I get past the press any key to boot from CD or DVD then the loading Vista
files screen and it gets to a screen that looks like where the setup would
begin, I then see my mouse pointer but but nothing loads. Does anyone have
any suggetions?

Any ideas please, I have just replaced my vista basic on my dell pc with a
full new business vista package and new product key fine(not using the
original vista basic at all). When i then loaded the basic vista on my non
dell laptop i am being told the product key is invalid? any ...

Every now and then, my computer gets clogged up. I typically solve my
problems by wiping the disk by reinstalling Windows.
This is the first time I'm doing this with Vista; when I did it, nothing had
changed. The only major difference that I could tell was that now I had a

Ok, this might sound ridiculous, but I have just bought a new laptop and I am
trying to change the screen saver to one i downloaded.... but when i go to
change it, i can only choose from those in the drop-down box, which are the
ones that came with it. Any suggestions please???

A month back I bought a Dell Latitude D630 with XP Pro installed. After
seeing that Vista SP1 solved a bunch of problems with Vista I decided I
want to go with Vista on my laptop.
I bought the full version of Vista Business from the Windows

I purchased a new PC and would now like to give my old PC to my nephew. It
had been upgraded from XP to Vista. I did a clean install with Vista and
deleted the windows.old folder which was taking up space but the computer
isn't as fast as it would be if I had formatted the drive ...

I tried to change the display settings in my 'preferences' or 'personalise'
folder,  clicking on a bigger resolution made the display too big for my
screen but then reverted back because i could not confirm it. Since then any
folder windows I open appear off screen. The start bar ...

my laptop has EISA configuration which occupies 65 MB of my basic DISK
as a partition.
what exactly is that and how can i remove that.

If I upgrade Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista, do I need to reinstall
my programs or will Vista automatically recognize them?

I downloaded a software from my employer's website and saved it on my
desktop. I then tried to install the software and  a message poped up
stating; The Administrator have set policies to prevent installation.  I'm
the adminitrator. I also tried to right click on the software and ...

I'm currently dual booting Vista and WinXP.  I would like to delete Vista
and keep XP.
What is the proper way to remove Vista from the system?

Hey guys.  I took the plunge and decided to buy Vista.  The store I
purchased it from told me that they only sold 64 bit, but when I took it
home, it was 32.  I went to the Microsoft website to purchase the 64
disk, but here's my question.  Is the 64 disk an upgrade disk?  Would it

Most of the items on the right of the Start Menu have special attributes, in
that they show an info tooltip on mouseover and have specially tailored
right-click menus.
My Recent Files item seems to have lost its special attributes and the

What is Microsofts solution if you run vbscripts for administrative
tasks and these are affected by UAC ?
Swicthing UAC off requires a restart, once to disable and then once to
enable UAC once script has finished running, which hardly makes the

I can't Install files that i try to download from the Internet. A message
appears that says
"The Window Installer Service could not be acessed. This can occur if you
are running Window in Safe Mode, or if Window installer is not correctly