No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics Thank God... The Olympics will happen! lol http://zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62016737,00.htm

Had circuit city download on my new laptop spy sweeper along with norton and the set-up...Now after setting up spy sweeper to run 3 a.m., it is still popping up & knocking me off-line or off window using. How can I stop this ??? Don

Is it my settings ? Why are so many of the replies to messages come up as ... rather than as appearing as part of an existing thread?

DVD burning: (RW disk used) So, I drop some files and say burn... off goes Vista and then the window disappears never to return despite disk activity... And nothing happens. A balloon pops up saying I have files to write "Click here..." and nothing happens when I do. And when I try to eject the disk it says files are in use, but offers to allow me to Continue - which will "close all files",...

You have to register. The site says it is Vista compatible. I have not installed, yet. I offer no claims as to its reliability. However, I have seen numerous folks say they like it. http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/registration/php/trial_step1.php?session_langid=2&edition_id=2805 Request for a FREE full version key without limitations for the program: Ashampoo® Burning Studio 6 (F_vnu_gb)...

I have recorded a couple of programs via Windows Media Centre on Vista Ultimate I want to find these videos through the normal interface as I want to trim the videos before I burn them to disc. Can anyone tell me where I can find these recorded videos. Thanks for helping Alan

BUG: Icons in Windows Vista become corrupt after uninstalling StyleXP from an upgrade of Windows XP. Article ID : 321964* Last Review : May 30, 2007 Revision : 1.0 SUMMARY Assuming StyleXP was installed on Windows XP system prior to a Windows Vista

Many icons are invalid or missing. In Explorer, the icons for: Computer Public Floppy Disk Drive (A:) (D:) (G:) (S:) are all the Windows default icon.

I have run into a bit of a problem. I ran my weekly Spy Sweeper scan today and it was taking way too long - over 6 hours. I saw it was running the scan on the Application Data folder under my user name. Upon further investigation I found many Application Data folders under the Application Data folder, approximately 10. I recognize they are all short cuts or mapped folders. Yet there should...

I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?

I'm trying to update the drivers for a PCI to Parallel port adapter. I downloaded & unzipped the Vista drivers from the MosChip website, I've tried every which way to get Vista to update the drivers, but it always ends up with the drivers that Vista automatically installed in the first place when I installed the card. I've tried uninstalling / reinstalling. When I point vista to the new...

Ok, here's a strange one... While looking through control panel I had found Magnifier and turned it on to see what it did. Ok, that's cute, turned it off. Then it started comming on everytime I rebooted. Took a while to find the Control Panel setting to permanetnly turn if off but I finally did it. I noticed however when magnifier was on the fonts were affected, as if the screen was being...

I have a remote desktop problem need to be resolved. I have used the Vista remote desktop in my company, I could showed the Logon screen and able access to the server. But, when I use it at home, system can show the remote desktop screen but it has been halt, no logon prompt available for me. Do anyone know why it happened ?

Why does it take a day for my question to show up in my newsgroups on my home computer. This is the only newsgroup that I have a problem with. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks Richard

Hey there, I have this warning coming up that says I have to activate my Vista? I haven't changed anything to my knowledge, the only thing I can think of is putting in a new networking card about a month ago. Anyway, how do I activate it. I have a retail copy of Vista Premium. I tried to find a phone number but it just tell me I have to pay 60 bucks or something...I'm in Canada, I don't have...

well i bought a computer that already had vista on it and the guy in the shop said that i had to put vista on a dvd-r to make sure i could re-install it when something went wrong but i have no idea how to do this can anyone help me out?! thanks

Hi out there. One of my favourite web sites is a site called web shots. They have some fantastic photo's of which I used to save as screen savers and then run them as a slide show screensaver. I no longer seem to have this option with Vista in right click or anywhere else when attempting to save them. One of the options is save as wallpaper but of course this is not what I want. Can anyone...

Hello, I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium. I also have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed. When I tried to save a web page (receipt) as a pdf file Vista won't let me save to the directory of my choosing. Instead a message comes up and says that I must contact the system adminitrator to do so. What is a simple way to authorize Vista to allow me to do this? It is a frequent...

How to explain that? UAC is turned on.

Hey, I just got Vista and my problem is that I have a Control Panel icon on taskbar beside other desktop icons but there is no Control Panel icon on desktop itself. I tried to delete the icon but after I delete it, it comes back again. I used PersonalizeChange Desktop Icons and checked/unchecked Control Panel and it only affects the desktop itself not the taskbar. Any idea how to get rid...