Hi! I install windows vista to a windows xp computer. The computer has 2 hard disk. On the first( hd0) installed windows xp. Now i install (hd1) Vista, and i cant find the way how can i boot windows xp, because some of my works and programs installed on it. In the boot menu (at startup press F8) cant find, only vista, and the computer startup and recovery menu has only vista for the default...

Hi! I install windows vista to a windows xp computer. The computer has 2 hard disk. On the first( hd0) installed windows xp. Now i install (hd1) Vista, and i cant find the way how can i boot windows xp, because some of my works and programs installed on it. In the boot menu (at startup press F8) cant find, only vista, and the computer startup and recovery menu has only vista for the default...

Since installing RC1 I have a thick blue streak running in the middle of the online media player that wasn't there when using XP with WMP11. This is when you go to a site and watch a video inserted in to the site for online viewing, it does not happen if I download the file and watch with WMP. Has anyone experienced this and resolved it? Thanks, DRW

I have 2 sata western digital hard drives using intel's raid. in xp I could load intel matrix manager and have more control over the raid. but in vista I don't show that option and if I right click in device manager on the hard drives, I see 2 check boxes that will allow for advanced write back cache option, but it shows my hard drives don't support that. What hard drives do support it...

As I posted in the game section about Anarchy Online, Vista generates automatic error reporting messages whenever a program crashes. Sometimes these error reports generate when there is no need for them to generate (example, logging into a particular piece of software and after login is sucessful, it loads a 2nd program. Vista sees the first program terminating after the 2nd is launched as a...

I'm running Vista 5600 and noticed that my 160GB SATA drive had less than 1gb of free space, eventhough it ony contained 40gb of data. I looked an found that the drive had 120-130gb of restore point data files in the "System Volume Infrormation" dir. I was able to delete these and regain the real estate my drive should have. System restore is supposed to delete the olderest restore point when...

Hello, I installed RC1 and made a backup of my files (Backup & Restore - Backup Files). I later had to reinstall RC1 because of some driver issues. I then went to restore some individual files from the backup (by clicking on 'Advanced Restore'). However, I am having the following problems: 1) If I choose "Files from the latest backup made on this computer" I

"Nicholas" wrote: Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant Auto-Defrag after a period of inactivity. Somehow I find scheduling is useless for consumers because people just turn off the computer before they go to bed. And how is the computer going to wake up at 3 to do defraging? I know Vista might change things this time but defaulting things to Sleep, but even then it might be better...

Hi! I install windows vista to a windows xp computer. The computer has 2 hard disk. On the first( hd0) installed windows xp. Now i install (hd1) Vista, and i cant find the way how can i boot windows xp, because some of my works and programs installed on it. In the boot menu (at startup press F8) cant find, only vista, and the computer startup and recovery menu has only vista for the default...

sometimes when I need to delete a bunch of files the system just kinda hangs there. For example, when I had to delete windows.old directory, after finally figuring out how, the system just sat there for about 5 minutes before it even began deleting the files. Why does it seems to take longer to delete files than it did in XP?

Is there a way to access defrag.exe in Vista RC1? I'm an advanced user and would prefer to use the full graphical defragment utility, not the limited one that pops up when you click on drive properties, then defragment. It appears they have made it simpler, but it also doesn't display nearly as much information. As I understand there are two ways to access defrag.exe, through the command...

why does my main memory on my hard drive keep on going down It went from 204Gb To 196Gb It did it do this with windows XP What can I do

I installed SignupShield Desktop and was going to try it on Windows Vista 5600. It seemed that everything went well except that the program will not run at all and will not even let me uninstall. Now every time that I start the computer I get the same message that I get when trying to run the program "Cannot complete the configuration process: SignupShield is only supported under Windows 98...

I was quite surprised to find that system startup is significantly slower with RC1 relative to Beta 2. I am talking about 45 seconds longer from power on to desktop. I expected to see a speed improvement with RC1, not a deterioration. After reviewing the System Event Log it seems the primary culprit is the "Application Experience Lookup Service" which apparently is taking 45 to 47 seconds...

"BillD" wrote: "Andi" wrote: does anyone know how to turn off this annoying indexservice (searchindexer.exe)? Thanks a lot!

Hi All, I have Vista RC1 installed. When I try to install any application (like the HP essentials for printer & scanner), even when I use the compatibility wizard, the install is detecting the Operating System as Windows XP 64 bit and complaining that it can not be installed on this system. Similarly when I install MAfee Security Products or InCD... it gives an error when starting the...

Hi All, Indexing was working fine on my machine in RC1 and i love it by the way, anyway, all of a sudden i type a search in at the bottom of the start menu and the search menu pops up with this "Your searches might be slow because the index is not running. Click to turn on the index..." So i click and choose 'turn on index' from the popup menu and a popup comes up and says "do you want to...

When ever I try and sleep Vista it cause BSOD, I have reverted to XP SP2 and no problems with sleep or hibenate. I have logged a bug, and this has happened with all builds I have used from Beta 2 to 5728... I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 Socket T (LGA775) Motherboard (Intel P965 chipset) with CORE 2 duo, ATI X1600 PCIe card, Hauppage 500MCE card, 2gb DDR2 800, 500GB SATA2 (AHCI native mode),...

When ever I try and sleep Vista it cause BSOD, I have reverted to XP SP2 and no problems with sleep or hibenate. I have logged a bug, and this has happened with all builds I have used from Beta 2 to 5728... I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 Socket T (LGA775) Motherboard (Intel P965 chipset) with CORE 2 duo, ATI X1600 PCIe card, Hauppage 500MCE card, 2gb DDR2 800, 500GB SATA2 (AHCI native mode),...

When ever I try and sleep Vista it cause BSOD, I have reverted to XP SP2 and no problems with sleep or hibenate. I have logged a bug, and this has happened with all builds I have used from Beta 2 to 5728... I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 Socket T (LGA775) Motherboard (Intel P965 chipset) with CORE 2 duo, ATI X1600 PCIe card, Hauppage 500MCE card, 2gb DDR2 800, 500GB SATA2 (AHCI native mode),...