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I have a PC that came with Vista Home Basic, and I now have some need for Remote Desktop, which is not included in Home Basic, so I'd like to upgrade.
Now, there is apparently some hack to get Remote Desktop working in Home Premium, and obviously, it's in Ultimate, but really, the Business Edition…
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Topic title says it all. Right now I have 2 things I need to do...
1) Remove the windows.old folder.
My problem with this is that when I go to disk cleanup, the "Remove Previous Window Installations" option isn't there. Not sure what to do here.
EDIT: Solved this part. Didn't hit button clean…
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I just ordered a laptop, and it came with Vista Home Premium 32. I want Vista Home Premium 64 on it. I'm planning a reinstall. Does anyone know if my product key for Vista 32 will also work for Vista 64 for an OEM copy? As far as I know, I just need to get the 64 bit media. Is this correct? …
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I hope my explanations make some sense -- please ask for clarification if they don't.
I had a computer running Windows Vista (Ultimate, 64-bit). All was well! Then one day there was a nasty power surge at the office, and it died. (We didn't have surge protectors at the office, unfortunately. …
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I created several documents in MS Office Publisher 2007 when I was using Windows Vista 32 bit version. I've recently upgraded to the 64 bit version of Vista and am now having trouble opening the files created on the previous Windows setup.
When I try to open my documents, I get this warning:
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I have been having the same problem with Windows Updates on 2 of my machines at home, both running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. One of the 2 machines is a brand new install, the other has run Windows Update in the past, but is also not working now.
When I manually check for updates using the Control…
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Hi all,
My system is Vista Business 32 bits SP2.
When I click "Windows update", I can see there are 2 available optional updates. If I click the link "2 optional updates are available" to see what the updates are, I get:
http://leodip.s3.amazonaws.com/windows%5Fupdate2.PNG
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I am in the administrators group for my local Windows XP machine and I would like to get updates via http://update.microsoft.com/[1]. However, this is prevented via the group policy:
Network policy settings prevent you from using this website to get updates for your computer.
Is there anyway…
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I have a Windows 2008 Server 64bit installation running as a virtual instance with a hosting provider.
Windows Update has worked fine until IE8 (along with some other updates) managed to get installed (don't get me started). Now all of a sudden Windows Update fails to run and complains with error…
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OS: Windows XP SP3
Seems there is a Windows Update improves Explorer interface, adding auto-complete filename feature in open file dialogue, and when press F2 to rename file, the cursor will at filename(cursor here).txt instead of old way - filename.txt(cursor here). Does anyone know which update…
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