The F-lock key may start Windows7 in Safe Mode, but it's more efficient to
use:
a) Condom while using Windows7
b) Helmet while browsing Web at high speeds.

Vista Ultimate 64bit
Is there a way to hide drives in Vista? I see aftermarket utilities, but I'd
rather discover a native Vista way to do it. Back in the 'old days', I used
a third party utility to password protect a drive and was never able to

Rightclick on any file-->proeprties gives you true filesize (actual or space
occupied on disk)
However as you traverse a folder's contents by clicking up/down arrows
(keyboard), statusbar indicates ABSOLUTELY wrong size inflated by 6-8 times.

Windows Home Premium
HP Pavilion dv2700 Notebook PC
Since a recent windows update some of the icons available in the
notification area have disappeared.  At first the Power indicator and the

After I installed Vista SP2 via auto update I first noted that my Retrospect
backup program generated many errors.  So I did a diskcheck (no Fix) on C:.  
I had great difficulty deselecting the "fix errors" mode.  I had to click to
deselect many times before it would deselect.  ...

I recently formatted my hard drive so I could set up a RAID array.  Windows
Vista is now asking me to activate it again, but it wont accept my product
key because it says it is an upgrade edition.  I already upgraded from
Windows XP to Windows Vista, I don't know why it wont ...

Question 1) Is there some way to change the image that's displayed when
Vista (Home Premium) starts? Could MS have used an uglier image? I don't
think so.
Question 2) Is there a registry (or some other setting) that controls the

Something has changed in my Home Premium system
such that I can no longer save to the desktop!
When I try, I get an error message stating " You don't
have permission to save in this location."

You can tolerate Search, Appearances , etc nuissances I've complained here
about.
However today morning I discovered the mother of all inferiorities of Vista
vs. WindowsXP.

I'm getting a seemingly random BSOD with the stop error of 0x0000001a and a
description of MEMORY_MANAGEMENT.
I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit with 4gb of ram (although only 2.75gb
shows available).  I'm running an nVidia 680i motherboard with 4gb of

The Recycle Bin dont deletes the items what is in the recycle bin i was
maked these
instructions:http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66294-recycle-bin.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/131294-recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-fil
e-folder.html

I just bought a used tablet PC with vista ultimate on it.  I have spent
the past 2 days updating and putting all of my software on it but now it
says there's some kind activation exploit on it and that it will
probably kill the OS pretty soon because this is a no-no. Nowhere in the

SEVERE T-STORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN TODAY IN THE WINDY CITY SUBURBS!

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I'm running Vista Home Premium. I have the Vista defrag set to go
automatically on the first day of each month at 9 PM. The settings are
correct on screen. However, it says next scheduled defrag = never, and
the automatic defrag does not occur. I have to start it manually each ...