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Netgear router products and vista

tammi — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:31:46 GMT

Hi ppl

Can anyone help as to the best way to setup a wireless netgear router to my modem....

and then access it through wirless....

I have netgear wpn824 v2 which states supports windows vista ppppphhhhhh crock....
and a wpn311 pci card which is installed with latest install

can someone please help as Ive exausted everything I can think of

Vista and MSN Explorer

papasmurftd — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:41:15 GMT

Just purchased a new HP Laptop, for my wife, with Vista installed. She uses MSN Explorer to pay the household bills which are all in her "Favorites". Other wab sites, which she frequents, are also stored there. I've tried to download MSN Explorer several times, without any luck. I can download MSN Explorer to my PC, that is running XP, without any problem. I have heard there are a lot of issues with Vista. Could this be one of them? Thanks in advance for any and all help.

blue screen of death when i boot vista

cadizfan1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:52:21 GMT

when i boot vista, it brings up a menu to repair console or boot normally when i choose to boot normally i gives me the bsod, now when run a diagnostic in the bios it does not recognize the hard drive, when i boot from the cd to run the repair console to fix a os it does not show the os, whe i go to dos to try to fix it it gives a x: partition, but the cd rom drive shows it as f: drive and the hard drive as d: but no partition. all my files seem to be gone

Upgrading from Business to Ultimate -- Question regarding upgrade DVD

bigmadpie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:24:50 GMT

Ok.

My question is this... I have Vista Business without SP1.

I want to upgrade using windows anytime upgrade to Ultimate. (they send upgrade dvd)

My question is... am i going to have to install Vista Business, then SP1, then use the upgrade DVD (for clean/new install)?

Ideally, I'd like to put the upgrade DVD in, then install to a clean drive and just have to enter my old Business serial... instead of the above method.

Anyone familiar with this process please feel free to respond. Please don't respond if you "think" you know. I am looking for a response from someone that has actually done the upgrade. Thanks,

jack

How to split vista sp1 iso so that it fits on CDs

seamustry — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:07:54 GMT

I have a Vista SP1 .iso which is larger than 1GB in size. I was wondering how I can split it so that it will fit on a few CDs because I don't have any DVD-R's but a load of CD-R's i have :)

Error Installing Clean Vista

alrasl — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:11:39 GMT

Tried to install Vista 64bit. I'm able to boot up Vista only when I put my DvD drive as first in the BIOS boot priority. Vista loads up, asks for CD-Key, asks me to select hd partition, and then when it starts to install i get this error:

Windows cannot access the required D:\sources\install.wim. Make sure all files required for intallation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x800701e7

I put the DvD into my old rig and searched for this file on the Vista DvD and it was found immediately. I made sure I installed the SATA drivers before trying to install, and that made no difference. I'm all out of ideas. I have my newly built computer all hooked up and ready to go, and can't install my OS... im about to freak out. Please - i need some help.

System Spec:

Mobo: Asus P5Q P45
CPU: Intel E8400
GPU: Asus EAH4850 (Asus version of the ATI 4850)
RAM: Corsair Twin2x PC2-6400 DDR2 800 (4gb)
HD: Seagate Barracuda 500gb SATA 3.0g/s
DvD:Samsung 22x DvD Burner SATA
PSU: Raidmax Aurora 2 600w
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit (w/ SP1)

XP won't read Install Disk

zyllah — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:55:36 GMT

So I got a new hard drive and I was going to install Vista on it and then migrate my old data over. Anyway the vista disk will not read in windows nor will it boot. I know the drives are good since it reads/writes other disks and I even tried a different vista disk and same problem. So any ideas?
It's vista 64 home premium and my dvd drives are nec.

Vista MUI installation problem

Maxthon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:50:14 GMT

hi. I am really struggling here. tried to install Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI). tried to do this for about 6 hours now. i have everything downloaded and set up. however i keep getting the parameter is incorrect error message.

what is a no space in folder? i simply created a foloder like the one below. c:\MUITools\ i understand that no space means that it should not be like c:\MUI Tools\ with a space between MUI and Tools right?

However i do not have any spaces and i am getting the parameter incorrect message. I tried re-doing this several times and same issue.

Any help would be great.

Thank you. Maxthon
[quote]C:\MUITools\ or C:\MUI\ folder (Important: No space in folder name else will have “Incorrect Parameters” or “Parameter is incorrect” error message). [/quote]

Emulation Software

kennyinbmore — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:16:31 GMT

Here's the situation. I've been using Daemon Tools for drive emulation with Vista Home Basic(came with the computer). Well a friend of mine bought a copy of Vista Home Premium. She never installed it because her pc didn't meet the specs so she gave it to me. I upgraded to Home Premium and bang my Daemon tools doesn't work. I figured maybe I need to upgrade Daemon Tools, so I do to the newest version. Every time I try to install it, it asks me to reboot, I reboot it goes back into the install and then again asks me to reboot. Endless loop. So I figure maybe DT doesn't like Home Premium so I download a copy of Alchol. Try to install it, same thing. I would appreciate any help as it apparently is something on Vista's end and mine not allowing the installation. Thanks for your help on advance. BTW I've tried everything in the DT forums,so please don't send me there

Ken:)

No audio device

Luvthekeys — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:41:19 GMT

I have completed a clean install of Vista on my Dimension XP400 after attempting to upgrade with little success. I have encountered a problem where the audio icon on the desktop displays a message that there is no audio output device. I know the audio worked when XP was installed. I think is was something called Sigmatel. If I just download the latest driver will it cure the problem or do I have to do something else? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Removed old hard drive with system volume and now boot volume drive not recognized.

nict450 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:43:43 GMT

hi, i have an old IDE hard drive that i never took out of my computer that had xp on it. i purchased a new SATA drive and installed vista on it a few months ago without taking out the old drive. when i would boot the computer it would give me the option of which OS to boot and i would always just choose vista. i finally removed the old hard drive since i wasnt using it and now my OS will not boot at all. i think that when i originally installed vista on my SATA drive it created the System Volume files on my old IDE drive, while the Boot Volume files are on the SATA drive. now that the old drive is out, my BIOS recognizes my SATA drive that has vista on it but it will not boot vista because i am guessing the System Volume drive is gone. i tried to boot from DVD with the vista dvd so i could repair the startup files and when it has you select the operating system to repair, it did not have any and said that there where no installations of vista to repair. if anyone has any suggestions or solutions i would really appreciate it. thanks in advance.

Rebuilding a Vista Ultimate Laptop

mslaga — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:24:39 GMT

I am planning to rebuild my laptop (it's been a year, time to clean house so to speak). I've also ordered a new hard drive (7200rpm) in hopes of getting a little higher performance.

Before I rebuild, is there a way to "un-activate" or "un-register" the copy of Ultimate that is currently loaded so I can re-activate it after it has been rebuilt?

I ran into something similar when I loaded it originally on a test machine before loading it on my laptop. Had to get on the phone with One-Care ($50) so they could "unregister" it. I'm hoping that there is a way to do this without having to call One-Care again.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

Webcam problems

trunde16 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:56:56 GMT

The last few days I have had some problems with my build-in webcam on my Acer Aspire 5520g computer. When I use it on MSN, 15-30 min passes and then my computer shuts down like *poff*. No error message, no nothing. 5 min after I can turn my computer on again and then a screen appears where I can choose 4 different start options.

I then tried to install my brothers webcam (Logitech Webcam Messenger). I could use that webcam for 5 min on MSN and then a blue screen appears saying something like "Windows got shut down to prevent damage on your computer". Below that text it says "Bugcode_USB_Driver".

What does this mean?

Thank you :)

Office 2007 File Format Compatability Pack

Jason — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:01:18 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

Allows to open/edit 2007 format in any version of word.

Installing from non-bootable DVD (URGENT!)

Zachary — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:47:04 GMT

Hi,

I had a bootable DVD from a friend of Vista Ultimate upgrade or fresh install.

I had Home Premium pre-installed.

I upgraded to the Ultimate through "Upgrade" and it was successful.

But I lent the DVD to a friend, and I have now realised I want to reinstall.

I have a non-bootable exact copy of the bootable disc. I can start fresh install from inside Windows, but I am wondering if it will work.

Moving from one Vista version to another

Jon Isaksson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:48:49 GMT

Hello

I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate for the last 60 days or so (using the trial period) but I am quickly coming up to the end of the 120 days trial period.
I have now purchased Window Home premium. Is there anyway to "convert" my existing Vista Ultimate install to my Windows Home version?

Regards
Jon

Reformat to XP from Vista question about SATA hard drive problems with XP Please help ^^

winrii — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:04:03 GMT

Hello =)

I built my computer last year around march when Vista was first coming out. I decided to buy all my hardware as "Vista Ready" however a lot of it seems to have computability issues with the hardware. Everything including my hard drive is SATA. I have decided to reformat to XP because my hardware just doesn't seem to have the proper drivers for Vista and unfortunately the companies of the hardware aren't putting out any new drivers =\. I purchased XP and am ready try a reformat loading from the CD drive. I saved all my disks for all my hardware and will make sure I have all the XP drivers needed for each piece. ^^

HOWEVER, I read about SATA issues with XP installation especially with the hard drive. I had read posts online like this one about doing a reformat to XP on a computer:

"Also if your using Sata hard drives and your sata controller is in compatability mode and not ahci you should not need addional drivers for the controller. If you do need the Sata drivers be sure they are on a floppy and use the f6 install to specify the controller drivers."

1. How can i make sure my sata controller is in "compatibility mode" and not ahci? My motherboard literally has all SATA and I can only assume then that I am naturally in "compatibility mode"......is this right? Is there an option in my bios to check to make sure its in "compatibility mode"?

2. The quote above says to make sure I have SATA drivers on a disk........is this quote just talking about the drivers that my hardware (which is all SATA) need in order to make my computer user ready?

I am not completely computer retarded, but I am just worried about reformatting my computer and screwing up. I was wondering if SATA hardware is going to have trouble with XP or something. I'm scared but I want to switch back to XP. The vista is arguing with all my hardware. It's a disaster. =(

Please offer any advice you may have. I love to learn about computers so honestly this is fun for me. ^^ Thank you and wish me luck lol. ^^

Can't load RAM

WildcatWhiz — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:46:59 GMT

Hi forums. I'm new here.

I have an HP tx1000 tablet notebook with Vista Business 32 bit SP1

I just bought 2X2GB PC-2 5300 RAM sticks. I know that 32 bit Vista will only address a theoretical max 4GB.

That's not my problem. My problem is that I think one of the sticks is dead. With both installed, I can get through BIOS and into Vista. With both, or just the one I think is broken, can't even post BIOS screen.

I have installed the lastest BIOS flash, still no avail. Any way to tell if RAM is busted? Other than dropping it into another laptop?

Thanks.

Install vista

rakesh — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:42:09 GMT

My new Dell laptop has C:(140 Gb) and D:(10 Gb). D: is a recovery drive. i want to create more partitions.Disk management shows that four partitions are already created on basic disk.

can i delete D: and proceed with shrink option or do i need to reinstall vista.

Vista home premium

aguila1 — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:34:23 GMT

I installed vista home premium in a new computer, I copy my folders from my old computer which had windows XP home edition, but, when I try to put my CDs wiht the information in my Vista (E) cd reader it doesn show nothing, somebody has a solution?

Thank you

Toshiba laptop w- Vista problems with Internet Explorer and general operations

gluggo — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:10:51 GMT

My first post I had a problem with my new Toshiba Lap Top. It has the Vista home premium installed. Its a Satellite P105-S6197 laptop. I have had it for about 3 weeks and it just started to not allow my internet explorer to come up. It would come up 1 time and then would not respond after that. I did put a few downloads on the computor but nothing important. This is my 4th laptop I have owned but my first with vista. My 2nd Toshiba laptop. Anybody else had this?

Last night I was disgusted so I ran it through the Toshiba recovery disk and whiped it clean. The disk worked without a flaw and now I am back to where I was after I first bought the laptop. This time I made a restore point right after the recovery disk did its job. But I am still at a loss as to why the problems.

The control panel was not responding as well as the movies when I tried to play them. Even the uninstall programs refused to work.

I am glad to say that now everything is working great. I think the only real update to the laptop was a

HP printer 7410 software I added.

MS Office 2007 full version I added

MS Office 2007 Proffessor

I did add Sony Sonic Stage ver 3.2 for network walkman it never did work I tried to download the vista version online and did but never did get it working. But that was early in the first days and had not problems until about 3 weeks later. Just throwing this out there just in case someone else has had this problem. Like I said its now fixed due to the reformatting disks.

About to install SP1, anything I should know beforehand?

Ferraz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:25:38 GMT

Basically I don't want my compy to stop working at this point as I have far too much important stuff on it. I've gotten all the other updates installed and I'm currently downloading SP1. Is there anything special I should know about before installing it (e.g. disabling/uninstalling AVG, etc)?

Windows e-mail sending duplicates

Quercus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:16:56 GMT

I've been running Vista for three months without Windows e-mail problems. I'm now finding that I'm sending duplicate e-mails but there is no indication in my Send folder that two messages have gone out. I wondered if it was a problem emanating from using the spell checker and have switched it off - the problem remains

Installing New Motherboard and Processor and Vista

warlord — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:05:40 GMT

OK, just ordered a E6600 Core Duo along with a 775 Socket Motherboard to replace my outdated 939 AMD and 4400+ Dualcore everything else is remaining the same...I have Vista Ultimate 64Bit installed and was wondering if I have to do a clean reinstall in order to get up and running...I would like to not have to reinstall all my current programs ...Does vista give the option to install all the new hardware without having to blow it away or am I looking for trouble if I go that route, I understand it will require a reactivation after the hardware is installed..I just don't look forward to reinstalling everything....

[SOLVED] SP1: Setup did not complete. Reverting changes.

howejustin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:41:40 GMT

Hey all,

I have an issue with Vista SP1 installing (No seriously! Nobody else having the issue, right??). It gets through 100% of stage 3 of 3, then after a minute or two says the "Setup did not complete. Reverting changes." message. Before the Microsoft super wizard got on the phone with me, I had already done a memory scan, chkdisk, scannow, file cleanup, defrag, nothing helped (I have Home Premium, and I do have the two required updates installed as well). When he connected to my computer, he tried to install right off the bat (a stupid thing to do, considering I wouldn't be calling if I didn't have the issue) and it of course failed. Then after checking to make sure no antivirus etc was active (which I uninstalled the day before) he disabled all non-Microsoft services from startup and disabled my TV card, sound card and graphics card, then tried again. Still didn't install. Lastly he installed some kind of tool from Microsoft's update site and tried to install SP1 again, this time from the standalone 500+mb version. No luck.

He scheduled a call today between 3 and 5pm from one of their research and developement team members to get deeper into the problem, but do any of you have any ideas what's going on?

Here is my computer and it's specs:

Dell Inspiron 531

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
2GB DDR2 RAM
320GB HD (168GB Free)
DVD±RW
22" Widescreen flatpanel Dell monitor
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTX
Windows Vista Home Premium

I've been working as a software engineer and in the I.T. industry for 15 years now, I have no idea why this thing won't install.

Dual Boot Vista - Linux

Microsft Desabused — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:00 GMT

After successfully installing a dual boot of PCLinux OS on my laptop running MS Vista Home Edition and playing with it (Linux) for a while, I rebooted my laptop.

Everything went fine, I was able to choose MS Vista in the GRUB boot menu.
Vista started fine...looking good looking good.

THEN....some weird thing happened in Vista, I had problems with my Windows Explorer, problems with detecting my external hard drive.

I rebooted and then....CRASH!!!! WITHOUT MY AGREEMENT, VISTA STARTED TO SLICE AND DICE THE GRUB START-UP MENU AND GAVE ME THAT F*CKING SCREEN!!!

You know what? If Microsoft can't tolerate other Operating System. Why don't they design themselves a new one???? Hey Bill? Never thought about creating another OS in parallel of Windows??? It never occured to you that the best way to control it's competitors is to create them instead???

I'm switching back to XP...Vista is the worst thing that happened since the appearance of "Plug & Pray" systems...

[SOLVED] Dual boot drive letter question

kbfan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:50 GMT

I'd like to install Vista and XP dual boot on a new system. I need to install Vista first, because it's the OEM version. I'll leave room on the disk for a partition for XP when I install Vista, so I won't have to shrink the Vista partition. Otherwise, I'll follow one of the many guides out there for installing XP second (recovering the Vista boot sector and all that.), like the APC guide linked in the sticky at the top of the forum.

I have a question about drive letters. When I install Vista, it will be on the C: drive, and the partition that will eventually hold XP will become D:. When I install XP, and when I'm running XP, I would like XP to map the second physical partition that I reserved for it as C:, and the Vista partition as D:. I don't want XP to think it's on D: when it boots, just to avoid the hassle of things like driver installation programs that shouldn't be, but are sensitive to stuff like that. (Plus you just get used to having Windows on the C: drive). In other words, when I boot Vista, I'd like it to map partition 1, its boot partition, as C: and partition 2 as D:. However, when I boot XP, I'd like XP to map partition 2, its boot partition, as C: and partition 1 as D:.

If I follow the usual procedures to install XP dual boot, will this happen automatically, or is there some magic I can do (Disk Management in control panel or whatever) that will achieve this effect?

incompatibility issue with a supposed compatible program

mazzers — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:09 GMT

Hi, I am new here and new to Vista. I have a Toshiba dynabook TX/67E running Japanese OS Home Premium and can't get a number of programs to run.

The program is Neuroprogrammer.

For those of you who are more computer literate then me and could help, here is a breakdown of the APP crash. If I can't get this to work, then I will have to reinstall the OS from scratch.

Hope someone has some ideas as to how to solve this! Thanks.

製品
Neuro-Programmer 2

問題
動作が停止しました

日付
2008/04/14 7:29

状態
レポートされていません

問題の署名
問題イベント名: APPCRASH
アプリケーション名: Neuro-Programmer 2.exe
アプリケーションのバージョン: 2.3.6.0
アプリケーションのタイムスタンプ: 45df724a
障害モジュールの名前: StackHash_92c6
障害モジュールのバージョン: 6.0.6001.18000
障害モジュールのタイムスタンプ: 4791a7a6
例外コード: c0000374
例外オフセット: 000b015d
OS バージョン: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
ロケール ID: 1041
追加情報 1: 92c6
追加情報 2: 503e05cb95ab3bd56a00680b78e713a1
追加情報 3: 4a1b
追加情報 4: ef9d52361a42875499f1f1b8d5ced721

問題の説明に役立つファイル
Version.txt
AppCompat.txt

BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASS" COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments"
FILE_VERSION="2.3" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 1999-2007"
VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="01/21/2007 21:53:25" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/21/2007 21:53:25"
EXPORT_NAME="BASS.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x4798F2D6" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.3"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASSenc"
COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments" FILE_VERSION="2.3"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 2003-2007" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.3" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="01/08/2007 15:15:54" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/08/2007 15:15:54"
EXPORT_NAME="BASSENC.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x4B652538" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x84C47"
LINKER_VERSION="0x10000" LINK_DATE="04/17/2005 20:46:53"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="04/17/2005 20:46:53" EXPORT_NAME="BASSTools.dll" />
CHECKSUM="0x5B4E6572" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x830AB"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/08/2007 18:58:46"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/08/2007 18:58:46" EXPORT_NAME="MIXWRITE.dll" />
CHECKSUM="0xFABC72B1" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASSWMA"
COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments" FILE_VERSION="2.3"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 2002-2006" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="11/25/2006 14:20:13" UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/25/2006 14:20:13"
EXPORT_NAME="BASSWMA.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x7E443E0A" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Neuro-Programmer 2" COMPANY_NAME="Transparent
Corporation, www.transparentcorp.com" PRODUCT_NAME="Neuro-Programmer
2" FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="Neuro-Programmer 2.exe"
INTERNAL_NAME="Neuro-Programmer 2.exe" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright
2003-2007 Transparent Corporation All Rights Reserved" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0" LINK_DATE="04/20/2005 06:29:36"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="04/20/2005 06:29:36" VER_LANGUAGE="ニュートラル言語 [0x0]" />
CHECKSUM="0x62CCD3A7" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.1.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.0.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Help & Manual Multimedia Viewer"
COMPANY_NAME="EC Software" PRODUCT_NAME="HMV" FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="hmv.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="HMV" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c)
2001 EC Software" VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4"
VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.1.0" LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (米国) [0x409]" />
CHECKSUM="0x5A0AA736" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="11/22/2003 09:36:52"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/22/2003 09:36:52" />
CHECKSUM="0x34F983C0" BIN_FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="51.44.0.0" PRODUCT_VERSION=""
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Setup/Uninstall" COMPANY_NAME="" PRODUCT_NAME="Inno
Setup" FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="" INTERNAL_NAME=""
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Jordan Russell. Portions
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Martijn Laan." VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0"
VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="51.44.0.0"
LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17" UPTO_LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17"
VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (米国) [0x409]" />

CHECKSUM="0x385B84D2" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="NT レイヤ DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation"
PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System"
FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="ntdll.dll.mui" INTERNAL_NAME="ntdll.dll"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved."
VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x135D86" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" LINK_DATE="01/19/2008
07:32:54" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/19/2008 07:32:54" EXPORT_NAME="ntdll.dll"
VER_LANGUAGE="日本語 (日本) [0x411]" />

CHECKSUM="0x7E15918F" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT ベース API クライアント DLL"
COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft(R)
Windows(R) Operating System" FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000
(longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32"
INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c) Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved." VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0"
VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0xE6C61" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" LINK_DATE="01/19/2008
07:31:57" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/19/2008 07:31:57"
EXPORT_NAME="KERNEL32.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="日本語 (日本) [0x411]" />

Vista OEM + XP Retail?

kbfan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:12:14 GMT

I'm building a new machine, so I bought Vista OEM (64 bit). I want to dual boot, so I bought the retail version of XP. My reasoning was that I won't need to transfer the Vista to a future PC, but if I upgrade down the road, I'd like to move XP to the new machine. (Vista may be fine, but to borrow from the late Charlton Heston, MS can take my XP away from my cold dead hands!)

So, my guess is that I need to install Vista first. However, I'm wondering if that's true. The OEM version won't upgrade a partition that already has XP, but does it insist on a completely unformatted disk? If I already have an XP partition, can the OEM version of Vista leave that alone and install one a new, second, partition on the disk?

(I have a related post about how to get both Vista and XP to see their respective boot partition as C: and the other partition as D:. )

Blue Screen crashes with USB since installing SP1

Argonaut — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:33:42 GMT

I have a USB HDD (powered) ... all working OK with any of my PC's
SP1 installed .. since then if I turn on the USB HDD when VISTA running it crashes .. bluescreen and creates dumps.
If I try to start PC up with drive already switched on PC will not start, keeps rebooting once it gets to Windows splash screen.

The USB HDD still works fine with other PC's ... as I use it daily for backups and file storage.

Did SP1 screw up USB ??

The last time it worked OK on VISTA was immediately before the SP1 upgrade when I took a full system back up .... since then it will not work with VISTA.

After a crash .... I have to switch off USB HDD or unplug i to get VISTA to boot ... often have to do a safe mode start up first , followed by shut down then a normal start.

Vista report ..."Restart after crash, shall I check for solution" but returns nothing ... not even a "nothing found" message.

About screen does tell me I have "Vista Ultimate 2007 Service Pack 1"

PC is Dell 9200 2GB RAM 6600 2.4GHz 2 x 330GB HD RAID 0

USB HDD is connected via a Belkin powered USB hub ... which works fine with XP machines - and worked OK with VISTA prior to this issue.

Boot up problem

norman52 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:07:11 GMT

After a number of failed installs and then trying to reinstall XP I finally got to get Vista up and running. Works great!

The problem is when I boot up i get the start up screen and it shows my old failed install attempts (Old windows) and (Setup) and then Windows Vista. How do I remove the

(old Windows) and (setup) options? I just want my computer to turn on and then boot up to Vista. Now it sits there and waits for me to select which operating system I want.

so my boot screen looks like this

old windows

Windows Vista

Setup

and then it asks me to select one.

I want to remove old vista and set up but I have no idea how?

Installing vista ultimate on xp machine...

500sd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:51:21 GMT

Ok so I picked up a copy of vista ultimate today...and well things didn't turn out as expected.
I get this error after the compatibility report during installation:

Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for these devices:

o IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers: Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller

HELP?

Gateway MT6728 Install Vista Ultimate Freezes

David123 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:25:23 GMT

Hi -

I just purchased the Gateway MT6728 laptop and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. I want to completely wipe the hard drive and re-install Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. The install of Ultimate is fine until it gets to "completing installation" and it hangs up and quits responding. I've tried re-installing Home Premium (disc I received with laptop) and it does the same thing. Now I cannot get anything installed.

My guess would be something to do with the SATA drivers. When I get to the drive screen, it shows the drive and when I select Disk Driver, nothing is recognized. I've tried using the downloadable drivers from Gateway and noting appears compatible with my system.

I saw another post topic in this forum with the same probem but not sure if it was ever resolved. The moderator mentioned changing the BIOS to disable EIST and to change the SATA mode to IDE from AHCI but this laptop has Phoenix BIOS and I cannot find anything in the BIOS to change either setting.

The hard drive is a Hitchaci HTS542516K9SA00 and I cannot find drivers for this drive anywhere.

Am I missing something? Do I need to pre-install some other type of BIOS/motherboard drivers for this to work?? Also, I keep reading that I need a floppy drive to install SATA drivers but I thought this was only the case with XP??? When I select Hard Drive Drivers in the Vista install, is this not the same way to install SATA drivers?

Any and all help will be greatly, greatly appreciated...
David

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS TO INSTALL A SECOND TIMES MY WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE

kervin007 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:54:18 GMT

HI EVERYBODY , I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY PROSPEROUS YEAR 2008

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS TO INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE , I AM GETTING INSTALLATION ERROR CODES OX 80070241 CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME TO RE INSTALLED MY WINDOWS VISTA AGAIN. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

MR NUCKCHADY M C

37 STEVENSON STREET ROSE-HILL MAURITIUS

sound drivers

rajithrox — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:37:29 GMT

im using P5PE-VM mothrboard.. my sound driver are still not wking .. mom using windows vista so i need vista drivers.. and error msg also cming lyk dis SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio (TCSUS_CH5) F5410AMR is missing..

please help me.

rajithh15@hotmail.com
rajithh15@gmail.com
rajithh15@yahoo.com

Dual booting Vista and XP

WAW8 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:29:41 GMT

There are two scenarios with dual booting a machine with both XP and Vista: (1) XP installed first, (2) Vista installed first.

The link below is to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, where XP was installed first (and you're now installing Vista):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista [/url]

The link below is also to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, but in this case, where Vista was installed first (and you're now installing XP):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp [/url]

How will my computer handle Vista

Tarp07XLT — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:26:05 GMT

Hi everyone! So here is the deal I know my computer will handle Vista but Im curious how well. I will be getting Vista Ultimate as this is what is available to me. My question is how well well my hardware handle it? Here are my specs.

AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile Technology
TL-50 1.6GHz 246KB + 256KB L2 cache, up to 1600MHz system bus
I currently have 1 gig DDR2 but am upgrading to 2 gigs DDR2 RAM
120 Gig Hard Drive 5400 RPM
and a NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Graphics Card with up to 128MB shared memory.

So what do you think. And yes I am not too technically savy when it comes to the parts of a computer.

Thanks for any input.

P.S. Love the site so far. Lots of good info to research!

Windows Vista Install Stops - error 80073712

vaderag — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:02 GMT

This is killing me. I see that loads of other people are having similar problems to me - the download stops in windows update and it gives me the error code 80073712

I've tried the numerous solutions on the net (short of re-installing vista, which is not something i'm prepared to do at the moment)

I've searched these forums, and found mention to a pinned thread that i cant seem to find!? I'm pretty sure that i'll have tried everything in that thread anyway...

Can anyone help with this matter?
Thanks

[SOLVED]weird problem when trying to boot from dvd

kostas_8 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:15:07 GMT

Hi all. I have a problem when trying to install windows vista 32 bit on my pc. I try to boot from cd but when i press a button to boot from cd the cd stops spinning and i get my pc restarted. same thing everytime.

ASUS M2N motherboard
2GB Ram
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3Ghz
ATI HD3870 512MB

I don't know why this happens.
i have 2 IDE HDD (120+250 GB) and a IDE converted with an adaptor to SATA, DVD drive. waiting for help :/

Uninstalling Vista SP1

WAW8 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:31:35 GMT

Some folks are reporting that Vista SP1, rather than improving their "experience", has caused major problems. If you're one of those, or if you just want to remove SP1, here's a link to the MS KB that explains how to do that:

[b][url] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948537/en-us [/url][/b]