New notebook on Vista Business. T7500 CPU, 4 gigs RAM, 160gig HDD. It will not download any updates which I need to do so I can install Service Pack 1 as a result of Update error 8024402C. I have a Microsoft Service Pack 1 on DVD - DVD was given to me by Microsoft. I have followed Help suggestions: Notebook has Internet Access I have disbale Virus Protection and tried updates still failed It...

Hi. I'm on Vista with all updates and suddenly my Gadgets calendar gone orange, with no date display How can I get the display back please? Thanks

Dear Academic Researcher, Research tools have changed a great deal over the years. The Huffington Post said in the article, Science Goes Social; "…scientists have so far relied too heavily on published papers and per-chance meetings at conferences to share scientific know-how." The Huffington Post continues; "Sites like MyNetResearch.com (have) features to manage and organize one's literature...

For the past 4 months, I've been repeatedly getting a blue screen telling me I have a Memory Management error after playing games on my computer for random amounts of time and rarely when I watch videos. Unfortunately after I get the blue screen, it restarts my computer so I haven't been able to see if I've had a major memory usage spike, but I have used the windows memory diagnostics to test my...

Hi I have gone into my device manager and found that under network adapters Microsoft 6 to 4 adapter has a yellow triangle beside it how do I reinstall this, also I had my computer crash today and the blue screen came up to tell me that windows needs to shut down so there is no damage to the computer, I think it said something about the 6 to 4 adapter but the blue screen disappeared and...

There is no direct upgrade path from XP to Windows 7 but users can use the User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate user data and settings. I wrote a piece about the upgrade, with an accompanying video, at: http://windows7reports.com/2010/11/09/migrate-win-xp-to-win7-using-usmt-user-state-migration-tool-pt-1/ However, what do you do if you have a site with hundreds of XP or Vista users? Is...

Okay, So I clean installed Vista H.P. from XP (had to clean install because going from 32-64-bit), Activated and everything was fine. Decided to purchase a SLI-ready motherboard, and due to significant hardware change i had to install vista again. My problem now is that I have 22 days to activate however the activation program is telling me my Key Code is already in use. How can i get my...

Hello, my sony vaio laptop shows vaio on startup then stops on a black screen with a blinking underscore.i think this is because before i shutdown last time i partitioned the drive into two parts and renamed the second part d: the disk drive was named f. the main partition remained as c: and another one was named x for some reason. the trouble i'm having is restoring the partitions and...

Dear friendz, I just brough Dell N5010 (Inspiron 15R) Laptop with DOS and now I am trying to install Vista 32 -bit on it........The installation has completed successfully but whenever I am going to crack (Activation crack-Vistaloader 3.0) the windows it restarts the windows and it stucks at Black screen with blinking cursor........How do I install Vista ???

Just re-installed Vista and it needed couple drivers - 1 for my Radeon 1650 SE video card and one for my M/Soft digital media 3000 keyboard I'm bit concerned about these drivers becoming obsolete (particularly the former) so I was wondering whether it's possible to save the drivers now for future install - the driver details document all the driver files & locations but not sure how to...

Just re-installed Vista + moved 3 users from C:/Users to D:/ +moved all their old (pre-install) files from old user profile to new user profile on D: Still having few issues with permissions/installing There must be a proper (belt & braces) way to move user profile but how?

I don't know the full story of this computer because it was my sister's and they had it for a long time. The only thing they tell me is that when they moved the computer in a different location and hooked it up, it shows Verifying DMI Pool Data..... then, File: \Boot\BCD

Hello. I think I screwed up my old HDD's bootup setup on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 test PC. I was trying to install three different 32-bit Windows onto this machine for testing purposes. It is a single boot setup and not dual/triple boots as well. IIRC, this is what happened... I had slipstreamed Windows XP Pro. SP2/3 (forgot which one) installed in C: drive and made a Symantec Ghost image...

I've often heard that the OS should be on a drive (logical drive) by itself so that, when it gets a problem, you can just re-install a new copy of the OS on that drive. However, isn't the OS modified when you install programs? Where would you install them? Can someone explain the procedure for this and how it works? It has always confused me and, if if works as I understand, I'd like to try...

Hello, I have since about 2 months a very annoying problem. I cannot update my Windows 7 Professional (64bit) anymore. Any attempt as standalone install or through Windows Update gives osmething like this in the WindowsUpdate.log: 2010-06-20 20:26:47:783 5192 854 Misc =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.3.7600.16385, tz: +0200) =========== 2010-06-20 20:26:47:784 5192 854 Misc =...

I want to create a recovery partition on my windows Vista laptop. Pretty much i want to be pompted when the pc boots to hit f10 and have a count down of 10 seconds . I know this would be done through boot.ini however i have no idea how to do so. Also id make a seperate partition on my hd of ten gigs just for the backup image. if someone could help me.... Id appreciate it. Thanks -- nisar6788

Hi All Vista SP1 fails to install from Windows Update with the following code:- 800704C8 Anyone got any idea what this means? There is nothing in the knowledge base!

I am trying to install Vista using autounattend.xml answer file. If I leave all location settings as en-us it works, if I change to my location en-gb, the answer file is ignored at setup. Any ideas for how to fix this?

I am trying to install Vista using autounattend.xml answer file. If I leave all location settings as en-us it works, if I change to my location en-gb, the answer file is ignored at setup. Any ideas for how to fix this?

On my way to getting to Windows 7 I upgraded to Vista from XP in a new partition. I still have a partition running XP. I have a HP 4000n network printer which I can print to from the XP partition and which is used by two other computers. I originally used the HP Install Printer Wizard to install that printer in XP. In the Vista partition I downloaded and installed HP Install Printer...