To reset the Wireless Adapter Manually in Widows Vista, you need to go to command prompt and enter the following

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset reset.log

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell XPS M1330 and very often face wireless connectivity problem at my home. It works excellent at my office, but when I go home, recently I find connection with only Local access and no Internet connection.

One of the reason may be the signal is very week as the ADSL Router is in a different floor. I use a Wifi Antenna to boost the signals and it was working fine till last weak.

While Googling I could find that the Wifi connection with Vista is a common problem

Some of useful links are given below

• Vista Wireless Issues
• MSN forum
• Tweak Mode

Interesting Links

5 tips to boost Wifi Reception

Windows Vista can be update automatically. In this when there is an update released by Microsoft, your system will automatically download the updates and install it. If you have not enabled auto update, then you will have to update manually.

You can check your update History by going to Control Panel-> Windows Update

To View your update history, you can click on the “View update history”. You will get the information related to the updates done in the past and this is helpful when you find any problem due to these updates like some conflicts in drivers. In this case, either you can go for system restore or uninstall the updates

You can remove the installed updates by clicking on the link “Installed Updates”

Vista users might have come across the problem of resolution being changed when they either set the system or their Laptop to Hibernate or to sleep mode. When I used this my screen resolution would change from 1280 x 800 to the lowest one and every time I had to change it manually.’

I searched through different forums, and got the solution which has worked for me. Some solutions were to change the registry value, but I could not find the registry values in my laptop registry.

Finally from the Microsoft forum I got a solution which worked. After doing this I tried by putting my laptop to sleep mode and then Hibernate, both the problems are sorted out

Solution for the problem of resolution being changed when put to sleep mode or Hibernate

Go to command prompt – run as administrator

If you run as a user you will get this error

You need to run as an administrator.

Just search for command and you will find command prompt listed, right click on that and type

powercfg -h on

Hibernate or put your system to sleep and try. This should solve the problem

Other solution which did not work for me, but worked for many others is by editing the registry values

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video]

Change the value of LidBehavior From 11 to 10 (Hexadecimal)

Other option is to update the device driver of your Monitor

I was facing some problem with my Dell XPS M1330. Very often when I boot my laptop, I get a blue screen error with a reason that the Hard drive was not found and I had to many time use the system restore feature to use my laptop again.

I sorted this out, but going to the Bio’s set up.

1. First thing I did was to disable Flash memory Cache
2. Then changed the hard drive interface from AHCI to standard

Now I did not find this error. Hope the problem is sorted out

If anybody has a real solution other than the above, please post it here

I have been facing problem installing a network printer on my laptop which is run on Windows Vista. When ever I try to install , I get a message that the printer spool is not running, restart the machine and try again.

I have got the solution for this.

Go to start->Right click on Computer, then select Manage and then in services- select

Once you click on the Manage menu, you will get the the following wind

Then click on the services shown on the left sidebar. and select printer spool

Click on the start link or restart link to start the printer spool and try installing. For me it failed for the first time, but worked the second time

I am using Windows vista on my laptop and I was facing some problems. The biggest problem that I was facing was the disk partition. My hard drive was made to two partition, C drive with 20 GB and D drive with 160 GB. This was a blunder done by the service engineer who installed the OS for me. I was having very less space as Windows Vista takes about 15 GB and when I install any new programs then I need to select Drive D for installation. I tried different tricks to expand my C drive space but nothing worked for me. Other problem that I faced with Vista was some programs were not working properly. So I decided to go for Windows XP and keep the Vista installation intact for the time being.

How to install Windows XP with Windows Vista and configure the dual Booting

Requirements

Windows XP licensed version

Vista Boot Pro

Process

1. Shut down your system and insert the Windows XP CD to computer
2. Make sure that your system first booting is from the CD rom or you can change it by pressing the F10 key while your system boots
3. Install the Windows XP
4. Try restarting, you may not be able to use Windows Vista
5. Just start Windows XP and install Vista Boot Pro
6. Copy boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and ntldr from the drive where Windows Vista is installed and paste it to the drive where you have installed Windows XP.
7. Run Vista Boot Pro and go to "System Boot Loader" tab and select Windows Vista Bootloader, then in the second option select All drives and click on the Install Bootloader button
8. You are done

Now restart your system, you should find the option to select the operating system

I got a new Laptop which is having Vista as the operating system. I am not used to Vista and while I was trying to uninstall a program like we do in Windows XP, but I could the find the Add/Remove icon. Its bit different

First we see the desktop where we can find the control panel shortcut. Click on the control panel shortcut and go to the control panel

If its in classic view, just go to control panel home

In the control panel home, you can find the Uninstall program link, just click on that

You will get the list of program that are installed, just click on the program that you have to uninstall, the uninstall link becomes visible

Just click on the Uninstall link and its done, You need to have to login as the administrator to do this