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Internet connection dropping vista home basic

I am running vista home basic, and my internet connection drops. I have to reboot several time to get it back. I have t...

vista home basic with hp office jet 6110xi

I have the driver that vista provided loaded and have checked with hp for any updates which hp states(a full feature so...

Windows Firewall problem on Home Premium

Hi,I have this windows firewall problem started when I uninstalled the Onecare live. I also ran the OnecareCleanup. Pre...

Vista Home Premium Remote Desktop Question

I've seen several posts concerning the inability to Remote Access a Vista (x86) home Premium machine. I can easily acc...

Access denied to printers on XP Home SP2 machine.

A frind of mine just added a Vista home laptop to his home network. The other computer is a disktop running XP home SP2....

Activating Windows Home Premium

Hi all, Two years ago I bought a laptop with Vista Basic. I bought the home Premium upgrade from MS. They sent me an any...

Desktop icons - Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Another question from me. I have set up my desktop icons numerous times in the position I want them but unlike XP there ...

Using Windows Mail away from home

I have never been able to successfully use Windows Mail away from my own home. I can receive messages but cannot send t...

Windows Mail - at Work vs Home on Laptop - both AT&T

On my laptop with Windows VistaAt work I can use Windows mail perfectly. We have AT&T Business DSLAt home, I can on...

APPCRASH on vista home version

i have been trying to figure out what is going on with this problem. i cannot open the program (to make my own dvd's) ...

Re-Installation of Vista Home Premium (32 bit)

Hi, I am facing problems with the registry of the OS. When I install new software, I get some unusual error messages po...

New partition in Vista home basic?

Hello, I am trying to find out if this would help or harm, and, if it would help, how to do it. I am wondering if it is ...

Vista Home Premium too selective...

Vista home Premium too selective... I have a small LAN with a network printer and three XP Pro computers and one Vista ...

Vista Home Premium Cannot Connect To Network

Hi all,All of a sudden I cannot connect to my wireless router from my PC w/ Vista home Premium. I have a laptop and anot...

Micromax Q3 (Mobile Phone) gprs modem to Vista Home Basic

I've installed Micromax Q3 (Mobile Phone) gprs modem to Vista home BasicI see my modem installed under Phone and Modem p...

Vista Home and fax

Is there MsFax in Vista home version? Where? Fred...

Can not disable the activated administrator account in Home

Hi, all. I am using vista home basic, PC is from HP.I have used "net user administrator active: yes"command li...

BSOD + DMP File (Vista Home Premium x86)

I just restarted after a BSOD. I had just finished watching a movie on my laptop when I unplugged the AC power to move i...

Vista Home - No "windows sounds" from laptop.

Suddenly my HP pavillion laptop will not play any "windows sounds". When i test them under control panel/sound...

Vista Home Premium

I am trying to help someone running Vista home Premium setup his network to share files and folders with his XP home la...

Vista Home 64-bit update, on NEW build PC.

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Vista Home Premium Backup & Restore

I decided it is time to read the manual on Vista home Premium Backup & Restore (VHPB&R). So I started by search...

can I back-up only new files in Home Edition?

Hi everyone, I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it makes a complete copy, and soon fills ...

Vista Home showing previous file versions

Hopefully someone can help.For some reason, spontaneously, my version of Vista home Premium has started to display prev...

I have Win Xp Home, Trying to Install Vista Extreme Edition

Is there Any way that I can Install Vista without losing my XP home Edition, What Im trying to say here, is if I can ins...

Home Network Disappeared!

I had set up and was running for 2-3 months a home network between my HP Pavillion notebook running Vista home and my G...

Vista Home Premium w/SP1 error???

Hi everyone. I recently downloaded Vista home Premium w/sp1 and installed on my computer. Then my motherboard crashed. T...

Vista Home Premium 32 does'nt recognize External Harddisc

When the disc is connected with firewire/usb, the right driver is intalled, but the computer doesn't show the station an...

So I have a virus on my home pc and looking for help

Somehow, a trojan downloader virus got onto my pc. I have 2 hdd currently. The c: drive has 2 main partitions. a 216 gb ...

Upgrade from Windows XP Home to Win-7 Home Premium

Do I need an upgrade version of Win-7? if so, which?Or do I simply wipe off WinXP and install a Win7 home Premium full ...

Question about Home Networking

Hi allI have question about home Networking. Please consider following scenario.I have 2 notebook computers, suppose the...

Windows Mail Send/Receive Error in Vista Home Premium

This just started to happen with Windows Mail: I do a send/receive and it works fine, then I do another and I get the s...

Home Premium to Ultimate upgrade

Hello,I just tried upgrading from Microsoft Windows Vista home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate...at first it checked m...

New Vista Home Premium HP Pavillion Media Center Set-up

Hello friends, I was hoping you could help me with my new desktop I just got. It's a HP Pavillion Media Center m8530f ...

Links 2003 in Vista Home Premium 64bit

Hi,For about the past month I have been trying to migrate all my software from my 6 1/2 year old XP Pro PC, to my new V...

How can I disable pen taps in Windows Vista Home Basic?

The 'pen taps' are when you use a graphics tablet (wacom bamboo), and for example you hold the pen down, and the cursor...

Vista Home Premium - Recording sound from You Tube

How do I capture audio from the internet - through speakers? I click on my "SOund recorder" but nothing is ...

Home Prem x64 SP2 RC1 wrong HD order

This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing Vista on. I discovered that on both (differen...

Home: Laptop to desktop/printer contection

Is there a way to contect my laptop running Window's Vista to my Desktop and Printer? My wireless modem is Netgear and ...

checking email away from home

How do I check my windows e-mail from another computer?...

There Is Weather In My Home Town, Just FYI

I Was Looking Outside When My Dad Left The Room Because He Doesn't Want Me To Look Outside Because I Might Scare The Ne...

Vista Home Premium: 32 bit version vs. 64 bit

I have a laptop with the Vista home Premium 32 bit version installed. I am thinking of upgrading my desktop from Windo...

CAN'T EMAIL HOME VIDEOS

Hi, I tried to email a short home video but the error message said the data size is larger than permitted. Is there a w...

Part II -upgrade from home to ultimate sp1

Thanks Colin and Harry for info. The college does not have vista ultimate upgrade SP1 to match my home premium SP1. S...

Non functioning DVD-RW under Vista Home Basic 64

I'm working on a system using this drive, Lite-On DH 20A 4P 04. The drive had been working well until about a month ag...

Installing Vista Home Premium 64bit on a newly built compute

Hello,I looked through the forum tutorials about doing a "clean installation" on a computer. However, I don't ...

Connecting via RDP to my XP Pro machine from Vista Home Prem

I just purchased a new laptop and it came with Vista home Premium. One of the things I need to do is connect to my XP Pr...

Home Premium 64 bit to Ultimate 64 bit Upgrade Issues

I have a Intel Core 2 Quad at 2.33GHz with 8GB ram and am having difficulties getting Premium 64 to upgrade to Ultimate...

Windows Vista Home Premium Fax

Does this version of Vista have a fax program with it?-- Thank you, Jim Brown...

Safe Mode in Windows Vista Home Premium

I've got Windows Vista home Premium on my Acer Extensa and when I start it automatically starts in Safe Mode. Even when...

Windows 2000 Pro SP4, XP Home and Vista Business 32

Hey group! A REAL NOVICE HERE. As we say in Afrikaans, "vreemdeling in gebied, wees asb geduldig" which means ...

A couple of home networking questions

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Wireless connection cut - Wndows Vista Home Premium SP1

I don't know why my notebook PC's wi-fi connection is cut sporadically. The Windows diagnosis messages shown are mostl...

Vista home premium cant detect usb tv tuner

Even after i install the driver (come with the usb tuner), my vista cant detect it when i run window media center.How t...

Win Vista Home prem

well where to start.. i installed sp1 and now my computer will not boot it comes up with a screen that says: windows fa...

Laptop no longer connects to printer on home network

I am about at the end of my rope, and I hope someone can help: My HP dv2500 laptop running Vista used to work fine conn...

Urgent I cannot start my vista home edition after I update m

Dear All:I open my computer, then show " windows loading files, then startup key repair, I put my recovery dvd ins...

Combining User Accts on Vista Home

Due to using mulitple user names, I have a lot of key data spread all over my 'C' drive (for example archive to pst file...

Running Vista Home Premium

I have a Toshiba Satellite A205. Is there a way to disable the caps lock key? I usually just take the key off but was h...

Dual Boot VIsta Ultimate and XP Home

Ok, so i am bored last weekend, i am presently running Vista Ultimate, and figured i would install XP home editon, i cre...

How to delete identical user accounts on home screen?

I am the only one that accesses my computer and I am the administrator. When I turn on my lap top I have two icons on th...

uninstal vista home premium-32 bit

I bought a new notebook that came with vista home premium already installed. I need to uninstal it and instal XP becaus...

Vista home basic updats will not install

Hi. My vista updates will not install from 3/11/08. I've tried several times but they still wont install. It gets to ab...

Impossible to save a user in Windows Vista Home

I have the following environment: 2 PC with Windows Vista Business, 1 2003 Server and 1 Laptop with Windows Vista home...

New Vista Home Premium present, errors! need help.

Hello, my name is Matthew Atkinson. I orginally had Xp previous to this christmas. this christmas under the tree i recei...

Can't delete network printer from Vista Home Premium

Guys, I'm not an expert with a PC by any stretch, but I understand some of the more technical elements.I have print serv...

password expiration for home premium

I am not able to find in vista home preimum where to canel my password expiration? I am the only user on my laptop. I h...

MS Mail Vista Home Premium - Mail alert FLAG notification

Hi - How do you set this up, so that a "flag" appears next to the e-mail shortcut when mail arrives? I have se...

Vista Home Premium 64 wont boot after new video card

Hey guys,I upgraded my video card, now i have a Geforce 260 from a geforce 8800.I installed it with no problems but then...

Upgrade HP Vista Home Image to Ultimate?

I'm buying a new HP PC and would like the 32-bit version of Ultimate. Normally, I re-image my new PCs, but am hesitant ...

Installing Vista home Premium over Vista Business

Hello everyone, I recently bought a Refurbished Dell 1525 from Dell outlet. The online specifications for this particula...

Vista Home Premium Freezes

Inspiron 1420 Laptop Windows Vista home Premium Internet Explorer 8 Anti-Virus Webroot PC Utility Inc. Error FixStartup/...

Vista Home Premium SVC PK 1 had error installing dazzle dvc1

I just purchased a new desktop Compaq PC with Windows Vista home premium 32 bit service pack 1; however, Pinnacle's Dazz...

DVD burner problems with vista home premium

I am unable to use my DVD/CD writer. When I insert a disc, a blue screen appears and the computer reboots. The blue s...

Vista Home premium made DVD not working on XP

I have made DVD's of jpeg picture files to give to people, but they can't get them to work on computers using non Vista...

public folder not available for all users (Vista Home Premiu

Hi,If I have two user accounts in Vista home Premium PC, both having admin rights and I place common files to public fol...

Cannot access "C Drrive" on Home Network.

I have a home network using a DLink router with a desktop and two laptops. I want to be able to access the C drive on t...

Upgrade Home Prem. to Ultimate

I have a HP Touchsmart with 64 bit home Prem installed. I bought a Vista Ultimate 64 bit retail upgrade. When I attempt...

FYI Sony Vaio with Home Premium

Problem 1:-User Susan had bought from original owner Jane. Everything running as Jane, user confused. Lots of "Not...

Anyone using TVAnts in Vista Home Premium

TVants is an online live tv program. Previously it works fine in my xp, but not in vista.Some guys in forum said vista d...

Network Troubleshooting.... Vista home premium

Hello, I am creating this post because I have a client who wants me to fix their vista machine. It is a HP laptop, and ...

Word 2002 not working fully in Vista Home Premium

I have installed Works Suite 2006 in my Vista home Premium computer. Everything works fine apart from Word 2002. I am...

Vista Home Premium Not Booting

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me as I'm banging my head against the wall now!!Booting my mates PC I get the f...

Can I use a Technet Vista x86 download and update home premi

Can I use a Technet Vista x86 download and update home premium already on laptop? Only seems to give me option of insta...

Vista Home BITS stopped working (Faulting app svchost.exe_BI

Hi I am running Vista home Basic Edition on 32bit operating system, Lenovo ThinkPad R61 8919-A44 laptop. SInce last few...

Re: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 & Win2k3 Ent network

Hi Matt,Have you enabled network discovery on this machine? Control Panel/Network and Sharing.-- Best of Luck,Rick Rog...

How to Access my home (desktop) p.c. from my Laptop

I have had my home tower pc (Vista home Premium) for a long time and have lots of e-mail folders on it (Windows Mail).I...

Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate

Hello Everybody My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista Ultimate. The mother board went kap...

Connecting to Internet via a home network

I have a home wired network connecting a Vista home premium machine with an XP machine. File and printer sharing work f...

Vista Home Basic SP1 scandisk problem

I am trying to schedule a scandisk on Vista startup but everytime I do it says it cannot scan the disk as it is in use -...

Unable to Open Some Files on a Home Network

I recently purchased a new desktop PC with Vista OS. I created a home network and linked my desktop and laptop to the ...

Using fax in small home network

Hullo. We have four or so computers on a home office network, with one of them being used as a fax receiver, using the ...

Vista Home Premium Performance degradation on Partition

Why does Vista run OK on a smaller, slower dedicated HD than it does on a partitioned larger, faster replacement?My (3....

Home Basic - VPN 691 error

I have a laptop running Vista home Basic trying to create a PPTP VPN to a Firebox 700 firewall. Every attempt to conn...

Vista Home Basic Error 1606 %PUBLIC%\Desktop\

I've recently had Norton Anti-virus 2009 and when i went to get my live updates 3 of them wouldn't install. I wasnt too ...

Vista Home Premium - Windows Explorer - inbuilt unzip fault

Vista home Premium - Windows Explorer - inbuilt unzip fault I archived my Windows Mail messages into a folder and then...

Forgot Password in Vista Home Premium

Hello allRecently I've got a laptop wich came with WIndos Vista home Premium installed. I decided to put a Password in ...

Dell/Google Home Page: Acting Strangely In Dell XPS-420

The Dell/Google customizable home Page page that appears on top of Internet Explorer (the fun page that lets you "...

Express Card for Home Premium

It's great having an MCE like function in home Premium but with certain Notebook/Tablet PCs such as HPs tx 1000 and 200...

Web cam for Vista home

My Vista pc will not work with webcams in general, my son has the same pc and has not problems with the same web cam o...

Acronis True Image Home 2009

In the past I have recommended Acronis True Image for a good backup tool for Vista, but my experiences with the very re...

upgrade from vista home basic to business

Hello, I got a pre installed version of Vista home Basic. Now i just purchased an upgrade disc to Business. I cannot do...

Vista 64 Bit Home Premimum-Red Screen

Please note: I attempted to send this on the 6th of Nov but it never showed up to my knowledge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Remote desktop from Vista Home Premium to XP Pro

I recently purchased a laptop that came with Vista home Premium. One of the things I want to be able to do is access my ...

IE & home page

I have been to many vista forums,can't keep track.not ure if I had posted here before. my problem is IE 7.the biggest pr...

Vista Home Premium/SnagIt 9.1.0 shutdown problem cured in 9.

On 12 December 2008 I reported that, under Vista home Premium 32 bit, SnagIt 9.1.0 would not close down cleanly. Not ev...

Blue Screen - Vista Home Edition

Last couple of days I have I have gotten 4-5 blue screen shutdowns. It happens so fast if can't read what it sez on th...

Vista home Prem to Ultimate

I have purcheased an anytime update from microsoft from vista home premium to ultimate. Running a pre-check everthing i...

"Top preview screen" Vista Home Premium

Instead of seeing the whole incoming e-mail message I only see the top part: From, Date, To and Subject. I have to enla...

Need help to type chinese in Vista Home Premium Edition

HiI just bought 1 new pc for my 7 yrs old son, so that he can type chinese for his school homework.I am in Canada.I hav...

Upgrade Win Xp to Vista Home Premium

G'Day All,I see I need to do a clean install and then reinstall my Apps - Ok!In Xp I have most Apps in C:/Program Files ...

dvd burner for vista home basic

hi all -- plz tell me which dvd burner shud i use for vista .. it does not allow nero 6 ..and also where from can i down...

Physical memory dump in Windows Vista home preminum

Hello to all the member of this forum....i am new comer to this forum.when i surf net or do some task then a blue screen...

Vista Home Premium and HP Officejet 6310

Hi,I have been following this group for sometime as I wanted to setup and occasionally use a fax modem, maybe once a yea...

Vista x64 Home Premium - Many Issues with Installers & Extra

I'm having loads and loads of issues with trying to install programs on my computer mainly due the extraction of files f...

No printer is working on my new Acer with Vista Home Edition

I tried 2 HP all in one and one Canon IPsomthing. They all installed perfectly on the laptop the computer see them but I...

Anytime Upgrade Home Premium 64 to Ultimate 64?

Is there an upgrade from home Premium 64 to Ultimate 64? If so, would it be available through an MSDN download?I'm tryi...

File Sharing with a PS3 and Windows Vista Home Premium

I have established a wireless link between my PS3 and my Windows Vista Machine, but the picture file folders all show e...

Installing ultimate on top of home premium

Installing ultimate on top of home premium.Can I do this without any other actions or 'whatever?' tia...

How to open new tab with home page

I would like to open a new tab at my home page, rather than another click to go to my home page. Is there a way to do t...

Adding Vista Home to Exchange

The new guy want's to get exchange mail on his laptop, it's vista home. I closed his outlook whent to the mail icon in ...

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 OEM DVD?

I just bought a HP laptop DV6700. It came with Windows Vista home Premium 64 bit. The first thing I do when i get a re...

Remote Desktop with Vista Home Premium 64?

I have a machine with XP Pro sp2 on it. And my main machine is Vista home Premium 64. I launch Windows Remote Desktop...

Shut down screen? (Vista Home 64)

On Vista home 64 bit, how can I set the shut down prompt to default to shut down, and not sleep?J...

0x080070570 in Vista Home Premium with SP1

I get 0x080070570 when I try to either copy or transfer a file from several hard drives. It affects ALL files and is ge...

V64bit Vista Home Premium Problem, probably deleted system f

A little while ago my avast virus scanner reported 2 viruses and asked me what I should do with the files. Without thin...

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Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 not working

My Microsoft Office home and Student 2007 is not working on my laptop everytime I click on the link for word or any oth...

Ultimate will not install over my Home Premium

I have a full version of home Premium and have been running it for a year or more. I bought Vista Ultimate upgrade. Ho...

"windows easy transfer" 64 home to 32 W7 Pro?

Hi All,I have a customer with two Vista 64 bits home editions trying to run software that explicitly states its does not...

Very slow home network access, explorer freezes

I've got the following system setup:Dell Studio Laptop running Windows Vista home Premium. home wired & wireless net...

Installing Vista Home Premium 64 bit Upgrade

Ok,First off, I purchased Vista home Premium 64 bit Upgrade from Windows Marketplace, without knowing that I needed a 64...

Cannot install HP D4360 printer on Toshiba OEM Vista Home

I have been searching the web/groups for an answer to this problem and have not yet found a solution that works. I have...

Vista Home Won't Boot

The computer looks like it's booting, i can see the little bar going across then the window opens to a mouse pointer an...

Why would a Home User buy more than Vista Basic?

If you're not in an office but rather at home (on the Internet) would there be a reason to spend more for 'Vista Ultima...

Dual Boot - Vista Home Premium & XP Pro

My laptop came with Vista home Premium x64 preinstalled. It shipped without separate OS disks but it has a service par...

Windows Market Place Vista Home Premium

Hi,I've just bought a copy of Vista home Premium 64bit upgrade from the Microsoft Windows Marketplace and I can't get th...

Games to run on home network

I posted in a MS games forum and got no response, so I'll try here. Does anyone know of a Hearts games that can be play...

file sharing between XP home(sp3) and Vista home premium(sp1

I am having trouble to access files from vista to xp(NTFS). There is no problem for XP to get in vista but not vice ver...

windows explorer vista 32 bit home premium crashing

Ok I have a toshiba satellite with windows vista home premium 32 bit version and about 3 months ago I started getting th...

vista home basic recovery problems need help asap plese

hi i have a lap top that acidently got damged and neaded the hard drive replacing. i am having problems reinstaling vi...

Vista Home SP1 will not log off

I have a number of problems that occured since trying to install a ZoneAlarm update.The most consistent one being that t...

vista wont stay on home network

I used to get a blue circle on the computer icon when I connected to the internet then all of a sudden I started gettin...

change IE7 default home page and Language

Hi We are creating master image to deploy windows vista enterprise in our organization. we want to change default home ...

home prem 64-bit down to business 32-bit

plan on purchasing new pc with home premium 64-bit installed. the $3,500 legal software on "old" pc won't run...

64 home premium and WD10eacs 1 tb esata drive difficulties -

I bought the western digital wd10eacs 1 tb drive and the proper esata enclosure. Vista finds it as a USB - but only can...

Technet Home Basic Product Key

I've got Windows vista Enterprise via my volume licensing/software assurance. Supposedly this allows me to run as many...

Format windows-vista home premium

Hi To All Here In Best Web-site. I Need Help Again,please.... How To Format My Pc(vista-home-premium)? What I Need Do Th...

Shared Windows Calendar across home network

Hi all, Vista Ultimate SP2 32 BitI would like to know if it is possible to subscribe to a shared Windows Calendar on one...

pcwizard 2008 on windows vista 32 bit home ed

Please, can someone explain me why pcwizard 2008 doesn' t run on Windows Vista 32 bit home ed SP1 ? http://www.cpuid.co...

Lack of fax in Home Premium vs XP Home cause for action?

"Windows XP home Edition" has fax. "Vista home Premium" lacks fax.The designation "home Premium...

Vista Home Premium Activation Issue

I recently purchased a computer with a demo version of Windows Vista home Edition loaded on it, the tech. wanted to giv...

Dual Boot Vista Ultimate and Xp Home Problem...Please Help

Hello Board !System Info: Windows Vista Ultimate SP3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @1.73GHz 1.73 GHz. Memory (RAM)...

Vista Home Premium using Windows Mail.

Hi:I have read recently that Microsoft will be using Microsoft Live programs for mail and other interesting progams.I l...

Vista Home Basic networking-mapping

Im running two machines, both with vista home basic OS's - in Chinese. They can see each other through wireless router,...

Games missing from Vista Home Premium

I recently purchased a laptop from Gateway, and although the Games folder is in the start menu...that folder has the ic...

Choppy video on Home Premium laptop

Just played a Windows Media file, a movie, on my Toshiba laptop (Intel T2080, 2 gigs RAM) and the video was a series of...

I have an DELL inspiron 1525 with Windows Vista Home premium

I have an DELL inspiron 1525 with Windows Vista home premium.i have taken a Broadband WifFi Connection .i had two laptop...

Upgrading Home Premium SP1 to Ultimate (non-SP1)

I recently purchased a new laptop that came with Vista home Premium SP1 installed. I have a copy of Vista Ultimate (fu...

File Sharing Vista Home Basic & XP

I'm having a terrible time getting my XP Desktop and Vista laptop to see each other. I'm running XP SP3 and I've follow...

CANNOT SEND EMAIL WHILE OUT OF HOME

I am travelling out of the country and I receive the following message when trying to send an email:The connection to t...

help! why cannot remote connect XP laptop to Vista Home PC?

I knew Vista home does not allow remote desktop connection to it. I followed some online hack and install some Terminal ...

cannot send email in Vista Home Basic

Hi,I cannot send a mail from windows mail. When i try to send a mail from microsoft excel (File - Send to - Mail Recipie...

windows explorer vista home premium 64-bit

dear Techarena community,I biught my new Vaio 2009 two monthes ago however, I am getting this error since two to three d...

bios problum with home premium 32bit

i have problem with my bios system when system using raid controllers it can not detect my harddisk when i change bios t...

Problem installing home premium 32 bit oem

Just finished putting together my first ever build. :) A very basic one just for home and web and to (hopefully) play wi...

Cannot launch IE 8, cannot set home page

After uninstall CA and install McAfee My laptop cannot launch internet explorer 8, just not response. Also I try change ...

Duel Boot Windows Vista home premium installed 1st and wind

hi I have purchased New laptop Toshiba M600 , i got default windows Vista home premiun installed on laptop . On 120 GB ...

Vista Home 32bit Edition to Ultimate 32 Bit Upgrade

Team,We are trying to upgrade to Vista home 32 bit to Vista Ultimate 32 bit. We just get a message that tells us that t...

Setting up Home Network

Had 2 pc's one vista one xp connected via wireless router working fine. The changed router . Now both can access Intern...

System Restore Error - vista home premium

This is a new pc - preloaded with vista home premium. I've had the pc a couple weeks and every time i've tried to restor...

Use Ultimate disc to install Home Basic/Premium?

I have a disc and a code of Vista Ultimate, can it be used to install home Basic/Premium? Or I need a seperate disc of ...

Mail (Windows Vista Home Premium)

Just bought new computer preloaded with everyone's favorite O/S. For new Mail, MS seems to have accomodated several dif...

¿GTA On Windows Vista Home Premium x64?

Hello! my trouble is that I want to install GTA San Andreas on my new laptop, but i can, only asks about security but do...

Task Manager for Windows Home and Student - vista OS

Hello, My Task Manager lately has taken on an entirely new look and feel - and I don't like it at all - there is no way...

Problem with Vista Home 64 connecting to WS_FTP Home v.7

Hi there all you Vista users,Been using Vista home Premium 64-bit for a couple of months now, and until now all has been...

Any where to get a cheap Vista Home Basic to Vista Business

Just wanted to know if I can avoid the custom install option (if at all possible.)-- Thomas A. Todhunter CISSP; MCT; M...

Corrupted Pictures Folder in VISTA HOME SP1

The C:\users\name\pictures folder has become corrupted and now shows 0 files. A search for *.jpg files in C: still sho...

Cannot Install Framework 3 on Vista home premium

I suspect my ATI Catalyst Control Centre has stopped working because I don't have the right version of .NET installed. ...

need to access the administrator pass on Windows Vista Home

i hae normal user account and i forget the pass i need to access the admin account so i can reset the pass of the user ...

VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS

I just bought a laptop with vista home on it. I am having a odd printer problem.I have 2 networked printers: a Brother ...

home network XP comp cant' access files on vista desktop

Hi My laptop running xp cannot access files on my desktop running vista. Desktop can access files on laptop, I can also ...

Using Mail away from home

Is it possible to configure Windows Mail to use it through another isp when I am away from home? Thanks in advance....

format my w-v-home premium 32

hi to all. is first time for me hee i n this site. i need help. 1-how to format my windows vista home premium 32? 2-wha...

Vistoa home premium (HP) to Vista Ultimate on HP laptop

Upgrading from Vista home premium installed by HP, forces the Ultimate upgrade to be a re-install. Will this re-install...

Opinions wanted on Acronis backup s/w with Vista Home Premiu

I am interested in hearing from people who are using Acronis on Vista, as opposed to other backup software. Anyone usin...

Vista Home Premium can't RDP to Server2003 from Internet

I have a laptop with Vista home Premium that I can remote desktop to the 2003 server when on the same network using the...

Unable to play commercial DVD on home built PC

Hello, I've installed Vista Ultimate on a home made box. Nvidia chipset and onboard video; AMD x2 4200. I have an LCD ho...

Upgrade from Vista Home Premimum to Ultimate doesn't work -

I am trying to upgrade my Lenvo Y410 from Vista home Premium sp1 to Vista Ultimate. I checked the system with Microsoft...

Upgrade from W Vista Home Pre to vista Ultimate

Hi all,I have a new HP laptop with home premium on it, I Purchased the upgrade to Vista Ultimate. Updated my laptop to...

Peer-to-Peer recognition "slow" on Home LAN

I've just set up first network with one WIN98SE PC, one network storage adapter connecting USB HDD, two Vista laptops a...

Umax Astra2100u & Vista 64 Home Premium

I HAVE A 2004 UMAX ASTRA 2100U USB SCANNER THAT I WANT TO USE WITH MY NEW SYSTEM.I HAVE A HP PAVILION A6826f PC WITH WIN...

Defragging Vista Home Premium - Diskeeper v PerfectDisk

Defrag Diskeeper 2008 Pro versus PerfectDisk 2008 ProHaving used Diskeeper 2008 Pro I noted a marginal preference expres...

windows 7 easy transfer does not work on Vista Home Premium

After I started windows 7 easy transfer on Vista home Premium 32 bit, it runs for a while, then says "please reboot...

Vista Home Premium 64 - terribly slow internet

Hello all...I just bought a new Asus laptop - Centrino 2, 4GB RAM, 1GB 9600M...and the dreaded Windows Vista 64 bit.The ...

Copying a data CD using Vista Home Premium

Hi, I seem to be having problems copying/burning a disk. When I put the data disk in the CD drive, and I click on the...

Home network option during install - win7

Hi all, Last time I installed win7, I did not see the option to use a "home " user account, so I used optio...

password protect a folder in home premium - freeware

Hi, and my apologies if this has been asked many times beforeThere is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a...

How do I diagnose a slow Vista Home Basic machine?

A friend found out that I have a Vista computer so he brought me his wife's computer to find out why it is so slow. I ...

vista home basic - windows mail

"windows mail" activates itself repeatedly, for example if I login to "gmail" I can't write an e-mai...

Back up Vista Home Premium

I have Vista home Premium 32 bit box. The windows backup application that comes with this version of vista backs up st...

Vista Home overflow

Will some kind person advise on how to remove fonts from the file in Vista home? I am running Office 2003 on my laptop, ...

Upgrade to Home Premium question

Installing Vista home Premium upgrade to home Basic.I get the message "Remove the file ' Front Page Server Extensio...

Vista home 32 bit recovery disks not labeled help?

Hi, My son sent me his Compaq laptop w/Vista installed and it wouldn't boot at all. Finally got it restored by using F1...

Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 upgrade nightmare?

No problems apparent while loading. After loading I got the black screen blinking cursor. Viewed several posts on the...

Home button/Cursor problem

My gf has vista installed on her laptop (don't know why it came with the laptop, the laptop has 512 megs of ram, it woul...

Vista 64 Home Premium problem

When attempting to change appearance of any image MS Office Picture Manager Takes over proprietary ownership or so it s...

How do I stop Windows Vista from "calling home"

A prompt keeps coming up asking me to join a routine that collects information from my machine and sends it to Microsof...

Opening Word files from Desktop in Vista Home Premium

After Vista home Premium SP1 I cannot open Word files through desktop Documents. If I open Word I can bring up files w...

Vista Home Premium Service Packs...

I recently got high-speed internet and was able to finally take advantage of a lot of Vista updates. However, the upda...

going back to XP Home

Bought a Dell 1705 Inspiron laptop back in March '07, with Vista. Wish I had gotten XP Pro instead. Some of my pro...

Vista Home Premium SP2, Blue Screen of Death Issue

I've included the Vista mini dump info. Not sure how to read it. I'd appreciated if someone could give me an idea of thi...

Windows Vista Home Premium and XP Home Edition

I have been trying to dual boot a Gateway Laptop with Vista home Premium 32 bit and XP home edition. One tutorial instr...

How do I enable a disabled program in Windows Vista Home Pre

A program has been disabled that I would like to run. When i attempt to open, I receive a message that I should go to ...

Upgarde to Vista Ultimate from Home with new License key?

I have different problem Currently running Vista home Premium on my HP desktop (pre-insatlled) and I purchased Vista Ul...

msft home office 2007 download on 64 bit system

Can I install msft home office on a 64 bit operating system? The instructions on the box inform me that portions of the ...

Trying to install Vista Home Basic - 64 Bit on boot

Hi, Currently I use Windows XP Pro (32 bit) and I just received Vista home Basic, 64 Bit edition and I try to run it on ...

Win Mail--Win Vista Home Premium--Sending problems

Can receive,create and send new mail, but cannot reply or forward messages. Get server timeout message even tho' set t...

Vista Home FR and Office 2007 EN BUG

Hi,When I doubleclick in an excel sheet(this do not occurs with word document) to open it I receive a message: C:\users\...

Vista Home Premium user account access to thumbdrives & prin

Hi, I have two highschool daughters with laptops they use at school running Vista home Premium. I have them running on u...

Does Vista Home Basic not have GPEdit?

I keep seeing great Vista security tutorials in which they use GPEdit.msc to change a setting. Unfortunately, I'm runn...

Does Vista Home Premimum Play Nice With 4GB Memory?

I am hearing some talk----urban legends?----and reading on the web that 32-bit Vista does not know how to manage 4 GB m...

What is the advantage of Business version over Home Basic?

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Acronis True Image and Vista (Home Premium)

Has anyone had success saving and restoring a Vista home Premium drive image (C:) onto an external hard drive with Acron...

Acronis True Image Home 2009 Public Beta (Vista is supported

We are pleased to announce public beta release of Acronis True Image home 2009. If you would like to participate in beta...

Vista Home Edition: Red "button"

I lost the red "button" that is supposed to be on the log in screen for Shut down, Restart, Etc. Can any one...

System icons (Vista Home Premium, SP2) grayed out

I've been using Vista home Premium for three years and today there was no Network icon to be seen in my System Tray. T...

Brand new Home Premium install, optical media changes are no

This is bizzare, but searches show some other users have experienced the same issue.The first optical media inserted in...

vista home premium office 2007 setup to exchange

I ahave Vista home premium and office 2007 trying to setup with company exchange server keeping geetting can not resolve...

Dual Booting with Vista Home Premium 32 Bit and Vista Ultima

I have my sytem currently with OS of Vista home Premim 32-bit preloaded with HP Laptop ( Core 2 Duo Processor , 2 GB DDR...

Why i can't use my PDA with Vista home?

My ipaq with windows mobile 2edition 2003 can't run with vista :mad: Active syn also isn't working ?? -- Filippos Marin...

Network issues in Vista Home Premium 64-bit

I have Windows Vista home Premium 64-bit edition. Since I got my computer, every time I connect to a wireless network,...

Home premium system backup?

My Vista home premium doesn't offer Complete PC backup, and in any case I am not so sure I miss that facility?.What I w...

Vista 64 Windows email - home prem ed. screen blanks out exc

after getting an email update, i open email , and for one second the screen appears normal. left pane of folders, large...

Vista Home does not remember network password

Hi, I just installed Vista home and i am unable to have windows remember the password to my network drives. This happen...

Vista Home cannot open pwd protected zip

Hi,We have an application which use password protected zip files as backup solution. The files are zipped and unzipped...

Vista home premium backup

This is the first time I have used the backup in Vista. It was set to backup Document files and appeared to go thru add...

Fax Printing - Vista Home Premium

I receive faxes via e-mail that I need to print. These open in the Windows Pihoto Gallery in Vista home Premium. Howeve...

Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 can't resume from hibernation

Resuming from an hibernation, after the bootstrap, loading the drivers and main components Vista stops to load hanging, ...

Recovering Corrupted Files in VISTA Home Prem SP1

For some unknown reason the Pictures folder has been corrupted and now shows 0 files. Yet a search for "*.jpg"...

Vista 64 bit Home Premium ~ Red Screen

Only one crash so far but quite annoying.My entire 24" monitor screen went red with a white <I think> message...

Error booting system from Vista Home Basic 64-bit DVD

Hi!I currently have Vista Basic home 32bit installed on my PC. I have the Vista home Basic 64bit Full DVD and I would l...

Does Home Premium comes with .NET Frame 3.x preinstalled?

I know my home Premium SP1 does but not sure about the "plain" home Premium edition.Someone asked why I want t...

Help!! Intermittent Connectivity with Vista Home Prem & IE7

I have been experiencing intermittent connectivity for about 4 months now and have been dealing regularly with my ISP t...

Vista Home 32bit: NDIS.SYS!TrFilterDprIndicateReceiveComplet

Hello,I'm not sure if this is the correct forum or if this should be in networking, but this issue with my Dell Inspiro...

Installing Vista Home Premium 64bit OEM problems

My Specs First: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs) Memory:2046MB RAM Hard Drive: 500 GB V...

Home Ed, OphCrack did not work, lost password, what next?

Hi All,Help!Vista home EditionI have a customer that decided to put a password on her computer. So she would not forget...

home premium oem

i bought a home premium oem vista what does oem stand for and is it a 2nd rate o/s because of oem ...

Have trouble connecting to VPN from home, please help!

Hi, I'm trying to connect to my work vpn from home. I can connect to the vpn and the box says connection successful, but...

Hidden folder not showing in Vista Home Premium

Hi there, I had marked one of my folders (G:/Personal) as hidden sometime back. Now, when i want to see the hidden folde...

Can't stop sharing (Home Premium)

I was cleaning up my documents before doing a backup and found an old folder that belonged to my husband. Since he tran...

Recommendations for Anti malware on Home premium

I've just ditched OneCare owing to the total inability of MS support to understand and reply to an infuriating but very...

downgrade windows vista ultimate to windows home basic

How do I downgrade Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows home Basic? I just performed and upgrade and windows vista ultimat...

Can't enable sounds in Vista Home Premium/laptop

Can someone tell me how to get sounds to work again? When I click the sound icon on the taskbar a little window comes ...

Vista Home Premium back won't start - why?

It doesn't matter if I go to Control Panel, or to System Tools/ Backup Status and Configuration, or to a drive and sele...

How to Access True Admin Account [Windows Home Premium]

I understand that you can access the true Admin account via the MMC Users section to enable it through Vista Business or...

Frequent Vista Home Premium BSODs

I have a relatively new computer, about 1 month old.My seagate hard drive crashed on it and I am waiting for the replace...

Home Premium -> Ultimate; Can I use the old Home Premium lic

I purchased a desktop system with Vista home Premium 32-bit. I purchased Vista Ultimate 32-bit full install (not upgrad...

Home Premium: disabling fancy graphics

Is it possible, under Microsoft Vista home Premium, to disable all the unnecessary animations, colour schemes and other ...

How many pc's can be hosted on a Vista home network?

Windows XP allows 10 connections on a peer to peer network. Does anyone know the total allowed connections for a networ...

Help upgrading to Vista Ultimate from Vista Home Edition

I'm trying to update to V. Ultimate, and after inserting the upgrade cd and running the program from Windows, I find th...

Installing Printer on Vista Home "USB Device Not recognized"

I have been trying to install a Canon Pixma 160 Multifunction Scanner/Printer on my Gateway Computer with Vista home ope...

Vista Home Basic Reinstall and Update Issues

I've just done a clean reinstall of a three-year-old copy of Vista home Basic and I'm having problems getting service pa...

Vista not finding home network after router switched on/off

As the title says.Its a Vaio laptop, running Vista home premium (not sp1 yet just about to install after factory reset)...

Windows cannot access \\Home-pc\c - Error Code 0x80070005

I just reinstalled Windows Vista HP on my desktop computer yesterday. I use a Cradlepoint MBR1000 router to access the ...

5 users on vista home all use w/mail only admin. can rec. ma

We have 5 users on vista home all 5 users can send on there account. the problem is only the admin. account can receiv...

WMP 11 Vista Home Premium O/S - won't stream older .asx & .a

Hello, I have found a couple of references to this particular problem, but no resolution. When I try to stream "ol...

Recovery Partition in Vista 64 bit Home

Can anybody help me, Dell recovery Partition D with factory image.wim copied in drive I external hard drive. How can i r...

lost password for vista home edition can you help

hi folks i've lost my password for my computer and dont have a recovery disc if any body can suggest what i can do plea...

Default printer changes between work and home

At work I connect to a network printer. When I go home of an evening and come back to work, the default printer is gone...

Black screen on Windows Vista Home startup

My screen goes black in the early stages of bootup. I can start safe mode and have done a system restore but my comput...

Upgrade from XP Home to Ultimate 64 Bit

I'm looking at upgrading to vista ultimate using the ultimate steal version of Vista ultimate which is a download. I'm w...

Vista renames my network home directory

When I move my documents folder location to my network home dir ,it(vista) renames it to 'documents' within the users s...

Unable to share folder from Vista Home premium to XP Home SP

The xp home machine can see the public folders from my vista home prem machine. I can only get it to see the files from...

Keeps restarting in Repair mode Vista 64 Home Premium HP Pav

Okay Had system 10 months and now I frequently start in START REPAIR MODE. It runs forever asks me to restore which I ha...

Windows Vista Home Premium: Sidebar Issues

I just purchased a Gateway FX 6000 Series. *Windows Vista 64 Bit. Windows Vista home Premium* Apparently this type of W...

How to activate "links" in Vista Home Prem

Hi:I've a new problem that came up after a system restore last week. Basically, when I read an e-mail or newsgroup annou...

Access wired home network via wireless router.

I have a laptop running Vista home Premium 64 bit, and a desktop running Vista home Premium 32 bit. Both connect very ni...

XP-Vista Home Network; Printing Prefrences Unavailable

I have set up a home network - one desktop running xp, two laptops running Vista, and a printer attached to the desktop...

Vista Home Premium SP1+IE7 - Downloads pause at 99%?

Hi,I have a new laptop with Vista home Premium SP1, and IE7. I notice that when I download files with IE, the download...

Cannot send messages at home

I have no problems receiving and sending mail while connected to my office's wireless network. However, when I bring th...

Windows Vista Home Premium - sound problem

Hi, I seem to have lost my sound! Also, there is no sound icon in my system tray. Any suggestion what has happened he...

New To Vista - Have 64-bit Home Premium - Can Not Access Bac

Hi...On my new PC, there are two users - ADMINISTRATOR and OWNER. Both are set with ADMIN privileges, and I use OWNER....

help! I can't receive email on my laptop at home

here's the error message. The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'shawmail.ed.shawcable.net', Server: 'sha...

Home Premium to Ultimate Failure

Purchased an HP notebook with premium and set it up but did not activate yet.Then purchased an Ultimate Upgrade with any...

Vista Home Will Not Start

F11 system restore. No luck. safemode nothing...seems like it tries to start then hear the hd grind for 10 seconds or s...

Vista Home premium - Failure to boot

Gateway DX4710, home Premium 64-bit, 6Gb ram. Plugged in an Ion external drive, system grenaded. Unplugged drive and now...

Windows Vista home basic

Just wondering; I've just added a 2 GB RAM stick to my system. Is that the cause of the colour change to my desktop? Ta...

BSOD upon Vista Home Premium Install

Ok, so I skimmed through a few of the forums and haven't found a thread with my proble, so I'm sorry if this is a repeat...

Ie 8 uninstall in vista home premium

Downloaded IE 8 beta 2 and while I think it's pretty fast it still has some quirks I don't want to live with. When I do...

Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Mail - Recommended AV/Securi

I'm running the 64 bit version of Vista home Premium, and we are using Windows Mail on the 4 user accounts on this PC. I...

Is WPA2-Enterprise just plain broken in Vista Home?

We recently rolled out WPA2-Enterprise authentication with a RADIUS backend in my organization. Works great - folks usin...

Vista 64 Home Wireless Router: New Problem

If anyone has any thoughts on the following, would be much appreciated.Over the past week, I have noted a new problem us...

Can Vista Home Premium capture "still shots" from a family v

Two Questions:1. Can Vista home Premium Edition capture "still shots" from family videos saved on CD's?2. Can...

Vista Home Premium - SP1

Dear all,I need help on installing SP1.It stopped at stage 1 21% and after reboot, it stopped again at stage 1 24%, the...

Home Premium Vista-help

I have a Macintosh laptop and it came with home Premium Vista. One day it simply crashed. The only thing I have is a b...

MS exchange server email account and VISTA Home premium

I'm running OUTLOOK 2003 and can't for the life of me can't figure out how to set up a MS Exchange email account. Do I ...

Vista Home Premium OEM 32bit to Ultimate OEM 64bit

I have a PC running an OEM 32bit version of Windows Vista home Premium. I am contemplating installing an extra 2GB of RA...

Faxing program for Windows Vista Home Premium

I am sure that is not the first time that anyone is asking this question, but can someone, anyone, please let me know wh...

WD Home

I bought a WD My Book and Acronis software and backed up my hard drive.I now have some questions regarding WD home and t...

Upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate. Both Versions

I upgraded from Vista home Premium to Ultimate using our Microsoft Actiona Pack License that says you must have a previ...

Printer connection issues with Vista 64 to XP home network s

New laptop with Vista - 64 bit connected to my home network. Vista sees my Desktop, sees the other laptop (both runnin...

local area 2 connection - Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Did a PC Factory Restore on Dell Inspiron 530 running home Premium Vista 32 Bit due to file corruption issues. No conne...

Vista 64 home Does not send to print queue.

I have tried this twice with two different directly connected printers. I have selected the printer and then when I pri...

Cannot backup a pst file over a home network

New Dell PC Running Vista, Office 2007 & Nornton Internet Security ....................... Am trying to backup Outlo...

Microsoft Home Office and Student 2007 Trial Expiration noti

Popup notifying of expiration of Microsoft home Office and Student 2007 Trial has begun appearing whenever I want to us...

VX-3000/Home build not working

I have been trying to connect a MS VX-3000 webcam to a homebuilt machine running Vista64 Premium. Downloaded the latest ...

Home page keeps going to MSN.com

When I installed Windows Vista I made MSN my home page. I was asked if I wanted to prevent change to my home page and...

Vista Home version - PPTP - RDP

I have a machine that I can properly PPTP into my network, but cannot RDP or map a drive to any server on the remote net...

Upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate

Hi,Two days ago, I purchased a PC equpped wit Vista home Premium. As I need Vista Business as a minimum for other appli...

Force Vista Home Edition to use WSUS update server..

Hi,We have a few Windows Vista/XP home edition computers which we would like to have forced windows updates through our...

vista home basic

how to get driver/software to get hp1310 all in one series working with vista home basic. -- shalinisaxena...

Currently Vista Home but want to format and load XP PRo

I bought a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with preloaded Vista home. I've found it to be terribly unstable (receive Microsoft V...

Installing Vista 32bit (Home Premium OEM)

Hello There. I have couple questions.I am trying to buy Vista 64bit OEM DVD (home Premium version).But I am wondering......

Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium

Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purcha...

Newbie question on Guest account in Vista Home

Long time XP user. Have an Admin Account I set up with Vista with a name of Patty and a passwordI set up a guest account...

installing 64 vista home premium

I have a question. I have xp on my computer and i bought vist 64 home premium. I cant even boot up the cd at all,I have...

Debugging the Cause of a BSOD on Vista Home 32bit

Howdy All,So i am currently working on a friend's laptop and it has me truly stumped. It is a Dell Inspiron 1420 running...

Vista Home Premium - Quick Launch Toolbar

On my quick launch toolbar, I accedently moved it to the side of my screen and somehow the icons for my programs on the...

Can't remove sites from Restricted Sites in Vista Home 32 bi

Downloaded latest of Windows "important" updates. Now cannot access a website i regularly use; noticed the s...

Can IE7 be re-installed in Vista Home premium?

My brand-new Acer Aspire M5100 pc, 2 gig RAM, pre-installed Vista home Premium had a fatal crash, so a complete disk fo...

Word 2002 in Vista Home Premium

I have installed Works Suite 2006 in my Vista home Premium computer. Everything works fine apart from Word 2002. I am...

Does Vista Home premium require registry cleaner?

Hi all. I am new to this site. I have vista home premium and am experiencing the following problems: a) Internet explore...

recovery disk of home basic sp1

Hai, I have lenovo y 410 775789Q model with vista home basic sp1(just 20 days back) and they didn't give me any disc rel...

print envelopes word 2003 vista home premium

Hi, Anyone,When I write a letter in Word, Envelopes won't print my return address, although it's included in my letterhe...

Q: Moving the Quick Launch to the right side on Vista Home

Hello All:I am helping a friend who has Vista home Premium.I can drag on my XP just the Quick Launch portion of the task...

Can you still Upgrade from Vista Home Basic to Vista Busines

I want to get a copy of Vista on my laptop that allows for the use of Virtual PC, but still upgrade and keep my present...

Vista Home Premium SP1 x 2 Computers

My desktop and laptop are both running windows Vista home Premium SP1. My desktop can see and access my laptop on the n...

Vista Home Premium wont re-install

Hi,I had a virus on my pc (I am writing this with my laptop) I decided to format the drive to get rid of the virus as t...

Data Restore Question (Vista Home Premium)

I recently encountered a harddrive problem on my Dell laptop. Dell sent me a new drive (with factory image). At that po...

Connecting Vista Home Edition to 2003 Domain Controller Serv

::I recently bought a Sony Notebook running Vista home Edition. I try to link it up to a 2003 Domain server at my place ...

Local Policies in Home Premium

I'm currently trying to connect to my Univerity's Intranet, they have a tutorial on how to change the policies in XP Hom...

Office Home and Student 2007 from Dell to HP

I have a Dell XPS 420 with Mic.Office home & Student 2007, Vista Ultimate 32bit, wired to a Linksys WRT600N router....

Sync Windows Vista Home Premium

Can someone recommend a hopefully free sync program so that I can keep my 2 computers folders the same?thanks! Pam...

Vista Home premium Stop error.

Last Night, i was working with my Acer Aspire laptop, with Windows Vista home Premium 32 bit. i encountered a BSoD, Blue...

Re: could not upgrade vista home premium to ultimate

"quy nguyen" wrote:Hi, I bought new laptop that is windows vista home premium 64 bit. I try to upgrade to vi...

Problem downloading Adobe Flash Player 9 to Vista Home Premi

I read some of the Posts for this problem, attempted some but they have not corrected mine. The day before yesterday, ...

Replacing an XP home network wi8th aVista network.

I had set up a home network on an XP PC a while ago. I now have a new Vista PC which I would like to set up a home net...

burner question, Vista home premium

Hi,I am new to Vista and burned my first data CD this morning. I used the built in feature to do so. I could not see ...

Call of Duty 1 & Vista Home premium 32bit

Hello, i'm a huge call of duty fan. but whenever i install Call of Duty 1 or it's expansion pack it shows no problem. bu...

BT Auto Backup problem with 'Initialize' on Vista Home Premi

I am trying to run BT Auto Backup on my Vista home Premium PC, but get a message 'Uninitialized'. I do not have this p...

How to upgrade vista home premium 32 to 64 bit

Hi, I currently have an HP pc with vista home premium 32 bit i got it 5 months ago.. I want to upgrade to vista home p...

Cannot turn off media sharing in Vista Home Premium!

I am unable to turn off media sharing in Vista home Premium. The "Change" button doesn't work! I can click but...

Windows Vista Home Basic freezes soon after loading

Hi allI am currently using my Dell Inspiron in safe mode as I cannot use it in normal mode without freezing soon after...

accessing an XP Home computer

I have an XP home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and password.On my Vista home PC I run this command at th...

Can Age of Empires 3 run on Home Basic?

Can AOE3 (Age of empires 3) run on Vista home Basic?I installed it with no luck. The game menu was green. I reinstalled ...

Login process failed issue in VISTA home premium

Hi All, I recently purchased a Dell XPS M1530 Laptop installed with a Genuine Windows Vista® home Premium. It is just ...

Trying to Reinstall windows Vista Home Premium 32bit

Ok Heres how it started i turned on my pc the other week (Dell Dimension E520) and it froze so i turned it of by the pow...

Cannot delete folders - Vista Home Premium

My friend has a Vista home Premium (32bit) Dell desktop with SP2 installed - and all other updates installed as of this...

Problem using Windows 7 and Vista on Home Network

I have a home network using a WBR-2310 D Link Router router. My desktop is fairly new and runs Vista and my laptop runs...

New Vista Home Prem 32 bit Install

Just started up a New Laptop that came with Vista home Prem; 32 Bit OSQuestions: When Vista was starting for the 1st tim...

CAN'T IMPORT HOME VIDEOS WITH SOUND

Hi everyone!Every time I import home videos from my digital photo camera they go through without audio. Does anyone hav...

Problems After Upgrading XP MCE 2005 to Vista Home Premium

I've had a bit of a struggle trying to get my XP MCE 2005 machine upgraded to Windows Vista home Premium.First a couple...

Vista Home Premium damaged by Office 97

I bought a new computer this morning. It came with Vista home Premium pre-installed, and no discs. The guy at PC World ...

Windows 2000 Pro SP4, XP Home and Vissta Business 32

Hey group! A REAL NOVICE HERE. As we say in Afrikaans, "vreemdeling in gebied, wees asb geduldig" which means ...

"home folder" in window explorer

Hi,We know that we can set a home page for IE. I wonder if we can do a similar thing for windows explorer, i.e. set a ...

Can't Activate Vista Home Premium

I installed a clean copy of Vista (upgrade)using the format option. I tried then to upgrade from inside Vista but near t...

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen - on Vista Home Premium

Hey guys,Okay I've searched thoroughly for this but could not find an aswer to this problem I'm having on my laptop.Conf...

Home Network. Want two machines to not have Internet access

Hi All,I am trying to setup my network at home with following config but I need some help:1- I have two machines (one Me...

Install Vista Business 64 on machine with Vista Home Premium

I have a machine that came with Vista home Premium 64 on it. Can I upgrade using my new copy of Vista Business 64?Will I...

Upgrade Win Xp PRO to Vista Home Premium - Windows Easy Tran

G'Day All,This requires a clean install - ok!I can use WET/XPpro to transfer settings etc to a USB 80MB external drive.I...

Vista Home Premium 32bit 4 gig Ram problem

Hi allRecently I had a problem with my RAID and had to wipe every thing now I have everything installed, but I have 4 st...

Vista home prof. and news videos( CNN example)

Under normal default settings you see the commercials fine (figures huh) but the video news cast wont play. Help tells ...

Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily!

All you open-sores fanatics, FYI!Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2143Conclus...

Networking Vista Home Pro to XP Pro

I used to be able to network two computers together (Windows 98, etc.) without using a router. I just used a category 5...

Home Premium X64 "desktop"

Whatever last web page visited, becomes my desktop on exit. Sometimes I have a blank screen as desktop. I can click show...

gpedit.msc missing in Vista Home Premium

I did a fresh install of 32-bit Vista home Premium. This time around for whatever reason, there is no gpedit.msc. I s...

Recovery Manager home premium x64

::So i started to make a recovery disc, but all i had was a cd around, so i had to stop after the first one and now i ha...

How do I check my disk space in Vista Home Premium

I forgot how to check this where you see the pie chart of used and free space. Thanks...

Help! Vista Home Premium. Admin Account WiFi Speed Good.

I have two accounts setup on my laptop, one for myself which is the admin account and another for my wife.My laptop can ...

Problem upgrading VISTA 64 bit from Home Premium to Ultimate

Trying to upgrade my new Toshiba Satellite laptop from 64 bit VISTA home Premium to 64 bit VISTA Ultimate Have plenty of...

Upgrade from windows vista home to vista Business Edition

Hi,M much of windows xp guy but M started using windows vista home edition on my labtop and i need to upgrade to vista...

Installed Acronis True Image Home 2009 & Card Reader would n

If your Card Readers will not install (code 10, "working" but "unable to load drivers" and you insta...

all-in-one for home - need advice

Dear All,I would like to purchase an all-in-one device for home and cannot decide between 2 models:Brother IntelliFax 2...

Home Premium to Ultimate Upgrade crashed

I was trying to upgrade from Vista home Premium to Ultimate, and during the last step (I think it was "Finishing U...

Using Windows Home Server in place of Vista

I found and then lost the URL to a site which showed using WHS and a OS to replace XP or Viste.Anyone remember this ur...

re-installing Windows Vista Home Premium

I am trying to re-install Vista home Pemium on my computer. If I use the HP PC System Recovery, it tells me ethat I hav...

vista home premium to XP Pro

Hi i have a new laptop with vista home premium, and activated it yesterday, but i really dont like vista, am i able to ...

I need help with an upgrade from home vista home basic to pr

I recently purchased a product key for an upgrade from vista home basic to premium and the person I purchased it from se...

Vista Home Premium Need to Adust 2 monitors

hello , i have my Notebook with windows Vista home premium sp1 and i have small monitor and i want my no1 monitor is my ...

Where do I find Web Service Extensions in Windows Vista Home

Hi, all. I'm trying to install ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows Vista home by following instructions on this page http://weblogs.a...

Vista and XP Home Networking Problems

Hi, I have a weird problem in my network setup. I recently upgraded to a Gigabit router since I wanted to install a smal...

Home Premium -> Ultimate doesn't work

Hi All,I have just purchased an HP laptop with Vista home Premium. I am trying to install an MSDN version of Vista Ulti...

Home networking problem

I have 3 laptops on my network. One runs XP Pro, one runs Vista home Premium and the other runs Vista Ultimate. All th...

Group Policy Editor Available in Home Basic?

Is Group Policy Editor Available in home Basic? When I try to run gpedit.msc I get: Windows can't find 'gpedit.msc '.......

Magnifier in Vista Home Premium

How do I stop Magnifier from starting automatically when I turn the computer on. I have tried all sorts of things but w...

Simplified Vista Admin for Home Users?

For a Vista CPU bought new for home use with no need for ownerships and permissions and rights, what step or set of ste...

Setting up Small Home Network

I've got two computers -- one a laptop running Vista home Premium and one a tower running XP, though I could easily upgr...

Vista & XP in wireless home network

I used to think that I was starting to get to know my way around some computer functions,,, setups,,, etc... my latest ...

can't send away from home

When I am away from my home, even a short distance (20 miles) I can't send mail using windows mail. I get the followin...

Upgraded to Ulitmate but it still says I'm running Home Prem

I recently purchased the 64 bit Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade with Service Pack 1. I installed in on an Toshiba runni...

reinstall vista home premium without cd

My desktop(zoostorm)keeps shutting itself off, scans reveal no virus, after running memory diagnostic windows will not ...

Vista Home and Windows.Old files

I upgraded my granddaughter's computer from Win.2000 to Vista home. It had to do a clean install since it was upgradin...

Remote Manage a win2003 machine from Vista Home Premium?

I know home Premium can't be managed remotely... but can I manage a server that is set up for remote management already ...

Re: Upgrade Vista Home Prem to Vista Business

WELL I CAN TELL YOU HOW TO BUT CANT SINCE UR USING A FAKE EMAIL ADDY"garyo" wrote in message I don't think...

Please clarify IIS on Vista Home Basic

Hello:Every time I read an article or thread on the subject, it makes my head spin. Half the sources say IIS isn't avai...

shell32.dll not found - Vista Home Premium won't start!

I have a PC to sort out which h