during setup windows descided it would boot from d drive instead of my C
drive.  it installed the os to the c drive but when i remove the d drive the
system fails to boot.  it would appear that vista keeps putting the boot
files on a drive i dont want them to be on.  How do i ...

Hi
I live in Sweden but prefer being conected to English MS sites when looking
for Services. As it is now I get conected to Swedish sites when looking for
MS info. My Vista is English language version. Google plays the same trick

My computer just quit starting up.  When I turn it on it goes through its
normal startup functions for about 20-40 seconds and then freezes or shuts
down.  Occasionally I can get to the "Safe Mode", but only twice in 50
attempts.  Even then as I was diagnosing some programs in ...

My Vista was acting a bit funny so I attempted to repair any problems by
using the installation disk.  I have a 32-bit, OEM version in Japanese (I
live in Tokyo) and didn't see a prompt for repair, and ended up reinstalling
Vista, losing all of my documents and programs in the ...

I am running Vista Ultimate on a desktop and now wish to upgrade a laptop to
Vista.
The disc I have is the Ultimate version but for the laptop I only want to
install the Home Premium version. Can I just buy an additional licence from

I installed the Windows Vista and the sound does not work.  It is a VAIO
Notebook VGN-SZ and the Audio icon says "Audo Service is not is not being
executed"
Please help me, I changed last Saturday from XP to Vista

So, yeah... Obviously, I can't activate the 'ole Windows Vista. Yet another
Micro$haft product with bugs in it.
I tried online activation, which gives me the error code:
0x8007232C

After severla months of struggling to geet Vista not to block my network,
keep putting my printer offline, refuse to recognize half my peripherals
etc.. (all the usual reasons), I want to go back to XP, which worked fine.
The problem is, I read on the support site that you can ...

After installing Vista i am not able to boot to the other os existing in my
m/c. Please help to use Vista along with the existing os. Is there any way to
correct/update the bootloader from Vista? Can anybody help??

I currently have a C: (Windows Vista) drive with about 100 Gb total space,
while not even 20 Gb is being used. I want to shrink it to about 30-35 Gb
(just to be on the safe side) so I can make a backup of my Windows drive more
easily. Disk management however only lets me shrink ...

I just plopped @$250 for the Vista Ultimate, expecting a polished GUI,
fairly decent driver-support, and some gee-whiz eye candy.  However, I cannot
even get the 64-bit version to install.  Longhorn here has been in
development for YEARS, and it won't even install!  Replacing my ...

I am using a volume license copy of Vista but my company does not have the
Key server set up yet.  How can I active my copy of Vista.  I have a product
ID.
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When i first installed vista it did not take much time , but after formatting
my HD and installing vista again it comes to the point where it says
expanding files and it takes ages ....i really mean ages ...i sat in front of
the screen and in 3 hours it was just 37% complete...i ...

I have a small partition set aside for Photoshop's swap disk. Is it possible
to hide it in Windows Explorer? I don't want it to be unavailable to
Photoshop or VISTA - I just don't want it to be used for something else.
Thanks

I installed Vista on a laptop and it BSOD and then reboots, the BSOD appears
for only a second , which is not enough time for me to see what the error is
and then reboots... I can't currently launch windows , but can i boot off a
cd and change a setting to allow the BSOD to ...