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...

I recently purchased the 64 bit Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade with Service Pack 1. I installed in on an Toshiba running OEM 64 bit Vista Home Premium. It said that it required phone activation, which I did. It completed successfully, but when I look at the computer properties it still reads Windows Vista Home Premium. What's the deal?

Hey all, I'm having some trouble with my brand new computer that I built. It will install Vista Home Prem x86 just fine with no problems, but when I tried to install x64 to utilize all of the RAM that I have for my PC, it just wont install. I keep getting a BSOD when the installation completes the first portion of the setup, but when I am supposed to put in all of my information, Name, time,...

In order to prepare myself for the worst, I need to know how to restore my registry for the case where Vista does not boot and I have no system restore points. However, before the failure happened I exported the full registry as a reg file. I've read that the boot CD can do a lot of repairs but I can't find a tutorial explaining how to restore the registry. -- mel2000

Ok, so the following page has a collection of Vista upgrades from one version to another: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-overview.aspx However, it doesn't specify if these are for 32-bit or 64-bit versions. I am assuming that they are for 32-bit. If that's the case, how do you do an upgrade between 64-bit versions? I currently have Vista Business 64-bit,...

Hi, I can ping the computer I am trying to connect to, I can also do a net view \\computername and it shows the resources. I can even use net use lpt1: \\computer\printername and it will connect.to it. But, when I try to add the printer, pick a network printer, it shows up on

All of my programs open without being asked for permission to continue except Quark Xpress 8. Short of turning off User Access Control how do I avoid this? -- Renrut

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I have WinVista Ultimate installed with IE7. The New Tab button in IE7 brings up a blank page. I want to set it to bring up my Home Page of Me, with all my links, instead of the blank page. How do I do this? It must be said that when I bring up a new instance of IE7, it loads with my Home Page. So, that particular setting works properly. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA

Hi, For an unknown reason, my computer no longer wakes up from sleep mode when I touch my keyboard. I now have to press the power button to wake it up. I have verified my Power Settings in the Control Panel and all settings seem OK. Note that SP1 is installed on my PC. Can someone help me ? Thanks,

Hello, I have an HP Pavilion laptop with Vista 64 and a recovery partition for the OS and drivers. I set out to dual boot Linux and Vista on this laptop and everything went badly. I used a Linux LiveCD to: 1. resize Vista - did not know that this was a problem. Did it many times to XP. 2. I deleted the recovery partion after I burned the recovery Disks. 3. I made a small 750MB partition before...

I need to set up 70 Vista notebook computers with several software packages. I am writing a Windows Script Host script to automate the setup process, since it will involve several people. How can I provide my users with a desktop icon for dialup networking? Since they will be using their own ISPs, I cannot know in advance what the phone numbers, usernames, or passwords will be, but I want to...

While attempting to update XP to Vista Premium, I got the following message: "These issues do not prevent your upgrade, but some applications and/or devices might not work once your upgrade completes. - SCSI and RAID controllers: A81EZCX7 IDE Controller" What are my options?

Hi I'm new here to the forum, but great info I am not a techie at all, but know my way around My mother recently purchased a Toshiba laptop and it has Vista on it, which she hates and wants to uninstall it

hello, i have a factory build of vista ultimate that shows an error right out of the box. it reads: The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. Event ID: 7000