After I upgraded to Vista Home Premium, it's working great! However, when I try to play a downloaded song in Windows Media Center, I get an error "unknown audio error" with a a number 8010100 and WMC goes black. If I wait for 3-5 minutes, there is a lot of disk activity and then the song starts to play!!! After that, all songs play OK. I tried downloading the codecs, no help. I turned...

I am trying to plug in my piano to my computer under the microphone plug thingy... and i cant figure out how to be able to listen to it and record at the same time with the sound recorder... so if anyone knows how to record and listen at the same time... that would be great! Thanks!

how do I make iTunes work with the play pause stop and volume buttons on the front of the Inspiron e1705. I had it working a few days ago and it just stopped, I'd liek to get it back but havent been able to figure it out or get lucky enough to hit the right combination. thanks

Is there any way to add lyrics to my music files when using WMP 11? I cant even view my lyrics which i have previously added using advance tag editor in WMP 10.

The print picture dialog box does not list my default printer under the "printer" drop down box. The listed options are OneNote; Microsoft XPS Document Writer; Acrobat distiller; and Install Printer. If install printer is selected it tells you not to use this option with a USB printer. The printer I'm attempting to use is a HP Color Laserjet 1600 which is listed as my default...

Got Vista Movie Maker 6.0.6000.16386 Imported AVI, used storybord, saved project as. But when I want to publish the movie anywhere, MM shuts down with unknown error message. Anyone?

The TV picture displayed on my 16 x 9 lcd monitor does not fill the screen in any mode (4 x 3 or 16 x 9). There is a 3-5 cm black border around the image. Nvidia and MC are both set at 1440 x 900 because MC fails when trying to set the picture at the monitor's native resolution of 1680 x 1050. I would expect the image to fill the dispaly horizontally or vertically dependant upon the aspect...

when i go to windows DVD MAKER to burn a movie that i have downloaded... in the menu options i change the screen to such as wigescreen or rectangle widescreen and so on...when the movie is finished burning i put it in my dvd player and it has the movie boxed in with 2 inches of black bars on all four sides...i've tried most all of the settings and it always ends up in the miiddle of the...

I just bought a laptop with vista premium and I am admin on the box but for whatever reason I have not been able to download the urge music store. Everytime I try it I get a C:\Programdata\media make sure you have access to this folder. Has anyone else experience this and if so what was the resolution?

why does music I have ripped from my albums into the media player stutter at the end of every track when playing back can enyone help? -- Simon k

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Hi, media center in vista ultimate has stopped working for me. I will detail the problems below any help would be much appreciated. Thanks In Advanced. Description Stopped working Problem signature Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 Problem Signature 01: ehshell.exe Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386

Pixela is Sony software that came with my DVD Handicam, and I need it to DL the videos to my HD. Of course, it is not compatable with Vista. I had installed Vista and had to re-install XP in order to use the computer with the videos I make with the Handicam. Can anyone suggest a workaround? I must use the Handicam and I'd love to have Vista. I got a free Vista Disk when i got this new Dell...

Where can i download or purchase "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?" I want the original, by the Beatles.

When I import music, it won't let me bring in a m4p. I feel like I need a codec but it won't help me with which one! thanks. -- patty

Hi I'm not sure what happened yesterday when I was working on some pictures but the Pictures link in the Start menu is no longer working. Clicking it produces no result and right-clicking and selecting Properties shows no information at all, no file type, 0 for size, etc. I also checked the Customize Start Menu in the Control Panel and Pictures is no longer listed.

Hi, I recently purchased Vista Ultimate, and in general, I've been pleased with its features. The new Windows Photo Gallery is definitely an improvement over the Picture & Fax Viewer. However, I am irked by one little thing. When I start a slideshow with Photo Gallery, it seems like Photo Gallery's use of DirectX preempts a number of shortcut key commands. In particular, I can't switch out...

I keep getting this error when trying to play music ripped to the library. No music- other than music WMP came with- plays without a disc in the drive. I have tried all the options in the 'help' section, but none have helped. Please explain how to rectify this problem! Thanks.

Hi, I have a problem with Windows Movie Maker. It will import media fine but as soon as I try to drag anything into the timeline (video or photo), the application crashes and I get the message "Windows Movie Maker has stopped working". I found some discussion on the net about Nero causing a problem but I do not have this installed. I am using the 32 bit version of Vista Ultimate Edition.

When I used to insert my memory card into the F: Drive, Auto Play would pop up and I would select Windows Gallery and tag my photos so they were inported. However, now Windows Gallery is no longer an option (I had installed Photoshop, but have since uninstalled it). How can I get Windows Gallery to be my default importer again? Any idea? It is not even option and when I go to Auto Play...