I currently use Vista home premium OEM and have reinstalled a fair few
times. Why? Because I can't stop messing around with my setup and breaking
things.
The hardware has stayed the same apart from having a gfx card and hdd in and

how many hrs. does it takes to dowload windows vista,i try to install it
since yesterday at 5:00 p.m. and computer still running saying: it may take
several hrs.

I have 64 bit Vista installed on my computer and find that several programs
do not function well or at all in the 64 bit environment and some hardware
does not have drivers for Vista.  Can I install a 32 bit version of Vista and
or XP on a computer with a 64bit processor?  I ...

I would like to ask if anyone does have any idea if the windows boot manager
is using BIOS calls to display the boot menu options. It is important for me
because if it is not like that, I will never see the boot menu with the SOL
capability of Intel vPro.

i have a big problem. i bought new laptop with win vista. i am computer
science student. so i made 4 partition on my 160 gb harddsik .because of new
os i installed win xp in 2 partition but after in stalling it i cant lind
boot manu like win xp and win vista. Automatically win xp ...

I have windows XP installed on my first hdd, and trying to install vista on
second.
By default vista upgrades XP system partition boot files. I want to have 2
different system partitions : old one XP( boot.ini, ntldr and etc ), and

I installed Vista Ultimate 64 on a dual partition, the installation was good
and Vista was working very well. I then attempted to install Linux on the
second partition, however Linux didn't start the intall in the second
partition, it attempted to install into the Vista partition ...

The problem is that I got a Vista Key but no Installation-DVD. Now I wonder
if it is possible to install Windows Vista from the Anytime Upgrade DVD
without Windows Vista currently installed. I only have Windows XP Pro on this
PC and I want Vista to be installed and since I got a ...

Just upgraded a Dell laptop (1705) from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. Now we
can't get onto the web. It tells us the firewall may be the problem, but
with the OneCare firewall turned off it still will not get onto the web. We
don't have any other firewall or virus program running. ...

This has probably been mulled over a hundred times, and everyone will have a
different idea, but what is a realistic System partition size for Vista
Ultimate ? This is asssuming that I don't let other stuff install itself
there, but including the swap file on a (32 bit) system ...

I installed Vista back in January and used the MSDN key that I had.  I
recently had to install it again and now it can't activate because the key is
in use.  I know all about the new activation PITA with Vista, but I thought
that the MSDN key still let you get around that.  Any ...

my computer currently has Windows XP on it.  the activation days has ran out
so everytime i turn on the computer it loads to the login screen and tells me
to activate it but when i try it doesnt work. I know im connected to the
internet cause i used it while it was working. I ...

1.   I purchased Vista Ultimate and installed on my desktop PC.
2.   Used Family plan online and purchased 1 copy (new product key) and
installed Vista Home Premium on my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000).
3.   Used online upgrade and upgraded my Laptop to Vista Ultimate.

Ever since I installed VISTA, Lightroom has magically decided to start
everytime I start windows AND everytime I come out of sleep mode. Why??

I've been using Windows XP for about 6 years.  Good and bad... I think I
must've reinstalled about 9 times, mostly track back to fiddling too much
with disabling services to tweak the system to run faster, and system
upgrade, CPU, motherboard and hard drive.