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| Why does Vista always want to format a blank CD or DVD disk? | 04 Jul 2008 19:29 GMT | 9 |
Vista Home Premium. I have no third-party CD/DVD recording software on the
machine. Every time I go to burn files to a CDR, CDRW, DVD R or DVDRW using
the Windows burning function it wants to format the disk. If I cancel the
format, then the burn is not proceeded with.
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| Product Key Code | 04 Jul 2008 19:26 GMT | 9 |
I am a student and when I try to work on documents I continue to get the
message to enter an product key code. When I entered the one from the back
of my laptop it says it is invalid. Nothing can be found on the box, the
sleeve, the cd cover.
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| how to uninstall weather.com | 04 Jul 2008 19:26 GMT | - |
I cannot uninstall weather.com, it comes up on my internet page.
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| Administration (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Windows Password | 04 Jul 2008 18:57 GMT | - |
Here is the situation:
Mother got daughter laptop
Mother put in her name/password (presumably) upon initial boot
Laptop turned on/off (cold) several times with no problems
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| Can not install windows search | 04 Jul 2008 17:29 GMT | - |
Can not install windows search on vista business
1. sp1 patched.
2. error msg:Yes, i have the Vista SP1 in stalled.
The error msg is "The update does not apply to your system"
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| Folder options menu missing | 04 Jul 2008 16:16 GMT | - |
Hi,
I am using vista ultimate 64 bit . Today when I tried to change the view
settings of my folders , I found the folder options icon missing from the
control panel . Even after searching 'folder options' in the start menu , no
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| File Management (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Can't access Documents & Settings | 04 Jul 2008 18:45 GMT | 2 |
Yeah, as the title says, I can't access Documents & Settings folder in Vista.
I need to change a few things in there...
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| System mis-reporting disk usage | 04 Jul 2008 18:38 GMT | 10 |
I am using Windows Vista (32-bit) on my computer. Lately, I have noticed
that the reported "used space" on my hard drive (via right-click/properties)
keeps rising dramatically while I add very little to my computer.
I then made sure that I had turned on options to show system ...
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| Folder says I need admistrator privileges when I have them? | 04 Jul 2008 15:57 GMT | 4 |
I have two folders on my computer right now that both say I do not have
privileges to access or delete even after escilating my privileges with UAC.
Is there any way I can fix these folders? The claim to have a "undisplayable
owner" and I cannot get myself or admin to be the ...
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| Games (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Dungeon Keeper incompatible with Vista? | 04 Jul 2008 16:13 GMT | 21 |
I am at the end of my tether!
I go to install Dungeon Keeper or Dungeon Keeper Gold on my new Vista PC and
it gets to the title screen with Horny and then closes into a blackbox at the
top left of my screen, minimizes then closes.
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| Problem with Age of Empires II | 04 Jul 2008 15:57 GMT | 21 |
After install Age of Empires II, i try to play, but it not run and the
message is: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video
card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
My Pc is new, i have a good ATI card and i try with the solutions proposed
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| Game Updates issue | 04 Jul 2008 11:26 GMT | 6 |
I am trying to find updates for my games. I have searched all over and
cannot find any links to check for updates, etc. I have Windows Vista and
the games do not have any links to support. I have Mahjong Titans and
others.
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| Hardware (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| battery plugged in, not charging | 04 Jul 2008 18:42 GMT | 3 |
I am currently using a laptop that is approx one year old - it's a toshiba
tecra A6. It belonged to a friend and I have only received it recently, so I
do not know its history. When I hover above the 'power plan' icon on the
bottom toolbar, it says "0% available, (plugged in, not ...
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| DVD Drive | 04 Jul 2008 18:41 GMT | - |
I have a HP Windows vista computer. My dvd drive is ATAPI DVDA DH16A7H ATA
Device. My dvd drive cannot load any cd/dvd. When I go to my computer, I see
my dvd drive fine. In device maneger, it says the device is working properly.
When i open the dvd tray and look inside, i see ...
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| Vista 32 Basic see my SATA drive as a SCSI drive. | 04 Jul 2008 18:38 GMT | 3 |
Above says it all. How do I fix it so it sees it as a sata and not scsi.
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| Mail (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Delivery Status Notification (Failure) | 04 Jul 2008 19:22 GMT | 9 |
I'm using Windows Live Mail with Windows Vista and a Hotmail account. I'm
getting these emails from postmaster@mail.hotmail.com and they are driving me
crazy because I'm getting hundreds of them. I never even tried to send an
email to these people, so I have no idea why I'm ...
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| can not see x or - in opened e-mail | 04 Jul 2008 19:11 GMT | 1 |
When I open an e-mail in windows mail, desktop PC, windows Ultimate......the
X - AND BOX are missing from the upper right corner. The only way I can
close it is to go to file - close. Can you help me to repair this? Thank
you. Ginny
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| EMails going AWOL | 04 Jul 2008 19:11 GMT | 2 |
I recently started to use my normal Yahoo address through Windows Mail with
no problems.(Mainly because it gives me easier access to Groups like this
incidentally).
My machine had accumulated a few niggling little problems so I used the
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| Music, Photo, Video (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Movie Maker "not implemented" error message | 04 Jul 2008 18:56 GMT | - |
Last night I started a movie maker project and spent more than 2 hours
working on it. I than stopped, saved it as a movie maker project and turned
off the laptop. Today, when I opened the file, I had all the files I used
ther but no video on the timeline! Instead it showed a ...
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| Movie Maker "not implemented" error message | 04 Jul 2008 18:54 GMT | - |
Last night I started a movie maker project and spent more than 2 hours
working on it. I than stopped, saved it as a movie maker project and turned
off the laptop. Today, when I opened the file, I had all the files I used
ther but no video on the timeline! Instead it showed a ...
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| Photo Gallery .... | 04 Jul 2008 18:14 GMT | 2 |
When I open a photo in the viewer from the gallery, there's a drop down menu
for adding tags, how can i remove old & unwanted tags from that list??
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| Networking (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Cant get Network sharing to work | 04 Jul 2008 18:16 GMT | 7 |
Ok, i have all m network sharing turned on, I have followed a bunch of online
tutorials. I still cannot share or recieve files on my vista computer. It
works fine for my XP computer, just type in the path and its done. Not so
with the Vista machine.
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| Strange XP-Vista network problem | 04 Jul 2008 17:47 GMT | - |
I have a desktop running XP Pro SP3 and a laptop running Vista Home Premium.
I have the same User account set up on both machines with the same password,
the only difference is that on the Vista machine this user is a Standard
User while on the XP machine, the User is an ...
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| Problem logging on to network share | 04 Jul 2008 15:31 GMT | - |
I admin a network with 10 workstations and 2 servers. We just upgraded 2
workstations to Vista 64. These workstations connect to a server running
Server 2003. I finally got the yVista machines to connect to the Server,
after much hair pulling, but we still have a proble.
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| Performance and Maintainance (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Backup in Vista Premium | 04 Jul 2008 19:29 GMT | 9 |
Can anybody help me. When I try to backup my PC or my external drive I get a
error message 0x80070057 and backup failure screen. Any ideas?
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| Restoring XP Restore Point from Vista? | 04 Jul 2008 19:16 GMT | 4 |
Thanks for being here to assist, and I hope this is the correct group. I've
been running XP Pro for quie some time and recently installed Vista using
Partition Magic and have also installed Vista BootPro. I planned a full
migration of all of my data from XP today but cannot boot ...
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| High CPU utilization with svchost.exe / dwm.exe | 04 Jul 2008 18:55 GMT | 2 |
Been running Vista Enterprise for almost a year, with no issues. This
problem just began last night.
When booting my computer, I have about 1 minute after I reach the
desktop before my CPU utilization goes way up. I have a Intel Core2Duo,
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| Printing and Faxing (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Can't print | 04 Jul 2008 18:05 GMT | 3 |
After doing a system recovery on my laptop, I can't print. Everything says
the printer and drivers were installed. I could print before the recovery.
If I plug USB into the laptop, it prints. When I try to print without the
cable, I don't get an error or anything, it just ...
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| Vista Keeps Asking Me to Reinstall My Printer | 04 Jul 2008 15:36 GMT | - |
Hello,I have a HP Compaq Presario laptop, brand new, running Windows Vista Home Premium. I have correctly installed my printer (an HP 3100 Series) and all drivers. I don't have my laptop always connected to the printer. Every time I connect my printer to my laptop (same port ...
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| 16-bit printing problem with Vista | 04 Jul 2008 09:28 GMT | 4 |
We need to run one of our large 16bit Visual Basic 3.0 applications on Vista
Ultimate (32bit) while we rewrite the app in VB .Net.
So far I have been able to install the VB3 app, and even the VB3 dev, on
Vista and with a few small changes all runs well except for printing from the ...
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| Setup and Deployment (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Dual booting XP and Vista | 04 Jul 2008 18:37 GMT | 11 |
Can I partition my HD to two partitions, Install my copy of winXP pro on both
(its only on one comouter so that shouldnt violate anything) and then upgrade
one of them to vista using an upgrade disk? Will both windows work fine?
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| XP x64 and vista x64 dual boot option gone | 04 Jul 2008 18:13 GMT | 2 |
alright this is complicated but here goes. i managed to install a dual
boot XP x64 and vista ultimate x64 when i started up before i got and
option screen to choose which installation i wanted to boot to either
the vista which was the default or an older version of windows which was
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| Reinstall Windows Ultimate 64bit error | 04 Jul 2008 17:47 GMT | 2 |
On trying to reinstall Vista (due to loss of WDAC) I keep getting error
0x80070020 - cant find boot.wim D:\sources yet they are on the CD. Help!
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| Security (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| dwmapi.dl trying to be installed all the time. Firewall alert. Saf | 04 Jul 2008 18:38 GMT | 2 |
I am using Vista Home Premium, coming instaled on my Dell XPS notebook.
I lately formatted all, pc is clean (I suppose), no programs installed yet.
No windows updates, I am downloading the standlone SP1 because I am tired to
downlod it all the time that I have to format.
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| Virus Protection Scanning Problem | 04 Jul 2008 18:06 GMT | 1 |
I cannot run a scan using my virus protection program, which is Trend Micro
PC-cillin Internet Security 14.
The scan problem message message I receive is:
PCCVScan has stopped working
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| Brontok.KO worm help | 04 Jul 2008 16:02 GMT | 8 |
I have a worm that I don't know how to get rid of. My AVG free security
kicked it out while my Super Anti-Spyware software was scanning. AVG did not
kick out the worm while it was running alone. According to AVG, the worm was
moved to the "vault" and I later deleted it. ...
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