I have a Toshiba X505-Q830 and it came with Windows 7-64 bit, I play Counter-Strike competitively and the mouse acceleration could not be removed which completely ruined my ability to play the game. So I popped in my copy of Windows Vista-64 bit and formatted and installed. Now my laptop is without the proper drivers for the internet and I have searched high and low for them but nothing is working.
View 5 RepliesI've noticed some files on my hard drive and the Windows folder is reported as being created in 2006.Since 2006 I have formatted my hard drive 3 times using the Vista setup.I know for a fact that the last time I formatted and reinstalled was January 2009. Can someone explain why these files and the Windows folder shows an earlier date?? When selecting the Format command during setup does Windows actually remove everything form the hard drive? I have noticed that the format doesn't take very long, at least not half as long as it used to with earlier versions of Windows. If Windows doesn't actually remove everything form one's hard drive
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn November I upgraded my system with Vista Ultimate. When it was returned to me I followed each prompt and did everything during installation it asked of me. Now 5 months later is states that I need to validate. I guess whatever was running on my system was temporary. Does anyone know that if I purchase a new product key this will solve my issue or do I have to purchase a full version? If I do have to purchase a full version can it be installed over my already installed and running vista on my system?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi bought an acer notebook then i formatted it but i didnt have recovery cd so i downloaded all drivers. then i used it 1 month the cd i used for format was copy but i had product key on my notebook. now when i open my notebook it wants product key and when i write mine it doesnt accept. what can i do?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just added two new 1TB My Book external USB 2.0 hard drives to my system. They come formatted and partitioned, but it is formatted FAT32, all of my other drivers are NTFS and so I went in to the Windows Vista disk management tool (sorry I don't remember what it is actually called but it allows you to see all of your drives, partitions, etc.) to do a quick format to NTFS. However, it seems to be taking hours to do this.
I am guessing and this is my question. Am I right in assuming that the reason this is not a quick format is because it is having to do a full format in order to convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS? How long should it take to format a 1TB drive?
I have decided to leave the forums because I will no longer be using Windows Vista. My MEDION laptop is going to be re-formatted, re-partitioned and under control of Windows XP. I already have an idea of how its done but would like to know everyones reccomendations. NOTE: For no reason will I keep Windows Vista, so please do not sway my determination to use Windows XP! I will however, want to keep the Windows Vista recovery drive in case Windows XP doesn't work, because I have a recovery disk for the recovery drive partition.
View 9 Replies View RelatedLooking for help with some email docs that I have received in vista format. They include labels & excel spreadsheets. Is it possible to convert them somehow to enable me to print them out from Windows 2003 or 2007? I asked the sender to save them as Windows 1997-2003 format & resend them but even then when I try to print those out the label setup is altered.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just recently uninstalled windows 7 on my gateway MD series laptop I was dual booting with vista usually when i started up it would get a screen that asked me which OS i wanted to startup...then i deleted windows 7 via disk manager i formatted the drive now when i start up i still get the thing asking me which OS to startup even after it is already deleted it is a very annoying problem
View 6 Replies View RelatedRecently this unit is not recognising pre-recorded or formatted discs which it previously had recognised. I have a HP laptrop and the drive is a matshita DVD-RAM UJ-850S ATA. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the driver with no success. In one of the forums it is suggested that the 'UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters" in the HKEY registry be deleted but I am not sure about doing this without someone in the know gives it their OK.
View 5 Replies View RelatedBrand new PC with an OEM copy of windows vista basic purchased with PC. MBO is an Intel? D945GCL, 1 GB ram, 40 GB SATA hard drive (new, no partitions set, unformatted) No modem at this point . . .I insert the DVD ROM into my drive and get the installing files screen (squares filling along bottom of screen) That seems to go well. then I get a Microsoft logo along the bottom of the screen with dots moving along the bottom. After a few minutes the screen goes completely dark, and I see nothing, after a few seconds the DVD ROM drive (which has slowed after loading the files) stops completely. Then the computer sits there doing nothing. The monitor is still on (not in standby) but nothing else is happening.
On the off chance the HD has a problem I put another 40GB sata drive in that was blank, but partitioned and formatted on another system.Exact same symptoms. keyboard seems normal the Num Lock LED turns on and off so the system isn't locked solid
I upgrade my notebook to Vista and the video drive automatic installed by Vista is RADEON XPRESS 200M (WDDM), version 7.14.10.8333. When I try to install the version 8.5 (from the ATI site) nothing happens. If I force to install the new drive, Vista Update still inform the best drive is the older, and the CCC (Catalyst control center) still not installed.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an eSATA drive formatted NTFS from my XP installation. Drive works fine from either XP or Linux (multi-boot machine) I had previously tried Vista on the machine but it saw the eSATA drive as unformatted. Gave the message "Do you want to format this drive?"
Very dangerous as an unknowing person may have actually formatted the drive and lost all their data. Interestingly enough, any time I've tried to access the drive, Vista ran a chkdsk on it at the next boot up. CHKDSK from Vista saw it fine and reported no errors. but could not read the drive once booted to the desktop. I eventually gave up on Vista and just did a Win7 install yesterday.
How can I tell if my computer has had Vista SP1 installed?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have run Windows XP on my system since 2004. I have been running 2GB of system RAM through 4x512 Corsair valueselect memory sticks. I attempted to install Vista Business on Monday and the system would never get to the point where it would ask to create the user account without going into a reboot loop that I couldn't get out of (even in safe mode). After removing and replacing hardware, the only thing that would solve the problem was to remove 2 of the 512 sticks and leaving the RAM at 1GB. Now after vista is installed, I can't put the RAM back without having the reboot loop return. Does know how I can get Vista to recognize my other 1GB without getting all mad and throwing a temper tantrum?....
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan anyone tell me the best and easiest way to re-install Vista which was pre-installed on my PC when purchased. I'd like to re-install because of performance problems. I have the business edition.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAt the moment it runs XP pro (Very well i might add!) but my friend insists on wanting Vista ultimate installed instead. I have shown him the rig with XP running but he is not convinced! So before he rushes out and buys a copy, i would like to get some "Real world" opinions on vista ultimate on this hardware. (just so i dont get a ear full of abuse if its slow as a snail!)
View 9 Replies View RelatedCan the MRC be installed on a Vista machine?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy LAN is not detected after installed VISTA in my system. finding LAN driver.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was sent a win7 CD by a vauchure given with my Qompack laptop. If anybody did this upgrade, how is it done please, scared in case I mess Vista for which I have no CD.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've been having a problem since I installed Vista on my laptop. I had to manually install some drivers and I don't know if I installed them all correctly. Anyway, I've been having this error/bluescreen:..........
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering why Vista Forums, suggests not to install CCleaner? It is in your Speed Up Vista Tutorial. Is their a reason for this?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have problem with HP Deskjet 450 under Vista Home Premium. Printer is installed by Vista, everything looks ok, but i can't print. When i want to print Test page, only row of 2-20 smilies is coming out in best case and print job shows error . When i ask HP, they say Microsoft is responsible for drivers. Microsoft says i should ask HP. I slowly begin to be annoyed. Have bought short certified hi-speed USB 2.0 cable. Windows update shows that there is optional update for Other hardware - dj450 USB, dowloaded and it says it is not possible to install, error code: 80070103. Under Win XP are no problems. Is there any solution aside from buying new printer or downgrade to XP?Is there a way to install this update
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy PC has two hard drives. Windows gave me the option on boot up of proceeding with either Windows XP or Windows Vista home basic which worked fine. I then Ultimate 32 bit over the XP installation and again all seemed ok. However, the other morning I switched on the pc and got the dreaded Bootmgr is missing message. I have tried fixing using the vista disc but when it says select the OS to repair nothing is showing. If i click next and then choose the repair option it goes through the process and then you reboot but the problem still remains. I have also tried the command prompt options but they make no difference either. The Bios recognises both my hard drives are there ok.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi just installed windows vista, then when i went to try to get a new theme, i realized i dont have aero, no glass, no cool window flip thingy (windows key + tab). I have vista 32bit home premium, and an ATI Radeon X1250 [acer P221Wx].
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm thinking about upgrading Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Pro. Do I need Vista installed or can I just insert the CD/DVD when required?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI installed a copy of Vista x64 Ultimate to try out on my machine because i have 4Gb of ram and windows XP doesn't recognize it It installed on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ black edition no problem, but after it downloaded 42 updates i went into a BSOD loop. No matter what i did after that, i could not re-install XP on anyone of the 6 Hd's i had in my system. If i tried... BSOD.
I had no choice but to purchase yet another HD (which i didnt really need) just so i can use that as a singular connected drive to install XP on again.Now then, most of my drives are now unreadable in XP and i get messages like this an error occurred reading folder:the volume does not contain a recognized file system. please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted (1005) I have even tried connecting said drives to USB/Firewire external enclosures to see if i can access files that way. If i have lost over 2Tb of data on these drives just for installing vista, i will be looking for someone at MS to assassinate please tell me there is a viable solution to this
If someone buys a new laptop with w7, can she move her installed applications from her old vista laptop to her new w7 laptop?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi've just installed XP pro 32x on my 70GB partition, and have Vista Ultimate 64x on my 160GB partition. I installed these myself and are custom OS's, im not sure if this has anything to do with the problem, but.. Once i installed XP, there was no options to boot into Vista. So in goes the Vista repair disk, and im back into Vista..and pretty soon id like to get back into XP ( My media centre, editing, creating videos, and playing games, and doing things non-vista compatable) but i dont want to have to recover my damn computer everytime. Btw ive tried other sites and forums before bothering you guys.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently installed vista, do the service packs download through live update? Or do I have to go online to download it? Or does it come with the vista installation? I don't know what service pack, if any, is installed on this computer.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy Graphic card ati radeon 9250 Vista for driver
View 4 Replies View Related1. Open Computer.
2. Navigate to C:WindowsSysWOW64.
3. Scroll down and open the Macromed directory.
4. Open the Flash directory.
5. Right-click FlashUtil9b.
6. Select Run as Administrator.
7. When the UAC prompt appears, select Continue.
8. Follow the Flash Player installation wizard. Once the wizard completes, Flash Player has been properly installed and will now function properly. I have tried this on a Dell Vista system and it worked like a charm.