows 4 NT as a web server? And yes windows 3.1 which supports up to 1GB of RAM!!

MSDN subscription is a paid subscription for microsoft products. You basically pay to be part of some special club that gets to test software before it comes out. Most colleges and universities have...

just get a new power suppy. They're not that expensive. I'd get 1000watt, just in case i ever upgrade again.

I had a similar problem once, I think it might be the CD-rom drive, and not vista. It could be defective.

the only update i don't download, ever, is the wga piece of junk.

why would you want to do that? MS releases new updates and patches for security reasons and you should update your computer with the latest updates.

how many times has this happened? only once?

>By streaming he meant streaming media from websites. If you watch online videos or listen to music online thats the media streaming to your system from the web. I dont think u need to do anything to...

Yeah, I mean vlc, sorry. It allows for streaming too which is nice.

You really don't need utorrent or photoshop. And VCL might be a better alternative to K-lite as it supports and plays literally every type of audio and video format.

Not necessarily. Symantec anti-virus (not Norton Anti-virus) is one of the best in my opinion. It's very lightweight, doesn't eat up your resources, and it's updated very frequently.

AVG, is very...

yeah, double check your anti-virus software. I also recommend windows defender, it's an excellent anti-spyware program, and it's free.

>i dont like vista. It hates all my hardware.

you just wait 3-5 years from now, and you'll be loving vista and hating windows 7.

The only problem i have with vista is that most of my hardware...

usually a modem reset will help. but you may be right, it might be your ISP.

i'm pretty sure it has to do with https. where you using norton antivirus? if you uninstall it incorrectly you'll have problems.

also, have you tried it with different browsers? firefox? opera?...

xp is probably the best choice right now, and with sp3 coming out it's supposed to bring a performance boost. long live xp.

>"rushed, unfinished"

7 years is rushed? well then. leopard is the one that sucks.

there are many people on this forum and others who have had multiple problems. My advice for anyone is stick to xp, and use upgrade to vista only if you're buying a new computer that has it...

I suggest you use SpinRite, as it might be able to fix you hard drive long enough for you to back up the data in it. But I've always had those hdd error codes on some of my hard drives and they...

This can be done, but you might have trouble finding XP drivers for your hardware. It depends on how new it is.

Here's a good tutorial on how to do it....

right click on it and give it a name

that just means your c drive doesn't have a label. so put a label on it!

I also don't recommend any registry cleaner, as those could brake your system.
If I was getting a laptop with vista, I would personally downgrade to xp, because it runs so much better. But then...

> dual booting isnt complicated if your going to do vista and xp it does it automatically!

uh, no it doesn't.
and yes windows does have updates and patches.

and yes an antivirus is what you...

>is it preloaded with an opearting system. If not thats a pretty good place to start.

if he's buying it new, then of course it'll come with an os. unless you need to, don't dual boot. most users...

can you be more specific on the BSOD? what does it say?
if you google your problem you can come up with a solution, as you see, many people have had the same problem.

why don't you just go to newegg.com and get vista ultimate for 200? or home premium for less than that.

that shouldn't happen. if a shortcut is deleted on one profile, it shouldn't delete it on all. maybe you should run some updtaes.

well not really because what key is he going to use? he can't use the one on his laptop. So what he's trying to do is illegal.

If you kill the process, that should take care of it, unless the program uses more than one process.

are you ending the program or killing the proccess?

some of the nvidia geforce 6 series are agp, and they're good.

if he had a good video card, then aero would use the gpu, not the cpu.

on the other hand, if you do want media center and aero, you can get an nvidia geforce fx 5500 or higher, and those are capable of aero, and aero does not require directx 10.

although your system specs are a little on the low side, you could run vista ok. the only cards that support directx 10 are the geforce 8 series which require pci-e. And i'm assuming your card...

it's not vista or windows for that matter, it's probably your rotuer. there's been problems with linksys routers that drop connections, or for whatever reason don't work, so if you still have the...

try updating the driver, check the wattage on power supply, check the fans to see if it's overheating.

you could look into getting the nvidia 1000 watts power supply.

if it was memory, he'd be gettin BSOD's, he already said it wasn't overheating, or a power issue.