Windows Vista Problems
Mar 15, 2009
I recently purchased a dell xps 1530 and it had windows vista home premium 32 installed on it for the first 2 weeks it worked fine than gradually the hibernate and the sleep fuctions started booting to windows error recovery when contacted dell the solution was to reinstall windows and then a new series of problems: windows boot manager in which i had to insert the windows cd every time i tried reinstalling windows and after some time the same problems started to appear again now what do i do am thinking of trying windows ultimate.
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Mar 29, 2009
My computer is coming close to need reinstalling. At the moment I am running windows vista 32 bit. I have a retail boxed version of vista, which includes the 64 bit version of vista. I have a HP computer, which has a quad core processor and has 4 gigs of ram. I wondered what the pros and cons are when having the 64 bit version of windows vista?
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Jul 29, 2009
I am running Windows Vista Premium Home SP1. When I boot my computer, Windows Defender doesn't start automatically. It works fine if I start it manually. I have never run Windows OneCare, MSCONFIG shows it set to start, the Windows Defender service is set to automatic and Tools | Options has all the checkboxes checked.
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Aug 19, 2008
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition Dutch Version, updated with SP1 and all the patches/updates until today. However, I have encountered two problems lately, that might be related. During one of the last Windows update sessions, one of the recommended updates was KB940157: Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista for x64-systems (11,8MB).
The update downloaded succesfully, created a restore point, but then during installation of Search 4.0, windows update stops and announces an update fail error:
Failed: 1 update
Errorcode: 800F0900
I've been googling this particular error code in combination with KB940157, but it doesn't bring up any entries. Then later on, I discovered that when I go into the Windows Components window (via Control Panel, Add/remove software), the entire windows stays blank (first it says "Wait a few moments..."). This only lasts a few seconds then shows a complete empty window.
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Feb 25, 2009
Just had this in my RSS Feed, thought it would be interesting. Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC - Windows Vista Team Blog - The Windows Blog Quote: This week we are announcing that Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has hit an important milestone in development: Release Candidate (RC).
Starting today, the RC of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release. In the very near future, we will be making the RC broadly available for anyone to download and test. You can expect another blog post from me when that happens. SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging standards. As we’ve described since we first talked about SP2, we’ve taken your feedback into account when developing SP2. Specifically, we expect SP2 to continue the security benefits of both products and simplify deployment for our customers. For an outline of changes in SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, check out the notable changes document. We are planning to release SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in the second quarter of 2009.
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Jun 12, 2008
Just bought a new HP Pavilion DV2860 notebook. For a couple of days I have been using Vista and I didn't really like it. Many of the applications that I used to use in on Windows XP are not capiable with Windows Vista! I have got a Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition CD and was planning to install Windows XP on the notebook. Can I use 2 operating systems on the notebook? I don't want to delete Windows Vista but I want Windows XP.
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May 28, 2009
Warning: don’t use any ESET NOD32 V4.x Antivirus product together with Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2 « Smokey’s Security Weblog
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Jul 29, 2009
How do I remove Windows Vista, so that I can make a clean install of Windows 7. Does the removal of Windows Vista also removes Windows Mail and IT8? Do I have anything (Antivirus or other software) at all left on the PC after removal of the Windows?
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Jun 29, 2009
I have to install Windows Vista Business over Windows 2000 on several school computers, then roll it back to XP. Do I need to remove the 2000 first? Need advice on the easiest way to accomplish this
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Mar 26, 2008
I have the Windows Vista upgrade disc and I just bought a new hard drive. Do I need to reinstall Windows Xp and Windows Vista again or is there an eaiser way to do it?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have the Windows Vista upgrade disc and I just bought a new hard drive. Do I need to reinstall Windows Xp and Windows Vista again or is there an eaiser way to do it?
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Oct 9, 2009
I calculated that to migrate to Vista or Windows 7 will cost close to =A32000. not including my time - It will take around 100 hours. This is because many of my existing software / tools / utilities does not work on Vista and the vendors expect me to buy a new license because it is a "new product" even though it does exactly what it did before - just on a different OS. Even the products that do work have problems and glitches that have to be worked around. All this takes time MY VALUABLE time. In other words I am suffering because Microsoft want money. In the past some versions of windows were worth migrating to Windows 2000 and Windows XP were great
But most of the improvements to Vista / Windows 7 are mostly transparent to normal users - even monster power users like me. I believe Microsoft have a serious attitude problem. just wait until they take full advantage of TPM to screw even more money out of us. If I am wrong please point out a real tangible benefit that Vista or Windows 7 brings to a large percentage of users or to me. I also I can no longer buy a laptop because they only come with Vista GPU drivers (some come with buggy unsupported XP GPU drivers - great)
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Mar 12, 2008
Which do you prefer, Windows Vista or Windows XP?
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Oct 1, 2009
Does Windows 7 include the option, as XP and Vista have, to have the appearance be in "Windows Classic" mode?
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Mar 26, 2008
I recently purchadsed a computer and have been using it for about three weeks. Yesterday i had a message that my Windows Vista was not genuine and needed to re-enter the product key. I did that from the sticker on the copmuter, but I still have a littel message in the bottom right of my desktop screen that says "Windows Vista BUild 6000 This copy of Windows is not genuine". What do i Do about that?
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Dec 6, 2009
Is Windows 7 better than Vista? (In your opinion)
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Jul 29, 2009
I'm running Windows Vista, SP2 with 2 GB of RAM. All WU's are current. On June 23 I foolishly installed (from a pirated CD) a copy of Finale 2002 Music notation program. While the program does seem to work, I'm now having problems with his program either freezing itself (requiring a hard shutdown), freezing Windows or my computer freezing when other apps are open, like Firefox.
Finale 2002 was obviously created for OS's prior to Vista.I'd like to uninstall this program but selecting it on Add/Remove and trying to uninstall it gives the following error message: "An error occurred while trying to uninstall Finale 2002. It may have been already uninstalled. Would you like to remove Finale 2002 from the Programs and Features List". I've been selecting `No'.
The `uninstaller' file that comes with Finale 2002 does nothing when invoked.Since I created a Restore point prior to installing Finale 2002 on June 23, I tried to restore the computer but at this point I can no longer view that point. It won't show on the list of restore points, even if I show restore points older than 5 days. Has that restore point been permanently deleted? If so, is there a way to estore the computer to some date prior to June 23rd. Or perhaps there's a program I can download that will correctly uninstall Finale 2002. I looked on the internet but to no avail. I thought about just re-installing the program again but am afraid of screwing up my Registry.
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Sep 23, 2009
cant get into windows vista when i switch it on the Toshiba logo comes up and then the screen goes blank tried recovery dvd but gets to a screen sayin "Waiting for ODD to initialise" and then nothing happens tried using windows xp dvd but only gets so far and comes up with error message looked in the Bios and it recognises the Toshiba hard dive and the DVDCD player tried to press f8 to get to the screen where you can start in safe mode, go back to last configuration etc. but nothing happens booted with dr. dos and i can browse the C: drive so the hard drive seems ok?
is there a file i can execute on the c: drive via dr.dos to start windows manually or is there a command to get into the screen where i can restore it to the last known good configuration. I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 laptop only 2 weeks old
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Apr 6, 2008
I am having quite some issues with a new computer that we got for our
company's director. It is an HP Pavilion Media Center m8325f Elite. Although
it comes with Windows Vista Home edition, we bought the upgrade to Windows
Vista Business edition. Once we installed this upgrade, we started having a
blue screen every other time we reboot this computer. The error code that we
get ( 0x0C5 ) talks about a driver that got corrupted. There are some
articles in your site that suggests choosing a specific starting mode to
identify which driver is the one that tries to use a page outside its pool.
It is not even a month since we bought the computer, and now we are
having another kind of blue screen in which Windows complains about a
specific antivirus file that got corrupted.
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Dec 13, 2008
Got some problem. I had Windows XP and had no problems playing Blu-ray movies. Now i have Windows Vista Ultimate x86 (tried x64 too) and when i launch PowerDVD movie starts with blank (black) screen all i can hear is sound no picture
If i try to launch only one file form disk it plays perfectly.
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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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May 10, 2008
I was using avg 7.5 without problems. Since installing AVG 8.0 my email scanner stopped working. It says, " no email client plugin installed". (I know I can disable the scanner, so something esle.
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Mar 19, 2009
We frequently send mails with Windows Mail in Vista. Recently we found out that some mail were sent but never were sent to the e-mail adress on the e-mail. We found this out by testing and sending a test mail to our gmail account and it was never received allthough it was in the sent items in Windows Mail. We also sent the same mail from my old computer (outlook Express) it was received correct by gmail.
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Mar 29, 2008
Seen lots on this - have tried to follow advice and even uninstalled McAfee and recreated mail account from scratch on Windows Mail - still no luck - still get the windows security prompt. Cannot download or send any emails. V. frustrating - especially when going through the risk of unistalling protection (which came pre-installed).
Is there a published document from Microsoft on this problem? Some definitive, clear, step-by-step advice for those who simply want to transfer from XP to Vista wihtout these unexpected, business damaging issues.
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Mar 23, 2008
vista sp1 came through on windows update. It is on my computer but wont install! becuase it wont install i cant uninstall it? My problem is that my dual cores are running at 100% half of the time. how to get rid before my processors burn out
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Apr 18, 2010
I just completed an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 on my HP Pavilion a1730n and all w2orks fine except for recovering from sleep mode. It looks as though I will have to replace the motherboard in the Pavilion. I am looking for comments as to what I may expect when Windows 7 is booted into a new motherboard.
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May 20, 2008
....or is it also for users, who don't run a comapny? I have bought a Windows VISTA DVD and when I received it, it had "OEM System Builder Pack" written on it. It also says: "EXCLUSIVELY for system builders." And after some research on the Wikipedia I see that COMPANIES that sell PCs normally buy OEM licenced software. I gues users should buy a "retail" version. (NOT OEM versions)
Because Wikipedia says the requirements are:"The requirements include: automated methods of installation of the product; customization of the installation to identify the OEM; first level technical support of the product..etc." I want to install it because there's NO 64-bit Vista Ultimate in my language...excepting this OEM version. But I don't know what the consequences might be...(I mean, I can't add info about customer support, my company's name, etc....Because I'm just a user, not a manufacturer!)
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Jun 13, 2010
I have 256,000 windows open and in use (well 7) and I have minimised them all(show desktop) so I can pop one window up Cant be done with this useless POS because when you pop one window up it pops all other windows up too - Vista also has trouble 'paneing' windows. Then Microsoft have the brass gaul to describe Windows 7 window paneing as some new breakthru "feature" that was standard in XP and before. In actual fact the Windows 7 window paneing can only ever be described as "a feature" if compared directly to POS Vista that cant perform due to incompetent programming. There should be a law against deliberately deceiving the public Sorta reminds me of Vista *New* *Search* *Feature* which cant find it's own ace with both hands - unlike XP which performed searches with ease
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Apr 20, 2008
I have Vista, and some of my older (XP Based) programs cannot run. I heard that XP can be installed on Windows Vista. Question is...can both Windows XP and Vista run on same computer? i.e. Click to run XP...Click to run Vista.
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Feb 6, 2009
How could I reinstall my Windows Vista (currenlty Home Premium version) keeping my software installed and running as is? In previously released versions of Windows , as Windows XP, user could choose to repair the current installation of windows through setup. Is there a way to do a repair install like this?
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Mar 30, 2008
I am wondering when or if there are any themes for vista like there is for Windows XP. I am starting to get bored with the ones i have as part of vista.
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