What has happened to Windows AIK download? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e5752f7-4e64-47 4f-9069-d2694eff2245&DisplayLang=en says "The download you requested is unavailable". I can see from at least one Blog post that it may have recently disappeared, then reappeared.

I walked away from my computer to come back and find it must have rebooted in my absence. I look in the Event Viewer and find this "event": {Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '\??\C:\Users\XXXXXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost. Yea I guess, because when it rebooted it trashed my desktop that...

Hi, Last night I installed Windows Vista Home Premium Full Edition. I did a clean installation. The installation worked, but almost at the end on the last step of the installation a screen appeared saying: "Cannot locate missing driver", (it didn't say me which driver was missing) so I reboot and took out the DVD and Windows Vista start up screen appeared asking me to configure it with my...

Okay so I installed Vista last week, and it activated just fine. Due to a hardware problem I had to install a new motherboard in my PC today. All of the other hardware is still the same, and I did not reinstall Vista. Now I get a message saying that Windows can't activate because my product key is already in use! I understand not wanting hackers to steal your stuff, but I PAYED FOR...

Ok I really have no idea why I am having this problem. I purchased Vista Home Premium Edition yesterday and tried installing it when I got home from work. I ran the tool before I opened it just to make sure that my computer was compatible and I passed. Now comes my frustration: I open the case, pop in the cd, autoplay install screen. Everything seems to be working fine as I proceed...

how many drivers are supported in vista?as many of the hardwares does not work well with vista

Hello all, I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor. However, when I type WINMSD in Run I get the following System Type: X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2200Mhz So do I have a 64bit or a 32 bit processor? I got the 32bit edition of home premium today, and just ordered the 64bit from Microsoft.

Dears, Not able to install Windwos vista beta 2 , while starting only its giving error ACPI failed. Please let me know the issues and resolution. I cannot upgrade BIOS since it is not availbale.

Questions: 1) Why are the many Mac users Posting within these Forums repeatedly making equal Post or very similar Post entirely bankrupt of morals and specifically bankrupt for IT knowledge? 2) Appears too obvious the Mac users are seeking a genuine education regarding Windows Vista by Posting such insane lame Post. 3) Apparently, since Windows Vista is the most IT advanced, and secure OS...

I have recently got a new laptop with Vista on it, i am trying to install several third party applications which i used on xp (i.e games, connectivity software) however, when it is installing i get an error message stating that it needs windows 2000/xp to install. i have looked on the vendors site and tried to ask Microsoft about this but with no kuck, can anyone tell me of a way of getting...

Good morning all, I'm trying to upgrade from the Premium edition that was pre-installed on my new system to Ultimate. The advisor said all was ready to go, paid for the upgrade, downloaded all the files and ran thru the entire install process, on the final reboot, got failure message and everything resorted to re-installing Premium. Where should I start looking for conflicts? All I added to...

Running the RTM of Ultimate. How do I configure SMTP within IIS? There seems to be little if no information out there about this. (Almost as if it is no longer supported?) Thanks,

Tried installing Vista Home Premium upgrade to my WinXP Pro system. Vista Upgrade Advisor said system fine for upgrade - custom-built Scan 3XS with Asus P5WDH Deluxe MoBo, Core2Duo 6700 CPU, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 7950 GX2, WD Raptor 80Gb HDD (2 partitions) & 500Gb Seagate HDD, et al - Advisor said should be no problems upgrading with this hardware. However, when I tried to do a clean install on...

I purchased a vista ultimate upgrade from CompUsa. I also bought a new large hard drive to go along with it. I tried to do a clean install from the Vista upgrade dvd. but, I discovered it wont work. I checked around on the internet to discover, I must first install a copy of Win Xp on my new hard drive, then the let Microsoft validate it, then (and only then) can I install Vista Ultimate. After...

Sorry for my poor English, I hope everyone can understand this... When I install Windows Vista Ultimate, it copy's files to the HardDrive, then its going to expand files, at 27 procent it reboots. My PC starts normal, it asks to press any key to boot from DVD (or something like that), then it sais its loading files, at 100 procent there comes up a blue screen with an error: STOP: (a lot...

I've reformatted and installed Vista x64 over 4 times now and it's becoming rather frustrating. Every time i install the new OS, it runs fine and my drivers update without problems, but then after some time and a few reboots later, vista refuses to boot up past a black screen with just the cursor showing. This has happened 3 times and once vista crashed leaving me with a message about a...

IE7 will not start after upgrade from XPSP2 to Vista Ultimate. Cannot activate product or connect to Update, etc. svhost stops running - no details. Help please! Thanks,

Hi I have tried to update from XP to a Vista Home Basic edition and I am having 3 problems- 1. If I try and upgrade from the the XP desktop and the message I get is-Set up cannot be done on this version of the OS. 2. I have then tried to run the setup.exe file and the message I get is-Setup.exe is not a valid win32 application. 3. I then gave up trying to upgrade and tried a clean install and...

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I installed Vista Home Premium Upgrade. During the installation there was a power outage. I called MS and was told to perform a clean install, which I did. Now I cannot activate the Vista. I have 22 days left to activate. The error message I am receiving is as follows. Invalid Product Key Code 0XC005 FO61 The software licensing servicedetermined that this specified product can