Ok, First off, I purchased Vista Home Premium 64 bit Upgrade from Windows Marketplace, without knowing that I needed a 64 bit OS currently to run the setup. So, after I got that cleared up, I thought, maybe by getting the DVD I can clean install. Well, apparently you can clean install with the upgrade versions by bypassing the product key step in the beginning and tricking it into thinking you...

Is it possible to get the Windows 2008 install DVD to use the 2nd partition of a drive as D:? I've tried, really, I have. But it just does not want to recognize the partition as anything other than C: Regardless of whether the first partition is present, or how any of them are formatted. I cannot, for the life of me, get the installer to set up an install the way I want it.

My main hard drive went down thanks to a bad SP1 download and now I have to wipe it and reload windows. For some reason I can't find the product key. My drive is currently hooked up to another PC in my house as a secondary. I've read about the programs that will recover your product key from the registry, but I can't get them to tell me what it is on my corrupt drive just the main one. ...

this is crazy! it was working a few days ago and Im not sure what happened. All I want to do is to restore thumbnails for pdf files with adobe reader 9 in windows explorer. after installing - uninstalling and fiddling with reader 9, I have come to the conclusion that the problem arises from some administrative privileges on the registry. I however am administrator, I try to register...

while installing office 2007 i receive internal error 2203. after checking various discussion group I found its due to TEMP folder permission not being sufficient. or path not set properly in environment variables. System account not having enough controll on destination folder. but i have tried everything mentioned on website to get rid of this error still having internal error 2203

hi there for some reason, my eventViewer snap-in does not run anymore, it show below error in the MMC instead I search the internet for similar issue, but they all suggested to uninstall win2003 server resource kit... which i do not have. any other suggestion ? thanks in advance

My new PC with Vista Business edition will not play DVD's on Media Player as I was told it would do. I get an error message saying no encoder installed. The help search said go to options and enable encoder. It still doesn't play. Do I need some kind of encoder?

:::: *::I run “Word” 2007 on VISTA and have a small problem I cannot correct. I messed up the default settings and cannot recover or set the page to where I want. I want the cursor to start at where the “heading” or inside address would begin. I think that is roughly 2 and ½ inches down and 1 inch from the left side then I want the first tab at where the indention would begin; the right...

I just purchased a new HP Media center PC with Vista Home Premium. The older PC is a Dell with XP home and Outlook 2003 - on which I have ~ 150 contacts. How do I transfer these 150 contacts to the new PC with Outlook 2007?

directory C:\users\myname\AppData behaves like a hidden directory. It appears that the "attribute" command is not part of Vista. So two questions: (1) How can I remove the hidden attribute? (2) Am I going to create a new problem when (if) I remove that attribute? Thanks, Charles

hi there for some reason, my eventViewer snap-in does not run anymore, it show below error in the MMC instead I search the internet for similar issue, but they all suggested to uninstall win2003 server resource kit... which i do not have. any other suggestion ? thanks in advance

i have a windows vista premium 32bit and whenever i try to install or uninstall something, this message would show. "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance." i tried downloading windows installer...

Hi Folks, fresh Vista Ultimate with all updates and I'm trying to install the Installer Cleanup Utility (msicuu2.exe) but it keeps hanging during install at the place where it says that it's checking my disk space requirements. There shouldn't be problem there (640gb drive). Ideas? How can I diagnose? I've tried installing as administrator and running cmd as administrator and installing...

I am running Vista 64-bit on my home PC (Retail Ultimate). I use VMWare to allow me to run multiple OS's simultaneously. I have 32-bit XP running (originally came with the computer). Can I install 32-bit Vista from my Ultimate DVD in VMWare and use the same license key? I know the technical answer is yes, but as I develop commercial software, I need to make sure I am covered legally as...

I get 101139 error. Probably related , also will not install latest 12 hot fixes through Windows update. Any ideas? Thanks. Pete

I recently purchased a new hard drive and decided to do another upgrade as well, an additional 2gb RAM (total 3gb). I purchased the same type of RAM and specs as I have been running for the previous 2-3 years in my PC, PQI model PQI25400 2 gigs, PC2-5400 1GB Dual Channel. After installing Vista, I received every RAM related BSOD in the book, which include all the page in a non page area, irq,...

I'm currently building a new system, and I know I want it to run 64-bit Vista Home Premium. But I can't quite figure out how to buy the 64-bit version specifically. I've read something about buying the retail box, which is 32-bit, then sending away to Microsoft for the 64-bit version. But since I'm looking at ordering online, this seems really silly, to wait a week for someone to ship me an...

I have a brand new Dell computer right out of the box. It was purchased with Windows Vista Basic. I have also separately purchased Windows Vista Ultimate and I want to install it on this new computer. What is the best approach to accomplish this task? Should I start up the new Dell computer and have it go through its Windows Vista Basic setup then upgrade to Vista Ultimate? Or should I...

The List Keeper wrote aka Paul Montgomery: LOL, the List Keeper is Paul Montgumdrop aka Paul Montgomery. He has got to come with the List Keeper, because I took his name sort of speaking. :-P This all started when he said he was going to killfile me. He was just meddling none of his business and running his mouth, as usual. And I proved to him that his little killfile didn't mean jack. Then...

I have a laptop with a 60GB HDD, which is split into two 30GB partitions. The primary partition (C:) contains a Windows XP installation, and the other partiton (D:) contains an installation of Windows Vista RC1. When booting, I get the Vista boot manager which lets me select between Windows Vista and "Earier versions of Windows". I would like to know exactly what steps I should take to...