I have always had the above problem, from XP, XP Professional and now Vista Home Premium. Unplugging the drive and plugging it in again fixes the problem. This problem has occurred with 2 different laptops and a desktop, and with 3 different usb external disk drives. Just to further confuse the issue, over the last couple of weeks a usb hdd on the wife's laptop (Presario running XP Home) after...

my windows update got deleated and when i got these error codes 80071A90, 8004100A, 800F0826 what do these codes means -- k

Hi I have Vista Ultimate. I need to get some hard drive space back, can I uninstall the bits of Windows I don't use, such as Games? Also I have .net 3.0 can I uninstall .Net 1.1 amd the 1.1 update? thanks

I have a new toshiba laptop running vista basic, the pointer/mouse will minimize windows when I use it to activate the scroll bar on the side ofthe page, often it will go back and forth between full and minmized page. Does anyone have a suggestion of howto fix this? thanks

about once a week i get a message that says i am useing a beta version of windows vista and thast i need to upgrade to the lastest retail version. Well i am assumeing that since i bought my vista premium in Office Depot that it is NOT a beta version. *** it better not be a BETA, i paid $150.00 dollars for it. So does anybody, anybody at all know of this problem and how to fix it other...

Dear Microsoft and users of Vista I've used Vista Home Premium for a couple of months now, and I have to admit that I expected more from Microsoft when it comes to functionality and adaptability of the system. In XP Pro I could tweak the computer wonderfully to fit my needs, but I have the impression that Vista is trying to be too smart and it does not let you adapt the system to my...

hi, I'm having a problem burning to a read-only DVD... burning to read-W DVD is no problem.. I get an error at the end of the process: "there has been an error burning to this disk" I'm trying to burn some photos into a DVD as a gift I have to deliver tonight.. pls help.. (yes, the disk I inserted is blank, yes the drive write-to-dvd...;)

Vista won't let me make Word 2003 the default program for doc. files. I can open up my files by opening word and then using the open function in Word to open my docs but I just can't get vista to except word 2003 as the default program for doc. files-When I try to make it the default vista just ignores it. None of the other Office 2003 programs eg Excel have this problem just Word! Please...

Trying to do backup file and it ways not enough room on disc to create.I have read previouse post and dont know what you mean by 3rd party. I am not knowing if it means there is not enough room on hard drive or the disc I am trying to backup on. It states theis when it is creating the shadow copy. How much room are you suppose to have It did the backup system disc just fine. It just wont do...

Hi ! I was using Matlab 6.5 on my old Computer with Win XP. A week ago I've bought a new HP laptop with Vista. Can't run Matlab anymore. Think it's highly unfair that Vista isn't compatible with XP. The prog installs properly but when I try to start it it says: "License Manager Error Terminal Server Remote Client not allowed FLEXlm Error -103,577 ..."

windows could not start the windows search service on local computer. keeps showing Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly

when using internet explorer at first, when i went to a new page or new site that page would make a new page tab next to the other one i just left,and so on. But now now a new page will open up on top of the exsisting one and so on . now i have to close a page to get back to an older page, where as before i could just click the tabs. need a remedy to get back to the it was before. cheers --...

Hi, Data Execution Prevention DEP - keeps closing dowm my windows photo gallery - I cannot understand why. Can anyone help me please Thank you Cass

Hi I have figured out the fn key to change brightness and that fine. My hubby likes the settings different.I cannot work out if you can like set them in account settings so they change when we sign in in different accounts or if we just have to keep changing them.

When I create a new user account on Vista, is there some way to just copy over all the settings from an existing account? The desktop, graphics configurations and all that crap? I spent hours flushing all the Vista stuff out of the original account to make it look like XP and speed up the machine, customizing various things, icons, etc. It would be nice to only have to do this once instead...

I know that stereo mix is somewhere in Vista but it seems to depend on drivers or something. I am suggesting they make this a standard feature like on XP. I have tried many things, such as updating my drivers and "Show disabled/disconnected devices" in the Recording Devices section. I know there are some videos and suggestions going around saying "Show Disabled Devices" is the way to do it,...

I backed up my laptop in Oct, 07 and it crashed and had a new mother board and dvd installed along with a complete Hard drive reimage!! Now it won't allow me to install my files (music,pics, video)??? I get all the way to restore successful yet there is nothing restored....?? I have 9 cd/dvds of backup and it says it is sucessful at the end of the first cd/dvd?? But nothing is done?? Thanx C

My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used? Can I control which Drive I wan to use for stoage? Why is everything going into D drive? -- NONE

i no this is nothing to do with windows vista or anything but i just dont understand microsoft office onenote is it for notes or formulas or both -- Jamie

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