Haven't Booted Into Ubuntu One Single Time
Jul 26, 2008
I do not like XP. With a passion. It blows, along with all the people clinging to it's rotting carcass. May they all die horrid putrid rotting deaths. Okay not really but you get that I don't care much for XP, right?. I've always used linux as long as I remember too (****e I've used everything over the years - Atari, Amiga, Commodore..), and I actually abandoned XP for Ubuntu, save for playing games. I love Ubuntu! But, I must say using Vista 64 now for about a month I actually *like it*. There are a bit of things Mac OS could stea.. err borrow. Like Readyboost. I found a 2 pack of PNY 4 gig drives on sale for $25 at staples a few weeks ago, so I snagged them to use for readyboost. It's fantastic, Firefox is loaded and displaying the home page before I even release the damn mouse button. ..................
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Oct 3, 2009
A word of warning if you're like me, own a Dell, Lenovo/IBM or HP notebook. Do not install any version, variation or anything related to Ubuntu on it. It WILL fulk your machine good and proper. The as-of-yet unfixed bug 43745343802 in Linux kernel for Ubuntu which corrupts the real-time clock, and causes your machine to boot simply with the message "Time-of-day clock stopped", leaving you unable to get into the BIOS, boot from external sources, or do anything even remotely useful with
your notebook - effectively bricking it. The fix? You can rip open your notebook and extract the CMOS battery, or call manufacturer to see how good warranty is. The awesome thing about that bug? It's in Dapper, as you can see.. but I just got it in.
Edgy, and according to the comments, it was there back in Breezy as well. The next cu**nt who even breathes Ubuntu in my presence will receive a punch in the face. Jesus fluking Christ. In my entire 23 year history of fluking with PC operating systems, not ONCE have I ever come across one capable of bricking your hardware. I'd like to support the Ubuntu developers, because from their mission statements and other crap, it sounds like they're trying to do the right thing - but folk me, a bug this serious possibly spans three releases and still isn't fixed? One that, to date, doesn't appear in other Linux distro's? Get your fluking act together!
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Aug 31, 2008
I recently went into Change Date & Time Internet time tab and chose a time standard to connect with. After doing that I went onto the internet and connected with time.nist.gov and checked the time. After that I was no longer able to go into the internet time tab. It tells me that time.nist.gov is the time connection and I can't change it. It tells me I need to have permission to do this as administrator. I am the administrator! What goes here?
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Apr 29, 2008
the main audience is "Vista" users. People who already spent a lot of money for an operating system, which they do want to use now. Ubuntu has a clear right of existence in it's area, but not in this group. If you like it better, fine. But don't try to spread your "religion" here when someone asks for help about a Vista problem.
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May 28, 2008
I'e been using my new PC with Windows x64 Ultimate SP1. I'm very happy with it, I haven't run into any problems with it and everything is running smoothly. I'd like to know what are the major tweaks I should do to improve performance even more. I'm concerned more about performance than anything. I've also noticed that there is a lot of disk access, even after shutting down the indexing service. Mainly, I'd like to know what services are safe to turn off. In XP I knew what to disable, in Vista a lot of things have changed. Also what is a good Pagefile size for a system with 8b of ram? I mostly use my PC for photo editing (Photoshop and Lightroom), and for playing a few games, Crysis and Live For Speed. I consider my hard fast enough, and it runs very fast for me. But I am the kind of person that wants to disable anything that I don't use to get that bit of extra performance.
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Mar 20, 2008
i have just moved from XP to Vista and i like most everything but Office , all i want to do is print but it just seems so complicated , it automatically goes to One Note , and to print something of the Internet say if you booked flights and you want to print the details again seems so complicated , it's i know probably i haven't configured properly but it's very frustrating with XP i just clicked print and that was it ,
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Sep 16, 2009
For the past two days, when my computer goes to sleep the screen resolution mysteriously changes, and when I wake it up I find it has gone from 1280x786 to 1680x1050 (highest possible, with tiny icons I can't see). I haven't changed any settings, haven't installed any updates or new programs: but something has gone wrong.
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Sep 1, 2009
why my notebook haven the msvbvm50.dll install? i brought last week. this is first time i using window vista then facing this problem. How can i get it and install it.
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May 24, 2008
I have a module that needs to attach to my vista x64 machine and I keep getting errors as i copied below. Asked for vendor help of the product and haven't gotten a response yet. how i can get the drivers into my system to make them work. See Below errors:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:Windowsdriver~1usbser.sys'.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName)
at X2FlasherInstallationWizard.Form1.CopyFiles()
at X2FlasherInstallationWizard.Form1.btnNext_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)....
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Jun 15, 2009
I've got my newsreader to re-read all newsgroups, but haven't found an (English) one for Windows 7. (I found microsoft.public.it.windows7(italian) point me to the English one?
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Dec 17, 2008
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Jul 31, 2008
When I try to play HalfLife 1 of 2, the program says that I haven't got enough memory. Now the problem is, I've got 6Gigs of memory, so that mustn't be the problem right? I think that the program doesn't work with so much memory. Is there a solution for this??
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Aug 8, 2008
I want to use my PS3 controller, aka my Sixaxis, on my computer. I know there are drivers for it, but I haven't found any for Vista x64.
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Aug 14, 2009
I booted vista and ran speedfan and It says my GPU temp is 0 degrees celsius. I thought, that can't be right, and I ran GPUZ and it says it is at 38 degrees. Is there a way I can get speedfan to say the actual temp? Because I would like to use speedfan
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Oct 30, 2009
The computer had been infected by some malicious software and it did not boot at all. After some tinkering I managed to get into safe mode and run MBAM. The computer eventually booted, but had no desktop. I went into the Task manager and saw that there was no Explorer process, so I started it and al was well. I then booted from the OS disc included with the PC, got into the repair screen that had sustem restore and restored the PC to a date before it got infected. This worked well and now the PC boot into Vista without any problems. I ran an antivirus and MBAM and neither detected any malware.
I thought all was well until I tried to connect to the Internet. I have cable service, a modem connected to a router and the PCs connected to the router. The Vista installation would not see anything out there, I tinkered and managed to get a message that said that there was "limited connectivity available". I figured that the LAN card's driver had been corrupted so I downloaded the driver and installed it. The installation was successful, but the problem persisted. I then went into Dev. manager and went into the card's properties. The status comment indicated that the device was working correctly. I noticed that there was another LAN device under the Network. It was the MS 6to 4 Adapter and there was anexclamation point next to it. I went into its properties and the remark indicated code 31.
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May 7, 2008
recently my computer crashed, and the next time i booted up, every file, folder, icon and shortcut now has a small tick box (check box) in the upper left corner. it doesn't make a lot of difference, however it is annoying and i dont know how to change it. also, when i click on the start menu, the are that usually shows all my recently used programmes is now a white blank box. whats happened? how do i fix this?
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Mar 23, 2008
I try to install windows vista 64 but after I booted from cd the system said cpu is not compatible 64 ( I am using windows xp 2002) what should I do?
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Mar 23, 2008
I am now dual booted Vista and XP. I want to move my email and Newsgroup to Vista. I now use Outlook Express in XP.
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Apr 22, 2008
i have been using winxp 64bit for the last 2 days . now today i booted into vista home prem 64bit and some of my drives are missing. dvd and 1 of my harddrives.i can see them when booting up the system and i can boot to the missing drive that has winxp 64bit installed on it but vista can't find them. also i tryed going into the disk management but it just sets there and will no longer list my drives. also my web brower will not work .. it just loads the page and then hangs there.if i try clicking on anything the page just starts to fade white and nothing happens. i have a copy of my Favorites on a flash drive and i can open the browser with one of them and it works fine. then if i close the browser and open it in the start menu again it works. i'm using avast antivirus and windows Defender and there both telling me the system is fine.
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Oct 18, 2008
I am running my laptop with a Nvidia geforce 8400GT graphics card. All of a sudden my Laptop restarted and when booting there is several rows of blue dots over the top. The laptop never gets to the log on page, it just restarts. I can get in on safe mode. I have deleted the drivers and reinstalled them System restore hasnt worked to top it all of for some reason i cant open my c: drive but i can open the contents in side, but i cant change any settings.
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May 13, 2008
measure the ReBoot-Time (restart time) for our systems. You can see how to here: How to See What Your Boot Up Time is in Vista
Here's my ReBoot-Time:
Running Processes: 41
Started Services: 36
Automatic logon
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Jun 17, 2009
I have an Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard in my home theater system. I just upgraded the CPU (to X4) & BIOS (to 2302). My initial problem after the upgrade was the BSOD in 32-bit Vista blaming the file "amdlld.sys." I booted into safe mode and renamed the amdlld.sys file. Now the machine boots up fine with no BSOD. My question is: is there any Microsoft Vista 32bit system files needed for the new X4 that I need to install? (the AMD website only shows processor drivers for Windows XP and Server 2003. . .but nothing for Vista) The reason I ask: while my system appears to be working fine. . .the Winrar benchmarks do not reflect the scores of a typical AMD quad core CPU (about 1350). Instead, I am getting around 350. Something is missing here. But what?
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Oct 13, 2009
Is it wise to have more than 1 antispyware program performing real-time protection at one time?
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Mar 29, 2008
We are using Dell laptops while travelling or at field offices.
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locations. That is quite a hassle. Is there better ways to do this?
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Mar 23, 2008
Just loaded Vista Ultimate 32 bit and when I try to join a ranked server in BF2 I get booted because punkbuster has inadequate operating system privileges. Does anyone know the work around? I tried turning off the firewall and running in compatibility mode (win xp)
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Mar 23, 2008
I've got an Sony VGN-BX197XP laptop that I've upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate. Since then I've encountered some strange display-related issues:
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2) When not running in Aero mode I can't get the Windows Media Player to play video files, nor get a Perfomance Index.
3) If I plug in an external monitor I can't get a picture on the laptop monitor but I *do* get a picture on the external monitor and it runs Aero 100% of the time. It will also play video files and give me a performance index.
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Aug 6, 2008
Recently I have bought Vista Home Premium x64 and to be honest I am having quite annoying issue with this OS . I had installed Vista on RAID0 partition. Additionally I have three other sata drives for my data . I noticed that from time to time when I am working on vista , system freeze for 2-3 sec then everything is fine and I can continue work. Particulary when for example I am opening some application or even windows explorer , my computer etc. (when it hangs I can't move my mouse). Moreover when it freeze I "hear" something inside my computer case as if my computer weak up from hibernation.
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Aug 20, 2009
Im in vista 64 bit. I was trying to install a licence for Cubase and was getting a time, calendar error. I look and everything is on time to the second hand on my wall. But for the hell of it, I tryed syncing it to all the availible servers but got: "An error occured while Windows was synchronizing with whatever.server" However I can ping the servers in comand prompt. And also, like the topic says, It still keeps perfect time. It set it's own time. So Im clueless. A bios thing perhaps?
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Jun 4, 2009
I should create a DVD that contains Windows PE 2.1 and Vista SP1 and make sure that Windows PE is always started when I do boot from this DVD.
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Apr 1, 2009
Using Windows Vista, how do I remote desktop to a Windows Server 2008
computer running terminal services in single user mode?
(I know how to remote desktop to my Windows Server 2008 computer running
terminal services. I don't know about the single user mode).
Apparently, I'm not in single user mode, because the remote desktop shows
the Vista theme, but not the full Aero experience.
Reference: Introducing Windows Server 2008, by Mitch Tulloch, Microsoft
Press. Page 196, about half way down.
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Mar 4, 2009
Vista Home Premium SP1. Is it possible to use more than one device in a single USB port? The reason I ask is that I have five USB ports, four at the back and one at the front. As the one at the front is more accessible, I use this for a Joystick I occasionally use. Can I also use this same port for another device, in this case an MP3 player, not at same time?
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