How Remove Vista?

Mar 23, 2008

I have had enough of Vista and would like to remove it and install Windows XP Home Edition but don't know where to start. I have the XP CD and don't want to keep anything from Vista.

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Add/Remove In Vista Does Not Remove All The Software

May 12, 2008

I have experienced two instances were Add/Remove in Vista does not remove all the software, so that comprehensive installation of similar software is not possible. The first concerned a Scanner, where Add/Remove would not remove all the software, so that installation of the new Scanner is not possible, until a procedure recommended by the Scanner's makers involving modifications to the Registry is carried out, which I could not possibly do myself, so it means hiring a Professional to do the job!

The second concerns Spellex. Here again the old version has not been removed, so that installation of the latest version is not fully carried out, making the software useless. How can Microsoft produce Windows where such problems occur? What is the experience of others in case this is a fault with my computer?

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How Can Remove Vista?

Apr 13, 2008

How can I remove vista?? When I purchased my computer about a year ago, it came with vista.

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Remove Vista And Load Xp

Mar 26, 2008

I have an ACER 5100 running vista home. I would like to remove vista and load xp. Is this do able? Also, ACER puts a lot of there propaganda on the machine that is very hard and even imposable to remove. Will installing xp remove all this stuff and how will whats in the bios effect things.

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Vista Not Refressing Remove Cd

Jul 4, 2009

if you have problems with vista not refreshing when you remove the CD from the tray Do A Firmware update that fixed my problems you might want to do it anyway it might resolve other issues with your DVDrw.

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Remove Vista On Drive 1 , Partition C:

Nov 17, 2009

I have two hard drives ,each hard drive is partitioned into 2.

Drive 1
Partition C:
Partition D:

Drive 2
Partition E:
Partition F:

I have Vista Home Premium on C: Drive. Have Windows 7 on E: Drive. My Boot File is on the C : Drive for both Operating Systems. If I want to remove Vista on Drive 1 , Partition C: First of all what would be the easiest way of removing Vista? Reformat the drive or can you uninstall it with the programs?? If I do Format the C: Drive,I would loose the Boot Manager File. I would probably not be able to even boot into Win 7. If I can not boot into 7 Can I insert the DVD do a repair to bring back the Boot file to C:? Or can I just use a second party Boot Manager like Easy BCD to configure Boot manager??

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Security: How To Remove This Restriction On Vista

Jun 4, 2008

When I click on an advert in Firefox for a trusted website, I am greeted with the popup box saying "The operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator". This is also happening on programs which open other programs - all of which I give full permission to do.

I never had this problem on XP and do not know how to remove this restriction on Vista. I am the only user on this computer and hold the administrator account.

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Format HD With Vista Or Remove Partitions

Mar 31, 2010

If I want to format my HD on vista or remove partitions, what is the procedure? All I have is the back up DVD's that I made. My original HD gave me intermittent problems so I abandoned it. Is there any way to get the recovery program from the original disk onto my new hard drive?

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Remove Vista And Then Install XP Without Having To Reload All Programs

Apr 4, 2008

Is there an easy way to remove Vista and then install XP without having to reload all programs? How about drivers? Are they a problem

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How To Remove Vista From Without Hammer On The Hard Drive?

Mar 23, 2008

I recently acquired a new Sony Vaio laptop computer with Vista pre-installed. how to remove all of Vista from my machine without using a fairly large hammer on the hard drive? I would like to get back to some pleasant computing with XP.

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Mandatory To Remove Some Sticks Of Ram Before Installing Vista 64-bit?

Mar 26, 2008

I keep reading about folks who needed to remove some sticks of ram before installing vista 64-bit. Is this mandatory? I have 4 gig of Ram and I really don't want to open up my box and remove 2 gigs, as my computer is large and I'd have to remove memory cooling, etc. (I know, lazy) Do some people with 4 gigs ram succeed in installing vista without removing memory?

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Shortcut Manager: Remove Arrows In Icons In Vista?

Jul 4, 2009

The arrows in the icons in Vista are annoying me. After a bit of googling, I've found out that a utility called 'Vista Shortcut Manager' can be used to remove those arrows without any manual registry editing. Thing is I can find only the x86 version of the software but I'm using the Vista x64.

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Windows Vista Home Premium SP2: Remove System Sounds?

Jul 29, 2009

I just removed Ipswitch's WS_FTP 2007, but the system sounds associated with the program did not uninstall with it. How do I manually remove the system sounds in Control Panel? Windows Vista Home Premium SP2

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Vista Doesn't Have "Safely Remove Hardware"

Sep 13, 2009

Have you had any problems with USB flash drives with Vista? I saw articles saying that Vista doesn't have "Safely Remove Hardware" like in XP, and some people aren't sure when to remove the flash drive from the computer. Is one USB flash drive different from another, except in size?

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Disk Management & EISA Partition: Delete And Remove To Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery Or Diagnostic Partition In Vista

Jan 14, 2009

I think I messed up my hard drive while trying to erase the EISA partition on it. It's a Gateway P7811-FX laptop with a single 200 GB hard drive. Before, I only had 1 main partition: the C: Drive (176.31 GB), along with the hidden 10 GB EISA partition. After making recovery disks, I followed this tutorial: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life

Following that, I went in Disk Management. The hidden partition showed up, but I couldn't extend the C drive to use the unallocated 10 GB, so I converted it to a simple 10 GB volume. Then I used Acronis Disk Director Suite and merged the two partitions. And now, I can't do anything in Disk Management. There's only one partition now (186.31 GB), but when I right click on it, there's no options to create, shrink, delete, or extend the partition. They were there before, but the only option that shows up is Help.

Under Status, it says Healthy (Active, EISA Configuration). I think I merged the partitions the wrong way, so now there's no "System, Boot, Page File..." partition. Everything is on the EISA partition. When I try to run Acronis, the program doesn't load up. I've tried using Diskpart but I can't create any new partitions either.

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How Can U Remove Pop Ups?

Feb 6, 2009

I hate that welcome center and that 360 desktop and i was wondering how can u remove pop ups?

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How Can Remove One

Feb 5, 2010

pc experts there just wanna ask if its okey that i got this if its no how can i remove one of them?

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Remove Windows 7 ...

Apr 12, 2009

Multiboot (single drive 3 partitions) XP. vista, Windows 7. Since W7 doesn't see my wireless adapter, it's pretty useless. So how do I remove Windows 7 and reclaim that drive space, while leaving XP and Vista alone?

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How To Remove AOL Uninstaller

Jun 1, 2010

I have uninstalled all the AOL apps from my Vista PC but the Uninstaller remains. The system bar also contains an AOL connection icon. How do I remove the unistaller and the icon?

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How To Remove Spyware?

Apr 6, 2009

I have a Vista computer with the following Antivirus / spyware removal programs

- Eset NOD32 v2.7
- Spy bot search and destry
- SuperAntispyware
- Ad aware
- Windows defender

All the software is updated with the latest "definitions"

2 firewalls (1 windows firewall, 1.with the router)

Do I need more software like that to be safe?


I think this is too much software installed to just take care of virus and spyware threats. For it seems like virus is not soo big problem any more. Soo I am wondering isnt it possible to for Microsoft to make something "supersmart" to get rid of spy ware??

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USB Cannot Safely Remove It Because It Is In Use

Apr 15, 2009

[I am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit]

I plugged in my Toshiba USB hard drive when I first got my computer about a week ago, to transfer programs and files to the new computer.

Now, for the past several days I have tried to remove it and I keep getting the message, "cannot safely remove it because it is in use"!

It is NOT in use as far as I know. In fact today I started my computer and did not even access the drive at all yet I get the same error from "Safely Remove Hardware".

I have turned indexing off on the drive, on both partitions.

MS sent me a "Hotfix" via email but when I went to install it there were all kinds of warnings with it, basically telling me "use this at your own risk, we are not vouching for this being reliable!" So I was rather afraid to do it.

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How To Remove Suspend?

Mar 23, 2008

I don't want suspend, it does not even work. I do how ever want Hibernate. My Question is how do i remove suspend?

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BLUESCREEN: Can I Remove

Jun 18, 2008

Vista Business Works six months no problem. Now, sometimes gives blue screen on startup. Shows hsxhwazl.sys. Sr. Google says it is a Conexent file for
56k modem, which I do not use. How can I safely disable?

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Can Not Remove Programs

Mar 23, 2008

I have been trying for a week unsuccessfully to remove programs from my computer. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit OS. Each time I try to uninstall a program it tells me that the system administrator has set policies to prevent this. Now I am the only one using this computer and I check and it shows that I am the administrator and there are no other accounts on this computer. Is there anyway to do this?

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Can Not Remove DdcDwwwW.dll

Apr 19, 2008

i can get to remove ddcDwwwW.dll wich in turn contacts some web server and downloads sevral other virus files. Tryied to remove it before internet was turn on but no luck. Got some files wich it downloads as soon as internet is there, but simply cant remove that host file. It slows down internet speed by 98% so online scanners cant reach it in time before it activated another entry for it.

And same with the virus program, since it is in the temp dir i tryied to only scan that dir but same result. When the scan was done after 5 sec for temp dir the file had made 112 new entrys linked to the file so it could not be removed. Every time u tries to simply delete it it makes some other crappy entry and resetts.. Virus program ref to utlrexue.dll and lvlpdtev.dll

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Remove A Virus?

May 15, 2010

1) It is not slowing down my computer or anythinbg. But whenever i plug USB stick into my computer and then remove it. There are 2 files created/ mIRC.exe i think.

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Remove Password?

Jan 11, 2010

My computer is running Vista Ultimate and is setup so that a password is required when it is powered on. Can I change that so I do not have to enter a password each time. Note: The computer is mine and I have the password. Would just to remove it
as I live alone and have no real need to password protect it at this point?

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Cannot Remove Fonts

Nov 27, 2008

I cannot remove a file called tahoma. I guess this is the font that Vista uses? I recently installed Left 4 Dead and later uninstalled it. There was one folder named fonts that didn't got deleted. It contained fonts like arial, verdana and tahoma. I managed to delete all of them in safe mode except tahoma.

I know that you shouldn't delete fonts that the system is using but there is something wierd because it's not in my "fonts folder" from the controlpanel. And the fonts that I deleted succefully (verdana and arial etc.) is still in that folder, tahoma is also there so that's why I'm guessing that I could delete that the tahoma font in my left 4 dead folder without it causing my system any problems.

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Remove Associated Programs?

Apr 24, 2008

In Windows Vista, are programs all tied in with each other as they are in XP? What I really mean is this: If I were to go to Vista, can I remove associated programs such as Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and/or other programs which just occupy space on my computer, but which I never use?

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Cant Remove The Menuline

Mar 29, 2008

after I uninstalled a Java Emulator, the menuline was stuck, in the sence that I can't remove it by going to Organise->Layout->Menuline.

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How To Remove The Virus From Pc

Aug 27, 2008

im aisha and im worried that my pc got lots of virus.. sometimes antivirus never detect some. one of the best ways to do is by using the command prompt.. i used to do it with flashdrives but i cant make it now.

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