using asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe board. 2gb dual channel ram, amdx2 5200+. evga
7800gt pci-e card. 2 wd 10k rpm 74gb in raid 0 on sata 1 and 2. 160gb drive
on sata 3. dvdrw on ide, floppy drive too. bios is set correctly to boot
from the raid 0. sata raid is enabled for sata1 and 2 ...

I am living in Germany at the moment, but I would prefer to buy Vista
in English rather than in German.  If I was to buy a Home Premium
version in the German language, and then use an English Home Premium
install disk, would this accept my license key even though it is a

How can I determine if anytime upgrade is on my Vista DVD?
I got a DVD using express upgrade and there isn't the regular cover on the
disc (I didn't even get a case) so I cannot check for the anytime upgrade
logo. On the Certificate of Authenticity label it just says "Windows ...

I have a 3 computer network all running Windows XP and a new computer
running Vista - the Vista computer can talk to the other computers running
XP but the ones running XP cannot talk to Vista - how can I correct this
problem?  All help will be greatly appreciated.

I just bought a laptop (secondhand) it is a Dell Inspiron e1505.  The
original OS was Vista Home Premium.
The HD is partitioned and drive D, consists only of a recovery restore
utility - Dell Factory Image Restore. The instructions are to use F8 after

Ok, I have a bad install of my windows XP professional edition and it keeps
giving me the blue screen of death along with several errors. If I get an
upgrade CD or something along those lines will windows vista be using my
corrupt XP files and modifying/running them and if so ...

I have a couple of keys (one from the download, and one I got at an event)
for Vista Beta 2 I think. I had it installed, but no longer. I've read about
the new offer for people with these to get an upgrade license.
if I don't have them installed, how do I go about installing the ...

If I have no Data to transfer from another PC where would I find
instructions on how to set up OE6 on a new PC with Win. Vista?

All,
For the past 5 days, I cannot install/uninstall/repair any programs as I get
the error above.  I tried uninstalling some windows updates, rolling back to
a backup, and could not find anything on blogs, ms.com.

I have a laptop computer running windows vista and it broke down. Is there a
way to deactivate windows vista and install windows vista on my desktop with
the same activation key?

When ever I boot my dual boot system I get "Missing Bootmgr" or
sometimes "Missing NTLDR". If I leave the Vista DVD in the drive this
doesn't seem to happen.
After nosing around this seems to be a comon problem but I haven't found

I recently bought a laptop with a 64 bit processor, but the 32 bit version of
Vista is what it came with.
Would it make it perform any better if it had come with the 64 bit version?
Is there any way to get the other version?

I have Vista installed on a SATA Raid, the installation went well and
everything is working as planned.  However when I try to add a new SATA drive
(not in the RAID array) my BIOS sets this new drive as the default one, and
so unable to boot into Vista.

I did a clean install of Vista business. My computer was XP Pro.. set up in
Raid 0 with two HD. Did I screw up the raid configuration? How can I tell? If
I did, how do I re-configure it?
Obviously I am a novice to the raid thing...I bought the computer setup that

I have been trying to prepare a master image with vista. The documention
provided has little to no common scenerios for network administrators. Here
is my situation which should be a very common task.
My workstation is XP sp2. I have installed BDD 207 & WAIK. WAIK's interface