I have a two year old OEM Vista Premium PC. I just installed a number of updates and when I restarted, the PC looks like Win95. In the Performance section I have it set to Best Apperance with every checkbox checked... and those settings are ignored. Checking them one at a time doesn't do anything either. I tried going in via the desktop but found no aero settings. It seems the recent updates...

I recently bought a new laptop with a built in video cam and Windows Vista. How do I create a video I can email to folks that they can view using most standard media players, like Windows Media Player

I'm mostly a Windows user but fire up Linux on occasion just for the hell of it and not because I need it. What ****es me off though is that every time I boot up Linux there are about 50 - 100 updates that I need to download and install and the effing Ubuntu server was giving me a crappy 17 - 50kb/s max. Took a least an hour to update. When I do updates via Microsoft server I get about...

Hi, Every time I open a new browser window, it opens behind other windows. Is there a special setting for this? Thank you

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I have a laptop that was running Vista 64bit Enterprise fine. It's disk is also protected by bitlocker. It is now in a state where none of the recovery console options seems able to recognize the drive. From a command line bootrec.exe I can see the disk and it's original partitions of proper sizes. However they are 'hidden' and there are no visible volumes. Is there any good way to...

hi all I cant do system restore it say somthink about the c drive i have done a scan its telling me that the c drive is ok Also the spell has gone please help cause Im pulling my haie out Im using vista and internet explorer cheers -- cazxx1

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hello, I installed autoruns and conveniently disabled just a few nuiscance startups like google toolbar updater, javaupdate, msdefender but after a reboot I could not longer boot into vista. there was some error message indicating

I seem to have Windows defender running on my Vista Ultimate SP 2 laptop. This is despite the fact that I cannot see it in the list of installed programs, and my download archive does not have a version that runs in Vista. I used to have Windows Live OneCare installed, but I've uninstalled that and ran the cleanup tool, yet I still see Defender in my taskbar (although it complains that its...

What email program comes with Windows 7? Is there a way to move the contact list and folders from Windows Mail to whatever Windows 7 has? Thanks

I have Vista Ultimate SP2 and want to use the BitLocker. I need to know which instructions to use. With or without the TMP. How can I find out if I have the TMP or not? Jan :)

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Is there another newsgroup, or website, where questions about Windows 7 should be addressed? (My question, in case anyone here knows the answer, is: Does Windows 7 include the option, as XP and Vista have, to have the appearance be in "Windows Classic" mode? Thanks. --

On a nearly new Vista Home HP Pavilion, check disk runs at start up on the 1TB WD external hard drive. I determined that the dirty bit is set to On. Several questions: (1) Can check disk be safely stopped while in progress, maybe by keying Control+C? (2) Can the external hard drive be excluded from checkdisk automatically running, since it is used only for backups? (3) having previously...

My computer keeps failing to start windows, so i was able to get it to the reinstall of the windows program in general. But when it asks me "Where do you want to install Windows?" there is a "Disk 0" the only one so i press next and it loaded for a bit. Suddenly i got this "Error 0x80042453 Windows could not create partition on Disk 0. This error occured while preparing the computers system...

I have Vista and a program called Xtreme Pro. Clicking on the .xar file a window opens that allows me to select Open With, Browsing to the Xtreme.exe and selecting it will not accept my selection. If I run the application Xtreme.exe and then click on the file it loads OK. I have tried all variations in the Open With window and nothing. Is this just Vista mucking around again!!??

For two weeks now, every time that I use Windows Vista Ultimate, after 10 to 20 minutes of use, I keep getting an error window saying "Windows Media Center Store Update Manager has stopped working and was closed". as yet, I cannot get any information from Microsoft concerning this issue. Anybody have some info on this?

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