You give up on the genuine Vista and use XP instead? How waste...XP might get this problem as well so it doesn't matter which OS you use.

By the way linksinstreet thanks for the tips for alternative way of deleting a file, haha.

Vista Business OEM has the option of downgrading to XP Pro...

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This post has been edited by purplecrystal00: Sep 7 2008, 08:22 PM

if you have enabled Aero glass theme already, you can use 3D Flip using WINKEY + Tab or click on the 2nd icon on the Quick Launch toolbar named Switch between windows...

thanks. i'll check later am not another pc currently.

hi everyone..need help here

i installed vista home premium on my pc using my friend's oem cd..my friend has already used its product key, and he is still using it..so i cant activate my vista as the product key has been used..my question is if i contact microsoft to ask for a new key, will they disable my friend's registration key?

if yes then i guess i should get a new one..so my question is what version should i buy?i saw cycom pricelist listed 2 types of vista home premium with different prices (RM255 and RM320)..i dont know which 1 should i buy

thx for helping

Gonna buy an original Vista Home Premium later,just wanna ask some questions. There's alot of different ones in the market,like the retail and the OEM's one.Which one should I buy and would cost me how much?

Does it comes with service pack 1 too?

OEM if u re going to use that copy on one and only one computer, else take retail...

SP1, even if dun ve, can be downloaded from MS

but it will be a hassle afterward when you're cleaning up. better get Vista with SP1 preintegrated, save time to download humongous SP1 update and the mess it make later...

IIRC, all OEM Vista sold out there is not preinstalled with SP1

No, there is, my OEM Vista comes with integrated SP1.

the OEM vista that comes with SP1 cost how much?

for which? there is Home Premium, which IIRC cost around RM300

Bro, is there anyway to use DX9 environment under Vista?? DX10 is very demanding and I wish to revert to DX9 for certain games. Please advise.

that depends on the game - I think you can choose to launch it on DX9 setting and DX10 setting vice versa. refer the game manual for that...

Some games have different exe so that you can run the game in either DX10 or DX9 mode. Try looking in the game directory. And what game may I ask is this? Because there are limited DX10 games out there. And DX10 is backward compatible so that they can emulate DX9 if the game cannot be run in DX10

lol, Aero is already DX9...

huh? are you dreaming or what? SP1 reached final status months ago...

I'm just wondering how did the OEM boxes drop. Its weird though. Anyhow , its recommended for you to buy Retail rather then OEM boxes. The difference , well you can't tell. You can activate both of them but I would recommend Retail over OEM at all times , its just to be extra safe. Its still a mystery how they marked OEM Windows Vista (Did it from off from Dell Store ?)

It does not have fancy boxes, license is not transferrable, that maybe the reason OEM boxes sales way cheaper. Looks at Visual Studio 2008, they're giving it free at uni/colleges students, and believe me, Microsoft will do anything to get people to use Vista...

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This post has been edited by FarCry3r: Sep 24 2008, 06:50 PM