hi fellow vista users, have a big prob, had two new pc exactly the same, but
bought 4 weeks apart, but same specs except the second had a 32 bit vista and
first had 64, i asked why and the manufacture said it was no longer using 64,
but i have lots of 64bit softwear, asked if i ...

Does anybody know how in Win Vista can add a shortCut of a "documet" file to
the Startmenu? I cannot find the path to there!!
If I get the classic stile, I can only add to the Program-menu.
It's possible with other types files as pgm, .exe-files,  but not a doc-type!!

Hello, I'm curious as to what I need to do about the following. I have works
suite 2006 (standard) factory installed on my Dell laptop. I want to install
microsoft excel program, however, what do I do as I don't want to buy an
Office suite? What are my options? Thanks for your ...

Recently I installed MS Virtual PC 2007 and had allocated about 65G of
virtual hard disk space on the virtual machine.
After having uninstalled it and deleted the virtual machine, I downloaded a
trial version of MS SQL Server 2005 (developer's edition; SQLEVAL.exe); the

My computer had compatibility issues with Vista. The Motherboard and sound
card were not compliant. So I changed the mother board and I got a larger
hard drive and of course the Ram and  and just got a Direct X 10 compliant
graphics card. now I plug in the activation code and it ...

I was bought a new Windows Vista Home Premium (OEM). When I try to activate I
get the following message:
"The product key you typed is already in use"
What does that mean? I bought a Vista but I can't activate?

My laptop has Vista Home Premium and came with a 100GB HDD partitioned to two
drives. The drives were to be reassigned new letters, but accidentally only
one partition was assigned a letter. The other drives letter was cleared but
a new letter not assigned. Now "Computer" only ...

I've just installed Vista, and the installation went like a charm. After
having started up for the the first time (succesfully) I modified the folder,
taskbar, sidebar and displaysettings to better suit me, and I installed the
latest updates from WindowsUpdate. I didn't install ...

Having difficulties with new Vista desktop system.  I would like to add
Windows XP as a duel OS to choose when booting.  Is it possible to add a
lower OS to Vista?  If so, please send detailed steps.

I've just upgraded my Sony Media XL201 PC to 2Gb of RAM and Vista is now
asking for license re-activation within the next 3 days based on a
"substantial hardware change"!?!?  When I select automatic activation it says
the license is already in use and that I should get another ...

I am trying to resolve some conflicting information I'm getting from
different sources.
I'm looking to purchase Vista (probably Ultimate) and will probably go with
x64 version.

I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives.  Seems I may have a sneaky
virus on the XP side and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I
want to reinstall
XP.  Since it's best to have XP installed before installing Vista, can I

Want to enable ability to restore from Win XP .bkf file.
As specified I go to Cntrl Panel-Program Features.
Then "Tiurn Windows Features on and off".
OK to run as administrator

Drating Wills and Trust Agreements on Ghost Fill, a legal title by Thomsen
West, will install okay but won't run on Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
Has anybody come up with a workaround?  I have tried installing outside of
\Program Files, no luck.

heres the story... my computer had vista home premium long ago, i decide to
reformat again. i did a clean dual boot (i have xp and vista long time ago
dual boot). when i wanted to activate vista, it gives me this error
0xC004E003..