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...

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...

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...

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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...

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 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

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...

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...

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

Can't re-install my HP photosmart C4200 all in one.It asks me for the disk which I run,then ½ way through I keep getting an error telling me the driver software can't be found.I have followed all the solution links & downloaded hotfix etc. & have even downloaded driver direct from HP,but still no joy....Anybody got any suggestions please?????...........(All in has been previously installed...

I have a Dell e1505 laptop with Vista RC1 on it, but when i close the lid of my notebook my screen does not shut off like it used to. Does anyone know a way to correct this or do i HAVE to make my computer go to sleep every time?

My CD burner suddenly began treating all cd's as DVD's. Rather than simply copy files such as pictures to the CD, it begins a lengthy burnng process similar to burning movies or songs. This has extended the time required to copy files and is quite irritating. I am sure there is a simple adjustment that will allow me to copy and paste files to the CD but I have not been able to find it. Has...

Ok, well the subject pretty much explains everything. I searched the sony website and they say that there should be a driver for my camcorder that comes with vista but vista can't find the driver on my computer or windows update. They say it's compatible with vista but yet don't offer a driver. Some help would be appreciated cos I might have to resort to installing XP on another HD. Thanks.

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I have a computer, on a corporate LAN, that had a printer locally installed and connected. That computer has now lost that printer, and each time that I click the 'Add a printer' button, I receive an error saying the 'Operation Failed' with an error number 0x000000a4. Searching for the error number brings up a blank. Any suggestions as to what is happening?

I have a SATA Drive that I pulled out of a Windows 2003 server. I put it in a USB drive container. When I plug it into an XP machine, I can see all of the data. When I plug it into a Vista PC, I don't see any data. Is there some security setting or something that I need to change?

After the system recovery both network adapters on my ASUS notebook running Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit stopped working. The adapter is Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100Base-T Controller (original drivers, they were working just fine before). Well, not stopped entirely at all, it still manages to connect to well-known wi-fi networks, acquire an IP and the network actually 'works'. But when...

I have a bunch of cdrws and i am trying to burn some iso files from the internet on to them. I know i have to format them before i can put anything on them. How do I format when everytime i open up the place where the d drive is and a cd is in the drive the program says not responding. however i can click on the d drive whenever i don't have a cd and browse properties. For some reason...

When I have the list with devices, the list only remain a moment. Only the name of the disc remain. Then the list open again - but only for a moment. So the list comes and goes all the times. What is the problem?