My goal is is create a Vista image and deploy it to ~1000 computers.
each computer is located in different site.
I would like that a machine that deployed in Amsterdam Site will have
a computername with the Prefix of that location: for example: AMS-

Hello, i have bought Vista home premium on dvd.
When i try to install vista the first time on a new hdd, I get a screen with
a few options. I can choose to see some tools and i and start install vista.
When i Choose to start the installation, It says "Windows is loading

I received a free copy of Vista Ultimate for helping to Beta Test it.  I was
running it on my laptop, but I recently sold it (put back Windows XP) that
came with it.   Can I still reinstall Ultimate on a new laptop I buy since i
removed it from the old one?

I received a new computer with Vista Home Premium installed in French.  I
haven't yet activated it.  I will obtain the English version of Vista Home
Premium and I am wondering how to install the English version over the French
version.

Hi, I was running a RAID 0 array on my pc, where vista was installed for 6
months or so. One of the drives failed, but before I reinstalled vista I used
XP for two days or so to try and revive the failed hard drive that was part
of my array, I also updated the motherboards bios.

If I should post this somewhere else, please let me know. This just seemed
like the best place to start.
I am currently having issues with 6 updates failing. It was 5 until the
release today of the DreamScene preview, but now that is failing too. All

Actually, I have problem with installing software in vista,
At first this installation request to access to registry, and i face to
below error message:
Error performing installer tasks -  System.Security.SecurityException:

Is there a way to make Vista not show hidden files for the desktop only?  I
want to be able to see hidden AND system files inside the explorer windows,
but this setting also made 2 instances of desktop.ini visible on my desktop.

I upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premuim, and I'm trying to put all of my
previous desktop icons (Itunes, AOL, etc.) from Windows XP. I know thefiles
are still here on my PC in the C drive, but I'm clueless as to how to upload
everything now that I'm upgraded to Vista. Please ...

Can anyone tell me how to change the color of the taskbar at the bottom of
the screen? Thanks.

I just upgraded from windows xp to windows vista home premium. when i did so
my display will not fill out the entire screen and i see no option to make it
larger. does anybody know how i can fix this? its not very fun to have a
large laptop with a a big screen to watch movies if ...

To all,
I have spent the last few hours working on transering data from a Windows
File and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST) IMG00001.dat file made in XP to my
mother's Vista laptop.  This is driving me crazy because it seems that the

My brand new Dell Dimension E520 came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed
on the 250GB hard drive. The drive was set up as a single partition. This
does not suit my needs, so I attempted to use the built-in Disk Manager
utility to set up new partitions. It didn't work.

I have an old Guillemot force feedback joystick and have an installation disk
for Windows 95-98 and have tried to install the device in Windows Vista but
am getting the message that the "class installer" will not allow the device
to be installed and add new hardware failed.

I just bought a new laptop with Vista Home premium preloaded.  For some
reason I had to use the recovery disk to restore the system.  During this
restore operation the laptop installed all the software while going thorugh
several shutdown and reboot sequences.  This is still ...