so i used flashget to download a game patch and then tried running it it got to the bit were vista ask you weather to allow or cancel. so i cliked allow then nothing happens. any1 know wat to do?
View 4 RepliesToday, I've re-installed Vista about 4 freakin times from scratch. Every time, I have setup my network (not installing any drivers) and download these two apps: VMWARE Workstation 6.5.0 (full version, not pirated, etc), and Alchohol 52%. Every time I install Alcohol 52% and restarted my computer, it would always go into an endless loop, or give me the Blue Screen of Death. On Alchohol's website, it said that it is 100% Vista compatible. I know that it is, because I've installed it on Windows 7 and in Windows Vista (vmware install) before. When I install Ubuntu Linux, however, I get no BSOD's. Alchohol runs perfectly under WINE (hahaha). Vista sucks. 4 times. Called M$ and they said (in other words, obviously), that they don't give a crap what runs under vista.
yes, i've right-clicked, run as admin, etc, all vista sh*** that we need to do to install a program. So, 4 BSOD's in one day. M$. Windows Vista; A life without walls. yeah, right.
I am trying to install Works 4.0 to a compter with Vista Home premium, and I get a message that says " can't open setup exe. file." Is Works 4.0 compatible with Vista?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi just bought bioshock for PC a new copy and for some reason every single time i try installing it it asks me for permision for setup.exe to run it and then setup.exe just stops working. I dont know what to do i mean i have all the minimum requirements i just dont know what to do.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Microsoft Office 2003 and I keep getting the following error message: Error 1913. Setup cannot update file C:Windowswin.ini. Verify that the file exists exists in your system and that you have sufficient permissions to update it. I have tried to open the cd and run it as an administrator and that did not work either. Since this is a new laptop, the trial version for 2007 was installed but i believe i removed it. I know this was a post long ago but I still can not get this to work. SP1 is installed on this laptop.
View 4 Replies View Relatedtoday I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450 Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday?
I'm thinking drop the DVDBlu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC?
I am having trouble installing iTunes on windows vista 32bit. It downloads ok but when i try to run it error msg is 'itunes setup is not a valid win 32 application' i have checked and version 8 iTunes should be compatible with vista. I can't even install quicktime.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIt has been years, we have been transferring files between our home PCs and Laptops in our home network. But as we updated our Laptop with Vista SP1 & SP2, the network has become a one way only. We can transfer files to the rest of the network PCs, but the Vista Laptop does not let us in. We do see it listed in our network.
We had to re-format the laptop drive and as we loaded the Vista back again, we were able to transfer files two way, but as the SP1 and SP2 update was loaded, file transfer has become one way only. Did go through the setup on the Laptop drive as we did before. What are we missing in SP1 & SP2 updates?
I am trying to help someone running Vista Home Premium setup his network to share files and folders with his XP Home laptop. Oddly enough, there are no share options AT ALL. No share buttons or no share options in the context menus -- NOTHING. We've named the network and simply went out to share a printer (which we have the option to share) but it turns itself off. Same in Network and Sharing Center. We turn the options ON and then turn themselves OFF. We've done all the rebooting, etc. and still no go. I have gone through all the disabling of the UAC and ownership and permissions, et. al. but, can't get anywhere without the SHARE OPTION being available. Is his install of Windows Vista Home Premium broken or needing to be reinstalled? Could that be the problem? Could it have been setup improperly? I have successfully done this before on my Vista Business computer and my XP Pro laptop and although i did have a few 'permission' problems, they were at least workable.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any tool to unpack a file within an MSI file without actually installing it? I tried to rename the MSI file to cab and zip, but I couldn't see the files
inside.
I did exactly the following steps to get this error:
Pre-requisites:
1) Windows XP Pro (installed on Hard drive C)
2) Two hard drives (C and D)
Steps:
1) Bootup computer with Vistax64 DVD
2) Choose Install Now option
3) Select C Drive
4) Format C Drive
5) Complete installation on C Drive
6) Install drivers from Gigabyte CD for LAN, Sound, SATA drivers, etc
7) Attempt to access hard drive D
Can't access hard drive D, even though it was never touched by anyone. Everytime I double click I get the error message: "D: is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." Note: The HDD is not dying, its brand new and was accessed literally an hour ago without any problems. All my important documents are in there, I need to recover them. I have an external HDD ready, but cannot access the drive!
What happens when you attempt to install Windows 7 on a drive with NTFS version 1.2 (or some earlier version... like 1.3, etc)? Does it alter the file system? Any way to force Win7 to use the older file system? I'm hoping for performance improvements due to less features in older NTFS, but I know little on the topic.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am wonderinig if somewhere hidden in windows vista there is a setup file for the vista OS. back in the days of my win98 pc if It started to run slow or malfunction often, I would just run windows setup. I dont know where I found it but it was there on my hard drive back then. I have searched my vista pc but have not found it. I remember rerunning setup for windows 98 was a cure all. and made my pc fast as new again, It would even work with all my programs still installed. could I get it off a borrowed vista DVD? or is it somewhere on my hard drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a livensed version of Office 2007 Home and Student. I would like to burn a copy of the setup DVD to send to my son in an other town. Is that possible? And if so how?
I'd assume it to be legal as it can be installed on 3 computers.
How does everyone set their fans up for the best maximum airflow? Here is my computer case: Newegg.com - Rosewill R6426-P BK ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases Here is my CPU cooler: Newegg.com - ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - CPU Fans & Heatsinks
I changed the stock fan that came with the case for a better 80mm fan, which is blowing inwards towards my cpu fan. I have the CPU fan turned so that the back fan is blowing into the back of the fan on the heatsink, so all airflow is coming from the back, through the heatsink towards the front of the case. I had to remove the duct from the side of the tower because the CPU cooler is so freakin' tall it is literally a 1.25" from the wall. So placing a fan in the duct's place is also pretty hard. The other available spot on the side panel also has an 80mm, which i'll upgrade to a 120mm fan. This fan blows inward towards my HUGE video card to try and keep that cool. I also removed all of the front aluminum panels (the ones which are removable when you place in a cd/dvd rom, which helps the air from the back to be blown through the front. Since the cd/dvd rom covers on the case are perforated, air blows through them nicely.
I wish to UPGRADE (not clean install) my vista ultimate to win 7 ultimate.I put the win 7 (full version) DVD in my computer, setup ran and told me to remove Kaspersky anti-virus.I removed Kaspersky anti-virus and did the requested re-boot.
Now when I put the win 7 DVD in, setup does not run. When I try to double click on the DVD drive in explorer I get a readme text file and that's all.Trying to run: d:setup.exe in the run command on the start menu and at a command prompt does not work either.
I can boot from the DVD but that is only for a clean install, which I don't want to do.
what exactly is RAID MODE. i mean i have seen it in my BIOS and all. can u guys check my HDD and see if it supports a RAID SETUP. i heard you can get better ratings with RAID. right now it is just hooked up via sata cable. Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2 monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or training. I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a new video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card. If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to consider?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy Vista Ultimate SP2 originally was setup from a variation slimmed by vlite. WMC was completely left out. Now I want to add WMC, while preserving the system as it grew within 3 years. No fresh install. An installation DVD or iso image are at hand. What workaround will do the job?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest OS first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't run on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost of uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it. I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from
View 4 Replies View RelatedI published a application i made with vb2005 express edition, zipped it up with winzip and emailed to my friend who is using vista x64. Whilst doing the extraction process vista is deleting the setup.exe but not the other files in the zipped file. I have successfully done this on at least 5 other vista machine and have not had this issue before. He is logged in on the only account according to him which is the admin account. How can we overcome this security flaw?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe only weird thing about Trillian is I can't get it to set up with Skype and MSN Messenger. I typed in the correct info, but still isn't showing up my contacts/friends names in the window.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to setup the UAC so that it will allow designate programs without getting the very irritating pop up window, or program crash that occurs in some cases where the window doesn't pop up. I have tried just turning it off, but it appears Defender turns it right back on again.
I suppose the next step is to turn off Defender.
I understand why this security feature exists, but it gets to be extremely irritating. The most irritating part of it, is that some times I don't get the pop up window and the program I am trying to run simply crashes, or doesn't run correctly The crash is normally a hint to go and run the program specifically as the administrator. Sometimes the error is more deeply imbeded in program or system files and takes for ever to try and find out what the problem is.
I use Acronis backup software which always ran with no problems until one of the more recent Vista x64 updates, then it simply said that it ran but errors were encountered. After pouring over the log files in Acronis, I found that it couldn't run the backup because it didn't have the rights to access the backup drive.
So now things can't be scheduled and I have to run it manually.
There are times when the security features become a real burden. I hope this issue is fixed with Windows 7.
I have an issue with Vista SP1 installing (No seriously! Nobody else having the issue, right??). It gets through 100% of stage 3 of 3, then after a minute or two says the "Setup did not complete. Reverting changes." message. Before the Microsoft super wizard got on the phone with me, I had already done a memory scan, chkdisk, scannow, file cleanup, defrag, nothing helped (I have Home Premium, and I do have the two required updates installed as well). When he connected to my computer, he tried to install right off the bat (a stupid thing to do, considering I wouldn't be calling if I didn't have the issue) and it of course failed. Then after checking to make sure no antivirus etc was active (which I uninstalled the day before) he disabled all non-Microsoft services from startup and disabled my TV card, sound card and graphics card, then tried again. Still didn't install. Lastly he installed some kind of tool from Microsoft's update site and tried to install SP1 again, this time from the standalone 500+mb version. No luck.
He scheduled a call today between 3 and 5pm from one of their research and developement team members to get deeper into the problem, but do any of you have any ideas what's going on?
Here is my computer and it's specs: ...
I am trying to boot from one of my Setup Partitions. i am trying to boot from a partition containing Windows Xp 64-bit Install Files and later a partition with Windows 7 Install Files. i have deleted all the Setup Partitions except the Windows Xp one which is being a Bi*ch and won't allow me to delete it.
1. Created ISO Image Windows Xp and downloaded Windows 7 build 7100
2. In Disk Management Shrink 2 Volumes on main HDD with OS (Vista) 1 being Setup Files Shrink to 700MB and OS shrink too 7GB
3. Opened cmd and input diskpart, list volume, select volume y (Setup Xp), active, exit, then xcopy Etc.
when i rebooted i would get a bootmgr missing error and thus using my Windows Vista disc to repair. i have be doing something wrong here as i am still new to this dual booting stuff.
I would like to setup a VPN so that i can share my home videos and pictures with my family across the state. I would like to be able to setup a network drive so that vista media center can monitor it. This way we could turn on vista and browse to the vids or pics and see what is new. This would save a lot of hassle of emailing them all the time. We all have the same dynamic isp, routers and Vista proff or ultimate. So i'm thinking that if i can get 2 computers to work like i want over a VPN then i'll have no problem with the rest of the families computers. I have used Cisco to successfully setup a vpn across country using one computer with vista and the other with xp. Is vista's vpn setup similar to cisco's? Is Vista capable of creating what i described above?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm kinda a great gamer and when i download demos to test incoming games, i try running their setup and it takes a lot of time to start. About 2-3 minutes of waiting before asking if i want to open the file because it was downloaded from the internet (just with the demos i downloaded from the net, sure), and another 2-3 minutes to ask for permission to open it (the account security control or something like that). Then the task appears in Task Manager under "process" tab but it has only 64 kb of ram and it remains that way for another 4-5 minutes. Finally it starts (after about 12-15 minutes total), it installs and here's another problem. When the progress bar arrives to the end, it takes about 10 minutes to tell me installation was completed (during these 10 minutes installation does not busy the cpu at all). This problem occures only with setups, but not only with game's setups, with program's setups too.
I know there's not such a big problem "at least they install", but it's kinda annoying waiting about 25-30 minutes total to play a damn demo or to install a program.Has anyone had that problem? How can i fix it? Here there are my specs (it's an HP laptop, 6730s):
Intel Core 2 Duo T5670 @ 1.80 ghz, 4 mb L2 Cache
2 GB Ram
Intel Mobile 4 Series 128 Mb own ram, 796 total
HDD 150 GB (about 42,8 free at this moment)
Antivirus: Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit.
Since I upgrading my BIOS (Phoenix technologies) V1.7 to V1.8, I can no = longer access the BIOS SETUP UTILITY MENU. NOTE: the notebook is working fine, I can access the F2 boot and F8 = advance boot menu. When I press F10 I get the following;
Edit windows boot options for: Microsoft Windows Vista
Path:windowssystem32win load.exe
Partition:2
Hard Disk: 5c9d3909
ENOEXECUTE=3DOPTOUT
MODEL: ACER ASPIRE 5735-4774. Vista. HP. 32. SP2
I don=E2=80=99t have a backup, how to I get the SETUP UTILITY,=20. I want to upgrade to ultimate this is holding my back.
I can't figure out how to set up dual boot with two complete, but seperate drives already running respective OS's fine.. I had two seperate HD's, one with XP, one with Vista Ult. already on them. I want to be able to dual-boot these but all I can find is setting up dual boot when installing one or the other (Vista w/XP already on or XP w/Vista already on). I have EasyBCD on hand.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an XP desktop with printer installed and want my Vista Laptop to be able to use the desktop's printer. Can someone please give me some insight?
View 5 Replies View Relatedyou all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. First I have two HDD's both are IDE and split in half, one is WD 250 gig with WinXP on it the other is a WD 160 gig with Win 7 RC on it. My MB is an MSI K9 with only 1 IDE socket so I have a PCI card that add's 2 more. If I have it right to make it a dual boot all I have to do is:
1. Connect the WinXP drive and the Win 7 drive one to the IDE and one on the PCI card and run the Win 7 setup disk to repair and create the dual boot.
2. Or do I have to reload the Win 7.