So, if you have a machine with SoundMax drivers on it, you have to
uninstall them before you run sysprep.
If you forget to do this (I have, unfortunately), you hose your Vista
install and need to start over.

I formatted my hard drives in Vista 64-bit, now when I try to use them
on Vista 32 they can not be found (other than in the BIOS). Someone has
told me that the disk format between Vista 32-bit and Vista 64 bit is
different? They also said that the format in Vista 64 is not ...

GRRRRR --- HELP
I'm searching all over the net and have tried everything to no avail
1 year old dell inspirion 1750 - came with vista - got a virus
Have reformatted, repartitioned, installed drivers at correct spot and

this isn't a problem with installing Windows Vista, but rather Microsoft
Installer has become corrupt. You know the one. It uses .msi files
now-a-days. whenever I try to install anything that requires the use of
Windows Installer, it crashes out with an error. there are many ways ...

Without warning on my Dell XPS 1530 laptop (Vista Home Premium - pretty much
up to date) I found that my system would no longer boot. I could get to the
User Select step, but it was just a Blue Screen from that point forward.
I sent some time today with a Dell tech and we tried to ...

to who ever can help
recently my computer just totally failed on me so i had to reboot from
windows home disk, everything was installed and now its asking me for
activation key which i have on my tower i have tried and tried over again to

I am using wix to create a Windows Installer for a 64-bit Platform that adds
some dlls to the GAC_64. Any information will be helpfull

I got Vista Basic with my new notebook. I upgrade it online with Vista Home
Premium. Then I wanted to run XP in another partition but the system refused
to install XP from Vista. Installing it separatly, I did not get the
multiboot screen and to boot back from Vista I had to ...

Hey all,
Ok, I'll give you guys an idea about what's happened. I've an Asus m50s
Laptop. I had Vista 32bit and 64 bit on two separate partitions, on the same
hard disk.

I have a laptop with Vista Home Basic and a desktop with Vista Home
Premium.  Both run slow and unstable.  A friend told me that Vista 64
bit version runs more stable and seems snappier on the same hardware
since he has tried both.  So, I want to know if I can install Vista 64

Since I formatted (one or two will remember me having had to do this) I
now notice that I have no Windows.old folder, is this normal? I used to
get it but since formatting and installing Vista due to my previous
installation troubles it has not shown itself.......I thought it should

Hey everyone!
Yesterday, Alcohol (the application) bummed up my Windows Vista so badly
that I simply had to reinstall everything. Now since I ended up with a
Windows.old folder containing everything from my previous Vista installation,

I upgraded my 100 GB to a new 250 GB by using the clone function of
Acronis 10 on my Compaq Laptop with Vista Home.  I set the clone to do
an autoverify afterwards and it completed with no errors.
250 GB was hooked up as a USB drive and clone went without problems but

In trying to install windows vista on our brand-new, just-out-of-the-box
computer, it refused to install. It gave me the error code 0x80300025,
saying that it couldn't clean disk 0 because the specified disk did not
exist. The error, the message said, occured when it tried to apply

I know that I can move my profile's folders (Documents, Images, Music
etc) where I want them to by right click > Properties > Location > Move.
Well, I accidentally moved the Favorites folder from my profile to the
root folder of D: and not to D:\Favorites (a folder I had created ...