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windows vista trial period
well it turns out i was lured into trying the windows vista home premium
edition on my computer i previously had winows xp media center edition on my
computer well now the windows vista trial period is over and i didnt quite
like it, so im not gonna buy the product key for it, but now it wont let me
acess my desk top or the start menu at all, when i turn it on it simply goes
straight to ...
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6/22/2007 1:41:27 PM |
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Vista_business_on_multiple_PC’s
Hi
I just downloaded a copy of vista business from the MSDNAA Program my
university has. A friend was telling me I can install it on two PC’s but that
sounded rather generous so I wanted to check if that is the case before I
format my desktop and my laptop.
Thanks
Phil
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6/22/2007 10:49:25 AM |
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Product key already in use
I have a laptop that I bought Windows Vista Upgrade through the marketplace
on. Through my rough usage on my computer I ended up having to replace my
HDD do to fatal HDD errors. I desicided to get a hybrid drive this time for
my laptop and I get the already in use error. Vista is as good as
uninstalled off my other HDD, still using the same computer just a newer
large hybrid drive.
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6/22/2007 10:46:50 AM |
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RAID migration
I would like to migrate my system from one SATA disk to a RAID 5 array of
three disks. Unfortunately, however, in the BIOS, prior to installing the
OS, Vista x64 Home Premium, I left the SATA Mode at IDE, the defulat
setting.
Now, when I change the SATA Mode to RAID as is required to setup a RAID
array, I cannot successfully load Vista. It dies with a BSOD. Evidently,
it notices th...
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6/22/2007 10:44:47 AM |
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Have full version of Vista, want to set up 2nd computer
I bought a full version of Vista home prem. and I now want to install Vista
on a new machine. Can I just buy an upgrade for my second machine? I would
install the full version, then install the upgrade over that. is this
possible?...
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6/22/2007 5:13:02 AM |
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Vista reinstall without a CD drive
My Vista was running weel when, after installed a Pinnacle TV board, my DVD
drive begun not to work anymore. In device manager, the status of
"TSSTcorpCD/DVDW-SHS182D ATA device" reads "Windows couldn´t start this
device because it´s config informations in registry are incomplete or damaged
(code 19)". I don´t know how to rewrite the device registry and I can´t do
restoration to the ...
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6/22/2007 5:06:58 AM |
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older microsoft office software for teachers & students
I ordered a Lenovo Laptop from e-bay which I thought would have microsoft
office installed, but I was mistaken. Can I load my old microsoft office for
students & teachers which is XP edition onto the new laptop with windows
vista business edition? I don't know much about this stuff, please help...
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6/22/2007 4:08:12 AM |
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Upgrade from XP Home to Vista Home Premium
I'm planning an XP Home>Vista Home Premium upgrade and I'd like to verify my
upgrade plan. I verified my PC meets Vista upgrade requirements.
XP is currently installed on C: with all other programs and My Documents
installed on E:
After I back up any IE and Outlook data, I want to format my C drive, make
my CD drive rebootable, insert the Vista upgrade, reboot, insert my XP CD to
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6/22/2007 3:27:49 AM |
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blank screen after set-up/
OK, I think that I have done everything possible to ensure that my system is
updated. I have tried up-grade and tried clean install (boot from dvd/cd
drive). Now, I have noticed that nivida has a driver for my video card for
vista. Cannot install unless vista is already in place. So what would happen
if I unstalled the driver for my video card and then tried the install? Would
this solv...
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6/22/2007 1:44:00 AM |
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can i unactivate my product key?
i installed vista home premium and choose the option to activate as soon as i
was online. since my internet connection is always on i assumed that my copy
activated, and let my friend install and use the same product key. now a
window pops up and says that i need to activate and when i enter my product
key it says my key is in use. is there a way to unactivate the key from my
friends com...
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6/21/2007 11:39:41 PM |
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sysprep HELP!!!
Hello,
I'm trying to use sysprep on a Windows Vista computer so I can make an image
but I have a Business edition upgrade volume license copy of the media, which
is not bootable. I put Windows XP on the computer then put a flash drive in
the computer with Autounattend.xml on it and then install Windows Vista. The
install goes fine but at a certain point it can't find Autounattend.xml....
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6/21/2007 9:31:00 PM |
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Sysprep Clarification
If I am wanting to take a image of a vista machine and deploy it with
WDS unattendly with a unattend.xml file, skipping the OOBE, how (what
switches/sittings) should I use when I run sysprep? I can not get any
settings in my unattend.xml file to work except the
<UnsecureJoin>true</UnsecureJoin> which does join it to the domain
using a prestaged name. I can not get the xml file ...
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6/21/2007 5:48:56 PM |
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20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install
After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got any
ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've seen,
vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes up
that much room...
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6/21/2007 5:16:01 PM |
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Black borders in displaying 1080p; Display problem after "Sleep"
* My Setup:
I am using the integrated motherboard:
Asus M2A-VM-HDMI with display card ATI X1250
I am using Catalyst bundled in the CD of Asus Motherboard.
I am now connecting my PC (used as an HTPC) to my new BENQ SH3731, which
supports HDMI 1.2 and full HD point-to-point resolution of 1920 x 1080p (i.e.
1080p).
* The Problems:
1)
However, everytime I choose 1920 x 1080 @ 60p ...
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6/21/2007 4:23:20 PM |
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vista business upgrade
I downloaded and installed the vista enterprise VHD from microsoft and am
quite impressed with its look and feel. It runs better in .5 gig of memory
than my XP VHD does. it will time out at the end of June and therein lies my
question. My company sent me a legal DVD of vista business upgrade. Can I
install this upgrade over the vista enterprise installation or do I have to
start all over...
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6/21/2007 4:19:44 PM |
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How to get rid of vista?
I have vist at my computer. By accident I have erased the administrator
account and now everything is locked. I want to get rid of Vista and to
return to XP. I do not care to loose everything on my hdd!
However nothing works.
Can anybody tell me how to format my HDD?
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6/21/2007 4:15:40 PM |
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Vista Optima Home Network Problem
I have just installed Windows Vista Optima 32-bit edition on one of my
home computers. The rest are running Windows XP
I have turned off the firewall.
I have turned on network discovery, file sharing, printer sharing,
media sharing.
I have put it on the same peer-to-peer network.
I have also setup shares with "everyone" permissions for
read/write/change.
Still, my Vista machine do...
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6/21/2007 3:19:48 PM |
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Setting permissions for ISS_IUSERS group ?
After installing Vista Home Premium on my desktop computer, I turned on ISS,
and moved the default website to a folder in Documents, which is where I
prefer it. When I tried to browse to the site, I got a message saying there
was an "Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error". I was able to find information
that this involved needing to set permissions in the IIS_IUSERS Group, but
can't locate...
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6/21/2007 2:59:08 PM |
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Unable to install downloaded software
I am unable to install downloaded trial software like Adobe CS3 etd., no
matter what I try... Any ideas...?...
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6/21/2007 1:53:31 PM |
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Basic set-up of new, clean Vista Home install....
I am about to install Vista Home Premium for the first time, on a brand
new PC with no peripherals and only mother-board aoudio and video.
How can I be certain that I have full rights to the entire PC at all times,
setting up to be both the primary user and the administrator... preferably
avoiding any sort of future log in necessity or difficulty with administrative
"access" issues?
I wi...
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6/21/2007 1:22:23 PM |
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Windows Vista Home Premium takeing long to install
Hi,
I am trying to install Vista on my home PC configuration as follows ...
Sapphire Crossfire MB
1x200GB Sata
2x250Gb SATA 2 (Raid 0)
2x250GB IDE
X1900 Sapphire PCIE Graphics Card
2GB RAM
I have disabled all drived except the IDE's, installation is taking more
than 6 Hours now. 58% expanding files.
Any Ideas as to why it could be taking so long?
Steven
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6/21/2007 11:17:00 AM |
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vista is installed now XP
My computer has two SATA harddrives. At the one harddrive Vista is
installed, the other harddrive is empty but formatted NFTTS..
Now I try to install XP at the second drive. But whatever I try, every time
I get the message at startup: "BOOTMGR is missing, press CTR ALT DEL to
restart". Even if I remove the harddrive on which Vista is installed!
Is something changed in the BIOS?
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6/21/2007 8:21:57 AM |
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Task Scheduler / Windows Explorer
1).
What are the odds of turning off about 95% of what Task Scheduler
in Home Basic has installed as scheduled tasks?
2).
Using Windows Explorer to browse contents of the C: drive, why is
there no reverse to the search path? Hitting the 'back' arrow from
any location in the directory tree takes me to immediately to My
Name / My Documents.
3).
Why am I (as administrator and single use...
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6/21/2007 3:48:47 AM |
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XP reinstall under Vista?
I am running XP on my C drive and using Vista upgrade disk installed Vista
on my D drive. I need to do a clean install of XP back on the C drive. Can I
do this without messing up Vista? Thanks Carl
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6/21/2007 3:35:25 AM |
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Tomtom home installation
I have a toshiba laptop with windows vista home premium installed. I am
trying to install tomtom home (1.5 latest which supports windows vista) but
after installation, when I run tomtom home it the computer is saying 'tomtom
stopped working and windows is trying to find a solution' after it is written
that no solution found.
I tried several things, installed previous software, uninstalle...
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6/21/2007 1:59:25 AM |