when I plug in my mouse to a gateway laptop with windows vista I get a driver not found message. the logitech site tells me that the driver should work with the vista native drivers. any suggestions? -- papapaul

I hadnt used my wireless adapter for some time, and recently went to use it. firstly it would let me at all, it was saying that the device was being used by another utility. i rolled back the driver on it and i got it working, but it still is not working properly. it often logs me off and says the same message, that it is being used by another utility, plus whenever i go to the wwireless...

A while ago i've bought 2 wireless headphones (Teac HP-4BT) and i tried to used them with a bluetooth usb adaptor. They work fine except one thing. The sound from the left speaker is played in the right one and what should be played in the right speaker is played in the left one. I used both headphones, 2 different USB adaptors (MSI and Logilink), 2 different sound cards (the onboard one and...

Hi Is the standard serial (RS-232) modem driver anymore provided by Microsoft for the Windows Vista OS? I cannot find such driver for Vista Business (Control panel - Modems or Vista installation media). I've tried the standard modem driver from XP, but it seems not to be reliable. = RAS/dialup connection goes often into state that it produces H/W failure

Hi, I have Vista 64 bits with ASUS P5K motherboard with Realtek HD Audio. I have a problem with sound, the sound has a strange noise and crashes. In addition, when I use stereo configuration, for the left speaker it sounds ok but for the right it's a lot lower and with more noise. I have checked the speakers and the cables and are ok so I don't know if it's a windows/driver problem or a...

Hi, I have a Dell Dimension E521 Athlon with Vista Home Premium. I had to reinstall Vista a few months ago at the advice of Dell's crack technician's in India. I was having trouble with computer freezing when I booted up. After it was re-installed problem continued even after a new mother board was installed. I reinstalled Vista again and this time it booted up OK but deleting a file, if...

Realtek HD Audio Driver Change (from ver. 1.87 to ver. 1.87a) 27 February 2008: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#High%20Definition%20Audio%20Codecs I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS!

Hi How to disable MTP support in Vista Business? At least for selected devices. I have some USB devices which support both MTP and MSC, but have no option to change the protocol - they default to MSC under XP, and to MTP under Vista. It hinders their functionality severely, or simply put makes them unusable. For example it's impossible to make any changes to files without copying them to hard...

Hi, My Group Policy is SNAFUD and I reset it as per http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/313222/en-us and now I can't write to my floppy drive. I've checked in the BIOS and there is no setting to set it to read only on this computer. I've tried using the Windows Vista Ultimate repair procedure, but it won't let me do it from boot up and when I try to do use the 'UpGrade' from the...

I am thinking about buying an external harddrive. I would like to leave the harddrive on all the time. Here are the questions I have. 1. Is it O.K. to leave the external harddrive on all the time? 2. How to do power management of the external harddrive? I don't see a way to specify the idle time to turn the harddrive off in Vista power management control. 3. Will the harddrive turn it off...

My dvd/cd burner vanishes in Windows Vista Ultimate and I've had to do 2 system restores for windows to find it again. Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so, how were you able to correct it (if it was correctable)?

While attempting to install Vista Update on my Toshiba A65 laptop I was informed that Vista was incompatible with the ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP screen hardware. What can I do to deal with this problem?

I bought a new PC with Vista (POS). I am unable to use most of my programs so networking does not fill all my needs. Is there a way to share keyboard, mouse and monitor between two PC's (primarily the monitor). Desk space is at a premium. The old PC is running Windows 2000 Pro and I cannot use remote access. -- Life is not a banquet; it is a covered dish dinner. What do you bring to...

I am trying to back up my files to a second hard drive. But, when I go to My computer, it just doesn't show. I look on CMD and the hd is there, and all the connections are fine. How do I get it back? I run a Windows Vista Premium.

I have a Viewsonic LCD monitor. i just put a new pc together with an XFXForce 8600GT video card. The problem is when i boot the pc i see the bios screen fine. it's not until i see 'Micrsoft Corporation' and am about to see the status bar going back and forth that the screen goes blank and i then see 'No sginal'. I'm connected using a DVI-I cable. If i unplug the cable from either the card or...

DVD Device properties states Code 10 - drivers did not load. Are there BIOS settings that need to be tweaked? Solution please?

Intel-Networking-Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection failed to install several times, showing Error Details: Code 80070103. This was an automatic update issued by Microsoft. This failure has resulted in a wireless network connection failure too. Running Vista Ultimate (32), 2 gigs memory, with two Centrino Duo chips (1.67 and 1.66 gigs). After trying multiple times to install,...

HELP! i have just got my PC with vista home premium on it and have no sound what so ever it says that the device is working properly and that the drivers are up to date but nero player and WMP both say no sound device installed when trying to play test tones in the settings it says failed to play test tone i have tried all of the obvious but still no luck can any one please help me many...

Hi I am trying to install some new drivers for my Hauppauge tv card on my Vista OS. This requires me to remove the existing drivers and restart my computer. My problem is that when the computer reboots the old drivers automatically reload. I can tell this by the bubble which pops up in the bottom right hand corner of my screen telling me that windows is locating the drivers. Clicking on...

hey guys, been wrestling w/ this for a week & a half now, & can't figure it out... have a gateway FPD2185W 21" WS monitor and an EVGA 7300GS. have been using 'em w/ vista x64 for 4 months w/ no problems (RGB; the dvi port on the crappy Gateway blew last winter). was using my box normally, hadn't updated any drivers or installed any new apps in a while, when the screen just flickered and...