I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista.  I want to replace my
tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are compatible.
Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards that allow
access to an HD Cable box?

I have a GO 7600 graphics card in my VAIO laptop and if I ever try to
activate any of the 3D programmes that use the Areo functionality I am
presented with the dreaded blue screen of death. Nvidia have been - lets say
"damned unhelpful" and won't answer the question, Sony refer ...

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.
I didn't get a reply, so I'm reposting. Any help is appreciated.
Using Vista with Creative SBLive.
Pressing the mute all in volume control and volume mixer does not mute the

I've just installed the release version of Vista Ultimate. I did a clean
install, formatting the C drive (80 GB SATA). Everything works fine.
Now, I have a second drive: Maxtor 250 GB SATA 2 (AHCI). When I access it
from Vista, I have some delays accessing the drive: sometimes it ...

I have been trying to find a reference for this symbol in Device Managewr,
but I can't figure out what it is.  The symbol is a "Circle with a Grey down
arrow inside it".
Anyone know what that means?  I'm using RC2

windows can't recognize my USB devices it can't instal a driver although it
works without a driver in windows sp3
my vista is 32bit RTM
i have a mp3 player and memory reader

Regarding this article, how do I get a higher resolution?
Getting the best display on your monitor
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/617624ee-08f3-4aff-9713-5e84
a9674a261033.mspx
It is not a driver or hardware issue.  It is Microsoft telling me what is

Has anyone seen the new hard drives from Seagate and Samsung? They have made
a hard drive with a jump drive on it. A hard drive with 256MB of cache.

I installed RC 1 today and everything works fine except one thing. I am
unable to locate my DVD ROM. I've put different DVD's into the Drive and
nothing detected. I went to Drvice Manager and nothing.
I have a Gateway 610 XL Media center PC with 200 GB HD, 2 GB of RAM ,

I decided to install Vista Ultimate as a test on the PC we use to run our
plasma TV where we have had MCE for at least the last 2 years. We have
always been pretty happy with the setup, a few performance hiccups here and
there but nothing worse than I have seen with any PVR. So ...

can we have an idea of aero Performance on older DirectX 9 AGP adapter with
Vista RTM (Nvidia FX5200, Radeon 9500) ?
In my experience on beta 2, aero performance was good on Radeon 9550 (which
is probably one of the less powerfull ATI Radeon DirectX9 chip), but slower

https://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx
open only with ie (time being)

This is weird and very annoying...
For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and works
perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
drive!!!

Using a HP Pavilion desktop, t3355uk  & a HP 1955 monitor, when
Monitor shuts down under "power settings" I awaken it by using
Ctrl-alt-del.
However, if the comp. goes to sleep, I can wake comp. using any key,

Whenever I plugged in a jack I used to get a Popup saying a jack has been
plugged in and it gave me options to select what I plugged in.
Now this does not happen and only my speakers work. I am running a Dual Boot
of XP and Vista and it happens in both.