http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/05/26/apple-microsoft-market-cap.html Funny thing is while it states 10% of the world market is Apple, I bet in North America it is twice that. 1/3rd of the laptops at my work are no Macs of one type or another. Users want them because they work better. Real push on the budget as the only thing holding back going 100% Mac is the cost. Think, if Apple got...

In Vista Home Basic, I installed the latest version of Adobe Reader 9.x and it left a shortcut and a folder on my desktop called Adobe Reader 9 Installer. I have never seen this behavior before. Adobe Reader did successfully install. I thought installation files automatically went to download folders. Can I delete or move this folder off my desktop without disrupting the program? thanks,...

OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit with Office 2003 When a client asked me to do a document using Times New Roman 12, I discovered that Vista did not have that font (it didn't appear in my font list nor was it available in Word), so I downloaded and installed it from a file called Times32.exe. I had to manually extract the TTF files from the archive because running the exe didn't install the font,...

I've added a task in Task Scheduler that just loads up a very simple program I have that displays some date information. I look at it for about 1 minute then close it. However, I've noticed that after I close my program the task is still running. I'm not really sure what it means that the task is still running, since I've closed the program the task opened.

For some reason my computer is automatically starting in Safe Mode. The keyboard is not responding in this mode, I can only use the mouse. When I try troubleshooting from the Start/Help menu nothing happens! I am running out of ideas!

I feel a bit foolish asking for help about this. I thought I knew enough on my own, but obviously that's not so. Here's the scoop: For the last two years I have been trying to remove my original Dell system 9200 boot disk. It has only 65MB of storage, and I have long ago added other internal disks, including a newer larger boot disk. Last week I added a new additional 2TB internal disk and I...

Hello, In my system configuration file there are 3 startup options, 'normal startup' , ' diagnostic startup' , and 'selective startup '. I have 'selective startup' ticked. I cannot remember fiddling with this file, but might have done and if so I cannot recall why! My pc seems ok, should I switch back to the 1st option ?

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How can I reduce the file size of a wma audio file by lessening its quality? I tried Windows Media PLayer, but there is no option to do that. thanks

I've been using Windows Vista Ultimate for almost three months now, and all of a sudden tonight I couldn't log on to my laptop. Every time I tried I received the message "The User Profile Service failed the logon. The User Profile failed to load." I had successfully logged on to it only five hours earlier, so I did not understand what could be going on. Fortunately after Googling the...

I purchased new laptop with windows 7 home premium. Since it does not have office 2007, I downloaded PowerPoint viewer 2007. It did open the .pps attachments but after a couple of days it refused as a dll file got missing. I uninstalled and re installed the viewer and it worked. I have now realized that when windows updates, it removes this dll file. Any help is appreciated. -- Best Regards

Hey, guys. I have a problem. I'm not sure where to post this. My younger brother's computer won't boot correctly. It will get to the loading screen with the bars, but just stays there forever. Just the moving bars and "Microsoft Corporation". I got a Vista Recovery Disk and tried to boot from the disk so I could hopefully go into system restore or something, but it just does the same exact...

It appears that Windows Media Player that comes with Vista Enterprise does not include the ability to play DVDs. When I try it says that no codec is installed. Can anyone suggest what I need to download, preferably for free, to either get WMP to play DVDs, or a free player that's not too obnoxious with ads. I tried installing the K-Lite Standard Codec pack, but either I did it wrong or it...

Hi Group Every time I insert a memory stick into an USB port, I am presented with a pop-up asking me whether I want to scan my memory stick or not. Regardless of what I choose this pop-up appears again and again. Is there a possibility to turn this feature off or to make Vista remember which devices are already scanned?

I have Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007, including Outlook 2007. I have had it for several months now - without any problems - besides the fact that Outlook in Vista is slower than a 286. (For the young people reading this, a 286 was a computer your grandparents used in the 1980's). Anyway, suddenly this week, every time I click on a link in an email in Outlook 2007, I get the...

Hello An old XP program I installed has put some files into a folder called C:\users\myname\appdata\roaming . I can find the folder using Vista 'search' facility, but not using explorer ?? The program works OK and I have got a shortcut to the folder I need, but why does it not show up in explorer ?

I have bought a second hand laptop with windows vista business installed. There is a sticker on the bottom of the laptop showing the installed windows is a genius one. But part of the label gets wore out. I want to make format the hard disk and do a clean re-installation of vista again. However, I am so worry that if I miss the serial number, I would be stuck in the middle of the...

I have one app that is blocked by Vista during Startup. How do I tell Vista that I want this program to run every time I Start? Thanks..........

The wife has her Vista 64bit box which uses dial up set NOT to check for and automatically DL updates because it is not online always plus user account controls are turned off. Updates are installed every couple days when available while she is at work by me. Because these are disabled pop-ups keep appearing about checking setting and such when I know what the setting are!! Is there a way...

hello, i have a vista home premium 32bit on a laptop, which randomly gets problems: 1.sometimes , the theme becomes from black to gray , yet the themes service seems to work (on the services window) . when restarting the service, it becomes black again. 2.sometimes , the language toolbar becomes floating instead of staying on the system tray . sometimes it just disappears, and sometimes it...