When I initially upgraded XP to Vista Premium I did not install the Media
Center. My Vista software is OEM so I don't have a Vista disk. I only have a
3 disk OEM backup. Does anyone know how to reinstall or turn on the Media
center. I can't find any reference anywhere.

Im running a P5N32-E SLI motherboard with 4GB of RAM.
Im using a Samsung 500G SATAII NCQ (HD501LJ) harddrive and I seem to
experience a tad unusual behaviour.
Currently I run Windows XP Pro 32Bit (english) on the C:\ drive and it works

I brought a disc on eBay,  vista ultimate I used the disc then found out it
was a fake disc so no product key.
I have informed MS with all the details of the seller etc and eBay.
I now have the problem that my Vista does not have a correct key, I have

I received an error code 0x800F081F "An internal error occurred when
installing the service pack". Any clues? I had been testing SP1 Beta prior to
this but have successfully de-installed prior to attempting RC upgrade.

During my vista install, my PC lost power. It was installing onto a clean
system and disk, and now falls over after the "Windows is loading files from
the disk" section. It now produces the following error:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the ...

I am trying to make a clean installation of Windows Home Premium 64 bits OEM.
After informing the serial key the installation is interrupted with the
message "File necessary not found  D:\Sources\install.wim." The number of the
error is 0x8007000D. The file install.wim is in the ...

I have drives in "My Computer" that do not physically exist in my computer. I
do not have an A drive yet Vista shows one there. I have a DVD drive and a
hard drive yet Vista shows 6 drives. My hard drive is not partitioned. How do
I get rid of the "Fantom" drives?

When I try to install Windows Vista Update Security Update for Microsoft .NET
Framework, Verson 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB929729), I recieve error
WindowsUpdate_00000643.   I think this has to do with Office 2003 Prof.  Cany
anyone trouble shoot this for me ?  I would normally just ...

I'm looking for surveys research or esimations what is the current and
future estimated (2008-2009) market share of vista 64 bit among home users /
gamers.
Any piece of data will be helpfull.

I've recently decided to try Vista, so I installed a friends copy without the
key just to evaluate vista and see if I want to purchase it. I went to
microsoft online and seen that you can download an upgrade and key code, the
problem and question I have is I am out of the U.S. ...

I'm tying to install WLM on a laptop using Vista Basic and the installation
wont proceed. I searched the net for information, found something related to
this, on having proper (admin) rights, but didn't help.
Can someone suggest something here? Thanks.

I want to wipe the computer that Vista is installed on clean, but I do not
have the Vista CD to reinstall it with.  I have the the product key, though.  
Is there a way to download a free trial of Vista, burn it to a disk, and then
install it on the computer once it is wiped?  If ...

I upgrated to Vista Business, when it first came out. I had a lot of
problems i.e. "Not Responding" .... etc.
I did install/upgrade properly - I think!
My question is -- When I upgrade this time again, will there be a lot of

I put my 2gb USB stick in our new laptop and Vista offered to use it for
Readyboost, and wished to use 830mb of the free space so I said OK.
Now I use the memory stick with my portable apps on several different
computers as well, when I next used it at work I noticed that the ...