After upgrading to Home Premium, the shared folder where all pictures and music was stored has disappeared. Anyone have any idea if it was completely erased? I can't find them in the public folders, or under any other user account. And yes, I didn't back-up before installing because I thought I had everything on two other computers...but I was wrong!

Hi Fellows, Can you please review those questions so we can consider deployment of Vista on the current infrastructu 1. Can we then look into approving if there are no security or operational issues if I login my Vista / X64 machine to Win3K or Win2K domain ? 1.1 Might it ruin my account settings if I login in parallel from XP SP2 / x86 ?

When I try to install Vista Business, I get the following error: You must make the following changes before installing Windows Close Windows installation, go to Programs, and uninstall the following programs: Nero - Burning Rom I have uninstalled Nero, I have checked my registry for any mention of Nero and deleted all instances, I have deleted every file on my computer with the name Nero,...

i've tried upgrading to Vista from Windows XP twice and both times it finishes but at the it just keeps restarting over and over to the same black and gray options screen. i've tried the repair option from the dvd but i left it on overnight and it was still processing. so im always forced to select the option that takes me back to XP and thats when a message appears saying that the upgrade...

Hello, I have a question regarding the installation terms I read about during the beta. I do security testing in VM environments and end up rebuilding my Windows VM's quite frequently. I read about how you can only reinstall Vista 3 times. I am uncertain how they generate the string that determines if this is a new machine. If I alter the properties of my VM hardware will Vista think I...

I took delivery of an Acer Aspire notebook for a client that came with Vista Home Premium installed. The wholesaler used my name for the installation so it appears under "C:\Users". For obvious reasons I would like to change this name to the name of the client. How can I do that? I've changed the "User Account" name to the client's name but my still appears as the "registered owner",...

I upgraded from Windows XP Tablet PC Edition to Windows Vista Business. In Start Menu Properties under Privacy, I selected the (default) option "Store and display a list of recently opened programs". After having opened a program through "All programs", it is added to the list, but it seems to be impossible to start programs from this list. Using right click + Open does not help either....

I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I've got a killer rig with more than enough to razzle and dazzle windows Vista. The advisor tells me everything should work on my system. I've got 3 harddrives. 1 has windows xp (which i always unplug during vista installations!). The other 2 are brand new harddrives that are blank. I just bought a 160gb PATA drive from Best Buy for my new Vista...

Hi Fellows, I am having those errors using Vista Ultimate / x64 MSDN media via a non-microsoft proxy that requires MS based authorization (error 802441b). Regular internet browsing with this same machine works just fine. Also, Updates for Windows Defender fail as well. Please advise...

I have setup vista succesfully (eventually) Now, I have a black screen at boot time. However the BOOT CHOICES menu IS there, just not displayed on the monitor... so pressing enter or UP/DOWN then enter still works to instantiate OS's... (multi boot system obviously) I just have to remember to do the right keystrokes blindly and it works... NVDIA GeForce 7800 GS... Using the nvlddmkm.sys...

Hi Anyone got a solution for this one? I have now downloaded the ($250) legal version 3 times but every time it gives me this error. With and without antivirus prog running. With and without /properties/unblock Any ideas? Thanks,

Anyone else had probs connecting to internet after upgrading to Vista?? Took my son, who is an MCP, 6 hours to sort it all out. Being on AOL, had to upgrade to AOL 9.0VR too. Must say everything seems a bit slower than my XP2000. But looks fantastic.....thinking of writing to Microsoft and AOL to tell them to get their act together!!!

i recently purchased vista home premium and wasn't satisfied with it and was wondering if theirs a way to go back to my original OS (windows media center) if it helps i upgraded to vista instead of clean install.

I've got 2 versions of Vista Ultimate. One is the retail version that comes with both the 64 bit and 32 bit versions. The other is an OEM 64 bit version. I installed the 64 bit retail version on my main desktop computer and activated it. Everything works great. When I got the 64 bit OEM version, I loaded it up on my laptop but didn't activate it yet as I had alot of issues with drivers....

Installed Vista home Premium, retail full version on partition 2 of first sata drive. WinXP was on partition 1 and am now dual booting. Everything installed ok and seem to be running fine. However, when running Vista I can see the Xp partition. All data is stored on a second sata drive which can be shared with both OS. There is no need for one OS to see the other OS.

I bought the retail Premium upgrade (not OEM) and now realize that I should have got the Ultimate upgrade (need the full HD backup). Plan on building a new 64 bit system in about 3 to 6 months (have Pentium 32 bit now). Anytime Update seems to have many limitations that the full retail version doesn't. I'm always updating my PC and don't want to be limited to 1 upgrade or no 64 bit. Can I...

If you enjoy watching grass grow or paint dry and also love to get into debates over which is better, OSX or Vista, or something else, the below link is something a little different. A casual round table discussion of Mac and Windows self proclaimed "experts" debate the finer and no so fine points and pros and cons. Often funny, rarely serious, sometimes a bit heated. Fun to watch for a few...

This was the biggest waste of $219 I've ever spent. I ran Windows Vista Advisor and everything checked out except a cannot determine from Intel (R) System Management BIOS driver. Well, after the Vista Business Upgrade runs flawlessly, the system reboots. That's when the problem starts. I get a blue screen with a physical memory dump, then system halts. So, I have to revert back to Windows XP...

Ok, question: And, please, I would like to only receive answers from people who have actually done this; not from those who THINK that they know the answer. If you install a Vista upgrade copy, starting from a copy of XP, does the installation of the Vista upgrade cause the Microsoft servers to invalidate (for the purposes of future product activation and WGA checks) the Windows XP product...

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