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hello bigrovar
seem to have pro connecting my notebk which uses window vista basic to the internet.
although my phone connection shows connected but still can't browse. yet the same connection works 4 my windows xp.
what do u think?

if u read my first post u would have seen that i have adressed the issue, ok let me adress it again, COM SURROGATE ERROR, is caused by the installations of muti codec on your vista machine, why u may not have installed the codecs yourself the installation of 3rd party applications  like  Nero,Divx player,avid, and some other players installs the codecs in the background and  have been known to have caused the problems, the problems usually comes up when u open a folder containing videos,or when u try to play a video file especially an .avi file,
SOLUTION
There are many solutions to the error the first one is to unistall nero from your system, and try to download the latest nero i.e nero v 7.9.6.0 that is the one am currently using and i have no more porblem with comsurroget error.CAUTION if u have dvix installed PLEASE don't uninstall it o just leave it and try and download the latest divx player online just type "latest divx player download" in google and u would see see a link that would direct u to a place to download i would advise u to download from the official divx site. when u download install on the current one u have .that should correct the problem .N.B i have both nero and the latest divx but i stay in lagos i don't know were u stay so maybe  we might hookup.? call me 08022982697 don't worry its free, 

second it as been said that disabling thumbnail in vista should sovle that problem but i would not recommend that since it would remove some of the nice features in the os, but u can try it as a shorterm plan while u download the latest in this applications.

if the above solutions the not work then let me know, we would try something else that works,
well first of all let me know the kind of internet connection is it through network cable or through wireless,or is it dialup  through your phone like  say starcomms or multi links,or is it through your wireless pcmi card i need to know so that i can tell u what to do,

GEE I WONT BELIEVE THAT I COMPLETELY MISSED UR POS  :oT , GUSSH, TO THINK THAT I KEPT ON CHECKING TO SEE IF You HAVE TIRED WHAT I SENT, AM SO SO SORRY,   .YES You ARE RIGHT MOST OF THE ISSUE IS ABOUT PEOPLE TRYING TO UPGRADE TO TO ULTIMATE BUT I TELL You ITS NOT JUST ULTIMATE,EVEN BUSINESS CAUSES THE PROBLEM, WELL You SAID You TRIED THE  PROCESS I GAVE You AND IT DID NOT  WORK, I BELIEVE You REMEMBERED THE HIBERNATION PART, OK JUST HOLD ON You CONTINUE MY RESEARCH N.B WHICH I STOPPED BCUS I THOUGHT MAYBE You HAVE FOUND UR SOLUTION , AT WORSE You WOULD GO BACK TO HOME PREMIUM,

the com surrogate error u encountered  is not stealhy drm, rather it is due to the presence of the divx files like i said try googling and find the latest dvix file for download, that should do the trick, about the adobe reader i didnt have any probs installing is on my own vista and i havent met anybody who has, but then i use the v8.0 so maybe the latest version has issues with vista, try googling to find out, agian u can't blame vista for your woes.these is just a case of a 3rd party app developer not doing his home work.and that is not MS fault,
 about whether vista no be am or na am, what i would just say is that vista works like a charm for me and 90% of users, the few that have problems are the ones that come here u don't expect a person without a problem to make a post in a forum about vista problems do u,

if am not wrong u are the linux guy right,  let me tell u a story once upon a time i once toyed with me idea of installing ubuntu on a free system at home, so i set about  googling and researching on what to expect from this saintly OS that does no wrong, what i found was startling, the world of linux is like a unorganized barbaric world where anything goes,there is no rule, no regulation,tried finding out if fiesty frown would support my aircard since the maker didnt even bother to create a driver for linux, i was told by by a linuxist that i would have to write a program that would make it work the he gave me like 2  pages of sudo garbage that looked like this
# lspci -vv -s06:00.0
06:00.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics USS-312 USB Controller (rev 10) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Lucent Microelectronics USS-312 USB Controller
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-
$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T:  Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=e8987000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=16 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0f3d ProdID=0112 Rev= 0.01
S:  Manufacturer=AirPrime, Incorporated
S:  Product=AirPrime CDMA Wireless PC Card
C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=serial
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl=128ms
E:  Ad=8a(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=0b(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=serial
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=05(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
[remainder of output removed]

Installing the Serial Driver
The Qualcomm MSM chip inside the 5220 emulates two serial ports over its USB interface. Unfortunately, the device does not seem to advertise itself as a generic modem or serial port, so we must specify the vendor and product IDs to the Linux USB serial driver so it will recognize it. This can be done with command-line parameters when the module is installed. This command will immediately install it into your running kernel:

# modprobe usbserial vendor=0xf3d product=0x0112

and appending this line to /etc/modules will cause it to be automatically (re)loaded the next time you reboot:

usbserial vendor=0xf3d product=0x0112

Verify that the usbserial driver found the MSM by looking at /var/log/messages or the output of the dmesg command. It should look something like this:

usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
usb.c: serial driver claimed interface c55f9a20
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
usb.c: serial driver claimed interface c55f9a38
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4

If you are running devfs, the device file system, the character special devices /dev/usb/tts/0 and /dev/usb/tts/1 should now exist. Otherwise you should make the appropriate nodes if they don't already exist:

# mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
# mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1

Configuring PPPD
The next step is to set up the Linux PPP daemon pppd. Create the file /etc/ppp/peers/1xevdo with these contents:

-detach
ttyUSB0
115200
debug
noauth
defaultroute
usepeerdns
user your_telephone_number@vzw3g.com
show-password
crtscts
lock
connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -t3 -f /etc/ppp/peers/1xevdo_chat'

Replace your_telephone_number with your 10-digit Verizon-assigned telephone number that you received with your 5220 card.

Create /etc/ppp/peers/1xevdo_chat with these contents:

'' 'AT'
'OK' 'ATE0V1&F&D2&C1&C2S0=0'
'OK' 'ATE0V1'
'OK' 'ATS7=60'
'OK' 'ATDT#777'

Finally, append this line to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets:

your_telephone_number@vzw3g.com * vzw

again replacing your_telephone_number with the 10-digit telephone number of your 5220 card. (Why an Internet device that cannot make voice calls should require a telephone number is beyond me.)

Just in case it wasn't obvious, we created a PPP dialup account that can be reached by dialing #777 (#PPP) over /dev/ttyUSB0. Your PPP login name is your 10-digit phone number followed by @vzw3g.com and your password is simply vzw.
Trying it all out
You should now be ready to bring up the link. Run the following command:

sudo pppd call 1xevdo

If you succeed in setting up the link, you will see something like this:

$ sudo pppd call 1xevdo
Perms of /dev/ttyUSB0 are ok, no 'mesg n' neccesary.
Serial connection established.
using channel 1
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1    ]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1    ]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0   ]
sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x0   ]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1   ]
sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1   ]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1    ]
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1    ]
sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xc57d039a]
sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1   ]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1    ]
rcvd [LCP DiscReq id=0x2 magic=0x32250cdb]
rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x32250cdb c5 7d 03 9a]
rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0x4 80 fd 01 01 00 0f 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f]
rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 ]
sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 ]
rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x1 ]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2   ]
rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2   ]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3   ]
rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3   ]
not replacing default route to eth0 [129.46.76.1]
Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
local  IP address 166.154.180.95
remote IP address 66.174.32.27
primary   DNS address 66.174.6.7
secondary DNS address 66.174.3.7
Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 3416)
Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 3416), status = 0x0

Because of the -detach flag in /etc/ppp/peers/1xevdo, debug messages will continue to appear in this window. I find this useful to see link status at a glance. Do not hit control-C unless you want to bring down the link. Test it from another shell window:

$ ping 66.174.32.27
PING 66.174.32.27 (66.174.32.27) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 66.174.32.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=608 ms
64 bytes from 66.174.32.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=180 ms
64 bytes from 66.174.32.27: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=400 ms
64 bytes from 66.174.32.27: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=190 ms

--- 66.174.32.27 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3038ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 180.092/344.649/608.135/175.670 ms
$

Success! You should now be on the Internet!

Last modified: 17 Sep 2004, Phil Karn

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 me ? write that i  i was reminded of my dreaded mathematics days and  l just freaked out, the same thing if i wanted my system to hibernate,or work with a particular type of driver,things that we take for granted on windows are done through command and geeky codes in ubuntu, i met a guy from the usa while i was burying my eyes in google trying to find anyplace where things was organize and i could learn ubuntu without commands and uncertainty , while we were chating i decided to share my picz with him i completed the necessary  process  on my Window part of yahoo messenger, when i told him to accept my invitation to view my pictures.he said nothing was on his ubuntu part of the messenger, he pursed  for some second and the next i heard from him was "DAMN UBUNTU" , I COULDNT AGREE WITH HIM LESS.

u dey shout open source open source , do u know ao many open source programs they are on windows? i guess not, i know of people u can bend their windows os the way the want all u have to do is do good at registry edit, and comand u will find out that for every appliaction installed 90% of them have a way of making them work through command prompt or regedit, the windows gui u see is for the people u don't want to know what goes on behind he scene.all they want is what see is what u get applications am a lawyer by profession and i tell u they are enough codes in the Companies and Allied Matters ACT.to keep me busy for a generation ,add that to Evidence ACT ,civil procedure, my time is very limited and the little time i have with my PC i don't want to spend it looking for a 5 page code just bcus i want to make my wireless pcmi card work call me lazy dull but even u ahve to admit that everybody can not be a guru in computer, the air card on my vista works for me like a charm and i don't want to know what codes made that possible, if i wanted to radically alter the function of my pc to my liking i can , but it works for me, computers were suppose to make things better and not complicate them, 90% for poeple don't want to bend their pc, no they just need to browse the web,prepare docments,play games,multimedias,sync with portable device,etc, and with MS u don't need to hacking on codes to do that,
about the com surrogate shit, i know u are hell bent on blaming it on vista, whatever , just try and install the latest divx that would solve the probs.  by the way most of the prison break i have in my phone are divx , no problemo

Bigrovar please i need you help,I use a Hp pavilion dv6000 that came preinstalled with winxp but i really want to upgrade to windows vista.How do i go about it,because i have installed the vista upgrade advisor and it showed me that some of my hardware will not work like my camera and bluetooth.I want to purchase an original copy and upgrade.Please help me.  N.B The laptop is rated vista capable.

google sketchup is not running on vista.
this is funny because its a hardware thing
you can install via workaround( run in compatibility mode for xp)
or using the latest version(6.05)

BUT IT WILL ONLY OPEN AND FREEZE. 
oddly, enough it runs if windows is in safe mode

it seems to have something to do with the fact that vista graphics processing is configured to run  only with directx rather than openGL.

which may be why it ran in safe mode

Atually i found out that it maybe your grapic card that does not support google sketch up on vista, try updating your graphic card, just type device manager on the search field in your start menu, go to the graphic card driver right click on it, and select update online, for more assistance u can check here   
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=66154 and  http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69299&ctx=sibling 

good now could u please tell me the kind of phone u are using ,is it a nokia ,motorola etc, am sure it not a big problem but i need to know what kind of phone uare using,

@abohrandy: you are absolutely right. After having Vista on my computer for a few weeks, I have decided to go back to xp, and I could not have been happier. I am just much more productive on xp without the excess resources being used, and can get things done faster than with vista. There are many things that like about Vista, but i will stay away from it, at least until the first service pack is released for it.

Bigrovar the system is a Hp Pavilion dv6183ea.
Memory 1GB
Processor intel core 2 duo 1.83ghz(T5600)
Graphics card Nvidia Geforce go 7400 with 256mb memory.
Please i await your response.Good work you are doing here,keep it up!

[good now could u please tell me the kind of phone u are using ,is it a nokia ,motorola etc, am sure it not a big problem but i need to know what kind of phone uare using,]










Thnx alot bigrovar, ve learnt alot from u. am using nokia 5300. but guess what it got connected on wed afternoon and stopped later. still can't connect since then. now am convinced it can work but what the pro is I can't tell.I need to start njoying my vista oh because I now know its not meant to be problematic. what do u think I should do???

Secondly, ms office 2007 came installed with the laptop and yet keep asking for the key. been showing my remaining num of times i can access it- wats d solution?