Hi, When I open explore for my computer the C drive displays all the folders. The C drive is only my boot drive. Is there a way to stop this? Thanks, Henry

Is it permissible to change the evironment variables to have temp files placed on as second hard drive (where the OS is not installed). I changed the location to T:/Temp and now there are problems installing Acrobat Reader. Originally, the partition was on the same hard drive as the OS, and this change did not cause any problems. After moving files and creating and formating the T:/...

On Vista Ultimate, standard mouse & keyboard when I go into Screen Saver setup on all screen savers the Wait time is set to 30 and the On resume, display logon screen box is checked but these options are grayed out. This is a new development - used to be able to change these 2 options. I think it may have stuck to gray after doing a Windows Update today. I'm logged in as Administrator. ...

I'm trying to deploy Vista Enterprise using Windows Setup and a custom image. I'm using the walkthrough at: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/3e967a50-5ba8-4ce1-afb1-375f3111ece61033.mspx?mfr=true However, when I copy my image to the Vista source files on a network share calling it "install.wim", the install fails if I have used sysprep to generalize the image. It installs...

Hi, Wow, they made some serious changes to Vista. So far I have these questions: I have an XP that has a shared printer, but when I try to connect to it from Vista it crashes the spooler. How do you install a network printer, but then redirect it to use a Vista driver instead of pulling it from the XP system?

Dear newsgroup, strange thing about Vista Ultimate: After booking a Hewlett Packard TC 4400 notebook to a domain it looses the user profile information after every restart. The domain user was booked into the local admin group but nothing changed. I tried this already some time ago with a Hewlett Packard NC 6400 notebook where exactly the same happend.

Upgraded from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business. Not only are all my documents and application data gone but every time I log on, it appears as the first time I logged on. I setup my email account and preferences only to have the settings lost when I logoff. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Being a student at my university, I am entitled to a free copy of Vista Business. While this is very nice, at some point I would like to upgrade to Ultimate. Is buying the retail upgrade package the only way to go here or is there another method that I would be able to use to jump from one version of Vista to another? Thanks.

I have an Acer 5052 laptop, on which the Vista Beta 2 (x64 version) runs just fine. I tried installing the Vista Ultimate x64 Retail, and it completes the first installation part, then reboots... When "starting windows for the first time..." it just reboots and cannot ever start up. Trying to start windows normally just makes it reboot after the initial progressbar screen Trying to start in...

Every time Vista starts up, I get a message saying that windows stopped working (or something like that). The details are below. Anyone have an idea what this is? I've searched through the registry and looked in the startup folder and services, but can't find anything. What is fsquirt.exe? Problem signatu Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: fsquirt.exe Application...

Hi. I could use some help.. I just bought myself vista ultimate32 retail box. But while opening it the second dvd, ultimate64, were not fastened in any way. The dvd already got some scrathes... Is this the way retail boxes are sold?? best regards remy lyssand

I am trying to upgrade my Windows XP to Vista Business but after a lengthy process of checking compatibility the setup program claims I have DeskView installed on my Fujitsu A7640 laptop and wants me to uninstall it before installing Vista. I think I did have DeskView on the computer a couple of years ago, but it was removed yet obviously some traces of it are still there as the setup fails....

Hi, I'm trying to restore a PC from Vista to XP using the Windows.old folder. I understand most of the instructions I find he Z:\Freelance\May 2007\Uninstall Vista Upgrade\How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you install Windows Vista.htm What I don't understand is what "y" refers to in the following:

Hey Guys I have Vista Basic in English that I picked up second hand in the US. I live in Japan now. I tried to upgrade from Basic to Ultimate but it says it's not available in my region. Does anyone know how I can do this? And does anyoen know about the cost of upgrading from Basic to Premium? Thanks, Eric

Windows XP Pro installed on an 80gb NTFS hard drive. I used PM8 to reduce that primary partion by 20gb for a Vista dual-boot. Rebooted the machine w/ Vista Business FULL in the drive, installed fine into the newly created partition. Upon reboot, got the Windows Boot Manager w/ the 2 options, selected the Vista option and performed all the available upgrades and it worked fine. Now when I...

I am building a new computer and am using a new ASUS DVD, model DV-1814BL, which is advertised to support WinV64. It appears to read the WinV installation DVD ok but stops in the data gathering stage asking for a driver for the DVD/CD and won't continue without my supplying one. I would have guessed that a suitable one was on the Vista DVD or the CD that came with the drive. However,...

I am dual booting Vista and XP, on separate hard drives. When I install programs in Vista is there any reason why I cannot install the program right over my existing XP copy? Would save a lot of space... Ron

i tried installing office 2007 enterprise on my computer that has vista home basic running. i keep getting this error that says something like cant find file "en.us/outlook". bran new sata II hard drive. any suggestions will be greatly appreciated

Somehow, the ability to show window preview in the taskbar disappeared. When I go to the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", the option for "Show Menu Preview" is unchecked and greyed-out. Aero menus are operating correctly. Any ideas how to turn on the "Show window preview"?

We have an online system developed that makes use of Flash Form through a web browser. Up until now there have been no issues, but I have changed to VISTA OS and IE7. Now when entering data into the form I am getting keystroke errors, where the keys are not recognized and skips over them. So for example I type "Client is homebound" I look up and see "Clt ishm bnd". Only is happening on my system....