Thanks in advance for your help!
I purchased a new HP laptop yesterday with Vista preinstalled… I went
through the setup process and downloaded all of the “critical” updates as
flagged by the manager… One of those was the NVIDIA graphics driver package

After determining that my computer is compatible for the Vista Upgrade I
began installing Ultimate last night. Everything seemed to go fine until step
3 "Expanding Files". At 21% the computer started shutting down, (no problem
the display says it will restart several times during ...

I'm running Vista Business (32 bit) and have faint white outlines around all
of the desktop icons.  This is always the case and has persisted through a
few display driver upgrades.  I'm not referring to when an icon is selected
or the mouse pointer hovers over it.  The outlines ...

I recently brought a freeview program for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400
vista) but when i try to run it once it has been installed, an error message
appears, reading: AVCapture.exe- The application failed to initialize
properly (0xc0000022) Click OK to terminate the program. I ...

One has xp pro and the other has Vista home premium. I want to be able to
have the option of using both hard drive's at the same time. As it is now, I
swap the hard drive in that I want to use and then swap it out for when i
need to go back to XP. Is there a way I can leave them ...

Will Vista's "Complete Backup" require re-activation if restored onto the
same PC it was created on?

I had nothing but problems when I first upgraded from XP to Vista.  I had to
re-install Vista on the same computer but now I cannot activate it because it
says that this product is already in use.  What can I do?

I initially got the message "Error creating process<msvc.exe/Q:A>. Reason:
Access is denied." while trying to install MSN 9.5 in Vista.  I turned off
TrendMicro PC-cillin and re-tried the installation and got the message;
"Error registering the OCX C:\Program ...

A few months back i installed Vista Business on my system, now I want to
install XP back on my system. I have done a Format and i believe i deleted
the Windows.old Folder. When i finished installing XP, and once it boots up,
it says Error loading Operating System. How do i ...

I have an access file that is 585 MB that is Typed as a Microsoft Office
Access Module Shortcut (.mad).  Access 2003 will not open the file.  How can
I change the typing to be the file and not a shortcut?  I am on Vista Pro.
Thanks in advance.

Vista is blocking to of my programs at in the Startup folder, there is
supposed to be a setting in Defender to tell it these programs are okay.
How can I add them if they are not already listed there?
Thanks... Bob

Could it be possible to natively install Windows Vista or Windows code name
Longhorn on Intel-based Mac if it implements EFI? I found some article that
Microsoft will implement EFI on next release of Windows Vista and also in
Windows code name Longhorn.

I am attempting to install a retail copy of vista on a Dell 460C/2GB RAM.
I ran the Vista Upgrade Advisorand it said my computer was good-to-go.
I get as far as "Installing Windows..." and get the message "That's all the
information we need right now. Your computer will restart ...

Trying Vista Home Basic Upgrade..system in brief is a Dual Core2.8, 2gb Ram,
ATA HD, x1950 pro graphics card...
I have tried to upgrade in two ways:
1 - Upgrading from windows & dowbloading the latest setup files: this goes

i'm usng XP and received two disk to upgrade to vista.
one is an HP upgrade assistant.
the other is  windows vista home basic express upgrade.
they did install on the pc (model hp pavilion a400n) but