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I was wondering about removing win 7. I recently recovered my hd when i dual booted unbuntu, tried to remove the unbuntu and got an MBR error onto my laptop with the help of Xlphos. here is the real bugger, what do you do after u have installed win 7 …

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hi i have the asus p5pe vm mbd.. cant find windows vista 32 bit drivers for this board.. mbd specs P5PE-VM CPU LGA775 socket for Intel®Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron CPU Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A and 04B/04A processors Support Intel®EM64T/Hyper-Threading Technology Chipset Intel 865G Intel ICH5 Front Side Bus 1066/800/ 533 MHz …

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Ok, I am about to kick my computer. Vista Ultimate crashes and requires a reset on a regular basis. Somethings which cause this without question. 1. Attempt to upload photos 2. Attempt to download WoW And then random crashes at completely random time. Running AMD 9950 cpu, 4 gigs OCZ …

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I have a problem with my outlook. what is happening is that it won't alow me tto open the page that alows me to send emails. It just pops up saying that it is opening outlook's editer. and that is where it stays. I've done a pst scan and that …

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I'm needing to chat with someone who has done an upgrade on at least 25 WindowsXP machines to Vista Business Edition or above. I need to chat with someone who has "actually done it." When were the upgrades done? Knowing the month and year is fine. How many machines were …

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from time to time my windows will freeze and i have to hard restart the computer. Also if Im on an mmo or Ventrilo my mike will not work. I cant figure either out I have tried everything and now its time to face plant the keyboard...help

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My computer have had this problem for a long time, if i put the computer to sleep and want to shut it down later, it stays in the shutting down screen forever and it won't shut down unless I press the power button. Do anyone know how to fix this …

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I have a Paviion a6120n running Vista Home Premium. I cannot seem to find my drives. All I am now shown is (C), (D) and (E). Although the iPods will charge and are able to be used, my MP3 will not charge and isn't even recognize. Computer is not reading …

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Hi, i'm new to this and not sure exactly how to do all of this but here it goes....I have been having a lot of problems with my inspiron 1521 at first it would recognize any of my apps and now it's dumping suddenly...is there anything i can do to …

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Hello people, Am trying to set up Windows live mail so that I can send/receive emails. Thus far I can check my emails but cannot send any. The configuration I am using is: Incoming POP3 server - smail.warwick.ac.uk Outgoing mail server (SMTP) - smtp.virgin.net Incoming mail port - 995 SSL …

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Hi i was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that checks your computer for errors and viruses and fix them for free. i have searched online but every time i find one that says its free i can only scan for free but not fix all error.

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Oki this is a weird one... My Sony VAIO NS140's dvd was screwy so I told the computer to shut down and then proceeded to take it out to look at it...anyway, apparently it wasn't properly shut down and it didn't like that. After rebooting, Vista took me to a …

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Hello. I am wanting to share a printer between to laptops. The are both vista and we have wireless router that we use. The printer is hooked up to his computer and i am sick of always waiting for him to get off the computer so i can print or …

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Alright, so admittedly I don't know much. But, my mother's computer has been having an issue shutting down. She's running Vista Home Basic, Intel Dual Core processor (It's a pentium dual core... I can't remember any other details other than that), 2gb's ram. Anyway, the problem is that when she …

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Hi all, I have a friend who is having troubles with her computer. She has told me that it keeps shutting down for no reason and only started doing this recently everytime she opened MSN. She has done a registery clean, virus scan and defrag and the problem still persists. …

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Can anybody use lq-1050 under Vista? I used Epson LQ Series 1(136) driver but it was not efficient.Any idea?

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I share a printer under vista and want to use it as network printer under win 2000 .But 2000 can not detect printer. (I also disable windows firewall and antivirus firewall on vista).Can anybody help me?

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Hi I'm new here and want to say hello to everyone, but I need help. I believe my PC recently got a virus. I've tried to start it again and it won't boot. I can get into the BIOS but can't figure what to do. I have the OS disk …

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I'm running a dual boot, win xp and vista x64 win xp works great, but vista in the other hand, I reinstalled it twice, but the problems remain. The first problem is: After the boot screen and before the windows orb at login. It takes some time to get there, …

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A buddy of mine built my computer.. Lost the box and doesn't recall anything about the motherboard. I'm looking to possibly update my drivers because MY sound is all choppy at times.. It's really obnoxious. Any help with this would be very very helpful.. thanks in advance!

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Have developed a software application in VFP9. Use installrite from Epsion Squared to install the software as there are four programs in all to install and I want to make it easy for a novice user. Install works great on XP SP3, and Vista but when installed on Windows 7 …

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Windows 7 Themes and wallpapers are amazing as compared to Windows vista. Microsoft windows 7 has default 5 theme but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden & locked themes provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.Since these hidden …

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Windows Vista sidebar was completely independent of user account control. However in windows 7 sidebar with gadget and UAC are related means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work.This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget …

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Hi I am Denise and I have just got a iPod touch for mothers day and I can not get itunes to install on my computer..I just rang iPod support they said it was a windows problem and when I rang Window they wanted to charge me $80.00 for support....... …

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Hi, I have an original copy of Home Premium, I was just wondering as seriously have to format my laptop, if I were to run using Home Premium Lite, would my CD Key work ? Any help is deeply appreciated, thanks.

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I have Windows Vista Home Premium and WA3002G4 wireless router.............. I've connected to the internet many times and sometimes there seems to be two networks namely Network and an Undefined Network and there's no connection to the network. So, I disabled the LAN network and reenabled so that it connects …

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Hello MSN will not work on my new vista PC, i get the error code 80040154, i have read up on this and found it is a problem with microsoft XML parser, i have installed the latest version and re-registered the dll files but it still does not work, i …

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hello my pc is working fine except after i have been playing a game for a few minutes my pc bluescreens but it doesnt show a error description only error ID all my drivers are up to date i have attached my dump file becuase windows debuging tools does not …

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Hello everybody! My co-worker has a laptop running Vista Business . Up until today, everything has been working fine. Today, however, a problem crept up. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this little bug in Windows Vista. He has multiple folders of pictures, but when he goes to view …

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Hey so i upgraded from beta to win7 rc, and my start icons are gone... i checked under {homedir}\start meu and it appears as a link that cant be found... is there any way to restore my start menu? the all users folder appears as the same.. i have my …

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Can someone take a look at this HiJackThis log and tell me what's wrong? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:34:00 PM, on 5/8/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe …

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Hello all, This is my first post on any forum so i'll do my best to give you all the necessary info. First of all, it's a dell inspiron 530s running vista home basic. After doing some updates about a week ago, upon reboot, the pc no longer booted into …

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HP dv6809wm 3 GB RAM 120 GB HDD AMD Turion64 x2 CPU 2.00Ghz Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 log from hijackthis: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:15:05 PM, on 5/6/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18000) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: …

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Hi everyone :) Just recently, my computer has been acting weird. I'm bad at explaining so I'll try to outline the problems instead. - Takes longer to boot up. I've waited 10 minutes for my laptop to boot up and then I press and hold power button until it reboots. …

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All of my browsers (firefox, IE8, Flock) go only to strangeUSA . com the address bar displays google or daniweb for example but the page displays strangeUSA dot com. HijackTHIS shows nothing at all strange. Spybot shows nothing (newest one) Nor malwarebytes Have reset my winsock and ip configuration using …

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Hey all, I know this is Windows Vista and Windows 7 forums but there was no category for Windows Server 2008 so I posted this here. I plan on setting up a window server 2008 and I am currently using their trial version to see if it can fulfill my …

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Hey everyone, I have not really posted much on here. I usually just read threads. well enough about me here's my problem and specs: I enable SLI from the NVIDIA Control Panel and its says I must restart for effect. So I hit "restart" and it reboots. During the reboot …

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I am trying to install the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 beta, but have been hitting my head against the same problem over and over and over again. I tried asking about this at Anandtech, and got almost no help. The first time I tried to install, I got …

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Hi I am not sure if I have posted in the right forum but I hope you can help. For the last few days I have been having issues with my PC shutting itself down whilst Im using it. I originally thought it might be the graphics card as it …

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hi,guys ..i have little problme..regarding user name password.....i m going to describe it... we have ERP on win 2003 server..........so all the client machinces (xp and win 2000) r connecte dto that ...with direct or mapping.......but this year we have addition with 2 vista home premium machines..,,,so these machines r …

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I have a gateway ML6732 with vista , the laptop keeps asking for a hdd password which was never necessary , how can I get around this , can I flash the C_MOS or reset the C-MOS on the mother board somehow ?

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I'm looking to have a text chat with someone that's migrated their business class WinXP users to Vista. My current user base of 25 has WinXP and for reasons of security I'm trying to decide: a) on going to Vista now and then upgrading to Win7 when a stable version …

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All of my browsers (firefox, IE8, Flock) go only to strangeUSA . com the address bar displays google or daniweb for example but the page displays strangeUSA dot com. HijackTHIS shows nothing at all strange. Spybot shows nothing (newest one) Nor malwarebytes Have reset my winsock and ip configuration using …

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This will be not be the most useful feature and you can't do miracle by turning on this feature, but you would not neglect this feature because you will know soon how important this feature in vista. Vista doesn't have quick power off button and you will find it in …

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I'm purchasing a laptop at the end of next month, and I want to be able to install 32-bit Vista on it. Currently, I'm looking at a Toshiba Satellite M60 laptop with the following specs: CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) Ram: 1024MB (512MBx2) …

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Every now and then Vista comes up with a "Program Compatability Assistant" popup window (see image) when you want to run a .exe file. If you make the mistake, like I did, and agree with the Administrator option, then from hence foreward everytime you want to run this particular executable …

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hi, How do I install Vista on a seperate partition, I installed Vista on a seperate partition while XP was in another partition, and now only Vista is loading, what I need is to have dual boot with XP & VISTA. How do I do this... some other details... 1) …

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