I can change the drive letter in Vista's Management Console (MMC) but it
onlly changes it temporarily.  If I disconnect the device and reboot it will
reassign it the first available letter.
Q:  How can I PERMANENTLY assign a drive letter to an external hard drive?

I have a few external hard drives that were preformated when purchased.
How can I tell if the external hard drive is using FAT32 or NTFS?  
Is there software in Vista that will tell you?  
Is there free shareware that will tell you?

Whenever I turn on my printer, Vista pops up a message that it can look for a
faster connection. I do not have a faster connection. How can I stop this?
There is no "do not show me this" box to check off.

My cd-dvd quit working and device manager sez 'driver is missing or
corrupted, code 39'; but when I click on update driver it returns with'
updated driver is installed'. I ran Driver Detective and it showed that the
Intel 82801FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller driver is out of ...

Hello, I have a problem, I need to mute some channels from sound card
(line-in, midi, etc) in Windows XP I used to open Mixer in advanced mode and
just mut them. In Vista i have no such ability. Please help me, how can I
mute specific channels from audio card?

Can I add a new hard drive to another sata port on my mother board and
transfer the os and folders etc and remove the old one to up grade?? What do
I need to do..Buy software or threw computer etc..

I have a new toshiba satellite notebook. I took out the 512 card, and added 2
1gig cards. not I get blue screen especially when using windows picture. Any
help for this novice?
thanks, Marteebus

I can play DVD's fine but when i put a CD in it makes a churning sounds and
nothing happens. When I click on the icon for the CD drive it churns and
opens and tells be to insert a CD.
Is there anything I can try to get this to work as I cannot install software

Vista was working fine.  After trying to install the HP software (the latest
downloaded from the HP web site) for USB Laserjet 3050, it wouldnt locate any
drivers.  Now any device I plug in, it cant locate any drivers, even though
it detects the new hardware correctly.

I have a GA-965P-DS3 rev 3.3 MB, GS7900, 2x320G Seagate sata drives and
4G of RAM. My issue is that vista x64 will reboot indefinitely at times
and then not at others. At present it will not start with 4G in it at
all. I'm running at whits end trying to figure out what is wrong here ...

When I first bought my computer I synched my Dell Axim to Outlook 2007. I
tried to synch again today and Windows Mobile Device popped up and said that
my Axiom is too old for it ("we only service devices 2003 and later.)
I don't remember how I synched the first time; I didn't ...

I have a 4gb usb thumb drive and every time I plug it in Windows Media Player
starts the Device Setup (I'm thinking because its over 1gb it thinks its a
mp3 player). My question is how do I stop this from happening with out
turning off syncing all together?

I installe an SATA  DVD writein my system and i am not able to get sound to
or from my writer, ther is no audio connectio on my Samsung 183L drive, is
the sound and data cable that plung into the MB one in the same

Please help.  I have an HP m7757c MediaCenter pc and I am using Microsoft's
Wireless entertainment desktop 7000.  I am trying to sync my Treo 755p to the
computer, but when i go into bluetooth options and check "make computer
discoverable", I get an error saying "an error occured ...

I have a new toshiba laptop with vista, and would like to use my Sipix a6
pocket printer, which does not offer Vista drivers.  I have searched, but do
not find any updates.  However, I understand that with adjustments in the
"compatibility mode" of vista, that older drivers can ...