Hello all, I have a friend that has a PC with Vista. She would like to learn this OS more in depth and was asking me about a book recommendation, Since I do not have Vista I could not recommend any books off hand.I have heard good things about the Missing Manual series. Is Vista, The Missing Manual (David Pogue) a good recommendation? What other book is recommended? Thanks!! Saga

Hello, I have a Vista Professional laptop joined to a Windows 2003 domain. How do I go about transferring files, folders and application settings from this laptop to another workstation which contains the xp professional OS? Is there a simple way to do this? many thank in advance. Joe

My boot manager appears to be in the D directory (Recovery). Does this mean that this programme is not available for normal use? Can someone tell me the function of boot manager? Thanks

I recently purchased a used Toshiba with Vista. The system works fine other than when downloading or opening an excel file either via e-mail or off a web page. Word will down load just fine. I use excel a lot and it works fine from scratch when I build a spread sheet. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Jim

Driver Installation Error: Windows cannot install the Amyuni document Converter 2.10 kernel-mode print driver. To obtain a driver that is compatible with the version of Windows that you are running, contact the manufacturer.

Hi In XP I could change the default folder view. In Vista it is harder. I have found Organize - Folder options. but when I make changes Apply to folders and Reset folders. These buttons are disabled. Why. Desmond.

can one re-partition a hard drive with Vista and install Windows 7 for a multi-boot setup? if so, what's the easiest way? hpdesktop Intel Core2 Quad CPU 3Gigs of RAM 360Gig Hard Drive (126 Gigs Free) Vista Home Premium 32 bit

his is weird... I got a program that downloads crossword puzzles. It came as a zip file, with four files within it. So I created a file in c:\Program Files, and moved those four files into it. I thought that I would be able to tell the program where to put the puzzles it downloaded, but no. So it downloaded them into the new folder....kind of. If I look there with Windows Explorer or with a...

Greetings everyone! I just upgraded my system to the new Vista Home Premium version. Everything seems to work fine however Media Center would cause serious slowdowns of video and choppy sound. I determined that the problem was with the video card, so I just upgraded to a ATI X1600XT with 256 MB. Now Media Center and indeed all of my visual stuff hums along quite nicely. However, I still...

I am using windows vista home edition in my home. The machine wireless network connection will not be working when the system will be restarted. So after each restarting of the system , I have to connect with wireless network againg by giving username and password of the router. Please anybody can advice what I have to do to solve this problem With many thanks Pol

I am upgrading a c# Remote Control application (like VNC) to handle UAC prompts. I've found that SendInput is failing. Here is what i have done: 1. A windows service launches the app on the user desktop running with SYSTEM account priviledges 2. The app then launches a second app using ShellExecute (using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start) 3. The second app has uiAccess=true in the manifest...

Hello, my question is to verify if these statements are true, I wanted to email these guys personally but I understand it's better to share this with everyone. The questions concern if hackers can break into my Vista computer and access the hard drive's files, if my laptop is wirelessly connected to an unsecured router (meaning they connect to the unsecured router, and connect

I tried to help my brother make a new partition on his 1 terabyte HD with Windows 7 premium installed. In Computeradmin. it shows: The HD is partitioned with: boot partition without a letter - 100 MB

Running Windows Vista SP1 on a laptop - two accounts, Administrator and Guest. I am using a mobile broadband connection (via USB modem). However, my son who has been known to visit "inappropriate" sites and has "accidentally" downloaded malware onto my computer is now being required to access the internet via a Guest account only (thereby, I hope, avoiding installing crapware onto my...

I am running Windows Vista home premium and cannot find secpol.msc I am trying to get a program, ODIN, to run on my system. ODIN tells me "Windows Vista users should enable UAC to allow for the correct creation of the ActiveX components needed by the application, but not run the application as 'Administrator'." Windows help says to run secpol.msc but my system says it cannot find this...

If I want to boot from the CD drive on ocassions, but otherwise boot from the hard disk. How can I achieve this. Thanks

So I can burn a dvd to play in a dvd player, and I understand a general menu comes up when playing on the dvd player - but the problem I'm facing is getting the -separate files to show up in a particular order-. For example, if I have a tv show, I'd like the menu to show up as ep1, then 2, then 3, so that they would play in order. I'm not sure if this is possible with the windows vista burning,...

When I configured Windows Vista Home Basic on a new laptop, I picked Russian regional setting (language, keyboard, etc) wrongly assuming that it would localize Vista. Now that I know that it would not work like this, I need to switch all settings back to English. I modified all regional settings leaving just English (US) keyboard layout, but when I power on the system, the default language...

I installed the latest version of Messenger and upon loading it crashes, here are the details: Problem Event Name: BEX Application Name: msnmsgr.exe Application Version: 8.1.178.0 Application Timestamp: 45b12d6a Fault Module Name: unknown Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Xp had a button to STOP searches. In Vista how do you do that, I can't find any such button. Clicking on the X is no option as it kills the app. What to do? Thanks