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Actually, you could let vLite do its job & then add the updates manually. Or you could add in the updates & then customise down your *.WIM with vLite.... I must be doing somenthing wrong. Can't get the cab file installed. I see that Vista already has pkgmgr in it, but also downloaded the one in the link above, and it is the same one. Here is the command I typed in CMD (run as Admin). start /w pkgmgr /ip /m:e:\temp\dreamscene\dreamscene.cab /s:e:\temp\sandbox Would like to get this installed as I don't want to install Dreamscene via update everytime I redo Vista.

I played a bit with Vista build 5384, and most of my software and games ran on it, except some very old games. DivX 6 work fine, my Winfast PVR software also work, and my sound drivers worked 50%, only have stereo and Vista didn't even pick up my nvidia mobo and soundcard. I took off Vista because my Logitech Racing wheel didn't work under it. Now this weekend I tried out build 5536, and the installation is quicker and vista is more stable, but that is it. They went a step backward with software compatibility. My WInfast PVR software works only in WinXP compatibility mode, without it I only get a black screen. DivX runs, but converter gives errors at the end of a conversion and DivX Player is flickering the whole time. Deamon Tools doesn't install, in 5384 it worked. Quake 4 installs, but doesn't run, tried win98 compatilibilty, it starts then complains about opengl. So then took build 5536 off, installed 5384, installed all my software, tested it and it worked, Then upgraded to 5536, took 3 years (being sarcastic) to upgrade, then my performance score was lower, deamon tools gives errors now, can't uninstall it, but the funny thing is that DivX is still working. Now why didn't it work on a clean install of 5536. Vista looks great and much nicer than WinXp, but if hardly any old your old software is going to work in it, then Microsoft has some serious work still to do.

I get 3.4 in Build 5536. Then installed build 5384 and upgraded to build 5536, now only getting 3.2. Out of what is this score, 10, 10, 100???

I have a Logitech Force EX Steering Wheel, and I don't see any beta drivers from Logitech anyware. My steering wheel has no force feedback using the default Microsoft Drivers and also can't customize any buttons in NFS. When installing the XP drivers, it sees it as a Force RX Steering wheel, and the logitech calibration software doesn't work. In NFS the controls goes crazy and you can hardly make any selections in the menus. Any one else have problems with Logitech gaming hardware in Vista? PS! This was one Beta2, got Build 5536 now, must still install & try it out.

I like the new interface, but must admit that the new start menu is a bit slow when you quickly need to launch a program, it doesn't flow as nicely as the xp one. One thing I liked in the Longhorn Alpha was when you were in a picture folder, when you hovered over a picture, it zoomed the picture by about 300%, I see this feature is removed from Vista Beta1.

I never had this problem with my old monitor and you can go into safe mode or vga mode, because even during post and boot up it shows these funny lines.

I found the problem. Friday night I adjusted the OSD settings on my 19 inch Gigabyte monitor, rebooted for something and the screen went all funny again. I managed to get my monitor to factory settings again, and it worked. So my conclusion is that the OSD settings are very sensitive and it looks like the monitor's width and height doesn't like to be set to far. Just happy that I found the cause of the problem.

My 17 inch monitor has been going strong for about 8 years. My monitor switches off after 20 minutes (Windows power settings in control panel). 4 weeks ago when I got to my pc and moved the mouse to get the pc to wake up, the monitor stayed off. It gets power, as the power light is burning, but nothing shows on screen. I unplugged it and left it for a few hours and even days, but still no luck. So I got my brother's monitor and it works fine. So conclusion if my 17 inch is broken. So 2 weeks ago I go and buy a Gigabyte 19 inch. For 12 days it worked perfect. On Monday afternoon I get to my pc, move the mouse to have the screen come on and something similar happened. The screen came on, but showed black & white lines (similar to when you choose a resolution that the monitor doesn't support) all over and you can't see a thing on the screen. I used different power cables, plugged the power into the wall and not through the pc that is connect the a UPS. Still nothing. Got a laptop to test the monitor, same thing show on the screen, black and white lines. The day (about 24 hours later), I switched my pc on just to make sure the monitor is broken before I pack it in its box to take back to the shop where I bought it, there the monitor works again. No how is this possible and what could be the reason for the 1 monitor to pack up from sleep mode and the other to show the lines but work again the next day?

Has no one seen this problem on Office 2003?

Yesterday at work I got IT to bring me the new Office 2003 Professional Edition CD. I uninstalled Office XP and did a complete install of Office 2003 Pro. Now everything went fine, Outlook picked up all my old settings, personal folders etc. Now the problems. Office didn't create a Outlook Icon on the desktop, had to create my own shortcut. The overall look of Outlook is that nice standard blue, but the inside where is shows your e-mail, or even when you open an e-mail, its all grey, like the way Outlook XP looked. So it combined the look of XP & 2003. Now is there a way to fix this, to get rid of the XP look inside 2003. Office XP is running on these machines. This also happened on other machine where Office 2003 was installed over Office XP. The only time this doesn't happen, is when you do a installation from scratch, with no previous setting of any Office on Windows XP.

Will a USB 1.1 PCI card work together with your USB 2.0 that is onboard the motherboard? I currently have a USB 1.1 Card installed in my machine, but disabled the onboard USB. Have not tried to enable yet, don't have time to fiddle with XP if the thing does crash because of it.

Very interesting. I also have 'n n-force 2 mobo, and have a lot of trouble with my ISDN USB modem dropping my internet connection when doing something on the pc. Wonder if it also maybe has something to do with the nvidia n-force drivers.

Okay, I still have this problem. My landline provider confirmed that there is no problem with my line, and my ISP has also said they have no users experiencing this problem. Now I have connected to the internet using Window ME, and I can go crazy, surf, type, copy, paste etc, and my connection stays connected. Try doing any of the above mentioned on windows xp, 2000, 2003, the line drops to 0kb/s and stays there. I have to disconnect and re-connect to continue surfing. Now why would the modem work fine on WinMe, but not on the NT platform?

I have tried to search for ISDN modem strings, but can't any for my modem. Something interesting I have found out on my everyday hangout place, that two other guys in the VW Club of South Africa, has the exact same modem as me, and they experience the same problems as me. Here is the link if anyone wants to go and read: http://forum.vwclub.co.za/cgi-bin/forum/ik...st=0#entry36038 Now one guy says it must be drivers, which I don't believe is the case, as this problem only started like a month ago, and before that I had no problems. It looks to be our Telephone line provider (TELKOM), and not Windows or the ISPs.

Hi guys I run Windows XP with SP1a on a AMD Athlon XP 2600+, with a billionton USB ISDN modem. I run DU Meter to show me exactly what is happening to my connection. Now the problem: When I connect to 128K, I can surf for a while, and suddenly nothing happens, the one line drops and stays on 64K. DU Meter show no incoming traffic. Sometimes the one line will come back and start downloading again, but most of the time nothing happens. I disconnect, re-dial, get the message saying no dial tone. Reboot Windows, reconnect, connect fine. Now the other thing I have noticed, when you nothing on XP, and let say for instance let Getright download all your files overnight or even anytime, I stay connected. But as soon as I do something on XP, like open a program, a minute or two later, you see the connection drops on DU Meter, and sometimes after that the line disconnects. Now what the hell can this be? SP1a? I even did a clean install this weekend, problem still exists.

Three weeks ago I installed InCD v4.0.17 on WinXP which ultimately caused WinXP to blue screen with unmountable boot volume etc. I since then Nero 5.5.1028 refused to burn any CD's on my machine. I then had the CDRW tested, to which I got a answer of "Its burning". I then installed my CDRW in my brothers machine who is running Win98SE, installed Nero, same thing, ejecting the CD saying no space on the media. So I thought the CDRW might be broken. I then installed the drive back into my machine, installed Nero 5.5.1042 and still got the same message. I then installed NTI CD-Maker Platinum 6 and it burned a CD for me without any problem. No I just can't understand how can Nero all of a sudden not work anymore on my pc, and it used to work since version 4.

I looked through all the desktops that some of you have posted here under Desktop for month X. I see some of you are running some very smart utilities that displays directly on the desktop. May I ask what utilities these are?

I am going nuts here. I have changed drives from one IDE to another, changed IDE cables, bought a 80wire 40pin IDE cable, so now at least my HDD is running faster. I have updated Windows to the latest and greatest software, drivers & patches. I have established the HDD is not faulty, the CD-RW is not faulty, the BIOS is not faulty. My BIOS sees all my drives, just can't remember if it used to say CD-ROM when it detected my CD-RW. It shows all four my drives, plus the name and firmware number on boot, then on the summary windows it says my HDD is running UDMA Mode 4, DVD-Rom is UDMA Mode 2, CD-ROM & CD-RW is n/a under UDMA, and all four is MOde 4 under PIO. I have the HDD (Master) & DVD-Rom (Slave) on IDE1, running on a 80wire IDE cable, and the CD-RW (Master) & CD-ROM (Slave) on IDE2, running on the normal 40wire IDE cable. In both Windows 98 SE & Windows XP, the drives are listed under device manager with no problems. Nero InfoTool shows no problems and says my ASPI drivers are working perfectly under both OS. Nero sees the drive fine, tells me I have a blank CD in, and when I burn, it opens the drive and gives me a message saying that is no CDR/RW media in the drive. NTI CD-Maker platinum 6 tells me that I have no supported drive, but it always work fine before. My last option now is to maybe re-format everything again, and see if the CD-RW is being seen by either Windows. Any last suggestions I can try before formatting?

Haha, 4 days, thats nothing. Try 3 or 4 weeks. We here in South Africa only have one operator called Telkom, and if you don't live in a main centre, and your line goes down, well then, you sit and wait. Must say the service lately has improved.

I have SP1a on and have downloaded the new updates. No new drivers was found during the scan. I see some forum sites say it might be a faulty IDE cable. Can't ry it now as I am currently on the net, but as soon as I am disconnected, I will give it a try. ^_^

IS there is big possibility that I can have a boot sector Virus hiding somewhere. As all of you know by know I am running Windows 98 Se & Windows Xp (Dual Boot). I tried Nero on Windows 98 SE also and it does exactly the same as in XP, when trying to burn or simulate a CD, it just ejects the blank CDR and says its either full or not a blank CD. I have tried three different versions of my MB BIOS, disconnected my drives, reconnected them, each time no luck. CD-Rw can't be broken, cause before I wiped everything four days ago, I burned on Windows ME, when I had it on temporarely. I ran a virus scan under Windows XP with Norton AV 2003 and the latest updates, and it detected nothing. Nero sees my CD-RW, and NTI CD-Maker Plat 6 also used to see it, but no it says unrecognised drive. How do you create boot disk (emergency disks with Norton AV 2003) or is there something else I can use?

Found help on creative's site. There is a problem when you have a coppermine chip with certain versions of the drivers. Any driver between xx.xxx..xxx.615 & 700 gives a blue screen. You need to download the latest, which is somewhere like 714, and edit the registry with a MMX = 1 value. And BOB's your uncle.

Yes, but WindowsXP displayed my CD-RW as a CD Drive under My Computer, even before I installed Nero & InCD. Is WIndows XP supposed to show CD-Drive for CD-Rom, CD-RW for your Writer and DVD-Rom for your DVD. A guy at work has XP on his machine with just a NEC CD-Rom/CD-Writer and it shows CD-RW drive under My Computer. Weird thing also, last night I thought I will install BIOS version 6vxc7-FA, downgrading from 6vxc7-4x.FC, to see if it will see my CD-RW differently in the BIOS. In the end it didn't, and with BIOS settings set to Fail-Safe, Windows XP gave me again the blue screen saying Unmountable_Boot_Volume. I went back and replaced my BIOS again with 6vxc7-4x.FC and with Fail Safe settings, and Windows XP booted fine again. Also, if InCD was the problem, then why is my burner is also not writing in Windows 98 SE?

The Gremlin is back. Well sort off. Windows 98SE and Windows XP seems to be working fine now for the last two days, just had to hack the registry to stop the blue screen from appearing in Windows 98SE caused by my SBlive Value (EMU10k1). The gremlin I am talking about is my CD-RW. WindowsXP sees my CD-RW as a normal CD-Rom. In the BIOS when selecting Auto detect IDE HDD, the BIOS pics up my hardware as follows: Primary Master: 82GB HDD (correct) Primary Slave: CD-Rom (correct, my Creative Infra48x) Secondary Master: CD-Rom (incorrect Creative 4224 CD-RW) Secondary Slave: DVD-Rom (Correct MSI 16X DVD-Rom, but the next time I go into Setup, it shows CD-Rom) In WinXP under my Computer my CD-RW shows CD-Rom, under properties I can disable the burning facility. Under Device Manager WinXP does show my CD-RW as a 4224 CD-RW. NTI FileCD formatted a CD-RW last night, Nero seas my drive, but InCD does not. Now what???

Before installing any Sound drivers on Windows 98 SE, windows works perfect with no blue screens. Each and everytime when I install Liverware 3.0, I get a blue screen VMU, EMU101K error on it. I also see that the SB16 under device manager is running on IRQ7, and each time I want to change it, it blue screens. The SBlive is on IRQ9, and my Geforce 440MX is on IRQ11.