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- Windows Vista >> low battery alarmHi
we just got a Toshiba laptop which does not sound an alarm when the battery
is low. It only notifies with a pop up. I need to use the alarm function and
it seems that this particular model does not have this function.
Can you guys point me to a freeware that does such a thing. I was looking at
scripting or coding (writing a program to do so and set it up as a service
or something like that). If it can be done, appreciate if you guys could
give me a few pointers.
Many thanks in advance
Richard
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- Windows Vista >> Block User. Windows Mail.Could someone tell me where the "Block User" option is in windows mail
please (to block newsgroup messages from spammers and idiots)? In XP I used
to select it from the TOOLS menu with the intended person's message
selected.
TIA.
Andy
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- Windows Vista >> vista ultimatewhat's the difference between 32 and 64 bit vista ultimate? should i and can
i upgrade from 32 bit vista home permium to 64 bit vista ultimate?
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- Windows Vista >> Virtual PCHi:
I think I've read somewhere that Windows Vista Ultimate comes with Virtual
PC built in. How do I work with it? I couldn't find a way to work with it in
control panel.
Thanks.
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- Windows Vista >> User Account screensYesterday I shared my music folder with my girlfriend who has an account on
my computer. Ever since I have done that every time she has tried to log in
to her account it comes up as a black screen and will not show anything else.
The guest account on my computer still comes up but in a solid blue screen.
Neither one of the accounts has the start menu or nothing on the screen
except the solid color. My account seems to uninfected ny this any help
would be helpful.
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- Windows Vista >> *.doc files from xpI have made multiple attempts to associate my transfered XP *.doc files to
winword but it doesn't work.
I have tried both from the Vista file window and start program 'deafault
program' settings window. The result is either...
1. Winword appears in the program selection window and once selected not in
the 'associate program to file' window or ...
2. Wordconverter or Microsoft Office Word don't work
Any help will be very much appreciated
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- Windows Vista >> Problems with Thumbnail ViewsHallo,
I am using Vista Ultimate 32bit and synchronize my personal data from
a Windows XP computer using offline files.
When I try to view thumbnails of JPGs, only portions of them are
displayed, whereas the rest is displayed as normal icons.
If I copy the folder to the desktop all thumbnails are displayed
correctly.
I already deleted the thumbnail cache using disk cleanup.
Thanks for help!
Franz
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- Windows Vista >> "Access denied" for every connection attempt after some timeHello,
I installed Vista about a month ago, and since the beginning I have this
strange issue: after some hours (between 10 and 30 approx.) my computer
is not able to create any TCP connection for from 30 to 180 minutes.
I don't know the cause of this problem but here are the symptoms:
- if I try to open any TCP connection, for instance my browser to
www.google.fr, I get "access denied error"
- active connections still work, e.g. IRC or Webradios are still up and
running
- my computer is accessible, for example if from another computer on the
LAN I try to access the FTP server which is on my computer, there is
absolutely no problem.
To sum up, my computer cannot establish a remote TCP connexion.
I am using Windows Vista Professional, which I had with the MSDN
Academic Alliance between my school and Microsoft.
I hope you will be able to give me some leads, or better, a solution! :)
thanks
Benoit D.
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- Windows Vista >> Vista Synchronise Mouse Pointer with desktop hotspotsI recently bought a Dell Inspiron 530 running under Vista Home Premium. It
was supplied without a monitor. I have tried it with two monitors, a small
LG flat screen and a 20.5" widescreen Samsung. In both cases the mouse
pointer is about 2 mm (1/8th inch) out of true so that when for example
selecting files from a list in Windows Explorer it is easy to select the one
below that intended. How do I synchronies the mouse pointer with the
hotspots? An obvious answer is to contact Dell, but, if it comes to that, I
would like to have some understanding of the underlying problem before I
talk with them. And if there is some simple registry tweak in Vista, then
hopefully I can fix it with kind guidance from this newsgroup :)
Video card: 256MB ATI® RadeonT HD 2600 XT graphics card
Doug
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- Windows Vista >> Windows MailI write in Portuguese in a newsgroup and sometimes in emails.
There is no spell checker for Portuguese in Vista but we can add words and
start a dictionary of words.
Where can I find where these words are kept as I want to delete some of
them.
In Windows XP I had no problem in Vista I cannot find it.
TIA
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- Windows Vista >> party pokeri installed vista then reinstalled party poker question party poker play
right but cannnot get it to fill momitor screen is this now normal
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- Windows Vista >> Partitioning & Data Recovery ProblemsI have enormous computer problems. It all started a few days ago. When I
initially installed Vista I did so on a 20GB partition of my 300 Gig hard
drive. The rest of the drive was an extended partition with four logical
drives. Over time Vista grew and eventually the partition became too small
to house Vista. I used a partition manager tool to resize the partitions and
give Vista a 100GB partition. The problem is that when I did so the largest
partition on my Hard Drive, containing VITAL data, was ruined.
Before I did the repartitioning, I backed up the entire contents of my
computer onto a separate using the Vista Computer Backup utility. How that I
have the Hard drive partitioned correctly, I don't want to have Vista Backup
reformat and repartition the hard dive as it once was (with only 20 gig for
vista) and I know of no way to pick and choose data. Further, windows seems
to have saved it all into some sort of inaccessible archive. What should I
do? I need this data...
The only option I can think off is to buy a new hard drive - blank - and swap
them out. Recover onto the new hard drive, the work with the data and the
old hard drive to restructure the system.
How good is VISTA at recognizing and changing partitions in the Full Computer
Restore mode?
Kevin
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- Windows Vista >> Internet Explorer freezesI am running a new Vista Home Premium laptop. I have selected Google.com as
my home page. Normally, when I open Internet Explorer, I can use Google to
highlight selected websites. But in the past two days I can open Google, but
when I spell the name of another site, and click to select, Google actually
freezes. Occasionally it will open a page of website links. But any one of
those links, if selected, will also freeze when I try to select it. I do not
think this is a problem with Google, which is operating normally on another
computer, nor with server problems: the other computer has no problems.
If anyone has any ideas as to how this problem can be resolved I would be
extremely grateful.
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- Windows Vista >> can't install windows xp on a drive that has vista on itI bought a hp pavillion that has vista home premium and I'm trying to
install XP on a separate partition. However, I cannot get the XP
installation cd to load: if I boot from it, windows loading crashes,
and if I insert the cd from within vista, the 'install windows' option
is disabled.
There's a microsof kb article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760
describing my exact problem. And it says that certain bios will cause
xp to not load on a disk partitioned by vista, since it's a different
partition than xp expects. I changed the registry entries as it
suggested, but no result. Also, I emailed them about the hotfix and
they said vista home premium has no hotfix for this.
My question is, how am I supposed to install XP on this machine,
either as a dual boot or to completely remove vista, if I can't even
get the XP install cd to load?
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
I have an HP 6830 deskjet printer (which according to my mom is old, and I
guess she would know, seeing as it used to be hers....) and I tried to hook
it up to my new computer today, but when I try to run the CD with the
software, it says it can't install it because I don't have IE 5.0 or higher.
-.- I use 7.0.
I read somewhere that some printers need drivers to run on vista, so I went
to the HP website and found their universal driver (or whatever it's called),
and I looked, and it doesn't support my printer.
is the printer just too old to use on my computer, or is it not compatible
or something?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22 15:27:47 PDT 2008 |
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
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could be too old to have drivers for vista.
if hp does not have.
and their generic one does not support it, you are probably right.
you can pick up pretty good printers for under $100.
even under $50 for refurbished.
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
Open your Control Panel and click on the "Add Hardware" iconÂ.
The "Add Hardware Wizard" will appear.
1. Click on Next and place a dot next to "Yes, I have alreaÂdy connected the hardware".
2. Click Next and scroll all the way down to "Add a new harÂdware device".
3. Click once to highlight it and click Next.
4. Place a dot next to "Install the hardware that I manuallÂy select from a list (Advanced)".
5. Click Next and scroll down to "Printers", click once to Âhighlight and click Next.
6. Place a dot next to "Use the following port" and click NÂext.
7. In the "Install Printer Software Screen", on the left siÂde scroll down to "HP"
and click once to highlight, then in the right-side scrÂoll down to
"HP DeskJet 6800 series", click on it to highlight, then Âclick Next to install the software.
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance
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"ktmurphy" wrote:
I have an HP 6830 deskjet printer (which according to my mom is old, and I
guess she would know, seeing as it used to be hers....) and I tried to hook
it up to my new computer today, but when I try to run the CD with the
software, it says it can't install it because I don't have IE 5.0 or higher.
-.- I use 7.0.
I read somewhere that some printers need drivers to run on vista, so I went
to the HP website and found their universal driver (or whatever it's called),
and I looked, and it doesn't support my printer.
is the printer just too old to use on my computer, or is it not compatible
or something?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22 16:33:01 PDT 2008 |
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
I added the hardware and it worked. It says it's all ready to use.
But everytime I try to print a test page, it says there was an error printing.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> Open your Control Panel and click on the "Add Hardware" iconÂ.
> The "Add Hardware Wizard" will appear.
>
> 1. Click on Next and place a dot next to "Yes, I have alreaÂdy connected the hardware".
> 2. Click Next and scroll all the way down to "Add a new harÂdware device".
> 3. Click once to highlight it and click Next.
> 4. Place a dot next to "Install the hardware that I manuallÂy select from a list (Advanced)".
> 5. Click Next and scroll down to "Printers", click once to Âhighlight and click Next.
> 6. Place a dot next to "Use the following port" and click NÂext.
> 7. In the "Install Printer Software Screen", on the left siÂde scroll down to "HP"
> and click once to highlight, then in the right-side scrÂoll down to
> "HP DeskJet 6800 series", click on it to highlight, then Âclick Next to install the software.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience -
> Windows System & Performance
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> "ktmurphy" wrote:
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> I have an HP 6830 deskjet printer (which according to my mom is old, and I
> guess she would know, seeing as it used to be hers....) and I tried to hook
> it up to my new computer today, but when I try to run the CD with the
> software, it says it can't install it because I don't have IE 5.0 or higher.
> -.- I use 7.0.
> I read somewhere that some printers need drivers to run on vista, so I went
> to the HP website and found their universal driver (or whatever it's called),
> and I looked, and it doesn't support my printer.
> is the printer just too old to use on my computer, or is it not compatible
> or something?
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
I have an older HP printer and vista. I had to uninstall the HP software
since it is incompatible with vista, as advised by the Windows Vista Update
Wizard. Ditto for the HP Diagnostics. Don't use any of the old HP software
with Vista. Uninstall all the HP software and drivers, remove the printer
from the Printers list in vista and reboot. HP does have a vista driver and
update for your printer (6830v)here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=459932&lang=en
Just install the printer with the vista driver and skip the old disk.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> The HP Printing Diagnostic Utility was created to diagnose and fix many
> common issues preventing printing from the computer:
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-56143-2&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=79477&os=2093&lang=en
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> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience -
> Windows System & Performance
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> "ktmurphy" wrote:
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> I added the hardware and it worked. It says it's all ready to use.
> But everytime I try to print a test page, it says there was an error printing.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22 17:15:17 PDT 2008 |
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Windows Vista >> I can't install my printer software????
I believe the best solution is to by new printer.
With $50 you can find a nice hp printer.
Btw for older printers ink is very rare ti find and expensive
so...think smart :)
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- Windows Vista >> I have a problem...I installed vista ultimate on my laptop. I have had no problems wit
anything but my media player. About half of the time it locks up and
have to totally shut down to do anything. I am still pretty new t
computer knowledge and I didnt know if there was a simple fix or what
Could someone help? Right now I am running WMP 11
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huntersplinter
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- Windows Vista >> Moving from XP to Vista is like ... ?Let's leave the move from DOS to Windows out of the discussion -- that's
on a whole different level. Instead, really, what is it like to move
from XP to Vista?
It's not like moving from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. That particular
move was a sea change -- a breakthrough the likes of which we really
haven't seen since.
It's more like moving from Windows 95 to Windows 98, isn't it? They
weren't the same operating systems, but they were similar, and while
there was a learning curve with Win98, it wasn't too steep and the pain
wasn't so great.
It certainly isn't like moving from Win98 to Windows ME. In fact, I
never made that transition successfully. I struggled and struggled with
WinME and finally gave up. Fortunately it wasn't too long after WinME
that Windows XP came along and I just skipped WinME.
Moving from WinXP to Vista certainly wasn't as traumatic for me as
moving from FAT32/Win98 to NTFS/WinXP. (Yep, I skipped Win2K too.) In
fact, I found moving to Vista from WinXP really wasn't traumatic at all
-- at least it wasn't after I'd turned off User Account Control.
So yeah, I guess I have concluded that the closest comparison to moving
from XP to Vista is moving from Windows 95 to Windows 98. They're
different certainly, but the similarities outweigh the differences.
I've been dual booting XP and Vista for six months or so now, and it's
only recently that I've found myself booting into Vista more often than
I boot into XP. It has taken a while, but I've finally found either
Vista-updated versions of the software I need, or acceptable
substitutions. I'm pretty much happy with Vista.
And what is it about Vista that I like better than XP? The truth? The
real, honest truth?
It's prettier. That's it. Seriously. OK, maybe with Vista it's a tiny
bit easier to navigate through Windows Explorer, but the differences
aren't worth all the effort it took to offer them. And aside from that
I have found nothing (so far) in Vista to recommend over XP.
But Aero sure is pretty. Dreamscene is too, but I've found Dreamscene
crashes some of my video applications, so I've turned it off. Still --
Aero -- nice. But worth the price? Um, well, no.
If I were buying a new computer today I'd get Vista. But I sure
wouldn't buy a new computer simply for the purpose of having Vista.
It's nowhere near the disaster some are claiming claim it is. But it's
also nowhere near being a must-have.
And now that I think a little more about it, I believe Win98 was a
bigger improvement over Win95 than Vista is over XP. Yep, I do believe
it was. Vista is nice, but it's not necessary.
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Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
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- Windows Vista >> vista safe modeHi, i'm having a problem with my window's vista home premium.
a few days ago the computer froze and i had to turn it off without first
shutting it down as i was unable to do so, and as such i restarted in safe
mode.
the thing is, now my windows task bar is no longer the standard windows task
bar, instead it remains as the safe mode task bar as well as all the windows,
which also remain as standard safe mode windows.
i was wondering how to get rid of this and get it back to normal.
regards, luke
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- Windows Vista >> system properties doesn't show hardware configuration! HELP!I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I have a Dual-Core processor with
1.83GHz and 2GB of RAM. My system rating is 4.6. The only problem is, when I
go to my system properties in the control panel, it doesn't show any of this.
after "Rating:" it's just a blank space. "Processor: Not Available", "Memory
(RAM): Not Available). it shows me my system type but that's it. I know it
recognizes it because the welcome is able to show it (RAM and processor). Is
there a setting I changed somewhere that's causing this? How can I get it to
show these again? Will SP1 solve this problem? Please help
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- Windows Vista >> Problems opening a pdf file though internet explorerI'm not sure this is even a Vista question, but it wasn't an issue when I
didn't have it. When I try to open up a pdf file through the internet, it
takes forever and eventually an error message saying theres a problem with
Adobe comes up, but then the file opens (it just takes forever and is really
annoying). Once there is another pdf file up, this doesn't happen and any
pdf just opens right up. It also isnt a problem if I have a pdf file saved
on my hard drive and I open it from there. Anyone know what my problem is?
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- Windows Vista >> Defraggler - any negative experiences?I have used it a little with no problems. It does a very nice job of
defragging free space.
Any negative experiences?
tia!!!
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Kris
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DFI Infinity Blood-Iron P35-T2RL | E2200Alen 2.2@2.86 TtP0310
| 2x1gb Mushkin HP 800@1040 | MSI NX8600GTS-OC 256mb |
Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1
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- Windows Vista >> Startup Slow on acquiring networkI am using Vista Premium.
When the system starts it loads quickly, but seems to
slow down while waiting to acquire network information
from my Linksys router WRT54G. This may be as long as 1-
2 minutes.
The network card is an Nvidia nforce.
I am have a Cisco VPN loading, but not activated until I
need it.
The router acts as a DHCP server, I am not using fixed
address.
Is there a way to speed up this portion of startup?
Is there a boot log program for Vista that will give
times to view startup problems?
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- Windows Vista >> Explorer Hang upHi All,
I am new to visita and have noticed a problem since I got my new computer
with explorer. Every time it is used it hangs up and won't shut down unless I
cancell out. Any ideas?
Thanks
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- Windows Vista >> Email link uses 64-bit IE7Hi guys, I've set my Start menu email link to use Windows Live email
instead of Outlook. Problem is, although IE7 32-bit is default on Vista
x64, the email link brings up the 64-bit version. As I always start
surfing the net by checking my email first (habit over yeeeears!) I
always find incompatible websites using Adobe Flash which I have to
reopen in 32-bit IE7. Is there any way to change the email link to use
32-bit IE7 by default?
Any help appreciated, Rajveer.
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Rajveer
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- Windows Vista >> Preping for SP-1 by removing the SP-1 betaGreetings,
I suspect that the official SP1 will be out shortly. I have the
beta sp-1 on my machine and have been quite happy with it. However, I
will want to completely remove it and install the final sp-1 "clean", so
to speak. My computer says it is running sp-1 v.744. How do I remove
it? I remember have some other service packs install with it and making
some registry changes so update would see the beta service pack. So,
what do I uninstall and what changes do I need to make so Vista will be
ready ton install the final SP-1?
thanks
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- Windows Vista >> No MP3 Ripping Option in Windows Media Player---Why??I just noticed that there is no "mp3" option in the drop down ripping
menu in WMP11, which I am running in Vista. I could swear that it was
there before, and now I have to use iTunes to rip my CD's into mp3
files. Does anyone know what might have caused the option to disappear,
and how to restore that capability? I thought it was built in to WMP11.
Thanks for your help! DR
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