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| | Hey Guys, I started to have this problem last night; when I try to run Windows Update, a blank window would open, but it would freeze and I can't even resize the window... I'm not sure what's causing this, but here's a hijackthis log just in case it's spyware/malware related: … |
| | Often I click on a link to a website, the page changes but remains white, blank, and the word Done appears in the bottom left corner and the URL is correctly shown at the top. I'm using Internet Exporerer 7 with Vista 32 bit service pack 1. Any ideas anyone? |
 | Hi all, I am getting frustrated with Vista. Vista Business in particular. I work for a large company which is not on a domain, therefore our only way of managing our users PC's is by using the Administrator account. In Vista I have enabled the Admin account and password protected … |
| | Hi guys, Setting up a computer for people i work with and wish to tie down the standard user accounts but seem to be having problems. Set up is as follows: vista business 3 users Jeff administrator Bar standard user Kitchen standard user Now i wish to disable standard users … |
| | hello everyone. i have a niggling little thought in the back of my brain which i'm hoping all the good people of daniweb may be able to give me some second opinions of... i have currently come into posession of a vaio VGN-NR21J, it originally came with visa home premium … |
| | I have a 1 year old HP DV6500 laptop with Vista premium. No issues until several weeks ago. May be related to updates since it just started occuring? When laptop goes into hibernation/sleep by itself and is pulled out of this mode the following occurs (manually putting into sleep appears … |
| | hi everyone, i am a newbie here..far from computer literate, but i survive. my question/comment/statement: everytime i try to play a videolink that is supported by wmp on the windos vista, it does not play in real time. the sound is fine, but the video lags behind . i was … |
| | Okay, so am I the only one this is happening to...? I type a URL in Internet Explorer (any!) and I get a "The address is not valid" message. Suggestions? Thanks |
| | Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong - I can't get my camera working on Vista Thanks, Catalana |
 | Hi All, Dont really know how to label this problem, hope someone can help. The client still connects via dial up. The client has an Asus notebook, running Vista, it generally works fine with no hassles as such, except this very strange occurance. When you boot the machine and try …  |
| | I'm relatively new to Vista, so I'm still trying to figure out all the little kinks. I run a little computer lab at a new dorm and wish to setup shared printer on one of the Vista machines until I can get a server up and running. How do I … |
| | Hi, internet is connected to my computer, I am able to open Skype and MSN and work with that, but I can not connect to the internet using browsers like Firfox, internet Explorer and ... . Any body have any suggestion, Thanks |
| | i bought a toshiba satellite A305-S6843 with windows vista, but i upgrade to windows xp sp3, so i made the partition and everything, i create the dual window also, so i can choose between wp and vista, the problem is that i cant run my toshiba recovery cd, to install … |
| | I setup a Brother HL-2270 on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium. I went into Network Sharing Center and enable printer sharing and removed the password. I also went into Control Panel > Printers > sharing> Security and allowed ANONYMOUS LOGINS and EVERYONE access to print. The UAC is … |
| | Hello, I have windows Vista. I have a laptop and access the internet wirless. I seem to run into a problem where windows explorer freezes and stops responding. I check for known problems for microsoft to fix and there just is nothing... I have never had it with XP.. Maybe … |
| | Media player will not open. Was working fine one day, then wouldn't open the next. Is there some sort of troubleshooting process I can go through, or is there some way I can reload it. I have windows vista sp1 (??) premium. |
| | Hey Good folks at DaniWeb !!! I have a Vista, Emachine W3611 I have 38 problems in the device manager that all are probably related. Under "Network adapters" there are 38 things listed that have a yellow exclamation point nest to them. The way I found them is by searching … |
| | hey guys i just started getting some problems from vista i keep getting a popup for almost everyprogram saying "a problem cause the program to stop working correctly". i also reformated, before i reformated it would also get a black screen and my videocard fan would speed up. that is …  |
| | Hi, I am currently using vista with my personal notebook as it is less prone to virus (heard from friends) but I'm more comfortable with XP (it's functions and displays). Will dual use of Operating system not affect each other in case the anti-virus failed to delete the virus? Collection … |
| | Can any one tell that where can i find the "Local Security Policy" in Vista, originally found in control pannel of XP. Or is there any other way in Vista from where I can enable Auditing of ma logs???  |
| | Hi.. Does any one know that vista's registry and xp's registry has a difference or not....r they totally same..? |
| | I just bought two HP laptops with Vista. I downloaded the following print driver so that I could print to my existing (non-network) Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W printer: 24w_v32_e driver from the Konica website. There are no "old" Konica print drivers loaded on these laptops. I also verified that the … |
| | I have recently had to do a System Recovery, followed by sending my pc in for a bench repair, on my new computer. Big mess! Each time I did a backup, I discovered that Windows Mail did not get backed up, in fact it had to be exported to my … |
| | I currently have two hard disks in my computer: c: - running vista operating system no problems - Primary master - (80gb) d: - completely empty - Secondary Slave - (200gb) And obviously a dvd drive (Secondary master). My aim is to put XP onto d: as it is blank. … |
 | I know this is a silly thing to be complaining about, but i have this little problem with vista when it comes to recycle bin. when i delete a program, i am used to hitting delete on my keyboard. but, when it comes to recycle bin emptying, i hate to … |
| | Hai friend's i installed iTweak software in my lap , which is having vista OS , while i start up , the I tweak is blocked my vista , how can i rectify this ??? |
| | i installed two OSs in different partitions and later removed the other one by formatting the disk it used. now when i start the PC the BIOS still makes me choose the OS i want to start.How do i remove the OS that is no longer there from the bios …  |
| | I have windows vista on my laptop and I get warnings that tell me there are updates I can install, but my computer is incapable of installing them. Any idea of what I can do to solve this? |
| | Vista ultimate or premium? I have xp pro on one of my machines and want to change to vista but I want to know if premium is worth it or should I go with ultimate? I have ultimate on my main machine and love it. My only reason is that … |
| | Hi. Windows Media Player 11 won't open in vista either by clicking on an audio file or trying to open the application directly....is it possible to remove the program and reinstall or repair without doin a whole system restore? Thanks Phly23 |
| | I need to do this process decribed in that article on the microsoft site, i thought i had it all figured out, then wn step 2 part 2, it simply states "Press a key when you are promped to restart from the disc." I cannot figure out how to do … |
| | HELP! My Asus M51E is in a "loop". On the latest Vista update (Sept 10), the install was being completed. I got to the screen that said "Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update 7 of 7..... Unfortunately my laptop "self powered" down (part of the …  |
| | My dad has a Windows Vista computer and suddenly today the internet didn't work. So we restarted it a few times and it still didn't work. We tried to ping google and it worked and in task manager it said that the wireless internet and hard line were both working. … |
| | i m having a dell1525.i m havin XP installed in it.i tried installing windows vista but, wasnt able to..my laptop is havin 160gb hard disk n 2gb ram..it is displayin an error code 0XE0000100 when tryin to install vista business edition n error code 0XC0000005 when tryin to install vista … |
| | Please help I've been working on a home movie since last christmas. When I view it, it plays perfect but after I save it to my computer it either dosen't play all the music or randomley flashes through all the pictures and no music. I've had it with this program … |
| | Hi all, I hope you can give me some advice, my son has a gateway 32 bit lap top which runs vista. vista came pre-installed with internet explorer yesterday he downloaded ie8 beta ( I told him not too as a mother would...lol) Now every time he opens the internet … |
| | Hello, My school has a 'atheros ar5007 802.11b/g wifi adaptor' with an unsecured open connection. My new HP dv9700 laptop with vista says i have a great signal but nothing worked. When I went to my college's office they said their wifi does not work with vista. Is there any … |
| | sony vaio laptop VGN CR407E hello everyone! i've joined this website for the sole purpose of getting answers to fixing my laptop. for any info/help, i thank you in advance. so this is the story: opening an email from a legit website (intercontinental hotels group), then my computer suddenly freezes. … |
| | Well, I don't know if this is a computer issue--because I doubt it is. Yet I do not know if it is a Vista issue. I have Windows Vista 32 Home Premium, and here's the thing. My computer will take a long time to load web pages--but that's not the …  |
| | So I have a brand new hp laptop. I put in a DVD yesterday and it says the region is not supported. It asks me if I want to change the region. This is strange to me because this is a U.S. DVD and the laptop should be set to … |
| | Forgive me if this is answered somewhere else, but I have tried searching on the problem and am not coming up with any relevant results (anywhere on the web). I have Vista 32 Ultimate installed on a P4 Quad Core with 2GB of ram and an onboard NIC (10/100). The …  |
| | hiiii I am having problems in creating new drives in windows vista.....To create new drive i first go to "disk management" then i go to "shrink volume" option available in drive which is having space.... When my disk is created i open "simple volume wizard" in which when i format … |
 | Hello guys, I have my laptop that came with Vista Home premium. Today I tried to install Solaris 10 but it failed. I tried to boot my Vista it failed also. Then I used Gparted to remove Solaris partition by deleting it; That made my laptop unbootable with error "No … |
 | Hey, Im at my buddies house and his keyboard randomly died.... the keyboard is 8 months old and it is used quite frequently.. I have tried uninstalling the drivers for the keyboard....but still have same problem.... The wierd part is...is that the "sleep" butoon on the keyboard still works.... You … |
| | Hi. I recently purchased a new laptop with windows vista os. I have not been able to gain internet access through my wireless home network with this new system, with the classic 'local access only' as the network status. My wireless home network was set up with my xp running … |
| | Hi, I've read a few questions on the forum about Home Premium w/Digital Cable Support. I believe the diff is that HP w/Digital Cable Support allows you to record Cable TV programming and HP doesn't. I'm looking at buying through Dell a XPS 420 and need to know if I've … |
| | Hey there, quick question: does Windows Vista computers play DVD-R? thanks!  |
| | Hi guys, I have a slight problem (well obv or I wouldn't be posting)... The situation is.... I have xp pro on my pc atm, and i want to install my new Vista home premium, thing is I'm not a complete expert with pc's and so formatting is an issue, … |
| | Hi i am trying to downgrade from Vista to Xp, and when i try to format the hard disk with the xp disk, i get an error stating no hard disk is available. |
| | Well we bought a new Dell laptop, had the geek squad at Best buy do thier optimization,spyware,anti virus install. But I can't figure out how to start my web cam, get it to hook up to my dial up service. I use MSN dial up, but I don't have a … |
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