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| | I'm running Vista Home Edition on my HP laptop and over the past couple months whenever I update a program or install a new one I can no longer connect to the internet with it. I run an old version of firefox and if I update it then my internet … |
| | I cannot access a shared drive at work on a LAN. I was able to but somehow my setting must have changed (cannot work out what has changed). I try authenticating but do not get to the shared drive. I can SSH to the shared drive and view all the … |
 | ok the problem started 2 days ago where now when ever i go into a user folder the windows explorer closes itself and will not open agin so I have to work with the task manager and its very anioying..........any help much apreceated |
| | Hey, I'm mostly a linux user with a cisco background so windows is a mystery to me! A friend brought me a hp pavilion that had a virus that apparently made services such as the recovery manager unavailable to us and he had no recovery disks made. I told him …  |
| | Hi all, Been googling for hours but can't find any answers!! What's the best way specifically for vista, to configure laptop IP address for 2 different networks? I want to easily switch IP address detail when at home or in work. I previously used netsh and scripts to do this …  |
| | Help please... Was on line, suddenly not able to. Displayed limited to no access, then showed packets sent but not received, was just online like 20 minutes ago. Connected thru LAN. tried to power cycle and everything. when i plug into to my xp machine, everything is good. i dont …  |
| | Ok heres the problem, im trying to burn some movies i downloaded onto dvds, but it keeps saying theres no disk in the drive even though ive inserted a DVD+R. I dont know what the problem is, suggestions pleassse??? |
| | Hi there, I have a spanish Data Cd which has macromedia flash player program to run it. Can I change the language to english if i use Ultra ISO to explore the files on it. Thank you in advance, best regards |
| | Hey guys. I've got a 120 GB HDD w/ 2 equal partitinos. I have XP and all data on the C: drive. D: drive is empty. I want to install Vista on the D: drive in a dual boot scenario. I need to keep XP. I mainly want to just … |
| | I have a two part question; How would I go about restarting my Master Boot Record if I cannot read the hard disks? Or how could I load the drivers for the hard disk controller, or is that even possible considering that the controller is integrated with the OS? Im … |
 | In IE6 there was a menu File --> Open. That doesn't exist in IE7, or I can't find it. So I resort to using Windows Explorer and double-click on the *.htm file I want to load. Anyone know how to do it like IE6 ? Or a better way (in … |
| | Hi all, I am hoping that someone out there has a solution for this... Its driving me nuts. I have been searching the net for weeks trying to come up with a fix, but cant find one. So here it is: When using IE7 (Yeah, I know... I should be … |
| | hello, i am having a problem with viewing web pages on vista. i am able to use MSN messenger and browse on the crappy browser that is built into BitComet, but IE, Firefox, and Opera all give me a "cannot display page". if i click on 'diagnose connection problems' it … |
| | It seems I can't escape the problems on my PC these days. I just formatted my C: after it became really messed up with virus after virus. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my system and everything is working great apart from one stupid issue: every time I change the …  |
| | Why do some of my icons, in vista, have the security shield on them. They did not have them when I had XP installed. Eg I have a shortcut for nero express on my desktop, but the icon has the security shield on the bottom right corner of it. |
| | Hi, I have recently tried installing Vista Ultimate 32 bit on my PC. I liked it, but came across a problem where every now and again the PC would just lock up and the only thing I could do was press the reset button. I wondered if it might be … |
| | Here is a copy of a portion of an email I sent to HP (to save me typing it out) 1 ) Program freeze ups. Where I have to close a program to get another to run. With 2 gigs of ram I shouldn't have to do this. Not multiple … |
| | I would like to start off with hello everyone.I recently found a Downloader.Tibs warninig from SpyBot and nothing from the McAfee Antivirus I am running presently on my laptop. I hope someone would take the time to scan over my report and give me some input on my log.Thank you … |
| | hey guys I recently found a small problem with my PC its a Hp Pavilion a1737c with Vista, the problem is I was able to set screen saver themes for it but now in the screen saver setting dialog box it says "this computer's video card (Nvida GeForce6150 Le)can't play … |
| | Hello everyone, I bought Fujitsu Siemens Laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic installed in it. I have installed every necessary things such as Anti Virus, windows update is done, etc. Either I am doing my work or just on desktop, the laptop gets hang and I am unable to do … |
 | Hi gang Im using a Internet Explorer on Vista that add-ons disable and Im pulling my hair to enable it. Does anyone know how to enable it for sure ??? I have tried all sorts of ways but no go Thank you Bandit3999 |
| | HI - I have new HP with Vista Home Premium. It worked fine until recently my internet provider was bought out by Comcast. Now I can get on websites but not use many features. For instance I play free poker on espn, but now cannot log on. My wife uses … |
| | Hello, I managed to wreck Windows Vista accidently in record breaking time, only a few minutes needed: 1. Remove all protocols from "connections". 2. Remove network device. 3. Wait until Vista detects it's a non genuine copy or it's trail has expired. 4. Reboot End result: DEAD VISTA Reason: 1. … |
| | Ok I am having problems with my zune not connecting to my computer. I go into the device manager and I look at the driver for the zune and it shows a code 10 error. Could anyone give me an idea on how to fix this. |
 | hi. my skool is one of those tablet pc skools and my friends internet just stopped working at home last nite, but the skool internet works on the fine on that same PC, but at home every other program can run internet except internet xplorer/firefox and he thought it had …  |
| | Hi, I am new here and I admit that I don't know much about computers, but something has shown up in my folders and I have no idea what they are: ntuser.dat LOG1 and ntuser.dat LOG2. Are any of you experts out there familiar with this? If so, please let … |
| | The title of the thread is my random yet hopefully simple question. I "googled" it but didn't find anything that seemed concrete, and so I'm hoping that someone on here will know. So again the question is, Is Vista based on XML, and if so, would it be correct to … |
| | Hi All, Whenever someone in my family walks away from using the computer with Windows Vista, I'm always taken to a screen that allows only the last user to log back in, but when someone else wants to log in, they need to hit the "Switch User" button to go …  |
| | hi , i changed my default program for .DLL to notepad by accident. I was wondering if any one knows what the correct default program is for ' .DLL ' or how to restore to 'safe version' ? Btw I'm on Windows vista. |
 | My cousin is using an Ipod Nano 2nd Gen and is trying to connect it to her new computer that is running Windows Vista Home Basic. The device shows as "uknown device" but does not have the yellow icon on it as usual. I cannot get it to install any … |
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