The search function in Vista seems like a step backwards from XP... How can I search for a file that contains the string "TSID", when I don't know the file type? The Vista search function does NOT index all files and even the files it does index don't have the contents as searchable. I've looked in the indexing settings in the control panel and I can't see any easy way to select all and...

About a week ago I suddenly couldn't open itunes because Data Execution Prevention prevented it and I also noticed that more than half of the entries in control panel were no longer working and control panel wouldn't even show up in my start menu. I realized the date that I had to have my copy of windows vista home premium activated by had already passed and understanding this to be my main...

Please help! Any help woud be appreciated!! I just bought a new computer that came with Vista Home Premium. It had a trial for 60 days for Microsoft Office. I ran that and pulled up the Activation Assistant. There are two steps. It says for the first one to click and it will give you your trial activation key online. Then once you have that you can click the second step which says it...

I would like to be able to listen to music in my computor room (through analog) and digital via my surround-system in my livingroom. My computor is build on a ABit AB9 pro motherboard with an integrated soundcard. Unfortunately the analog port is broken but the digital works. So I bought a new Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio. The problem in Vista is that I cant choose to have 2 default...

Have a laptop with Vista64 and have problems installing OpenOffice.The program errors on on installing a file to c:\programdata\microsoft\windows\templates indicating that I do not have rights to that location. Checked in windows explorer and that location is showing up as a junction point rather than a real directory. I know that \ProgramData\Templates is a junction point which points to...

This is just a general query about how WinPE handles dynamic disks. Let me explain the scenario... I'm using Backup Exec System Recovery to migrate one server to another. The SRD (Symantec Recovery Disk) is based on WinPE (you boot off it and then restore the volumes to the new server). My source server has 2 disks (1 basic and 1 dynamic). The dynamic disk has 5 simple volumes. When I try...

So this is how it all went down, I have a program that totally uninstalls software, its registry and little tidbits programs leave behind. I was uninstalling a obsolete 3d program & the program froze a bit, then my spybot activated and said something was trying to change the registry, a windows media player exe file, and a couple of other suspicious programs, it recommended I block it, so I did,...

Hello, I recently purchased the Vista Ultimate 64 bit upgrade as part of 'The Ultimate steal', but after multiple attempts to upgrade, I keep getting the same error on the final stage 'Completing Upgrade', the error says something along these lines: 'Windows installer has encountered an error and cannot continue. Your computer will now restart and will be reverted to your previous version...

Some time ago I posted a two part question about lockups running Vista Home Premium and about one of my logical drives on my external HD not being available when running Vista. Here is how I finally solved the problems: 1. I used Acronis Disk Manager to adjust the sizes of those two logical drives, then copied the files from the problem drive (using my XP computer) to the other external...

Any shortcut will allow you to assign a hotkey to it. But the hotkey fails to work. I suspect that the shortcut has to be in the path. Under XP, I could put the shortcut into C:\WINDOWS. Under Vista HP, I am not allowed to put anything in C:\WINDOWS. (Even though I am administrator) I suppose I could add C:\Users\ccashion to the path, but I am not sure where to add it. So I guess my two...

Hello, I'm trying for a long now to install postgresql 8.3.5 on vista. I tried to disabled the UAC on vista, or even run the .msi file as administrator, but i still got the same error: "Failed to run initdb". it is written at the end of initdb.log: "...creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data/base/1 ... initdb: could not execute command ""C:/Program...

Hi, I have had a trawl through the topics here and on Google to dual boot a system, but can't find the answer to my question. :o I have built a Vista 64 system on one drive and still have my XP home system on another drive. To build the Vista system I physically disconnected my XP drive. When I have both drives connected my system boots under XP and I can see the Vista drive as drive F and I...

I have re-installed Vista on my machine and created two partitions, one for the Operating System & Programs and the other for Data. My problem is that Windows has installed the default data folders in the first of these partitions. The folder tree goes like this: Desktop/My Computer Name/Contacts, Documents, Downloads, Favorites Music, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Videos. I don’t want...

Hi, Just got my first Vista PC and was wondering the best way to move Users (my kids) over to vista from XP. Do I create users first on vista and copy all their dir's over or will the files and settings transfer wizard be better? Any resource to help with these kind of questions?

Under XP, I could search for a document containing some string. Today, running Vista Home Premium, I tried to locate a document containing the string "spanish". Where is the box where you enter a search string? Charles

Got a message that a driver was missing/damaged: sys32/drivers/matrixfg.sys I have a Raid 0 array and upgraded from XP professional. No incompatibility issues were found on pre install scan. -- Elliot Feldbau

I just re-installed Windows Vista to fix a computer problem. Now it appears that I've erased all of my files and settings. Is there any way for me to retrieve these?

hey, is a reinstallation of windows possible with a "product recovery cd rom"? i had that one to install windows vista. i dont have a pc like from hp, dell or w/e, its a pc i could say wich parts i want and the guys in the shop made it and set something like a part of windows on it, so i only had to install a part of windows, thats why i got a cd instead of a dvd... is a...

Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there? Any help is appreciated, thanks. -- rewindurmind

This is possibly related to a recent "System Restore" event that I had to do - but maybe not. I used to have several very useful notification icons in the Taskbar, Notification Area, or System Tray (not sure which is the right name) that was in the lower right hand corner of my Vista Home Premium system (Dell XPS 1530 laptop). This is where the Clock is, etc. Recently (shortly, but not...