I just bought a Dell laptop, xps m1210 with vista ultimate. It works fine
everying except the firefox, which I prefer to use. I contacted Dell but they
have no solutions at present either.
does anyone have any clue what is the problem?

I purchased the Ultimate Upgrade version. I also purchased the 'Family
license' in order to install Vista on my laptop. The latter only provides the
Premium version. I have Ultimate RC2 currently installed on my laptop and the
upgrade version will not allow me to install Premium ...

Is there any good way to transfer files from a win98 box to a new Vista Home
Basic machine?
The '98 box has USB1.1 ports but no network support (modem only).
I looked at direct cable transfer (parallel port) but this support seems to

Man you guys are just the best really. Build and OS and 70% of the software
won't run, crash all over the place. Funny, even your own apps don't work
correctly. I'll wait for everyone else to fix your problems as normal.

in XP you could drag and drop an email into the calendar to create a reminder
(the email was embedded and contained the specifics) all you had to do was
change the date, time, recurrence etc.  It was a very convenient way to
create an appointment or reminder.  I can't seem to do ...

I have just received my copy of vista x 64 bit home premium. Is it worth
upgrading yet? Are there enough drivers for x 64 bit use? Do I do an upgrade
install over my 32 bit version or a clean install?
What is the best way to keep all of my current programs and file settings?

Does anyone know if there is an API to programatically determine in
ReadyBoost is enabled on a removable drive? I've been looking everywhere
without much luck.
Thanks,

Hey all, i'm looking for some help to a question.  My company just ordered a
bunch of PCs from Dell.  They are XP Pro since we are not going to be ready
for vista for about 6 more months.  These computers are Vista Capable and we
are getting the update discs for them, does anyone ...

I am running a clean install of Vista (Home premium OEM) and am unable
to play any of my mp3's in windows media player 11 or windows media
center. Whenever I try to play an mp3 I get the following error
"Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in

mfpmp.exe
There it is the problem.  Drag an mp3 into wmp.  Now CPU up to 75%.  No
volume but progress is moving.  Same in winamp - no problem.  My app - no
problem.

I would realy have loved to send this as a support request to microsoft, but
it seems they do not accept it. I hope they monitor this news group and try
to find a solution.
I bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium preinstalled.

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition and it hangs on a
regular basis (twice a day or more).
There is a knowledge base article (929734) that indicates a hotfix might
help, but I need to contact MS to get it. I built this system myself with an

Hello. I am interested in using the microsoft solution to the incompatibility
problems with vista, namely virtual pc 2007.  I have 5 hard drives in my
tower and installed windows vista on a formatted drive.  I didn't delete,
unistall, or otherwise alter the xp operating system on ...

so i deleted the 10G recovery partition, shrunk c, so i could have a logical
drive for documents.
i did this in vista, since i found no partition software that workes.
problem, im noy able to merge the 2 unallocated spaces to 1 partition.

I have Desktop Weather installed and it works as it should.....except Windows
Defender will not allow it to open at bootup.  Of course Windows Defender
give me the option to open the program.  
I've read all I can find about this and cannot find a solution that will