[windows-vista] Forum Topics

Hi..im having a serious issue..we have three computers hooked up to a DSL modem using Linksys Router RT41-BU...my roomate has installed Vista Beta 2 on his two comps while I am still running XP Pro. Now all of the sudden the bandwidth has gone crazy he is sucking it all …

Will wm2003 (not second edition) devices be supported y sync centre as ive noticed support has been cut out of WMP11. Also, does home basic have sync centre or do i need buisness/ultimate

Just got back from a weekend visit to the Microsoft campus up in Redmond, Washington where I got the chance to hear about Windows Vista and other new MS creations, like the Xbox 360 and Zune music player. There were ’softies from all different parts of the enormous company presenting …

Ok my dell (november 2005. just out of warranty grrrr) has started making clicky scratchy grindy noises from the HDD , no bad sectors yet but windows goes dead slow whenever it accesses the HDD and the noise is really loud. I have backed up. Should i just get a …

I may, but havn't mad a decision yet.:confused:

Hey, Now is Vista a new Operating System or is it an upgrade??? I recently just purchased a laptop and we were talking about Vista and he said the it was an upgrade disc that doesn't format your hard drive. To me it sounds like it is a Upgrade not …

I installed Vista Business edition, and at first it was running smoothly (well it was a fresh install). But after like a couple of days I started to notice some stuff, and I was wondering if anyone else has had these problems. 1. My CPU is always being used, when …

i tried vista and liked it a lot. the new mixer has individual program sliders. and the look of it is great but i had one issue that i coulden't fix when viewing folders with lots of files the window keeps refreshing. i would open a folder and used detail …

Hi, I wish to Upgrade my PC for the future softwares going to be released.... Like Windows Vista Currently I have: [B]Processor: [/B] Intel Penitum 4 Processor 540 with Hyperthreading Technology 3.20 GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, 90nm [B] RAM: [/B]512 MB RAM -- 400 MHz DDR SDRAM Memory …

i use a trial version of vista. its the best operating system i have worked on. please, can some body help me in getting the product key for vista.. sameer

I went to PCWorld today to preorder vista (not out in UK yet) £179.99 for home basic (no aero and only runs on celerons/semprons) [B][U]£379.99!!!!!!! for ultimate edition[/U][/B] [B][/B] [B][U]OMFG[/U][/B] [B][/B] If 1 dollar = 50pence then that makes it $750!!! HOW COME UK SOFTWARE IS SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE …

Check them out: [url]http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=210456[/url] the last one is the coolest.

its expensive and not worth getting unless your getting the ultimate version or the really expensive ones. DirectX 10 is i think only for vista and i really want that but some people say its not worth it because vista will slow your gaming performance by 10-15%:rolleyes:

does anyone know where i can download vista? because i tried and tried and they have either had the max or i just cant get to it, i already have the serial code so all i need is the download!!!!! Thanks Kyle

I'm currently programming in C++ at an intermediate level and now moving on to the Win32 API. I know basic Win32 API programming so far and I don't find it too difficult to learn, but my question is: is it worth it to continue learning it while Windows Vista will …

Hey folks, Does anyone know if Windows Vista RTM can be run on Virtual PC 2004 (I tried to install 2007 Beta 1 only to find out that XP Home can't run it)? If so where can I download Vista RTM not using Torrents and I dont want a Product …

Hi, I have Vista and XP set as dual boot on my machine with no problems. HOWEVER, I have noticed that on most of the forums I'm a member of that people are having a LOT of issues surrouding the install of Vista on their existing machines and some are …

After an incredible amount of odd behavior from my computer, I had no choice but to reformat the thing yet again. Every time I do so, it only starts bugging up after another 6 months, presumably because of all the garbage sony loads with the recovery disk I can never …

hi guys, sorry i havnt been on in ages - new job is pretty cool but long hours lol they sent to oxfordshire on thursday for a vista and office training day, i should think that most of it you guys know already, but i was genuinly impressed, things like …

I know this is probably the dumbest thing that you guys have ever heard of, but I cannot install Vista Ultimate 64. I'm running Windows XP SP2 and it won't allow me to boot from the DVD I burned with the .iso on it. What are the steps I need …

I have a Dell Dimension 5150 - 1gb RAM, 3ghz ish HT pentium 4, and a radeon x600 video card Ok, ubuntu had a bit of trouble with the video card but otherwise runs great (i edited xorg.conf to say vesa instead of ati) Only problem is I dont have …

I had insalled windows vista evaluation pack in my VMware Workstation. i have installed vmware tools too. now i can get screen resolution of 1024x768. but i dont have audio drivers installed in my guest operating sysem. Also i have an inbuilt graphic memory of 256MB but when i see …

:sad: :sad: I have windows vista on a 60GB hard drive, and i dont want to have to install it over again on another 300GB hard drive, i just want to copy the partition from the 60GB to the 300Gb hard drive, any ideas or programs i can use, please …

Hey Im trying to boot a vista rc1 iso image off my HD, and im using magic disk, does anyone know how to use this prog without windows, or scedule it to boot up or something?

hi does anyone knw which window is tha latest(i mean after xp are there any other windows), if yes are they any good and are they available on net. thanx

Ok, so here is the whole story. At first my PSU died on my old computer, but since i didn't realize that, i thought it was the motherboard, so i bought a new one. Then obviously with the new mb comes a new proc and new video card and the …

[quote=mercury049;272311]Hi, I have Vista and XP set as dual boot on my machine with no problems. HOWEVER, I have noticed that on most of the forums I'm a member of that people are having a LOT of issues surrouding the install of Vista on their existing machines and some are …

hello, a couple of days ago i was surfing the net minding my own business, when all uf a sudden, my IDE 60gb HDD started making a familiar clicking noise .. and sure enough its now dead. thats fine though, because i recently bought a 250GB maxtor maxline III SATA …

Hi my windows xp is auto logging off right at the moment that i logg on. I got a legal version of XP Media Center and i have had no problems untill i installed IE 7.0 I have been looking all day on google and everywhere i know about. And …

I have XP installed on my primary sata hard drive and have Vista installed on my second sata hard drive. When I boot the computer it doesnt give me a boot menu it automatically boots into XP. I can only get it to boot into Vista when I have the …

[url]http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/061023/#story1[/url] If you have to scroll,it's the "Vista changes lock-out anti virus makers" story..

I have two hard drives 250 gb w/ XP installed & 80 GB w/ Vista installed. I would change boot order of HD's to startup in XP or Vista. This was working great until today Today after loading Vista, shutting down, then rebooting to XP - my XP HD would …

I'm seeing this from the event log: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM Date: 13/10/2006 13:52:38 Event ID: 10005 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Thor Description: DCOM got error "1058" attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments "" in order to run the server: {9E175B6D-F52A-11D8-B9A5-505054503030} …

OMFG Media player 11 says my pocketpc 2003 device is "too old to sync" but activesync 4.2 (newest has no problem) what i wanna know is, before i shell out for Vista: a) will sync centre be on all versions (home,pro etc...) or will i need the more expensive version …

Having problems with vista keep losing printers and computer runiing slow hanging up doing my head in!!! please help

Ok, so we all know Vista. Panther, and new Linux distros are the latest in the here and now. My question to you is what do you think the world of computing is coming to for our future? Think about three or four generations ahead for this one. After Vista, …

Here's how it went, I got done building my first pc about a month ago. When I installed the OS I was a little bit...retarded shall I say, and didn't create more then one partition. Now, a month down the line, I'm thinking "hey, I'd like to try the Vista …

Hi, I have an installer project which installs my application and it's dependencies, which used to run fine on XP. This project has some Custom Actions that registers a service. I can register the service manually using elevated command line. But the custom action hangs. I have created a sample …

Hi Again =),,, it's been quite a long time since the last time i came. I now come to you guys again cuz i think my puter isn't doing good since it overuse memory after i log into my session. I'm not sure about what can it be, so i'll …

Hey Guys, I missed Microsoft's Beta window although I do have a friend that has a copy. Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of times a Beta version can be installed? Thanks, AJZ

hi, when i try to install windows vista beta 2 64bit on a 80 gig harddrive, i get a message about a missing CD/DVD driver, i cannot by pass that, could someone please help me? here's the cpu and mobo that i'm using, please help :'( AMD Athlon 64 3800+ …

I'm having a problem with this virus alert thing that keeps popin up on my taskbar I can't get rid of it here is my log file from Hijackthis Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:19:02 PM, on 7/14/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 …

Have you guys heard of any new games for Vista? The 3 I have heard about are CRYSIS, SHADOWRUN and Halo2. I have those previews here ( [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com/Windows_Vista_computer_games.html[/url] ) but I am wondering if there are any games that I missed.. Mike [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com[/url]

First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. Please move if so :) I bought a second PC a week ago which I plan on using as my main PC. Now I want to play around with different OS's on the older one. I'd like to …

I was really excited when I read the initial press releases about Vista. It was going to patch some of the glaring flaws in XP, add some great new features and functionality, include new scripting abilities, and simplify making advanced configuration changes. It was to be to XP what Windows …

I just wanted to get a few opinions from people before I spend monery on a new external hard drive. I love to test new beta products. I am downloading windows vista beta 2, along with the new office 2007 suite. I had installed the office beta on my good …

went looking for Folder Options to change to show all files and to set it to one click .,found it ! in mycomputer /properties ,top right, next to search icon ,black arrow ,click and go to search options .

I have xp on one hard drive and i installed vista public beta on another drive in my computer. The install went fine and i was up and running on both os's. I wanted to access my my documents folder off of my windows xp installation and i was prompted …

Right ill start from the beginning so you can get the whole story, Built a new computer but was short on cash so i scavenged two old hard drives out of other computers (1x20gb and 1x40gb). Soon ran out of space, they were running realy slow so after a while …

Hello Every one, I had same problem with svchost in Windows Vista which was running on 100%. I found out that was the Antivirus program. I am usually using NOD32. After deinstall it in emergency mode, everything looks good. :-) Machine should work and people should think. :-)