I am new to windows vista. I shifted from xp to vista only a few days
back. One strange thing i have noticed is every time i try to run a
program i am asked whether i want to continue. The other thing is that
if i do not start VS2005 by saying 'run as administrator' i am not

Since installing Vista SP1, windows defender alerts me that it has
blocked a startup program. The program it is blocking is by eMPIA
technology, Inc, BDA Monitor application, file name hcwemmon.exe.
Can anyone tell me if this os okay to permit to run or not? Or even if

Vista Home Premium. Windows defender won't start. Get some error
message... 0x800106ba.
Also... when I boot all security is turned off. I turn it all on again
but when boot again its off again.

I tried downloading ps trials on the web yesterday. Every since then a pop up
from my toolbar has been coming up say that something called
Trojandownloader.XS. has been detected. Also when I load explorer the tool
bar disappers and my desktop icons disappear as well. Do I a ...

I've tried to convert my hard drive to nfts, and it says that the drive is
already in that format.  When i try to encrypt a file or folder, the "encrypt
contents to secure data" box" is unclickable....  What's wrong? 0_o

Ok, so when I delete something it goes to the recycle bin.
When I delete something from the recycle bin it is gone forever. -THINK AGAIN-
I deleted somthing from the recycle bin and got it back a few days later...I
also found a ton so stuff I was told was "deleted" forever by ...

I have tried to uninstall Norton from my computer as the anti virus software
ive been given by a friend says that it is on there and needs to be removed
before installation, however, when I try to uninstall, all I get is ' the
specified module could not be found'. So why wont it ...

This is a first for me, getting a "buffer overrun detected" message.
So, after researching it, it appears it could possibly be a security
issue, but I'm not sure if that's the case as I see online that
Quicktime and IE seem to cause buffer overrun issues  in some cases, so

Everytime I start Internet Explorer the screen flashes 20 or 30
windows with title "Windows Installer". After that, it works fine.
This began happening after installing Vista64 with SP1. The first
time I started IE after the install UAC prompted me about 30 times

Does anyone know how to create a hide button, its where you can press one
specific button and the screen you are currently looking at dissapears and it
shows a new one?

Hello Vista heads :) ,
I wanted to post here on vistax64 forums about my findings, related to
VB scripting, with Windows Vista in mind.
Firstly, I consider mysef a self-made power user of Windows products

I tried to install Limewire 4.16 basic and when i try to run it it tells me
to allow access through my firewall. How do i do this.

trying to create a new firewall rule on vista enterprise 32 bit sp1.
any rule i creat immediatelt gets a red sign over it (like a no smoking
sign)... WHY is this happening? unbelievably the documentation mentions
nothing about this

I have an unknown running process on my computer called "Andrea RT Filters
Service".  It runs as a Windows servce on start up. I googled it and come up
with "Andrea Electronics Corporation".  When I contacted them to see if I
could get some information about the application. they ...

I have just configured microsoft outlook 2007 through bt business broadband
option 2 which apparently was succesfull. When I tried to open outlook 2007
from my desktop a box appeared HEMV3AUKER.he.local asking for my username and
password. After trying different names and ...