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Contact the laptop manufacturer for support. Your problems go beyond Windows Vista and may be a bad install or hardware related. "I would rather roll back to windows XP" Not an option since Windows Vista is preinstalled. Since it is not an option, "wacky permissions" has nothing to do with it. If the computer is new, you can return it for a refund and purchase a laptop with Windows XP if that is what you want. Toshiba, Dell and probably other major OEMs continue to sell computers with Windows XP. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "frustrated vista user" <frustrated vista user@discussions.microsof…

Could you give us the specs on your machine? Did you check the Event Viewer to see if there are any messages relating to hardware failure? Have you contacted the OEM about the problems you are experience with the machine? -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry "frustrated vista user" <frustrated vista user@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5B2BFF18-5CFE-45E7-B87A-9433022A3410@microsoft.com... >I recently bought a laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed on it. At >first > it was okay. But then I started encountering small…

thank you now it works thanks a lot. "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote: > Courtesy of Vista User: > Go to help and type "file association" > > Change the program that opens a type of file > > If you double-click a file in Windows and it opens in the wrong software > program, follow these steps to choose the program you would prefer that file > use. You can change this setting for an individual file, or you can tell > Windows to open all files of that same type in the software program you > choose. > > 1.. Open the folder that contains the file you want to change. > > 2.. Right-click the file that you wan…

Is there any way to have Vista NOT sort files in Windows Explorer as soon as they are added/edited? In XP, filenames only re-sort once you navigate away from that folder and then back to it. I want it to work that way in Vista. Any ideas?

I have been getting a similar crash when ever I open the control panel. Today microsoft exception handler indicated I should install a bug fix to correct the problem but it now crashes in a new spot. Sure would be nice to have my control panel back. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.0.6000.16549 Application Timestamp: 46d230c5 Fault Module Name: StackHash_170a Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9 Exception Code: c0000374 Exception Offset: 000af1c9 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 170a …

I have been getting a similar crash when ever I open the control panel. Today microsoft exception handler indicated I should install a bug fix to correct the problem but it now crashes in a new spot. Sure would be nice to have my control panel back. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.0.6000.16549 Application Timestamp: 46d230c5 Fault Module Name: StackHash_170a Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9 Exception Code: c0000374 Exception Offset: 000af1c9 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 170a …

Help! I unplugged my computer to format another hard drive for another computer and when I plugged back in my other hard drive, my computer hasn't started up correctly since and will only startup in safe mode and nothing really works. I have tried to fix the settings but think I have done something wrong. I have 2 hard drives in the computer and it seems like it has found 2 versions. I have selected only one and it still doesn't start right. I am not sure if I put in the correct load identifier. Can anyone give me some guidance on this problem?

I have a server with windows server 2003 and other pcs are connected through a domain with the server. I had to format one of the pcs and installed win xp prof again. The problem is this when the user logs in with the password that he had he cant create/delete folder in ( example program files ) because error access dnied is given. I have checked the other pcs and found out that when a user logs in on another computer that he usually dont use the same thing happens. Note:When an administrator password is used everything can be accessed but when a different account is used on another computer that a person dont use the access denied msg appears. Can some…

For some reason, my desktop windows has appeard, and it is doing it's best to hold on there... Hiding behind the desktop icons. I have tried everything I can, read numerous FAQ', researched and still can't get it correct. Does anyone here know of have to get this turned ?? I even tried system restore to try to get to an earlier point before this started. -- Thanks for any help ---- 25or6to4

I run XP Home SP2 on a Pentium 3,2 GHz with hyperthreading. When I start the following program .\test.bat in a DOS-like window ("Eingabeaufforderung" in German) @echo off set c=1 :loop cmd /c echo > nul echo %c% set /a c=%c%+1 if %c%==123456 goto end goto loop :end all works fine, but after a while (sometimes c~30000, sometimes 15000, depending on what other processes are running) I get an error message for each echoed number (probably from the line beginning with command): "Das angegebene Programm kann nicht ausgeführt werden" what means s.th. like "the program cannot be executed" If I finish and restart test.bat, it sometimes works for t…

I am running Vista Ultimate. Something happened to my IE7 so that when I try to do downloads, e.g. from Microsoft, it opens a little Window and then crashes, restarting the browser. Any ideas? Also, I could not find a newsgroup for IE, so I'm posting it here. TIA

We have added a list of trusted sites in Group Policy set at the domain level. This works fine for users logging into their computer. However when they connect to our Citrix server (Metaframe XP) they don't get the trusted sites (published app is IE based) being applied. I tried adding the same list of trusted sites in the Citrix server's local policy but that didn't work either. A few posts have mentioned having to enable loopback processing - but I don't care, all users are going to get the same trusted sites anyways - because they're already specified at the domain level! Also, the citrix servers are in their own OU, don't have any Group Policies app…

We have added a list of trusted sites in Group Policy set at the domain level. This works fine for users logging into their computer. However when they connect to our Citrix server (Metaframe XP) they don't get the trusted sites (published app is IE based) being applied. I tried adding the same list of trusted sites in the Citrix server's local policy but that didn't work either. A few posts have mentioned having to enable loopback processing - but I don't care, all users are going to get the same trusted sites anyways - because they're already specified at the domain level! Also, the citrix servers are in their own OU, don't have any Group Policies app…

I have Outlook and Windows Live messenger on my PC. When I Open "Remote Assistance" to invite someone to help me......the Windows where you would select to use MESSENGER or Outlook.....it Shows "Window Messeneger is Not Installed" and gives me the option to Download messenger. Since I have Window messenger Installed, and use it without problems, why does Windows Remote Assistance show Messenger is NOT Installed? How can I correct this problem?

I have Outlook and Windows Live messenger on my PC. When I Open "Remote Assistance" to invite someone to help me......the Windows where you would select to use MESSENGER or Outlook.....it Shows "Window Messeneger is Not Installed" and gives me the option to Download messenger. Since I have Window messenger Installed, and use it without problems, why does Windows Remote Assistance show Messenger is NOT Installed? How can I correct this problem?

i. I am fairly experienced with Windows XP. However, I did some "tweaking" to improve my system and ended up doing something wrong. This regards XP Pro, Service Pack 2, The symptoms are: I can't log into Yahoo or MSN Messenger. Network Diagnostics tells me it can't establish a connections to http://HTTPS://* I can get to some https sites in my browser. Network Diagnostics keeps suggestion it is a firewall problem. But have removed McAfee Security for now and the Windows Firewall is not configured to keep me from https://anything, it is at default permissions. I have been fiddling with permissions on files, and would like to somehow reset fil permissions…

I have an ATI 550 Pro TV card that I installed on Vista Premium. PowerCinema detects the card and all is great. Windows Media Center does not detect the card, says: "No Card Present" Anyone know what's going on with this? any suggestions? Rob

comes up with 'error 25007 occurred while initializing fusion. Setup could not load fusion with LoadLibraryShim(). Error 0x801-31702. Any suggestions? "D@annyBoy" wrote: > unable to install the update > anyone else? > > >

OldVersion.com (Multimedia). Check here for apps such as Audacity, Gold Wave, MusicMatch, etc. http://oldversion.com/ Yahoo! Music Jukebox: rip, play, burn, manage and explore music – for FREE http://music.yahoo.com/jukebox/ Quintessential Player (ripping) http://www.quinnware.com/ -- XP - WNP Today is the first day of the rest of your life. "unknown" wrote: >

OldVersion.com (Multimedia). Check here for apps such as Audacity, Gold Wave, MusicMatch, etc. http://oldversion.com/ Yahoo! Music Jukebox: rip, play, burn, manage and explore music – for FREE http://music.yahoo.com/jukebox/ Quintessential Player (ripping) http://www.quinnware.com/ -- XP - WNP Today is the first day of the rest of your life. "unknown" wrote: >

OldVersion.com (Multimedia). Check here for apps such as Audacity, Gold Wave, MusicMatch, etc. http://oldversion.com/ Yahoo! Music Jukebox: rip, play, burn, manage and explore music – for FREE http://music.yahoo.com/jukebox/ Quintessential Player (ripping) http://www.quinnware.com/ -- XP - WNP Today is the first day of the rest of your life. "unknown" wrote: >

I have recently purchased a computer with windows vista. I am having problems with programs such as winamp and itunes. After installing winamp i am able to use this, but then after shutting down the computer and then loading it back up, i open winamp and an error message appears saying "missing driver files please re-install". After re-installing the program works although i became fed up becuase i had to do this every time the computer started and decided to switch to itunes. After using itunes for the first time I switched the computer off, today i loaded the computer then loaded itunes to find an error message saying "missing files please reinstall". No…

Hi Having installed Office 2007 Danish version we suffer from inconsistent results of the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl C and V in Excel 2007. A lot af times it acts as Ctrl minus was pressed. Happens on Windows 2003 SP2 with and without Citrix PS 4.5. Using the mouse everything works fine. Any ideas? Regards, Brian

hi, i have 2 problems: 1 when i want to open the 'documents and settings' dir in c:\, it gets stuck for about 60 seconds, and then opens. it's probably a bad sector or something similar. one probable cause: a power shutdown in the home, during a disk operation. i tried error check in the properties-> reset and chkdsk, but it didn't help. 2 during a windows update the power went down (in the home). now auto update keeps wanting to install a patch for win live toolbar. it keeps repeating it. how to fix these things (without a total reinstall of xp)? one more question: i might want to install xp to external drive: e:\. from boot. and then optional…

hi, i have 2 problems: 1 when i want to open the 'documents and settings' dir in c:\, it gets stuck for about 60 seconds, and then opens. it's probably a bad sector or something similar. one probable cause: a power shutdown in the home, during a disk operation. i tried error check in the properties-> reset and chkdsk, but it didn't help. 2 during a windows update the power went down (in the home). now auto update keeps wanting to install a patch for win live toolbar. it keeps repeating it. how to fix these things (without a total reinstall of xp)? one more question: i might want to install xp to external drive: e:\. from boot. and then optional…