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...

I am currently in the process of building a new PC. I got it all put together but now I can't get Vista Business Ed. 64bit to install. I run the boot disk and I get to where it asks for where to save. It then does not detect my HD, I try to load drivers for my HD (seagate 160GB) but on their site they do not provide drivers saying that xp and vista have them already build in. I've tried to...

Passing through a department store in Geneva I saw an Acer Aspire L100 small desktop PC discounted to circa 50% normal price. Because I needed another PC on impulse I bought it. At home in Berne I started it and, of course, the OEM Vista Home Premium OS was in French - okay, I thought, I could live with that although my French was pretty terrible. Then I saw that included in the CDs was an Acer...

As I was stumbling around installing Vista Ultimate 32 I made some mistakes causing me to start over. The second installation went fine and the machine is runnin great. The only problem, really just an iritation, is when it boots up there is a multi-boot screen offering me two Vistas to choose from. Fortunately, the first one seems to be the good one so it will go ahead and boot without...

I tried to install Vista Ultimate and it crashed twice during install, so I grabed Vista Business and installed it and it works fine. I am trying to figure out what is different between the 2 that would let Biz install and not Ultimate. Any Ideas? --

I have 4 harddrives. 2 SATA 2 and 2 IDE. 1 is my primary with Vista 64 Ultimate. The second is the one that holds my License codes (I don't ever want to touch this drive). My third is blank (IDE). 4th is a back up of everything. I want to install Win XP SP2 on my second drive. I can't describe how much I love XP. Anyway, I disconnected all drives apart from #3. I formatted and then installed...

Upgrading from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business VLK terminated with the following error: "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed" Reviewing the setupact.log reveals the following error (hard to find but search is your friend): 2007-02-06 16:02:59, Info IBS

Vista SP1 x64 While trying to install Office 2007 Ultimate, I got the error message 2303: Internal error has occurred c:\windows\installer\4120be.pie Please help. Thanks.

So, if you have a machine with SoundMax drivers on it, you have to uninstall them before you run sysprep. If you forget to do this (I have, unfortunately), you hose your Vista install and need to start over. Has anybody figured out a better way to deal with machines that have these drivers in them?

I formatted my hard drives in Vista 64-bit, now when I try to use them on Vista 32 they can not be found (other than in the BIOS). Someone has told me that the disk format between Vista 32-bit and Vista 64 bit is different? They also said that the format in Vista 64 is not reversable (like in the old 16-bit and 32-bit file formats). This does seem strange to me as I can't run FDISK and the only...

GRRRRR --- HELP I'm searching all over the net and have tried everything to no avail 1 year old dell inspirion 1750 - came with vista - got a virus Have reformatted, repartitioned, installed drivers at correct spot and install clean Vista - Dell had me swap some things around in BIOS etc to no avail ... I go fine thru the clean install until I get to the "completing installation" and then it...

this isn't a problem with installing Windows Vista, but rather Microsoft Installer has become corrupt. You know the one. It uses .msi files now-a-days. whenever I try to install anything that requires the use of Windows Installer, it crashes out with an error. there are many ways for installing a program, and every program uses one installer or another. the ones that use a third party...

Garibaldi wrote: When attempting to use Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), I get the 'Upgrade is disabled' error message, please could somebody tell me why ?. i thought that i'd purchased an unused WAU DVD but does this message prove otherwise ? My C: drive is NTFS, so that is not the problem. Please help, thanks

Without warning on my Dell XPS 1530 laptop (Vista Home Premium - pretty much up to date) I found that my system would no longer boot. I could get to the User Select step, but it was just a Blue Screen from that point forward. I sent some time today with a Dell tech and we tried to run a Restore (F8 on boot - Repair your Computer - System Restore) on a couple of different restore points. They...

I have an old system with Win98SE2 on it and installed an All in one printer. I was able to scan paperwork into MSWord with no problems. I now have a new system with Windows Home basic and using the same printer, I can no longer do this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.