Threads Replies Last Post 72 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>   hibernation group policies Is it just my in my environment, but if settings are enabled via group policy, and then disabled this is not reflected in the power options of the control panel. yet rsop will show them as applying. Just curious.... 5 11/27/2008 3:45:53 PM Windows repair My computer won't boot. I'm attempting a Windows repair from the Vista Home Premium install disk, but at the repair which operating system screen, no system is listed. The instructions say to load drivers for my hard drives, but from where? I don't have driver disks for my hard drives. By the way, when I look for drivers, all my drives, including my two IDE drives, are listed along with ... 3 11/27/2008 5:18:35 AM Blue screen and error messages trying to install vista 64 bit I just build a new system a few days ago with XP home for the OS. The system is purring. I’ve been reading good things about Vista Ultimate 64bit and like the idea that I could use all 4GB of ram. Then I bought a copy of Vista Ultimate 64bit. At first all seems to go ok during installation, but in the last step, finishing installation just before the first Vista session... I get a BSOD blue scree... 13 11/26/2008 11:13:51 PM Dual boot I partitioned my drive leaving 40gb for ultimate. Do I just install vista and hope that a boot screen shows up. Or does installing ultimate delete my home premium boot thing? -- graycolor... 4 11/26/2008 9:43:23 PM set spkdefault.ex windows vista Hi is there anyway to stop dos window on vista startup saying setspkdefault then closing, is there a switch i can use to stop the prog from displaying regards john ... 3 11/26/2008 3:58:42 PM bootmgr problem I have vista ultimate and when I turn on the computer, I get the message "BOOTMGR is compressed" I tried running the vista CD recovery, but i still got the same message, then I did a complete reinstall and still got the same message. I have a drive "C' that I did the reinstall on... and I have a drive"D"...should I run the install on that also? or what should I be doing? thanks for ... 6 11/26/2008 4:26:33 AM Vista stuck on black screen with mouse after boot progress bar Hello, I upgraded my Vista system drive using Seagate's DiscWizard tool to clone my old system drive. Everything when ok. Vista was able to boot and re-boot with no issues. After seeing that everything was fine I used the old system drive to replace a failing drive on another system (which was the reason I bought a new drive in the first place). Because it was a new drive (Seagate... 4 11/26/2008 2:12:01 AM Vista in Unallocated Partition I was attempting to dual boot XP with Vista installed first on a laptop. I used Partition Manager 9 and was trying to delete a partition. While it was working Vista went into standby. Well, I couldn't get it out of standby so I did a hard stop. Now the only partition that shows up is the recovery partition. I can view the structure when I take that laptop drive out and hook it up on my XP compute... 4 11/25/2008 6:10:50 PM Dual Boot, drive letters, fully automated Hi All, We're using Windows XP at the moment, but have Windows Vista as well. We use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to image PCs across the network. We've not got everything working on Windows Vista yet, some people would like to use it, yet still be able to access applications that are currently only available on Windows XP. Originally, we used Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista, an... 5 11/25/2008 3:32:43 PM CD Auto play not working Running Vista Home Premium Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 In control panel/admin tools/AutoPlay I have it on for all devices and have ask me every time on for almost everything. But when I insert a store bought blank or recorded cd nothing happens. How do I fix? Thanks in advance!... 8 11/25/2008 7:36:00 AM zmomm.exe Subject program is in Windows Task Manager as a process running. What is this program and what does it do and is it necessary? Thanks... 4 11/25/2008 1:35:27 AM MSDN Vista DVD (Disc 4455.01) - too large to make local copies? Let me give some quick background. (If you don't care about this skip to paragraph 3.) I am the program administrator for the MSDN Academic Alliance software system here at my college. We have our MSDNAA system set up via E-Academy, so that students can log on there, sign up for a MS product, obtain a product key online, and then visit me to get the installation media. We have a custom ... 3 11/24/2008 6:37:02 PM Upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate Hello Everybody My old laptop came with home premium loaded and I upgraded to Vista Ultimate. The mother board went kaputt on my laptop so I had to buy a new one. Upon trying to upgrade once more I get an error message as follows: "setup cannot run on this version of the operating system. To install windows please try booting from the install media". My new laptop came loaded with a 32b... 7 11/24/2008 3:06:09 AM PC Thinks I Have 2 OS's, Boot Up Problems FYI I am running a RAID 1 OS in Vista x64. All was well until I BIOS selected to load optimum settings. It killed my RAID. I went back in and reconfigured the RAID and now......... When booting it stops and gives me a choice of OS to choose from. It looks like this, Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (Recovered) Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (Recovered) If I highlight the top one it f... 3 11/24/2008 12:26:55 AM vista install error I'm trying to reinstall Vista Home Premium 32 bit OS on a Gateway MT3423 laptop (AMD Turion 1.8 X2, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia 6100). My boot priority is set HDD then DVD drive. That is, when my HDD is showing in BIOS. If the laptop is restarted for whatever reason, HDD won't show up until I turn the laptop off and on again. Once I try using the operating system disc that came with the laptop (don't ... 2 11/23/2008 10:30:20 PM Home Premium -> Ultimate; Can I use the old Home Premium license? I purchased a desktop system with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I purchased Vista Ultimate 32-bit full install (not upgrade) and used it to upgrade my computer to Ultimate. So really, now my Home Premium license isn't being used, and I don't have a CD for it. If I were to find an installation CD, is it possible for me to install Home Premium on another computer with the old license? -- Jarbs... 3 11/23/2008 10:18:18 PM Can anyone resurrect my hp530 from death?!? Thanks to this great forum, my problem started when i try to burn my set of Recovery Disc from my 7 months old HP 530 laptop operating on Windows Vista 32bits. The process of the burning crashed along the line but not knowing to me because i thought the set of the Backup and Recovery CD is just only one DVD CD since the process stop on one DVD CD but later got it that it should be two DVD CDs. Fo... 3 11/23/2008 10:03:15 PM Perc controller: strike the f1 key to continue, why? Sunday Dell 1600sc win 2003, sp2 We were recently given this computer. The OS was loaded. Using 2 disks in a raid 1 configuration. Upon boot the following is displayed : primary hard disk drive 0 not found poweredge expandable raid controller bios 3.27 apr 29, 2002 press ctrl m to run config utility ctrl h for webbios HA -0 bus 0 dev 4 perc 4/sc standard fw 1.72 dra... 2 11/23/2008 6:03:42 PM Vista Won't POST or Boot After BIOS Mod Vista 32 is installed on my year-old homebuilt computer (Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 m/b, Award BIOS V6.00PG, Intel E6750 cpu). It's been working just great. At the end of a normal computing session, I entered the BIOS to make a small change. When I attempted to restart, the POST stalled after running the memory check. In an attempt to correct the problem, I reentered the BIOS and removed the several c... 21 11/23/2008 4:10:11 AM Dual boot [Vista C] lost Ntldr recovrd fcd lost DB When I recovered the startup with the Vista Disk on Vista C: drive it wiped the dual boot to XP D: drive. How do I recover this dual boot menu. This dual boot showed both system disks as C: and didn't show the Vista c: booted in XP at all.....Any recomendations command line or otherwise to recover the dual boot in Vista????... 3 11/22/2008 6:54:39 PM No "Pin to Start Menu" Hello all, need a little help, I am running Vista at work now (from XP) and some of the apps I use daily do not have a Pin to start menu option. I am using the default (not the Classic) start menu. Is there any way to hack the registry or anything to allow me to pin them? Thanks for all the help. -- azwiley1... 10 11/22/2008 4:54:46 PM Old failed installation process locks machine from install/uninstall I am unable to install any software or uninsall because Windows (Vista Business 64bit) says to me following when trying to remove or add software. [Window Title] Windows Installer [Main Instruction] Another program is being installed. Please wait until that installation is complete, and then try installing this software again. [OK] Also, windows update doesn't work anymore and eve... 3 11/22/2008 1:51:45 PM Windows Update Error Code: 80070424 PROBLEM - Hey every one! I need a little help with my Windows Update. On the 25th of October, the update was fine and everything. Now, when I went to go update on the 31st it said the 25th was the LAST day it auto-update on! I went "WTF" so I decided to manually check for the updates but I did not expect a slap to my face with a smooching red error code: 80070424 ('screenshot of the error' ... 3 11/22/2008 10:56:00 AM How to Disable DHCP When Deploying Vista/Server 2008 Using Sysprep and Unattend.xml Hello all, I've run into a problem when trying to deploy either a Vista or Server 2008 syspreped image in conjunction with an Unattend.xml file. My problem is this - the install, from start to finish, is supposed to be an unattended, build-to-plan image. Part of the install involves assigning a static IP address. Although I've been able to configure a static IP for the image, I can... 4 11/21/2008 11:08:34 PM Best way to keep my data while I re-install Hey folks. I am looking to do a complete reformat and re-install of Vista x32 on my Inspiron 1721 lappy. I have around 60Gb of stuff I would like to keep, but I'd rather an alternative method of keeping it instead of shoving it all on to DVDs. I don't have an external HDD so I was wondering whether I can create a partition and whack it on there, then format and re-install on to C:\. Also, I h... 7 11/21/2008 10:39:32 PM 72 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>