I have a Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium. Vista SP1 will not install either through WU or manually. I've tried several possible solutions, but it appears it is due to a corrupt manifest file (0 length file). Microsoft wants me to do an in place upgrade. I requested the DVD required from Dell but the DVD they sent has SP1 included. My question is, can I do an in place upgrade on a...

I have run the upgrade advisor and it says everything on my computer checks perfect to go from my XP Pro to Vista. The catch is, I found in reading material, it requires a min. of 800Mhz. My system is 533Mhz. Did Microsofts test program screw up? Here's the thing. I've been trying to get more speed out of my Flight SimX. Sadly, on the default settings, it will only operate at around 4 to 6...

A couple of days ago I left clicked my Start Button and nothing happened. I can right click the button and explore all users to get to the programs, but when I click on it nothing happens. I have run virus and spyware scans (nothing), windows updates are all up to date, and rebooting has had no effect. Help please!

New Vista 64 install here. Any recommended services that most people turn off that would get me even better performance? thanks -- mistafadedglory

I cannot get my spell check to work in english, why? How do I fix it?

I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard disk and Vista is on e:. Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed the...

If this post is not relavant to this group please forward it to the appropriate group as I couldn't get through the appropriate group. I have got the windows 2008 DNS installed on the server. I have even added the forward and the reverse zones. I have to reinstall a fresh copy of the windows 2008 server and now I do not want redo creating the forward and reverse zones. How do I have these...

I previously used windows xp. Under windows xp, there was a pointer under sendto that pointed to my favorite editor. Now I am running Vista HP. I would like to keep that pointer. QUESTION: Is it possible to add a link to my editor under sendto? c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\

I was able to get one network adapter to be configured in the windows 2008 unattend xml file. However the server has dual NIC one for private and other for public. I am not sure how I configure the two NIC interfaces. Questions: How do I add the second Network adapter IP address? see the blank space below in the unattend file where this configuration has to go. How to Disable Autologon?

Hello Everybody, I have the famous crcdsk.sys issue. I recently departitioned my Hard Drive and then repartitioned it and formatted. I reinstalled windows VISA Home Premium and it will not finish the installation process. When it's suppose to be starting for the first time it all of a sudden blue screens and restarts. The blue screen and restart happens so fast so I can't see what error...

I want to upgrade the pre installed Home Premium to Ultimate, with the help from a Anytime upgrade DVD. I have run Windows Update, installed updates. Premium is running fine and no problems listed in the device manager. I have downloaded the Upgrade Advisor from the Microsoft website and run it on the vista premium. It checks for updates, and then continue allowing me to initiate the system...

Whenever I install this it kills my indexing ability. Is there some special trick to get it to upgrade my machine and work too?

I have just completed building a super powerful PC comprising of: Intel QX9770 quad core Processor 3.2ghz Intel DX48BT2 Motherboard 8gb RAM (4x 2gb DDR3) Sapphire Radeon HD3870 graphics card 2x WD 300gb SATA HDD's as RAID0 LG Blu-ray/HD/DVD/CD drive Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

Windows Vista Home Premium In XP, the Control Panel/Folder Options dialog window has a tab labeled "File Types". This allows setting the command that runs the program the user associates with a file type for opening or printing. Where is the equivalent in Vista?

Bought Vista (RC1) from MS and installed yesterday. It seemed to work fine and shut down last night. Today after work I booted up and it does not recognize a keyboard or mouse. Have switched both and rebooted with the same result. Any suggestions? I can be contacted at or 586-216-4135. Thanks

How do I get Vista (Premium 32-bit) to STOP creating dump files? I delete these files SEVERAL TIMES A DAY with disk cleanup and then I find more of them in WINDOWS/Temp We are talking 60-70 GB of files that are clogging my system, not to mention how slowly it runs. Thanks. If answered before, sorry, couldn't find an answer with the search.

Ok, so Ive been trying to install vista for a while now, starting with the betas and RCs. I gave up on them, but finally go the full, real version. I tried installing vista, but its not booting. I think it got stuck halfway through installation (at the part where it restarts?). Apparantly there seems to be an old bootloader, and it thinks that the installation completed. Well, now I cannot...

hello, i have a factory build of vista ultimate that shows an error right out of the box. the event viewer reads: Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through...

I have a HP laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. Windows Explorer has disappeared and is nowhere to be found. I have not been able to get this system set up correctly since I got it. They do not send a restore disc. I am not sure if the internal restore is corrupt, or the discs I made. I keep getting WIN32Rootkit-gen (trojan) - from Avast. The only way to get rid of it is to delete Avast....

I tried installing Vista Prem. on a blank partition on my hard drive, the drive already has xp pro running on C: The install failed at 27% into the install process with a file error. I installed a new blank drive in the computer and tried reinstalling Vista on the new drive by itself. The install went completed, ran thru the setup and customization, personalization processes and on the final...