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Making Vista machines part of a domain
Hi folks,
We have a few remote users who have Dell laptops with Vista Business.
Originally they were set up as stand alone machine, no domain authentication.
I recently set up a VPN between our main office and the branch office, and I
now want to make these machines part of my domain.
Anyone want to share any of the steps they have used to accomplish this? I
assume like with XP, tha...
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10/16/2008 10:39:01 AM |
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hidden partiton recovery dell xps 420
I have a Dell xps 420 desktop with the hidden recovery partition.
My f8 option no longer works to recover to new (advanced boot options
menu) I do not have the "repair my computer" option I once had.
Can I unhide (with acronis) and boot from the recovery partition to do
this? I just
want to recover it back to the way it was as i received it new from
dell.
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itzmillertyme...
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10/15/2008 10:24:15 PM |
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Windows Update bug: empty screen, button with no text
My vista Business's Windows Update has a bug, the screen always displays an
empty screen with a button with no text. After click on the button, nothing
happens. I simply cannot use Windows Update at all. Anyone know how to fix
this??
Thanks!
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10/15/2008 5:52:56 PM |
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Restart problem when installing vista ultimate
I am having a problem installing windows vista ultimate 64 bit, these
are my system specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Quad-Core 2.83GHz Fan
Cooler Master Hyper TX X2 Motherboard ASUS
P5N-T Deluxe NVIDIA 780i Memory Corsair XMS2
Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz Storage Seagate
1TB (2x500GB) SATA 32MB cache ...
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10/15/2008 1:14:23 PM |
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upgrading from oem to retail?
I have a Greek OEM version of windows vista home premium, and I want to
upgrade it to windows vista ultimate English retail package. can I do that?
and if I can do that, after the upgrade process will the OEM information be
erased from my pc?
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10/15/2008 2:58:57 AM |
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Can't upgrade from Vista Basic to Enterprise
I am trying to do a simple upgrade from Vista Basic to Vista Enterprise. I
have tried to do the install from within Vista and by booting up with the
DVD. However, I get the same message either way -
"Upgrade has been disabled. You cannot upgrade from Windows Vista Home
Basic to Windows Vista Enterprise. You can upgrade to Windows Vista Home
Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Window...
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10/14/2008 4:05:49 PM |
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Re-Format and Reload?
Would appreciate advice or comments.
I have a pre installed OEM Vista Ultimate 64 bit OS on an ASUS
Motherboard with AMD Phenom Quad Core 2.6 GHz and 8 MB Ram. There are
two 250 GB Hard discs set up as a Mirror Raid
Despite assurances from my software supplier my main software will not
run on the 64 bit system and as alternatives are prohibitive in cost,
reluctantly I will need to install the 3...
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10/14/2008 8:55:41 AM |
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"Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration..."
I am attempting to upgrade from Win XP Pro (SP3) to Vista Home Premium, and
purchased the update from the Microsoft Store online and downloaded my three
files. That is, I am not using the CD or DVD option for upgrade.
The Windows Upgrade Advisor gives me the all-clear for upgrade.
When I commence the upgrade process and get to the 'Installing Windows...'
screen it successfully complete...
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10/14/2008 6:15:01 AM |
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Problem with HP K550 Printer
Recently my HP Deskjet Pro K550 Series stopped functioning on my system.
I verified the hardware was fine by connecting it another computer
running XP.
On my HP Pavillion running VISTA Home Premium , how, whenever I try to
print I get a message3 in the print Queue saying "Error printing" with
no further information.
I uninstalled the printer drivers and reinstalled them without success.
Can any...
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10/14/2008 6:09:00 AM |
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do i need directx?
I normally would install directx 9 on my win xp computers.
Should I install directx 10, or another version of directx, or should I
avoid installing directx at all on a dell studio laptop running vista
home premium?
Thanks for any advice....
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10/14/2008 5:21:03 AM |
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Need to understand permission and ownership
I am completely lost on trying to understand the process of accessing my
folders and files on vista.
I am the only user and have only one administrator account with my name.
There are also some other folders such as:
all users, default, default user and public in my users folder in the c
drive.
What I want to do is simply have access to all of the folders and files
on my computer.
How ...
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10/14/2008 1:32:17 AM |
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rename and autologin
I am conducting a scripted computer rename and move within AD usinf WMI
and vbsript .. once this has completed the computer restarts.. often I
find the autologon fails (not all the time), and it's quite random and I
cant really explain why.
A manual login will work, but the autologin will not.
We have looked at AD replication and this appears to be ok.
We have also tried delaying t...
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10/13/2008 1:56:55 PM |
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recovery disk of home basic sp1
Hai, I have lenovo y 410 775789Q model with vista home basic sp1(just 20
days back) and they didn't give me any disc related to vista, they just
give me two cd s lenovo software gift package and lenovo device drivers,
so please tell me how to create recovery disk to repair my computer
because i installed linux (fedora) for dual booting, when i want to
remove the linux it asks for disk to repair t...
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10/13/2008 1:02:42 PM |
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vista bsod help
hI there i have just installed vista on my computer, with lots of
problems basiclly my computer keeps crashing to blue screen
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0X000000D1 (0XA1E1D974,0X00000007,0X00000000,0XA1E1D974)
PLEASE pppppppppppplease help me
mb=abit nf8
pro=amd Athlon 64 3000+ 2Ghz
ram=1.5 gb
graphic card= geforce3 ti 200
hd=western dig sata 2 160gb
op=vista home prem 32bit
i have ...
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10/13/2008 3:25:46 AM |
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cant install intel raid drivers on vista
Hi,
Ive got a vista home premium pc. Im trying to setup a raid 5 with three
extra drives.
Intel 965 chipset.
Ive tried to install the raid drivers but in device manager/hardware
they dont appear. I
I can boot from my OS drive ok when Im in IDE mode, I can set the raid
array up ok but when I try to boot into my OS with the raid set up it
crashes on the cylon eye stage. When Ive tried b...
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10/13/2008 1:34:59 AM |
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Technet Home Basic Product Key
I've got Windows vista Enterprise via my volume licensing/software assurance.
Supposedly this allows me to run as many instances of Vista as I want as
virutal machines running on my Vista Enterprise host system. I want to run
an instance of Vista Home Basic as a virtual machine for testing purposes but
don't seem to have a product key that will work with it. I've got Business,
enterpr...
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10/12/2008 9:38:58 PM |
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Upgrade Win Xp PRO to Vista Home Premium - Windows Easy Transfer (REPLACEMEMT)
G'Day All,
This requires a clean install - ok!
I can use WET/XPpro to transfer settings etc to a USB 80MB external drive.
I THINK that I THEN need to:
1. Upgrade to Vista
2. Reinstall apps
3. Use WET/VistaH/P to restore the settings from the USB drive.
Are steps 2 and 3 in the correct order?
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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10/12/2008 8:52:39 PM |
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Upgrade Win Xp to Vista Home Premium - Windows Easy Transfer
This required a clean install - ok!
I can use WET/XP to transfer settings etc to a USB 80MB external drive.
I THINK that I need to:
1. Upgrade to Vista
2. reinstall apps
3. use WET/Vista to restore the settings from the USB drive.
Are steps 2 and 3 in the correct order?
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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10/12/2008 7:29:47 AM |
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Force SoundMax Driver Install
I'm installing Vista on an old box for my Mother to use for web & email.
Asus Terminator P4-533A (uses P4SC mobo)
Install went smoothly but Windows Update made the same mistake as it
did when using XP on this box: it identified the onboard Audio chipset
as SIS 7012 instead of SoundMax AD1980.
Vista will not let me update to the SoundMax drivers. XP did the same
thing but I found a work around ...
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10/11/2008 2:52:20 PM |
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The Recovery Drive and malware issues.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2016&tag=nl.e589...
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10/11/2008 11:50:01 AM |
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obsolete USB Scanners and Vista
For those of you who have USB scanners that Vista has reported to be
incompatible, do the following.
1- Make sure you have your scanner installation CD
2- Unplug the USB lead from the scanner to the computer.
3- Restart Vista
4- Plug in the USB cable for the scanner to your computer.
5- Vista will state "new hardware found, searching for drivers" let this
finish, you will then be prompted...
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10/11/2008 6:19:06 AM |
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Not all users are "stupid"
Hi,
I would just like to make a statement to hope for a more streamlined
deployment of Microsoft Windows. This would neccessarily apply to the
upcoming version.
While I am lenient to commend Microsoft on their efforts to make Windows as
broadly accessible as well as safe, I have to say that I am greatly dismayed
as an IT professional.
So my wish is that you consider making availab...
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10/11/2008 3:59:00 AM |
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Vista Image Problems
We are having problems with imaging our Vista laptops.
Current setup is, small boot partition then large second partition for
Vista C:. This is because we are going to use Bit locker to encrypt the
main drive for security so the boot drive (system drive from MS eyes)
and Vista partition (Boot drive from MS eyes) cannot be the same.
Setup is very similar to systems sent to use by HP or Dell where ...
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10/10/2008 5:47:46 PM |
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Retail Media + OEM serial (both legit) = No activation.
My wife's EMachine PC came with an OEM load of Vista Home Premium
installed on it. There was no media included.
We had to install XP Pro on the machine because of some classes that
she was taking. Now that said classes are over with, she wanted to go
back to Vista.
Unfortunately now we couldn't do a restore back to the original factory
load - something got hosed up when we went to XP.
Since I ...
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10/10/2008 5:18:15 PM |
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Windows Vista Home Premium
My son has messed up his installation of Windows Vista Home Premium (came pre
installed on his desktop) and I'm trying to fix it for him. He is currently
running Windows Vista Home Premium and every time the desktop loads it comes
up with the error message 'Windows Explorer is Not Responding'. Is there
anything I can do to fix this?...
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10/10/2008 9:10:00 AM |