My daughter's Acer laptop seems to have a touchpad that is erratic. When she's typing, she always has to watch the monitor, because the cursor will just jump anywhere without any warning. I'm assuming it's because there is something wrong with the touchpad. I've used her computer a few times, and I want to drop-kick it. She's fine with using a USB mouse, but I'm sure how to disconnect the...

Hi all, Recently I purchased a new system for myself (hurrah for tax returns) and so far, it's a pretty nice system. It runs Vista, obviously, and I've encountered a pair of problems. One major, one minor. First, the major problem is that it doesn't seem to want to install my wireless card. I'm using a ZoNet 802.11g Wireless LAN PCI adapter, and I swear, I've tried everything. The...

I was able to install Nikon Scan 4.0.3 to my Vista computer to allow me to scan slides with the Nikon CoolScan V, but could not install its drivers. It initially appeared that the problem was with the Nikon Scan installation program. However, I got message like "Windows could not load the installer for image" and "The classinstaller registry value is invalid". It turned out that to install a...

Mouse pointer has locked long time. My mouse belong to "Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000"-set (Bluetooth).

Hello, Im Useing Windows vista and i was wanting to know if i can install Linux with Windows? i heard u can Install Two Operating systems on your computer. but will it work with Linux though? -- Automaticgood

I recently bought a new laptop with Vista. I have been trying to load the software for my HP printer but everytime I try I get an error message that says that the following registry keys do not exist so I can't load the softwa slbcsp.dll sccbase.dll gpkcsp.dll enum

I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,Drive E: disappeared from My Computer and is not displayed in Device Manager, BIOS shows it's there. Yesterday Vista started taking longer to load too, the green loading bar freezes for about a minute. I tried running Start Up Repair from Vista Disc, repair didn't fing anything so I used Restore Point....

Please help me - both my CD rom and CD write stopped working. When I asked for advice from HP, I received the wrong instructions from someone who was probably an amateur who instructed me to uninstall both drives in Device Manager resulting in disappeaance of both my drives from the Device Manager and I have no idea how to find them so that I can reinstall them and hope that they will...

Hi, I know its an old printer but does what I need it to and I can get the ink free, is there a driver to suit Vista Ultimate 32 bit. Thanks

So i've recently purchased a compaq notebook pc running vista home premium. after unwittingly installing what i'm assuming was a windows update, i am finding myself unable to run in anything other than safe mode. attempting to normally run the laptop ends up with it jamming on the windows loading progress bar in startup, attempting a system restore from safe mode ends in another jammed state. i...

HI, I am using Vista 32 bit, home edition. I'm attempting to setup the Vista backup program. The program wizard has detected the external hard drive where I want the backups to be saved to, however it's not detecting C or D drive - it says they are "missing" and that there are 0 bytes. This program was running just fine until about 3 weeks ago. That's when my other external h/d was...

Well after a few years I decided to restore my laptop back to the factory settings. So I backed up all my files onto a external hard drive. I put in the recovery disk, and restored it back to the original. Here is the problem, When I bought it new my C drive was 140 GB. Now my C drive is 26GB what happened and where did it all go????? any advice?

I have a microsoft wireless entertainment desktop 8000 keyboard and mouse. The mouse works great but the keyboard for some reason has lost its connection to my laptop. The connection is bluetooth and I have bluetooth built into my laptop rather than using the supplied usb bluetooth adapter (which conflicted with other bluetooth signals from my laptop). I have no idea how to reestablish my...

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First off, it's a SONY VAIO VGN-FZ180E and I'm running Vista 32-bit. In the last couple of months, I've started encountering an error - the screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode. Don't remember exactly when it started, and couldn't use System Recovery to roll back that far anyway. The only workaround I've found is either restarting or closing/re-opening the lid. The "Turn off...

I'm trying to find an external drive enclosure that is compatible with Windows Vista (either 32 or 64) that will accept either a 3.5 IDE or 3.5 SATA drive. Please reply with your recommendations. Thanks UB

I can't seem to get Vista to let me install my HP printer. I've tried StartControl PanelAdd Hardware, added a generic printer, added my HP-have the disc for the software, and HP driver is built into friggin' Vista!! Went to manufacturer site also. Got,"Printer driver not installed.Operation could not be completed(error 0xe0000101)." in the add hardware thing. This exact printer used to...

Vista appears to be incompatible with the driver for my Canon SD Powershot 1000. Have searched Canon website, aand spoken to tech support. They say it is MS's problem. Suggestions/

I'm about to get this great card in a few days. I know there are no real Vista drivers yet. Have heard some have been able to install the XP drivers and get some basic functionality with the card, e.g. widescreen resolution - but no Aero. I can live without the Aero for a time, but VGA resolutions don't look great on a 30" widescreen with a native of 2560 x 1600. Would like to know if...

Hi, I have been searching all over the web and so far wasn't able to found solution. I have a Flash OFDM PCMCIA - Flarion modem, and there is no way to make it run under vista. The process goes like this: I install the software with drivers just like under XP, then i plug the PCMCIA modem in and after installing the drivers it returns me the error code 10 - device could not start. There is...