Hello Guys I have a one month old Toshiba Satellite. It turned out that a Service or Startup kept making my system "Hang" at my Vista Welcome Screen or I was only able to get to the desktop before it would freeze and the wheel kept spinning, and a stupid Toshiba rep never gave me this option to stop service or disable programs until I did it myself! Anyway I fixed it by going to MSCONFIG and...

Hi, I have just purchased a brand new laptop that came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed (but has recovery disk) - I want to install XP Pro instead as Vista is not compatable with the programs I wish to run. I have booted from my XP install disk and it goes through set-up quite happily until it gets to starting Windows..... I gives me the normal options i.e. return to format current...

I bought my ASE380-E system in May with Windows Ultimate pre-installed. Because of a bad HDD that has been replaced I need to rebuild the entire system from the restore DVD. This has been done, but I’ve got a problem: The F8 key at boot time gives you access to “Repair your computer,� which should provide a choice of repair actions. In my case it just boots up normally. What is the...

My friend has a 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate with sub-folder called "Folder Settings" on every folder. Have any got idea, how to fix the issue?

Considering there have been some (doubtful..?) images available on various torrents for weeks now, I'm wondering why so slow in posting the full Vista Ultimate with SP2 slipstreamed DVD .iso on Technet Plus? -- Peter Toronto, Canada

I bought HP Laptop 9 months back, which came with vista home premium with it. now it is running very slowly. So i want to format and reinstall the vista home premium. My Question is do I need to get the activation key for the reinstall also(i have product key of the previous installation)? is it legal to reinstall home premium with the product key that i have? --

HI Having to do a custom installation of Vista SP1 64-bit, putting the autounattend.xml file in the root of the DVD, I noticed that: The erasing of hard-disk and the creation of two primary partitions occur after pressing the Next button of the partitions window creating also problems during the next phase of installation of Vista SP1 64- bit.

Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago. Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile was not loaded correctly. You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator" Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support...

I know this is a Vista forum, but I do not see any Windows 7 forums. My apologies for posting this here. Perhaps someone can help with this: This has carried through a number of recent builds of Win7 and now is in the RC, 7100 build. Not sure if this is a change in functionality or a bug. If you want to copy the profile of a local user, you can login to the PC (Vista and earlier) as the...

I have windows vista running on my pc at the moment. I was wondering if there is a way to install windows xp and keeping all of my software and settings that I have on my windows vista profile? I don't want to format and install windows xp and re-install all of the software that I have already install. Any information or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I got the error a lot of people got that says windows has failed to start because winload was missing or corrupt. however If I try to run the repair disc while its loading files it freezes then gives me a blue screen. I have tried this several times over with no success. I have tried the same hard drive on a different computer and that renders that computer unbootable too (but without winloader...

Ok, I've been researching this and have found alot of convoluted answers but none that really answers the question. I have an OEM Vista Home Premium DVD. The disk says it includes anytime upgrade but it also says it only contains 32 bit software. If I want to upgrade (By upgrade I mean clean install to 64 bit but using anytime upgrade to do it) do I need to purchase the 64 bit anytime...

I just bought and built my new computer, installing Vista Ultimate on it. The processor is a q9550 and judging from the '64-bit architecture' i assumed it was 64bit compatible. everytime i try to install vista i get a 32bit installation. this computer has 8gigs of ram, only recognizing 3.52gb. any thoughts? i'm about 18 installations in atm, getting quite frustrated. -- jar00n

Does anybody know If it's possible 2 upgrade and how much it cost's? I can't affort to buy a complete version of Ultimate so I hope that there is a upgrde that is cheaper. Cheers -- stereopiet

When Vi$ta download and install a driver, where could I find it? Does Vi$ta log the event into c:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log? I would like to keep a copy of that driver so that when I re-install Vi$ta, I don't need to download it again. Also the driver might disappear in the future. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.

I have an OEM installation of Vista Ultimate (x32) on a new pc. I am unable to run System Recovery Options either from the Vista DVD or from the WinRE partition using the Advanced Boot Menu. The support personnel at my OEM advice that re-installing Vista is my only option to enable Sytsem Recovery Options. Does anyone have any less drastic alternatives? To confirm my situation:- * on...

Hello, Im new to all of this so please bear with me. I'm currently running windows vista 32bit and am having problems with my pc. I noticed my pc was running slow the other day and when I looked at the updates tab it states the last time it updated was in March. I tried to update it, it gives me an error that when I look it up states its firewall related. (error 80072EFD) I uninstalled all of...

Which Vi$ta function creates such a folder? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 9.04) Linux 2.6.29.2 ^ ^ 19:57:02 up 10:03 0 users load average: 1.00 1.02 1.03 ???! ???! ???! ???! ???! ???! ????? (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa

Hi Good Day to all of you, i have an Acer Aspire 4710z which is a linux. it has windows vista in it. i want to downgrade it to Windows XP. is there any other way rather than using a external FDD (my laptop doesn't have a FDD) or creating a custom XP installer. because the problem is the Hard Disk Drivers when you install it with XP.

I have a Fujitsu Siemans Amilo Li 2727 laptop with Vista Home Basic 32Bit preinstalled. What I like to know is that can I use the licence that comes with this laptop with a OEM copy of Vista 64Bit Home Basic as I need to reinstall Windows on my Laptop. I've tried doing a system restore from the Recovery Disk, (Which is on a hidden partition), but it doesn't seem to work.