I have a Dell system with the usual tale of an OEM install with no MS discs
but a recovery partition and a boot disc.
Is there any way I can get the system set up how I want it and then "save"
the setup image so that it is that that is installed if I ever need to run

I am running VISTA home premium with a flatscreen TV monitor. The graphics
card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU. The monitor resolution is WXGA (1366X768)
at 60Hz. In VISTA control panel, 1366X768 is not available, so I set it to
1360X768 60Hz. With this setting, the desktop fits ...

I was running Vista Ultimate 32-bit and decided to change to 64-bit because
of the support for more memory, etc.
I did a complete backup of my system, formatted the drives and did a fresh
install of the 64-bit OS and tried to recover my files, etc.  Not a chance,

I am upgrading my PC from Windows XP Media Center 2005 to Windows Vista
Enterprise.  At least, I'm trying to do so!  The problem is, I recieved my
copy of this OS through my college via download.  I saved the download in "My
documents" as a zipped file.  After unzipping the file, ...

I have an IBM x30 with PIII 1.2 G / 1 G RAM / 5400 rpm HDD
At the moment the new installation of Vista runs pretty cool, except that
the driver for the chipset is not there. So 2 problems:
1. can't have any hardware Graphics accelerations at all

Help! Textl appears faded or not at all until I hightlight the page. On some
pages it's worse than others. Adjusting and changing fonts is a mystery to
me.. never had this problem with XP  Why is Vista so difficult?

I bought Vista a few months ago, and all was fine until my motherboard gave
out. I replaced the motherboard and processor, but kept the old hard disk
drive with Vista already installed.
It all runs fine, but Vista is now asking me to activate again, and when I

I installed the latest version of iTunes (7.3) in my laptop which is running
windows vista home premium. The istallation is apparently succesful until i
try to open itunes. When i do this, the message "iTunes has stopped working,
a problem caused the program to stop working ...

I would like to uninstall speech recognition but can not find it in
add/remove software int he control panel. Can anyone help? It always slows
down my computer on start-up and as I can type I have no use for it.

Having read other threads, it's obvious PowerShell works in Vista, but I'm
sure having trouble getting it going. I WAS able to download and install to
my laptop running Windows XP, but the only download I could find for Vista
looks like it's for a pre-release version of Vista. I ...

We have been provided with a volume license key for Vista Business as a gold
partner.  How do I know if this is a MAK or KMS volume license key?  It would
be difficult for our organization to keep 25 vista computers connected to a
KMS service at this time.  Is the key uniquie in ...

Hallo to you all,
I installed vista ultimate on my new laptop and i don't like it .
Now i want to install xp on the laptop but the problem is that xp
don't recognise the harddrive anymore .

When i boot up my pc the screen goes black when it first boots up, and then
i can see writing saying Client Mac Addr followed by numbers, then DHCP
followed by numbers and a looks like a - and dots appearing on the screen,
when i press any key it gets out of whatever it was in, ...

I need to reinstall Vista HP Upgrade.
But when I try to run the Vista CD from the present OS I get an error and
the install aborts.
If I try to boot on the Vista CD I get a message saying that I need to run

Ello.
I recently formatted my hard drive, and changed my motherboard.
Now when I try to install Vista Home Premium it tells me that my "Product
key is already in use", when it isn't!