Use The Home Premium Edition That Came With The HP Computer
May 20, 2009
I have an HP Pavilion PC with Vista Home Premium installed on it. The Motherboard went bad just out of warranty so I purchased a new Gigabyte Motherboard with an almost identical chipset as the old. However it is different enough that after a system restore, Vista hangs about halfway and says to call HP support as the there has been a hardware change (Code Purple). HP did not include a Vista CD Install disk, so I have to use the HP system restore image on the hidden partition.
I Hit F6 and tried safe mode, and all other options I see on the menu but evidently the Motherboard are different enough that the standard Evidently the HP Restore Image does not provide generic drivers for the new MB so the system hangs at just before it get to the login screen. Is there any way to make this work? If not will HP allow me to get a copy of Vista Home Premium , I have the Product code and all, and I am the legal registered owner. Hope there is a workaround. PS: I do have a copy of a Vista Business CD Install disk I could use, but I want to use the Home premium edition that came with the HP computer.
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May 18, 2008
I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and am encountering a problem using Microsoft's own Automatic Backup. I have been using running backups weekly now for many months with no problems. Except for the initial full backup, this weekly backup has only taken approx. 20-30% of a DVD. However, since I have fully installed "The Orange Box," my weekly backup now takes 2 full DVD's.
Even though, backup does NOT backup any temp files & does NOT back up programs, I am forced to do such a big backup because this gaming software does constant updates whenever I go online. I don't want or need to backup these game settings and updates, but I can't see any way to tell my backup software to ignore these files. The only solution I have for now is to disable automatic backups.
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Can anybody tell me How can I install vista 64 home premium?
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Request MVP advice.
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I've just got this Error for a few days and tried so many ways to solve it, but it seems to be useless.
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: patcher_1.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 49055f74
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a783
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00023592
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1573
Additional Information 2: 8174477e3f239fdb2eb28590ffa32700
Additional Information 3: f1c9
Additional Information 4: f7c0aa8817dca409d416936c036f5b41
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On the first day, i tried to reinstall windows and install this software again. [ Still that error]. The next nay, i tried to install this software on my laptop. [ Still it]. And after checking CMD, i tried on both of mine. [ still it ] The last day, tried to download that software again and reinstall it. [ still the same ] i spent 3 days to find out what's going on! But nothing's gonna change or be better!
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The installation on XP SP3 with IE7 had no effect at all. IE7 behaved perfectly normally.
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Q2: Can I install the ASP.NET runtime environment on top of this also?Is it stable?
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