Lowyat.NET: Latest topics in Windows Vista

Vista and Antivirus, Which antivirus do you recommend?

win_win — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:43:34 +0800

Understand that quite a lot of older antivirus does not work with Vista properly. Actually I tried to install one, and it will not. What antivirus will you recommend? Kas.? Norton 360? etc.?

Auto Shut Down, Vista Business 32bit

gtoforce — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:56:07 +0800

dudes, i dunno what happened to my pc
i thought it was malware etc
but i dont think so cuz my Bitdefender 10 detected nothing
i even checked the screen saver > power management settings to ensure the pc is not turned off at any rate

however, after few hours (say 5-6 hours) of idleness, the pc will shut down
why eh?
its not reboot k?
i thought its hardware but if its hardware, then most probably the pc wont boot or wont even stay that long
and sometimes the pc does stay for a long time but at most times it auto shuts

any ideas?

my pc specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon FX-60 2.60ghz @ 2.90ghz FSB200 x Multi 14.5
Temp: 55-57c
Motherboard: Asus A8R32-mvp Deluxe
Rams: 3x Kingston 1gb DDR400
GPU: ATI Radeon X1950gt 512mb 256bit
PSU: FSP EPSILON FX600GLN 600w True Power
HDD: 3x HDD
Optical Drives: 2x DVD Drivers + 1x CD ROM
USB Powered: Mouse, Wireless Dongle
OS: Windows 6 Business 32bit (updated 2nd week of august 2008)

i need help here, sifus pls come help!!

saddient — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:32:42 +0800

this was my fren's lappie... dell running window vista...

her comp get infected with virus few days ago and now reformat whole lappie d..

but now dunno why no sounds come out from her laptop... whats the problem occured?

Vista admin,

Frostlord — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:46:22 +0800

how do i set a program to auto run as admin. which means when i run the program there wont pop up a message from user account control. btw, im using admin acc.

Help.. Drainning my HDD space !, Help Help

Cloud9Nos3 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:36:23 +0800

Hi to all lowyat members..
I had changed to Window Vista Ultimate x32 for almost 1 week.
But i have no idea why it kept on drainning my hard disk space..
For example..

I left 43.5gb of space left
Once i install something, become 43.1gb..
I uninstall the game and it left 43.2gb..
Where the 0.3 gb gone???
Not only this, I install much game and once i uninstall my drive cannot get back the actual space..

I worry that it will drain untill my hard disc full -.-

S.O.S

Any Sifu??

Vista Disconnect In Server Time (Hours),

beplouis76 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:30:59 +0800

When i Use Xp... i open my pc.. (is Connecting).. overnight for seeding (torrent)... it wont DC.. .

But Now i Change to Vista Ultimate SP1 x64bit... it will automatic DC in Server Time (Hours).... and It can't Seeding... Every Time i wake up next morning .. sure DC.. ?? Any help.. ? Thank!!

graphic card, 1440x900

bro_86 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:28:52 +0800

hey... im a newbie..
just want to know the model of graphic card that support 1440x900 resolution my lcd 19'(acer)

someone plzzz help me....

Transfer Vista OEM to another notebook,

tomcatf14 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:02:26 +0800

Hi,

I have just installed Vista OEM to my notebook about 1 week ago and I haven't activate it. Can I transfer the Vista to another notebook as I would be selling my current notebook.

Window Vista + Window Xp?, How make it work on one laptop ?

spencerlim — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:15:45 +0800

I using studio 15 now...
i got two partition ....
may i know how can i install two os in one laptop ?
is that i need any third party software ?
somebody help me please ...
i know this threat appear before but i can't found it...
Thank you for your reply...

Windows Vista "Flashing" Taskbar Problem, Vista Ultimate with SP1.

deathbringer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:41:58 +0800

I've recently assembled my rig and it's currently running on Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit.

However, after installing all essential drivers (chipset, gfx, etc.) as well as SP1, I began experiencing weird stuff with my taskbar. My taskbar is set to hidden, but every 5 seconds or so, my taskbar does a super-lightning-fast pop-up, like..errr...a flash of lightning. Also, the status bar on some windows I open flashes as well...like it is trying to refresh itself.

1) I suspect this has something to do with SP1, coz I only noticed it after installing SP1. However, I'm also running Vista Business with SP1 on my Vaio and never encountered this sort of weirdness.
2) If it's not SP1, then i suspect that it is the Nvidia drivers. I'm using the latest official drivers (175.19) for my 9800GX2. The latest beta drivers are buggy and i do not use them.
3) i'm not the only one experiencing it. Look here and here.

If someone has experienced this b4 and solved the problem, please let me know. but it better be soon. The flashing taskbar is driving me insane.

Cheers.

Vista NVIDIA driver display crash!, always crash... T_T

matmoto5125 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:08:13 +0800

hi...whenever i play crysis for 3-5 minutes or so, the screen goes blank and then nothing more i can do is to open the task manager and see that crysis is not responding plus the display driver has stopped working(refer screenshot). same thing happen when i played grid and some other games..currently i am using the 177.79 driver, and this thing happen even from the day i used 174.74 driver(back in april).

yes, i have tried to reinstall the games and reinstall the driver, but same thing happen oso.(also tried to use driver cleaner from guru3d). really really really hate it to recieve such warning balloon when i am in the middle of the game.

can anyone explain why this is happening? tanx and really appreciate that...

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window vista ultimate x86 & x64,

INGfusion — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:53:39 +0800

hi what is the difference with x86 & x64 ? where can i check it on my windows ultimate?

Cant' set Vista machine as webserver, using Wamp2.0

cyberfly — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:30:58 +0800

hi...
i already tried using Xp machine as webserver and other pc can access it.
but when i try with Vista machine as webserver, others pc cannot access.
what is the problem that i must do?

Unable install win vista with MSI K9 Neo V3, help help

iceberg — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:37:28 +0800

I am using main MSI K9 Neo V3 and I'm not able to install win vista with booting by vista DVD, my desktop wont process once access installation page (green screen) to prepare install win vista. I think this could be sata driver on my vista DVD but I already tried 2 DVDs but still same. Otherwise I could install from inside windows XP. Anybody may help me to install win Vista by booting DVD. Anyone got same case like mine. Thanks for helping

How to change from 24 hours to 12 hours?, In Vista

doremon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:36:31 +0800

Currently i hate the 24 hours time. I want it to be 12 hours. Sometime i have to calculate the time which is very annoying . How to solve this problem? Thankz in advance u guyz

Vista on SATA RAID, Windows Vista

ConquerorX — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:10:01 +0800

Hi All,

I'm in the process of installing Windows Vista and I encountered few issues

1. I have 2 SATA HDD and 1 PATA HDD. It seems that my rig could not boot up if I were to unplug by PATA HDD. my 2 SATA HDD are on RAID 0 configuration. Any solution to this? I suspect that the bootmgr wrote my PATA HDD as primary boot up disc. However, I have defined the boot sequence in BIOS already. I will have first boot successful and it will show me BOOT DISK FAILURE, bla bla bla (if I unplugged my PATA HDD), so as soon as I click CTRL+ALT+DEL, it restarts my system. However, my system hung after BIOS check. Can't press anything nor TAB to look at boot sequence.
2. I found BOOTSECT.BAK file in my PATA HDD while my Vista was installed on SATA HDD. I did some research on it seems that it was created by Vista as I had my WinXP in my SATA HDD previously. Some say it is safe to delete, some say not. so what say you?
3. I'm using Asus DVDRW (SATA) and in the process of installing Vista (RAID 0 configuration), it asked for CD/DVD device driver? Anyone encounter such situation? I thought RAID driver would be sufficient? At least that's what manual says.

Any solutions towards the 3 issues above? Many thanks all sifu

The 3GB-not-4GB RAM problem,

fariz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:32 +0800

Problem statement:
I just bought a system with 4GB of physical RAM in it. The BIOS posts 4GB, but Windows tells me that I have anywhere from 2.75 - 3.5GB of RAM. Where is the rest of my RAM?

Summary:
If you are running 32-bit Windows, you must live with it. You will not ever see all 4GB of RAM you've paid for.

If you are running 64-bit Windows, you may have to live with it. Depending on your motherboard's chipset, your system may support memory remapping. If so, you will be able to use all 4GB of RAM.

Detailed:
Due to an architectural decision made long ago, if you have 4GB of physical RAM installed, Windows is only able to report a portion of the physical 4GB of RAM (ranges from ~2.75GB to 3.5GB depending on the devices installed, motherboard's chipset & BIOS).

This behavior is due to "memory mapped IO reservations". Those reservations overlay the physical address space and mask out those physical addresses so that they cannot be used for working memory. This is independent of the OS running on the machine.

Significant chunks of address space below 4GB (the highest address accessible via 32-bit) get reserved for use by system hardware:

BIOS – including ACPI and legacy video support
PCI bus including bridges etc.
PCI Express support will reserve at least 256MB, up to 768MB depending on graphics card installed memory

More detail and source: http://blogs.msdn.com/hiltonl/archive/2007...am-problem.aspx

Best Windows Vista Blog Contest,

JoesephKoo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:24:09 +0800

Here there ia organising a contest to recognise some of the best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.

Steve Sinchak MVP of TweakVista.com, John Barnett MVP of VistaSupport.mvps.org, Kerry Brown MVP of VistaHelp.ca, James Stables of Windows Vista Magazine, Emil Protalinski of Arstechnica are some of the judges.

This should be a great opportunity for Vista bloggers to showcase their blogs. There are prizes to be won too. The contest will be open from 10th Aug 2008 to 09th Sept 2008. So if anybody has Vista Blog good to try.

Details HERE.

Volume Indicator On Screen, How to show it on the screen?

yyie — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:42:05 +0800

Hi all,

I just bought a Compaq V3839TU freedos lappy..... the lappy is preloaded with Vista Home Premium 30-days trial....and I have reformatted it using Vista Home Basic....

After i have reformatted the lappy....I found out that everytime when I adjust the volume of my lappy.....on my lappy screen the volume indicator didn't shown up.....in fact during the preloaded version it did show up when i adjust my volume.....i have all the necessary drivers installed....

May i know what is the problem and how i can rectify it?

Thanks.

copy 1gb files need 15minute on vista?,

NTX — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:35:59 +0800

y like this? is it my vista something wrong?