If I'm not in the right group I apologise in advance. Broadband speeds. I know it's easy to learn what the current speed at a particular moment is by using one of the many people on the web providong that service. What I cannot find and would find useful if I had it would be a display - rather like the clock at the bottom RH corner, for instance. A display that would show constantly what the...

I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 531. My HDD is partitioned into C and D drives, with D being a small partitonn where I keep back-up copies of files I don't want to lose should I need to reinstall or have other problems on my C drive. Lately, when I open up my user profile or whatever it's called where the greenisf folders labeled Music, Videos, etc. are located, I find 2 of...

It installs and loads. But when I try to save it freezes. -- Alan R. Geist

After exchanging the motherbaord of my PC I can't formt on my rewritable drive with Live File System - only Mastered format is offered. Can someone advise please? Regads Mandy

For over two months, all my attempts to back up my hard drive have failed. Here's a typical error message from such a failu The backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error:

Can anyone help me with this dilemma, quite frequently the cursor tends to turn into a black square, where I am unable to select web pages, links etc.....only happens when I'm on the internet, why does it do this and how can I stop it. Thanks

Why is it when I click to open a desktop icon, it takes forever for it to open to it's website? How do I correct this?

I just found this file (XMNWGVTYGPFSUWS.scr) in C:\Program Files\Spybot Directory - but can't find any reference to a screensaver in the Help files. Does this file belong there? Thanks..........

I am using an ATI Radeon X1900 with Vista 64 bit. I am using ATI Catalyst version 8.593.100.3. The problem is that when I try to extend the display onto either a connected TV or a second monitor from within the Catalyst Control Center nothing happens. I have tried a variety of different resolutions including resolutions that are within the capability of the second monitor but whenever I click on...

Weather gadgets don't work. When I open Options, nothing works. All other gadgets work fine. Thanks

Hi all, Probably a waste of time asking this (as its probably so embedded into Vista that you can't touch it), but how the hell do you get rid of this speech recognition function ?? It's interferring with a few of my apps (all of which work fine on Vista) that rely on sole access to my mic. Of course, with Vista listening in awaiting any voice commands it can lay it's scripting on, I need...

I want to clean up my drive and to find out where all the usage was I did a "Properties"inquiry on all the directories. The sum of these is short of the total by 48 of 168 gig used on a 250 gig drive. How do I find out what is using the 48? Thanks Andy

Don't know how this happened - but most of my Desktop file and folder names have been changed. Following is an example: e9193x999233 (12) This is what it was changed to. When Vista SP2 boots, just for a moment the correct name appears. But then, the names change to something like what I showed above. I tried System Restore and ERUNT - no luck. Can anyone tell me how to retrieve the...

When trying to install new program compatible with vista, I continue to get the error "Microsoft (R) HTML Application Host has stopped working". I don't know what to do to correct this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks

PLEASE HELP !!!! I have a Sony Vaio laptop with factory installed vista. It bought it about a year and a half ago. I tried to turn it on and am getting a black screen with "windows boot manager" and the message : Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer.

Hi Harry! What about your idea of starting a newsgroup? Seems like a winner to me. Good people. Good posts. Just good ol' folks. Peace! SGB

I'm running Vista Home Premium SPA, 2 GB RAM, Firefox, Spyware Doctor, MBAM, SAS and CCleaner, Office 2007. I also have Spyware doctor installed on a Windows 7 laptop. Can anyone tell me (or redirect me) if my Spyware Doctor scanner (or any other scheduled scanner) runs when the computer is either sleeping or is in hibernate mode? My Spyware Doctor history file suggest that it's been several...

I'm a Vista and IE user, not a Developer. Sequence of events: last week... downloaded Vista Service Pack 1 this week... IE8 has stopped working... screen goes white... DEP problem (blocks code execution) or DEP/NX No-Execute Memory Protection. (DEP problems can occasionally occur with DEP-compliant core operating system components such as Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer and Windows Installer...

I have installed NNTPBridge. It is titled "127.0.0.1 and the only set of groups has something to do with MSDN. However, I cannot find the way to download and get subscribed to the groups that are equivalent to the Microsoft Communities newsgroups. Does anyone know if there is a simple procedure somewhere that explains just how to do this? Thanks, Gordo

I have just started using Windows 7 and cannot find a newsgroup devoted to it in msnews.microsoft.com. Can someone direct me to one? TIA.