My new VISTA machine has many more USB-2 ports than my previous
computer. I seem to have quite a collection of USB cables. Is there any
physical way to tell USB-1 from USB-2 cables? Dang things all look the
same to me.

Hi, i've read a post on a Dell user forum, that states that a key needs to
be added. they give the followinging info, but i do not understand exactly
what the guy is saying.
The post he put up is this.

I have changed my mouse to a single click option and now I can't find how to
change it back to standard double click. Vista O/S
Thanks

I am using Ultimate, for the last few days, I have this booting
problem. That the ntkrnlpa.exe is missing or corrupted while I am
booting up the PC. And with this state: 0xc0000221. And also I've notice
that this will only occur when the PC is shutted down for a long period

I have a Lexmark X1200 printer. I just recently (This morning) got a
new computer with Vista on it. The problem is, when I plugged the USB
cable into the Vista machine, it saw that there was new hardware,
asked me to put the disk that I got with the printer into the drive

I am using a USB cable to put my pictures on the computer. i dragged them all
into the pictures folder and then deleted them from the USB connection
screen. this also deleted them from my camera..
now i cann't find them anywhere and it seems they are saved to the folder i

i need another hdd.
i note that not one hdd is vista logo'd
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx
how important is this?

I have downloaded some mpegs that are protected by a licence.  It says that
once this is downloaded I can play them on this computer as many times as i
wasnt, however each time I switch off the laptop and reboot and try to open
the file it asks me to enter password etc all over ...

i have this old 3 com card and i try to get it to work do anybody know how.
this is because my lan onboard from asus (p4p800se) (lan marvel yukon)
will not work under vista this while there is a vista driver availeble by
asus.

I have Vista home premium. had problems with soundcard but now fixed - when
i plug in headphones it recognises they are there but nothing plays back
through them.
any ideas

I have a Benq FP71E which I bought when I had Windows XP, I now have a new
PC with Vista Home Premium, there isn't a Vista driver for it but so far I
have used the XP one with no problems & I'm using the DVI input, my question
is should I buy a new monitor which has a Vista ...

I had a problem when my laptop's sound decided to stop working recently, and
I uninstalled and reinstalled the sound drivers. Now my sound does work, but
now I have absolutely no control over the volume. As much as I like blasting
Motorhead's Ace Of Spades at full volume, there ...

I have seen many people waste money on 4 GB RAM etc... for Windows
Vista.
Recently I assembled a new PC, let me tell you 1.5 GB of RAM is enough
to run Windows Vista / Games / Applications smoothly.

I'm planning to buy a new laptop with Santa Rosa chipset & have 4Gb of
memory. I'm planning on installing Vista Ultimate 32 bit on it. Will I be
getting any real performance gain with 4Gb memory? Will the OS be able to
make use of the entire memory? Any suggestion are welcome.

I have installed Win Vista to my DV5230tx HP laptop. Intitially the proper
drivers would not install but this has been resolved, but now I only have
sound via my headset and nothing comes out from the speakers.
When I plug in and pull out the headset Jack I get a split second of ...