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Hi Falcon1986 Ya, Vista is a real Monster when it comes to setting up a Dual or Triple boot situation now. The fact that boot.ini is no more and Vista uses the BCD instead makes dual booting a nightmare compared to how simple it used to be. I've been working a bit (very little so far) on an article to try and explain this to our members but it's difficult. That article you linked looks well researched and concise and I'm glad it has Linux boot flavors as well. If you want to put something together for us here from what you can gather from that and other articles on this, we'd be more than glad

Also remember that it makes a difference how you type it as to what it means. CAPS means something different than regular type does. For instance...kb or Kb means Kilobits, where kB or KB means KiloBytes. Same for mb, or Mb means Megabits, and mB or MB means MegaBytes. Whenever the lower case "b" is used it represents "bits" and the Upper case "B" means "Bytes" This can make a HUGE DIFFERENCE if you use the wrong letter case in some aspects, so keep those straight.

Hi Martint It looks like you found what you were looking for so I'm going to close this thread as Completed. If you're still looking for possibly more of this item, just PM me and we'll reopen this for you, but as of now this one looks like it's done. Thx for using the Besttechie Garage Sale!

Actually, I had to open this topic to make a small change to this. The "Run" option is still available on the Start menu in Vista while using the Aero theme. You don't have to run the Classic Style to have the Run box on the start menu. It's still available by right clicking an open part of the taskbar, or the Start Orb, select Properties, click Start Menu tab, check the "Start Menu" box and then click the Customize button, and it's available in the list for you to choose. Sorry JSKY, but I had to add that for our Vista users!

Thanks guys-N-gals No, I haven't forgotten anyone here....um...(what's his name again...) um..(heheh-heh) Kidding, it's good to be back! Sorry for the really extended MIA this time, I really needed some time to myself and still haven't gotten everything back to normal yet but working on it. I have missed everyone allot and that's why I had to come by and say Hi and make a few posts too. I have so much to say about Vista these days that I really want to share it around here. I've spent the last 2 months doing some really in depth digging around in this new monster and have much to pass on to ou

Hi Everyone! Sorry it's been so long, I'll be in just "now & then" for awhile before I can get my full "legs" back I think, we'll see. Till then I thought you maybe interested in a small tutorial I wrote about Changing the Default Hard Disk Percentage Size for System Restore in Vista and why it could need doing in the first place. I'll add more to it later concerning "VSS" and "Previous Version", which are both briefly touched on in the article, and which have everything to do with System Restore Bloat in Vista. I hope some of you find this article useful, I've seen many folks upset with

Hiya! In Windows XP, users could adjust how much percentage space System Restore could use on any disk. The default was 10% of the disk size was reserved for System Restore, but knowledgable users could adjust this setting in the System applet located in Control Panel. With Windows Vista though, a few things have changed in System restore, and I must say that it's "Not for the Better" IMHO. Users have no interface available in which they can change the amount of disk percetage System Restore uses, and Vista now uses a 15% default instead of the 10% in XP. Not a big deal you say....Wrong I say!

Thats not quite how it goes Marty. You Don't ever "own" the OS, even before you install it. The only thing you actually "Own" is the plastic the disk is made from, the rest is the Property Of MS and only Licensed to you to use as instructed or allowed by your license agreement terms (single, commercial..etc) You never "Buy" software, you only kind of "Lease" it as you will never own the actual code because it's the intellectual property of someone else and they're allowing you a license to use it. They can totally control HOW you use it since it is their legal property still, and this is what

GOOD LORD!! Can we consider this an "Illegal Topic" because of TT75's link....???? Hmmm...ban TT...don't ban TT....THAT is the question... Heheh. Nah, that's a very useful bit of info there. How many times have we fielded questions about using a retail disk to fix an OEM key install or vice-versa eh. I had run across that page some time ago too but I had forgotten about it till I read this, so I think it's time to add it as a file on my system for future use. Thx Don! Hi Preston!! Write me you idiot!!

Same here. Sounds like it's hanging up and not initializing properly. Doing a Repair Install may fix that up also. Liz, doing a Repair install leaves all your personal data intact, all it does is rebuild the Windows Installation Files and the shell (Explorer.exe) is part of that. You will have to go to WinUpdate and reinstall any updates past what your install CD is up to. If it's SP1, then SP2 will need to be reinstalled, if it's SP2 then just the 68 or so new updates since then need to be installed....heh. (can't wait for SP3)

While more memory is definately the most likely fix for your slow XP install, there are other factors. As Bill asks, can we see your specs please? Also, as stated, you can't dowgrade from XP to W2K using a W2K install disk, it won't let you do that. You have to reformat the XP partition first and then install W2K clean. If XP is super-slow on this machine, don't expect W2K to be blazingly fast either...

That's a rare occurence with XP...fortunately, but not rare enough that you didn't get bit by it so I guess that's little consolation eh.. Try running fixmbr at recovery first and see if that gets the install to boot again. Sometimes this causes a boot sector corruption (no idea why) but it may be the fast & dirty way to get it back. I might still run a repair install afterwards tho, that's a personal pref that I would think about still, just to clean things up some. What program was it that messed things up so bad anyway?

jcl I can see them possibly needing a certain part(s) of the .net setup to properly run the advisor, but you think they'd "compartmentalize" any needed section and offer that to folks who simply want to run the Upgrade Advisor. Instead of making them go thru the entire, very long, utterly useless for most, complete .Net FrameWork install, offer a smaller self-extracting/installing package that's just enough to get what's needed. They should think of the 42 million or so of users that don't need the .Net setup...ya think eh.

Mac - RC1 "Release Candidate 1" Build 5728, basically not Beta anymore but there will be numerous more "builds" before Vista Final Final commercial release to the General Public. All the additions-subtractions are done, now it's fine tuning, tweaking, and stabilizing....and ALLOT of that to do yet. jcl - Yah, I started nodding off as it "Built" it's libraries and Framework assemblies. 664 "Temp" keys?? I can see no reason why it would need to build 664 temp registry keys...for ANY reason! Of course, it Added almost 39,000 new keys so those could be ones they misspelled or sumthin eh.. I know .

Hey Folks I've never seen so much bloat for a simple run of an upgrade advisor in my LIFE!! I finally broke down and d'loaded Vista RC1 to test and just get a feel for, so after the 2.35G Vista d'load (in only 42 minutes ) I decided to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor just to make sure of what software I could run or any other little h'ware issues like scanner etc. Well, to run the upgrade advisor it requires MS .Net Framework installed....sigh...ok. D'load dotnetfx.exe and as usual I start my InstallWatch Pro just to make sure I capture all system changes in case I want to delete it entirely.

WHOA!!!!!!!!!! 5 ALARM FIRE in Comedy Club!! Why didn't you guys Call me... Holy cow...the smell in here is atrocious, my eyes are burnin.

Too harsh actually...sorry, gotta go I think.

Umm, I think deaf_girl's response was incorrect tho, you CAN Upgrade to Husband 1.0 but it's an expensive upgrade and all you really get is Boyfriend 1.0 that doesn't come with an uninstaller...and the HardSxDrive seems to fail after awhile. That leads to another costly "soft"ware upgrade called "E-D_pills" 4.2

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I Love those! I know I could've used one or 2 of those myself sometime, and I think most of us could say that!

LOL!! I KNOW how that feels too...I've been celebrating my "Free" and much less stressful life for almost 10 years now and couldn't be happier

Sorry Liz, been very very busy with spammers hitting us and trying to filter known spam domains from the site...yuck. So the router has good conectivity but it's still dropping out after a few minutes? Does it do this for all web browsing or just when you watch videos? When watching a vid and it drops, do you lose net connection totally or just drop the vid but stay connected to the site? In normal browsing, does it lose connection or just start to slow down?

If the image is in a PowerPoint presentation, you'll need PowerPoint to extract it, not just a PowerPoint viewer either Marty. If you have Powerpoiint (the application) open it, then click "file - open" and point it to where the presentation is stored. I don't know if you know where your email client stores it's data, or what client you use, but many times if you mouse-over the PPoint icon in the mail it will show where it's located in the bottom address bar, so you can find it that way. In any case, you need the application to extract any single image from a presentation, which then can be mo

Yes, unrecognized ROM drives on power-on are always BIOS related, that's where they're controlled at that stage, generic Oak drivers in the BIOS hard code. As long as the drive works at all that is.

Most definately, anything you do to try to repair that port if the machine is still under warranty, will probably VOID the entire warranty so take the rest of this post with that firmly planted in your memory. That connector cover is supposed to be attached solidly, so I would say that it will need to be Replaced rather than repaired. Is it part of a USB hub? (more than 1 port side by side) If so you can easily change the entire hub for pretty cheap, you can buy interior USB port hubs at most electronic stores. I do know of someone who fixed an exact problem like this, using an epoxy glue (spa

LOL! Yes, I have that cartoon in my email archives as well, so I know EXACTLY what the kid says JDoors! (not like it takes any huge imagination to figure out what's "bleeped out" there..)