was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize all of my card readers and my usb hubs. For the USB hubs it would recognize 2gig or less flash drives but nothing over that and when I opened "my computer" I didn't see the typical list of all the 'virtual drives' I was used to seeing. I tried redoing the INFCACHE.1 trick, and edited my registry to point to system32...

I have two firewire hard drives plugged into an pci-e firewire card. When I try to transfer files off either of the firewire hard drives, it's ridiculously slow at speeds less than 4 MB/sec. This only started happening after I reinstalled Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I'm not sure what to check to figure out what's causing this very slow transfer. Any ideas?

I am a new, just created, VISTA user. I have it installed on a test machine which is networked to a second machine which is XP PRO SP2. The networking is via a D-Link router. I have two printers, one an EPSON R320, the other AN HP PSC950 AIO. The EPSON is connected directly to the VISTA machine via USB. The HP is connected directly to the XP machine via USB. Each printer prints just fine from...

I just noticed that everything under the HP printer's properties is grayed out and so I cannot change anything. I thought ownership/privileges could be the cause of my not being able to print from this test VISTA machine over my LAN to the HP AIO printer which is connected directly via USB on my XP machine. But I can't change anything - I notice other things (e.g. share name) are grayed out...

I am testing VISTA Ultimate and find that I cannot get any of my older scanners to scan - nor can I find VISTA drivers for them. I have 1) HP PSC950 AIO (It prints however) 2) MUSTEK 1200LP 3) UMAX POWERLOOK II Anyone out there have any luck getting any of the above to scan in

I've tried until I am blue in the face. I can't get this scanner to scan using VISTA. It works okay in XP. I did get it to work once in Vista Ultimate, but after a crash I had to re-install Vista and now I can't get it to work. Several re-tries with different drivers and driver re-loads either produce no scanning at all or once or twice only partial scans of the source. So, I am frantically...

Within the last few days (probably since the last big MS update) I now have problems with using external devices. USB drives, memory sticks, mice are either OK or always want a driver, can't find it and then sulks. This has to be caused by the MS updates as everything was fine before then and nothing has been changed by me. Also, the devices have all worked perfectly for the last year...

My system is a Dual boot XP Pro SP3 and Vista Ultimate SP1. Intel 965 chipset, E6700 CPU, 2GB RAM, Lightscribe DVD-RW, with multiple hard drives and multiple partitions. I was running a Geforce 6600GT 128M PCIe video card. Last week I was working in XP, and when I booted back to Vista, the monitor reports no signal. It gives me the boot up screen with the scrolling bar, then goes black...

When I was first messing around with Vista I refreshed my "Experience Index" thing-y at a time when my BIOS clock was incorrectly set. Now, because it's in the future, my rating never updates! Is there anyway to _completely_ purge old ratings? I've searched through the registry and I can't find a thing. Thanks -- GeekUnit

According to the online lists I've read, Vista officially supports the ATI 9550 videocard. And while I know the card is no spring chicken, it suprises me that it rates a lowly 1.0 on Vista's performance rating system. I just downloaded the newest drivers from ATI and re-ran the performance check, and it's still the same. Is there anything I can do to enable Aero? Before you ask, I'm not...

I have a few devices whose install doesn't (visibly) extract drivers to any certain folder, but that runs a setup executable instead. I've found the best way to get these devices to work in Vista--if they will at all--is to recursively scan the Windows directory of my XP install when updating the drivers in Vista's Device Manager. Hope this helps. -- geekunit wtfamidoing.info

Hi All: I recently upgraded from XP Pro sp2 to Vista. I have two cards installed: a Gigabit AGP 8x card and an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI, neither of which has Vista drivers or is on the compatibility list. Under display settings, Vista selected the Radeon 9250 driver for the Radeon card, and "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" for the Gigabyte AGP card. On XP, I was running both monitors (an NEC 17"...

i bought a western digital My book essentials 500GB external hard disk a few days before. instead of gaining direct access to the drive, i was prompt to install the driver software. however, vista couldn't find the software. the HD is supposed to be plug and play. what can i do here? the HD works with other computers. my newly bought MP3 player is also facing the same problem. please help!

I'm having problems playing sound CD's and movie (video) DVD's on my player. It plays for 10-15 sec and then becomes unresponsive. DVD player comes with DELL Demension 9200. Have installed Vista Ultimate build 6000. Some say it is the build in codecs from Vista. Other forum says its the hardware which is causing the problem. Does someone recognises the same problem? -- Your mind is like a...

Can anyone assist me in where I can find these drivers so that my laptop can work again?

I have tried the solutions in this newsgroup which have not worked. I have seen in other postings that disabling certain add-ins might resolve the issue. But my mouse does not work in the "Word Options" window, i.e. only the "Popular" tab works. Please help. -- gehara11

Hiya, I have just bought a compaq Presario F504EU... and it seems to run fine with Vista (came pre-installed). The main problem I am having is with the NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller, in that it randomly stops working. Nvidia don't want to know, Compaq online realtime tech support didnt help (they gave me wireless info for XP!!) and im not paying £40 for microsoft help (apparently my...

I have a brand new dell workstation running vista business; everything worked fine until i installed microsoft intellipoint 6.2 and intellitype pro 6.2 software from the mirosoft website. The microsoft wireless desktop elite was from my previous workstation and the microsoft website driver download area chose this 6.2 software. After installing this software, the computer completely locked...

I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the...

I have Vista 32 bit and I'm trying to connect wireless internet. I bought the above product as the shop assistant told me if I went on the Belkin website I could download the driver to work on Vista. However, I can download the driver and open the files, but when I put the adapter into the USB port the computer won't recognise it and find the driver. I have tried the adapter on XP computers...