Back in 2008, I had posted about problems (instability) with Vista Home basic and using an HP Scanjet 4370. Problem was that solution center kept trying to re-install. Couldn't do an uninstall. Solution is archived at http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/174543-hp-scanner-scanjet-4370-uninstall.html Recent update: Program yet again messed up and I tried to...

PowerPoint Viewer is not working. Don't know if it ever worked on this setup. Clicking on the icon produces no reaction except, possibly, a little hard drive activity. Same if I right click and try to open a PPT file (associated with PPV). Same file opens fine in Open Office. I uninstalled PPV and reinstalled after a reboot but there is no improvement. Any help appreciated.

Ref. Windows Vista I have noticed that when viewing Network that my router displays its type and most of the password. I'd like to remove the password information from the icon information. File - Rename is greyed. Can anyone advise?

::Wake Computer to Run Task-:: ::I use Vista Home Premium.:: ::When I use Task Scheduler to run Windows Defender or McAfee Virus Scan I select “Wake Computer to Run Task” from the Sleep mode. The tasks are runned as scheduled, but afterwards, the “Wake Computer to Run Task” is unchecked and I have to recheck it again to run the scheduled tasks.:: ::What needs to be done to keep this command from...

Hmm, Andy is right, we both had trouble with the email address of that Typing Test website. I managed to struggle along at a puny 836 wpm according to that website, with accuracy of 100% of course - - - results posted there under my name of Mark Conrad. This points up what I have said all along, one can not rely on a "typing test" to show accurate "wpm" speed

Hi, My wifes laptop ( Vista home premium) has suddenly developed a problem with the sound volume. Every time she boots up,the volume has decreased slightly and then decreases further when she boots again next time. It has worked OK for nearly one year now but just developed this problem a few days ago following MS updates. Any advice to correct this would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Every time I open windows mail, it stops responding for 30 seconds to a minute. It then responds. Can some one tell me why is it behaving like that. Even sometimes when I move from one message to another it behaves like that too. -- Best Regards Noor Motani

There is a warning about Windows information safety centre in system tray. It said my antivirus program is incompatible for monitoring and Windows Defender conflicts with my Symantec End Point Protection program. I tried to disable the monitoring and Windows Defender but the warning is still there. Can someone advise me what should I do. I have been using Symantec for over 1 year without...

I'm having a disagreement with a friend about how System Restore works.... Bottom line... if you go back to a previous restore point -- do you lose (are they removed) any document files (whether jpg, doc, whatever) you've created/saved since then -- or does it only effect system / application files? Is there a good place on the net you could point me to read more about this? Thanks in...

"andy t" lie about Windows Speech Recognition and "WSR Toolkit". Andy has claimed in all of his posts that "WSR Toolkit" can fix the severe bug in the Vista speech recognition app' which is part of the Vista OS. There is a simple test which proves that wrong, yet Andy refuses to run that test "properly".

Thanks in advance for help. Lately every time I download an update from windows update, I have to restore to the previous point before the update. I said lately because the last 4 or 5 times I been updated my windows, after that I have problems with my wireless, and the only way to make works again is restore to the previous point. I hope this is not hard to fix. Thanks again, Willie

Maybe not a Vista thing. I'm trying to print 4 pages of the same document on one sheet of A - i.e.. 4 x A6 on one page. I am choosing 'Multiple pages per sheet' from the Page HandlingPage Scaling drop down menu and 4 pages per sheet.. However the preview window shows only one page in the top left corner, and this is what actually prints instead of 4. Can anyone help or point me to a more...

Even full blown military spec. (ground and air) equipment can have problems at very low or high temps. Such equipment may have pre-heaters installed to warm up the equipment to an acceptable minimum temperature before it is fully energized, let alone operable. Such heating systems may (by spec.) allow the equipment to be used in as little as 5 minutes, or in the case of some precision...

I configured a new dell laptop at first turn on, Windows 7 home premium. Got some problem with windows Media Player: it's not clear how to play internet radio audio streams: player don't recognize .PLS files, I didn't find "Play URL" and "Play bookmark" options, seems WMP menu bar disabled by default, that is highly inconvenient, what is sense to disable menu bar? I used Winamp player on my...

i installed vista 64 bit yesterday on a new macine. its a very erarly copy. i seam to be having isues with the windows updates working. it keeps downloading same files over n over. i had to repair vista start up a couple tijes now. im trying the falowing download of ms website i just hope they right. sp1: Windows6.0-KB936330-X64-wave1.exe sp2: Windows6.0-KB948465-X64.exe if this dosent...

Anyone? I am tiring of our resident troll, "andy t", so will no longer respond to him. PLONK If anyone else has wants to swap info about SR as it applies to Vista and System-7 then I would be happy to do so. SR is the "orphan" among apps used on a PC, primarily

Hi, The internet connection is in Linux (Host OS). I am just eager to know if i have Windows as a guest OS on Host OS(Linux), is it less possible for Windows to get infected by virus ? If Windows crashes, is there a mechanism to recover it from Host OS(Linux) ? Also, is there any mechanism to debug windows from linux ? Any ideas ?

I have recently purchased a laptop which comes with Vista Home Premium. Got it all set up and went to backup but found the supplied backup utility seems very limited. Is there a way to invoke a complete backup as I had on XP and 2000 or am I forced to use a third party backup utility? Richard

Dep closes regular IE8 off for some reason under Vista, who knows this problem. thnx ;-) -- Greetings, pcfreak007.be

How do you find and delete the temp files in Vista. Not the temporary internet files, just the temp files that are not needed. Thanks.