I installed a new mouse on my laptop (a small notebook hand mouse, plugged in through the USB) and when I go to disable the little mouse pad thing that is on the keyboard of the laptop in devices, there is the option to disable it but I am unable to click on it. I would really like to disable the little mouse pad on my laptop and use the plugged in mouse so if anyone could give me some...

After running a diagnostic test it showed alert for my OHCI 1394 Host Controller that won't start. And has yellow sign next to it in Device Manager. I understand this controller was intergraded into the system by Microsoft. I went onto Microsoft's fix it site to have problem analyzied and they indicated a driver problemm with it and did a reinstall. It worked temporarily. But the...

Previous versions of Windows provided a list of Midi devices usually under a tab in the control panel under "Sound settings and devices" or something similar - where do I assign a different Midi device to say, the Media Player in Vista? Thanks, Tony

Vista Home Premium I just got a new Samsung SH-S203 DVD burner from Newegg. Can't find drivers. Any help would be appreciated. My system doesn't seem to recognize this unit. Samsung site does not seem to know this unit. FRED

I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk. However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop? Thanks Steve

Hello, im useing Windows vista home premium 32bit. i was wandering if their was a way to edit the registry or use a Command Prompt Phrase to manually enable the sound drives? the reason that im in safe mode is just because O.o well, i got more access too things, and yes Normal mode works PERFECTLY so dont ask :P So.. Any Solutions?

Does anyone know if these are supported in the latest builds of Vista or in the drivers from NVIDIA?

I have a brand new Gateway GT5694 desktop computer, using Windows Home Premium (x64). I have a set of Altec Lansing speakers which I've plugged into it, which worked very well with my previous XP computer. There's an echo in the audio output that's so bad that speech is barely intelligible. There's also mild distortion in music. Headsets work fine when I switch to those; no echo at all....

I have five devices that use FDTI serial chips. when I try to connect more than one or two of them (it varies--not consistant) I get a BSOD and have to use system restore to get running again. I got the signed driver from fdtichips.com for XP.

Hi I have an ICH9R board and intel matrix storage. I previously had a 1TB drive with 250GB free (not partitioned). I added a second 250GB hard drive. Is it possible to create a raid1 volume (end of 1TB drive+full 250GB drive) without loosing all my data on the other 750GB of the drive? I don't see how to do it in the matrix storage console. I know it's possible to do this with software raid but...

TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA. Hi, I’m Carlos, asking for help, I’m runnig Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bits) and my laptop is a Dell Vostro 1000. Somehow I have lost the driver information for the Cd drive, it is a TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA device, when you go to the device manager there is a little yellow exclamation mark, further still in volumes (I think) there is no data. There...

I initally bought a Hitachi 1TB drive to connect in SATA, that was getting picked up by my BIOS, but not Vista. Vista only saw it an an unknown device in task manager. I tried everything to get it picked up as a drive...nothing. Someone told me that it might be faulty, so I got another one sent out. Now i have 2 of these drives, a total of 2TB connected onto my PC which is running Vista Ultimate...

Hi. I 've an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 + Vista HP 64 bit. I've seen on INTEL site that this mobo don't have Intel Virtualization Technology infact I've tried by VirtualBox (and other similar SW) to guest Windows 7 with negative result. I'd like to know if with this mobo is impossible or I have to find the right sw ? Thank you Best Regards

When I go to safely eject my External hard drive I always get the following error: Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device Windows can't stop your 'Generic volume' device because it is in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device, and then try again later. It is a ST332062 0A USB Device (Seagate NTFS) in a Xcraft Cooler Master case.

Has anyone used the Linksys Wireless-N PCI Adapter? It's an internal, that plugs into the PCI bus of your computer.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY VISTA WORKS GREAT !! WHERE I WORK AT WALMART OF LONGVIEW, WA I HAVE RECOMENDED VISTA TO EVERYONE I KNOW AND CUSTOMERS AS THE BEST O/S EVER!

Medion Windows home vista; saved photos/files to D drive (recovery) by accident. Medion support said too complicated to do over phone, ask someone who knows about comps. I need to retrieve only my saved files, and not interfere with recovery files on D drive. Can anyone please help? I cannot clean up or retrieve data on D drive. -- Thankyou - Lindy.

Hello. The TV tuner of my card Pinnacle PCTV Rave is not detected by Windows Vista Media Center (both on Beta 2 and on Pre-RC1, both with Windows Update drivers and with drivers provided with the card). How could I have this tuner detected by Media Center ? Thanks

Try a different family of drivers - I got a 7760 photosmart printer to work on 7800 series drivers - HP is not very good with updating drivers etc. - same deal when XP came out - JMO "Travis" wrote in message ... Where the Devil are they?

ageWhen i try to start my media player 11 i get message that says the file wmploc.dll has a version number of 11.0.6000.6336 where 11.0.6000.6344 was expected. It says it was not installed properly and must be reinstalled. I cant find a download on windows website.Any suggestions anybody?