Out of sheer stupidity and over-excitement upon installing my new
Vista Ultimate back in June last year, when I starting installing the
widows Updates, I chose several non-essential updates ... most of which
were language packs.  I now have Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian,

I have been researching a way to check the version of a file thru a
batch file; i found the filever.exe utility, but then discovered it is
not compatable with Vista.
Is there a way to do this in Vista? My goal is to create a batch file

Before this my computer can put into sleep,after i update my graphic driver
it can put into sleep but cant wake up.Wonder what is the problem i faced?Can
someone help me solve this problem?Thanx...

I have an Acer laptop that came with factory-installed Vista Home
Premium.  I've had it two years and I am the only user.  
Today it crashed and when I restarted it, it asked me for my password
at the user selection screen.  I had it set up to just select the user,

Between the \Windows\winsxs and \SoftwareDistribution\Download folders there
are 20 unique versions of iexplore.exe stored on my computer. They run from
version numbers 6.0.6000.16386 up to 8.0.60001.18702, with each one
consuming a bit over 600K of space.

I've tried several things like updating the Nvidia drivers and still it
don't put them in power saving mode.
I don't know what else to do as it's frustrating to come down in the morning
and see that the damn things have been on all night!

I have a home-built computer running Vista Home Premium x64.
Curious problem.
I can put the computer to sleep from from the shut-down menu
manually--i.e., where you see "restart," "shut down," "sleep," etc. with

Any help in improving the sound quality of my machine would be very much
appreciated. It is particularly poor (broken up) on such sites as
YouTube although it wouldn't win any prizes either when playing CDs or
MP3 files. I am not very critical sound-wise so it has to be poor for me

Here are the errors maybe someone in this news group can shed some light on
these the photo gallery news group seams to be dead unanswered post every
were with nobody to be found. I get these errors after installing windows
photo gallery on vista it all seams to work ok not sure ...

Vista Business updated on Dell Vostro
No hw connected other than a recent HP printer, which is switched off when
not in use. No drivers updated, in fact there are no updated chipset / video
drivers available, only Vista critical updates added

A MESSAGE 4 ALIAS. THIS BUG DOES NOT AFFECT VISTA AND W7. ONLY W2000,
XP, AND WS2003 USERS ARE AFFECTED.

Not really sure how this happened, but I think that drag/drop a file
onto my admin acct's desktop-thought I was making a shortcut, and now I
can't delete it.  When I try deleting I get :
If you delete this file, it will no longer be shared.

can anyone please tell me what message is passed when we double-click a
folder in windows explorer?
Also tell me how windows explorer work.? that is, how is that when we
click a folder, the files in the folder are displayed in the explorer?

(Vista Business)
Often when I reply to a poster their post is not prefixed with ">"
The poster before them only has ">" when they should have ">>" and I have to
put some sort of lame "********" between the end of their post and the

I have a Vista computer that always boots into the recovery options and trys
to repair the operating system. How can I stop this from happening?
Even after repairing it does not try to boot normally!
Safe mode does the same thing.