I am looking into buying a new laptop without an O/S pre-installed. I already
have a desktop computer with XP installed, but I'd like to upgrade that to
Vista. Can I then use my old copy of XP on my laptop once I have installed
Vista.

Anyone know of a place to get it from?
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I work for months with a FTP program, which runs fine.
Today, I launch the prog and get en error message : " ... does not appear to
have been installed correctly for the current user. (the prog) will exit."
My config didn't change (vista family premium + Norton Internet Protection)

I am waiting for an upgrade copy to arrive, of Vista Ultimate. In order to
do a clean install, I read the instructions available of the Internet on how
to get Vista on to the drive.
But when they say, after it is all installed, without the product key

Tried to upgrade XP SP2 to vista ran the compatability thing and no
problems... hit install and get a message that my PC is not comatable with
ACPI.
BULL!

i tried to install xp on vista by booting it from cd and it displays "no hard
disk found make sure hard disk is connected properly and turned on and check
the hard disk configuration ",but when i run my computer normally on vista
everything works fine ,my harddisk works fine.I am ...

I've just bought a new data cable for my mobile phone in order to transfer
files from my computer to my phone and visa versa.  I've installed it and
each time i connect it to my computer, it makes a sound (the computer's way
of acknowledging the hardware has been connected).  ...

I am trying to run Harvard Graphics Advanced Presentations 3 and get an
appcrash error (see below) when I try to run it. HG is kind of passing the
buck on this one, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestionson how to
fix. I'd be so grateful!

Someone is probably about to make me feel really stupid but here goes.
I recently changed my PC at last to a 64bit compatable machine.
I completed the upgrade from XP 32 bit to Ultimate 64 bit, via the reboot
full install method.

I just re-installed my copy of Windows Vista Home Premium using the disk that
I received when I upgraded to Vista.
It has installed successfully, but since then, my PC has been crashing every
so often while I'm using it. This is sometimes every few minutes, or it could

ANYBODY, I HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED A HP PHOTOSMART D5360 PRINTER AND WHEN I
TRY AND INSTALL IT, IT SAYS WINDOWS CANNOT FIND MY DRIVER SOFTWARE. I
DOWNLOADED THE DRIVERS FROM HP SUPPORT BUT IT STILL WON'T FIND THEM. DOES
ANYBODY HAVE A FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM?

I have issues that I would like your help with.
I purchased an HP Pavilion a1730n on ebay as "brand new sealed in box" but
as it turned out it had been used for approximately 4 days (judging by the
file dates). It came with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system

is it possible to do not install Windows Calendar, Windows Mail, Windows
Movie Maker and Windows Contacts during a unattended Vista Setup with an
unattend.xml file?
I found this page:

i installed vista home premium on my computer, but during the installation,
it restarted and then once it came back on, it wouldnt continue the
installation, i tried and tried again, but nothing. so i installed it on
another hard drive in a different computer and put that hard ...

ok, i just reinstalled vista, and because this isnt the first time me
activating my vista, i have to call them to activate it... well when i go to
activate it, there is no opition to call microsoft....i had already done this
before with the same copy of vista on the same computer ...