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Nope, OEM licenses of Windows are hard coded to the machine they are distributed with. You can purchase a retail license from many online stores. -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry "René" <rene.ruppert@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:3ed043db-c5e5-487e-a56f-82fe0d273a7d@b15g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... Hi, I have received a defective (= physically damaged) Toshiba Notebook as a gift from a relative. The good news is: there's Vista Home Premium coming with it! The bad news: there's only a recovery DVD and no original MS Vista DVD with it…

My son (away at university) has just installed this week's Microsoft updates and now is unable to get his laptop re-started (it's an Acer Aspire 5633 about a year old). It says "Configuring Updates. Stage 3 of 3 0% Complete. Then it says "Shutting Down" and restarts the whole cycle. This goes on and on.... He has tried to get it into Safe Mode but it won't, just goes back into the cycle described above. I've searched on Google and come up with only one hit - that described identical symptoms and was posted in a blog about three hours ago. There are some references to the same message related to SP1 installation but my son is just using the standa…

If this is the wrong 'forum', please let me know and also where to turn. Since I'm using WinME, I figured it would be worth a try: In Properties/Settings under 'Colors' the color red is now completely missing, while at first it sporadically changed back to 'normal' with all colors present. This makes the display appear greenish and the former blue purplish. Otherwise no changes. It seemed to coincide with the loss of my 'WinZip' (just a guess). Does this indicate the monitor going bad'? Or is the cause somewhere else? If it can be fixed, please let me know. Harry.

I am hearing about XP SP3 about to be offered by MS. I've looked, but have not been able to find any list of what 'upgrades' are included in XP SP3, post SP2. Is there such a list, say by KB#? Where? Thanks Jethro

I am hearing about XP SP3 about to be offered by MS. I've looked, but have not been able to find any list of what 'upgrades' are included in XP SP3, post SP2. Is there such a list, say by KB#? Where? Thanks Jethro

What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?

Dell 4600-4 years old, xp home sp2, 2.66Ghz, 768 mb ram, user 5 scale 1-10. need reliable cleaner and ez way to back up first. Thank you -- Grampy Pete

1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets. Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than under XP. It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised. Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP. When i…

I am looking to get a new laptop...and evrything has Vista installed. I have been doing reading and know a few people who have it and don't think I really want it. I am very happy with my windows XP. Would it be difficult to have Vista removed from laptop and then have XP installed on it? Thanks,

Hey Frank, I can't find your "business" anywhere in any business or phone directory in the San Diego area. Why do you suppose that is? Hard as I try there seems to be nothing anywhere for JS & A Inc. If you have nothing to hide, you would give us the street address this "business" you claim you own and run and made a pile of money with is located. Then you can explain how such a clever and rich business person like you always claim you are didn't have the smarts to register this "business" anywhere. Odd, you keep claiming you have a very successful advertising marketing business, yet no web page. I can't find your "business" registered in the state of …

French police deal blow to Microsoft by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET PARIS (AFP) - The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break. The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows XPoperating system. But these will progressively change over to the Linux system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas Geraud, deputy director of the gendarmerie's IT department. "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop computer…

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:36:53 GMT, Matt wrote: > Ezekiel wrote: >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/01/Office-2007-winning-converts-survey-says_1.html >> >> The survey also showed that 43 percent plan to deploy Office 2007 in the >> next six months and that 29 percent plan rollouts within the next 12 months. >> >> In addition, 43 percent said those rollouts were tied to upgrades in PC >> hardware, 32 percent said their rollouts would be broad and enterprise-wide, >> while 25 percent said they would be project-by-project. > > 32% of 72% is 23%. So 23% are planning "broad and enterprise-wide" …

trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 in a VMWare virtual machine. And I am still only at 59%. Heck, Vista installed in 32 minutes under VMWare. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address)

I, too, could not get on the net after the KB951748 update. I encourage Microsoft to do a search on the update so they could see how many hits there are already, and to take this update off of the critical list. T hankfully, I do not allow XP to automatically download and install updates. Otherwise, I might have not been able to find the source of the problem so quickly.

I have used Win98 since 98. I really didn't care to upgrade, but it seems there's just too much stuff that dont work in 98 anymore. I just bought another (used) computer with XP installed, and will keep my Win98 computer as it is. That way I can use either one. The old one was too slow for XP and dual booting seemed like a hassle to setup. So, now I just have 2 computers. Anyhow, I recall someone long ago saying there's a way to make XP look and act like Win98. I really dont care to have to get used to a new look, and XP has too much junk I dont care to use anyhow, like that dog cartoon. Not only do I not want that stuff, but I have a…

I'm very new with Windows server so if anyone can recommend articles to read that cover my questions, I'd appreciate it. I'm looking for a bit of a step by step "how to" on adding my new 2008R2 server to my 2003 domain then then making the 2008R2 machine the master and decomissioning the 2003 server. Thanks in advance! FYI So far I have installed 2008R2 on the new server and haven't done anything else. It's not joined to the 2003 domain and I have not added any server roles to the 2008R2 machine. (Currently my 2003 server had AD, DHCP, and DNS duties.)

My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it since I had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new HP PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all files, but about 30% of them are like this. Is not... program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others memory card (SD) - tried several camera - tried at least 3 method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in …

If you're not in an office but rather at home (on the Internet) would there be a reason to spend more for 'Vista Ultimate'? TBerk

I bought an HP Pavilion a1737c. Now today, my memory kept running out so my computer kept turning off. Now I'm trying to log back in and it tells me my Windows Vista isn't genuine. I have reformatted once with the HP Recovery discs I was sent. They do not have a serial number. What am I supposed to do?

Some of us want to choose what "gets out" and what doesn't. And this info doesn't work since there is nowhere to make such a change in the Windows Firewall window that comes up. Configure it - HOW? Can someone explain how it's configured to actually work without being a programmer writing strange unknown confusing rules for everything that wants to connect to the net? If not, can someone recommend a good free easy to use two-way FireWall like ZoneAlarm that's compatible with Vista? Thanks. http://www.vistastic.com/2007/03/09/window...ound-filtering/ I bet you didn't know that Microsoft Windows Vista includes a two-way firewall. Unfortunately, th…

http://news.com.com/Vistas+growing+pains+leave+room+for+XP/2100-1016_3-6197757.html?tag=html.alert.hed David Daoud ran into trouble when he started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft and PC makers have spent millions of dollars advertising since it came out six months ago. He said it short-circuited key software programs he counts on: Quicken for balancing his checkbook, Lotus Notes e-mail and a networking program that connects his home to the office. His Sony camcorder also doesn't communicate with the PC properly. "Basically they don't work," said Daoud, a computer industry analyst with market research firm IDC. Such problems are pa…

http://news.com.com/Vistas+growing+pains+leave+room+for+XP/2100-1016_3-6197757.html?tag=html.alert.hed David Daoud ran into trouble when he started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft and PC makers have spent millions of dollars advertising since it came out six months ago. He said it short-circuited key software programs he counts on: Quicken for balancing his checkbook, Lotus Notes e-mail and a networking program that connects his home to the office. His Sony camcorder also doesn't communicate with the PC properly. "Basically they don't work," said Daoud, a computer industry analyst with market research firm IDC. Such problems …

http://news.com.com/Vistas+growing+pains+leave+room+for+XP/2100-1016_3-6197757.html?tag=html.alert.hed David Daoud ran into trouble when he started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft and PC makers have spent millions of dollars advertising since it came out six months ago. He said it short-circuited key software programs he counts on: Quicken for balancing his checkbook, Lotus Notes e-mail and a networking program that connects his home to the office. His Sony camcorder also doesn't communicate with the PC properly. "Basically they don't work," said Daoud, a computer industry analyst with market research firm IDC. Such problems …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also called acquired brain injury or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the user installs a LINUX based Operating System on his or her computer. Objects soon appear to pierce the skull and brain tissue. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few seconds or minutes. Other symptoms of mild TBI include using Open Source software like OpenOffice, GIMP,. Galeon, Mozilla, Bluefish, VI, or a host of other applic…

Does anyone actually PREFER this to the "classic" Windows Start Menu? I know there are third-party add-ons that will give me a "classic" Start Menu, but I'm going to work with the one I have for now. Maybe I'll figure out why the "new" way is 'better.'