I thought maybe I should relax a little instead of fighting with Vista for hours and hours. So this morning I was reviewing my extensive video collection which includes some funny web vids, some people sent me or I found, some I made over the years. All contain both video and audio tracks. These files span just about every audio/video file type there is. Well it was going ok viewing them in...

Some may find this useful: http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php Don't take literally everything you read there word for word. While a nice reference that's linked to many additional sources stop errors can be very broad and mean many things could have happened. Use as a starting point, not a absoulte cure. Ever if referenced to a different version of Windows like NT or XP the stop errors...

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Maybe I should have titled this thread the Never Ending Story. Vista is seriously flawed in its first retail release, badly broken in many areas, buggy as hell and they claim it was tested extensively. I can not and will no longer recommend this pile of crap to anybody. Surely not to anybody that has more than a basic system. If you have a more advanced system you will suffer long trying to get...

Vista just for fun, without asking of course decided to kill my Internet connection, but just for web sites. I have a always on broadband connection from WOW which works quite well, is fast, and on 99% of the time. Its on now... obviously, I just send this post. So I DO have Internet access. This will make you chuckle. I was in another newsgroup and clicked on a embedded link to some

If you enjoy watching grass grow or paint dry and also love to get into debates over which is better, OSX or Vista, or something else, the below link is something a little different. A casual round table discussion of Mac and Windows self proclaimed "experts" debate the finer and no so fine points and pros and cons. Often funny, rarely serious, sometimes a bit heated. Fun to watch for a few...

I'm being serious, this isn't a joke. I just saw a tv commerical a little while ago from Staples, one of the office supply chains, that is offering a FREE install of Vista if you buy it from them. Didn't catch any further details, was channel surfing. Don't know if you want to trust some clerk in a office supply store to install a OS for you, but I thought I'd pass the info along if anybody is...

I walked away from my computer to come back and find it must have rebooted in my absence. I look in the Event Viewer and find this "event": {Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '\??\C:\Users\XXXXXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost. Yea I guess, because when it rebooted it trashed my desktop that...

A good phrase to sum up the released version of Vista would be pretty, but dumb as a doorknob. The deeper I look, the more obvious blunders I find. For example take Vista's default viewer that automatically pops up for graphic files. Its a nice feature and improved over the earlier XP version. But boy, is it dumb. Consider this sisutation. You browse some newsgroup and download a series of...

This is classic Microsoft. I hope there is a easy fix. Can anybody confirm this only happens on the business version or does this curse all versions of Vista? As many already know in a effort to improve security Vista now incorporates new levels of security, similar to UNIX permissions, which many of you already know about if you've ever uploaded files to a web server etc..

Get as far as install accepting product key, then it goes out on the web for upgrade then comes back and gives no reason for stopping and suggests I upgrade to business, ultimate or enterprise versions or that I do a clean install. Neither a a good option for me. A clean install with the complex system I have would be a multi day nightmare. Thanks but no thanks, just went through that a month ago...

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My week-old Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium has suddenly presented me with the not unfamiliar boot-to-blank-screen-with-moveable-cursor syndrome even when F8-ing to Safe Mode with Command Prompt. The install disk repair option tells me there's nothing wrong with Vista, so I thought I'd try the command prompt from the install disk to get msconfig to turn off everything. Problem is,...

I'm having a Bad Time with my first attempt to set up Vista on my new Dell laptop. I have the privilages that go with selecting Admin account when I first went through the initial Vista user setup. * loads of Right-Click context menus don't include Properties. For instance, I want to put all user documents on a separate partition, but can't change where Documents point, because context...

My week-old Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium has suddenly presented me with the not unfamiliar boot-to-blank-screen-with-moveable-cursor syndrome even when F8-ing to Safe Mode with Command Prompt. The install disk repair option tells me there's nothing wrong with Vista, so I thought I'd try the command prompt from the install disk to get msconfig to turn off everything. Problem is,...

::i just install vista x64 on RAID 0 (2 X 250 Gb) volume. Volume space is 465 GB (instead of 500 GB! that’s alright), free space 451 GB, so it took 14GB on OS and Page File. Now i want to partition it and want to allocate about 100GB for system drive i think which is more then enough.:: ::But the problem is, on Disk Management when i select the volume and click shrink Volume i get...

HELP ME please! I am so so bad with this I had to reinstall vista premium myself due to a update mess up. I am in china and no vista help as they not have it, So I managed to install it again and have found there is no media centre now, I am not very good with all this and any help would be great as i am stuck in china for another six months, So PLEASE PLEASE any help would be great for...

Hi just got me a new toshiba satelite L40-14y in Sweden and installed it in English. The problem is that there is a mixed up somewhere. Some of the characters have change places and its kinda irritating. You dont alway get what you type. What can I do about that?

I have a few laptops with Vista home premium(configured as a workgroup) connecting to a windows 2003 server with a domain configured. I have the local login name and password identicle to the domain users username and password. I map a drive on the laptop to the server. The problem is every time we reboot the laptop we need to reenter the username and password for access to the share. Is...

MS allows OEM users to use a prior version of the OS instead of Vista with a Vista licience(downgrade rights). How do I get an XP pro key to use with my OEM Vista Bussiness licience?