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I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium, SP2. A couple of days ago the on-screen fonts started to display all screwed up. That highly technical jargon means that the font in web pages, on my menus, in my Outlook mail, etc. are not displayed using the proper font. In some cases the font is so...

I recently received an ASUS X58C laptop that has Vista Home Basic for an operating system. I also own a desktop that works on XP (Service Pack 2, for which I have the original disk). I have only ever worked with Windows 95 and XP and do not like Vista one bit, it takes up too many resources and...

I want to get rid of Windows Vista from my computer and go back to XP, but when I put in the XP cd the "Install Windows XP" button is greyed out and cannot be pressed. Can someone please help?

My wife recently bought herself a Dell netbook that came loaded with Ubuntu 8.04. Since I do tech support in this house I found myself having to try and bring myself up to starting speed on an OS I've never used before. I bought a book and with it came live CD which I tried in my own laptop...

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else experiencing this little glitch? My "Network and Sharing Center", under Windows Vista has an "X" icon between my house icon (which represents the local network), and the globe (representing the Internet). The globe icon, itself, is faded gray. My network...

Okay you people still running XP will know what I'm talking about. After talking with friends I have come to the conclusion that Service Pack 3 was nothing but a conspriacy to screw up the fully functional and mostly stable XP and thus get more people to throw their hands in the air and buy the...

Just copying a DVD, I got this... glenn

One of the ways that Vista is inferior to XP is that when a laptop comes out of sleep mode, most owners* experience not being able to reconnect to the internet unless they reboot. And as everyone knows, rebooting on Vista takes a very, very long time. It is extremely annoying and a major waste...

So dear hubby knowing my need for speed and memory storage got me a refurbished Gateway desktop for Christmas because my new video editing software took five minutes just to start on older computer. It took it a bit to get going. First the McAfee antivirus on it caused the blue screen of...

Can't say I've tried Vista, but I suspect the reviewer is more than half serious. ;) Review

Hi everyone. My newest adition to my computer park, an ACER Aspire 7720G, came with Vista Home Premium and aside from the fact that I'm planning on buying the disc instead of solely relying on the build in recoverysystem (What if the HD crashes?), it's been working like a charm. I do have one...

I like to use my computer to watch programs and use it as a dvd player. But with my old computer dieing I got a new vista machine. How do you get it to recognise the s-video port and the monitor at the same time? I am not sure if it is a vista issue or a ATI catalyst issue, the video card is...

Is it any good, has anyone bought it ? If so is it worth the cost ?

I was wondering if there was a way to have the included firewall with Vista block outgoing connections from 3rd party programs? Ideally, I would like a popup to ask me if I want to allow the program to connect to the internet, just as Zonealarm does. Unfortunately, Zonealarm isn't yet ready for...

Ok, so the purpose of this thread is how we can make Windows Vista run better, stronger, and faster than it comes by default. There are lots of tweaks that we can apply to windows to make it run better, and not everyone knows about them. Hopefully this thread will eventually become a single...

They're "champing" at the bit (OK so English isn't Computerworld's strong suit, big surprise) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9009143&intsrc=hm_ts_head

So, I have access to a copy of the final version of Vista. I only have one computer that I feel could really run it and it's my primary. Do I back up seven ways from Sunday and give it a try or do I let someone else play the early adopter?

Only to the first 100,000 people downloading it though. I would recommend this only to those with strong hearts, stout computers, and an extra hard-drive partition. But for those who are brave and want a preview of Vista: http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html

I am currently burning the free Vista Beta 2 to DVD. I am just curious to see if anyone here has played with Vista yet. I've heard some good things so far. The worst I've heard is that it is a memory hog (worse than XP). Anything?

Micro$oft announces delay of Vista till 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4831374.stm