I wanted to order the Windows Vista x64 DVD that already had SP2 on it since the media I have is a version of Vista without any service pack on it which has the memory bug where Vista has issues installing on systems that have over 2GB of RAM.
I should have ordered the media when I saw it on the page, because now if you follow that link, you get redirected to...
Windows Vista home page
Which pretends to be about Vista, but shoves 7 in your face. But anyway, I'd like to know if anyone knows where that page went? I desperately need this Vista x64 with SP2 media, as my Win7 beta will begin to expire soon, and I'm not ready to upgrade to 7 just yet. TIA. :-)
A bit ago a person on here said they were able to upgrade their academic vista ultimate 32bit from their school to the 64bit version through the alternate media order. HOW? I have tried and it says offer not found. I have a copy now of 32bit vista that is doing me no good at all since I have 4gigs of ram and a 64bit processor.
I purchased the business version of vista from Windows marketplace, then I performed an anytime upgrade to Ultimate, now I would like to change to vista 64 but I don???t have a disk and I am not sure that my current key will work. I called Microsoft about obtaining alternate media (64 bit disk) however they informed me that I couldn???t get a dish through the alternate media plan because I bought from marketplace and not a retail canter. This is nuts to me. There must be some reasonable way to get a 64 bit disk in which my key will work without purchasing an entirely new version of vista. I mean dang I paid a ton for this, and now with me still playing fair they won't send me a 64 bit disk or let me purchase one for a minimal fee. Surely there must be some avenue I have over looked.
Whenever I click the link to open an online radio station windows media player within internet explorer just says Ready - it doesn't even begin to buffer and doesn't play at all. Has anyone else experienced this recently?
Can anyone tell me if Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition will run on Vista? I tried posting this question on the Windows Media discussion forum, but can't get the website to work. Used this program mainly for the analogue recording facitility (to copy tapes, minidiscs, records to my PC), so even if Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition doesn't work, does anyone know of an alternative?
I have a problem again, I hope the last. I have always clicked on my songs and windows media player opened automatically. Now I click and double click the files and WM player doesn't open. Only when I go to All programs and open WM player from that directory it opens and everythings seems ok, but it must open automatically when I click on my music don't know what is the problem if there is any.
But I just want to be sure that selling it unformatted would be safe. For instance, I am planning on making a new admin account on the computer, and from there I am going to delete the CURRENT admin account which I'm using now, by going to control panel > users/accounts > (admin account name) > Delete (would you like to keep account files? Answer: No).
And the buyer who will recieve the laptop will have access to the newly created account, and there will be no other account on the computer besides maybe the guest account (and another wierd Admin account that is somehow above all and I never used before) and I would have deleted this account via the control panel....am I safe after having done this? Meaning can the buyer still somehow recover private information (saved passwords, files, etc.) after I've deleted my account?
Reason I'm asking is, this computer already has the Dell drivers and downloads installed to make it as good as it is...and if I format with a Windows Vista CD, everything will be lost and I have to re-download drivers etc. It just makes the computer more valuable when selling.
For reasons that I have yet to determine, my current computer is killing motherboards. I am assuming it is a virus so my friend is going to do a virus scan from his MAC to make sure my hard drive is clean. I decided to order a new HP (my current computer was home-built with the assistance from an IT savvy friend). To be more specific, it's model M8430F from best buy. Now for my question: Assuming my hard drive is not the root cause for the motherboard failure, it has XP and some 3D design programs that I use on it. I'm a little nervous about using Vista on the new computer to run these programs. Therefore I was wondering if I can install my current hard drive (SATA) into my new computer (HP M8430F) which is Vista based.
I'm not 100% computer na?ve? although it makes sense in my head that I should be able to boot from either hard drive I understand that there's a lot that I DON?T understand and therefore am posting here.
New computer with Vista Hard drive from old computer with XP = Can I install XP hard drive and choose to boot from it when I want to use specific programs currently installed on it?
I got a virus which I was successfully able to remove from my system but now Windows Media Player doesn't work. Clicking yes just takes me to their website where there isn't a version of WMP for Vista, only for XP. From what I've found there isn't a way to reinstall WMP for Vista. Is there a way to repair this error?
I have a Hotmail account that I never use and for years not one single email, spam or otherwise has arrived. I sign up for Windows 7 and now the account is flooded with spam.
I have several contacts in my Windows Mail Contacts that I have mutiple e-mail addresses set up. (Using Vista). When I start typing the contact name in the "Send" window, only the "Preferred" e-mail shows up. How can I select their alternate e-mail address in the "Send" window?' I have tried right clicking and just about everyting else. There must be an easy way to bring up a list of all the e-mails in a contact (both preferred and the others) so I can then select which one or ones to send the message to.
I am running SP1 64-bit. I am an experienced Windows user and Vista has been working fine for >1 year. In the last couple of weeks I suddenly lost the ability to paste. If I cut or copy a string (browser, notepad, whatever) and try to paste it (CTRL+V) all that comes out is a single blank space! This seems like a very basic problem but I searched the forum and could not find a similar issue.
I installed "Go Back" to my new laptop (Windows Vista Home Premium 64) and now the laptop isn't able to boot anymore. (it starts booting and then it stops when GoBack starts running, GoBack errors: Internal error - press any key to reboot) So I can't boot Windows to unistall this program. (Now I figured out it's not compatible to Vista...)
I am having a prob getting my printer to work on the remote laptop of a 2 station home net. Printer is HP 8050 Photosmart,I have a HP 6230n desktop with a lynksys wireless router installed on the desktop,running Vista Home Prem.The laptop(remote comp has Vista Home basic.On both mach I have done the foll-In net and sharing center turned on-Net discovery,file sharing,Public folder sharing and on the desktop turned on printer sharing.On the laptop I cant install the pri nter When I do try to install printer I am getting a print spooler error-print spooler in services shows that it is running(on the desktop have restarted both machines and the printer to no avail.This did work last week but had a hard drive failure and HP sent me a new one to install.Thus I am trying to reconfigure the whole desktop again.The network name is the same on both comp-in view computer and devices both mach show with the router.
I can print from the desktop and have downloaded the proper drivers to the PC.
Is MS selling Vista Business anymore? I go on the Windows Catalog website and I can't find it being offered.
I have a perfectly functioning Win XP SP3 laptop. I've heard both sides of the upgrade issue.
1. Where can I buy Windows Vista Business? I don't want to get it from some unreputable vendor. Will the version I buy contain the latest SP's? 2. My XP was OEM, does that cause major issues when upgrading to Vista? 3. I ran the Vista upgrade advisor and it states my laptop will handle Vista if a do a few tasks first. Are the other resources regarding upgrading to Vista on the web?
If I try to right click and do "new->shortcut" on either desktop or in explorer, nothing happens at all and I do not know why.
Posts on other forums suggest there is something wrong with how vista works with .lnk attribute but I cant make any sense of it. And I will not try out the registry hack that is suggested as I do not know what it does.
My only hope atm is if any of you are familiar with the very same issue and know a way to correct this behaviour.
My computer: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 AMD 64bit. I am aware of the two folder for program files, but this scrn shot(attachment) will explain it more.. My "Program Files (x86)" folder is not showing up in my C drive list, it is still there, but not appearing any ideas? I think other folders are not showing as well..
when opening Windows Live Mail on my laptop it started diectly receiving mail. a few days ago, I noticed that i couldn't send and receive anymore. Windows Live mail is trying to connect.... constantly. After 60 seconds a little window appears with: The server SMTP did't react for 60 seconds. Do you want to wait for teh server another 60 seconds?
I had successfully installed win xp pro on my pre-installed vista home computer.
When I used to boot up, I had the option of selecting one of those 2 OS. I begun having problems with xp pro so I "repaired" it using my xp pro cd. Now, I can't boot into either OS. Please help. I have tinkered with the MBR, FIXMBR, FIXBOOt commands but can't get anything to work. All I get when I boot up is the selection of Keyboards, language and then I get a menu of options such as Repair startup, Memory diagnostics, Recovery (to factory settings) etc., I don't have vista dvd since it came pre-installed on my computer.
I do have xp but am afraid of re-installing xp pro since I have documents on borh drives (each drive contains its own operating system).
For example, my c drive contains vista, (d is recovery on the same hard drive) and xp pro is on a separate physical drive.
I can see that both drives have windows on them but I am unable to boot. I have managed to get vistaboot pro but can't seem to run it.
I did have my operating system set up on "Classic" setting to resemble Windows XP and when it was set that way anytime I slid the memory card from my camera in it would pop up the pictures in a new folder in my already existing software I store pictures in. All I needed to do from there were to highlight and drag them into another folder and delete the pictures out of the folder they popped up in...thus emptying the memory card from my camera. Since I have switched the look back to Vista appearance (Vista Home Premium) now I have to go thru Start, Computer, and then click on the drive to open the pictures on the memory card. I also have to manually open my picture editing software manually and drag the pics from the temp folder to my regularly used software to move the pictures. What changed just by changing the appearance of the operating system and how do I get it back without changing the whole appearance back to the "classic" look?
For some reason Vista now does not show any previews of pictures; pictures saved on my desktop are now only shown as icons and not the picture, same goes for every folder in the computer and for video files as well.
I have this remote control,I just re-installed VIsta Ultimate, and now this remote control is not working anymore.. it was working fine before I did the re-install..it comes w/no driver, so short of disconnecting and connecting the transmitter again to a USB port not sure what more I can do.. it used to work fine not just with Windows Media Center but also with Rhapsody and other stuff, now it does not work at all... I just put new batteries in it... when I press a button on the remote the green light on the remote goes on and the red light on the transmitter also goes on.. so it's definitely not a battery problem..
(I know there's another, more specialized ng for this question in microsoft.public.windows.vista hierarchy, but I'm posting thru google now and can't find that group (posting thru google for now b/c also have not been able to retrieve all prefs/info (i.e., passwords) for my news client (Thunderbird).
I was using Microsoft Outlook Express as my mail client. Then Microsoft advised users to update to Windows Mail since they no longer supported Outlook Express..so I did. Now Microsoft is directing users to install Microsoft LIVE Mail? What is the difference between Microsoft Mail (which I am running) and Microsoft LIVE Mail....and, why would a user run LIVE over MAIL?
Media center keeps popping up, I have not been able to find a way to disable it, so that I can use the program only when I want. It is very tiresome to keep have it. open when ever I pop a cd or dvd in to my drive. I would like some control over which program I use to view/listen to the media I have, and not have one pop up automatically.
I'm new to vista and i'm just wondering...just media center require media player to work? If not is it possible to remove wmp11? On that note, is it also possible to remove IE7? As I am a devoted Firefox user
how do i add more channels? i've only 7 in my media center showcase (i do not use tv tuner card ) adding content to the Online Media media center online media vista?
