I have installed my old hard drive into my newer computer. It seems like it would be much less a headache to install my some old programs (AVG, Spybot, photoshop stuff etc) to my new hardrive and remove them from my old hard drive. The thing is,...
(not sure if this belongs in this forum or drivers forum)
This is really bugging me now.
Everytime I start up Vista, plug in a portable hard drive or Ipod I get the "Program Compatibility Assistant" pop up saying this drive isnt compatible. When i unplug the ipod, the message just wont go away!!!! Really annoying.
I've tried unistalling the software (MyDVD) but this seems to lose my DVD drive on a reboot? (guessing its got something to do with Drive Letter Access being removed) I've tried messing about with Defender to stop it loading at start-up, but this doesnt seem to make any difference.
This is really bugging me now.
Everytime I start up Vista, plug in a portable hard drive or Ipod I get the "Program Compatibility Assistant" pop up saying this drive isnt compatible. When i unplug the ipod, the message just wont go away!!!! Really annoying.
I've tried unistalling the software (MyDVD) but this seems to lose my DVD drive on a reboot? (guessing its got something to do with Drive Letter Access being removed) I've tried messing about with Defender to stop it loading at start-up, but this doesnt seem to make any difference.
Is there anyway I can get rid of this message or unistall the software/driver without causing problems. I dont even use the software anymore! Its really really annoying!!! 
I just purchased a new HP Pavilion with Vista Home Premium yesterday. As soon as got it home I went to uninstall programs to remove the pre-installed junk software only to find must of the programs were not listed as available to uninstall. I was...
heya all
vista is released tomorrow and i just had a thought: i have a oem version of xp home i got with my dell installed at the moment, will i be able to simply get the upgrade version of vista?
secondly i'm giving my current computer to my parents in a few months, with the oem version of xp. i'll then be making my own computer. the computer my parents have at the moment did come with a oem version of windows but we lost the disc so we got a mates disk which microsoft didn't like so we had to pay for a genuine version which they sent to us.
how do i kno if thats a full version of xp and can i use it on a 'virgin machine'? crucically it has its own cd key... does that mean just so long as i unistall it from the current machine i can use it on any other computer?
