I am upgrading my desktop (XP) to Vista Ultimate. The updrade went well until the end when it restarted I get a black screen saying something like it failed to start because of a change and gives me the choice of normal start up, start in safe mode, start with networking, etc. I tried normal start, I tried taking the installation CD out and putting it back, etc., etc and could not get the...

When installing windows I used to get to make a choice of weather this computer was in a work setting or a home setting and I think there was a third option but when installing now I don't have to make those choices any more, why is that? (I erased my hard drive and started from scratch a few times)

Hello, I've installed the operating system Windows Vista Home Premium and the version Windows Installer 4.00.6000.0. I am trying to uninstall the package of Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003, but I only get an error message that says: "Unable to access the Windows Installer service. This can occur if Windows Installer is not installed correctly. Contact staff Assistance. " The same...

I have purchased license of Windows Vista Ultimate and installed it on my current machine. I plan to buy new machine that usually only comes with Windows Vista Home Premium/Business. How do I migrate my product key from my current machine to new machine? Do I need to reinstall my new Windows Vista Home Premium/Business in order to have Ultimate edition? Thank you.

On my old computer, I backed up all my files - I think I had Windows 2000 or XP. On VISTA when I come round to restoring, it isn't letting me. can someone help -- pman

When using the Bitlocker Drive Preparation tool on an existing Vista Ultimate installation, I'm unable to get the system to start from the new partition. The tool seems to do it's stuff, but when restarting, all I get is a "Missing Operating System" error message when the laptop trys to start. I boot with the Vista DVD and then attempt a repair, but the only way to get back into Vista is to...

It was there and working properly went to install a game and the thing is missing from My Computer ????

I am trying to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate on a new Seagate 320GB drive. I have an Intel D875PBZ MB with a 8280ER ICH5R SATA controller. The upgrade advisor says that this config is okay and the installation can see the drive and even deleted a partition and formated the drive. I have tried it with both the SATA RAID enabled and disabled thru the BIOS. I have the latest BIOS (P34)...

I had a temp *_HDD_* problem which made me install *_my_* copy of Vista onto a temp *_hdd_*. once this issue was solved i installed my OS onto my proper *_HDD_*. However i discovered that i had forgot to reorder my Boot disk priority in my BIOS and when the new OS was installed the old OS on the temp *_HDD_* was still the primary *_HDD_*. The result is as follows,

After installing: Realtek network adapters and a Telstra Next G wireless card Windows updates Explorer.exe became bugged, as in after logging into Vista-HP OS on a HP laptop (top of line). Once the password has been inputed and you click the arrow.. you are presented with a blank screen and only a cursor. To work around this you press ctrl+alt+del and you terminate explorer.exe

I am trying to figure out why my system is doing this and have been unsuccessful so far, so I thought I would try here. I am running a Dell XPS 400 box; P4 3.0 Ghz with 3 MB Ram. OS was upgraded to Vista Home Premium and also upgraded Video Card to ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256 MB. The system should handle anything I throw at it, but since the upgrade it "pegs" at 100% at random times. I have...

My original desktop had XP pro 32 bit it died i bought a Dell with Vista Home premium installed (32 bit on a 64 bit machine, the idiots don't give you a choice) the laptop runs poorly so I took my xp disc and put it ion the laptop, it activaetd perfectly and runs just fine

Hi I am having trouble with my product key. I recently bought a new laptop and when i was trying to installed it to use Microsoft Word it told that the product key is wrong. What should i do?

I changed the drive routines for the keyboard to be able to use japanese characters (to someting called USB Office-something 106/109) but then the mouse and the keyboard froze and now I can't do anything to make it work. I'm using another computer right now to be able to right this. Everything starts as usual but I can't do anything since either the mouse or the keys work. Help please!

I have played pogo games on all my other computers, however on this crap vista it keeps telling me java not found or enabled and to download the latest version of sun java which I have done. How do I enable java as my default.

I installed Vista Business on my comp that has a Lanparty nf4MB, Athlon 64 cpu and 2Gb of ram and a Seagate 120Gb HD. Unfortunately it's incompatible with my new analog/digital TV tuner card so i want to switch back to XP Pro. I decided to "wipe the HD" clean with Dban and load XP Pro using the installation CD. The installation process began OK. I carefully followed the instructions from...

What is the ideal size partition for Vista, without being too dysfunctionally small or wastefully too large?

I am not sure why, but when I use Control Panel in Classic View with Medium Icons, the test labels for the icons uisually located underneath has dissappeared. What do I need to do to get the text associated with each icon to display again? The Icon name and category is viewable in all other views other than Mediaum, Large, and extra large icon view.

Search no more all. I finally received the correct solution for installing streets and trips 2007 with gps nav from microsoft telephone support. Let me tell you this first. I uninstalled/reinstalled s&t 6 times, reinstalled vista os, formatted my harddrive, clean booted, ran installer under compatibility mode for xp srv pack 2 and ran as admin and NOTHING resolved issue. I finally contacted...

Hi, I got my Vista allready installed when I bought my Computer. Which Mean I don't have any CD or DVD to boot from. A guy on another community wrote that it is possible to burn out these DVDs straight from Vista. How do I do this?