Could you please help me? I have bought an HP pavilion laptop pc (dv 9500 entertainment notebook) but since SP2 installation I have found that It takes a very long time to start with a black screen and white cursor after windows welcome screen and I do not know what can I do to repair this error please help me. Many thanks in advance to everybody who tries to help me -- Dr Mokhaz

In XP I could use Classic menus and put the programs I wanted into my start menu and launch them by pressing the Start Key and then the first letter of the program. If I do that now, it seems to do a search of my HD for items with that letter in it. Can someone tell me how to get this function in Win 7. Thanks.

Running Vista 64 bit Home Premium.... I recently (just a few days ago) started getting a message on startup: Failed to create empty document It appears in a dialogue box. The box has the word: Smoni in the header area. I can click OK or close the box and everything seems OK I've searched for any file called Smoni with no success, and looked at

Ok, this is really for windows 7 however I didn't see a group for that yet. We have replaced our old XP machines with Windows 7 and are now getting a red "X" on network drives. Some people don't have a problem and can access them and others get drive not available. How to fix? We have a Windows 2003 AD in mixed mode. Our people get their mapped drives from a batch file we created that...

Hi I have recently bought an HP Pavillion with Vista home premium. Suddenly out of nowhere I have this infuriating problem of the "Windows Explorer not working" error message. It attempts to restart and reloads the whole desktop. It is persistent and loops back as soon as closed out, making the machine virtually unusable I have virus checked and spyware checked and restored from recovery...

After working well for months, my Vista Home Premium system has developed a bad bug: Anytime I try to do Shutdown or Restart, right after displaying "Shutting down", the system crashes with a Blue Screen of Death message: "SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION" This makes it impossible to do a smooth restart, since I have to do a manual reboot at that point every time.

Out of the blue, about a week ago, Windows Search started to hang. Sorry if that’s not very technical but it seems to scan about 1500 files and then sits there using 25 or 50 % cpu (quad core so it’s not a lockout) with either or both of the host or search programs running but no disk activity and no more files being processed. I know the problem is somewhere on my main C drive as if I...

I had to perform recovery on my computer and after doing so, when I right click on a file or folder the option to move or copy to is gone. I cannot move files or folders from another location. Also cannot transfer from cd or flash drive to computer. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Update the Windows Installer package, that should fix it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=5A58B56F-60B6-4412-95B9-54D056D6F9F4&displaylang=en#Requirements That download page is for Vista-64bit amongst others, so make sure you click the correct download link - third from top - file name: *Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu* - 2.9 MB

Hi Guys, Whenever I start the computer up, it gets to the "welcome" screen with the swirly icon, and then just stays there forever ctrl + alt + del doesnt even work. Im on Vista 64bit Things I've tried:

I'm having problems with Aero themes in 32 bit colors after computer resume from sleep/hibernate. Screen is messed up (see screenshot at http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8237/screenshoteq.jpg). I have NVidia GForce 6200 chipset card, and now I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I had the same problem in Vista x64. If I move to 16 bit colors it solves, also with basic theme without Aero. I tried...

Greetings, I'm a newbie here. My son used Windows easy file transfer to shift data from his internal HDD (PC running Vista) to an external HDD before Windows 7 installation on the internal HDD. Windows 7 installation completed OK. Restoration of data from external HDD with easy file transfer appeared to work OK - but he can't find his emails (everything else is good). We know Windows 7 does not...

Microsoft says I need some updates to Silverlight. I can't use the updates (error code 64C), I can't uninstall or Install it (the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.) What should I do?

Hi all This is not a proud thing to admit but i have changed the layout of the keys onmy keyboard but i must of left a few letters out.without checking i had done them all right the programm said for changed to make place restart your computer which i did,now the problem i know my password to log into vist but with the keys changed i dont know which is where--- stop laughing... so my problem is i...

Perhaps this is the wrong newsgroup for getting information on the use of a web cam - but, if it is, please point me in the right direction. I can't find a newsgroup for webcams. Thanks.

Hi all, Vista Ultimate SP2 32 Bit I would like to know if it is possible to subscribe to a shared Windows Calendar on one machine by all my machines across my home network by subscribing to the one Calendar .ICS. I have shared the Windows calendar on the one machine and published the calendar to a folder on my Data drive that is accessible to all machines via the home network. The other drives...

Hi -- I just discovered that I am unable to copy and paste a font. The computer that has the font runs Vista 64 bit. Have tried right-clicking and the Organize function. When I try, the Copy function is present but when I attempt to paste to another location on the same computer so that I can eventually email the font as an attachment, the Paste function is grayed out. Tried it on a...

Hi, Sony Vaio with Vista is connected wirelessly to a HOME network. It can access all other computers. Any one of them can access the Interment. This one does not. At work, this computer CAN access the Internet (while wirelessly connected to the COMPANY network)

hello, The Quicklaunch Icons (in the lower LH corner of the taskbar) have suddenly started apearing in a different order. I don't think I have deliberately re-arranged them, and they all seem to be there. What might I have done ?? Thanks KK

I didn't know that there was an email feature in windows vista. I will always go to yahoo to send an email.