Re: [H] Vista install question

2010-03-08 Thread Rick Glazier
I thought you had to edit (or delete???) one file to get a menu to select from. I use Vista, but had three different types of the correct disks. Rick Glazier From: Thane Sherrington Subject: [H] Vista install question Am I right in remembering that I can use any version of Vista to install

Re: [H] Vista install question

2010-03-08 Thread Greg Sevart
On W7 media, you simply delete ei.cfg from \sources. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:07 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista install

Re: [H] Vista batch file elevation

2009-07-06 Thread Jamie Furtner
Thane Sherrington wrote: Is there a way to have a batch file launch a second batch file at an elevated privilege level? I have a batch file (named runme.bat) that calls a batch file that does some registry changes, and I'd like the runme.bat to call the second at an elevated privilege level

Re: [H] Vista batch file elevation

2009-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:17 PM 06/07/2009, Jamie Furtner wrote: Thane Sherrington wrote: Is there a way to have a batch file launch a second batch file at an elevated privilege level? I have a batch file (named runme.bat) that calls a batch file that does some registry changes, and I'd like the runme.bat to

Re: [H] Vista SP's redist's?

2009-06-08 Thread Greg Sevart
I'm assuming that you mean standalone, not redist... SP1 x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B0C7136D-5EBB-413B- 89C9-CB3D06D12674displaylang=en SP1 x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=874A414B-32B2-41CC- BD8B-D71EDA5EC07Cdisplaylang=en SP2

Re: [H] Vista SP's redist's?

2009-06-08 Thread Joe User
Hello Greg, Monday, June 8, 2009, 3:03:18 PM, you wrote: I'm assuming that you mean standalone, not redist... Ohhh maybe my terminology was in error, no wonder I couldn't find them. Thank you very much for your time and effort. I just wanted to store them on my file server so I don't have to

Re: [H] Vista SP's redist's?

2009-06-08 Thread tmservo
Exactly! --Original Message-- From: Joe User Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: Greg Sevart ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP's redist's? Sent: Jun 8, 2009 6:04 PM Hello Greg, Monday, June 8, 2009, 3:03:18 PM, you wrote: I'm assuming that you

Re: [H] vista 64 and Google earth

2009-05-11 Thread Neil Davidson
I've just downloaded, installed and run it from the Google updater without any problem (the fact it insisted on installing Chrome is a separate issue). Using Vista Business 64bit on my laptop. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] Vista 64 and Halo 2

2009-04-10 Thread maccrawj
LOL, or GAY-lo as I tease kid my kiddies about here when they play the old xbox version. After playing Crysis Stalker level of realism I have to laugh at them playing 1999 Quake2 level graphics unrealistic cheesed-out game play. =) Obvious start, lower all graphics settings (starting 1st

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread Bobby Heid
Comments in-line. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:36 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Vista Permissions I am running Vista 64 Home

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread Winterlight
You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator if the current user is not one. That does not work on some

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread Bobby Heid
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread FORC5
admin account log in vista is NOT the same as in XP. fp At 07:09 PM 3/21/2009, Winterlight Poked the stick with: You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think that either way, it will make

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread Eli Allen
-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting

Re: [H] Vista Permissions

2009-03-21 Thread Winterlight
-in-Windows- Vista.html Eli -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions You can right-click

Re: [H] vista to xp

2009-03-18 Thread Joe User
Hello yoga, Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 10:30:37 PM, you wrote: good morning sir, i have installed network printer in xp machine, My laptop windows vista home edition installed. i tryed to connect the printer but one error msg appear. The printer spooler was not running, restart the

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-09 Thread Greg Sevart
Agreed that's what the apps do is superior but why couldn't they give us couple of GUIs like they do for Windows. They must have known people would resist anything that increased the learning curve? Most of my clients who upgraded to XP had me set it up like Win 95 aka now known as Windows

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-09 Thread Winterlight
Ribbon takes a lot to get used to. I personally don't like it. I feel slower with it. The big problem is that you can't customize with it, you can't make your own ribbon or icon your macros. After years of creating Macros and menus to make my job go easier they are gone. It is not something

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Greg Sevart
Don't play games so I can't help you much there, but the funny thing is that most game incompatibilities with Vista64 aren't due to the game itself, but the crummy anti-copying/DRM infections publishers feel they must include. That being said, your best resource for getting game-specific

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Winterlight
At 10:59 AM 3/8/2009, you wrote: Don't play games so I can't help you much there, but the funny thing is that most game incompatibilities with Vista64 aren't due to the game itself, but the crummy anti-copying/DRM infections publishers feel they must include. Thanks, Greg. I know you are

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Greg Sevart
Thanks, Greg. I know you are enamored with Vista 64 but I have been struggling with Vista 64 for months now and I keep thinking things are better and I am going to see all the value in it... but I haven't. One thing is for sure, I would not let Vista or Office 2007 anywhere near my

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Bobby Heid
I have just built my Vista 64 box. In stalled Call of Duty - World at War and it runs great! Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 1:43 PM To:

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Winterlight
Picking them up being productive with an app are 2 entirely different things. I've O2k7 wish I never installed it. I wish I had installed O2k3 instead. I haven't tried it yet but will windows let you install both? I thought I read somewhere that it wouldn't but I'm not sure.

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Bobby Heid
, March 08, 2009 7:29 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] vista 64 and games At 02:53 PM 3/8/2009, Greg Sevart typed: For technical staff, Vista and O2k7 have been a complete non-issue. Even the non-technical staff (mostly operations employees) have picked up both very quickly

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Bobby Heid
...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] vista 64 and games Picking them up being productive with an app are 2 entirely different things. I've O2k7 wish I never

Re: [H] vista 64 and games

2009-03-08 Thread Greg Sevart
Picking them up being productive with an app are 2 entirely different things. I've O2k7 wish I never installed it. I wish I had installed O2k3 instead. Sure I can run the 2k7 version but I'm still not as productive with it as I was with 2k3 that's after more than a year of using it. IMHO

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Rick Glazier
Things are getting better. It is becoming a mature OS. Rick Glazier From: FORC5 curious how that is working for ya ? I have that but am afraid to mess with it due to the stories I read about drivers and such. At 08:21 PM 12/17/2008, Bryan Seitz Poked

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Naushad Zulfiqar
I agree. Although Vista is bloated compared to XP, it has become much more mature and rock stable. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com wrote: Things are getting better. It is becoming a mature OS. Rick Glazier From:

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
One would hope by the second service pack they actually get it working right :) I haven't found any real problems with Vista (aside from a handful of annoyances) but there still isn't anything to really make me recommend it over XP. Brian On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Rick Glazier

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Bryan Seitz
Yeah agreed Brian. XP64 is ROCK solid ( based on Win2003 kernel ) and I found good drivers for everything I own. Current setup: Areca 2 port PCI-E Raid card for RAID1 OS disk(s) 6G of Triple Channel OCZ PC1333 Ramz 620W 3 12V rails Corsair PSU Asus P6T Deluxe X58 motherboard * Onboard sound is

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread FORC5
how about backward compatibility ? I have a couple of really old proggie I use all the time, one for envelopes. Pretty sure these are 16bit, was a effort to get them to run in xp. fp At 09:22 AM 12/18/2008, Bryan Seitz Poked the stick with: I tried Vista twice and not only did it feel

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Bryan Seitz
Unknown if really old (esp 16 bit) apps work properly. I use plenty of 32 bit apps though and they work flawlessly. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:57:00AM -0700, FORC5 wrote: how about backward compatibility ? I have a couple of really old proggie I use all the time, one for envelopes. Pretty

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread JRS
Ditto, but I also don't like the changes they made to Explorer.  That's one of my main complaints of Vista.   I haven't found any real problems with Vista (aside from a handful of annoyances) but there still isn't anything to really make me recommend it over XP. Brian

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Jason Carson
Ditto, but I also don't like the changes they made to Explorer.  That's one of my main complaints of Vista.   I haven't found any real problems with Vista (aside from a handful of annoyances) but there still isn't anything to really make me recommend it over XP. Brian Well the only

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Martin Jr.
. lopaka --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Subject: Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 8:22 AM Yeah agreed Brian. XP64 is ROCK solid ( based on Win2003 kernel ) and I found good

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread JRS
Yep.  I use the Freeware nLite to strip stuff out of my Windows installs too when I do the SP slipstreams.  :)  Works like a charm.    -- JRS steinie**...@pacbell.net Please remove **X** to reply... I will switch to Vista once there are no activation issues, and when utilities can strip

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Winterlight
At 08:57 AM 12/18/2008, you wrote: how about backward compatibility ? I have a couple of really old proggie I use all the time, one for envelopes. Pretty sure these are 16bit, was a effort to get them to run in xp. fp nothing in 16bit runs in vista64, I don't know about XP64... I read that

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Bryan Seitz
Yeah nLite/vLite are AWESOME. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:01:36AM -0800, JRS wrote: Yep.? I use the?Freeware?nLite to strip?stuff out of my Windows installs too when I do the SP slipstreams.? :)? Works like a charm.? ? -- JRS steinie**...@pacbell.net Please remove **X** to reply...

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Using vlite is how I discovered the several hundred MB of unnecessary tablet PC stuff that is part of every Vista install, including desktops. Had a weird problem with the one time I did a vlite install. Somehow, it corrupted the real administrator account. I was logged in as administrator and

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread FORC5
I use FF in my server with Vista, do not use it for much though except when the family is on the main box. there are a few annoyances for sure. fp At 10:23 AM 12/18/2008, JRS Poked the stick with: Ditto, but I also don't like the changes they made to Explorer. That's one of my main complaints

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread FORC5
-bit boxes. XPLite only takes about 300 megs for the OS and is way faster without the bloatware. lopaka --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Subject: Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
-unix.net wrote: From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Subject: Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 8:22 AM Yeah agreed Brian. XP64 is ROCK solid ( based on Win2003 kernel ) and I found good drivers for everything I own. Current setup

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread FORC5
takes about 300 megs for the OS and is way faster without the bloatware. lopaka --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Subject: Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 8:22 AM

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Winterlight
At 09:50 AM 12/18/2008, you wrote: I will switch to Vista once there are no activation issues, and when utilities can strip out all the unnecessary crap to streamline the OS. I use XP64 and a custom Lite version of XP for non 64-bit boxes. XPLite only takes about 300 megs for the OS and is way

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Joe User
Hello Jason, Thursday, December 18, 2008, 11:47:56 AM, you wrote: Well the only reason I can think of to recommend Vista is if your a gamer and want DirectX 10. All the games I currently play are DirectX 9.0c so I have no reason to switch from XP. Are games faster on Vista with DX10? --

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-18 Thread Stan Zaske
Farcry 2 is the only one so far that runs better in DX10 than DX9. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTU5Myw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== Joe User wrote: Hello Jason, Thursday, December 18, 2008, 11:47:56 AM, you wrote: Well the only reason I can think of to recommend Vista is if

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-17 Thread James Boswell
vista has separate install media for 32 and 64 bits the license key determines which version of Vista it is (Home Basic/ Premium/Business/Ultimate) but the media determines the bitness (bittedness?) On 18 Dec 2008, at 00:28, FORC5 wrote: Does Vista in all it's wisdom detect 32/64 bit cpu

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Sevart
Single key, different installation media. With Home Basic/Home Premium/Business retail versions, you can request the alternate media from MS for a nominal S/H fee. With Ultimate Retail, you should have both editions in the box. With OEM/System Builder versions, you only get the one you

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-17 Thread Bryan Seitz
And I recommend installing neither ;) I'm rolling with XP64 these days as Vista is a complete failure! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:39:20PM -0600, Greg Sevart wrote: Single key, different installation media. With Home Basic/Home Premium/Business retail versions, you can request the alternate

Re: [H] Vista Ultimate ?

2008-12-17 Thread FORC5
curious how that is working for ya ? I have that but am afraid to mess with it due to the stories I read about drivers and such. thanks fp At 08:21 PM 12/17/2008, Bryan Seitz Poked the stick with: And I recommend installing neither ;) I'm rolling with XP64 these days as Vista is a complete

Re: [H] Vista 64 question

2008-12-15 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Scott Sipe wrote: I have a dell with a Q6600 processor and 2gb ram. It has 32-bit Vista Home Premium. Two questions: 1) Do I gain anything by installing Vista 64-bit on it? Is there an actual performance difference? Not sure, I went 64 just so I could upgrade memory

Re: [H] Vista 64 question

2008-12-14 Thread Greg Sevart
I have a dell with a Q6600 processor and 2gb ram. It has 32-bit Vista Home Premium. Two questions: 1) Do I gain anything by installing Vista 64-bit on it? Is there an actual performance difference? No. There are some applications that benefit from the extra general purpose registers

Re: [H] Vista 64 issues and questions

2008-12-09 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Winterlight wrote: In the past I always have set up my drive C = Primary 2GB FAT32 Boot.. where I have the boot files and MBR then I have a logical drive with separate partitions that typically dual boot XP1 on D XP2 on C I tried this as a trial run on my new setup with C

Re: [H] Vista 64 issues and questions

2008-12-04 Thread Neil Davidson
For Anti Virus and all the other gubbins, pretty much everything for Vista is x64 compatible. Especially now that Vista has been out for so long. XP64 was a bit of a waste of time, but Vista x64 can cope with pretty much everything. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread maccrawj
Depending on the version of PM you should not be using it period. Assuming your's is not one of the versions that screws up, I'd imagine it does not matter what the OS is as long as it supports the filesystem type version. Doesn't ADD allow you to make a boot cd? Could have sworn I have a TI

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Jason.Tozer
GParted or almost any of the LiveCD linux distros out there. Jason Tozer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 12 November 2008 13:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner I had a really bad

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Ben Ruset
I am a big fan of the gparted CD. I've used it successfully on many Red Hat boxes. maccrawj wrote: Depending on the version of PM you should not be using it period. Assuming your's is not one of the versions that screws up, I'd imagine it does not matter what the OS is as long as it supports

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Sevart
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you may be able to do what you're looking for without any third party tools. Basic partition shrinking and extension capabilities are built in to Disk Management in Vista. It does have some limitations (it won't shuffle around data to allow you to

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Sevart
: Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner Well, Partition Magic 9 in DOS does support VISTA, I have used it with Vista 32.Of course I am not suggesting running it in Vista. After all, a NTFS drive is a NTFS drive. I just don't have much experience with Vista 64 although I don't see why it wouldn't work

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Weeden
I had a really bad episode with Partition Magic a couple years ago where it FUBARd a partition and I stopped using it. I've been using Acronis since and really like it. If you can't use Acronis, I second Ben's recommendation for Gparted. --- Brian Weeden Technical

Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner

2008-11-12 Thread Winterlight
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:28 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista 64 partitioner Well, Partition Magic 9 in DOS does support VISTA, I have used it with Vista 32.Of course I am not suggesting running it in Vista. After all, a NTFS drive is a NTFS drive. I just

Re: [H] Vista FireWire support

2008-09-18 Thread maccrawj
FW depot is a reseller, Oxford is a chipset manufacturer, the bridge board is likely made by a 3rd party. Since FWD does not manufacture they have nothing to do with the driver and likely lack even an educated TS department, hence the simpleton response. Bottom line is that like the USB mass

Re: [H] Vista FireWire support

2008-09-18 Thread James Maki
of the month, I will not be buying from them! Jim -Original Message- From: maccrawj Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:37 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista FireWire support FW depot is a reseller, Oxford is a chipset manufacturer, the bridge board is likely

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-07-07 Thread mark.dodge
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files I found a BIOS update for my mobo and applied i t, then reset the CMOS on the PC. Now the problem is even worse - it hangs for several minutes on a blank screen after the DMI update and then loads Vista. Once it gets past that it works fine

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-07-07 Thread Brian Weeden
good and right. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:06 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files I found a BIOS update for my mobo and applied i t

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-07-05 Thread mark.dodge
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out on me after only a month and I needed to do a fresh reinstall (kept rebooting everytime a DVD was inserted or locking up every 15 min). So this time I pulled my RAID card and only had my

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-07-05 Thread Brian Weeden
to not boot from the HD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:25 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-06-29 Thread Brian Weeden
Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out on me after only a month and I needed to do a fresh reinstall (kept rebooting everytime a DVD was inserted or locking up every 15 min). So this time I pulled my RAID card and only had my boot drive attachced when I installed. But on reboot it

Re: [H] Vista 64

2008-06-29 Thread The Beave
I have Vista 64 with my Retail copy of Vista. It came with both versions. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, June 28,

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-06-29 Thread maccrawj
Have you tried installing using a different HDD? I'd be starting lower than a Vista reinstall by running the drive manufacturers diagnostic CD doing a long DST. Brian Weeden wrote: Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out on me after only a month and I needed to do a fresh

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-06-29 Thread John Steinbruner
Different HD might be a good idea, or see if the manufacturer has a firmware update for your HD.. We have also seen similar issues with new PC's we just started getting at work. Our Image does not work right on the brand new ones unless get into the BIOS and change the HD from AHCPI to

Re: [H] Vista 64

2008-06-28 Thread Greg Sevart
X86 and x64 editions are on separate discs. With Retail non-Ultimate versions, for a small SH fee, you can request the other media from what you bought (ie: if you bought Business x86, you can get Business x64--they use the same keys). Ultimate edition retail box has both x86 and x64 DVDs. Order

Re: [H] Vista 64

2008-06-28 Thread Winterlight
Thanks Greg. At 07:31 PM 6/28/2008, you wrote: X86 and x64 editions are on separate discs. With Retail non-Ultimate versions, for a small SH fee, you can request the other media from what you bought (ie: if you bought Business x86, you can get Business x64--they use the same keys). Ultimate

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Brian Weeden wrote: See, this is the thing. I could understand it if it was a whole entire module that had to be added on. But the code to freaking do this is already in EVERY copy of Vista All you need to do is make a modification to one DLL and a registry edit and presto - as many

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Should be able to just give Home an Ultimate CD key and presto chango. I think there is even a little thing withing Vista that allows you to upgrade on the fly (so to speak). Brian On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Weeden wrote: See,

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-18 Thread Rick Glazier
I think he meant a free hack... grin Rick Glazier From: Brian Weeden Should be able to just give Home an Ultimate CD key and presto chango. I think there is even a little thing withing Vista that allows you to upgrade on the fly (so to speak).

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Yeah I know - not that I know of. I mean, bits and pieces here and there like the multiple session thing but that's about it so far. Brian On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Rick Glazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he meant a free hack... grin Rick

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread James Boswell
Vista more aggressively precaches things than XP ever did, which will give the illusion of things using more memory than they actually are ? ( the other issues I have no comments regarding however.) On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:09, Brian Weeden wrote: 3) Memory usage. The HTPC boots up and loads

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Greg Sevart
Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's got several things that annoy the crap out of me: 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as I need to be able to have it autologin to one session to show the HTPC shell (I'm using Vista

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Alex
Issue 2: Download EasyBCD and fix your MBR. Issue 4: I think this is one of those tweakable features you can disable via Folder Options or Performance Vistual Effects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, June

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Weeden
I did download EasyBCD and did the MBR fix. Didn't work. Brian On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issue 2: Download EasyBCD and fix your MBR. Issue 4: I think this is one of those tweakable features you can disable via Folder Options or Performance

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Weeden
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's got several things that annoy the crap out of me: 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as I need to be able to

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-05-27 Thread Joe User
Hello Brian, Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 12:11:01 PM, you wrote: Just installed my first Vista system (Ultimate, using it for my HTPC) and have a weird problem. The install process never copied over the boot files - the system will not boot unless the install DVD is in the drive. Otherwise it

Re: [H] Vista install lacking boot files

2008-05-27 Thread Alex
yes it's a common problem. quite irritating. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Grab EasyBCD and re-write the MBR to your hard drive. On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:11:01 -0400, Brian Weeden wrote Just installed my first Vista system (Ultimate, using it for my HTPC) and have a weird problem. The

Re: [H] vista web mail question

2008-04-28 Thread Gary VanderMolen
As Outlook? No, more like Outlook Express. Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail) -- From: Harvey Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did see that Windows Mail question pop up. If I go ahead and install it, does it work basically the same way as Outlook?

Re: [H] vista web mail question

2008-04-27 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Outlook doesn't come with Vista. The only email program that comes with Vista is called Windows Mail. If you prefer webmail, you can just ignore Windows Mail. For example, if you want your Hotmail to handle a MailTo link on Craigslist, use this fix:

Re: [H] vista web mail question

2008-04-27 Thread Harvey Best
I did see that Windows Mail question pop up. If I go ahead and install it, does it work basically the same way as Outlook? To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:46:52 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] vista web mail question Outlook doesn't come with Vista

Re: [H] vista web mail question

2008-04-27 Thread j maccraw
Vista, hehe. Looked nice on the customer's HP laptop I worked on last month but it was tricked out hardware 64bit Vista ultimate. Only thing I really did not like was all the security popups x2+ and nothing was where I expected it to be from XP. There's always Thunderbird HotPopper which can

Re: [H] VISTA Screwed me again

2008-04-13 Thread Greg Sevart
Check the firewall. There's at least one Vista update that seems to re-enable it if it were previously disabled. Otherwise check that all is okay (network discovery, file sharing, etc enabled) in the network center. -Original Message- From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April

Re: [H] VISTA Screwed me again

2008-04-13 Thread Al
FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: game is a foot. afoot a foot is twelve inches or five toes and a heel. ;) Hope you get your Vista thing worked out. Regards, Al

Re: [H] VISTA Screwed me again

2008-04-13 Thread FORC5
all seem well, still looking for the firewall which is suspect. thanks At 05:48 PM 4/13/2008, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: Check the firewall. There's at least one Vista update that seems to re-enable it if it were previously disabled. Otherwise check that all is okay (network discovery,

Re: [H] VISTA Screwed me again

2008-04-13 Thread FORC5
Quite so Watson :-} fp At 05:57 PM 4/13/2008, Al Poked the stick with: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: game is a foot. afoot a foot is twelve inches or five toes and a heel. ;) Hope you get your Vista thing worked out. Regards, Al -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- What part of Right to

Re: [H] Vista SP1 released to Windows update...

2008-03-21 Thread j maccraw
Dog Shit SP1, Good 'ol #2 served up steaming hot! Bryan Seitz wrote: Get yer hot fresh DOG SHIT here!!! On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Bobby Heid wrote: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/18/windows-vi sta-sp1-released-to-windows-update.aspx Bobby

Re: [H] Vista SP1 released to Windows update...

2008-03-18 Thread Bryan Seitz
Get yer hot fresh DOG SHIT here!!! On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Bobby Heid wrote: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/18/windows-vi sta-sp1-released-to-windows-update.aspx Bobby -- Bryan G. Seitz

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Ruset
When I was running Vista, I put SP1 on (grabbed from MSDN) and noticed no performance benefit as well. Thane Sherrington wrote: So from what I'm seeing here, SP1 is not going to save Vista.

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Greg Sevart
Hmm, that's contrary to the SP1 reviews I'd read...were these established Pre-SP1 Vista machines, or clean installs of both? The reason I ask is that SP1 clears Vista's SuperFetch learned behavior cache, so it's re-learning from scratch. That could play a big role in that test... I personally

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Hayes Elkins
Meanwhile SP3 actually *does* speed up XP a bit and the idle memory footprint is a little less. Go figure. Vista = Windows ME part II Pure garbage. Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:08:01 -0400 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [H] Vista SP1 comments I've been

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Weeden
Reason #`144 to stick with Windows XP if you can. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile SP3 actually *does* speed up XP a bit and the idle memory footprint is a little less. Go figure. Vista = Windows ME part II Pure garbage. Date: Wed, 5

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Greg Sevart
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments Meanwhile SP3 actually *does* speed up XP a bit and the idle memory footprint is a little less. Go figure. Vista = Windows ME part II Pure garbage.

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

2008-03-05 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:40:19 -0600 Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments No, SP3 does not speed up XP. http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-xp-sp3-yields-performance-gains.html The test everybody references was comparing

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