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    - winService.exe Has Stopped Working Shortly after I boot up Vistas Home Premium I get a message winservice. exe has stopped working. How do I fix this? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373985
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    - Kaplan Software Doesn't Work - Receive "MCI Driver not loaded" err Can someone please point me to a fix? I called Kaplan and they gave me a dead link to a supposed Microsoft fix for this error. I'm running Vista 64-bit Ultimate but can't access a Kaplan study program on a CD because of this MCI error. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373975
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    - Vista 64 Ultimate I have installed the OS fine with 2 gb of memory and now want to add the send set of 2gb to go to 4gb. I have heard you need SP1 in order to do this. I went to update to SP1 and read some forms that if all the drivers are up to date it should come in the auto d/ls I have done all the automatic updates and no SP1. All drivers on the system are up to date. I was going to just d/l it and install mannually but read it is not a good idea as people have had major issues like blue screens ect once they do this. And it is safer to wait for automatic updates to do this to ensure system is in line with sp1. What am I to do? I want my 4gb of ram. Thanks much Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373971
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    - Crash and burn My hard drive w/ Win XP decided to just up and die. It won't even turn off or send a signal to a monitor. I went out and bought a new computer w/ Vista. My problem is, how do I recover what was on the old hard drive if I can't see anything on a monitor? Will I have to pay a recovery service or is it gone forever? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373961
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    - someone at Microsoft is very angry.. LOL I see constant deletions of post on the microsoft vista newsgroup server.. This may be due to: 1) some GLITCH (not unlikely if the newsgroups are running on windows 2008.. LOL) 2) Someone at microsoft doesn't like us saying the truth about how bad and creepy vista is! I think it's the later... So what are these MSFT guys doing? Deleting posts? Shame on them.. trying to conceal the truth about how crap vista is! If they didn't want harsh comments, people cursing vista, peoples hate posts or people just making good ol fun of vista... THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT BETTER! I don't see this crap going on on the XP newsgroup for example. WHY? Its vistas fault.. no one elses... so stop deleting messages and work faster on windows7 to make it better, because vista is already doomed. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373918
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    - Re: How to keep making money while making CRAP products? Im fed up reading posts about how MS has sold 140 million liscences of Vista, trying to feed us the notion that somehow vista is actually a successful product. You know what I have to say about that? >>>> HOGWASH! So how does MS keep on making money while making CRAP products like VISTA?!? Simple. Create a monopoly! Yeah... the Microsoft way! Then push your new crap products on new computers .... Then say: "See? Our new product (im talking about vista here of course) is GREAT and it selling like hotcakes!" EHEMMMM.... its selling like hotcakes because you are selling it preinstalled on new computers dahh...... And then you have the stupid idiots that see the 140 million number and say ... wow... vista is great! its selling so many copies! Don't be ridiculous! That's how many new computers are sold anyway! LOL And since MS pushes its stupid new vista on new computers (you can get xp on some new computers if you go to the right place, but you must specifically ask for it... at first this was impossible to do anyway... MS had excluded XP from ALL new computers! Then some companies insisted on selling xp due to popular demand.. so MS had to comply very reluctantly!) Lol.... can some idiot vista fanboys eat this sh!t? They actually think vista is selling because its good? Give UBUNTU the monopoly for one and a half year, meaning that it will be PUSHED on new computers for 18 months like vista has, and guess what? 140 computers will have ubuntu! Then guess what? Suddenly all big software houses will have ported their apps to work on ubuntu! But lets make some thing clear... 140 mill licenses that MS claims does not mean that there are 140 million computers actually running vista-crapista. Nope, many dual boot with xp, and forget about vista, many format vista and install XP, many just hate their new vista computer and use their old XP computer to do actual work, many got the upgrade anytime vista license and never upgraded! (those are the smart ones) People who cannot think, have limited perception of reality, or just plainly believe what they want to believe (LIKE DORK FRANK the biggest idiot of this newsgroup ever), JUST GIVE ME THE CREEPS! Just think of this: If these people can eat whatever they are told, and actually become fanboys of lies, what OTHER FALSE THINGS do these people believe? These people remind me of how gullible the Germans were and started listening to Hitler's crap, and actually believed him! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373901
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    - AVG Free 8 and Vista possible conflicts? Today I downloaded the new free AVG. I have this and Spyware blaster and Super antispyware installed. I ran a scan with te AVG and it found Trojan's, adware, etc, or so it seemed. When the summary came up at the end a result of 0 (as in nothing found) came up in each categry, with about 214 in the warnings category, potential threats. Did the AVG somehow mistake the protection files for the The software on both mine and my dad's laptops is pretty identical, and the same result showed up on both. I wasn't sure what to do at the end. I haven't changed any settings and as I understand it all the threats were removed. At any rate I ran the scan again and nothing was found. The supposed adware etc often is listed under 'File' in AVG as HKLM \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibl... if that helps anyone identify what's happening any better. I just considered then that maybe having run 7.5 with these Vista laptops might be why these got through. From what I read compatibility with Vista machines seem to vary? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373894
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    - Vista Users How can move all Users to a secondary hard drive? I wish to store all data for all users on a second hard drive. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373872
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    - changing the language Hi I'm polish but i live in england I've bought a computer for my brother as a present. unfortunately he doesn't speak english. how can i change the operating language from english to polish Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373861
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    - changing language of the oparating system Hi I'm polish and I live in england. I have bought a computer for my brother as a present. unfortunately he doesn't speak english. How can I change the ope Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373857
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    - changing language of operating system Hi I'm polish but I live in england. I have bought the computer with vista in english version for my brother as a present. unfortunately he doesn't speak english. How can I change the operating systme language from english to polish. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373850
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    - Task scheduler doesn't run the task Hi, I have a problem in vista 64bit: If I set up a task in the Task Scheduler and I check the "Wake the computer to run this task", the computer wakes up (from hibernate) at the specified time but the task doesn't run. Is there any solution for this? -- Perez ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Perez's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48753 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=964968 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373837
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    - Windows Uninstall Cant uninstall Windows Uninstall Clean Up Program or Reinstall the package..............Thanx Again, Bill --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080508-0, 05/08/2008 Tested on: 5/9/2008 2:50:36 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373820
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    - Xbox 360 will not recognize external hard drives on pc I have my Xbox 360 connected to my PC wirelessly. I had it set up so that I could view my vieos, etc., that were on my PC with no problems. Most are on an external drive. A week or so ago I shut off my external drives to let everything cool down, and now my 360 won't recognize the external drives. It still gives me the option for any files on my internal HD, but the external ones do not show up in either the "Videos" section, or "Media Center". They are all there, however, if I go into Windows Media Player or Media Center on my PC. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373798
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    - Problem viewing folders I tried to change the display settings in my 'preferences' or 'personalise' folder, clicking on a bigger resolution made the display too big for my screen but then reverted back because i could not confirm it. Since then any folder windows I open appear off screen. The start bar and programs such as internet explorer open fine on screen and maximise as normal, but all folder windows, recycle bin, control panel etc appear to open off screen. I've changed my start bar settings so i can access control panel by expanding folders in the classic way but i still cannot access my 'personalise' folder. i cannot thing of any other way to get it back to normal and I've only been using Vista for an hour. Thanks. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373790
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    - Running a 2nd OS with Vista Home edition (Windows 98?) I've lost a magazine I had that talked of having dual OS's. I'd like to put Windows 98 on my Toshiba laptop if it can be done. Following various problems I have put Vista and all the Updates on 3 times now, so I don't want any risks. I read a little bit about Virtual PC and wondered if there were other options. Also, what happens about drivers? Will, in 98 mode, the laptop use the Vista drivers? All advice/ suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373785
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    - The truth about Adam Albright Adam ALWAYS responds to either myself or Frank or anybody who happens to like Vista. Just like clockwork, Adam chimes in with how bad Vista was designed, all the flaws, UAC, beeping, file transfer errors. Maybe Adam just can't grasp how to correctly use Vista. Maybe he has trouble with configuration. Don't really know, but what WE DO KNOW is that he will always chime in on cue. That is a given. Makes Adam look like a fool and the twit he really is. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373762
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    - MSCONFIG I am running vista home premium as an administrator. When I check or uncheck a box under the MSCONFIG startup tab and press apply the check/uncheck reverts to its' original state. Anyone have any ideas? thanks -- Richard Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373742
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    - Windows Search Indexing will not index When I go to indexing options only 17 objects are indexed even though I've been using the computer for hours. I tried to do a rebuild but nothing is happening. For instance, in Outlook the search is not working and it says I have 9850 objects still to index. Any idea how to fix this? I had to do a system repair with the repair DVD earlier on. TIA Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373739
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    - Help with Vista search function Hi is there a site where there is an explanation for how to use the Search function in Vista Ultimate SP1. thanks Daniel Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373728
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    - I finally got CHKDSK to run on reboot. How to troubleshoot the problem. I had corruption on my hard drive and couldn't get CHKDSK to run on reboot. I finally found what was preventing CHKDSK from running on reboot. It's so hard to diagnose I wanted to document how to troubleshoot it here in case anyone else has the same problem. To troubleshoot CHKDSK does not run on reboot: 1. Set a System Restore Point 2. Run msconfig 3. select 'Boot' tab 4. check "Boot log" and "OS boot information" 5. reboot. See what it says during boot. 6. after boot, check log file C:\WINDOWS\ntbtlog.txt (or something similar to that, such as ntbootlog.txt) 7. One (or more) of these drivers being loaded is causing CHKDSK to say, "Cannot open volume for direct access." Stop these drivers from loading until CHKDSK works again. Figure out which one (or ones) is causing the problem. 8. Pick a driver to disable (e.g. elrawdsk.sys) 9. Run Regedit 10. Search for that driver (elrawdsk.sys) under key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services 11. Under that driver's registry entry, set 'Start' to 4 The service start methods & values are: 1. (unknown) 2. Automatic 3. Manual 4. Disabled 12. Set CHKDSK to run on reboot: a. Right-click on the C: drive b. Properties c. Tools (tab) d. "Error checking. This option will check the volume for errors." click 'Check Now..." e. select "Automatically fix file system errors" (checkbox) f. 'Start' g. "Windows can't check the disk while it's in use. Do you want to check for hard disk errors the next time you start your computer?" select 'Schedule disk check' 13. Reboot. See if CHKDSK runs during the reboot. 14. Repeat until you find the offending service(s). In my case there were two drivers causing the problem: 1. elrawdsk.sys "The process RawDisk Driver. Allows write-access to raw disk sectors for user mode applications in Windows 2000, belongs to the software ElRawDisk by EldoS Corporation." (I probably installed a trial version of Crypto4, and the uninstaller didn't remove this file.) 2. HMFAxCore826fcf267a04f6fadfb619829081c960.sys Digitally signed by Eltima Software, and used by another 3rd party virtual volume encryption program I was trying out. References: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484 (Unable to run CHKDSK) http://www.file.net/process/elrawdsk.sys.html Since there are well over 100 drivers that get loaded on boot, and most are fine, I'll append here a list of drivers which are not the problem and do not prevent CHKDSK from running. This will narrow down what drivers to test disable. These drivers load on my Vista Home Premium and CHKDSK runs OK on reboot. This list may be useful to someone troubleshooting CHKDSK, as these are drivers they don't need to try disabling: Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\acpi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\afd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\amdk8.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\atapi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ataport.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\battc.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\bcmwl6.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\beep.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\bowser.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\chdart.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\chdrt32.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\classpnp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\cmbatt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\compbatt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\cpqbttn.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\dfsc.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\disk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\drmkaud.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\eabfiltr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ecache.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\fileinfo.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\fltmgr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\fs_rec.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\fwpkclnt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hdaudbus.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hidusb.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hpqkbfiltr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hpqremhid.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hsx_cnxt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hsx_dpv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hsxhwazl.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\http.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\i8042prt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\kbdclass.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\kbdhid.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ksecdd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\lltdio.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\luafv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mdmxsdk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\modem.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\monitor.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mouclass.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mouhid.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mountmgr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mpsdrv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mrxdav.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mrxsmb.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mrxsmb10.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mrxsmb20.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\msfs.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\msisadrv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\msiscsi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mspqm.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\msrpc.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mssmbios.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mup.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ndis.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ndistapi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ndisuio.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ndiswan.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ndproxy.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\netbios.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\netbt.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\netio.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\npfs.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nsiproxy.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\null.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nvmfdx32.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nvsmu.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nvstor32.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\nwifi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ohci1394.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\pacer.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\partmgr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\pci.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\pciide.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\pciidex.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\peauth.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\pxhelp20.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rasacd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rasl2tp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\raspppoe.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\raspptp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rassstp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rdbss.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rdpcdd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rdpencdd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rimmptsk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rimsptsk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rixdptsk.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\rspndr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\sdbus.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\secdrv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\smb.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\spldr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\srtsp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\srtspx.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\srv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\srv2.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\srvnet.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\storport.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\swenum.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symdns.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symfw.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symids.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symim.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symndisv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symredrv.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\symtdi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\syntp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tcpip.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tcpipreg.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tdx.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\termdd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tunmp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tunnel.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\udfs.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\umbus.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\usbccgp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\usbehci.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\usbhub.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\usbohci.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\usbvideo.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\vga.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\volmgr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\volmgrx.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\volsnap.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wanarp.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wd.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wdf01000.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wdfldr.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wmiacpi.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wmilib.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\xaudio.sys Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\hal.dll Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\kdcom.dll Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\BOOTVID.dll Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\CI.dll Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\CLFS.SYS Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\PSHED.dll Loaded driver \??\C:\Windows\system32\drivers\CO_Mon.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\Windows\system32\drivers\SYMEVENT.SYS Loaded driver \??\C:\Windows\system32\drivers\lxdisk.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\Windows\system32\drivers\lxfs.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\PROGRA~2\Symantec\DEFINI~1\SymcData\idsdefs\20080429.001\IDSvix86.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\PROGRA~2\Symantec\DEFINI~1\SymcData\ipsdefs\20080429.001\IDSvix86.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\PROGRA~2\Symantec\DEFINI~1\VIRUSD~1\20080507.024\NAVENG.SYS Loaded driver \??\C:\PROGRA~2\Symantec\DEFINI~1\VIRUSD~1\20080507.024\NAVEX15.SYS Loaded driver \??\C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\EENGINE\EraserUtilRebootDrv.sys Loaded driver \??\C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\EENGINE\eeCtrl.sys Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373720
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    - Are you looking for a GOOD Defragmenter application? Why pay upwards of a $100 when you can get a open source one that has nearly as many features and actually runs faster? Way faster! I've used Windows built-in Defragmenter and cursed it for how slow it can be and how clumsy not to mention all the files it skips over. I've paid for Disk Keeper and others and found them to be wanting too. UltraDefrag v1.3.4 seems superior in every way. You can't beat free and it is fast. I just finishing up running it on a moderately fragmented large (750GB) drive, total time 2 hours 6 minutes. You can either run from a command prompt or get the often appreciated graphical display of clusters being moved around. Runs in background so doesn't interfere with what else you're doing. Written in C it seems much faster than many others. Works with all popular versions of Windows, both 32 and 64 bit. A very small footprint. http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/ Note: above site seems a little flaky and may take several times before it loads showing a page not found error. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373717
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    - Alternatives to formatting HD and reinstalling Vista I have a Vista Premium PC where I installed a trial version of a program, let it expire and now I bought the full version but cannot seem to get it to install since the ghost of the old trial version seems to be haunting my PC. Before I start formatting the drive (and lose all my other programs and settings) and attempt to reinstall Vista, I was wondering whether there was some easy way to wipe all traces of the trial program? I am no great tech expert, so protracted brain surgery with registry settings may not be an option for me! Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373716
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    - Vista SP1 DVD ? Does anyone yet know of anywhere or anyway that one can obtain a Vista SP1 DVD, for a nominal charge, that one can use with the product key that came with one's non-SP Vista DVD? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373712
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    - issues with MS vx-1000 cam Hi: I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit, and I bought a new livecam vx-1000: I followed the installation procedure, putting the cd-rom inside the cd reader; the install proceeded, and apparently it installed the content; thereupon, a prompt requested to insert the usb jack of the cam; I did that, and a popup balloon appeared on the traybar, telling that the system was seacrhing for the drivers; but after a while it ended saying that it wasn't possible to find any drivers! But what? It is a Vista-ready hardware, produced by the very company selling Vista! I repeated the same procedure on the pc of the guy that sold me the cam, having same hardware and same OS; the installation went smooth at first shot! Though, he himself is unable to figure what is the problem. Why I cannot install this cam? Please help me. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373710
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    - Access 2003 database inconsistent behaviour between Vista and XP Hi Groupies: I'm not sure which newsgroup this question belongs to, sorry. I have an Access 2003 database that was built on my Vista laptop. This laptop also has Access 2007 installed but that version has not been used at all to work with this database. My other computer has Windows XP and only has Access 2003 installed. In a couple of forms I have combo boxes that are used for searches. On my Vista machine, these searches work fine, on my XP machine, the searches work, but no data is "visible" when you push the down arrow. The list still shows the correct number of rows as if the data was there, but no words show up so you have to guess at what you are selecting. The query behind the search boxes works fine and if you try the query by itself all of the data shows up properly. Not realizing what was going on, I spent a couple of hours trying to fix the searches on my XP machine. I changed formatting, rebuilt the query, everything I could think of. There was no way that I could make this thing work on XP yet no problems on Vista. What is the deal???? Any insight?......Anybody....... -- Thanks for taking the time! CJ --------------------------------------------------------- Know thyself, know thy limits....know thy newsgroups! Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373699
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    - Thinking of ditching Vista for Ubuntu? Here's what you can do with Ubuntu: Email Surf the web Burn CDs. Rip CDs. Listen to music. Watch vidoes/DVDs. Scan and print. Spreadsheets. Presentations Newsgroups. HTML editing. Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc. Make videos. Download photos from a camera and organize them. Translations. Use a dictionary Learn how to touch type. Edit images. Send and receive a fax. Take screen shots. Create .PDF files. Create and use a data base. Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including Windows Live Messenger. IRC. Bluetooth. and much more! What you can't do with Ubuntu: Worry about: WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads, DRM, Viruses, Root kits, Spyware, and Malware. Seems like an obvious choice to me: ditch Vista and get Ubuntu, which is FREE, along with access to 23,000 FREE programs. Check it out at http://www.ubuntu.com/ Alias Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373697
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    - Vista and WebDAV I am currntly running Vista with SP1. I can connect to my WebDAV folders but when I try to double click on a folder inside the Explorer window it doesn't work. I would need to Right Click on the folder and select Explore in order to open the folder. When I try to double click to open a Word document it doesn't work, so I must also right click on the document and select Open. Is there a setting some place that I should be looking at? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373691
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    - change sound for email I found a .wav that I like and want to change the sound for my email. I added the sound to the file where the "New Mail Notification" sound were. I've change the sound under the "New Mail Notification" in the list and I couldn't get the sound to work so I had to change it back to the original sound. It'll play with iTunes and other music program but it won't play the from the Test Button. Can anyone help me on this, please? Lauria Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373686
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    - How to keep making money while making CRAP products?!? Im fed up reading posts about how MS has sold 140 million liscences of Vista, trying to feed us the notion that somehow vista is actually a successful product. You know what I have to say about that? >>>> HOGWASH! So how does MS keep on making money while making CRAP products like VISTA?!? Simple. Create a monopoly! Yeah... the Microsoft way! Then push your new crap products on new computers .... Then say: "See? Our new product (im talking about vista here of course) is GREAT and it selling like hotcakes!" EHEMMMM.... its selling like hotcakes because you are selling it preinstalled on new computers dahh...... And then you have the stupid idiots that see the 140 million number and say ... wow... vista is great! its selling so many copies! Don't be ridiculous! That's how many new computers are sold anyway! LOL And since MS pushes its stupid new vista on new computers (you can get xp on some new computers if you go to the right place, but you must specifically ask for it... at first this was impossible to do anyway... MS had excluded XP from ALL new computers! Then some companies insisted on selling xp due to popular demand.. so MS had to comply very reluctantly!) Lol.... can some idiot vista fanboys eat this sh!t? They actually think vista is selling because its good? Give UBUNTU the monopoly for one and a half year, meaning that it will be PUSHED on new computers for 18 months like vista has, and guess what? 140 computers will have ubuntu! Then guess what? Suddenly all big software houses will have ported their apps to work on ubuntu! But lets make some thing clear... 140 mill licenses that MS claims does not mean that there are 140 million computers actually running vista-crapista. Nope, many dual boot with xp, and forget about vista, many format vista and install XP, many just hate their new vista computer and use their old XP computer to do actual work, many got the upgrade anytime vista license and never upgraded! (those are the smart ones) People who cannot think, have limited perception of reality, or just plainly believe what they want to believe (LIKE DORK FRANK the biggest idiot of this newsgroup ever), JUST GIVE ME THE CREEPS! Just think of this: If these people can eat whatever they are told, and actually become fanboys of lies, what OTHER FALSE THINGS do these people believe? These people remind me of how gullible the Germans were and started listening to Hitler's crap, and actually believed him! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373671
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    - Download Complete - Window does not close (VISTA Ultimate SP1) Has anyone had any problems downloading files and having the download window never closes? Steps to replicate: 1. Open Web Page 2. Select File to Download 3. Watch the file begin to download 4. Download screen will say "Verifying" 5. The download gets to 99% and it never closes. Why would the window remain on the screen, but the file be downloaded properly? Makes no sense! Any ideas?? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373669
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    - how to access alias::* from anywhere. To illustrate my question i'll just give the scenario i'm facing right now. I'm using uTorrent and would like to enter as default download path something in the lines of "%downloads%\P2P\" or "shell::downloads\P2P'". Obviously none of these is the correct one and my question is, what is the correct way to use the shell folders from applications, command prompt and autohotkey scripts. Thanks! -- hesher Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373667
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    - Can't preview pictures on desktop anymore Hi, For some reason I can no longer preview computer pictures(bmp, jpg, gif, etc)that are on the desktop. Normally, by double clicking the images would open up Windows Photo Gallery. Now nothing happens. Double clicking in folder's in my computer still work, just the desktop seems to be having this issue now. Even if I right-click and choose preview or 'open-with'. It's very ood. I tried setting Windows Photo Gallery as the default program to open these images files with hoping it would fix the problem, but it didn't work Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Trent Rowe Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373663
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    - No s on streaming audio or video Darndest thing. I don't get any sound when I try to stream something, either audio or video. This happens with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. On the other hand, I get sound when playing anything on my hard drive, and I get all system sounds. I've tried diagnosing the connection -- it's fine -- and everything looks like it should. Any ideas? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373655
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    - Installer Probs On every reboot machine reports Windows Installer Preparing To Install, any way to troubleshoot this on Vista.....Thanx Bill --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080508-0, 05/08/2008 Tested on: 5/9/2008 9:13:28 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373652
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    - Group Policy Client Service Failed the logon - Access Denied Hello, I get the following error: Group Policy Client Service Failed the logon - Access Denied when I try to log on to my laptop running Vista. I booted on safe mode and try to log in, it started to log in but then displays logging off. Any ideas? thanks in advance. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373646
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    - i hate vista. administrator. restart every goddamn time. no backward compatibility. latest runaround? call of duty 4/punkbuster. you should read this.... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lightbulb5-2008may05,0,509383.story lightbulb that works for 100 years. p.s. xp was great. vista was your 401ks. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373622
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    - Background Vista Sidebar Does anyone know whether it's possible to change the background color or transparency of the Vista sidebar? After first installing Vista, it was entirely transparent, but then became (and still is) a gradient, going from transparent on the left to almost entirely black on the right. Quite frankly, this looks horrible and makes you think there's something wrong with the screen. Anything but a gradient (i.e., image, colored background, or fully transparent), would be a 1000 times better. Detaching gadgets to put them elsewhere on the desktop isn't an option, as they become bigger, which is not what I want. -- Luc Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373613
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    - Unblocking blocked programs How can one avoid Vista blocking certain programs on startup? At present the best I can do is manually start a program after Vista has blocked it. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373606
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    - Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Hi, my problem is I'm trying to run a program which can only run under two conditions: 1) Can only run under windows XP. 2) Needs to run in safe mode to work correctly. I can solve the first problem by simply runing the program under compatibility mode (so it thinks its running under XP SP2). but the problem is that in Safe Mode I can't use the compatibility mode because the option is greyed out. So my question is; is there any other way to use compatibility mode while in Safe mode? like from the command line? Many thanks in advance. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373602
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    - PowerShell, some clarifications required I need to know more about PowerShell: Does it run under XP as well as Vista. Could it be used to automate responding to questions that come up during the installation of a Access Runtime application? Is there anything else that might? Does it need to installed on the PC where the installation is taking place? I am trying to help Users who install my application and get a lot of dialog boxes coming up to which they have to give the correct answer or much pain ensues! That's what happens when you install Access 2002 runtime on Vista. Any answer or comment would be welcome. Many thanks. Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373601
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    - Vista stuck in paragon boot manager screen Hi, I have vista premium and it will not boot because the paragon boot manager wont let it 'I wanted to dual boot with xp but lost power in the middle of it and now I cannot get into windows at all. Does anyone know a fix for this? I have no recovery files, they are on the hard drive. JohnTy Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373595
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    - Cannot Rename a New Folder Recently I have found that I cannot rename a "New Folder". I can create a New Folder OK, but when I right click and select Rename, then the newly typed name reverts back to "New Folder" and I get the error message "File Does Not Exist". I can rename the folder OK through a Command Prompt window, but not in Explorer. I have tried "taking Ownership" and "Running as Administator", with UAC turned off, and again with UAC turned on. No go. I have read several threads from people with what sounds like the same problem. All seem to come down to a corrupt registry entry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\EXPLORER\FOLDER_DESCRIPTIONS. I have tried to fix this as advised in http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130137-cannot-rename-move-file-folder-vista-fix.html, by downloading a file; Fix_Rename_32_Bit_Vista.reg and merging it into the registry by right clicking This does not work either. Any ideas please. I am running 32 bit Vista Home Premium. Not a Vlite installation. I cannot perform a repair install as I do not have a Vista Install Disc - the pc came pre-loaded with Vista, with the install files hidden somewhere (in the BIOS ?). I really don't want to start from scratch with a clean install - it takes days to reload all software and get all settings back to where I want them. If the answer involves editing the registry, please explain it very carefully to me; I am a bit of a novive re: registry entries. Thanks Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373588
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    - Displaying chinese characters Hi All: I have Vista home premium installed. I have some songs that are in chinese, what can I download to make the song titles etc display properly in WMA? I don't understand why at the moment some characters are displayed perfectly fine while others are a whole bunch of symbols. Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance! Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373582
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    - copying to a SD card I'm trying to copy from My pictures to an SD card. The drive is recognised but it keeps telling my that the disk is write protected. I've checked the SD card and it isn't locked. Any ideas would be appreciated Thanks Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373578
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    - Vista Won't Sleep Ever since I got Vista Ultimate a bit over a year ago it was very reluctant to enter sleep mode; it would manage that maybe one in four tries. This is on a Gateway fX530XV with a 24 in gateway monitor. I recently installed SP1 and it has absolutely refused to go to sleep. When that choice is clicked on the monitor goes dark and very shortly the orange standby light comes on. The hard drive light quits flashing and the system will accept no inputs at all. I have to use the power button to turn it off and then during restart I have to click on "Start Windows Normally" to avoid a period of apparent self checking, then it goes on to the user page and then to a chosen desktop. I would like for it to access sleep so as to return to where it was when paused, as well as having a quicker restart. Comments would certainly be welcome. Oh yeah, the unit has 4GB RAM and a processor that runs at 2.13 Hz, and neither has ever been a bother. -- Chuck E Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373574
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    - Windows Update and Norton Internet Security 2008 I have a laptop runing Vista (no SP1) and am having problems running Windows Updates on the machine. I have run Windows Update on this machine in the past. I recently had to uninstall and reinstall NIS 2008 on this laptop. Now when I run Windows Updates, it produces the following error: -------------------------------- Windows could not search for new updates Error(s) found: CODE 80072EE2 The only option is to "Get Help". Clicking on that shows 25 Windows Updates, all with an error and error code. The error code 80072EE2 details provides the following instructions; Add the following websites to your firewall exceptions list; - http://*.update.microsoft.com - https://*.update.microsoft.com - http://download.windowsupdate.com ---------------------------------------- I have a message on the Symantec support forum. But wanted to see if anyone here have add websites to NIS 2008's Exceptions list? I know how to add IP Addresses to the Trusted List, but this does not appear to be the area to add these sites. Or is there another reason within Windows Update for this error? Thanks for any assistance. Charlie ****************************************************** Charliec Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373563
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    - Using Black wall paper locks up computer I recently switched my Vista Home Premium computer to using black for the wallpaper. Bad idea. The next time I booted up, nothing would run. Outlook would not run, Taskmanager opened but only slowly. My browser would not tun. As soon as I switched back to my last wallpaper, everything ran just fine. Is there something inherently wrong with using black? >>RSM Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373555
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    - csrss.exe in winsxs I saw somewhere that there are versions of csrss.exe which are malware. The posts said that versions of csrss.exe that are not in the windows/system32 directory are probably malware and should be deleted. I did a search of my harddrive and found that there are in fact two versions of csrss.exe, one in the windows/system32 directory and another burried deep within the windows root directory. The file is the only file sitting in this directory: C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-csrss_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_58e3e3d7e415ae4c I tried to rename the file to see what happens but Vista told me that I didn't have permission to do that (gotta love Vista!). Anyway, I did a little research into winsxs and found this article interesting: 'Demystifying the WinSxS directory in Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003/2008 - Aaron Tiensivu's Blog' (http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1306-Demystifying-the-WinSxS-directory-in-Windows-XP,-Vista-and-Server-20032008.html) Could someone verify that another copy of csrss.exe is supposed to be sitting in the winsxs directory? Thanks -- Meir Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373551
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    - Track at once with Premium 32-bit When one inserts a blank DVD to backup some file for example, Vista asks the write process is "track at once" or "disc at once". I choose "track at once" since I want to write more than once, 'til the disc is full. However, the next time I insert the same disc, Vista does NOT ask me anymore. So how can I keep filling the disc in this mode 'til its full? Tag: disabling help & support Tag: 373539

Windows Help and Support (helpPane.exe) is popping up when I perform an
unrelated function in another program. The message is (Why can't I get Help
from this program? The Help for this program was created in Windows Help
format, which was used in previous versions of windows and is not supported
in Windows Vista). How do I stop Help and Support from constantly popping up?

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Re: disabling help & support by Mike

Mike
Fri May 09 16:45:21 PDT 2008

Hello,
It'd be nice if you'll name the software you're working with when this error
message pops up...

"suilobi" <suilobi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A1EBDE8-474B-438B-81C9-CC6704ED4AF6@microsoft.com...
> Windows Help and Support (helpPane.exe) is popping up when I perform an
> unrelated function in another program. The message is (Why can't I get
> Help
> from this program? The Help for this program was created in Windows Help
> format, which was used in previous versions of windows and is not
> supported
> in Windows Vista). How do I stop Help and Support from constantly popping
> up?

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Re: disabling help & support by Rick

Rick
Fri May 09 17:11:26 PDT 2008

Hi,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607 to add the necessary support for
that file type. Then the messages should stop.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"suilobi" <suilobi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A1EBDE8-474B-438B-81C9-CC6704ED4AF6@microsoft.com...
> Windows Help and Support (helpPane.exe) is popping up when I perform an
> unrelated function in another program. The message is (Why can't I get
> Help
> from this program? The Help for this program was created in Windows Help
> format, which was used in previous versions of windows and is not
> supported
> in Windows Vista). How do I stop Help and Support from constantly popping
> up?

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