Maybe someone can help me (Senior techs only please)...? Here's my setup scenario: We have 20+ new HP DC7900 computers (all the same model and hardware spec) that will be simple surf stations at a school. Vista Enterprise Volume lic. MAK individual online activation (our MAK count is 100+, so it's all good) Standard installation, SP1, latest MS updates, latest HP drivers, Office 2003 Sata RAID...

I just got a custom PC assembled and got it home today with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. It had no OS previously. When I try to boot from the DVD the progress bar under "Windows is loading files...." freezes at various spots (I tried doing it over several times and it always stops at a different spot). Does anybody know what I should do?

I have installed XP Pro on a separate HD (SATA) and Vista is on the main HD (Also SATA). I've used Steve Sinchak's instruction sheet and reached the stage of entering the four 'bcedit' commands in the Command prompt window. I have input all these in correct syntax, including appropriate spaces and forward slashes but it says specified identifier is not valid The parameter is...

I'm looking to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. We received the DVD and have attempted installation in three different computers. All fail with: “Windows installation has encountered an error and needs to be restarted.� This occurs after the MAK key is entered; so that is one hurdle cleared. It is allowing upgrade from OEM WinXPP. Is there something else I should be doing to get the...

I bought an Asus A7S with Vista Premium preinstalled abut 2 months ago. It has gradually been hanging more and more often, for no apparent reason. I have been extremely careful not to download any rubbish and to keep my AVG Spybot and AdAware up to date, so feel it unlikely that the hanging problem is self-inflicte4d, although acknowledge that it is possible. Anyway, the problem is when I...

Hi, I have tried all the official and miscrosoft published instructions on uninstalling SP2 Release Candidate for Vista Ultimate (in my case 32 bit). I have tried with tech support. So I have really gone the extra mile. I have very compelling reasons to not perform a new installation because of lost set up programs and keys which are essential to my business. I do have backups which go back...

alright for a little background, i had vista ultimate SP1 then i upgraded to a sp2 build and today i decided why not install and run sp1 also, to see if my wireless card would work with sp1 because it didnt with sp2, so im an idiot and i forgot to partition my HDD so now i have two os's on one HDD how do i fix it. Right now i half all my old stuff tucked away in a Windows.old folder, now i want...

Two weeks ago, my version of vista badly corrupted and wouldn't let me reinstall.:confused: I had bougth my computer a year ago with home premium OEM edition on it but didn't get a setup disk from Compaq. :mad: Luckily-or so I thought-I had a setup disk for windows vista home basic that came with my laptop but when I tried to put the product key in for home premium, it said it was invalid with...

I reformatted the drive and no luck, just got back from purchasing a new dvd rom drive installed it and still getting the same error. Thought wtf guess I will try win 7 and same bloody thing. Would prefer to figure out how to use the over priced disk I purchased, worked once I don't see why the problems now. -- Greg P

I bought a new Acer Aspire 5920 but it came with no back up disks. I have the valid Windows vista home premium key on the bottom of the laptop, I just need somewhere online to download the files to get vista home premium back. What happened was I got a virus and it it locked me out of my backup partition where I could do a clean install. So I installed XP instead and now I want to reinstall...

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop. For last few days I have not been able to install windows updates. I get the error with code 80070641. After wandering through different forums and suggested solutions, I followed this path - control panel system and maintenance administrative tools services windows installer (double clicked and saw that the start-up type is...

Can anyone tell me if the video editing software pinnacle 12.0 plus will install and run successfully on a 64 bit vista machine? -- safas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ safas's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/108267.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/1202522.htm

I am trying to install Vista Business, 32 bit, on my computer. The installation was successful using this DVD on my original MoBo but then I decided to flash the BIOS and destroyed it. I now have an MSI K9N SLI board with the latest BIOS, a 160Gb HDD as secondary master on the IDE cable and an 8x MSI DVD RW as primary master and 1st boot device. There is 1024Mb of RAM and an AMD Athlon...

I don't know what caused this, but this is the only "free" way to put up this problem without getting my arm cut off by Microsoft's greed. I started my computer today and for some uncalled reason, Vista deactivated saying I had a hardware change. The same hardware has been in it for months. Online chat would not support my PID, Email wouldn't, online activation wouldn't work. The only...

Hi! I'm having a bit of trouble getting Vista to install. I just setup a custom build (far from my first, no issues there). Looking to get Vista installed on a computer with: i7 Processor 12gigs DDR3 triple channel memory 2 500 gig HDDs in RAID 0 Now, I haven't had any luck with that so far. I downloaded my copy from

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When I try to change word as the default problem my computer won't let me. It has recommended programs: adobe reader, wordpad, works etc but no word. So I browse find word, click on it and it goes back to the previous place but word still not there. Same thing happens when i go into the set associations section. Any help would be greatly apprieciated. --

Hi folks. I'm looking for information regarding the migration of local accounts to domain accounts with Vista. I found a lot of information regarding the USMT but no information on how to use it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, Using VISTA Ultimate on an IBM T60p laptop. I am going to upgrade the hard drive from 100 to 320 GB. I have a 300GB SimpleTech external drive. I want to copy (image) the current hard drive to the SimpleTech, replace the hard drive and copy the image of from the SimpleTech back to the new drive. 1. Can this be done? 2. What software should one use? 3. Where would one find the steps...

I want to re-install Vista Business/SP1on my laptop from its Dell OEM installation DVD, and I'm trying to avoid having to re-install all the drivers and apps. I've read in various forums (fora?) that I should do an "upgrade" installation with the DVD. But when I start the DVD from the running OS (which I've read is the way to do it), the option to upgrade is grayed out and a statement reads: ...