I hate to say so MS, but your average joe, the person you are making UAC for, is going to do exactly what they are doing, that is turning UAC off. Example, my mother is your basic Internet User. She just graduated from AOL to a normal broadband connection after me telling her for years how much better broadband would be for her. She bought a PC that had Vista Home Premium on it. Suddenly...

Heres a list of vista compatible games:- 1602 A.D. (32-Bit) Agatha Christie : And then there were none (32 bit) Agatha Christie : Murder on the orient express (32 bit) Aliens versus Predator 2 Americas Army 2.7 (32-bit) Anno 1701 Age of Empires and the Rise of Rome expansion Age of Empires II and the Conquerors expansion

hi, I just don't understand what people's problem with windows vista is! Everyone says it doesn't work with 3rd party applications.... well guess who's fault that is! The company that made the app! Anyways I wanted to hear what issues people had with vista and how we can resolve them!

Version 101.41 just released. Important fixes a lot of people were getting: # Brief corruption (flickering, boxes) on screen at Windows Vista login, CTR-ALT-DEL (Task Manager), or other function that requires Vista User Account Control # Playback issues when playing TV/DVD/video in Media Center with Aero enabled # Outputting via TV-Out shows only a black and white display

I just got a new computer with vista home premium on it. I installed steam, updated my graphics card drivers, and installed cs:s and it worked great for a few days. But now, whenever I try to launch cs:s, it just takes me to the menu screen and then crashes, and I get a message that says "hl2.exe has stopped working". I reinstalled steam and cs a few times. Then I heard this was an issue...

I have tried to no avail t install and run AAAAANY of my older DOS based (and full screen) games that usd to run under XP and earlier. s there a workaround for this or am I stuck having to run these on an older machine??

Hi everyone, Can anyone help me about my gaming problems on Vista x64? I am using: - Intel Q6600 Processor - Intel DP35DP Media Series MB with 4 Giga PC-6400 DDR2 RAM - GeForce 8500 GT 512Mb DDR2

I am at the end of my tether! I go to install Dungeon Keeper or Dungeon Keeper Gold on my new Vista PC and it gets to the title screen with Horny and then closes into a blackbox at the top left of my screen, minimizes then closes. I am not the only one who cannot get it running on Vista either as you can see there are among hundreds of people with this...

This game is about to be released in under 3 hours. Both ATI and NVIDIA have beta graphics drivers to address some problems with this game. I have tried the ATI drivers with the demo under Vista Ultimate and the work without fault. -- Annie___ (VM BB L)________________________________

I just put togther a new computer on the weekend and Oblivion is performing poorly I have the following E6700 8800 GTX 2GB RAM I have exited the sewers at the begining of the game and croseed the water. I then left the game until the view starts to rotate around the character

Yeah I'm the first to get it posted a gold star for me ! ! ! 32bit http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html 64bit http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista64/common-vista64.html Not that the ATI people need new drivers as bad as the nVidia people

Hello, I'm running Vista 32bit Home Premium on a new PC. I can't install DirectX, depite the file coming from the microsoft website and going through the whole GenuineCheck validation process successfully. Trying to run DirectX I get this messageInstalling Components part: 'A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify the Cryptographic Services are enabled and...

I'm a pretty new user to this forum, and i joined mainly for one reason. I need an answer, why does Vista ruin so many great games. After playing several games, some old some new, I can only notice one consistent theme..issues with my games. While some issues may be attributed to games themselves, i am however finding a very aggravating connection between my new laptop and vista and a huge jump...

When playing reg. or spider solitaire, the screen goes black, then I get a message, "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. Display driver nvlddmkm". It is a new HP computer running Vista. Any suggestions?

I just got Halo 2 for Windows Vista and installed it, I verified the key online and everything, and when i tried running it there was an error. It said there weren't sufficient resources to run the game or that some files were missing and to reinstall the game again. then a window pops up and says halo 2 stopped working and that if i want to check for solutions online and close or just close...

it wont even load the screen to install the game just keeps sayind windows explorer error and just stays there help please i wanna play online :(

Hey guys, I think it's a good idea to try and compile a list of games that aren't working properly on Windows Vista at this stage. So if we keep it clean and organised like so: Name of game: Vista build#: UAC on/off: CPU: Video: Audio:

After install Age of Empires II, i try to play, but it not run and the message is: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" My Pc is new, i have a good ATI card and i try with the solutions proposed in this link without any result: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B242902&x=22&y=12 Can anyone help me,...

every game i play on vista a has a Problem .i like really playing Civilization IV but now i cant . i suggest to all my friends in not upgrade or go to apply mac.

I love Age of Empires 2 (I own the Conquerors Expansion, Gold Edition). Only problem is that I recently got Windows Vista and have been experiencing these three problems: 1) The colors sometimes get messed up and the graphics become skewed. The most noticable example of this is when the grass becomes mixed with red blotches. 2) I'm having trouble connecting online with other players,...