I have several PNY Attache 2 GB USB flash drives that do not install properly on a computer running Vista Home Premium SP2. They work just fine on other Windows Vista (Business), Windows XP and Windows 2003 computers. On this PC, the drive is detected when it is plugged in, but the driver installed is the Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader instead of the USB Mass Storage Device driver. After the...

I have several PNY Attache 2 GB USB flash drives that do not install properly on a computer running Vista Home Premium SP2. They work just fine on other Windows Vista (Business), Windows XP and Windows 2003 computers. On this PC, the drive is detected when it is plugged in, but the driver installed is the Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader instead of the USB Mass Storage Device driver. After the...

I have an Asus Striker II NSE motherboard running a Quad Core Q9450 processor. I put 4gig Kingston DDR3 1066 in it and had no issues with it. I installed 2 DDR 3 1300Mhz 1 gig modules and it says they are running @ 1300 MHZ. I purchased 4-GIG (2 2-gig)Corsair 1600 Mhz modules and it shows them running at 1067Mhz. Now I know it won't go any faster than the CPU speed ( 1300 Mhz in this...

"Windows Media Center Receiver Service stopped working and was closed." This is the error I get when trying to open the Media Center and watch TV. Vista Ultimate. It was working perfectly the other day. Nothing changed in the system that I am aware of. After a minutes it says it can't find the tuner.. I Tried doing something with the DEP setting, but I wasn't sure what to do so I did...

I have now jumped through all the currently known hurdles in about 10 days, except this one. I cannot find an updated driver for the subject device. All functions work except the 4th of 4 buttons. There is nothing to allow me to set the "programmable" functions. Think about this, I bought the thing because the then new Windows XP did not support my Logitech trackball. After all of these...

I assisted a Computer Club member setting up his new Acer computer running Window Vista Home Premium. The cabling to the Samsung 35in TV/Monitor is HDMI. All manuals state no other audio cables are necessary. I have been unable to start sound. If I plug standard speakers into the output jacks on the computer, all is well.... Any thoughts?

I have a nearly new XP machine. I also have a new Win7 machine. I continually work on other computers for our computer club. I have bought a 4 port KVM switch with DVI in and out. My XP machine (although it has a DVI connection on the back of the video card) won't connect. I have now added a DVI to VGA connector at the XP machine. Still won't recognize the monitor. The Win7 machine has no...

Can anyone please tell me what the folder name is that holds the mail files for AOL email. For instance, I believe outlook express files are .dbx. Thank you for any help. -- - Charles

I don't know why, but my CD/DVD-Rom drives aren't being recognized in Windows XP...I haven't been able to isolate what caused the problem, but CD's and DVD's aren't being recognized, nor are the icons available in "My Computer". After I investigated the problem in Device Manager, both drivers have a yellow exclamation mark next to them, and I get this message under driver status: Windows...

While my sound works I cannot hear anything when I am in Control Panel/Sounds and click on "Test" to hear a selected sound such as an email alert. While the selected email alert does play in real time when I receive email it does not play when "tested".. Using Vista Home Premium with SoundBlaster 24 bit 5.1 internal card and latest drivers from Creative....

I'd like to expand to desktop over two monitors with Vista as with XP. My second display adapter is an older Matrox for which there are no Vista drivers. Can someone suggest a simple (read cheap) PCI display card supported under vista? TIA, Charlie

Hi, did anybody have luck with the version 1.3 (latest) drivers provided by Microsoft for the Microsoft VX-3000 Webcam? As soon as I am activating the device (e.g. pushing the button) - the application (e.g. Live Messenger) hangs. Karlheinz

Does anybody know the two port USB hub from Mobile Computing? I've had two BSOD's which I think may have been caused by this hub, but I'm not entirely sure. Are there any Vista drivers I can download for it? It's currently recognized as 'generic USB hub', and uses the usbhub.sys driver. Charlie42

Hi, I have got a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000v.1.0 keyboard that causes a peculiar problem. The keyboard is connected to an Acer Aspire 5102 by USB. The box says 'Works with Vista'. Funnily enough, the problem occurs when I unplug it (there is no Safe Ejection option): The right side of the laptop's own keyboard then goes haywire, displaying 1 for j's, 3 for l's, minus for p's and so on....

Am running Vista 64 Business on XFX 680i Sli LT with 2Gb ram, Quad core 6600, 7600GT video. System runs fine, but I want more memory to help performance. When I try to install additional 2Gb, I get a blue-screen every time I boot (some blue screens have an IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL, most have no error msg). I did find a Microsoft update that may have something to do with this:...

I just upgraded to MS Vista and in the upgrade process, Vista changed two of my drives letter (an external harddrive and my CDRW drive). I would like to change them back to the original drive letters, but can't seem to locate the procedure for changing the drive letters. Can someone advice, please? Thanks Charlie ******************************************************

On my laptop, I want to display the Icon for the Local Area Network on the Taskbar, but can't seem to figure out how in Vista (In XP, in properties for the LAN, there is an option to display the icon on the taskbar. I do not see that option in Vista's LAN properties. Second, the wireless network icon is displayed on the Taskbar. I do not use wireless and would prefer to not display that icon...

I have a home network connecting through a Linksys 4-Port Router. I connect my Desktop and my Laptop on the network to share Internet and files and printers. I have WinXP (no SP3) on the desktop and Vista (no SP1) on the laptop. I have my harddrive partitioned into 3 and share the "E" drive with the laptop. This has worked fine for a long time, but lately, I cannot access the desktop "E"...

My setup is to Map the "E" drive on my desktop to "Z" on my laptop so I can share the E drive with my laptop; (with 3 partitions on the desktop drive); I am running WinXP with all latest updates on desktop (no SP3), and am running Vista on the laptop (no SP1). I have NIS 2008 running on both machines. I have been running this setup for quite some time with no problem. Recently, I had to...

Hi, just finished building my first computer and all OK 'til installing Vista Premium 64 - On the installation screen it sees the 500gb drive I want for storage but not the 320gb one I want for the OS (both brand new, same model just different capacity so same driver, both recognised in the BIOS) Have installed Vista on the 500gb drive in order to get online help and vista now sees the 320gb...