I would like to reformat my laptop (Dell - Windows Vista) but I have
forgotten how to do it. Please could someone give me instructions?
Thank you

So have been usinig Vista Ultimate since the official release date and have
had to reactivate every 2-3 months. Sunday I upgraded my video card driver
(ATI Radion X1950) and I have to activate today or Vista tells me it will
shutdown. Of course, since about last December I had ...

This all started when I forgot my password for a HP laptop running Vista
Home Premium.  :( I had the "power Suite" by Spotmau disk, so I ran
their password reset program and blanked the password.  It reported it
was successful.  When I try to reboot, the computer hangs between the

Hey, I just got some insane error in drivers or whatnot in vista, and I
now have to reinstall because i dont wanna go through 19 hours of
hunting down the problem.. I didnt install anything at all but anyways..
Now that I reinstall I would like to get the os as streamlined as

My cd drive is not working, i went to the device manager and it said Windows
cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted
or missing. (Code 39)
I have a alienware Aurora m9700 laptop and a Optiarc DVD RW AD-5540A ATA

I downloaded the MS Windows AIK to generate the autounattend.xml file.
I was able to start the setup of Vista and complete the installation,
to install the software I would like to deploy within my dvd, but not
to start the OS.

I have 2 Hard drives on my computer and I have Vista Home Premium on one and
Vista Business on the second(slave). I have had trouble instaling this
business Vista as it is an upgrade from XP Professional,When the XP installed
on slave the vista failed to install. I have tried 3 ...

I have a big problem - hope I get help to solve this.
I installed Zone Alarm Internet Security on my PC (Windows Vista Home
Premium) and decided to uninstall the software as I didn't like it.
This has resulted in my PC having two firewalls conflicting each other which

I'm getting a validation error on my system.  I tried calling Microsoft
support  looking for help who then referred me back to Dell.  The problem
they think is I had unknowingly set it to automatically download and install
updates. Overnight it had downloaded and attempted to ...

I realize that there is no magic button to reformat a drive that has Vista
running on it but my goal is to install Windows Small Business Server 2003 on
a machine that I purchased recently.  The machine had Vista pre-installed and
now I am looking for a way to rid myself of Vista ...

August 27th, Vista Ultimate 32bit, Nvidia 7600GT, 4Gb Ram
My Vista Ultimate system has an XFX NVidia 7600GT card in it. It has been
working fine since the day I put it in. My system is always on and I usually
let it update automatically via Windows Update as required.

I bought a machine with Home Premium pre-installed.
I Purchased, downloaded and installed Ultimate.
I've backed up the machine and all is well.
My question is this.

I have a 2003 Server installed and I want to make the machine dual boot with
VISTA.  How do I install vista onto of the 2003 Server for Dual boot?
Thanks - Sam

I run the setup but it doesn't install anything, is this the correct version
to windows vista?

I'm dual booting Windows XP and Windows Vista on an HP TC4400 Tablet PC and
everything is OK except one tiny little problem.  The domain won't hold when
I switch from one OS to the other.  I always have to dis-join the computer
from the domain and re-join.  I dual boot desktops ...