Now that the final Vista drivers are out, I was surprised to find that the screensaver and power options still (e.g. Sleep) do not start at the time set. It was mentioned as an issue in the beta drivers but no word on this problem in the final version. The KB mentions it in relation to PowerDVD but since I don't have that software, it does not apply. Anyone else having this issue and / or...

Is there any way to get rid of the fingerprint icon while working with the Sidebar gadgets? It is very distracting, blocking the controls and has no use in gadgets. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button,...

keep crashing, windows tells me tpm is problem, have norton and trying to use firefox browser

Hi, I'm running Vista Ultimate. I am having problems with the Default DVD player. I have a cd drive on "D" and a dvd/cd drive on "E" . I don't know how it happened but Vista thinks that the CD drive is the Default. In XP the dvd drive was Default. How to I get Vista to recognize my "E" drive as Default? Sorry if this sounds confusing! Thanks in advance, Alice

For some reason when i plug the headphone into the side of my laptop it register my headphone and my speaker in the same plug? like they are the same unit! My sound card is SoundBlaster X-fi Xtreme Audio Notebook please help!

Hi there Recently i've been getting this problem with windows vista home edition where constantly on and off im getting the two beeps as though a USB device has been plugged in and within one second you hear another two beeps indicating that it has been removed. I'm not putting anything in or out i'm guessing this is some sort of hardware error. I've had the laptop for about 6 months now. I'm...

ive had my laptop for 3months and now, although the laptop is running off the mains fine, it wont charge via the mains charger. the small battery symbol is indicating that my laptop is plugged in, but is at 0% battery and is not charging. would this be a problem with the battery or with the charger? Thanks Ali

My computer shuts down suddenly once a day or once every other day. I get a bluescreen. I went into the Event Viewer and i got these info about the bluscreen. Can somebody please help me to solve this problem?? Thank you in advance.

My computer shuts down suddenly once a day or once every other day. I get a bluescreen. So i went to Event Viewer and i got the following info regarding this error. Can somebody please help me to get this error fix?? Thank you in advance!! Fault bucket 0xD1_e100b325!LsSw_PreGamla_CompleteTcpXsum+84, type 0 Event Name: BlueScreen Response:

:shock:MY DVD DRIVE DS8A1H ALWAYS MISSING AFTER REBOOT. I HAVE TO CLICK CHECK FOR HARDWARE CHANGES EVERYTIME I HAVE TO USE IT. I HAVE INSTALLED AND UNINSTALLED ANYDVD. NOW I AM USING DVD43. I USE THE DRIVE PRIMARILY FOR CONVERTING DVD TO IPOD. MY LAPTOP IS HP DV2810US. 3GM RAM. 250 GB HD. AMD TURION 64 X2 TL-60. PLEASE REPLY.

One of the many USB related problems I've encountered since upgrading to Vista (Home premium) is having to re-activate my Bluetooth mouse & keyboard about every other time that I start my PC. As it is not every time, I have a suspicion that it somehow relates to whether Vista finds the Bluetooth dongle to be on the same USB port as the last time or whether it thinks its a different port -...

Hi. I just bought this new system last night. Upon set-up there was a .txt about bluetooth stack installation guide. It stated "Bluetooth Stack Installation Guide This document guides users to install or upgrade the Bluetooth Stack on Windows Vista." So i followed the directions and uninstalled the previous version and downloaded in the new version. Unfortunately upon installing, I keep...

i put a usb-cable from my logitech webcam into my computer, but because i have windows vista, my computer can't find the hardware. what should i do now?

Hello I writing his post in desperated hope that someone out there may have an answer to my problem as it is starting to drive mad. My issue is when UAC or the screensaver (standard vista screen saver) is activated my dual display on my Fujitsu T4220 Tablet PC is reset to the laptop's single display. The graphic card is an Intel 965 Express chip display and I'm running Vista U 32bit.

Both on 64bit Vista and 32bit Vista PC's the HT OfficeJet 7310 All-In-One native drives are working incorrectly when I print in duplex (which is usually all the time!). Instead of the printer printing in book format it keeps printing in "flip up format" on matter setting I pick. Has anyone else had this problem and managed to solve apart from doing manual duplex printing? Alistair

Help! I have Vista Home Premium and a Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W printer. Everything was working fine and now it just won't print. I get no popup or error codes. Nothing happens at all. Like I didn't even click 'print'. I have uninstalled and reinstalled printer. Driver is available thru Vista and all is recognized. I have stopped and started the spooler, I have disconnected and reconnected...

Im having problems with my mass storage devices on vista (external drives, Ipod, flash drives etc). These were all working 2 weeks ago on the same Vista PC. And all still work now on other Vista and XP systems. Mice and webcams work as normal. In device manager the drives can be seen.

I got an Acer laptop last year. I used it without tweaks, all defaults (system settings, bios etc...). Now, I can't install any software from a CD or DVD because it always shows a pop-up box having a title of "BURN A DISC". Also, it recognizes a CD or DVD inside the drive but when I do right click OPEN it always shows the "BURN A DISC" dialogue box. The autorun function is also disabled by the...

Boy have I been having trouble! One issue is that anytime I insert a disc to install a driver or modem Vista freezes and I cannot pull up task manager and have had to manually shut down my computer (XPS 410) numerous times. Any ideas? Thanks

I have been trying to install SATA Raid on my PC. MB is GigaByte GA-P35-DS3.In my efforts I managed to initiate the iSCSI Initiator.I now find that I have a Safely Remove Hardware Icon in system tray to remove 2 X Samsung SATA SCSI Disk Devices. Vista is installed on the 1st disk Can somebody pls help me to get rid of this icon. It appears to be affecting my ability to set up RAID as I can't...