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Sunday, Jul 27

 

Rate Microsoft Virtual PC (Virtualizing Windows 2000)

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 27

By Steven Wabik is because I am trying to virtualize a legacy operating system on Windows Vista using Microsoft Virtual PC and I seem to be having an issue with it. What I am trying to do is virtualize Windows 2000 on my Windows Vista PC Windows XP. one reason is because windows 2000 takes up less hard disk space

Rate Moviemaker does not start

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 27

By Billinares Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP gt;I use Vista Ultimate, which includes the Moviemaker application to edit gt;tinkering with the registry). gt; gt;operating system, so that I cannot just re-install it (I wonder what is

Rate No audio, video

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 27

By Jason C Click on the blue Vista start button and in the "Start Search" box that appears at the top of the Start Menu. Select a Restore Point Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows Vista Enthusiast results in the following error: "Windows Media Player encountered a

Saturday, Jul 26

 

Rate How well does the Windows Vista Firewall work?

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jul 26

By Flyerfan27 Install a good, comprehensive, security program, such as Windows OneCare, and you'll not have to worry about those issues. You can try it FREE for ninety (90) days. This is a brand new version and includes a very robust firewall. http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm -- Care...

Wednesday, Jul 23

 

Rate Printers via Group Policy Preferences Vista Error

Original at Technology Questions external link    Wed, Jul 23

By John Whites Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers/Print Server (32-bit) Windows Vista Client (SP1)(32bit) changing the driver on the print server would work, but not always. In most Configuration {4684C2EF-697F-4358-BC4F-DED9FEF3D20C}' Group Policy object

Tuesday, Jul 22

 

Rate Windows Vista Hogging 51% CPU all the time

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Jul 22

By Jayson You need to install symbols for, at least, the Operating System components. this.) uninstall it temporarily? Do you have a fingerprint reader? Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience gt;once gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt;for gt;of gt;files. Anyone has the same problem or a solution to it?

Monday, Jul 21

 

Rate MDI broken with Aero

Original at Technology Questions external link    Mon, Jul 21

By David Hyde There is a problem with the MDICLIENT window class on Aero. When I maximize an MDI application and maximize a child window, the child window is 4-pixels short on the right side, showing the gray MDI client window below. If the application isn't maximized this problem doesn't exist. It only ha...

Rate Windows explorer crashing

Original at Technology Questions external link    Mon, Jul 21

By mikeS gt; gt;Windows Explorer, Not IE7, will put up an error message (Windows explorer gt;Windows Explorer immediately restarts. Any other program running, such gt; gt; Windows Explorer is the Windows graphical user interface so no, it can't be

Sunday, Jul 20

 

Rate Re: Windows Vista = Over 180 million licenses sold

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 20

By HappyAndyK gt;16.14% of internet users are Vista gt;'Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines' gt; gt;(http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...re-piracy-rate) gt;Poor Microsoft shareholders...they should be making more money.

Saturday, Jul 19

 

Rate Patch: Should I install SP1?

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jul 19

By alp Service Pack? I have Windows Vista Home Premium. Windows Updates wants me install Service Pack 1. 1) I am up-to-date with Windows Updates, so do I really need the Service Pack? 2) Also, isn't it just going to take up unnecessary hard drive space since most of the fixes in SP1 were already downl...

Thursday, Jul 17

 

Rate Vista hogs memory at loss of network connection

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 17

By goorambatman I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and ISDN internet. When I lose my Product Problem Date Status This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then

Wednesday, Jul 16

 

Rate Windows Vista User Control

Original at Technology Questions external link    Wed, Jul 16

By URmySunshine After running Spybot S&D and trying to delete the trojans, spyware, my system was telling me that I needed to be an Administrator to perform this function. I had to do quite a bit of maneuvering just to delete the spyware picked up by Spybot. I thought I was the Administrator of my system bu...

Sunday, Jul 13

 

Rate Windows Logon screen problem--help!!

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 13

By Invanity I have Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit version. Anyways, when the logon screen space bar or whatever key then it shows up. getting a new keyboard tomorrow from tiger direct. I just installed Windows Vista Ultimate on this new hard drive and I don't think there's any viruses\spyware or anything.

Rate Can't get google mail with Outlook on Vista

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 13

By Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 gt;Use Windows Live Mail instead of Windows Mail gt;Hotmail, AOL mail, Google mail, and Yahoo! mail. Windows Live Mail is gt;washer, Agent, Windows Mail or Outlook gt;To install Windows Live Mail, visit the following Microsoft Web site.

Saturday, Jul 12

 

Rate ANN: I Am Too Stupid To Run Ubuntu So I Am Trying Windows Vista Again, Just FYI

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jul 12

By kevpan815 Ding Dong. I Just Love Ding Dongs That I Get At The Store. Just FYI. I Also Like To Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word Because Of My Mental State. Just FYI. I Need Medical Care. Just FYI Just FYI For Your Information. Just FYI. Isn't Posting For Your Information? I Thought So But My Tiny Brain Tells...

Rate Windows Vista, not booting, no safe mode, no repair, help appreica

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jul 12

By Josh not malware, spyware or any other issue like that, I know for a fact it's not that. Windows memory diagnostics etc, no help at all either. post, sorry if that's the situation, it's just that Microsoft windows in At the moment, I'm using Linux Ubuntu, the most reliable operating system I

Thursday, Jul 10

 

Rate Yesterday's Microsoft marketing bravado is just too funny. So now, 17 months after general availability, Microsoft will promote Windows Vista? Get a life.

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 10

By The better version bad is the operating system. It's disgusting that Microsoft showed so little new marketing campaign, presumably for Windows Vista plus Windows Live, has Windows Vista. Both women laugh. How will Microsoft really market Windows Vista? We may soon find out.

Rate McAfee Virus Scan In Vista

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 10

By Brian Tilley gt; gt; gt;of the software, Windows Vista (Home Premium) Security Centre insists that gt; gt;orphan entries (mostly caused by Windows Update), the problem still gt; gt; gt;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security

Rate Strange Problem - x.exe is not a valid Win32 application

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 10

By bbennett It sounds like either a hard drive has sectors that are corrupting and the data is being auto-recovered to other sectors, or bad sticks of memory. Also if you leave Windows Search and Prefetch turned on the hard drive usage will die down after a while. It actually ends up in less HD usage in the e...

Rate Downgrading vista to xp can I use the vista key??

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 10

By Spikey stored? I have hidden files set to view and operating system files also but gt;Install a copy of Windows XP Professional with the product key that gt;Note: Windows Vista Home Premium and Vista Basic are not eligible gt;Microsoft MVP gt;Windows Vista Enthusiast gt;XP

Tuesday, Jul 8

 

Rate Dual Boot Issue With XP Pro and VISTA Ultimate

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Jul 8

By f_r_e_d System requirements for Windows Vista : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919183/en-us 20-gigabyte (GB) hard disk that has 15 GB of free hard disk space -- Please use the Communities guidelines when posting. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm Mark L. Ferguson MS-MV...

Monday, Jul 7

 

Rate Windows Vista failed to start.

Original at Technology Questions external link    Mon, Jul 7

By rena03sb Windows Vista 64 Home premium edition. Upon restarting it, it says that Windows failed to shut down properly and asked me how I wanted to boot. I chose the normal windows mode figuring it was just a glitch; but it failed to load at all this time (didn't even get to the password screen).

Sunday, Jul 6

 

Rate Windows Vista Ultimate Backup does not work

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jul 6

By Robert Robert, What was the nature of the "severe problem?" "Robert" wrote in message news:3BEFEDD4-1D6F-47CB-954A-CBEB4578F342@microsoft.com... > When I first installed MS Vista Ultimate 64 bit I did a full backup using > the imbedded backup and restore center. After that I made two sub...

Friday, Jul 4

 

Rate Windows Update KB936330 Windows Vista SP1 fails error code 8004131

Original at Technology Questions external link    Fri, Jul 4

By NecyB Windows update has attempted to install update KB936330 for Windows Vista SP1 part. I know that I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit on my computer. update failing to install why does Windows Update continue to attempt the that this is a problem on Microsoft and/or Windows Update's end....

Thursday, Jul 3

 

Rate Can't figure out how Vista indexing feature works: help!

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 3

By Karl Thurber Using Windows Vista, I can't figure out how the indexing feature works from When searching for programs, Vista has no problems finding the files. But, e-mails, it seems that most Windows Mail e-mails are indexed when the e-mail subject, when searching for the file, Vista usually says tha...

Rate Program closes abruptly when mouse is moved in save as dialogue wi

Original at Technology Questions external link    Thu, Jul 3

By HelpFixMePlease Hi, I have this issue with Windows Vista Ultimate. Essentially the problem closes. computer. An access violation occurs because Windows tries to reference the pointer of The solution is to contact microsoft for a patch on XP machines or server

Tuesday, Jul 1

 

Rate Wat happened to my files & folders? Wat should i do?

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Jul 1

By SallyL 1) Few days ago, 1st time, ive Windows Vista Home Premium installed. All the Vista. Unfortunately, Windows asked to Restore to the earlier state bcos whether is Windows Update good for my computer or its taking up more memory space especially from my Drive C? Ive been installing Windows Upd...

Sunday, Jun 29

 

Rate RE: lost Control Panel, Ultimate extra download.. etc.

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Jun 29

By Frank I was asked to look at a Windows Vista laptop computer where the Control that Control Panel ran in Safe Mode. I then went to Microsoft and downloaded the Vista SP1 and installed it. The SP1 and then go to Microsoft to download the Vista SP1 and reinstall.

Saturday, Jun 28

 

Rate Restore to new hard drive with fresh Vista intall

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jun 28

By Pappyone fresh/clean version of the OEM Windows Vista OS and then tried to restore files from the secondary hard drive that had the Windows back-ups that I had that say: a different computer" I can find the hard disk and the date/time info, but below..." ultimately no way for me to restore the files.

Rate Patch: SP1 will not install

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Jun 28

By Bytor Information about Windows Vista Service Pack 1: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from Windows A software update is available for versions of Windows Vista that include the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature: Microsoft MVP

Friday, Jun 27

 

Rate RE: ANS: "What's the deal with UAC (Windows Needs Your Permission scre

Original at Technology Questions external link    Fri, Jun 27

By Aaron Martinez gt;directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post, gt;This will change after Windows Vista is released - all Windows Vista-era gt;- Run Windows Explorer as admin when you need access to files that aren't gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt; gt;Vista Support FAQ

Wednesday, Nov 28

 

Rate How To: Uninstall Windows vista

Original at Technology Questions external link    Wed, Nov 28    3 related articles

By Frank There is no uninstall option for Windows Vista, if you have your Windows XP installation disk you can use it to format the partition on which Vista is installed and install XP. Please see the following tutorial for instructions: ...

Friday, Nov 9

 

Rate How To: Vista Tutorial Video: State of the Art

Original at Technology Questions external link    Fri, Nov 9

By Chad Harris gt;Master Windows Vista Just Like the Experts! say you're sorry Rich gt;Master Windows Vista Just Like the Experts! say you're sorry Rich

Sunday, Oct 14

 

Rate How To: Windows Vista, IE7, and iNotes Web Access

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sun, Oct 14

By Busse'' Any idea how to respond to iNotes Web Access email messages? Creating and responding to emails is not functional when using Windows Vista. With other Windows operating systems the "spacebar" activation in the composition window of iNotes Web Access messages is functional; with Window...

Saturday, Sep 29

 

Rate How To: windows easy transfer

Original at Technology Questions external link    Sat, Sep 29

By bman This article walks you through how to use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate user accounts, files and program settings from an existing computer running Windows XP to a freshly installed new computer running Windows Vista: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/art...-Transfer.html "bman" w...

Tuesday, Sep 25

 

Rate How To: [SOLUTION] shaderapidx9.dll related crashes on Vista

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Sep 25

By brinkk Windows Vista and shaderapidx9.dll being cited as the cause. I had the same Another way to check is by going into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > For users with Windows Vista Ultimate or Business editions: For users with the Home editions of Vista:

Wednesday, Aug 8

 

Rate Opinion: IE 7 Crashes On Downloading Any File, Using Vista Ultimate

Original at Technology Questions external link    Wed, Aug 8

By rEAL.pRO 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 2) Click Internet Explorer (No Add-Ons). Internet Explorer 7 opens Option 1: Reset Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 settings, use Method 4. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7.

Tuesday, Aug 7

 

Rate how to get rid of prompts

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Aug 7

How can I disable the User Account Control (UAC) feature on my Windows Vista computer? http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm wrote in message news:7DAAAFE6-420A-40BF-844C-548EEDF18BC9@microsoft.com... >I am logged in as admin but get a prompt when ever i try to...

Tuesday, Jun 19

 

Rate Opinion: Vista is SO SLOW

Original at Technology Questions external link    Tue, Jun 19

By AnaLoGMunKy Vista Services* Windows Vista Services Tweak Guide v1.0 4) Run 3 or so spyware scans Windows Defender, , Adaware, and Spybot MSFT Windows Defender MSFT "Windows One Care" in Wings (AV and Spyware Scans) you 1. 2. 3. 4. How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP and Vista.

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