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Recently purchased a new Dell. Bought a Samsung MP3 Player which came with a 6 month trial of Rhapsody. Installed the driver for the Samsung, then installed the Rhapsody software from Rhapsody's website. Plugged in my MP3 to charge (charges by USB only). Opend up and browsed through Rhapsody. Later …
Recently I posted about having issues w/my Vista laptop that wasn't recieving microsoft updates and Win Defender wasn't working - after lots of attemps I eventually reformated and installed Vista and original software and pretty quickly discovered in Spybot system startup a blank entry stating: Current filename: Database status: Not …
i have pc portale of DELL with Vista inside. I want to change the to Window xp, when i insert the CD, after few miniuts it says "hard disk driver not found", so intallation can not be contiune. someone told me that i should install the driver from floppy disk. …
Hi, im new here infact this is my first post. So i recentley bought a SATA hd and i can see it in mycomputer. Im running Win Vista Ultimate, and have an Abit fatality1.... This is what i tried to do to see if the HD is detected at all, …
Hi All have just bought a new windows vista 32 bit home premium comp.. the problem is that there is no sound. from windows sound test, cd or dvd,..or from the net\ have checked the realtak hd audio drivers and volume is set at 99... checked the drivers .... said …
hey everybody,!, i recently downloaded firefox as am a loyal firefox user, and after about 10 minutes of using it a message came up saying how firefox is not compatible with windows ultimate, and the laptop goes into vista basic mode which ofcourse is not as good! and it only …
Hi, I recently purchased a laptop (2 core duo, 1 GB ram) with Vista. Over the last week or so I have noticed suspicious behaviour with the CPU, Memory and Disk activity spiking and maxing out. It even affects mouse behaviour causing jumpy mouse (optical) movement. In the Resource manager …
Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is a mighty paradox. On the one hand, it's more robust and feature-rich than any of its predecessors. For the most part, it's also more secure and is immune to many pretty sophisticated takedown attempts. But it's got one nasty Achilles' Heel, which'll enable you …
Well folks, Im gonna slug it out. Im going to comtinue using Vista until they fix it or I will the lottery (come-on baby!!!). I have been using Vista for about 3 months now and have had my share of problems, even to the point of reformating ... twice ... …
Hello Everyone- I am having a bit of an issue and I'm hoping you guys can help me out. While I've seen bits and pieces of my issue in previous threads, I haven't come across one with myy full issue so I wanted to sort of bring this up. I …
How much Ram use is normal for Vista? Basically even sitting at the desktop im seeing 50% of physicall memory usage. the system has 1gig in it right now, with no open slots.
helo there, i really wanted to try the new version of windows OS the windows vista, can anyone give me just even a trial version if there is thank you!!!! my email is [email]gerardoroxas@gmail.com[/email] or [email]nsaxor@yahoo.com[/email]
Im running windows vista ulitmate and for some reason when i open internet explorer the internet explorer security box pops up and says [B]A WEBSITE WANTS TO OPEN WEB CONTENT USING THIS PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER[/B] The name is windows host process (rundll32) the publisher is microsoft windows. Then it …
I googled her issue and saw a post with crunchie replying and got her to do the things in the list and I have her Hijackthis log, I don't see anything out of sorts myself but don't know much either. She runs Vista, cannot access webpages a lot of the …
Ghost 12 or Acronis 10 for Vista?
I am going to try vista on another computer. I have read numerous articles on just getting the upgrade and using that instead of the full version. I have not read much about it lately and was wondering what people were doing. Please respond only if you have tried the …
HELP! i am currently in china were vista and vista help is not available I had to reinstall windows vista premium due to a bad update or something, about no backup files. So i installed it again, but now I have no Windows Media Centre, Does anyone Know WHY this …
First windows defender stopped working and refuses to start on start up or manually Second I can't d/l any updates from Microsoft on to the laptop. I have tried AVG, Spybot and Ad ware with finding only minor items. I also tried AVG ant-spyware and anti-root kit with no resolution. …
I have tried to get the freeagent pro to recognize the esata port but for some reason it just doesn't. I have read others who have had the same problem on google but did not find an answer. Does anyone know what I need to do. I am using the …
Just got this comp about 2 months ago and having issues where Windows Defender refuses to boot up and I can't receive automatic or manually induced windows updates. When I try to kick off a manual update it tells me error code 80096001. If I try to start Defender it …
Does anyone else find Vista's settings difficult to navigate? Everything seems so tricky to find because they try to make each page look simple and user friendly. For one thing network settings are a pain. I can't go to the properties of My Network Places and see my network adapters. …
Hi, Just thought that it would be nice to tell members here about the specific features of this new os. Here are the links. Let me know if they are any good for what you have in mind in terms of the version to be purchased in the near/not so …
I just got a new laptop, which I bought because the price was great and it had descrete VRAM -256, which is almost impossible to get unless you want to spend $2000 or more for a laptop. I thought to then downgrade to xp, but quickly found out about the …
Greetings from Central Texas. Don here, living just south of Austin. Retired Navy, did C4ISR stuff as well as working ships, hunting submarines, and amphibious work. I run a home network with four computers on it: 3 XP Pro desktops and 1 Vista Ultimate laptop. Need help here!! Hope to …
i upgraded to vista that adviser said i would be ok but now my graphics do not work somebody please help i have tryed every thing i did have intel extreem graphics now i can not even find it my computer tells my i do not have an excelorator please …
My computer for some reason has suddenly started to refuse recognise my LCD monitor (a 19" GNR TS920W). It has decided it is a a CRT instead. I have 2 graphics cards, both nvidia 7600 GS, and I am running the 32-bit edition of Vista. I have tried the following …
I'm looking at buying a new computer and it appears that Vista is about my only OS option (whether I like it or not, and I don't). I already know I'm going to have some problems installing my programming software. My question is - does anyone know if I can …
I bought a new pavillion -and love it and have no real problems with vista (**cough**yet) but I'm wondering what is making it boot so slowly? Any ideas? I disabled Norton and am running AVG. :D
I have Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit running on an abit NF-M2 nView MB with an AMD dual core 5600 processor. I can't "see" the 8GB of Patriot memory (4x2 DDR2 5-5-5-12 800 MHZ) in Windows, and there's nowhere in the BIOS that lets me see the memory because of …
i bought a toshiba laptop with windows vista. i'e had the thing for about 3 weeks and recently it developed this annoying issue. when i open up a window the borders begin to flash and its like the window is being refreshed over and over again and it stops responding …
hello i just purchased a sony vaio laptop which has 100 gb hard disk i want to make more partition of it plz can any one tell me how to make more partition without formating c cozi dnt want to loose original windows and it has many software of its …
hi, I am not sure how to set up or configure apache. It will be on a vista system. When trying to install apache i got a fatal error a black box popped open saying something real fast something about there is an error in the foundation. As far as …
I have a Vista Home Premium as my OS. I work from home thru a server that has XP. I am trying to print from at my house thru the XP software and nothing prints. I have a Lexmark X2480 as my printer. That shouldn't have anything to do with …
help me please I ran the Vundofix and of course it couldnt remove all the culprits. Hope I'm posting this right as the popups are almost crippling and I couldnt get AvG to update for me it just wanted to hang. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …
Now Windows has been out for a couple months and not much has come out for it yet. You see, unlike other OS's in the past business's aren't picking it up as fast as ooohhh...98 for example. Developers are realizing this and I say don't pick up Vista for your …
Have been using a family tree program called Brother's Keeper V5 with Windows XP on my old computer and want to transfer the program to my new computer which has Vista. Starting the program requires 'spin.vbx' file which is located in Windows\system directory in XP but is not locatable in …
I ran vundo in Windows Vista .. i got nothing to delete although windows defender tells me other wise . I ran hijack and this is the log code it gave me ... please help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:08:40 PM, on 8/5/2007 Platform: Windows …
I I am still struggling to clone my 19" LCD to my LG 29" TV using S-Video cable. No matter what I do, I'm being unable to clone my desktop. [B]My c0onfig: Windows Vista ™ Ultimate Intel Pentium 4 HT, 3060 MHz 2GB RAM nVedia GeForce FX5500 using the driver …
HELP! I had the power supply replaced and whenever the power goes out from the surge it won't power up. It has been powering up fine from stand by and hibernate. I need it to start just one more time I bought a c521 and need to transfer info from …
Hi people. Just thought I would warn about a little issue I had with my Vista system last night. I tried to install [URL="http://www.colinux.org"]colinux[/URL] and the system crashed to a blue screen. When I tried to start it again normally it suffered some kind of kernel mode exception, did a …
I had the power supply replaced a month ago when my dell wouldn't power up. It will power up fine from standby or hibernate but when completely unplugged or when the surge protector goes it will take several hours if at all to power up. I just got a new …
Hi guys ive recently had a problem with my CD-ROM drive. If done the regedit procedure of deleteing uper and lower filters awell and unistalling and reisntalling my cd-drive. Still no luck and it still doesnt appear on my computer. I use vista If any one can help it would …
I don't know what to do. I have ignored this problem for a while because I could get around it, but it seems now that there are instances where it happens 100% of the time. Freezes, locks, whatever you want to call them. Mouse locks up on screen, input is …
Hey, This is my first time posting and I really hope you guys can help. I recently built myself a new pc after my old caught fire (long story). I put the best of everything in as I had saved a bit of money. It all works fine and great …
Im running vista ultimate x86. XFX Nvidia GF7900GT with 160.03 drivers (and ive used other drivers with the same problem) Whenever my computer disables (turns off) the monitor to powersave (after the screensaver being on for an hour) , it displays greenish diagonal lines across the screen with no way …
Yes, currently I have a virus and I'm having really hard problems on how to remove it, I'm not really good, I've downloaded the HiJackThis program and I've gotten this. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:26:08 PM, on 26/07/2007 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet …
Computer while booting will see the CD-rom and harddrive then the screen goes blank and the text "YoYo" appears and that is it. The "o" look more like a small "8" laid on it's side. It will not reconize XP CD or any other CD. I have GWSCAN and it …
i just installed vista and i cannot use my asus overclocking utility nor can i use ntune to overclock my nvidia 7900gt ocs' . and i cannot use the asus ai boost that i used when i had xp to overclock my mobo. i have the asus a8n32sli deluxe 4200+ …
Hello, I realise that much has been discussed within this forum previously about slow browsing problems with IE. And I have tried all the various stated fixes without any change. At one stage I almost wished I had Norton Firewall installed as this seemed to be causing most of the …
I am having a really odd issue with my notebook....... I was online playing a game when all of a sudden my mouse froze and the screen froze.....every 5-10 seconds I was able to move my mouse and could see the frames on the screen move slightly. I pressed ctrl-alt-del …
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