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| | 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 … |
 | 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 … |
 | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 …  |
| | My new computer has been supplied with Vista installed. I would like to add windows XP pro and run two OS independently. Can this be done? How? Thanks |
 | I just got a Dell XPS 410 desktop computer with Windows Vista. It has an Intel Core II Duo Processor, 250 GB of memory, and 2GB of RAM. Everything has been working just fine so far, but when I run certain programs, they run slowly or they don't run as …  |
| | Hello there, knowledgeable computerfolk from the land of the internet. I am buying a computer in the next few days. It has Windows Vista pre-installed on it. I'd rather have Windows 2000 on it. I don't like all the fancy-schmancy special effects and bonus features. Win2k, or even XP with … |
| | Hello there [COLOR=#434343]Recently i bought o.s windows vista,i had on my computer XP home ,my computer hardware is compatible to the requirements of Microsoft.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]But when installing the o.s vista in the final stage is getting stuck, or when I succeed finishing the installation it doesn't load.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]Can you please …  |
| | My boss just bought a HP Pavilion dv9000 with Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add it to the wired office network (all other computers are Dells running XP). After much difficulty and heavy drinking, I finally got the notebook to recognize the other computers. However, I am … |
| | I have a Sony dual-layer capable DRU-820A DVD burner and im running vista ultimate full version. my device manager is saying that the burner is installed properly. But not only does the burning not work, no CD's or DVDs are even detected by the drive when i insert one. The … |
| | Help, I have been trying to load Windows Vista Ulitmate to a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 SATA 320gb. H/D is plugged into the SATA 1 socket and all runs ok till it starts to look for a H/D driver ?? Vista does a search and tells me it cannot find … |
| | I've been updating my tags in my pictures folder which makes searching for pictures very easy. However there are certain private pictures that I have set the file attributes as hidden, but when you type any of the tag names in the Vista search box it pulls up those hidden … |
 | [quote]It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company … |
| | In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136years ... yeah, let that sink... Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the … |
| | Well, it's sorta involving video. You see I have determined it takes a few hours but when this occurs, the screen goes black and shows as if there is 'no signal' and then to turn it back on you would thing it is just sleeping, so hitting a mouse button, … |
| | I just got a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I'm loving the new computer so far but have run into a couple of really annoying problems. The computer is a Gateway Laptop: T2450 Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. First, Windows Media Center is not working the way I … |
| | In Vista,Windows Updates is set to download only the files which need to be updated ! eg if xyz.dll needs to be updated, then only this particular file will get downloaded from the Microsoft servers. But if you wish to, then here are two ways I know of where you … |
| | Hey, I currently have a linux box that is directly connected to the internet. It is setup to issue IPs to all computers on the network via a hub. DHCP is configured properly and all computers can access the internet except for the one running vista. I can ping the …  |
 | When I close Remote Desktop Connection to computer running Windows Vista (XP too) the user stays logged, but it locks the screen. How can I avoid that? |
| | :?: i recently installed vista 64 on my system and its working pretty well, anyway the problem is when i first installed it the automatic updates installed the sounds drivers for the realtek ac97 audio, but no sound it hasnt stated theres a problem but i still have no sound. … |
| | my computer has xp running, I had installed vista along with it . but in winodows xp i cannot find the files of vista any where (like if you install xp and 98 on same machine than you can browse each other files) i have also browsed my disk with … |
| | hi all , it is my very first post in this forum .. well the story starts when PARADOX releses oem One click activator to permanently activate VISTA , at that time i was running VISTA RTM , i just thought to try that patch , i downloaded it , … |
| | Hypothetical question, does anyone here plan (at this point based on what they have seen) to buy any new hardware to run vista? What are some of the things that make you happy or tick you off about the Operating System? I am doing research for my website... Mike [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com[/url] |
| | :P Hello people, I am in need of a few answeres, First of all i will start from what i portrai as the beginning, I am not sure what is causing my Windows Exlplorer to continuasly crash everytime it tries to start up. IE an WE both crash for to … |
| | I was just reading a thread here: [URL]http://microsoftwindowsvista.tv/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3&sid=da6d4d52ae2cd5c01c745786f3836bfe[/URL][URL="http://microsoftwindowsvista.tv/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3&sid=da6d4d52ae2cd5c01c745786f3836bfe"][/URL] And i'd like to know,because some editions have the dvd decoder missing,is there a free alternative available?What are you using? |
| | Hello, Am using XP SP2 and thought I would 1st try Vista installing it on a 2nd hd. Then decided to uninstall it and formatted the drive with Vista. Now when I boot up the boot screen still as the choice to choose "An older version of Windows" or Vista. … |
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