Hi, I bought a PC from Dell about six months ago, a Dimension 9200C with Vista Home Edition. Now, I was hoping to go back to XP but one of my friends says it probally wouldn't work due it coming already with Vista. I read something how it depends, well I was hoping if anyknew how I could find out if this would work? Do I just use my old XP disk and see what happens, if it fails reinstall Vista?...

DVD pack reads, "Upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premiun to Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1" I have SP1 installed on Home Premium. Do I need to uninstall it before upgrade?? Paul V. Sullivan

My son just got a Dell Studioo 1735 with HOme premium. The computer exceeds all of the minimum requirements for the college. His college requires Ultimate and sold us the upgrade disk. Upon inserting the disk he was given a choice of upgrading or partitioning, but when he chose upgrade, an error message stated that he could not upgrade. He clicked on partition. It took a while and several...

Hello, can anybody please help, When I add a network place (a website that I need to upload files to), VISTA keeps adding the directory davwwwroot to the end of the url, After typing user and ID It connect alright, but there are on files and folders? Michael

Is there a fix (repair) in the making? When? Help....................................... I have tried all the up to date fixes, but nothing works for me. I, too am rather displeased with Microsoft support, windows updates?! I can't even install the windows updates now! @#$%! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most...

i have vista, ie7..im trying to install a coreldraw graphic program and i keep getting this error when the program starts to initialize, how do i get past this line 134 char: 2 Error : file name or class name not found during autumation code: 0 thanks

Ok, Here's the scenario, I sold my customer a notebook, an ACER with VISTA HOME BASIC and she asked me to rollback it from VISTA to XP... we tried it and had issues of drivers not working, like wireless adapter and modems. So, we'd decided to roll it up back to VISTA HOME BASIC... and this error keeps coming up. We even ordered the recovery CD's and nothing seems to work. So, here's what I...

I've had Vista ultimate 64bit installed on a new built PC for just over a week, auto up-dates set to update at noon each day. Just checked to discover SP1 is not installed. When I go to Windows update I am told there are 34 updates available but they are all different languages - no SP1 mentioned. How can I force it? -- Ron

I installed XP Pro on one hard drive. I then inserted the Vista disk in the DVD drive and booted into the Vista installation and installed it on a second hard drive. Installation went smoothly (or so I thought) except that after a few reboots I noticed that the Windows Boot Manager never appeared giving me the choice to choose Vista or a previous operationg system. If I take the Vista...

I realize the resident experts must be sick to death of telling yet another guy how to solve their dual boot issues, but this is genuinely a problem I can't seem to find discussions on anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anyway, to make this short, I had Vista ultimate x64 installed. I repartitioned the drive and installed XP (32 bit) fully expecting my vista installation to...

My son just got a Dell Studioo 1735 with HOme premium. The computer exceeds all of the minimum requirements for the college. His college requires Ultimate and sold us the upgrade disk. Upon inserting the disk he was given a choice of upgrading or partitioning, but when he chose upgrade, an error message stated that he could not upgrade. He clicked on partition. It took a while and several...

My son just got a Dell Studioo 1735 with HOme premium. The computer exceeds all of the minimum requirements for the college. His college requires Ultimate and sold us the upgrade disk. Upon inserting the disk he was given a choice of upgrading or partitioning, but when he chose upgrade, an error message stated that he could not upgrade. He clicked on partition. It took a while and several...

Mission Impossible? Dual Boot XP and Vista Hello Everyone, I know there must be an easier way of getting this to run but my goal is to install XP and Vista on one machine using SATA drives. While I am almost positive I could accomplish the same thing through VMWare, given what I plan on using the OSes for, I want as little interference from VMWare as possible. What I would like to do is...

I have been a happy user of Mike Lin's StartupCPL program on Windows XP for years. His Web site, and many others, tell you that Vista now has its own way to control what starts up. I don't like programs like the Intel graphics hot-key monitor to run in the background, and even though you can supposedly turn on and off the hot-key things from the Display Properties, the hkcmd exe still...

I bought a Japanese computer with a Japanese version of Vista. Is there a way to change the language to English so that menus etc. are no longer Japanese?

Hello, first of all my hardware configuration: intel 8400 asus p5q deluxe 4gb kingstone wd velociraptor wd sata 200gb asus 98000gtx

Hello, my old motherboard has been replaced by a brandnew GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4. Installation of Windows XP SP3 o.k. I reformated the disk and tried to install Windows Vista Home Premium (32-Bit). But the installation runs only the steps: - Windows files copied - Files expanded - Functions installed Then the System hangs, i.e. Screen is frozen, mouse is dead.

My Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit PC originally had two 80gig SATA drives configured as RAID0. I replaced those drives with 2x 250gig SATA's also configured as RAID0. Now I discover that I left an important folder I now need on the original 80gig drives. I've tried putting one of the drives in an enclosure, but it can't be read like that. If I put those drives back into the PC will everything...

Hi all, Just wanted to thank everyones experiences with installation problems on vista x64, i had troubles a lot but with the combined knowledge of people on the forums i have been able to get it working so far with no problems. I tried all the different things from several forums and posts to get an almost error free event log with no lock ups.

Hello: I would love some assistance from the team here. I have had Windows Ultimate running for some time, which I upgraded from Premium using WAU (back in March of 2007). Now, due to a motherboard failure, I have put in a new mobo and installed the original Windows Premium. Can I just upgrade to Ultimate using the Premium disc (which is a WAU disc) and the Ultimate key I have? Thx.