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I followed your recommendation purchased through ebay a new Seagate hard drive and installed it.  After a few days of re-installing all the software and finally being able to use the computer,...
I have  a Toshiba Equium Laptop running Vista Home Premium SP1. I have Windows automatic updates set to advise me of updates and prompt for install. I have installed up Important Updates to ...
I have a 2 GB RAM Vista with 80 GB hard disk(40% free). Even with no applications, I see physical memory used as large as 70% and high CPU usage. That makes my machine too slow and also makes ...
I am trying to setup an ipsec based solution for Vista 64 bit clients. I am told the only VPN client from Cisco that works is the AnyConnect client. I have a cisco 2650 router on site, what ro...
Plagued by one, two, or all 3 of the following at every shut down in the event viewer: Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will b...
I need a free solution to the problem of automatically logging off users after a specified period of inactivity in Windows Vista Enterprise. I had previously had success using winexit.scr coup...
Hi All, When trying to install 3rd party software or any software for that matter I get the following errors on a Vista Home Premium machine. This is the error I  get when trying to ins...
Oh Vista, why do you vex me so...! Hi everyone. If this were XP then I'd have it sorted now & be drinking coffee but this is a bit of a pain for me & I'm wondering if there's a shortcut tha...
Last week I added a WD20eads 2T hard drive to my HP m8200n that was running Vista Home Premium.  It seemed to install correctly, was seen in set up, device manager, etc.  But then the PC  lost...
I am formatting my pc and setting it to factory default by entering ALT + F10 repeatedly but then it asks me for the my empowering technology password.  How do I find that? I have windows v...
I've been trying to shrink a 285 GB Vista partition to around 40-50 GB all afternoon (currently about 18 GB is in use), but have only succeeded to shrink it to 163 GB (see Disk_Management.png)...
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Vista SP1. I recently had to reinstall the OS using the recovery partition because  a virus corrupted my system. My question is can I make a recovery disk in c...
We are trying to use msg.exe to send urgent messages to all users on our domain.  However, either it's not working or we're not using it correctly.  When we type msg userid test message We ...
Hello, When I restart my laptop computer, it takes a long time to get ready completely. When I checked in Task Manager, it shows CPU USAGE 100% all the time...even though I have no applica...
I have an issue with the CEO's laptop that I am struggling to solve, mainly because all the usual fixes are not working. Briefly. On a Sony Vaio laptop an error was displayed saying NTLDR ...
Windows Vista comes with one voice (Microsoft Anna) for it's built-in text to speech (TTS) engine. I am looking for additional voices. I am personally looking for free voices, but while I'm as...
Help!!  I upgraded from windows xp to vista ultimate - everything was working fine.  I did 74 updates last night, rebooted and now I cannot get into anything.  Everything prompts for an admin ...
Hi, everybody! Sorry for being wordy. Here are my questions, the story if below QUESTIONS A. Can you recommend a link to an ISO file with Vista installation DVD which I could use to re-in...
Anyone know of any free (preferably) utils that will enable me to view inside this hidden directory? Can't access it via command line (access denied), cant use cacls to grant myself permis...
I have a laptop with Vista Home Basic which will only boot to a black screen with a mouse cursor. Safe mode is the same, including with Command Prompt. Task manager isn't available or any of t...
Dear all experts, I'm looking for a step by step guide on how to integrate Vista SP2 to a Vista Installation CD, please kindly advise.  I tried to use vLite but it seems it is very complica...
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW200.  The cursor starts recently to jump to previous sentences whenever I am in either Word or Outllook.  I have Vista Home Premium.
My laptop hard drive crash about a month ago and thankfully I was able to order a new one and recover the C partition using Windows Home Server Recovery Tool (without too much headache I might...
I have just upgraded from Vista home to Vista Business on a new Acer 5738Z laptop. I download the chipset, Broadcom LAN and wifi drivers from the acer websites, but I am stil l getting a yell...
I have an 18 month old computer in which I decided to check temperatures on it and used both Speedfan and Everest Ultimate. Some of the temperatures seem possibly out of range but I cannot fin...