What are the issues with legacy applications which may be writing data into their install folders, either something like C:\KEYS or C:\Program Files\Keys? My understanding is that the application is supposed to write into Application Data folders either in Local Settings or in the roaming part of the user's profile. I am having trouble with an old app that we have been able to get working...

OK. A while back, I had Win XP on drive C. I installed Win Vista x64 on drive D . Worked perfectly .... Unitil I had hard disk issues. Reinstalled Win XP late last year and decided to reinstall Vista x64 again. Followed just like above. Everything went smoothly. Rebooted. Went directly into Win XP. No menu or anything. Never saw the Vista bootloader. Booted off the Vista DVD and selected...

I recently upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. I was running fine on the Vista initially, with the exception of my wireless internet connection, and after a few failed attempts to rectify that, I connected through LAN temporarily to perform updates. Now, since peforming the restart after the updates, my computer is stuck in a cycle of restart. It will boot up, hit the vista icon screen,...

I have not been able to find a Win 7 forum yet so will try here. I have downloaded and installed Win 7 RC 1 (over an up to date Vista}. I am impressed with the way that it appears to be a much faster OS than Vista. However Windows Mail is no longer part of this new OS. I need to be able to access my saved emails and receive them. I tried Mozella Thunderbird but it does not appear to read...

Hi, I am doing deployment of Windows Vista. To capture the image, we are using ISO file which contains PE. While running from PE, we are loading our application and then saving WIM file. Now, while running through PE, we allow user to select location of WIM file for saving. The application is made of MFC which will run under PE and called CFileDialog to open "Save File Dialog". We are supporting...

POPS3 does not appear to be a valid server what is the valid server

I bought an Acer desktop with OEM vista. It comes without a DVD and without BOOTSECT.exe the utility to fix boot sectors and patch them back to Vista's multiboot scheme damaged by other multiboot programs. Is there a way to download BOOTSECT.exe somewhere or the ISO image of an install DVD? MS offers a CD collection install discs for $13 but not the convenient single...

guI've been trying to reinstall my OS due to a power outage and my OS gubecame extremely unstable after that. guSo now here I am attemting to install Vista for the third time today guand I keep getting the same error message (a number string) saying that gufiles are missing and it can't install?? Could be that a part of the DVD is unreadable for some reason or another and that part of the...

Is anyone ever going to create newsgroups like Microsoft.Public.Windows.7.xxx? And, a comment: I installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on an old SIS- 741-based motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP processor. It works great. The drivers for the SIS-964 built-in Ethernet were never built for Vista, but amazingly, the XP drivers worked fine for this device. The driver file that Windows 7 is...

I would like to be able to start a script (a cmd batchfile) after connecting to a specific 802.11 wireless LAN network. Is that possible? My bluetooth driver offers such an option to execute a user-definable command after a BT network connection has been established. I haven't found any similar option in the WLAN driver. Is there maybe such a thing in Vista itself? Michael

Ok i am beginning to laugh at how bad Toshiba is. Ok so heres whats going on: I have had this problem before with my step dads laptop where it will do the Green loading bar then go to a blank screen. Well i had solved this problem by making it go into Win RE and doing a system restart. Well here is where my problem comes in.. I tried to go into Win RE and it doesn't have it on this toshiba. I...

Hi iam new this site and this is my first post, (forgive me my english is not so good:() last Sunday(may 3rd 2009) i updated my bios (unfortunately). problem is, vista (Home Premium 32 bit which i used when problem occurs) is not booting my HDD. after showing my bios screen black screen appears with blinking cursor. i removed and inserted bios jumper for recovery and also battery. but the...

i imstalled windows 7 on my hp pavillion last week and I was having problems with it freezing so i went and did a reboot to factory specs when it completed and restarted for first time it locked and says there a data error code purple any ideas?

Hi I had successfully installed win xp pro on my pre-installed vista home computer. When I used to boot up, I had the option of selecting one of those 2 OS. I begun having problems with xp pro so I "repaired" it using my xp pro cd. Now, I can't boot into either OS. Please help. I have tinkered with the MBR, FIXMBR, FIXBOOt commands but can't get anything to work. All I get when I boot up is the...

I knew Vista Home does not allow remote desktop connection to it. I followed some online hack and install some Terminal Service hack file. It worked when my laptop Windows XP sits close to the Vista HOME PC, when the laptop is using wireless and the Vista is using Internet LAN connection. I made sure my Kaspasky Internet Security Firewall is open for RDP port. But the moment when I move out of my...

Ok here's the thing. I already have my computer set up to multiboot XP and Vista. I've decided to try out Windows 7. What I have planned to do, is just pop in another hard drive, formatt it, and install windows 7 onto it, leaving my system a multiboot of WinXP, Vista and 7. Now since Win7 is just a beta, I'll not want to leave it on my system when a new RC comes out, it expires, or I...

Hi, I have sahara computer and unable to install vista or xp on system , to reinstall os it takes more an hr and also while formating it give error mess like files are misiing and after format it gives the error mess NTLDR misiing or corrupt , also tired to debug and try os nogo , Please help

HI I can not understand why the block DiskConfiguration / DiskConfiguration, placed in the autounattend.xml file located in the root directory of the DVD of Vista SP1 64-bit, is executed AFTER the display of the window of the partitions of the hard disk. So, what is the trick to make sure that this block is executed BEFORE viewing this window?

Got a dell inspron 1525, Vista had a fit so reformated and started fresh now screen gone blank? what the .... what to do?, does anyone know! please help... i'll be ya best friend ;)

Hi everyone, I will try to be as brief as possible with this but I want to make sure I explain all the details as I am stuck and not knowing what to do at about 8 PM when tomorrow is a workday :(. Anyways... Windows Platform: 32xVista, Comp: HP 6700 ; To start off, I was an idiot and was installing some program a friend had given to me and it required "New SID" from Microsoft and I did brief...