My dad's laptop has a HDD which has 2 partitions. Both are WinXP which correctly shows on boot. My question is can I remove the first XP and install Windows 7 RTM instead without messing up the boot.
View 6 RepliesAll you usually hear is that Vista is horrible to work with but seems like people here figured it out, so thanks A year ago when i built my new computer and decided to get Vista, I went to BestBuy and they gave me what I thought i needed. Turns out it was an upgrade version of Vista Ultimate and I ended up having to use my old IDE HDD ever since. I'm wondering if there's a way to change so that Vista can load off of my SATA HDD.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have my screen resolution set to 1920x1200, native is set to this, nvidia control panel confirms it, yet every time I restart after a shutdown or an update, my screen resets to some random low resolution such as 1020x768 or 800x600 (the worst of the 2, it set the colors all funky). Every time after it does this, I have to go back and change the resolution back, and move all of my icons back to their places. I have tried everything to get rid of this problem, even such as to change the registry defaults for resolution. I have base video off, and all other solutions people seem to have do not work. I have had lots of experiences with computers, but this one has stumped me. If I missed a default or it is one of those things that just is so obvious that you overlook it
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wish to install vista 64 on my computer that has Windows XP Pro as dual boot. Drive C would have XP Pro Drive G Vista 64. But when you boot vista it calls changes drive G and calls it drive C. Can this be stopped or can I install windows XP and Vista 64 to the same drive?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wish to install vista 64 on my computer that has Windows XP Pro as dual boot.
Drive C would have XP Pro
Drive G Vista 64.
But when you boot vista it calls changes drive G and calls it drive C. Can this be stopped or can I install windows XP and Vista 64 to the same drive?
I've upgraded my machine at some point in the last year, where I added a new 500GB drive and moved my C: partition across to it. The previous 250GB drive was left in for additional storage. Just recently (while upgrading my BIOS) I realised that my system was still booting from the 250GB drive even though Windows was on the other disk. There is a fair possibility in the not too distant future that I'll replace the 250GB disk with a larger disk, in which case I won't be able to boot. Is there a safe and reliable way to change it so that the system boots from the 500GB disk?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI went to turn it on this morning, I just had a black screen showing the following words;
Press F2 to run
Press F11 to boot menu
Auto detecting PRI Master Atapai CDROM.
It then went to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I went into the BIOS to change the boot order and inserted my Vista home premium 32bit. I then got windows is loading in files. After a short while I got the black start up screen with Microsoft Corporation but after a few seconds it just froze. Moments later it went to a blue screen with white writing part of which said the following; A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TI YOUR COMPUTER.
My question: can I simply install the 64 bit version over the current 32 bit? Can I just put the discs back into the machine and let Vista take it's course by ticking the 64 bit option when it appears on the load up screen?
Or, do I have to go through the entire process of re-formatting/wiping the drives and start from scratch? I am using the Ultimate version, and am not sure about these things.
I bought a new computer and it came with Vista Premium 64bit, can I have it run on 32bit, instead of changing my printer and some of my software.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a newer computer purchased in August 2008, HP Pavilion a6530F. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (64bit)
Hard to find software to work on it, occassionally I can make something work by changing the compability mode or running as administrator. Had I known all this when I got the computer, I would not have bought it.
How much trouble (cost too) to have someone change from Vista 64 to Vista 32. I am guessing that entails new drivers etc. I am just a normal user, don't play games, only the granddaughter age 11 plays games like Nancy Drew. I have a 640GB hard drive which is way more than I ever needed. Was not aware of software issues like I can't use my Photo shop Sofware and other things I have.
I have Windows Vista 64 bit. I need to download Adobe Flash Player, I receive message cannot run on 64 bit must change to 32 bit. How do I change?
View 5 Replies View RelatedRef. Windows Vista. I have noticed that when viewing Network that my router displays its type and most of the password. I'd like to remove the password information from the icon information. File - Rename is greyed.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI currently own a Vista premium 64bit laptop.....I'm trying to install Empire total war, which requires Directx 10. In order to install that I need to activate .Net 3.0. I attempted to do this by going to Control Panel....Turn On/Off Windows Features....checked all of the boxed under .Net 3.0.....then it configues but then displays the message "an error has occurred. not all of the features were successfully changed" I have no idea what to do....I attempted to see if I could uninstall .Net 3.0 but I couldn't find it anywhere.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have to delete the affected favourite sites then 'delete all' from internet properties then add the sites again.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI didn't see this exact problem in previous threads, so I'm asking for help with it.
I recently mistakenly put a DVD-RW disc in my computer's E Drive. It was the first time I ever used a DVD-RW, and I bought a box of them by mistake thinking they were CD-RW discs. (I wanted to save money that day, so I thought I'd get the discs rather than a USB stick.) Now when I go to Computer> E Drive> Properties> Recording I have some options, but see no way to make the E Drive have CD-RW as the default rather than DVD-RW. I checked all the other tabs in E Drive> Properties as well, but can see no way to do it. This is a problem, because I just tried to format a CD-RW disc, and it went through the process only to open a window at the end saying the disc was unable to be formatted. I don't know if the change in E Drive from CD-RW drive to DVD-RW drive is related to the problem I had formatting the disc, but I suspect it might be.
Can someone tell me to ip change.. I have tried diffrent ways to change but i cant seem to figure it out.. Several ppl online can do it.. I have Windows Vista and Dsl
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my icons changing at will. Does anyone have a fix for this.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wanted to try out Windows 7, but I didn't want to upgrade Vista yet because it was still in beta. So I was going to dual-boot Windows 7 and Vista. I downloaded a copy of linux that was designed for partitioning so that I could partition my hard drive. Before I partitioned it with linux, I had just one partition for Vista and that was it. I had linux trim it down about 30 gigs and then make a new partition with that free space. It did all that and didnt report any errors. So I restarted my computer and the windows loading screen came up for about a second untill it said "Windows failed to start and a recent hardware or software change might be the cause". And it gave the the option of starting windows normally or to launch startup repair. I picked start windows normally and it went back to the loading screen. After a few seconds at that it gave me a BSOD for about a second before it restarted. I was able to see the error number before it restarted. It was 0x000000ED. So after it restarted it went back to the same message again. I picked launch startup repair that time. It then told me that I should get my Vista install disk that run the repair tools............
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm currently living in France and recently purchased an Acer computer here, with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I'd assumed that I'd be able to select English as the display language but, apart from being able to select an English keyboard, everything is in French. If necessary, I'll live with this (it's a way of improving my French) but, if I could do it at reasonable cost, I'd like to convert it to English.
Purchsing the full English version is out of the question, as is upgrading to French Vista Ultimate and downloading an English language pack. Purchasing the English Home Premium Upgrade would have been OK, but I believe that this won't work with my current French version. An upgrade DVD was included with the computer, which appears to require payment on-line; I assume that this would be French also, so it's of no use to me......
A few days ago, I downloaded a font from the internet onto my computer. I had difficulties loading it, and in a rush to download it to complete some work I (foolishly) messed with the 'Open With' selection. I'm not sure how I did it, but I changed the file to open with Microsoft Word, and then I realised that was a big mistake so I tried making it open with Internet Explorer, another mistake. Now it opens with one or the other, but just comes up with code. It was a zip file, and I just wanted it to open with nothing, if you get what I mean, just back to default. It's a pain, because I tried downloading a brush for my PSP8 (Paint Shop Pro 8, a drawing/graphics program) and once again it opens in internet explorer which I don't want. I tried removing Word and the Internet from the 'Recommended Programs' but so it's just empty, but it doesn't let me delete them. Both the brush file and the font should be in zip files, but instead of looking like the yellow folder with the zip they have either and 'e' for the internet or 'word' icon. It's really annoying, because now when I download zip files they all come up as internet or word files. Please could someone help me get rid of the word and the internet so they just have nothing, so they open like they should in whatever they should automatically, by themselves.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I log in, my Vista is turning screen off for a half of second. Then it is turning in on again. It does it twice every time I log in. And sometimes it changes resolution to lower.
System behaves in that way since I bought my notebook.
Hardware:
Notebook HP Compaq 6720s
Graphic card: Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family
Software:
Windows Vista Home Basic
I have Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bits installed on my computer. Along with installing this, I also installed tons of drivers etc. however I do not need all of them at the start of every boot. So I wanted to delete them from the startup list, but this is not possible. When I go to Windows Defender > Launch programs, and click on the programs I want to disable from launching along with Windows, the options to Delete or Disable go grey.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAbout once a week my screen resolution seems to be changing--I think on its own. I do have small kids that sometimes touch the keyboard, so that might have something to do with it, but I don't think so. I say its the resolution, but I am not even sure of that. When it happens the icons get bigger--and webpages font sizes become too big for a page. I have tried manually adjusting the screen resolution, but that doesn't seem to be the answer--it doesn't put it back the way it was before. To fix the problem, I have been restoring my system to previous dates---but it always seems to re-occur.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo the glowing orb startup animation has begun to bug me. I'd like to change it to the Pentium 4 animation, but I understand that the glowing orb is a series of 5 pictures. Is there a method that an animated clip could be used in place of these?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have setup a friends vista mail to authenticate via pacbell.net's servers for outgoing mail. All works well for a few days, then stops working. Upon re examination of the mail settings, the smtp port has reverted to 25 (set manually to 460 something) and the use ssl checkbox is unchecked. I have showed my friend how to re-set the settings so he is not losing much sleep over this one, but it annoys me.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhenever I set a new wallpaper the default setting for the background is center.I want it to be set to fit to screen. Is there a registry setting for this so the default goes to fit to screen so don't have to keep changing it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like it to default to details, but it keeps changing back to large icons. Any way to fix this
View 6 Replies View RelatedIt's my intention to separate my data from the OS by making a move to another partition. The question in my mind is, move only the documents folder, or is there more that should be moved also? Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been following the steps in some of the tutorials on how to change a drive's icon. I can get get all of my drives to change to what I want, except for my SD card reader, Drive G. I have restarted the computer several times. The default blue SD icon never changes, unless i remove the card. When i insert the card, it returns of course, but with the default blue SD icon. Any ideas out there?
View 7 Replies View RelatedDownload Vista Glazz, patch the files, download a theme, extract it to Windows > Resources > Themes. I've done that, but no theme shows up, only the default ones. Browsing for it doesn't help either. Sorry if I'm not being very clear. But I guess all I'm asking for is a little tutorial so I can change the theme. Where to extract, where each file should be, etc.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen saving Gif files they are saved in a filesize of bytes (58 bytes,62 bytes) it keeps changing, and when opening the file it doesn't show anything. what could be the reason of this? and yes i told the person to try and save with .gif in the end of the file name but it's the same. could it be protected gifs or something?
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