Windows Vista Home Premium Dell Inspiron 1525 Removed a number of viruses, Trojans and other malware from the machine. It now fails on any attempt to do updates. It does the download, makes a restore point, says it's starting the installation, then fails. Failure codes include (but are not limited to) 80070490, 80246007, 80070016 and C000013A. The first one is the one that occurs most often.

What is the Vista equivalent of XP's Microsoft Office Document Imaging? I would like to be able to view tif files when using my notebook running Vista Home Premium. I have downloaded Irfanview, but the quality of viewing is less than what I'm used to with MODI.

Hi, I tried using a tweak to move my "user files" folder's to "my documents" folder left from the XP OS which was on another partition on my hard drive, it didn't work well so I reversed everything. Now every time I click on "contacts", the "my documents" folder opens up which now shows as a shortcut in my Vista's "user files". My Contacts folder (which is empty) is still in the "user files"...

Am I likely to have any problems transferring my full retail Win7 Home Premium license when I upgrade my PC (new everything except drives and case). I was told I am likely to have to do a phone reactivation but the number is in the USA, there no number for UK customers?

Instead of opening to the Desktop at Start-up the computer opens at the Libraries folder. Anyone able to tell me how to change this behaviour?

Hello, I am confusion about 32bit and 64bit OS. Could anyone inform me about their different? If using 64bit OS (Win7), does it similar to Mac OS X that auto switch to support 32bit and 64bit device driver? I mean can I install 32bit device driver into 64bit Win7 ?

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My computer is running Vista Ultimate and is setup so that a password is required when it is powered on. Can I change that so I do not have to enter a password each time Note: The computer is mine and I have the password. Would just to remove it as I live alone and have no real need to password protect it at this point? Thanks

I received no help with this post under "microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management". Running Vista Home Premium SP2. How can I add ".wmv" to the list?

Hi I am running vista home premium 64 bit, with all updates complete. I have a placed a folder (contacts) on my desktop that I placed there for temporary use, I am now finished updating and backing it up, so I want to delete it. I can delete it, but then when I restart the computor it is there again. I have deleted all the files in the folder, but how do I delete the folder permanently...

I am kind of shocked by what I have experienced with Win 7. Every word is sad but true: Two out of 4 Win 7 installations have spontaneously totally gone south: Microsoft had absolutely no useful fix for either and of course blames the end user, vendor drivers, etc. Microsoft never changes their tune: difficult end user problems are always someone else's fault. Ever has it been ever shall it...

Hello all. I have successfully installed the HP Universal Print Driver on my Windows Vista computer for use with my HP Laserjet 4100 printer. When I go to print, the printer shows "1" in the queue as if it is going to send the data to the printer but then quickly goes to "0" as if the document was printed. The printer doesn't even blink. The printer works fine (if in most cases) if I use the PCL...

I'd like to change the icon on a .exe file on my desktop, but there is no "Change Icon" button when I go into the Properties of the icon for this type of file. How do I change the icon on a .exe file?

First off your posting does not appear on MS Official Nwsgroup for Vista Support. Perhaps your account is flagged as spa* or you don't use Newsgroups reader to post, as most of us do. Anyways, to answer your question: You need to check whether WIndows Sounds was fully or partially disabled by accident. Use one of the mthods below (no difference): 1) Right-click on empty desktop area--.select...

Why is it that the auto-hide feature on my toolbar will not stay working (XP, Vista, 7)? I'll set it and it will work for a few times and then stop working. If I take it off and reset it the toolbar will usually auto-hide for a little while and than the whole thing starts again. Am I doing something wrong? Is Bill doing something wrong? Thanks in advance... Bob

Why does Vista Home Premium (with SP2) on a SONY VAIO laptop automatically installs a folder with a "files" extension with two thumbnails for every graphic data file saved anywhere? For example when I save a photo abc.jpg, a new folder abc.jpg.files is automatically added. This folder contains two 4 kb thumbnails called vcm_s_kf_m160_150x150.jpg and vcm_s_kf_repr_150x150.jpg. Is this...

Hi All, I have a windows 7 Samsung NC110 with 240gig HD and 1 gig of RAM. I have noticed that my D: is showing that i only have 10.7 gig free of 117GIG. I have checked through the drive and I do not have anything like 106 gig installed on that partition. On my c: i have 46.1 ree of 100GIG. Please can someone offer me an explanation of to how this has happened?

Excel does sine, cosine , and tangent for radians and not degrees. This is crapola. Nobody works in radians in the real world. We use degrees but for over 10 years the Microsoft team just can't get their heads out of their arses. Oh yes, Internet Explorer 8 no longer searches for words and phrases in the last frame where the left mouse clicks. No, now this crapola searches all the frames. Oh...

I am having a problem installing Vista SP2 on a laptop. The laptop is an HP with Vista Home Premium SP1 originally installed. When I try to install SP2, (either from Microsoft Update or downloaded manually), I get the message that SP1 is not installed. However, it IS installed. I have run CheckSUR, checked for Malware, disabled anti-virus programs, booted with a selective startup, all to no...

I downloaded this experimental Microsoft app because of one of its features, 'Interest Level', but can't figure out how to use it. For anyone who may be interested, the feature apparently enables sorting Facebook friends according to your level of interest in them, so you can save time by getting the ones you're currently most interested in ls.at the top of the list. It only affects your own...