Windows Vista

My laptop windows vista 7 does connect to wifi but not internet how can i fix it

I have a 9 year old HP Pav dv9500t notebook with 4 Gb RAM originally running Vista but now running a clean install of Win 7 Pro 64-bit. The directory suggested by the office 2007 install program is C:\IUWareOnline\Office Enterprise Edition 2007. I normally like to install all programs in the...

how do i fix bootmgr is missing without vista repair disk

I recently tried to update my vista pc via updates, Microsoft said they no longer support it and shut my pc off. It won't start. Can they do this?

From Vista to Windows 10, which is the safest against hackers?

my laptop will turn on but screen sy on black

I've been working on an old laptop i got from my uncle (he gave it to me free after lending me a pair of 23" monitors i have to pay him for later). Laptop Specs: Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD Sempron 3600+ 2.0ghz OEM Hitachi 80GB HDD (bad)- Replaced with HGST 500GB HDD (after a lot of reformatting)...

Guys, I just got a new battery. I went though 3 on this laptop. After I upgraded from a Windows 7 to a Windows 10 in 2015 for free, my computer is ALWAYS giving me alerts about updates. Today, it was updating and now the battery is on 0% and says plugged in, not charging. This usually happens...

I'm moderately tech savvy and made a mistake about 8 months ago, I spilt a full glass of water on my Windows Vista Toshiba laptop, I immediately cut power removed the battery, lightly dried with a hair drier and turned it upside down to let it air dry. After letting it dry for a day I powered it...

i'm using packard bell esaynote mx37 and i updated from vista to windows 10. now the sound is horrible. i think the video card driver is outdated because when is a video playing is 100% worse. pls help.

Hi all, I have this HP dv6700, which is running well on Vista, in every way except one. The screen is showing 3 vertical stripes running from top to bottom. They are between 3-5 pixels wide. I tried to take a screen shot to show you what it's like, but the screen shot of the desktop didn't show...

Yesterday I took my laptop into a PC for your shop is run by a oriental man if you know what that word means then is been under a rock. For some time the F key on my Dell Latitude D630 has been broken for some time and I was using an external keyboard to type. The first PC repair shop that I...

I have tried to use my recovery cds but two of the cds are causing further errors such as 10-FC06-0002 Recovery Error. And I am constantly getting the BOOTMGR IS MISSING use Control Alt Delete to restart the computer. So I gather that I have corrupt files on the Hard Drive so the Recover to...

I just recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, and I also upgraded from Word 2003 to Word 2010. Since all I work on are books, I do a lot of Indexes. In 2003, I would click on the "show/hide [paragraph symbol' and it would delete all the field codes that were after all the automarking I did...

Ok here is the deal. Windows has be come more and more demanding with Windows updates lately.Especially with Windows 10 And it's ad's and bugs. Here is a list of things to get windows updates off line.You can store all the updates and a copy of windows install on a flash drive i would...

So I've been given an Acer Aspire 5930G laptop that previously had Vista on, but he securely wiped the drive and wanted me to install Windows 7. But when I tried to install 7 it rebooted before it completed the installation. I tried again and the same thing happened. I took it apart and the...

I don't know how to make the sd card default storage on an lg g vista vs880pp2. Can you help me?

I just brought a new laptop with freedos version but am unable to install windows as it shows only one error that "windows is unable to boot into the next phase of installation". I have tried win 7,8 and even vista original cd but is getting same type of error.

have tried alt f10 at the same time nothing seems to work

I have been trying to fix my uncles computer for weeks now and just can't seem to get it fixed permanently. It's a toshiba L305D-S5928. It's running windows vista x86. The problem it's having is while you're using it the screen will go black. It'll show some back light but nothing will bring...

The wireless LAN adapter will not stay on upon Startup with the WLAN switch in the on position. The WLAN switch lights but when Vista is about finished loading it turns off, and there's no network connectivity. I've tried the diagnostic tool, done all Windows updates and...

Please advise. No longer have recovery cd for my old laptop for windows vista. My gosh, that was a flop O/S.

Laptop running vista, it has two USB ports on it. Recently both USB ports stopped working and had no power to them either, I couldn't see them in computer or in disk management, I tried updating all drivers and also tried removing all USB from registry and rebooting system but still no change...

I work from home and log into website to type. Word processor has spell check - no auto caps, auto correct so I use Word 2002 to type reports and then paste into template online. Working fine until last weekend when website did updates. Now I can't pause audio file on website while typing in...

Whenever I am working on my computer, and the battery becomes weak, I will plug in the computer's battery charger -- the computer freezes. The rotating circle is the only thing that is moving. There is no access to the cursor; it does not appear on the screen. The only way I can regain the...

have Windows Vista laptop. After successfully backing up and restoring a system partition to a different hard drive from the original one, I was not able to reboot the system without using a CD. Can you tell me what could have caused this to happen and what I might do differently? Many...

Hello! Having some audio issues with my HP Pavilion DV6500 running Vista. A couple of days ago when watching a video from an external hardrive the audio suddenly completely muted. I restarted the laptop and then the audio came back. When I loaded the show up again from the hard drive the...

So my hard drive on my Asus A53e laptop died and I didn't have any kind of back so I pretty much lost everything. I ended installing a new hard drive and installing Vista Home Premium since I only had one copy of Windows 7 and I doubt I would have been able to use the registry key twice...

When pressing f2 my computer stays on the error screen

I have Toshiba Satellite L550. Some how it got messed up. First I could not find Recovery disc. I tried every possible way I knew to fix but fail. It give black screen and BOOTMGR missing. Press F2 and F12 message Now I tried factory setting by pressing 0 and turn power on. It give error...

where can i buy a genuine copy of windows 7 32bit trying to upgrade a laptop from vista. Thanks

Hey all, So i got this old laptop (Acer Aspire 5630) of a friend of mine, he wanted a new OS on it (went from vista 32bit to 8.1 64) and disable all the not-needed stuff to have it run better. Anyway, It uses a Intel GMA 950 as GPU. Now i installed W8.1 i checked the specs, (the laptop is 64...

I have an HP Windows Vista. The computer doesn't recognise my wireless keyboard and mouse. (They work on another computer).

Trying to use my FTM 10 program on a vista run computer

Hi to everybody, My P300-159 is down after I removed the file \windows\system32\winload.exe in order to get a windows Vista security recommanded file. But I had 9 other files from windows to install and they couln't not be installed since I removed the "winload.exe file. To restart my sytem ask...

Hey everyone, so I'm interesting in finding a good quality editing software for a windows vista 32 bit OS, The newer versions of Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas don't have Vista support. So if anyone out there could help me find a decent editing software(free or not) it would be really...

Hi! I would like to have some recommendations for a laptop that can handle 1-2 chrome tabs and a window of Office open simultaneously. I just want a secondary laptop that I can use comfortably for long typing sessions. Preferably, I'd like a 10.1 inch laptop, but it seems that its hard to find...

I know this must sound weird. The LG G Vista is a cheaper phone but it has a couple default features that are nicer than those on the LG V10. Specifically, I like the default clock and the little floating icon that appears during a call so that you can return to the call quickly. How can I get...

i have a packard bell mh36 (easynote) I need to know what would be the best operating system for gta san andreas but still good for general use (internet downloads,games, facebook)

i was useing this laptop with the origonal operateing system witch was vista but it was giveing me so many problems and it was so slow ,,anyways i did a fresh install of windows xp pro and i cant seem to get it up and running so i was hopeing that someone know a way to factory reset this old dog...

I have a Gateway GT5692 ( I think )system and one day I turned it on and all I got was a black screen with a cursor and the dvd-rw drive wouldn't read a disc. I went to use the restore disc and got it back to normal except there is no sound coming from my lcd tv. I went to control panel, got...

I installed a new version of Windows 8 from Vista using purchase product key. It installed successfully and my name and account name show up. At the top of the screen in red it states "You need to activate Windows before you can personalize your PC???? What does this mean Kera

I have a Gateway P6312 which has been very faithful. Now I cannot get past the password access my Windows Vista, I forgot the password. My screen went blank after a large crackling thunder & lightning sequence during a major storm. I live on the top floor in an apt. My laptop was on a...

What's the best antivirus for Vista?

Needing a password recovery program for windows vista.....please help

can down load files but laptop said no drivers installed

my toshiba lap top has all of a sudden started to shut down after 3 mins when i play 2 certain games on face book , ive been playing these games without any problems for over a year on the lap top in question. the lap top was bought brand new last year . its only started happening this past week...

every time i try to connect a bluetooth device to my laptop the pairing screen does not appear i think i have accidently deleted pairing screen sony vaio vgn-fw31e

Hi, I have a android TV box and connect it to a JVC TV. If I watch it through youtube, it display full screen. but if I watch it on some free web movie, it did not display full screen tv. please help.

HP laptop running Vista will connect to a network via wifi, but not to the internet & the network remains "unidentified. As well, when using ethernet, it doesn't appear to recognize it's connected at all. I've looked around and tried things I've found with people having similar problems. I've...

Hi I was running check disk and it got stuck up. so I had turned off and then rebooted to last known configuration. then after sometime i restarted the laptop and now I am not able to get in. It keeps on recycling from gateway logo to trying to load and then back to gateway logo. I have tried to...

I have an acer extensa 5230E laptop with windows 7 ultimate I've been trying to do a factory rest because it says im connected to my wifi but says no internet connection when I try to get on the internet I've tried everyway I could find to try to do a factory reset even trying to press ALT + F10...

i recently upgraded ram on a insprion 600m laptop to revive it for my dad to use. So I wanted to have a clean Xp OS on it. Something went wrong during the installation so a complete broken and bad os was starting up on the laptop. I desperately tried to reinstall a new copy of xp but the laptop...

Hey I have a bit of a problem. On my laptop that uses Windows Vista ofc, I have some software called ArcSoft TotalMedia which I installed when I got my Hitachi Camera. However, I want to retrieve files from the software but it is broken due to some Microsoft Framework error. I have tried...

I know very little about computers and wondering if anyone has the correct an answer to my problem. I'm running a Windows Vista laptop and I have been using my tv as mirrored image for the last couple of months. ~No problems. But just recently when I power up the laptop while I still have the...

So I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop which keeps randomly freezing. When it freezes it literally freezes, mouse cursor doesn't move, buttons do nothing, etc and I have to shut down the laptop using the power button. The laptop uses Windows Vista. Here's a summary; - Freezes regardless of...

I just put a new hard drive in an older acer 5515. I got the original software (Vista basic) from Acer. Installation was going well till I said yes to recovery from disc. I miss understood and now the laptop appears to be looking to recover from the HHD drive not the CD rom. I have tried...

Why does my laptop running Vista when turned on screen goes blank instead of going to desktop until I hitctrl,alt,del then I have to start new task explorer.exe to get to desktop then within a minute all the processes start ending 1 by 1 till none left then it automatically shuts down?

Does anyone here have any experience using a PCs Factory.wim image (located in the recovery partition) to restore a laptop to factory defaults? Let me know :??: Michael

A friend has given me a Dell Inspiron 1525 to fix which takes ~5 minutes to POST (get past the flashing white line). When it does, it gets to the Windows Vista moving green bar and then reboots and goes back to the long POST again. When trying to enter the BIOS or boot screen, it also takes ~5...