I posted earlier about how if I try to open up IE while playing Chess
Titans, the system will freeze within a few seconds (mouse won't move,
C-A-D won't work, and a hard reset is required). That happened twice.
Now today, I launched Chess Titans (with zero IE windows open), and

All I'm trying to do is install a cd-rom for my daughter on vista basic.
It gets to 100% then the above error pops up-so no cd-rom installed.
Any ideas?
I've been to the appropriate website and installed all Directx updates etc

One thing that didn't work in XP and doesn't work in Vista is
customising how notification icons should be handled in the sys-tray.
The problem isn't that it doesn't work initial+ly, it's just that after
a reboot or two most of the settings are "forgotten" and I have to set

While using wordpad, I can access the font menue and select a different font
or font size but when I look into the wordpad window or look at a print-out
from the printer, the font and font size is always the default. Your
suggestions please.

Suppose someone opened a hotmail email window as though he was going to type
and send a hotmail email. He selected Rich Text then  pasted into the hotmail
email window a copy of a webpage. How could he save to disk the  webpage that
is in the hotmail email window?

I have windows Vista Home premium, the Icons in the Help section are missing,
also when I use Internet Explorer 7 it is the same. For example, if I vist
this page with IE 7, all the left side menu and the top of the page are boxes
with a red X in them, and they are all inactive. ...

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News Group, Just FYI. Threatening 2 Report Someone 2 piracy@microsoft.com,
When He Was Trying 2 Download A Fully 100% Legal Free Trial Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005 SP1 Download File Of Windows Vista RTM ...

I am curious if Vista can be run from one of those portable external
hard drives that I see in Staples, etc... rather than have to install
another internal hard drive.  I want to dual-boot with XP (already
installed on an internal HD) and it would also be great if I can bring

I'm desperately trying to sell this drunken pig I some how came to own.
I'll accept any valid offers in any form of monetary exchange.
Well...anyone?
Frank

I'm not offered Vista SP1 from Windows Update.
I have Windows Vista Premium installed and use Symantec Endpoint
Protection. I know the wgx.sys is stopping delivery of SP1 for older
version. I have about two weeks ago upgrade Symantec to the new

My mother-in-law recently bought a Compaq Presario C500 with a Celeron M
that came with Vista Basic pre-installed. Needless to say, it takes forever
to perform basic functions, like merely opening an instance of explorer. I
have the laptop in my office and am at this moment ...

Vista Ultimate SP1 (32-bit) on Dell Precision M6300.
Just when everything is working perfectly, Media Center seemingly randomly
decides to scramble the TV Guide so that channels are our of order and
previously blocked channels become reactivated.  The result is chaos and it

Vista64 Ultimete with 8GB RAM hangs after resume from suspend with black
screen.
No problem with 4GB RAM.
No problem with 8GB after call "bcdedit /set removememory 4096"

I want to replace Windows Photo Gallery with Windows Live Photo Gallery, in
regards to functionality. Anything Vista used Photo Gallery for, I want it to
use Windows Live Photo Gallery instead. I know how make Live Photo Gallery
the default viewer for seperate images; I want it ...

I have been using Delrina Daily Planner for (Don't laugh) fifteen years
on seven different computers. It has worked with pre '95 Windows, Win 98
and even XP. I have not been able to install it into Vista. Is there any
way to workaround or force the install? I dread the idea of ...