Dear friendz, I just brough Dell N5010 (Inspiron 15R) Laptop with DOS and now I am trying to install Vista 32 -bit on it........The installation has completed successfully but whenever I am going to crack (Activation crack-Vistaloader 3.0) the windows it restarts the windows and it stucks at Black screen with blinking cursor........How do I install Vista ???

I am trying to install Vista using autounattend.xml answer file. If I leave all location settings as en-us it works, if I change to my location en-gb, the answer file is ignored at setup. Any ideas for how to fix this?

On my way to getting to Windows 7 I upgraded to Vista from XP in a new partition. I still have a partition running XP. I have a HP 4000n network printer which I can print to from the XP partition and which is used by two other computers. I originally used the HP Install Printer Wizard to install that printer in XP. In the Vista partition I downloaded and installed HP Install Printer...

what can i do ? spellchecks not working now internet explorere keeps stopping i was told that this laptop aspir5335 was upgrad from xp and thats way im forever havig some kind of problem.

When I try to install service pack 2 on the machine it fails giving the error "error_invalid_parameter(0x80070057)" When looking into this I tried the following. Download standalone installer and perform the following: 1)Performing a clean boot and retry install - same result 2)Uninstalling antivirus and security programs and retry install - same result

I am trying to upgrade XP to Vista. After the information gathering process finishes I get a message to the effect that "upgrade installation disabled - cannot determine if another operating system is present - fix boot record and run again". I do not have another operating system installed. Anyone know what is going on here and how I should proceed? Thanks.

I need a registry file from someone who has any version of Vista with a working Windows Installer. The file is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msiserver Details can be found in this thread: http://www.vistax64.com/vista-installation-setup/96680-repair-windows-installer-service-vista-all-versions.html (the links posted in this thread are no longer active)

My computer has been completely wiped out and we've been trying to get Vista to reinstall on it and everytime we get to the end of it where it is installing updates then it pops up stating that "windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install windows, restart the installation." Unfortunately everytime I do it I get the same problem. I need to...

On my dads (acer espire x1700) just stopped responding last night....just froze. Anything he has problems with, i always fix it with no prob...however i cant fix this. now he had AVG, on his pc..and i know hes always on there and just keeps clicking from site to site...so i know there viruses on there..anyways, i restarted it and within 2 min. same thing (freezes) after 7 restarts. Now i did a...

when you install a driver in Windows Vista and later, you get a dialog "Windows Security" asking if you trust the publisher. You can also tick a checkbox like "always trust this publisher". I have set this for a certain publisher but want to reset that. How can I do that? Regards, Jan

My PC came with a 250GB hard drive and I replaced it with a 1.5TB one and installed the vista (32bit home premium, Service Pack 1). The installation went fine and I was able to format the 1.5TB during the installation. After the vista is up, I can see the capacity is 1,500,299,390,976 bytes. Everything worked fine till the I used the space up to roughly 500GB. When I copy a very small file,...

my stepdaughter's laptop's hd crashed (unusable), she of course lost the system disc. I have my laptop and system disc, both laptops are gateway but different models 6752 and 6836. I have a new hd on order, and I will install vista with my disc and her windows product key (her laptop) I shouldn't have any problem with that right? thanks

A Vista Business 64-bit was booting fine until an Epson printer decided that the ink was low, put a two page document into the queue, and never operated properly since. We first deleted the printer object, connected to another printer on another workstation, and were able to print. But that failed on the second attempt to print, so we waited for the refurb Lexmark to arrive. The Lexmark...

Each time I reboot i get "BOORMGR missing , hit ctrl-alt-del". does this everytime. i put in vista disc and repair it and will go into windows. how do i fix this.. When i do the repair option on the cd it does not find the OS installed on the hards drive. Im think that my hard drive has crashed any ideas on how to verify that the hard drive is gone. -- tweety1001

I cannot install .NET 3.51 sp1 on Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit). When I try to I get the dependancy message indicating .Net 3.0 is not installed. I checked the Control Panel and tried Turning it off, rebooting and turning it on again. Yet, .NET 3.51 still says it's not installed. Also, I cannot install the VC++ 2005 or 2008 redistributable library. All kinds of problems, sometimes I...

Hi. On a number of identical computers, I've attempted to create a dual boot system, where I've used an acronis backup of vista on a separate partition in order to use it in combination with a windows 7 upgrade over the original vista version, to create a dual boot system (using easybcd 2 and easeus partition master). So for instance, the disk is 300 gb, I've divided it into 3 partitions, 100 gb...

I have tried at least 5 times now to install Home Premium. Every time in the expanding step (the second one in installation) I get error message 0x80070003 stating some files cannot be found. What is wrong, obviously all the files I have are on the disk. I am clean installing it on a wiped hard drive that I format with the Home Premium disk prior to installing. Someone please help.

PROBLEM - Hey every one! I need a little help with my Windows Update. On the 25th of October, the update was fine and everything. Now, when I went to go update on the 31st it said the 25th was the LAST day it auto-update on! I went "WTF" so I decided to manually check for the updates but I did not expect a slap to my face with a smooching red error code: 80070424 ('screenshot of the...

I have DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 PC. It has 64-Bit hardware. I installed Windows VISTA Ultimate (X64) and after that audio driver is failing to install. I ran windows update but the issue remained unsolved. Following was the explanation given in "Problems and solution". "This problem was caused by Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter. Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g...

Hi, I have had a corrupted system for some reason so had to remove everything and restart. However. The Vista Product Key on the bottom of my Laptop has faded so a few of the letters look unrecognisable. I have tried what I believe it to be and it doesn't work. As I have not exactly lost my Product Key, Is there a way to get this product key from somewhere without paying for a new one ?? I...