I have not been able to find this problem in the forums so far... My vista home premium workstation when sleep is selected the computer basically re-starts and does not go to sleep....I have no idea where to start looking for a solution.... Any help appreciated --

(Running Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, SP-1 installed. Everything seems to work just fine.) As part of my monthly back-up process I have been making copies of my Contacts file (renaming it BUcontactsdate) and Favorites file (renaming it BUfavoritesdate). Until I installed SP-1 the name changes "took" on the back-up files which were located on either external drives, or DVDs. Now, I have...

For the whining MVPs that say Im an irreverent non vista spammer let them eat this please :-) Vista secret 1 http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/761092.aspx Vista secret 2 http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/761096.aspx

So I got a virus or trojan recently and was able to remove it all (as far as I can tell). However it disabled everything in my security center, deleted my restore points, disabled some services, and messed up my networking. Now, when I open the network window, my system doesn't find any networked computers automatically using network discovery. If try to connect to a networked pc by typing...

hi, am on Ultimate, when I go to system restore I get an alert that system restore is already running but I don't see anything happening and certainly dont remember having seen any dialogs asking to what date I want to restore or anything.. thank you..

Start search was working fine, but at some point it just stopped. I'm not sure if it was when I installed google desktop, but I reset my defaults, and set the search protocol to explorer, and that didn't help. What is happening is that I type in the start search notepad (or whatever) and where it previoulsy would have come up with notepad after a few letters, it now simply clears the start menu...

Here's my sorry tale. I got a O&O bluecon utility CD through the post and tried it out. Now I am trying to find a way to not have to rebuild my Vista PC!! I have Vista Ultimate and it has worked well for several months. I got this CD through the post and tried it out. It's not much cop to be honest - looks like ropey software to me - not finished (v7) and it's quite pricey as well, about...

Hi everyone, After installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 I lost my internet connection. I kept trying to open various websites in Internet Explorer and eventually I was able to download partial, sometimes even complete web pages, although IE wasn't displaying them, presumably because various resources on the page weren't downloaded yet (I used View Source in the empty browser window to...

::Hi ppl,:: ::That's my first post here so please help my. :cry::: ::I want to make my vista *Lock my computer automaticly *like in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.:: -- Emad.Mokhtar

Normally you can set only wmv and mpg video files as desktop background using DreamScene. You can howewer use ANY video file as a background it the following way: 1.download and install K-Lite Mega Codec Pack or a codec pack equivalent. The first benefit will be tat you can play back practically any kind of video file with your WMP11. 2. Rename the fi,e you want to use as desktop background .wmv...

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Can somebody tell me if Open Office is really compatible with Vista SP1? Or is it still basically an XP piece of software? I think it was a great substitute for MS Office. -Pete

I upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate. Backed up data using image backup from Vista Ultimate. Gave me 5 discs in VHD format. Subsequently did a clean install using Home premium. It will not open the backup VHD images. I just need a few documents from the backup set. Any suggestions please.

My Windows Search Service Keeps turning off. Is there any way I can repair this? I try to look under the Event Viewer and it gives me an error message: It says the data is invalide on the System for Event Viewer. The Event Viewer Service is Running.

There's a nasty bug in Notepad on Vista, that persists also in SP1. To reproduce the problem do following: 1/ Run Notepad 2/ Type aaaa, press Enter, and then type bbbb 3/ Click before aaaa, and then press twice Ctrl+right arrow. Your insertion point is not before bbbb, as it works in XP and previous! It is between 0d and 0a - in other words, in the middle of the new line pair. 4/ Type the...

Hello everyone, I want to know if there is a way to have 2 sidebar simultaneous? (the original sidebar from Vista, not 2 google-sidebar or other sidebar). Thanks alot! -- Rambytes

Hi, Does anyone know how to disable ease of access because my friend always enables high contrast when the laptop is locked but on. Thanks in advance Tom

Whenever I change an Internet Explorer shortcut icon it will initially change to what I've selected, but it seems several minutes later it reverts back to the default I.E. icon with a white background that looks like paper. I wonder why it won't stay to what I've selected? I created the shortcut by dragging it to the desktop from Favorites.

I can use Mozilla but I can't get IE to even open now. Also, when I attempt to change the volume, Windows Explorer has an error. Any ideas about fixing these issues? Especially the first? nike

I inserted a new, blank 1GB USB drive into laptop. Vista Home Basic promptly asked if I wanted it to be used for ReadyBoost. I responded "Yes". OK so far. Subsequently when booted-up, Right-Click Computer Advanced System Settings - Advanced tab - Performance (.... virtual memory) - Settings button - Advanced tab - Virtual Memory Change ... button. It shows "Automatically manage paging file...