I have a HP Pavillion dv5 laptop that came with XP Home edition installed. I upgraded to XP Pro, then Vista Ultimate 32 bit and then Vista Ultimate 64 bit. The computer ran well on all operating systems. Recently I decided I wanted to go back to Vista 32 bit. I understand this requires a clean install, so I decided I would use the restoration CD that came with the computer and then upgrade it...

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade "clean install" and then during the first windows update amoung other updates it attempted to install IE8. The first time that my system tried to install IE8 it failed with Error Code 80070643. This error seems to relate to Office but I do not have any office programs installed. Now everytime that update runs it tries to install IE8 but fails...

In our household we have two students, and so ordered a copy of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium in both x64 and x86 versions - a total of 4 products from Digital River. Having used their download manager to download these files, I now have 6 files: 4 .exe files (as expected) plus 2 files named setup1.box and setup2.box. The .exe files are, however, only just over 70KB each,...

Hi Folks, Can I upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional or do I need to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate? TIA, Shane Devenshire

There is now a facebook group dedicated to this issue. Anyone contact the press on this? I'm sure Digital River and Microsoft will come up with a solution REAL QUICK if the press gets hold of how they are screwing college students out of money.

Do I have to do a backup to do the above? Jim )

The CD that Vista came on for my PC got broken. I need to re-install Vista and I don't know where to get the media. There are some old posts that point to the site for service packs, but nothing is there anymore for getting a new copy of the media. Help! (thanks!) -- Scottydm3

Hi Folks, Can I upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional or do I need to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate? TIA, Shane Devenshire

In our household we have two students, and so ordered a copy of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium in both x64 and x86 versions - a total of 4 products from Digital River. Having used their download manager to download these files, I now have 6 files: 4 .exe files (as expected) plus 2 files named setup1.box and setup2.box. The .exe files are, however, only just over 70KB each,...

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade "clean install" and then during the first windows update amoung other updates it attempted to install IE8. The first time that my system tried to install IE8 it failed with Error Code 80070643. This error seems to relate to Office but I do not have any office programs installed. Now everytime that update runs it tries to install IE8 but fails...

I have a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium pre installed and a Recovery CD-ROM. I may be missing something but, as far as I can tell, the Restore CD never gives me the option to repair my install of Vista and only gives me the option to do a full install. If a quick repair would fix only one or two files that are corrupt, a full reinstall is frustratingly and time consumingly...

Vista asks for my product key. I put it in and it is a key from home professional. An MS tech installed the enterprise version at work. I purchased Vista Home pro and want to install it. I have been trying to format the c: drive but get "format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All opened handles to this...

Hi, I am trying to install JRE on my laptop that has Vista Ultimate. The new JRE 6.0_16.exe starts installing but fails. It gives the error that "Unable to install Java Runtime". I would appreciate help in this regard. I did uninstall the previous versions since they were not recognized by vista and none of the apps were working that requires java. thanks

why "Leroy" wrote in message ... Please repost your inquiry in the new Windows Vista Forum: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsvista Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design wrote: Hi all,

Vista asks for my product key. I put it in and it is a key from home professional. An MS tech installed the enterprise version at work. I purchased Vista Home pro and want to install it. I have been trying to format the c: drive but get "format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All opened handles to this...

I have a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium pre installed and a Recovery CD-ROM. I may be missing something but, as far as I can tell, the Restore CD never gives me the option to repair my install of Vista and only gives me the option to do a full install. If a quick repair would fix only one or two files that are corrupt, a full reinstall is frustratingly and time consumingly...

Hi, I am trying to install JRE on my laptop that has Vista Ultimate. The new JRE 6.0_16.exe starts installing but fails. It gives the error that "Unable to install Java Runtime". I would appreciate help in this regard. I did uninstall the previous versions since they were not recognized by vista and none of the apps were working that requires java. thanks

The other morning I was met with a blue screen and several error codes. I have attempted to correct the situation on my own following what instructions I have been able to find and have made no progress. The problem is that Vista 64x crashed and I am unable to install it on a brand new internal hard drive. System Specs: The install disk is Build 6001: Service Pack 1. Intel DX58SO

The other morning I was met with a blue screen and several error codes. I have attempted to correct the situation on my own following what instructions I have been able to find and have made no progress. The problem is that Vista 64x crashed and I am unable to install it on a brand new internal hard drive. System Specs: The install disk is Build 6001: Service Pack 1. Intel DX58SO

Hello. I am trying to load Vista 32 onto my macpro. I came across ur solution on the GPT issue when trying to install the error message - "The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" So I proceeded to select shift plus F10 to perform a conversion from GPT to MBR. I did this and it worked fine until I clicked continue. I received the error message that "Windows is unable to find a...