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- Windows Vista >> Startup and reliabilityDoes Vista take as long to startup as everyone suggests? Is using it a
satisfying experience or a frustrating one? Does it hang a lot? I need a new
computer but am turned off by Vista reviews. I am considering a Mac. Should a
take the plunge or not?!
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- Windows Vista >> Adobe ReaderI have found that some of my professional materials which used Adobe 5 are
not compatible with Adobe 8 which is included in Vista Home Premium. I
notice all the problems installing Adobe in Vista. I have been told to
remove Adobe 8 from my computer and install Adobe 5. Is this a good idea in
the opinion of this group?
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- Windows Vista >> TrustedInstaller permission deletedOk, I accidentaly deleted TrustedInstaller trying to get full permission of
my C: drive. I havent found anything wrong but the windows installer service
wasnt working correctly. Is there a way to add it back?
Also my system restore is bugged(Wouldn't of made this post if it wasn't). I
edited the registry and it get stucks. I knew what I was doing when I was
editing the registry. I dont know if this was was a bug or I was just getting
impatient. My computer quit thinking while it was restoring the registry
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- Windows Vista >> Annoying "Flicker" Problem written 4/10/08 by Island MommaIs there anyone out there with a solution to this issue. I have a Tohsiba
purchased 1 year ago (running Vista), and had this isue, but being a computer
novice, always assumed it was something I was doing. However, just bought my
spouse a new Acer (again, running Vista) and having the same issue on that
one, so I decided to do some research. It has to be a Vista issue since it is
occurring on 3 different computers being used by 3 different people. I could
not find a response to Island Momma's request for help.
Pleeeeease, if someone out there has a solution for this, can you post and
help us out.
Island Momma wrote:
Got this dang computer (HP) with Vista Home. It drives me nuts. When I am
> typing it suddenly does something (maybe called a flicker) and the curser
> ends up somewhere else on the page.... (and the letters get typed out of
> place)
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> I have my monitor set for 1024 X 768, I tried to raise the Monitor setting
> screen refresh rate, but it is set at 60 Hertz and there is no other option
> for it. If I increase the pixels there is still only 60 Hertz setting
> option.
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> What is this problem and how can I get it fixed. Getting tired of screwed
> up text .
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me!
> Marianne
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sasman
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- Windows Vista >> Vista and Windows Explorer problemsSince I recieved my new PC with Vista about 6 months ago it gets slowe
and slower. It takes an age to load up and Winows explorer ofte
freezes / stops responding. Internet explorer is not much better.
However, on a more positive note, programs, games etc run ok onc
they're up and running. I'm pretty PC savy, keep everything updated
look for solutions & patches should they be required, keep antivirus u
to date and clean up files and registry frequently.
I'm beginning to hate Vista, with all it's inbuilt in quirks. Anybod
got any idea of what the problem may be
My next step is going to be a disk format and re-install of everythin
but that's going to be a real pain
DOS was more user friendly than Vista =¬
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Kestrel48
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- Windows Vista >> Deleting Program FoldersWhen I try to delete a folder under "C:\Program files", a message
box tells me that I must have permissions. How is this set up. I
tried all permissions that I can find but nothing works? Any help
appreciated!
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- Windows Vista >> windows will not shutoff my pcI have windows home prem. i did a video card update that went south, i had to
do restore from my last restore point. however when i hit shutdown, it goes
thru the green screen and everything, but then it just goes to a black screen
and never shuts itself off. this even happens when i press reboot. i have to
physically hold down the power button to shut off my pc. i even tried to use
a restore point earlier in the week when my pc was running great.
Anyone have any thoughts?
i know a shutdown file is either corrupt or missing. just don't know how to
fix
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- Windows Vista >> quicktime file wont deletehi can someone help please i downloaded a quicktime file it is a movie
trailer of 2000 years bc i tryed to delete it but have had no luck
geting rid of it no matter what i do i canot delete it has anyone had
the same problem? can anyone advise me how to get rid of it i would be
very thankful
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- Windows Vista >> DesktopI've noticed a habit i have, of closing down windows that i actually need
open on the desktop.
It would have been nice to have an undo function on the desktop that
restores previous windows.
Either that,or i'll have to pay more attention to what i'm doing!
dave
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- Windows Vista >> network printer problemI have a Minolta Pagepro 8L laserprinter active in my network. I can't add
this printer to my new notebook with Vista. Vista doesn't recognice te
printer/driver (he see the printer on the PC with W98), but can't install
him.
How can I solve this problem?
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- Windows Vista >> I was right about Vista all along...I know someone else pasted this link before but I love to see it again! LOL
Is it just perhaps that this guy is saying the exact things I have been
saying for the last 15 months, yet I have been attacked by vista fanatics
and dumb MVP's for?
And again is it perhaps that if I was right those stupid naysayers were
WRONG?
YOU BET YA! For those who dont know, I am the user formally known as
Tiberius...
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)
customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for "Windows Seven,"
currently expected in 2010. There's a feeling of inevitability about the
transition, as if it's just a question of when to write the checks to
Microsoft and do the tedious work of switching operating systems. Yet as
Vista celebrates its first birthday, the chances are increasing that many
users will never see it on their desktops.
Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting
the operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn't
benefit from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year
after it began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are
running Vista.
Financial issues could also work against Vista adoption during 2008. The
sub-prime mortgage meltdown may foreshadow a recession; at minimum, the
financial services industry is certain to scale back its computing needs.
Even companies that budgeted a Vista upgrade in 2008 may reconsider the
decision if the economy turns sour.
There's no doubt that XP is the current king of Windows, and it will stay
that way for a while. Microsoft's XP support continues through the end of
2011. Microsoft is set to deliver XP Service Pack 3 in the first half of
2008. It's not set to be as revolutionary as Service Pack 2, so it shouldn't
be as tough to deploy, but SP3 includes more than just a bunch of security
patches that are already available. After many years of tweaking, tuning,
and training, XP is finally living up to the slogan Microsoft coined: "It
just works."
Given the slow adoption of Vista, an uncertain economy, and customer
contentment with XP, it's becoming a safe bet that Microsoft's XP support
will not end in 2011. Too many critical customers will be running XP in 2011
for Microsoft to even consider dropping what they call Extended Support,
which includes security patches. There's even a precedent: Windows 98.
Support for that OS was originally supposed to end in January 2004, but
Microsoft announced that they would continue support until June 2006.
If history replays itself, Microsoft will wait until the absolute last
minute to announce that XP support will be extended. In the case of Windows
98, the announcement was made just weeks before support was to expire. If
customers know that XP is safe for years to come, they'll have even fewer
reasons to upgrade to Vista, and that list is already too short for
Microsoft's comfort.
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- Windows Vista >> Vista 2008. New Tips, Tricks & Tools!Annoyance Buster: Make Vista's User Account Control, Keep Your Data
Safe by Reorganizing Windows' Folders, Work Smarter With Vista's New
Productivity Tools, Vista's 'Extras', Make Random Reboots Tell You
What's Up, Activate Vista's Snipping Tool and more at:
http://vista-tricks-tips.blogspot.com
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- Windows Vista >> Vista Won't Sleep and successfully resume.Hi,
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on a slightly older machine with
2.66ghz Pentium 4 and 2gb ram and can not get Vista to sleep. If I select
sleep from the power options on start menu, or press the sleep button on my
keyboard the machine will power down as if entering sleep mode, but it will
then very quickly restart, however the desktop won't load. The screen stays
blank and the only option left is to press the reset button located on the
tower.
However when I hit the reset button the machine does not simply reset every
time. On occassions it will, but on other occasions it will resume Windows
from the sleep state earlier requested. But the desktop will still not load.
My monitor stays totall blank.
I have tried the obvious potential solutions including disabling the ability
of my mouse and keyboard to resume the computer from sleep mode, in the
anticipation that I would simply use the power button. I have also disabled
the ability of the ethernet port to wake the computer from sleep mode when I
thought it possible that my ADSL connection was waking the machine. I have
also updated my graphics port drivers too.
Could this be a hardware issue or does it sound like something which is
related to Windows, and if so does anyone know if MS is planning to issue
any patch or any fix in a future Service Pack for Vista?
Cheers,
Bradley
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- Windows Vista >> Ethereal: Vista on my Dell vs Leopard on my MacBookFYI
I just install Ethereal (very popular packet sniffer) into Leopard on my new
MacBook.
It takes about 2.5 minutes to install Ethereal in Vista, it takes about 3.5
hours in Leopard if you have complete and accurate install info; I could not
get such info, so it took considerably more time.
The following is a post I have made which lists the steps I used:
Re: Installing Ethereal into Leopard via Darwin Ports
It should take about 3.5 hours to complete if your setup is similar to mine:
2GHz Core 2 Dual Intel CPU, Santa Rosa chipset MacBook with 4 GB memory, and
a fast DSL (310 KBps DTR) Internet connection.
1. Create an Apple Developer user acct if you do not have one:
http://developer.apple.com
Required to download Xcode
2. Download/install Xcode Developer Tools:
(it is on OS X DVD #1, but download may be more current)
Go to http://developer.apple.com
Do a search on Xcode
Select Xcode 3
Login
Download stats:
File size: 1.16GB
Time: 1 hr, 10 min at 310 KB/sec
Reboot after download to increase amt of free memory
Double-click the DMG file
Double-click the XcodeTools.mpkg file
Time: 8 min
Reboot to increase free memory
3. Verify X11 is installed:
It is by default in Leopard
(for Tiger, you must install it from the OS X DVD disc)
4. Install X11SDK:
Insert Apple OS X DVD disc #1
Dbl click on "Optional Installs"
Dbl click on Packages folder
Dbl click on X11DSK.pkg file
Time: 30 seconds
5. Install Darwin Ports:
Download from: http://darwinports.com/download/
Double-click the downloaded DMG file
Double-click the .pkg file
Time: 10 min
6. Update Darwin Ports:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port -d selfupdate
If you get following error message: (I did)
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldnt sync dports tree:
sync failed doing rsync
Then disable all firewalls on the Mac
(my NAT-router was not a problem)
Total time: 2 min
Check amt of free memory
7. Install Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo port install ethereal
Time: 1 hr, 15 min
CPU usage: both cores were used heavily at times
8. Build the font cache before launching Ethereal for the first time:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo fc-cache
Do not need to run it again before using Ethereal
Total time: Few seconds
9: Run Ethereal:
Use Terminal.app
Enter: sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal
10: If Ethereal crashes: (mine did)
And if Terminal.app shows following error message:
"BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)"
Then download/install X11 v 2.1.3 from:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
(Leopard's X11 has a bug)
11. Install AquaEthereal 1.2 to launch Ethereal from the Dock:
Download it from:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/AquaEthereal.shtml
Dbl click the .dmg dnload
Drag the .app file to the desktop:
(I drug it to the Application folder, but it would not show in the
Application folder)
Then drag that .app file to the Dock
12. Enable firewalls if you disabled them per above
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rgittins
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Windows Vista >> HHD Capacity
How do I get my computer to tell me how much space is left on the hard drive
"C" It seems to be stuck on the way it was when I first installed Vista,no
matter what I install.
Thanks
Windows Vista8
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14 22:41:00 PST 2007 |
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Windows Vista >> HHD Capacity
What do you get when you click on the Start Orb> Computer?
You should have floppy, hard drive, dvd dirve, etc.
and above that, hard drives itemised as to used capacity.
"jimbo" wrote:
> How do I get my computer to tell me how much space is left on the hard drive
> "C" It seems to be stuck on the way it was when I first installed Vista,no
> matter what I install.
> Thanks
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15 05:18:56 PST 2007 |
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Windows Vista >> HHD Capacity
jimbo wrote:
> How do I get my computer to tell me how much space is left on the
> hard drive "C" It seems to be stuck on the way it was when I first
> installed Vista,no matter what I install.
> Thanks
Right. Capacity doesn't change (unless you water the drive frequently).
"Used" space and "Free" space do change.
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- Windows Vista >> inaccessible system shortcuts?One problem with Vista I haven't been able to figure out (or understand why
this would happen) is why Windows-created shortcuts for user folders (my
documents, my music, my pictures, etc) aren't actually usable. When I click
on these shortcuts, I get the error "access is denied." Obviously it's not an
issue of permissions since these are for my own account.
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- Windows Vista >> Easy Trasnfer - miscellaneous locations?I'm going to upgrade my Vista machine and re-load the OS, so I'm using easy
transfer to move my data and settings.
I would like to know what files are included when the "include miscellaneous
locations" location is selected.
In my case, this includes about 4GB of data! I don't want to miss anything,
but this seems excessive.
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- Windows Vista >> Index Service Not Working in Vista 32Vista 32 on a notebook - been running fine for a couple of months - this
week I found that search in OUtlook 2007 wasnt working then I discovered
that if I try normal search in Vista it says search may be slow because
index is not running - click to turn it on. Click to turn it on doesnt do
anything - also found that the Windows Search service is stopped and will
not re-start manually. HAve re-booted of course....
Search is one of the best things in VIsta - any ideas how I get it working
again please?
Roger
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- Windows Vista >> MS cant stop XP.. at least until 2010.and why should they? vista is a crap and no one wants it..
perhaps if they learn their lesson, windows7 will be good enough to be the
real successor of XP, while vista will be considered a "freak accident"
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1307
Will XP's 'execution stay' for emerging markets apply to other countries?
Posted by Mary Jo Foley
Speculation continues to swirl as to when and whether Microsoft will extend
the June 30, 2008, cut-off date on which many PC makers will be expected to
cease bundling Windows XP with new PCs.
But some pundits seem to have forgotten that when Microsoft initially
granted Windows XP five more months to live, back in 2007, the company left
itself a loophole. (And I don't mean just the early 2009 cut-off date it
granted white-box vendors/system builders). Late last year, Microsoft
officials said that vendors preloading Windows on PCs aimed at "emerging
markets" wouldn't have to stop selling Windows XP until 2010.
From Microsoft's September 27, 2007, press release:
"(S)ince some of the systems that ship in emerging markets don't meet the
requirements for Windows Vista, we will be extending availability of Windows
XP Starter Edition to June 30, 2010. This will allow our OEM partners who
sell PCs in emerging markets more opportunity to offer genuine Windows
licenses."
The new question that company watchers are asking this week is whether
Microsoft will extend this 2010 date to cover "low-cost" PCs - like the Asus
Eee ultra-cheap laptop - even if those PCs aren't running XP Starter
Edition.
I would expect Microsoft would find offering XP for another year-plus on
those PCs to be a lesser evil than conceding the low-cost PC market to
Linux. If these machines do not have enough processing power to run Windows
Vista (not even the Home Basic edition), what else can Microsoft expect
their manufacturers to do, other than to continue to offer the systems with
XP?
Will Microsoft extend its XP-preload cut-off date again, outside of these
fringe cases? My bet is no. Microsoft will be shooting itself in the foot if
it does this, as it would be concedinng that there are real reasons that
users and its hardware/software partners might not want its latest Windows
release (which is now over a year old, mind you)..
What's your take? Will any amount of outcry stop Microsoft from making good
on its June 30 XP preload cut-off date?
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- Windows Vista >> Voice recognition only hears commands, on laptop and desktop!!!The laptop I bought has Vista Home Premium. I used word and then one day it
started to ONLY hear COMMANDS! It goes through training but in word, nothing,
in wordpad, nothing, no dictation anywhere. It only hears freaking commands.
I think the problem is the fact on the windows download site I downloaded XP
stuff for my desktop computer and it somehow has now screwed it up.
WTF!!
The desktop has XP and I got a trial of vista and, guess what, the SAME
problem after I tried to download WMP11 for XP.
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- Windows Vista >> Windows 2003 Admin Pack on Vista?Good day,
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can get the Windows 2003 Server Admin
pack and WSUS Admin console to play nice with each other in Vista?
I can either install just the Windows 2003 Server admin pack and use it, or
just the WSUS admin console and use it.. but if I install both, the MMC
tells me it can't create the snap-in.
Thanks,
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- Windows Vista >> Media Center and sleepWhat is the proper operation of the system when media centre is playing live
TV? What happens now is that the screen saver will come on as set to do
after 10 minutes then the monitors will go into standby mode after 30
minutes, but the computer will never sleep after 60 minutes as it is supposed
to do.
Now, perhaps this is as designed during live TV, but if it is, wouldn't it
also be by design for it to override the screen saver and turning off the
monitor settings so as not to interrrupt the TV broadcast?
In the power settings I do have it set to allow the computer to sleep while
sharing media.
So, what is considered normal sleep operation in this case? When media
centre is not running the computer sleeps at the 60 minute mark as it is
supposed to.
Thanks.
Bart
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- Windows Vista >> Having smaller icons on the Desktop?There was an easy way to do this in XP if I'm not mistaken, but I can't find
the option in Vista Ultimate: I would like the icons on my Desktop to be
smaller in size, as the icons of some of my older programs look grainy when
enlarged as much as they are.
How would I go about doing this? Changing the resolution has not
particularly helped.
Thanks!
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- Windows Vista >> Please help me print with VistaHi All,
I am ready to throw my vista machine out the window. I need to print my
bank statement as a PDF. When I click print it says something like this is
an unsafe action and that it is saved in my temporary internet folder. When
I open the folder it is blank.
It will not let me save it anywhere on my C: drive, and it says I don't have
access to my D: drive. I cannot set my banks website as a trusted site
because the main part of the web address changes and I cannot use * in that
instance.
Please help
Chad
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- Windows Vista >> Have anyone successfully restored an disk image made with Windows Backup on Vista?Hi,
I've got Vista Ultimate and noticed that it comes with a whole disk
image based backup option. That's really a great way to back up since
you can get up again quite soon after a fatal hardware crash. However,
I would like to ask if anyone here have restored a computer using an
image stored on a USB drive made by Microsoft Backup on Vista Ultimate?
It's much simpler to create the image on a separate drive than to use
ton's of DVD's.
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- Windows Vista >> Restore point oddity?I have multilple drives installed on Vista Home Premium but I only
want the main C drive to have system restore set. Easy you would think
but when I look in the system restore window it tells me that it has
set a restore point for both c and j? Ok so I click J/apply and it
gives me the message 'Do you reallt want to turn off etc" I say
yes/OK. All restore points on J vanish as expected. Right then create
a new restore point. All goes fine BUT it creates a restore point on
the J drive againas well as the C drive!! How can I turn off system
restore on the J drive ( a SATA drive) permanently?
No matter how many times I go through this, confirming that I don't
want SR on this drive, it still creates one!!
cheers,
Len
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- Windows Vista >> Unable to format DVD-R after burning several DVDsI am back up-ing a huge data (around 100GB) to DVD.
After burning 4-5 DVDs, Vista keeps on prompting <Unable to format DVD> error.
I finally fed up and restarted Vista and retry again. This time it gives no
problem,..
until I burn 4-5 DVDs ....
Is this the problem with Vista or with my DVD writer?
Regards,
Chris
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- Windows Vista >> Vista 64bit in domain gpo problemHi All,
Vista is great in a domain I must say. Alot better than XP. Anyway, I have
one issue. How do I set it so the log off button is the default button? At
the moment it's the sleep button. This doesn't work so well. I have tried
changing it under the Start Menu under system in the computer gpo, this
doesn't work though. Seems it is only for the classic startmenu.
Using admx btw.
Thanks,
Gorge
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- Windows Vista >> Outlook 2007 Failed to InitializeHas anyone seen this error message when trying to 0pen Outlook 2007
"Business Contact Manager failed to initialize common language run time
error 0X80131700"
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Office 2007 and Business Contact
Manager at the direction of a Dell Technician all to no avail.
Am running Vista Business operating system on a Dell Vostro 1500 and
Microsoft 2007 Small Business applications package
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