http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ MAXIMUMpcguides Windows Vista Forum: Recent Posts en Mon, 12 May 2008 02:53:11 +0000 http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=43#post-113 Mon, 05 May 2008 23:29:30 +0000 admin 113@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Try this:<br /> <a href="http://www.maximumpcguides.com/stop-a-scheduled-disk-check/">http://www.maximumpcguides.com/stop-a-scheduled-disk-check/</a> </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=43#post-112 Mon, 05 May 2008 22:47:31 +0000 bob9550 112@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Every time I restart my computer it does a CHKDSK ignoring any keyboard input to abot the process. It takes FOREVER to restart (well over an hour). How can I stop this process? Thanks! </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=42#post-111 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:56:47 +0000 admin 111@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Let me check on this. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=42#post-110 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:23:22 +0000 gerard 110@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>When I try to restore backup files from an external hard drive to my computer, I get an error message that says "backup has not been set up on this computer. An administrator must first create a backup before you can restore files." What is the process for getting all my files back to my computer? I just replaced the hard drive in my computer. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=41#post-109 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:53:00 +0000 admin 109@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>The reason you're seeing this message is because you already have a virus. The virus is trying to convince you to buy stuff.</p> <p>I recommend scanning your computer for viruses with a real virus scanner like Windows One Care.</p> <p>Here's a link to a free scan by Windows Once Care.<br /> <a href="http://onecare.live.com/site/en-au/default.htm?mkt=en-au">http://onecare.live.com/site/en-au/default.htm?mkt=en-au</a> </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=41#post-108 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:17:30 +0000 kyle_atreides 108@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Hi.. Right now, an error message keep popping up in my computer saying things like "You have a dangerous virus in your system! Install an antivirus right now before your computer crashed!" and there are options like ok (recommended) and cancel. I pressed the ok button, and they began to download the file named malwarebellagreement. I googled the name and found out that it is a fake antispyware which persist us to buy their product by popping error messages up. I have cancelled the download, so I haven't install it yet. But now, the error message keep popping up!! What should I do? Most of the problem solving in the net was to delete all the malware thingy, but I don't have them in my system! Help!!! </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=40#post-107 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:43:53 +0000 admin 107@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Glad to hear you figured it out. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=40#post-106 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:48:49 +0000 moyear 106@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Thanks. I found a solution on another tech site that seems to have worked. It appears that the "Black Screen of Death" might actually be a safeguard imbedded in the Vista O/S to thwart pirating copies. For some reason it can be triggered during certain legitmate software installs or upgrades. The improbable solution was to boot up attached to an external monitor. I did and the problem corrected itself. The best part is that the manufacturer's repair disk never took, so I was able to keep all of my data intact. </p> <p>The maintentance program worked fine and I installed it on a 2nd laptop ( running XP) and encountered no issues. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=40#post-105 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:27:39 +0000 admin 105@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>The emergency repair disk should have erased your hard drive and copied a fresh install on it which would have gotten rid of any errors or corrupt files possibly caused by the software you installed.</p> <p>Are you sure you properly ran the emergency repair? </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=40#post-104 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:36:25 +0000 moyear 104@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I installed a new IOLO maintenance program on my Toshiba laptop, running Windows Vista Home Basic. The install appeared to take and the program did a maintenance review and found 6 areas to be repaired that would improve performance. I ran the repair and was prompted to restart. Upon restart I get a "Black Screen" with nothing but a large white arrow indicating the mouse. Keyboard does not respond, but I can move the arrow/mouse. I tried re-installing O/S with Toshiba emergency disc, still nothing. Computer appears to be working, but I can't see anything. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=39#post-103 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:07:08 +0000 BrentTrahan 103@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Microsoft's Live Mail can't be accessed by Windows Mail for Windows Vista. You need <a href="http://get.live.com/general/http">Windows Live Mail</a>.</p> <p>I don't know why Microsoft does things like this, but that's how it works. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=39#post-102 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:19:06 +0000 kailani24 102@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I am having so many problems..I finally named the server on the account (i.e. pop smtp),after setting up Windows mail (formerly outlook) now everytime I try to send an email, it asks me to Log In- enter user name and password, make sure they are correct for server. So evertime i enter them..it doesnot take the login box just keeps poppong up for me to enter info. No let me get this straight. I’m supposed to be entering my login info for microsoft, live mail, correct? And i did. I went to account properties to make sure everything was correct. i even re-entered user name and password in that field and tried again. no success/. then i tried to change the password. no success…so how do i do this? please help. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=37#post-101 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:22:47 +0000 patches 101@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Thanks Brent...that was it exactly. It's been awhile since I've used MS-DOS and forgot the space.<br /> Again, many thanks. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=38#post-100 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:55:29 +0000 sambail7 100@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Fix if Outlook fails in Vista with Office 2007 (most probably you will only have to do #1 to fix your Vista box):</p> <p>1) Run Office Diagnostics: From Excel 2007, Office Button, Excel Options, Resources, run "MicroSoft Office Diagnostics".</p> <p>2) With Vista and Office 2007, made the mistake to associate "MapiMail" in Control Panel, Default Programs, Associate a File Type - to Outlook. Fix was to delete in registry:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer<br /> \FileExts\.MAPIMAIL\UserChoice]</p> <p>Hope this gets out there...8+ hours later to find the fix. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=37#post-99 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:56:42 +0000 BrentTrahan 99@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Try using <strong>chkdsk c: /r</strong></p> <p>Don't forget the space between c: and /r. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=37#post-98 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:26:32 +0000 patches 98@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I used the chkdsk c:/r command. It was scheduled to start on bootup but nothing happened. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=37#post-97 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:30:19 +0000 BrentTrahan 97@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>How did you schedule it? </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=37#post-96 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:18 +0000 patches 96@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I've scheduled several disc checks but on rebooting nothing happens. How do I make it happen? </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-95 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:08:58 +0000 BrentTrahan 95@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>That will be your best option in my opinion. It seems like something is very wrong with Vista on your computer and a system restore will be the best thing. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-94 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:16:51 +0000 StinkerBell 94@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I can't do that either because, like my other post stated, Windows gives me an error message "80080005 Windows can't check for updates" and when I go to do it manually, it still pulls up that little box where it goes to check for which updates are available and then I get the same message. Dell support says I need to buy an external hard drive and back everything up and do a system restore. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-93 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:14:02 +0000 BrentTrahan 93@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>SP1 is now available for Vista. Try that. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-92 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:06:24 +0000 StinkerBell 92@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>The ISP dude said it's a "known Vista issue". I am beginning to think that's a catch all phrase for any Vista issues that they don't want to be bothered. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=36#post-91 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:03:36 +0000 StinkerBell 91@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>This just started this morning. I got the error message that Windows wasn't able to check for updates, and gave the error code 80080005. I've searched all over the place and have been unable to find a solution for Vista, though apparently it's been an issue for other Windows OS, and has been ongoing since 2006. Anyone know of any fixes for this? I've already checked the wu files to make sure they are set to System, and I've disabled and re-enabled the Windows Auto Updater. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-90 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:54:59 +0000 BrentTrahan 90@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>So you're ISP provides internet to you via a wireless network that requires a specific user name and password of your Windows Vista user account.</p> <p>It seems like you are hooked on to a big WAN network. This is a very odd way of offering internet.</p> <p>I've never seen this problem, but I do know that the networking stack is very different in Vista. Maybe your ISP's hardware used to connect your computer to their internet is having problems. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=35#post-89 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:49:19 +0000 StinkerBell 89@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I had been going along fine for almost a year and suddenly, Vista isn't liking something about my connection. I called my ISP support and they told me that it was a Vista issue and all I needed to do was create a new user name and password for my internet connection (which they walked me through... had to be changed at the ISP site) and then I needed to have my computer log into the new name/password. No problems after that, until about a week later when it happened again and I had to go through the whole process again. </p> <p>Is this a known issue, glitch, bug, or what? Is there a fix for this other than renaming, etc? Thanks! </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=32#post-88 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:42:55 +0000 BrentTrahan 88@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>You don't need to be logged into Vista as the user Administrator. You probably just need to be logged into a user account with administrative privileges to install AOL. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=25#post-87 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:40:56 +0000 BrentTrahan 87@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>Nope.</p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpcguides.com/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-in-windows-vista/" rel="nofollow">http://www.maximumpcguides.com/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-in-windows-vista/</a> </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=32#post-84 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:20:14 +0000 Kemper 84@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>...color me techno-challanged and try not to laugh too hard..but here's the deal...saw your info. and WARNING on running VISTA in admin. mode, but I have a new PC with VISTA and need to set-up my current AOL account on this machine. The only things on the PC are the Microsoft applications that it came with...is there another way to get my old AOL account on the new machine other than the admin. mode that I am now terrified to use....HELP...need my internet access back... </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=8#post-83 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:26:24 +0000 Juliet245 83@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>I followed the instructions on how to uninstall vista but I did one mistake.<br /> instead of typing exit on the command prompt i just closed the box then press restart!!<br /> Now i cant install xp or vista it just says upgrade has been disabled I wish i could start this all over again but I cant what should i do? </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=28#post-79 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:19:43 +0000 BrentTrahan 79@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>What version of Windows are you using? </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=28#post-78 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:30:53 +0000 gailerl 78@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>when i try to add favorite, it cause ie to go into the not responding message and shuts down. i can use organize and access what already has been saved in the past, but trying to add anything will cause the not responding message and shut down of ie.never had this problem with ie6. help </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=27#post-77 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:20:01 +0000 vincentew 77@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>hi, i kmow that when working n a live fie system cd format,you have to set your dvd recording proerties to establish a close session disc,and you have to close the session when your done of course.however,when i place this same disc in the computer for a second time do i have to reset the dvd properties all over again or will the computer read the disc as "close session"since it was established that way wheni first formatted it. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=26#post-76 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:10:57 +0000 vincentew 76@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>in a live file system format.if the computer becomes unresponsive and the disk reads as a blank(that happens sometimes) do i have to throw the disk away.what can i do to save the disk so to speak.if it reads as a blank is it ruined. </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=25#post-75 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:01:55 +0000 vincentew 75@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>hi there,i was wondering.is it possible to add additional files to a mastered disk,after first time burns.i know you can add files to the burn folder,but can you add files to the disc itself </p> http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/topic.php?id=23#post-72 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:59:42 +0000 BrentTrahan 72@http://www.forums.maximumpcguides.com/vista/ <p>The guide I linked to above will work in XP too. You might want to let it do a full disk check. When Windows does this it senses a possible problem. </p>