I have a 60gb WD USB 2.0 drive attached to new latop.  Went to make a
"Windows Comple PC Backup and Restore" image.  Selected said drive.  Main
Drive on laptop is 90 gb.  Starts the backup, receives this error:
"Failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.

so you have used an upgrade disc from XP to Vista Home Basic. Is there any
way you can then go into the add/remove panel of Vista and uninstall to go
back to XP like they did with some other earlier widows systems?
I am guessing the answer is no.

I'm thinking about upgrading my notebook computer to the Windows Vista
environment.  I currently have a desktop that is running Windows Vista which
I'm using right now.  I do like Vista and I have found that I don't have
very many programs that won't run in Vista, but the few ...

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Some routers that have stateful packet inspection have an issue with Vista,
Vista is taking five minutes or more to acquire the routers IP address.
Apparently it is caused by SPI in the router and the suggested fix is to
disable SPI. That's if your router allows you to disable SPI. ...

Year to date I think I've told more people about the release of Vista than
Microsoft has and I'm sure you can say the same if you've heard the same
response I have had when talking to people about the release, "What is Vista?"
Even in 2000, those who weren't as computer savvy knew ...

I only just realised.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx
ss.

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Ok, here is the situation
Tried this on two fresh installs of Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Using these URLS as a test (you have to log into the site to use these -

I have a brand new Dell with Vista Home Premium. Can I create a partition to
install Windows XP Pro and effectively make the Dell into a dual-boot
machine. It has  one 320 gig SATA drive. If so, What do I need and how do I
do it? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

My Vista RTM system is sustaining disk "highest active time" near 100% and
the Image "System" (PID 4) is sustaining about 300MB/min writing to
C:\System Volume
Information\{<32-digit-hex-number}{<another-32-digit-hex-number>} for a very

I just tried to burn a movie onto a DVD that was originally shot in
widescreen format.  Windows Vista DVD burner burned it to full screen format.
Is there an "Options" menu item I'm missing or an add-on that's available to
burn from widescreen video file to widescreen DVD?  ...

Why is it - I have the latest best system running Windows Vista but yet the
most basic of functions fail to work. e.g. jus trying to copy a large number
of files from one drive to the next. You select all then copy then paste and
yet NOTHING - No error - nothing - come on now how ...

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I have 4 machines. 1 running Vista Ultimate x64, 2 running Vista Home
Premium, one laptop running XP Media Center. All of the vista machines run on
RAID drives, two striped and one mirrored. I would like to backup all
machines to a WD NetCenter network drive. I have read that ...

If i try to cut and paste, Windows explorer crashes.  It doesn't matter if I
am doing this from one window to another or if I cut, then navigate to where
i want to paste the file, then paster it...any ideas?
Eric