I came across something I've never seen in MS products (since windows 2.0).
When I installed my XP-pro upgrade I had the option to install it on a clean
HDD. The XP installation just asked me to insert my copy of 2000/98/95, same
thing when I upgraded to 2000.

I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate from XP Pro on my home computer.  The
installation process went very smoothly, but when I get to the first logon
screen directly after the successful install, the computer exhibits a
unusually long response time (1-2 minute freezes).

I recently built a new PC with a Asus P5N-E SLI MOBO and have been running it
with XP Pro for the last few months on my PATA Primary Master Drive.
I just got my copy of Vista Ultimate and have decided to run that on an SATA
Raid comprised of 2 - 300 gig SATA2 drives striped to ...

I have windows vista home premium on an Acer Aspire 5610Z. The hard drive
shows as already having two partitions (local disk D,data) and local disc C,
which contains the Vista operating system and all programs. Is this normal
for Vista? Disk D is virtually empty of data and has ...

Can anyone tell me how to remap the keyboard keys in Vista?
Thanks

It appears that the passwords for POP mail aren't saved in Windows Vista.
Please advise.
Thanks.

After spending a few fruitless hours trying to upgrade a Toshiba Satellite
A35-S159 from XP to Vista HP, I found that both the MS Vista Upgrade Advisor
and the Vista upgrade install that is launched from within XP falsely
indicate that this upgrade is possible.  If you proceed, ...

I installed XP after Vista  to achieve dual boot.
On boot up I'm now offered XP or Vista  - OK :)
I have only one physical drive... 400Gig
Vista is on drive C:

Is there a way to do this while keeping all of the program settings, etc.? I
am hoping I can just update Vista 32-bit to the 64-bit version - that is if
it is even worth it.
Thanks for any answers.

I see that there are a lot of tasks, services, and processes that are
running.  I'm sure that I don't need all of them, and would like to disable
the unnecessary ones to save processing power.
Is there a way to do this safely?

Why does my system not upgrade to Ultimate from Premium even though the
upgrade advisor says Ultimate is the version to use?  I have a DVD that I'm
using to install and it keeps stopping on an installation error.  I have all
the upgrades and disabled security such as firewwall ...

I have a Acer TM6410 and it didn't come with the os disc (XP Pro).
Instead, you have to make a "factory default disc" using the "eRocvery
Management"I'm gonna instal vista business on my system and if i'm not
satisfied i will go back to xp.

I setup a system, connected it to the network to get Vista Patches, then I
ran sysprep. I used imagex to send the image to a server and I have now
installed the image on a different computer. I sucessfully added an IP
address to the new computer, but when I run ipconfig/all it ...

hi all, just installed vista home premium onto a new 160gig sata and running
windows xp pro on a 200gig ide hard drive but got no boot menu when i switch
on :-( is there a way to get the menu back like i had when i used to use win
98se & xp or does it not work like because i've got ...

I received my computer today and while installing windows vista, it forces me
to do a clean install, which makes sense because it is a new computer...makes
sense. But then when it asks me what driver I want to install to, it can't
seem to find any. I tried nearly every disc that ...