I think I'm gonna downgrade to XP to try and solve my sound problem. Plus it'll help me sort out a few other compatability issues I've been having but now I need to know if I snould buy the home edition upgrade or the full version. Its like a hundred dollar difference.

The following is copied and pasted from MS's site on compliant devices for Vista 32 and 64 bit OS: "Have confidence that Certified for Windows Vista products will provide superior experiences with your software, photos, music, videos and online communications on PC's running the Windows Vista operating system. That's because only Certified for Windows Vista software and devices have undergone...

Hi All, Anybody has any experience with the Maxtor Central Axis HD? found at: http://www.maxtor.com/en/hard-drive-backup/external-drives/maxtor-central-axis-business-edition.html which is 2TB Network HD. I am using it under a GigaBit router and getting the most 15 mb per second when coping files from different computers into this hd. Otherwise when coping files between computer it could be...

Has anyone found a USB POTS (as opposed to DSL) modem whose drivers work with Vista? I've been trying to dig one out of US Robotics, but there Vista strategy seems to be to hope Vista goes away. Thanks.

I need to buy a new soundcard ....but parting is such sweet sorrow....Has anyone found a workaround to get soundblaster live to play 4 speakers or surround on vista ultimate....Thanks .............

When I try to boot Vista with my Memorex D33013 DVD Burner, it just freezes. Yet, when I unplug the drive it works just fine. I've tried booting in safe mode but it still freezes. Looks like it freezes when it tries to load IO.sys Anybody else have a problem similar to this or any solution suggestions? Thanks!

I put my PC to sleep (hibernate) and when I turn it back on it goes through the "Now resuming..." screen and then it shows a black screen with a "_" flashing in the top left-hand corner. That's where it stops. I then have to restart the PC and Windows asks if I'd like to try again or just delete the data and boot normally... I have to choose the latter option. Any ideas on what this could...

I installed Vista Home Preium on my HP notebook dv5094ea. Everything is great and there has been no issue until I put my duo card (pro-duo in its adaptor) into the card slot. Nothing happened. I updated the flash bios from the HP website and this has at least got the card recognised. Now its sayinhg to update quick play, I can't find this anywhere. I am also not convinced that thsi will...

I have a new Media PC with an Intel 975BX2 motherboard and a 8600GTS video card. Output from video card is DVI to HDMI. Latest Nvidia drivers are loaded and latest BIOS on MB. I can put machine to sleep fine. However when I wake it up fans start, disk activity and lights happen but no video signal and the visial display on the case (Imon drivers using latest software) stays blank. I have to...

I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize the drive I get one of...

I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize the drive I get one of...

On my old XP machine, I could plug my Motorola into the USB port, and it started charging automatically. I now have a dual-core Pentium Toshiba with Vista. I was certainly surprised when I plugged my phone in and was met with a message box requesting that I install a driver. I don't want Vista to find and install software or a driver. I just want to charge my phone. Vista asks for a...

I have a new Gateway GM5415E w/a DVD Burner (supposedly a multi-format DL drive). I can burn music (wmas) using Windows Media Player; however, when I try to burn documents or other data to the same brand of CD-R it simply ejects the CD and says: "There was an error burning this disc." I've tried Windows Burn Wizard (gave me the previous explanation) & Nero (also unsuccessful)

WMP 11 does not recognize mp3 players, SD-crads, UBS-drives. They do not show up in the devices screen of WMP. So it is impossible to synchronize files to them. How can I manually add devices to WMP 11? Thanks, Albert The Netherlands

See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=ken+beard&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us for more details of original issue. I'm still noticing the above problem. I connect my blackjack and then WmdHost.exe sucks up ALL available memory...

I've tried to install my Artemis a million times now and each time Windows does not recognise the device and installs the generic Windows Mobile device driver which just does not work. On occasions it tries to install the Pocket PC driver which works for one second then displays - no drivers are installed for the ARTE20000 driver. I can manually add this driver like in WinXP as I cant find...

Hi, I'm new to the boards, I recently switched the profile on my Windows Mobile device running 6.1 to usb mass then after I was done using that function, I switched it back to activesync,but even though my device says its on activesync, my computer only recognizes it as a usb mass. wmdc wont even flinch any solutions please running vista ult x64

Hi, I am trying to sync my Windows Mobile 5.0 device with Vista using WMDC Final Release and all I am getting is the autoplay dialog. Does anyone know how to proceed from here? Thanks. James

I am trying to sync up my Cingular 8525 with my PC (running Vista). The moment I plug the USB cable into the phone the PC asks for the password, I type it in and WMDC tries to connect and then says: Error! I deinstalled WMDC and reinstalled it but have no luck. Can anyone help? I was on the phone with the Microsoft helpdesk for 4 hours and they can not figure it out. I think it has something...

Have been reading posts in newsgroups for several days now sync using the Mobile Device Centre. By using some of the advice given I may, or may not, have nearly solved it - so near yet so far! The WMDC and Sync Centre are recognizing my ipac 1940 and it actually syncing. But where to I'm not sure! On XP I used ActiveSync with Outlook 2000. I have Outlook 2000 installed on my new Vista...