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- Windows Vista >> Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 For VistaI have a friend that has a new Hewlett-Packard with Windows Vista. She canâ??t
afford Office yet so is unable to open word documents. Carey Frisch and Ken
Blake have both (In the past) recommended the word viewer download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en
However, the latest supported operating system for this is shown as being
Windows XP. There is no indication as to whether this download is supported
on Media Center or Vista.
Can some one assure me that this download is Ok for Vista, or perhaps point
me to a Word Viewer that is Vista certified?
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Linusverl
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- Windows Vista >> a drive in a RAID 0 is failingHello,
Shortly after installing Vista SP1 I have started to get message "a drive in
Raid 0 is failing".
This sounds bad. I have tried running checkdisk on my hard drive but it does
not show any problems.
If I reinstall the OS from scratch, will it fix the problem? Or is this a
hardware problem?
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- Windows Vista >> Faulting application nslookup.exeHi,
I just update to Vista SP1 throught Windows Update and I'm not able to use
nslookup.exe:
Faulting application nslookup.exe, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp
0x47918e19, faulting module nslookup.exe, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp
0x47918e19, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0000a2b6, process id
0x17c8, application start time 0x01c88f72fa51f2ec.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-03-26T18:55:37.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>1902</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Jozko</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>nslookup.exe</Data>
<Data>6.0.6001.18000</Data>
<Data>47918e19</Data>
<Data>nslookup.exe</Data>
<Data>6.0.6001.18000</Data>
<Data>47918e19</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>0000a2b6</Data>
<Data>17c8</Data>
<Data>01c88f72fa51f2ec</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Do you have any ideas how to solve this problem?
Thanks,
Jozef
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- Windows Vista >> webcam support?Does Windows Vista have any built-in webcam support?
Drivers?
Monitoring Software?
I have a webcam but i'm reluctant to install software that is not
essential - the software that came with it is too crappy but i can't find
any Microsoft webcam software in Windows Vista ( Premium) - i was a bit
suprised that Win Movie Maker doesn't support webcam input
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- Windows Vista >> pdf ConverterI have upgraded from XP to Vista and my pdf converter 3 professional program
is not compatible with Vista. Have you found any pdf converter that was
compatible and FREE
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- Windows Vista >> Driver installation problemI've performed a new installation of Vista on my HP Pavilion DV5051EA.
Initially it worked fine... but after some weeks I've experienced a very
annoying problem when connecting new USB devices. The installation of the
drivers takes a very long time (about 20 minutes), even if the device is a
simple USB memory. If the device is more "complex" (e.g. a mobile phone), the
installation is longer, because Windows has to install multiple drivers (a
mobile phone is seen as multiple devices: usb modem, usb phone, usb obex, and
so on, and each installation takes a long time!). Sometimes the installation
of a driver fails for timeout and I can't use the device! Usually, if the
installation is successful, the next time I reconnect the device I don't have
to wait, because the drivers are already installed. But sometimes, e.g. if I
change USB port, Vista starts to install drivers again.
This problem is very annoying, especially for these reasons:
* while Vista is installing drivers, the "SYSTEM" process takes all the CPU
power, so for 20-30 minutes the PC is very very slow to use!
* even though I can use the USB devices already installed, if I have to copy
some files to my friend's USB memory that is different from mine, we have to
wait for a long time! It takes less time to burn a CD!
* I've not managed to install some devices due to the timeout error while
installing drivers, so at this moment I can't use my webcam and my Nokia
phone in PC Suite mode.
I've given Vista a chance, and at first I was happy because I like it and
apps work fine, but now this problem is making the use of my PC a real
sufference!
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- Windows Vista >> Ronnie Vernon to task: Advice not working: IE Tab OptionRonnie, I am very sorry. Either I am an idiot or there is something wrong
with the advice you gave me. From the standpoint of plain English, I must
admit I read that option the way you relayed it to me:
>Alex
>When you open Internet Options, look on the General Tab, next to the
>bottom.
>You should see 'Tabs'. Click the Settings Button and you'll see all of the
>options.
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows Shell/User
I want to remind the whole issue. But before doing that I want to say that I
reset this option on TWO VISTA computers. It DOES NOT work on either of
them.
I set that option to: "Open links from other programs in:"
NEW WINDOW (right?) - I checked this option.
Before it was checked (default) "A new tab in current window"
This is the background. (I hate to quote myself and do it only under extreme
circumstances:)
>Uh, Andre, apparently you misunderstood me.It is a more complicated thing.
>I
>will try to explain although there is a chance, I will have to make more
>durable observations to document it.
>None of your advice will work. I tried the recent page menu and those
>precious urls are not there. Only those which I entered manually are added
>to the menu.
>I am primarily concerned with pages that I want to preview while I have
>another page open in Internet Explorer Browser.
>Let's say I went to MS website and got a page of MSDN documentation. There
>are many secondary label-links in the ASP and I can click one or two, view
>the content and I CAN GET BACK to the original MSDN documentation page by
>using the back button. None of the pages I visited will be in the menu
>under any circumstances.
>So far so good! Here is the crucial point.
>Let's say I leave the Internet Browser with the page open on desktop and
>began reading some newsgroups like I am doing now. Let's say I see a link
>you recommend. I want to check it out. I click it and this link will open
>the new page in Internet Explorer Browser, my MSDN page with document I
>haven't finished is gone, at times I do not even remember what it was, very
>often I have a vague feeling that it was something important but THERE IS
>NO
>BACK BUTTON ENABLED.
>So I cannot get back to the page I just lost.
>You described to me a recipe for a much simple situation which is not a
>problem.
>Now, I swear this feature was introduced about two years ago in Internet
>Explorer Browser. Before that time you could go back as far as your history
>size that you set up allowed you to do.
>I WANT TO HAVE THIS FEATURE BACK. I have a gut feeling that there should be
>a switch somewhere or a parameter. It could be a command line exec, I do
>not
>care but I want it to be changed. It slows down my productivity because I
>cannot be on alert all the time. I keep forgetting. I click on a link and
>the previous page is gone. Often I wonder what it was.
>Thanks.
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- Windows Vista >> Windows vistaHi, I bought a laptop with vista home premium preinstalled on it and i didnt
get a recovery disc. I want to change the language to english as currently
it is in german. Does anyone know how i can get one without it costing me a
fortune?
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Thanks
Jill
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- Windows Vista >> vista x86 or x64???hello. i'm planning to buy a laptop and have seen that most of them come
with vista 32 bit.
i'm planning to ask the manufacturer to give me x64 instead.
according to u which is better on core 2 duo laptops... x63 or x86 ???
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- Windows Vista >> Lost Vista SidebarEven though my account is Admin status I have lost Sidebar and jut get I
need an Administrtaor to reinstall.
Setting up a bogus account doesn't help either.
And yes i have used the control panel icon to attempt reload -
nothing!
Short of going to System Restore does anybody have a solution?
thanks
Peter
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- Windows Vista >> Windows Vista - Shortcut Keys to a ShortcutPrior to Vista, when I assigned a shortcut key to a shortcut, for example to
launch Microsoft Excel, I would do CTRL + ALT + E, every time I pressed the
key combination, it would open a new instance of Microsoft Excel. It was
handy and useful to me. With Vista, I can't do that anymore, it only launches
one instance of the application and when I would use the same combination, it
brings focus back to the application that was already launched.
I understand that this is a change in Vista and in many instances it is
useful.
If you know a way to change the behaviour to pre-Vista, please share.
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- Windows Vista >> WinExplorer giving blank frames, no contentHello, all. I've been scowering the groups and other forums for a
couple of days to try to find a solution to my problem, and at long
last I've come to put my sour news on the table for all to think
about...
I can't honestly say that my problem is related to the new SP1 on my
Vista Ultimate, but it does seemed eerily timed with my issue.
A few days ago, my Window's Explorer started freaking out... Any icons
that I create on the desktop remain "faceless", showing me only the
blank default icon. ANY window launched through the explorer process
will open only a frame, with a blank title bar, empty address and
search bars, and working minimize/close buttons, yet no content. I
see right through where the window content should be, straight into
the background behind it.
Explorer's process is CONSTANTLY stealing away all extra processing
time, rather than giving it to the system idle process. The idle
process *never* has a CPU allotment. It is constantly zero. Explorer
seems to allow other processes to open just fine, and all other
programs seem to open normally. However, any window, including all
"explore" windows, normally "open"ed windows, Control Panel, Programs
and Features window, etc etc... they're all broken. None of them open
properly.
Additionally, my ability to interact with the Start menu is seemingly
busted. When I click on a folder listed there, it changes its icon to
the little hourglass moving around on the little folder, as if it's
trying to discover the files listed therein. It *never* succeeds.
I've left my blank framed windows open all night, just to see if it
would ever finally show me anything, but to no avail.
I've thoroughly scanned my machine with every concievable program, and
I find nothing out of the ordinary, such as spyware or viruses. Every
log file that I make out of Hijack This seems completely normal to
me. All my services running are normal. All my startup entries are
normal. Everything seems normal.
One odd quirk that I noticed only moments ago: While downloading (a
World of Warcraft patch on my faster internet connection for my
brother) using the uTorrent client to obtain it, I discovered that I
can tell uTorrent to open the file's containing folder, and it will
successfully launch a window in Explorer that is fully functional. By
no other means can I seem to achieve this same behavoir out of
Explorer. When this magic uTorrent-spawned Explorer window is
running, it's process in the Task Manager stays at normal CPU
consumption, as expected, while the original explorer process
(presumably the desktop/general interface instance) continues to steal
away the clock cycles.
In order to access my files, I typically have been opening notepad via
a .txt file on my desktop, and choosing "open" and then changing the
file filter to "All files", and then I browse around and rightclick
and choose "open" (so as to actually launch the file, and not open it
in Notepad!!). This works 100%. I have no problems whatsoever with
this approach, other than its innate clunkiness.
The changes I've made in my system seem completely unrelated to this
problem, and even if I did figure out that it was somehow something
that I installed, I cannot so much as open a window to properly choose
to uninstall said program. Recently, I've installed only a trial for
a program called MorphVOX (which seems to be functioning normally... I
don't really care for it in the end, but I can't really unistall it,
given my dillemma) and I was doing some video editing in Adobe
Premiere. (One of Premiere's little byproduct files is on my desktop,
and Explorer *really* stops working entirely if I try to delete it.
Not sure what that's all about.)
Has ANYBODY experienced something similar? I've been booting into my
extra little partition for WinXP recently :) Once again, all other
fucntionality seems intact on my machine. All virus and spyware
protection seems uncompromised and running cleanly.
(sorry to be so long winded :) )
Tim
Dell Dimension 4500S, 1152mb RAM, 2GHz processor, Vista Ultimate SP1,
and a broken generic video card driver that Vista doesn't like :D
trust me--- that's completely unrelated to my problem!)
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- Windows Vista >> Excel CommentsI did some editing and now when I chose to show my comments they are all a
thousand rows down. I have about a hundred of them. Do I have to straighten
them all one at a time are is there someway I can straighten all of them to
be with the cell they belong too. I am trying to save myself about 2 or 3
hours of work.
Richard
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- Windows Vista >> auto standby instead of auto sleephow do I get my vista home premimum system to automatically go to the standby
mode after a certian amount of time to where it shuts down (no fans or hard
drives running) so that when I start it back up it starts up faster and
resumes where I left off.
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Mark
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jessinee
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Windows Vista >> Vista tips/tricks/tuning Blog web site?
Any suggestions where I can find great blogs/sites about tuning/tweaking
vista? I'd buy a book, but I'm cheap. If you have book recommendations,
then those would be welcome too.
Thanks,
Blake
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Windows Vista >> Vista tips/tricks/tuning Blog web site?
This one isn't too bad: http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
But, a lot of the books are very skimpy and basically just a manual of
features in Vista. Neowin forums are a great place for information, too.
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Dustin Harper
EMail@HideDomain.com
http://www.vistarip.com
"Blake Mengotto" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:EMail@HideDomain.com...
> Any suggestions where I can find great blogs/sites about tuning/tweaking
> vista? I'd buy a book, but I'm cheap. If you have book recommendations,
> then those would be welcome too.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
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Windows Vista >> Vista tips/tricks/tuning Blog web site?
"Blake Mengotto" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:EMail@HideDomain.com...
> Any suggestions where I can find great blogs/sites about tuning/tweaking
> vista? I'd buy a book, but I'm cheap. If you have book recommendations,
> then those would be welcome too.
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> Thanks,
> Blake
Try this one
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/
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- Windows Vista >> Cutomising login screenI have customised the wallpaper, and would like to change the login
background and also the logo on this page for an image of my choice.
Are these changes possible.
Thanks
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- Windows Vista >> *.sqm files in root directoryWhat are *.sqm files in root directory? The dates range from 1st boot to
current. Should these be left alone or can they be deleted. I have tried to
view the contents of the files but it is in computer language, not english.
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- Windows Vista >> Southwest Ding won't start as Regular User, only AdminI installed Southwest Ding (c:\Program Files\Southwest Airlines\Ding) which
starts fine at boot up when logging in as Admin. Ding won't start when
logging in as a non-admin User. There is a Southwest Airlines Folder in
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming but no Southwest Airlines Folder in
c:\Users\MyAccountName\AppData\Roaming Folder.
How do I get this program to start when I log in as the non-admin user?
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- Windows Vista >> Network ChangeLet's say I put a new system together, and the computer connects to the
Internet through a router that is connected to a cable modem through "ISP
A". Now after the system is ready to go, the user takes it home, and they
hook it up directly to their DSL modem through "ISP B", and the Internet
won't work once the computer is home. What normally would be the settings I
need to check provided all connections are good? I'm weak on networking.
Thanks.
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- Windows Vista >> startup repair taking foreverAfter an upgrade from XP, Vista will not load so I am prompted to boot up
from the disk and to perform a startup repair. I have done that but it has
been almost 1 complete day and stiil it is checking. I stopped it before and
checked t see if it was just stuck but it was working. Is it normal for this
process to take so long?
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- Windows Vista >> Publishing Vista Windows Calendar Online for SharingI am trying to find a free solution to sharing Windows Calendar
calendars with the World Wide Web, as yet: iCalX has not delivered and
the .MAC solution using Box.net does not seem to be functional with
the Vista Calendar software.
I understand Sunbird would sort all of this out for me, but the
Windows Calendar software is in my opinion superior and I'd hate to
think there was no way to do this...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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- Windows Vista >> Photo Gallery QuestionIf I am viewing a .JPG picture with windows explorer, then I right-click on
that picture, then left click on "Preview", one of the options at the top of
the new 'Windows Photo Gallery" window is "Print". When I left-click
"Print", then left click "print" on the drop-down list, I get a window that
offers to print the selected picture in various formats on a page. I select
the option to print four 3.5 x 5 in. pictures on a page. My selected
picture is displayed on the lower left corner. How can I place three other
different pictures in the other three positions?
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- Windows Vista >> CPU- OK, Mem- OK, What is vista doing?Hi,
I have a fairly ok computer, Intel 3.33Ghz with 1Gb of memory, Vista
Ultimate. My 'Rating' is 2.7 and my Graphic card is my lowest score,
(everything else is 4.x and my HD is 5.2).
I hardly have anything fancy installed on my machine apart from the usual
suspects, (MS Office and the likes), I don't really play games.
I have AVG as an anti virus and I run spybot from time to time but nothing
is ever reported, (I am guessing that defender is blocking everything), S&D
Tea timer is running as well.
I have all the latest updates.
But every time I open a new application, or switch between 2 apps, it takes
for ever to do anything.
Especially Explorer, If I click on another folder it takes a long time to
load, (a couple of seconds where I cannot do anything).
Sometimes Explorer crashes simply because I selected another folder a bit to
quickly.
IE also hangs from time to time.
It is as if VISTA needs to do some thinking every time I am changing app or
doing anything related to the hard-drive
I am not been difficult here, but I think that with a machine that I should
be able to easily navigate between applications and open and close tabs.
What could be the problem?
What is VISTA doing that is causing it to hang every time I click on
something.
Simon
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- Windows Vista >> oh great chatter having a negative impact on vista.generalthe chatter that oh great has written over the last few weeks has been very
annoying to those who want to get their vista problems fixed. Just FYI. A
post was written about the brilliant writings of oh great and how stupid it
was. Just FYI.
It seems that more brilliant writings must be compiled to give the group a
full and complete understanding of the idiot that 'oh great' is and how he
is misusing his name. Actually, it should be 'oh stupid'
And that is Just FYI.
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- Windows Vista >> iPod requires SP2?????hi,
it says here,
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Apple-160GB-iPod-classic-Silver-MB145LL-A/sem/rpsm/oid/192318/catOid/-17362/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
that this iPod, if you use it with Vista, it requires SP2 or later (last
item under Product Description..)
I have no idea if I have this or not (am on Ultimate... don't even know
if recent release of SP1 was delivered to me automatically thru the
updates..)
thank you...
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- Windows Vista >> FTP awakes sleeping computer?A computer has Windows Vista Home Premium and File Zilla Server installed,
and is set to sleep. Does it automatically wake up, when an FTP client tries
to log on?
Thanks in advance, Gerhard
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- Windows Vista >> Flip 3d inoperativeMy manual says to hold down the Windows key and press tab. Nothing happens.
All computer ads showing the Vista system, show all the programs on the
screen laid out one behind the other.
What am I doing wrong.
Running Vista Home Premium.
Bob
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