vista compatibility

When I visited one of my friends with a Windows XP computer, he had Windows Vista games and a context menu option called Run Vista Compatible when right-clicking on an .exe-file. Where can I get that?

[ Solved ] Making a Folder Public Edit: This may or may not be better suited in the Networking forums, if it should be there, could a mod move it please? Thanks. Is it possible to make a specific folder in my Win7 installation public? I already have network sharing set-up between my Desktop and...

Fixes a printout issue that occurs when you print a multiple-page document that has subsetted fonts if you enable the "Enable advanced printing features" option . This issue occurs on the pages after the first printed page. More...

I am a total newbie to this sort of thing but here it goes. I play a LOT of "older" games such as Hidden and Dangerous, Ghost Recon and other FPS. Still haven't successfully found and used a flight sim for Vista so don't know what to expect with Win 7. I have a Gateway FX6801 and my question is...

Hello, thanks for reading this, I'm sharing somes folder located on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 for other workstation (XP and Vista). I made every step and everything is working very well for a couple of hours (4 to 6 hours), after that, the connection seems to be lost between XP and Windows...

I was using vista x86 up untill windows 7 came out, it was then I decided to go for my first x64 operating system, win7 x64 I have an i7, 3gb ram, 2 x 4870 etc. so I thought it would be fine. Ever since I've moved over, games take up a stupid amount of memory, they'll go to 80 - 90%. I recently...

Hi my D drive icon has gone, the drive is working other than this, also to mention my Western Digital My Book can open folders but says all are empty when on vista and xp they are full. when i first installed windows 7 pro everything was fine but has updated about 50 updates since and now this...

I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and 2.1 speakers. My mobo is Gigabyte GA EX58 UD5 with Realtek HD audio. It only seems to support Stereo, Quadrophonic, 1.5 and 1.7 sounds. Stereo for some reason won't work, and so i can't use anything else but headphones which make my head ache. I need to be able...

I have been trying to install an incredibly important program called NovaNet which I use for my classes. If I can't install this, then I can't do my classwork and get my credit. The program is certified to run on XP and Vista, so I figured that if it can run on Vista then it can run on 7. It...

Hello, When connecting plugging an Ethernet cable into my laptop, I have no internet access. -The troubleshooter's results are "The DNS Server is not responding." -I do not have "Bonjour Services." -Ethernet was working before on Vista, and still works on my Ubuntu laptop -Upgrade, not clean...

Hello, My daughter has a laptop with XP but it is Vista Compatible. I tried to load Win 7 and it would hang expanding files. By the way I was booting off the CD/DVD drive. I repartitioned the hard drive and formatted it during the installation process but it still was throwing an error...

I want to run a local game server that players could play in... I am talking about LAN server, but when i have server running and things are set so we could take down the game and make it a fight. I find out that they don't see the game at all... HOWever when the server is created on a vista...

In Vista these two worked as expected but once in W7, they've been acting up since. Since using W7, looking in Nero 9 InfoTool showed the first drive - Read Speed 48x and Write Speed 16x while the second drive showed up as Read Speed 12x and Write Speed N/A. I've flashed them both to the latest...

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate and I am having trouble once I open up control panel with opening anything inside the control panel. It is very slow and sometimes won't open the items I choose. Anybody have any advice? I am also running a BSR Screen Recorder 4 software and when it records I...

Hey, all. I've got an HP OfficeJet Pro L7555 (USB connection) that worked like a champ under Vista x64. I've got Windows 7 build 7100 installed now, and everything else works but this. Here's the thing, though. I get no errors. Print jobs appear briefly in the spooler and disappear as if...

Using WMDM I have created a small application to read portable device information, my application works fine on vista and XP but has one problem on Win7. Problem: I am not able to get drive letter of USB device. I am calling GetName of IWMDMDevice interface, on XP & VISTA this API returns...

Im having major problems when trying to copy any file from 1 pc to the other over the network. Im running 2 pc's both using windows 7 rc1. They can see each other fine, they can run programs from each other. But when I try to copy a file over from any of the pc's the one that has the original...

Hi all I've a big issue on installing a network printer. My company use a Printer management system called CEPS. If I use the standard CEPS tool to install the printer the printer is checked as installed for a while and then unchecked. Then I tried the standard windows procedure to install the...

This got a lot of positive responses. It's free, download from PC Magazine. Get a free CD. ( Don't forget to try the freebie File Shedder). Link Removed due to 404 Error (PC World says you can use it on Vista, although it doesn't say so in description) Anybody know of a file shedder for e-mail ?

I just installed Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 with the latest patches. When I run Publisher and go to PUBLISH TO THE WEB for a website I created, the program asks for my username and password for my site and then hangs and says NOT RESPONDING. I've contacted my host and they have said there...