Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

Ok, so you finally downloaded the latest build of Microsoft's Windows Vista only to find that you are having problems installing it inside of your VMware Workstation 5.5.2 virtual machine. Evidently, ...

Enough, apparently, that some users have reported overloaded sites that never begin the download. (As of mid-day Thursday, TechWeb was unable to reach the English-language, 32-bit download file.) That ...

Two of three prerequisites needed to install SP1 are bundled with Microsoft's Windows Update, along with usual batch of monthly security updates Microsoft is including a set of nonsecurity updates ...

In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that ...

I had that problem for months and never found a solution. Wouldn't let me install SP1 either, so in the end I did a repair install of Vista. That fixed it.

I've done this before with XP, form a thread here, but I can't find it now and I don't know if it work for Vista. Basically, you run a command from a computer with the HD attached (via USB OK? worked ...

Explore practical methods to unfreeze Windows Update and ensure smooth installations in Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7 Reviewed by Michael Barton Heine Jr Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to see if you can log in and ...