I have noticed recently that when I restart my PC running Vista, on entering windows again, the same file explorer windows that I had open before are still open. Is this normal activity? I thought a restart meant just that, and not a "continue". I did not click the hibernate button by mistake ! Any thoughts? Dan

Howdy All, Just done a full reinstall of Vista Home Premium. Everything was working fine, just wanted to go back to a clean slate. However.... Since reinstalling, and setting up my Wireless Desktop 7000 kit, the mouse is fubar'd. It seems to start off ok, then it stutters like crazy after a while. I have tried to download the Reliability update for USB stack in Windows

"The file was blocked because it does not have a valid digital signature that verifies its publisher" The file is from Apple and has a certificate, so how do I install this program?

Is there a setting that I have to change? I create Word doc's and save them to a remote server by typing in the address in the save as text box. It connects to the server just like normal I enter my username and password and navigate to the folder I want and save it in. This worked fine with the previous version of Word. Now since installing Word 2007 I have had problems. It tries to...

Hi, The zipflder feature slows windows explorer when list the content of a directory that contains lots of zip files. I tried "regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll" as I did for Windows XP but got an error message: "The module zipfldr was loaded but the entry-point DllUnregisterServer was not found. Make sure that zipfldr is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try

Okay, just for everyone's knowledge, Vista has this annoying habit of asking if I want to save a password. On my sites, I have several with similar domains and differnt passwords. Vista mucks them up. This - plus an annoying habit of locking up on a regular basis - decided me that I'd just simply go with SUSE 10.2 and create a VMWare XP machine. So, last night I painlessly installed 10.2 on my...

I just got a brand new laptop with Vista on it. Been using it for couple of weeks. Love it. I was able to install/ uninstall programs w/o a prob. But then suddenly, when I went to the uninstall function from the control panel, it didn't display all my programs. It just displayed like 20 different types of Microsoft Office 07 and Catalyst Control center and a couple of other programs. I...

I don't know if this can be of help to anyone. I had a connection delay of 5 minutes with Vista Home Premium on cold boot or on wakeup from hibernation. Drove me crazy - spent hours on the phone with HP (what a waste!). Finally one day I turned Windows Firewall off and, presto!, immediate connection. Now as soon as I wake up the computer, I turn off Windows Firewall, wait one second, turn it on...

I am trying to install a program from a cd and half way through it crashes and I get the above message, can anyone help will post the message and more info if needed. Thanks

Like many people, my system (vista home premium) takes a century to copy large files. First, the File Copy dialog just sits there with title "Calculating time remaining". Then, it gets going and copies the file in about 10-20 times what it had taken XP. I've taken the time to debug the problem a little bit, but haven't found a solution. Using process monitor from sysinternals.com, I've...

After I upgraded to vista my Outlook (not outlook express) no longer runs. When I click the icon it says I need outlook express 4.01 or later to run Outlook. So I tried to install outlook express which is bundled with an older version on IE and Vista won't let me install it. So I am stuck now wondering how I can get Outlook to work again. Is it possible just to install the missing drivers or...

Hi, Does anyone know how to help Media Centre find my pictures. I have tried running the set up from inside Media centre again adn it shows the folders that pictures are in, but 0 pictures? This is frustrating. Even when re-running setup nothing seems to change. For example if I do not choose any folders to watch, the centre still has the folders from previous install/set ups? Best...

When I record from TV using Vista MCE, I usually start the recording some minutes before the show is programmed to start. That leaves me with an automatically generated thumbnail from the previous show in the media center. Is there any way of changing the thumbnail manually, or letting the system look a minute or two later in the file for a thumbnail

Hello, I have Windows Home Premium and tried to use the backup utility (using 'Backup Status and Configuration'), but always get the same error: Log Name: Application Source: Windows Backup Date: 30-May-07 6:02:47 PM Event ID: 4104 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic

Hello: I ran Easy Transfer to move files from my XP desktop to my new vista laptop, but a few minutes into the process I got a message that my secondary HD (D:) was now full and the process aborted. Ever since I've been getting popups that the drive is full, and I know that can't be a good thing since it contains system files and such. I even restored my machine (an HP Pavilion DV6226US) to...

Dear friends, I accidentaly erased my wastebin, what can i do to restore that, or to create a new wastebin? I hope you can help me, Anja

I have a JVC GR-D390 and am having problems downloading to windows movie maker. it starts to download but after about a minute it says that the device has been disconnected or it stops responding and the program will freeze. any ideas ?.

Hi, We have recently supplied a Vista PC to a customer. They have a requirement to backup various files and folders, and we are fiding that Windows Backup supplied with Vista doesn't have the flexibility required to select the required files. We have lab tested NTBackup on Vista and know this works, but we are worried about the license implications. Can anyone from Microsoft tell us if this...

Today when I opened Windows Update, I saw a message with a red X tell me that I never checked for updates! But this is false because my system is fully updated. In windowsupdate.log I see it found 19 updates ("Found 19 updates and 31 categories in search"). And also it downloaded the CAPICOM patch kb931906 (maybe because I've installed live messenger 8.5 beta and live writer beta???) I...

Hi, Playing with the user folders to move them on different disks, my quick launch bar disapeared and does not want to come back even when i try to configure the windows toolbar. Does anyone knows which registry key or configuration files deals with the bar ? Regards,