Blackflame, in your case, maybe try opening your web browser and going to 192.168.1.1 in the address bar in order to log onto your router.

From this point it veries from router to router, but it...

I've been trying to use the Computer Backup Utility that comes with Vista, and every single time it crashes the computer.

I am running the one that does the full system (C:\) and settings so you...

No, the brady bill was repealed, or didn't make it through, or something or another.

I'm not sure about all of the laws. I know that I have a firearms permit, and I had to have an extensive...

In FFVII, Ruby weapon was a lot simpler to kill than Emerald. IIRC What made him hard was that he was invulnerable until he killed a couple of your guys. If you went in with only one member of the...

possibly region code? I don't know, it just clues me in that you have a Japanese Laptop and now it has an English OS, possibly its an American DVD, or maybe a Japanese DVD but installing an American...

What happens when you try to install it? what does it say or do?

I'm going to go out on a limb but report one problem I've seen with installing certain active x controls and how I fixed it, maybe...

Yeah, the ip address information you would enter when setting up a static ip will very from router to router. I was able to figure out what Jugs446 needed from what he was being assigned on his...

well mcse.ms and techarena.in forums have lots of similar people having similar problems and there are no answers for them. And of course as expected microsoft's support pages don't appear to be...

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Hmm, currently 13 pages. These issues are never easy, simple, cut. or dried. . . . and Neat they are most definitely not. At least this is in a tech forum and not a science blog. Those things can...

My experience with apps and "Backwards compatability" has been interesting.

basically, if the App is designed to tell what kind of OS it is installing on, and if it doesn't like your OS it will...

Try right-clicking on the installation executable and clicking "run as administrator". also while installing it, try changing its install path to "C:\program files\computerease\" if it isn't...

I've seen quite a few networking issues pop up with Vista by now, and you are right, that does seem to fix a lot of them. I guess IPv6 isn't really used much if any yet and a lot of consumer gear...

The below address will show you how to go to the microsoft updates catalog, where you can search for that particular update and manually download it.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323166
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Well right now Google doesn't have the power to storm your house with guns, seize your assets, and lock you up... However, I suppose Google could always be soepena'ed by the Government for their...

I'm assuming you copied and pasted that when you were connected to the wireless router wirelessly? From the looks of it you were currently plugged into the router but not connected wirelessly. If...

Currently 5.9

Vista says its an open ended scale so that they can raise the cap to accomodate advancing hardware.

Sounds kinda like an MMORPG level cap and expansion system to me :cheesy:

Let me see if I have this right.:

Your PSP wireless to your router to the internet = works?

Your friends XP machine wireless to your router to the internet = works?

Your Vista machine...

It is basically giving you a choice between an Master Boot Record partitioning format, which is the current standard and bootable and recognizable from a standard BIOS driven Motherboard...

OR...

Here are some things you can try with increasing severity...

1) Go into network connections, find your wireless network connection icon, right-click it and disable it. Re-enable it and see if...

One of the whole reasons why people go with a pre-built is because they aren't masochistic enough to enjoy the "fun" of troubleshooting when their this doesn't work with their that. ;) It really...

I'm assuming since you have cable internet that its not PPPoE, if you need a username and password to get on the internet this wont' exactly work for you so please let us know.

First, plug in...

Can you RMA the whole computer and ask for a new one? I have no idea if Dell would do this. I know people that bought a computer in a physical store have had good luck bringing it in and saying...

I'm seen some people use their email as storage, sending themselves humongous attachments to basically act as a cheap backup or to spread files from one computer to another... I wonder if that...

I work for a small rural ISP in Indiana, We have to deal with about 100 people per day, and about 6 of them have Vista. Even assuming that they are skewing the sample because they are having more...

I had a similar problem with a computer I had built for work. I kept getting that exact same error message and it would spontaneously reboot all of the time. I don't know how many times I...

I work for a small ISP, and recently we've been hit with 3 different customers telling us that when they try to browse the internet with IE on Vista Home that it won't display certain or all pages. ...

Again, I guess it really depends on what machine you have and what you are going to be doing with it.

Since I just built a new computer, and would be stuck buying another liscence of XP anyways,...

Mine is a 5.3. in Vista Ultimate 32bit.

I'm not in front of it now so I can't remember what exactly was holding it back. Since it was a new build I was just happy with the score since my wallet...

Some cable ISP's, Comcast being one of them, only give out one IP address to one MAC address via DHCP. What this means is that if you can plug your computer in and it gets online, but if you swap in...

Alas I won't know if this works or not. It had gotten so bad that somehow the setup didn't even recognize that a valid version of windows xp was installed on the machine. It would no longer give me...

Right now the only thing that will boot up on it is the recovery console. If I go into safe mode or anything else, it tries to restart setup and reboots, even safe mode with command prompt. are...

First, the problem started this way. The computer was brought to me because it would dial up but would not open websites. I investigated and found that it would not resolve a host name. The DNS...