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| | Just got this comp about 2 months ago and having issues where Windows Defender refuses to boot up and I can't receive automatic or manually induced windows updates. When I try to kick off a manual update it tells me error code 80096001. If I try to start Defender it … |
 | Does anyone else find Vista's settings difficult to navigate? Everything seems so tricky to find because they try to make each page look simple and user friendly. For one thing network settings are a pain. I can't go to the properties of My Network Places and see my network adapters. … |
| | Hi, Just thought that it would be nice to tell members here about the specific features of this new os. Here are the links. Let me know if they are any good for what you have in mind in terms of the version to be purchased in the near/not so … |
| | I just got a new laptop, which I bought because the price was great and it had descrete VRAM -256, which is almost impossible to get unless you want to spend $2000 or more for a laptop. I thought to then downgrade to xp, but quickly found out about the …  |
| | I'm looking at buying a new computer and it appears that Vista is about my only OS option (whether I like it or not, and I don't). I already know I'm going to have some problems installing my programming software. My question is - does anyone know if I can … |
| | I bought a new pavillion -and love it and have no real problems with vista (**cough**yet) but I'm wondering what is making it boot so slowly? Any ideas? I disabled Norton and am running AVG. :D |
| | I have Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit running on an abit NF-M2 nView MB with an AMD dual core 5600 processor. I can't "see" the 8GB of Patriot memory (4x2 DDR2 5-5-5-12 800 MHZ) in Windows, and there's nowhere in the BIOS that lets me see the memory because of … |
| | hello i just purchased a sony vaio laptop which has 100 gb hard disk i want to make more partition of it plz can any one tell me how to make more partition without formating c cozi dnt want to loose original windows and it has many software of its … |
| | I have a Vista Home Premium as my OS. I work from home thru a server that has XP. I am trying to print from at my house thru the XP software and nothing prints. I have a Lexmark X2480 as my printer. That shouldn't have anything to do with … |
 | Now Windows has been out for a couple months and not much has come out for it yet. You see, unlike other OS's in the past business's aren't picking it up as fast as ooohhh...98 for example. Developers are realizing this and I say don't pick up Vista for your … |
| | Have been using a family tree program called Brother's Keeper V5 with Windows XP on my old computer and want to transfer the program to my new computer which has Vista. Starting the program requires 'spin.vbx' file which is located in Windows\system directory in XP but is not locatable in … |
 | Hi people. Just thought I would warn about a little issue I had with my Vista system last night. I tried to install [URL="http://www.colinux.org"]colinux[/URL] and the system crashed to a blue screen. When I tried to start it again normally it suffered some kind of kernel mode exception, did a … |
| | Hi guys ive recently had a problem with my CD-ROM drive. If done the regedit procedure of deleteing uper and lower filters awell and unistalling and reisntalling my cd-drive. Still no luck and it still doesnt appear on my computer. I use vista If any one can help it would …  |
| | I don't know what to do. I have ignored this problem for a while because I could get around it, but it seems now that there are instances where it happens 100% of the time. Freezes, locks, whatever you want to call them. Mouse locks up on screen, input is … |
| | Im running vista ultimate x86. XFX Nvidia GF7900GT with 160.03 drivers (and ive used other drivers with the same problem) Whenever my computer disables (turns off) the monitor to powersave (after the screensaver being on for an hour) , it displays greenish diagonal lines across the screen with no way … |
| | Computer while booting will see the CD-rom and harddrive then the screen goes blank and the text "YoYo" appears and that is it. The "o" look more like a small "8" laid on it's side. It will not reconize XP CD or any other CD. I have GWSCAN and it …  |
| | My new computer has been supplied with Vista installed. I would like to add windows XP pro and run two OS independently. Can this be done? How? Thanks |
 | I just got a Dell XPS 410 desktop computer with Windows Vista. It has an Intel Core II Duo Processor, 250 GB of memory, and 2GB of RAM. Everything has been working just fine so far, but when I run certain programs, they run slowly or they don't run as …  |
| | Hello there, knowledgeable computerfolk from the land of the internet. I am buying a computer in the next few days. It has Windows Vista pre-installed on it. I'd rather have Windows 2000 on it. I don't like all the fancy-schmancy special effects and bonus features. Win2k, or even XP with … |
| | Hello there [COLOR=#434343]Recently i bought o.s windows vista,i had on my computer XP home ,my computer hardware is compatible to the requirements of Microsoft.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]But when installing the o.s vista in the final stage is getting stuck, or when I succeed finishing the installation it doesn't load.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]Can you please …  |
| | My boss just bought a HP Pavilion dv9000 with Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add it to the wired office network (all other computers are Dells running XP). After much difficulty and heavy drinking, I finally got the notebook to recognize the other computers. However, I am … |
| | I have a Sony dual-layer capable DRU-820A DVD burner and im running vista ultimate full version. my device manager is saying that the burner is installed properly. But not only does the burning not work, no CD's or DVDs are even detected by the drive when i insert one. The … |
| | Help, I have been trying to load Windows Vista Ulitmate to a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 SATA 320gb. H/D is plugged into the SATA 1 socket and all runs ok till it starts to look for a H/D driver ?? Vista does a search and tells me it cannot find … |
| | I've been updating my tags in my pictures folder which makes searching for pictures very easy. However there are certain private pictures that I have set the file attributes as hidden, but when you type any of the tag names in the Vista search box it pulls up those hidden … |
 | [quote]It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company … |
| | In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136years ... yeah, let that sink... Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the … |
| | Well, it's sorta involving video. You see I have determined it takes a few hours but when this occurs, the screen goes black and shows as if there is 'no signal' and then to turn it back on you would thing it is just sleeping, so hitting a mouse button, … |
| | I just got a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I'm loving the new computer so far but have run into a couple of really annoying problems. The computer is a Gateway Laptop: T2450 Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. First, Windows Media Center is not working the way I … |
| | I just got a new computer which has windows vista on it. My internet server is Piper which is not compatible with the new windows programme. The guy at piper said it was a common compatibilty problem with alot of software and the new vista programme. Should I just change … |
| | Does anyone know if it'll work? I found my boxed version of FL 6. I know 7 brings Vista compatibility, but I can't buy it. Thanks in advance. |
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