Vista OEM Re-Install

Hi, Jim.

VistaHeads simply forwarded your post to the Microsoft public news server -
without even telling you! You could "cut out the middleman" and come here
directly by clicking here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup

That one click will start Windows Mail (or your other default newsreader);
create a News Account for the Microsoft public news server, which is free
and does not require you to log in; connect you to THIS newsgroup
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup; download the 300 newest
messages (probably including your own post, and mine); and display the
newest one for you to read. After a few minutes' familiarization, you can
click Tools | Options and customize WM to suit the way YOU use newsgroups.
(Windows Mail is included in every copy of Vista, but many of us prefer to
download and install the free Windows Live Mail - note the subtle but
significant difference in the names - by going here:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview).

Then you can post your question in a new post. Give us the essential facts
(computer hardware description, Vista version, etc.) and ask your question
as straightforwardly as you can. Save your Outlook 2007 question for a
second post - and you'd probably get better results for that in one of the
many Outlook newsgroups; start here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

And you are probably right about one point: Your "recovery disk" will
almost certainly cost you every file that you've added to your computer
since the day it arrived. OEM vendors are supposed to furnish a full Vista
DVD-ROM, as I understand it, but I've heard that many do not unless pressed.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc.TakeThisOut@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Jim C" <Jim.C.3dou0d.TakeThisOut@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
news:Jim.C.3dou0d@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...
>
> Hello all, from Atlanta, GA USA!
>
> I'm new to the forum finding it by a Google search of my problem.
>
> Spent quite a long time with the MS Vista / SP-1 install problem team
> trying to figure out why SP-1 and associated other "performance" type
> update would not install.
>
> Their "solution" was for me to use the OEM "recovery" disc that came
> with my machine, or call the vendor and ask him for Vista install disc.
>
> I called the vendor (CyberPower) and asked if they had anything else
> besides the "wipe it out" recover disc, and, of course, they said, "are
> you kidding me??" Well, actually they just said no.
>
> No I see where I MAY be able to put in this recovery disc and just tell
> it to "upgrade" my system files (which is what MS says I need to do due
> to some corruption of sys file [the machine runs fine as far as I can
> see, but they did do a VPN poke around my sys and confirmed that
> something was corrupted]).
>
> So I want to confirm how to do this before actually doing and wiping
> out my HDD.
>
>> You can reinstall OEM Vista by using the "upgrade" option of the Anytime
>> > Upgrade DVD.
>> > If you have a version of VISTA installed, it merely "upgrades" to the
>> same
>> > version. You will need your Product Key from the computer case; and
>> in my
>> > case, I had to reactivate by telephone anyway.....but it works.
>
> Is this right??
>
> OK, the basics: I'm running Windows Vista-Business Ver 6.0.6000 Build
> 6000. SP-1 won't install per my conversation with MS, via the call
> center in India.
>
> Finally, whew! I also have a problem with MS Office Outlook 2007. My
> problem is that the program stops working when I press the Tasks key.
> Everything else works fine, just this one key. I've searched for the
> Scan.pst file, but can't find it. Maybe I need to look for it in my
> "administrator" profile, but I don't even see the Office 12 folder. I've
> used the cleaner on my Office 2003 install and know it works great, but
> I can't find it in the 2007 version (Office 2007 Professional).
>
> Hope I didn't go on for too long, but any help with especailly the
> Vista problem would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Jim Cotton / Atlanta, GA / USA
> mailto:jcotton01@gmail.com
>
>
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> Jim C
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