Hi, I have a laptop with Vista Home edition on and Vista does not recognize the DVD drive anymore (it did up to a week ago). It even does not assign a letter to the drive, although the DVD drive itself is up to date. This happened after some Windows updates that downloaded on my computer. The laptop was bought new this January. Any help will be very appreciated.

I can't get Auto Play going. When I put in a DVD program, game, or any DVD which does have an auto play it just does nothing. I went into the Auto Play setting and check the box and for software and games I put in Install or run program. Is there something I'm missing in the Vista OS or could it be my 20x LG DVD player?

HP Desktop, Windows Vista 32 SP1. WIA seems to close (most of the time) when I go into sleep mode. I use Automatic Updates which has worked great for the last year....including the SP1 download and install. Is there a known fix for this? I'm a "user" not a guru so please keep it simple if possible. Thanks. bobg

I have started getting this message once in a while. I can't pin it to anything unusuall I'm doingor any thing the same as the last time it occurred. I have Home Premium SP1. -- Retired Boeing Bill

Hello all. Here is my situation. I had been on a domain "Test.com" on a workstation. The user name that I used to log in was "Thomas.Nguyen". However, after having to rebuild the domain and rejoining the workstation, the new user account, also "Thomas.Nguyen," does not have the settings of the old. I know this would happen.

Hi, I am hoping that someone has a solution out there for me. My computer updates regularly, however when the computer restarts to finish the installation, it is not able to restart. I get a screen that tells me that it needs to use a startup trouble shooter which then tells me that I need to use system restore. So I go through all of this to get the computer going again, then it tries to...

Ok here's the problem, My installation of Vista home premium will not boot, not even in safe mode! Each time I try to boot in safe mode it gets stuck whilst loading the driver BTHidMgr.sys The included system recovery is named 'The Tech Guys' And it has not helped. The 'system repair' option cannot repair the problem and the 'reinstall windows' option freezes whenever I click it. I have...

Can anyone tell me why since installing the latest Vista upgrade friday night, my laptop wont let me in? I get the F8 page up upon start up, then it goes onto the startup repair page, cannot complete this section, so then just restarts and does the whole process again. I have tried to recover to an earlier date but to no avail. It does it in safe mode too. Any suggestions? I didn't get...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, 160 GB HDD and 2 GB RAM. I'm running Vista Home Premum. My computer isn't starting up correctly. It'll either get stuck on the load screen with the green bars or on the Welcome screen, and will not let me put my password in, go to black or stay stuck on "Welcome" and not do anything. I've tried startup repair and system restore. Any suggestions?

Copy files or folders to a Win Explorer pane, they're at the bottom of the list. That's fine. Press F5, nothing happens. i.e. they do not go into alphabetical order. In fact, menu View Refresh doesn't do it either.

I am using Vista Ultimate and having a strange sound issue. When i first start up the computer, all the sounds work perfectally. From there i go into media player and start to randomly select songs to play, this works fine for a little while. After a little while i will select another track, media player opens the file but won't play it. I can click on the play button and move the track...

Recently bought a PC with Vista Home Premium. Have a lot of little questions I may post here if I can't find the answers online. But for now, my most significant problem. I have a USB HD that worked flawlessly under XP. But when I plugged it in to the4 new (Vista) PC it does not appear in Explorer and Disk Management shows it as 'RAW.' How do I get Vista to detect/read it?

Oh they didn't want to, but they were forced in open court. Earlier this year a federal judge, Marsha Pechman granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system, called "Vista Home Basic." The slogan was emblazoned on PCs during the 2006...

Same as last (two?) updates! My computer accepted a Microsoft update on 5/30/2008 and then began restarting every 15 or so minutes. I rolled it back. How useless. I am a software developer. I cannot believe they cant get Vista to to stop rebooting itself through an update! I can accept a glitch resulting from some obscure compatability or strange driver, but cmon- I have what came...

Hello, Can someone tell me what is FTP server ? Thank you. -- t-4-2

I am running Vista Home Premium SP1. I have 4 users on this PC, and one of these users has a problem with a USB connected MP3 player. When the device is plugged in, it is initially recognised, and the files appear in Explorer, but a few seconds later it disconnects, then reconnects, and so on ad infinitum. Under the other users, it works perfectly! I have tried changing the Autoplay options, and...

Hi, hope someone has a solution for this pesky problem. Am trying to turn OFF Win firewall, yet it's nowhere to be found. (Yes, it is on and running) except for a shortcut link which also does not show up (C:\ProgramData\MicrosofWindows\StartMenu\Programs). No folder (hidden included) exists for it anywhere and it has no icon in the control panel either.

i dont know who to conntact but i got a virus but it has been cleand but at start up i am getting c:\users\hp_adm~1\appdata\local\temp\awtqo.exe 2 it say it could not load or find. i am also gett when i turn on the computer a boot menu pops up and give me options of eaher rolling back to xp or continue on with vista is this normal for an upgrade from xp to vista

I have a new computer with windows vista. I need to create a folder in the c drive but cannot find the c drive and do not know how to create a folder

ok, so i have a lenovo x61t running vista 64 and after a reboot, i now have no keybord, no mouse, the touchscreen doesnt work, the tablet doesnt work, and if i plug in a keyboard or mouse, those dont work either. to make things more fun, i get a blue screen of death about 30-60 seconds after it boots up to the desktop. im dual booting with ubuntu, and everything works fine there, so i...