Am wondering if anyone out there has any opinions as to what the most
popular, in terms of being owned and used, version of Vista is, and is
expected to be.
I'm a technician, am about to buy a Vista laptop, and my primary

I am taking a required computer class for my major in college, this is my
return to school after my children have left the nest. We are discussing how
well Vista is being received by the consumers. I was wondering what the most
annoying or negative aspects that you have found in ...

I have music files in my Music folder and Word and Excel files in my
"Homework" folder.  But, when I click start-> search-> and type in "alan" (to
find all of my alan jackson songs, which are all located in my Music folder)
only 1 alan jackson song shows up.  Why?  I have like 20 ...

Have a new Toshiba notebook with Vista Premium OS. I have been accessing 'net
and my e-mail fine until a couple of days ago. Things stopped both for
wireless access as well as broadband cable.
Trying to diagnose the problem and get a message "media disconnected". Not

I do not know what I did wrong, but one day mysteriously Vista started
rebooting non-stop. This would happen even if I tried Safe Mode or Last Know
Good Config. My PC suggested that I try Startup Repair from my Vista DVD, but
when I tried using it, it was stuck for over an hour ...

I'm trying to install real player on vista, and it's coming up with
decompression error and goes nowhere. Tried several times. Any ideas as to
what's causing this ?
Does real player work with vista ?

How can I turn off the Vista login page listing all the local accounts
and login using the windows workgroup logon badge that looks like the
domain login with the two lines for entry of username and password. I
am using Vista Home Premium edition. Can any one tell me how to turn

Media Center on my computer is not gathering any new music, yet all the files
on my computer have been indexed.
When i first installed Vista media center gathered and indexed all of my
music, but since I put it all in the Public directory, and changed the scope

I seem to be having a problem accessing files that are on other hard
drives.
I have 4 hard drives set up, but when I try to point to say, the My
Documents folder with the user folder, I cant seem to access these

I have a small thumb drive that worked previously in Windows Vista and still
works in XP. Lately, when I plug the drive into the port I get the icon to
"safely remove" hardware and the drive shows up in the removal list. But
when I go to windows explorer it does not show up. It ...

I was playing a few old DOS games on my XP PC today. - How will they play
with Vista? - come to think of it will they in fact play on a Vista PC?
Andy.

Is Vista Business 32bit?  I'm in the process of ordering a new PC and due to
the software that I'm going to use (Adobe CS3 Web Premium) which is
compatible with 32bit, I want to make sure that I don't get the 64bit.  Plus
it appears most of the software issues are with 64bit.

I changed  What the Power Buttons Do so that Sleep would mean Hibernation
( feature I always liked on XP), but when I click Sleep the computer does
not Hibernate. Any suggestions? Or - is Hibernation not good to use and I
should just ignore the problem?

...I seem somehow to have turned this ON ... so old fashioned looking.... on
the top of all my screens (Explorer, Control Panel etc).
How can I GET RID of this toolbar please?
Rgds

Maybe zachd or some other WMP11 guru can help!
WMP11 burned audio cds fine until this week.  Now, this happens:
When trying to burn any file (tried multiple MP3s ripped by the same WMP11
instance) to AUDIO CD: