I empty the Recycle Bin and the icon disappears from my desktop. the only way i can get it back is to choose Personalize and re-check the icon box again. These are the most bizarre and interesting problems I've ever seen. I'd expect the kinds of problems I'm having in a beta version. -- Thanks, John

I have to turn it off and turn Windows Firewall on to get through. I upgraded that after installing Vista, so what's the deal and how do I fix it? Thanks, John

now i can't use outlook or save files in word; says i don't have authorization. what the H is that all about? John

Outlook now says it can't find extend.dat and some other files, and I don't have authorization to use Outlook. So I uninstalled 2007 Trial and reinstalled 2003. Same problem. This upgrade has been a real disappointment and continual headaches. Does anyone know how I can get Office working again? Sorry for the crossposting but didn't know who'd have my answers.

When I upgraded to Home Premium from Media Center 2005, setup added some sort of phantom user to my login page. Same name, but no passwords in existence work and I have to switch users to get to the one that does log me in. How do I get rid of the bogus one? I'm tired of having to go through the extra steps every time I start my puter. Thanks. John

I tried setting up Meeting Space and got a message that i'm denied access. I'm the only one on my computer and upgraded from XP SP2 where I ran as an administrator. I"ve checked and have administrative rights in User Accounts, so how do I end this bogus stuff? So far, Vista trashed the network connection between my laptop and desktop via my wireless router, given me glitches I've never had...

This is getting frustrating. My integreated AC 97 Realtek sound built into the motherboard was "updated" by Vista on install of the OS. But it's turned it into 2-speaker sound instead of 5.1, even after uninstalling and reinstalling several times. It MAY (doesn't always) show up as 5.1 speakers when I try to configure them, but sound is only delivered through the right and left front...

I purchased a laptop about a month ago, and haven't been able to write the correct product key. I have tryied so many times that the system already gave me an error message. When I write the product key, when promted by the office programs, I write the product key that appears at the bottom of the laptop, and after it automatically gives me the following messge: The key is incorrect. Verify...

Due to a hard drive failure I'm having to reinstall Vista. I have a valid copy of XP, however that is failing to install (I have left a query on the XP newsgroup relating to that.) Previous Upgrade versions of windows allowed you to insert a CD from a previous version to prove to the install that you could legitimately use it. Unfortunately there seems to be no option to do this within the...

Hi, I've a 320 GB HDD on my Dell - Inspiron 1525. Vista comes company installed and there are only two drives on it. C carrying OS and of 285 GB while a recovery drive D of around 20 space. I want to create 3 more drives on my system. When I shrink the Volume of C drive using Storage in Disk management console, I get only 90 GB as free available volume for shrinking. How can I get more...

I have XP and Vista as dual boot on a single drive. I want to put Vista on a second drive and dual boot, preferably w/o having to select the boot drive from the BIOS. I was planning to: 1. Copy the Vista files to a new drive using the Seagate utility; 2. Delete Vista from the XP (old) drive and expand XP to the whole drive. Any problems w/this scenario? If this is OK, how do I dual boot w/o...

I have had XP Pro installed for a while. I used DISKPART, LIST VOLUME and SHRINK in the Vista Home Premium install process to create a Vista partition and keep XP Pro in a dual boot system. The Vista installation went fine and re-booted a couple of times, giving me the boot option screen foe Vista or an older OS. I selected Vista and eventually got to the point where Vista got 48...

hi there, I recently bought a new laptop which came with Visa Home Basic and i bought the Vista ultimate as well. I tried to run the CD and it didnot show me an option for upgrade all it shows is install. so if i install it would it over write the vista basic or would be install a new ultimate and i wold have 2 os.

on Vista basic does it have the IIS, I type http://localhost and it gives me an error message saying error in default web site? i checked in the control panel but i coulnot find the IIS anywhere?

Hello- When I tried to upgrade from Windows XP to the 32 bit Vista RTM, the first boot into Vista BSODs. Does anyone know if I have incompatible hardware? I have: ASUS A8N-E Nvidia NForce 4 based motherboard w/ Athlon 64 3000. 2 GB of RAM Nvidia 6600 based video card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy soundcard (I realize there aren't drivers for this yet)

I have a license for Windows Vista Home premium. The recovery disks sent with my computer were faulty, so I had to send for new ones. They sent me the wrong version: Home Basic. It'd be more convenient for me if I didn't have to send out for new disks again and go through the entire recovery process once more. Surely there's some place I can simply plug in my Vista Home Premium product key to...

I have a new computer, installed it about ten days ago. A few minutes ago, a message popped up in the bottom right corner telling me to install Windows updates. I checked and found that Windows wants me to install between 386 and 423 MB of updates -- damn, that's about as much stuff as I have on my HD to start with. These are the updates listed: -- Office 2003 SP1 -- but I don't run Office...

I am trying to install Adobe Flash Player 10. The file seems to install and download properly -- during and after install I get no error messages and the Adobe website tells me installation was successful. However -- when I go to YouTube, I cannot play videos. There is no Flash Player icon on my desktop and, when I go to Start All Programs, I do not see Flash Player as an installed...

How do I tell if my Vista Home Premium has SP1 installed?? In Win XP I could go to Control Panel System System Info (or something like that) and see the version of XP. In Vista, the Control Panel shows only a screen filled with confusing icons and labels. And -- what is the latest SP for my system?

I have been trying to set upmy computer but I am not able to finf the Product Key for Microsoft Office Could soneone plese help thanks -- AGR