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freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 176, Issue 16
I'd also sooner use a frisbee than a recovery disc to fix XP or Vista. If your dual boot is XP did you install XP first as you should? I don't know what about Add/Remove Programs is blue screening you if that's what you mean by "Program Uninstall." I know some 3rd party programs have their own uninstall mechanism,

can't boot into XP after attempted Vista install
Can we try to relax a bit the checks in the code (inherited from some other BSD) that probes peripherals so it is more tolerant to small differences in the .... I'll work on a patch for that. At the same time, we don't want to add any new scripts that make the same mistake. Reading through rc(8) doesn't seem to

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 01-01-07
Better add it to your website before someone else takes your idea. One thing we may be seeing very soon is the virtualization hypervisor as part of the BIOS .... These tests were also run on a similar XP system, with similar results; however, since it was not possible to install XP after Vista and Linux were

Stuck in 800x600 with 4bit color with 8800 gts!!
Articles ExtraBITS Transitions to TidBITS Publishing System QuickTime 7.1.5 Patches Panther, Tiger, XP, Vista Exploits Parallels Desktop 2.0 Ships New Interviews .... One of the new features I'd mentioned as being problematic in December was support for running a copy of Windows installed on a Boot Camp partition

Computer Tips [ Program Conflicts Fixed! + Cool Hidden Vista ...
A truly | flagrant mistake concerns buttons in Internet Explorer (including | version 7) in Windows XP & Vista. If the button's caption is too | long, ..... http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx PS3 Yellow Dog Linux Install Videos ,----[ Quote ] | Due to the demand on the PS3 forums I am making some install

Stuck in 800x600 with 4bit color with 8800 gts!!
The file that they say is missing is ieframe.dll. I searched and found it in the System32 folder so it is not missing - just some pointer. .... I installed Vista Beta 2 in a separate partition giving me a dual boot system. Worked well. I wanted to uninstall Vista and could not find any solution.

Does XP require the use of WinPE for WDS?
</font> First of all, NoScript is a Firefox add on and it has been around for quite some time. In fact, it won the "PC World Class Award" back in 2006 .... You should then be able to boot up normally and try the install again. If neither of those suggestions worked for you, there is something else you can check on.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 22-02-07
Next you're going to have to pay a yearly fee for them to even boot. Get a nice PCMCIA or USB card with an Atheros or Prism (and some Realtek - just got burned with a new realtek, and I'm running amd64 - supposedly the 64 bit broadcomm drivers don't even work with Vista - big panic ndiswrapping them - gave up.

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 67
I've worked with hundreds of people to fix no boot XP and many to fix no boot Vista. A Repair Install in XP or having Win RE in Vista will work when nearly If you think the bell shaped curve of users are using Bart PE or Linux to fix Vista, think again. Using both of those takes significant time and some money.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
On some sites I have read that the other methods don't work and that this alternative has worked for these folks. Simply boot with your Windows XP cd and install a new copy of XP on another free partition (like where Vista was). DON'T INSTALL IT WHERE YOUR CURRENT XP IS INSTALLED! You can then, from your first XP

Linux - was [928unlimited] Re: AWESOM GTS ...
I got constant BSODs, and eventually Vista refused | to boot. | | [...] | | I am no Linux newbie. I am in the process of using my old computer | to roll my own distribution, Darkwave, that I have worked on from | scratch, based on a minimal install of Debian Etch. I have been | working with Linux for about 6 years,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 22-05-07
Hi all, I have a new ASUS system, Core 2 Duo with 2 gig DDR RAM, 256 xfxforce PCIexpress video and Vista Ultimate installed on a brand new SATA HDD. run Vista. It'd be a shame to go back to XP but reliability is more important to me than functionality. Am I missing any steps here?? Is there a simple solution?

The nitty gritty of XP boot loaders (VERY LONG!)
Maybe you're missing something in the instructions for installing the video card drivers. Review them, understand and follow them exactly. I installed windows xp and everything worked perfectly...I then used the vista upgrade that i got free when i purchased xp (it was a deal on newegg a few months ago) Vista

Advice on Windows Boot Manager
The machine is very fast to do most things. VMWare works really well. FF is more stable than on XP and overall, most of the time, things just work. Dell for Linux laptops [that still haven’t reached the APAC region], and I’m sure I’m missing some vendors, but I’ve not purchased from them.

MSFT Screws Most Customers out of a Vista DVD and Win RE
This is due to the BSD boot loader overwriting a UUID in the MBR the Vista OS uses to boot for some reason as it was not in the Beta or the RC. ..................................................................... I think this is similar to the signature bytes Windows XP uses to remember which disk is which.

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 30
The digest is created from my leafnode news spool, which is pre-filtered, so some posters' articles might not appear. ..... "And I didn't want to add Microsoft to our customers' overhead." The | more Christian worked with Linux, the more he liked it. And, as they say, the | rest is history.

Microsoft unveils Vista editions
The live CD/DVD, featuring a 2.6.9 kernel and the GNOME desktop environment, can also boot from a USB port, the team said. .... could build your own Linux box and install MythTV, but this saves you all the effort, is cheaper than a Windows Media Centre and gives you access to a vast range of fan-programmed add-ons.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 23-04-07
Refrigerator works. It'll survive a fire. I once lost the FAT on my primary data partition due to an error in Norton Image, then rebooted into XP by mistake The computer can operate without the NTFS entirely, and that FAT/FAT32 drive can be installed on some older iron for some serious retro involving actual

Vista RC1 review by The Inquirer
If you look at the notes on what was patched in 9.1 it wasn'ta very long list - some missing bridges and an obscure reference to a crash to desktop being .... These days I always install Vista Australis too and I admit that's a pain and another half an hour (4 installs). Then I add a couple of my favourite planes

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 11-04-07
Phil Shark wrote: I used to think I had some minor proficiency with computers, but Linux is frustrating me. I've got a dual-boot setup on my Compaq notebook, and I've fixed my screen resolution issue so Ubuntu Linux works as well as Vista (except much faster, of course), but now I can't modify any files on my