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Hi hope someone can help, I am hoping to upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I seem to have all the right specs except for the graphics. I have an ASRockK7S41GX MOBO : Athlon 2800+ 2GHz Socket A CPU : 2GB DDR1 RAM PC3200 : Chipsets, Sis 741GX, FSB@333MHz, AGP 8X/4X …

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Anyone here using above vcard on vista? What driver did you use for it. I use v100.65 and whenever I run a game, a box appears saying NVidia graphics card stopped responding.

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Im assuming the root of this problem is vista but i could be wrong. I have a linksys wrv2oo router hooked up to the pc thats running vista. Then I have my laptop that runs xp. The connection to the pc will drop about one to two times an hour. …

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All of my desktop icons have that really annoying little arrow in the corner. Is there any way to get rid of them? And also one of my icons used to be an eBay icon but now it's just an internet explorer symbol in front of a piece of paper. …

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I have a fujitsu siemens V3505 windows vista basic is used in. yesterday my notebook couldnt start. I tried the recovery dvd, the choises like start normally, start safety mode, start etc.., but it doesnt work. ıt says it has media test failure. I dont know what the problem is, …

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ok, i just bought a new 2.6ghz acer computer, everything is fine except for 2 things really. 1. when i start diablo 2 it takes about a bit under a minute to start up for some reason, no other program has this issue. (this isn't that much of a problem …

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So a while ago I checked my computer to get its Windows experience index base score. It was 2.5 because of the graphics being the lowest at 2.5 I checked it again just now and this time everything stayed the same except for the graphics which went DOWN to 2.4 …

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Hi, I've been trying to install Halo 2 pc for some time now without any luck. I've read that if you enable secondary logon it might help. I've looked in the services.msc and didn't find it in there, how would I turn this on? A pic of the services.msc in …

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[B][COLOR=red]I have a HP Laptop with Vista installed. The C drive is 170 GB and D is 5 GB where the HP recovery is. I want to partition my Hard disk (C:) into 2 or more pieces. Please tell me how can i do that without purchasing a Partition Manager …

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Hi, I am running a desktop pc (XP) on a wireless network. I have just purchased a laptop (Vista). I use outlook express as my email on the desktop, this is where I store my emails. I also store docuiments on the desktop. My problem is I cant use the …

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I work for a nonprofit in Niamey, Niger, and I'm working with a new laptop that is the only VISTA machine in my office (including the server). Although a simple ethernet cord plug-in connects every other computer (all XP) to the internet and local network, I can only gain local …

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Hey all. I can run aero on my vista and I thought it was great. Then I initialized the guest account and run aero on that account as well. The first thing I noticed on the guest account was the fact that windows are dynamic (shrinking before disappearing, moving dynamically …

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in windows xp i only get 248mb when i have 256mb but if i was to upgrade to windows vista that requires 512mb and i get 512mb of ram would it read below 512mb so it wouldnt be compatible please help i want to get vista cheers bondi 007

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I have a Hp vs17 Monitor with a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Graphics card. After installing Vista, everything went smoothly except my display. I am stuck with the options of just 800x600 or 1024 x 768. Yuck. I am not sure if I need to get a new driver for …

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Hi everyone. Could anyone tell me how I can enable non - admin users to run programs installed by the admin user? I installed Opera 9.1 as an admin, but I'm not sure how to allow other users to access it. Any advice appriciated. Steven.

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hi...I installed windows vista and when I try to activate, it give me an error code 0x8007251d and I am unable to activate it...i have 25 days left or windows stops functionong does someone know how to fix this???

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How long did it take you to install vista? I'm reinstalling it right now and its been at the "Expanding files (27%)" stage for about and hour.

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Hey...Let's say I enjoyed the old type logon screen that was present in Windows XP...how shall I turn this on? There seems to be no option in the control panel :(

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I just got a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas, and it came with a FREE upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium (yay). Is Vista good enough to write over my Media Center (XP) install permanently? Or should I keep the XP Windows files? Is it possible to 100% get rid …

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sorry, have to explain first: I am in Japan, want to buy a new computer. My friend I am staying with wants japanese OS, I need english OS. All - almost all - new PCs sold have a japanese Vista preinstalled. I plan to doubleboot it with an english XP. …

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I have been reading around Vista being even more restrictive with all its DRM. While I tried to ignore most of them, I argued against it on this one to prove my point: [url]https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7401549597294341409&postID=4939383374645829893[/url] But it seems like they have proven a point... I don't know... is there anything that …

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What did Microsoft do to my system? Before the last batch of security patches, I use to be able to go from power-up to password entry in about 30 seconds. After installing the security patches from earlier this week (Tuesday), it now takes [B]5 minutes [/B]from power-up to password entry. …

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Hello all, I am having problems with printer/file sharing in Vista. I have a desktop with XP installed and connected to two shared printers. I upgraded my laptop to Vista and now I can't get it to recognze anything else on the network. A couple of basic guidelines: 1) Yes, …

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I have already posted information on how to connect and troubleshoot Windows XP wireless networks and I am happy to see amazing results from daniweb. Now, I have gather similar articles that would help you to wirelessly connect your Windows XP Vista machine. You can access them at [URL]http://www.whizblaze.com/network/vista.htm[/URL] Other …

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Hi I recently updated to windows vista from XP (wish i never) and i was having problems connecting to my router. Finnally managed to connect to it but can only go on the internet via mozzilla firefox. None of the microsoft applications such as internet explorer, live meseenger or media …

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Recently I purchased a new computer with Vista Pre-Loaded on it. So far, no major problems till I tried to connect the hard drive from my old computer to the new compuuters motherboard. I poped the restrictor that would make it a master out, so the new hard drive is …

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Hi. I am unable to create file object from javascript in Vista platform. ex. i am using this statement javascript var oFso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); after executing this and make try catch block for this i am getting this error "Automation object can't create object". I have enabled some options …

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I installed the public beta of Vista (5728) on one harddrive and later installed Win2k on another. Ever since I installed win2k i haven't been able to boot into vista. Vista isn't listed as a boot option on the boot menu and I've read its because vista doesn't use the …

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using Vista Home Premium. When I click a link such as [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread77212.html"]this one[/URL] by cutepinkbunnies I see the video but no audio. Anyone know how to correct that ?

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