HI I decided it was time to install Vista however i have run into a few
problems.
I have been running the lappy on xp pro, dual boot with vista beta.
I decided to trash the vista installation and install a full copy.

Howdy again,
Now I have a new problem.... I downloaded the program and tried to install
it. I had already uninstalled Office 2007 beta but when installing it tells
me the current application cannot be upgraded! I go to control panel and no

I have a PC running Vista Ultimate (32 bit) w/ 4 Gig of memory. As I have a
second box running Vista for testing beta products (Orcas at the moment)
that runs fine on 2 Gig, I'm considering removing 2 Gig from the first box
for use elsewhere.

I just purchased a PC with Vista yesterday, booted my XP PC this morning and
got the blue screen (talk about bad timing).  Spent two hours with Dell and
could not get it back up and running.  Can the files on the old computer be
transferred to the new computer without the old one ...

Having looked at the windows vista deployment procedure on the official
Microsoft website @
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/88f80cb7-d44f-47f7-a10d-e2
3dd53bc3fa1033.mspx?mfr=true,
I have some queries that need to be clarified.  The imageX tool was used to

I believe I have tried all possible drivers for my SATA drives in
order for Vista setup to recognize my HDDs. I have not yet succeeded.
Here is my config:
Motherboard: GA-K8N Ultra-9 with Si3114 RAID controller

We purchase our computers from Dell with Vista Business on them. We then use
our Volume License Key (MAK) and upgrade them to Vista Enterprise. When we
upgraded them to Vista Enterprise they lost their Active Directory Users and
Computers program that had been installed. I didn't ...

I have an interesting scenario that developed. I am a consultant and had an
opportunity to use a KMS licensed version of Vista Business to upgrade my
laptop. Since then I found out this licensing scheme needs to contact the
KMS server every 180 days. OK, not a big deal as long as ...

I have recently purchased 7 identical PCs with Vista Business and
Office 2007 pre-installed. I wish to configure one and use Complete PC
Backup as a means of cloning my configuration across all 7. Will i be
able to use the different product keys on each machine, or will Complete

I was running a dual-boot system between WinXP & Vista Ultimate.
I had issues with XP and had to run the "fixboot" and "fixmbr" commands from
the WinXP CD, which wiped out the Vista Boot Loader.
Is there a similar command on the Vista DVD to restore the Vista Boot

I have a card reader that is intergrated into the laptop and after installing
windows vista it no longer reads cards that it read in XP system.  I decided
to bypass the reader by getting a USB card reader, and while it recongnized
the reader, it still fails to recognized the ...

Can I use the license key for Vista Home that came with a new HP laptop I
just bought (HP Pavilion Entertainment PC / DV6000) to legitimately purchase
a Windows XP "Upgrade" license... and will it install?
Why do I want to replace Vista with XP?

I am trying to create a Windows Vista image and am running into a problem
regarding the requirement that even volume license customers now have to
activate Vista.  I will be using a MAK to activate, but my problem is not
with the activation but my ability to maintain the image ...

I had w2k on drive C (IDE drive).  I added a SATA drive to the system as
drive D for data and back up.
I reformatted Drive D and used the bios to change the drive order reversing
drives C and D.

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with WinXP.  Has 1GB RAM, 60 GB free on my
100GB HDD.   Dell provided me with a Vista Upgrade Assistant disk and a
Vista Operating System upgrade disk.  I followed the instructions to a
tee.  Everything went well at first.  It checked for