I picked up a copy of Vista Home Premium yesterday and first attempted to
install it over my current XP setup which seemed to be working ok.  It
completed installing files did the next part (which i think is verifying
files) and then sat at updating files for a while (no ...

I recently added a new hard drive to my computer because the old one died,
and I had to place Vista on a different hard drive.  Now my old activation
key is not valid, but for all other purposes my computer is exactly the same
except for the new HD, although it probably appears ...

Recently installed Vista 64 on a new machine. Kept getting cannot connect to
internet using IE, no problem with Firefox. Last evening installed update to
Firefox now I get the message "can't establish a connection." IE work just
fine. I've checked security and nothing is set to ...

Hi All,Firstly let me apologies if i do not get this right I am new to
building pc's etc so hope my 'speak' is understandable.I am having
trouble installing windows vista ultimate 64 bit OEM.My system setup it
as follows:Asus M2N8 - vmx motherboard (onboard sound)AMD AM2 64bit 6000

After the install, the PC reboots then I end end up with a blue screen which
either says irq not equal or less at the top or it's another stop error but
it's always these same two.
I know there some thing about 3 or more gigs of RAM, I have 4. But the fix

I am trying to running a DOS program under XP and the error message is "
Available File Handles = 34 " and the program needs at least 99 to run. I
have added a config.sys so that files=99 and buffers=32. Same message. I have
tryed several changes to the congfig.sys but can't seem ...

I wonder if anyone could comment on a couple problems of I'm having after
buying a new machine with Vista Home Premium preloaded.
1: Everytime I switch on Outlook and try to log on to my e-mail accounts all
previously entered passwords seem to erase themselves (despite saving in

Just when I expect my desktop page to appear (ie - after all the startup
processes, machinations, voodoo, etc.), I get a full screen, in DOS format of
addition system32 drivers that apparently never loaded with the rest of
them?!?

I subscribe to the Action Pack and have licences for Vista Business.
However these licenses are for upgrades and not clean installs, so I
get an error message when trying to do a clean install.
The reason I am doing a clean install is because the upgrade from my

clarification:
Purchased new mobo+2sata drives
created Raid array (striping)
Designated 400GB for XP partition

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Hi. I recently installed microsoft office 2007 in my laptop with vista os.
whenever i open one of its programs, the installation setup keeps popping up
("please wait while windows configures microsoft office 2007...etc"). the
same thing happens whenever i run itunes. I tried ...

,When trying to upgrade to Vista Business the installation procedure only
allows me to save on 'H' NTFS Primary drive of 8MB capacity, I have other
drives with totally unused or sufficient capacity to upgrade to Vista
Business.