Hello all, I am Running vista Home premium and have a problem installing the HP printer. I install the software and then connect the USB lead and turn on printer. The software looks for the printer, Vista's own hardware detect comes on, then I get a problem. It asks for which file to select either on my c drive in the windows / inf folder or windows update version. Which ever I select I...

I had some problems with USB drivers. I repaired the drivers and they all work fine, except when I start up my computer, I sill get the found new hardware message and asking me to install the driver software. I click on the close window "x" but it keeps appearing for 5 or 6 times before it gives up. Everything works fine from then on. But when I restart the computer I keep getting the...

I'm running a fresh install of Vista Business and when I mute the sound in the system, some applications refuse to recognize that the sound is muted. One such application is Google Talk. Even though the sound is muted via the sound control panel, google talk still rings in when a new message comes.

i m using vista ultimate sp1, in control panel when i double click on phone and modem option nothing happened. kindly some one help me. -- deemi

Computer: Gateway MT6705 Notebook Pc Printer: HP Photosmart C6180 This printer is located remotely. It was working and then one day when I tryed to print I get a window that says "Save the file as". The suggested file type is *.xps. I can not print now. The "save to file" is unchecked. Please help!!!

I currently have a lite-on brand dvd burner LH-20A1L. I can burn disks fine and read plain dvds and cds fine but when I try to read a burned dvd, it will ot allow me to open the contents of the disk. When I click on open, the next window that appears is "Prepare blank disk." I have taken the same disks and they read fine on other computers. All windows updates and drivers are current,...

Windows Vista Utlimate x64 When I insert a Pocket CD-R, AutoPlay pops us (Select Burn file to disc), When click on drive nothing happens, Under properties: Used space:0, Free space:0, Capacity: 0. Tried to format: nothing happens. The drives read/write the "standard Cd/dvd r/rw" fine Note: Under Windows Server 2008, it does not even recognize the mini/pocket cd's it tells me to insert a...

I have a eSATA disk connected to a VIA VT6421 Controller (Driver Date 8.11.2006). Vista does not show the disk when I click on "Safely remove hardware". Using Device Manager I tried to set the disk policy to "Optimize for quick removal" but this option is disabled.

When I try to disconnect my external usb drive I get the following message. " 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." I have no programs running that would be accessing the USB external drive that I know of. Is there some way to find out what program is accessing it? I...

This problem has only occurred using Windows Movie Maker version 6.6. I have posted a query on that group, also. The bottom of the screen normally contains the " go" or " do it " button when "publishing" a movie. On my Samsung wide screen monitor that button is BELOW the bottom of my screen. I've tried different screen resolutions. Can anyone help me figure out how to make the screen...

after I plug the fla**** produces a soundand shows the 'safely remove' icon in the lower right toolbar. windows explorer does not show it, so I am unable to use it. it is not mounted. the disk management shows it, but it has no letter assigned to it. trying to assign a leter or format produces an error. tells me to lok in the system log. there is nothing in the system log. please, help.

Running 2 7800 GTX NVIDIA cards. They are in the Device manager and both have the latest 124 drivers. Try to set SLI and I am dropped to desktop. Anyone know of a fix? Vista is only using one card to run. Many thanks for your help and or advice.

When I go to the readyboost tab on the properties page for my flash drive to turn off readyboost there is no button to turn it off, it only says that there isn't enough free space on the flash drive and doesn't give me the option of turning readyboost off (I have about 17 mb of free space left after devoting as much of the 2 gb as I could to readyboost).

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 tablet notebook and Vista Home Premium. I believe my problems started when connecting a USB external hard drive to my Vista system. Here are the scenarios I'm now observing: Scenario 1 - Already booted laptop inserted into docking station: The DVD drive in the ultrabase docking station is recognized and usable. However, I'm unable to undock from the docking...

Hello... Can I ask about setting up the Japanese Keyboard layout. The laptop is a Japanese Keyboard but it has an English OS with Windows Vista Home Premium version. Though, the keyboard settings that is set on Device Manager is already Japanese 106/109 keys. Both English and Japanese Keyboard with IME was already configured and installed/added on 'Text Services and Input Languages'. The...

Hi there! I have a problem with my Nvidia driver as soon as i fit more than 4GB Memory and switch to SLI mode I loose the driver. Then i have to install it new and as soon as i try to switch to SLI it happens again.:shock: Has anyone ever experienced something like that before? OS Vista 64 Ultimate Nvidia 7900gs 2x

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I copy my games onto the computer, then when I go to play them it wont recognize the disk in my drive. What's going on here? Any help? -- Dano

i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium 32 bit and have just recently bought a my book western digital 640GB hard drive. i got the hard drive home put all my files on there and stupidly decided to try change the drives name. i changed the name of the drive and then suddenly it disappeared off my computer and now im stuck with a little black box with all my data on it and no way...

sorry this thread was a mistake my computer wasnt showing i posted and im not sure how to delete this... please do not post so the thread can die -- driver08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ driver08's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/driver08.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-hardware-devices/1053536.htm