Threads Replies Last Post 72 Pages: <<  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  >>   Vista Reactivation? A message popped up telling me there was a hardware change and i had to reactivate the product key. When i tried to reactivate, a message came up telling me the product key was already in use and i needed to purchase another one. I had made no hardware changes, nor did i install any new programs that can be counted as hardware changes. How do i reactivate my vista without buying a new pr... 3 7/4/2007 9:40:58 PM Virtual Memory I can not change my virtual memory size to custom. I keep getting the error message "Enter a numerical value for the initial page file size". I have initial page size values from 16 MB to 4000 MB and I get the same error message. What's wrong? ... 3 7/4/2007 9:16:01 PM Vista to Vista + XP without Vista DVD Basically, at my workplace the laptop (with Vista pre-installed) was bought in another city (Hong Kong), and while Vista is fine it's unfortunately not compatible with some of our hardwares, so we want to install XP on it as well. I've already resized the partition, the problem is that the Vista DVD is apparently still in Hong Kong, and nobody basically has any idea where it is... ... 2 7/4/2007 8:59:01 PM Removing critical update downloads from manager Thanks in advance for your help! I purchased a new HP laptop yesterday with Vista preinstalled… I went through the setup process and downloaded all of the “critical” updates as flagged by the manager… One of those was the NVIDIA graphics driver package (uses GEFORCE 5150)… My Vista is setup to run in 32-bit mode… Apparently, one of the graphics drivers was the 64-bit version... 4 7/4/2007 8:01:39 PM Installing Vista Ultimate Horror Story After determining that my computer is compatible for the Vista Upgrade I began installing Ultimate last night. Everything seemed to go fine until step 3 "Expanding Files". At 21% the computer started shutting down, (no problem the display says it will restart several times during installation). When it restarted however It came up with the "Windows Install" screen again and was shaking a... 3 7/4/2007 7:14:44 PM Box around desktop icons - how to remove? I'm running Vista Business (32 bit) and have faint white outlines around all of the desktop icons. This is always the case and has persisted through a few display driver upgrades. I'm not referring to when an icon is selected or the mouse pointer hovers over it. The outlines are there on all icons all the time. I have an Nvidia 6600 GT. I've tried resizing the icons, but the box out... 2 7/4/2007 7:04:02 PM AVCapture.exe- The application failed to initialize properly I recently brought a freeview program for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400 vista) but when i try to run it once it has been installed, an error message appears, reading: AVCapture.exe- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022) Click OK to terminate the program. I would be grateful if anybody has any ideas as to how this problem can be resolved.... 2 7/4/2007 7:03:51 PM AVCapture.exe The application failed to initialize properly (0xc00 I recently brought a freeview program for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400 Vista), but when i try to run it once it has been installed, an error message appears, reading: AVCapture.exe- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022) Click OK to terminate the program. I would be grateful if anybody has any ideas as to how this problem can be resolved. ... 1 7/4/2007 6:52:04 PM 2 hard drives. 2 OS's One has xp pro and the other has Vista home premium. I want to be able to have the option of using both hard drive's at the same time. As it is now, I swap the hard drive in that I want to use and then swap it out for when i need to go back to XP. Is there a way I can leave them both plugged in and have an option on reboot to chose what OS I want? Thanks.... 3 7/4/2007 6:43:57 PM Vista Complete Backup Will Vista's "Complete Backup" require re-activation if restored onto the same PC it was created on?... 4 7/4/2007 4:46:15 PM Activation Problem I had nothing but problems when I first upgraded from XP to Vista. I had to re-install Vista on the same computer but now I cannot activate it because it says that this product is already in use. What can I do?... 3 7/4/2007 4:41:25 PM Ac97 Vista problem Hi, I experience major problems with getting a AC 97 system up and running under Vista. I have a Gigabyte sinxp1394 Mobo with AC97 chipset and Vista ultimate. I upgraded the driver with the realtek 6.0.6243 version I downloaded from Realtek. Recording turned out to be impossible in an erratic way. Nor the build in sound recorder, The Microsoft media 9 encoder or Adobe Audigy see the m... 1 7/4/2007 4:39:30 PM Cannot Install MSN on Vista I initially got the message "Error creating process<msvc.exe/Q:A>. Reason: Access is denied." while trying to install MSN 9.5 in Vista. I turned off TrendMicro PC-cillin and re-tried the installation and got the message; "Error registering the OCX C:\Program Files\MSN\MsnInstaller\msnsign.dll" instead. HELP! What does this mean? ... 2 7/4/2007 2:58:43 PM Installing XP back A few months back i installed Vista Business on my system, now I want to install XP back on my system. I have done a Format and i believe i deleted the Windows.old Folder. When i finished installing XP, and once it boots up, it says Error loading Operating System. How do i succesfully install XP back?... 3 7/4/2007 1:46:01 PM Access File Mistakenly typed as a Access Shortcut I have an access file that is 585 MB that is Typed as a Microsoft Office Access Module Shortcut (.mad). Access 2003 will not open the file. How can I change the typing to be the file and not a shortcut? I am on Vista Pro. Thanks in advance.... 8 7/4/2007 1:21:54 PM Allow Programs For Startup? Vista is blocking to of my programs at in the Startup folder, there is supposed to be a setting in Defender to tell it these programs are okay. How can I add them if they are not already listed there? Thanks... Bob ... 2 7/4/2007 1:03:47 PM EFI Implementation on Vista Could it be possible to natively install Windows Vista or Windows code name Longhorn on Intel-based Mac if it implements EFI? I found some article that Microsoft will implement EFI on next release of Windows Vista and also in Windows code name Longhorn.... 6 7/4/2007 9:31:44 AM stops at 45%... I am attempting to install a retail copy of vista on a Dell 460C/2GB RAM. I ran the Vista Upgrade Advisorand it said my computer was good-to-go. I get as far as "Installing Windows..." and get the message "That's all the information we need right now. Your computer will restart several times during installation." Then highlighted is the "copying windows files (45%)" box however I cant ge... 4 7/4/2007 7:03:57 AM Error 1325 - 'File name' is not a valid short file name. Hi, I don't know how I got into this state - When I remove or install software on my Vista machine, I receive the following error: Error 1325 - 'File name' is not a valid short file name. I found the Microsoft KB article #328162 that addresses this problem by downloading Windows Installer Clearup Utility from KB#290301. But when I install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, it g... 1 7/4/2007 5:35:36 AM Installation Hangs Trying Vista Home Basic Upgrade..system in brief is a Dual Core2.8, 2gb Ram, ATA HD, x1950 pro graphics card... I have tried to upgrade in two ways: 1 - Upgrading from windows & dowbloading the latest setup files: this goes fine until the system tries to re-boot, then the system will hang when the windows progress bar is on the screen. Sometimes the system will re-boot sometimes just loc... 5 7/4/2007 4:10:01 AM cd does not install vista i'm usng XP and received two disk to upgrade to vista. one is an HP upgrade assistant. the other is windows vista home basic express upgrade. they did install on the pc (model hp pavilion a400n) but did not change the XP to Vista mrosario@rgv.rr.com... 3 7/4/2007 1:41:07 AM Setting up PC to run through TV I can't figure out how to run my computer through my TV. We have 32" Screen TV and a 22" Computer moniter. We can get some things to run through the TV while others run through the comp. We have it all connected with S-video cables and everything, but we can't quite figure out the "control panel" part of it! PLEASE HELP ME!... 3 7/4/2007 1:40:55 AM Customizing WinPE I've got a custom winpe image that I'm building that has a script start on boot. After the script runs, I may want to then install Vista on the harddrive. I thought that wpeinit.exe was responsible for this but running it from the disc does not start the installer. How can I start the Windows Vista installer? What exe does this? ... 2 7/4/2007 1:21:11 AM Is it possible to install applications into VirtualStore? I have UAC enabled. I'm wondering if I could force an application to run non-elevated, be it either an installer that I want to install to VirtualStore, or a file with the word 'setup' in it's name that's not really an installer. ... 2 7/4/2007 12:27:47 AM change lenguage I need to change a spanish language, but I dont Know How?. I Can not install o uninstall lenguage. can anybody help me?... 2 7/4/2007 12:27:11 AM 72 Pages: <<  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  >>