hi im sorry for this but people are saying that i have to delete direct x file so i can play dawn of war on my laptop its vista. how do i delete it ?

I Purchased and installed Vista Ultimate 64bit Friday, Since that glorious moment, my computer continually BLUE SCREENS.. (below please find the reported problem codes)… Is there anyone out there who can decipher these codes and inform me of what’s going on with my computer. My specs are as follows: - Intel Pentium D 3.4 Dual Core 945 - GigaByte GA-965P-DS3 MotherBoard - 2 x 1024mb...

I recently got a new pc and installed vista ultimate 64 bit. It was going fine until I started playing games (this has happened on every game I tested so far). I'd be able to play for about 10 minutes to half an hour and then the entire computer freezes. It also happened once while i was compressing files to a .rar archive. I re-installed the drivers multiple times, installed the service...

Hi. Running Vista Ultimate and I cannot start Disk Management. MMC displays this in the status bar: "Unable to connect to Virtual Disk Service" and once showed this error: I need it to add a newly connected disk (Adaptec RAID). Is it possible to do this without the Disk Management plugin? Say from a command prompt? Thanks in advance!

Hi I just installed my ATI Radeon X1950PRO graphic card. The drivers and Catalyst Control Panel 7.2 installed ok after several tries. However - I CAN'T get the Windows Experience Index to update without the screen going black and Graphic card fan going nuts. I have to do a hard Reboot. I suspect it to be the 3D settings... Questions about my cards 3D options:

TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA. Hi, I’m Carlos, asking for help, I’m runnig Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bits) and my laptop is a Dell Vostro 1000. Somehow I have lost the driver information for the Cd drive, it is a TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA device, when you go to the device manager there is a little yellow exclamation mark, further still in volumes (I think) there is no data. There...

Hi I just bought a new laptop with the Vista Business Edition and stupidly followed MS's marketing and uprgaded to Ultimate, but now the sound doest work (audio out or mike in). The device manager shows that the SigmaTel audio driver is working properly and the taskbar shows the loudspeaker icon as normal. Please help, PMAL

Hi, bottomline: In Vista how do I turn off my external speakers when my headset is on? I listen to video casts on my vanpool ride into work and they are getting annoyed that I cannot turn off my external speakers in Vista. I listen with my headset and in XP this autmagically turns off my external speakers. With Vista both external speakers and headset speakers fire! How do I turn off my...

When I open windows explorer on any of the local or network drives My cpu usage spikes to 100% and will not go back down until I minimumize or close window explorer. My Daughters Computer is a about 2/3 the computer of mine when it comes to CPU Memory and video card. This proble is not present on her system at all. I am thinking a drive perhaps but I can browse with ACDSEE and it is...

i am haing a fustrating problem with my computer(gateway cx2100 tablet) i have a dual boot running rc1 build 5600 and xp and i have been having intermittent shutdown on both os's for some few weeks which i did not pay so much attention to now is has gotten worse i the problem i am having is that i can not boot unto vista every time i try it comes up with the bsod and it comes so fast that i...

hi guys i have just bought a new acer aspire 5310 and tryed to load a music cd in to the drive and it wont play i have tryed auto play and been into media player had a look but cant see n e thing can you please help??? -- thank you willy

Hey guys, I was wondering if someone can recommend a decent video card to upgrade to. I am not a gamer nor do graphic design so when i bought my pc 2 years ago i went with a cheap card, works fine for me but obviously it won't do the trick for Vista as far as Aero goes. I have a GForce4 I guess must be a pretty old one cos obvoiusly Vista doesn't like it too much. I'm just looking form...

My 2 year old toshiba laptop died and I removed the HD and got a USB encolsure for it and have tried to connect it to my new laptop. VIsta recognizes it as a USB mass storage device, but it won't assign it a drive letter or appear in the computer panel. What gives?? --

Hi sorry if I posted in the wrong forum but I got this hitachi sata 320gb hard drive from newegg and didnt come with any cords or drivers, just the hard drive. Ive been having problems trying to get the pc to reconize the hard drive, here is what I have done that hasnt worked, ive tryed connecting the sata cords to different slots on the motherboard, I have enabled all my raid ports, Ive gone to...

this one ASUS N7600GS SILENT/HTD 256MB AGP RETAIL http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=7&l3=320 (the first SILENT ONE) or this one: Gecube X2600 Pro 512MB http://www.gecube.com/products-detail.php?prod_cat_pid=198&prod_cat_id=200&prod_id=67864 I dont play games that much, hardly ever.. but I do like having aero and other cool things...

Hi all! I hope you can answer my question: I tried downloading the screensavers from http://www.625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash4.htm I follow the instructions on each download page and save it to "system 32" in Windows C drive (which is what I should do). Now, my computer has no "administrator" because it is a standalone PC connected wirelessly to the internet and is not part of a

Hi there. can anyone help me? I tried downloading the screensavers from http://www.625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash4.htm I do follow the instructions it gives on each page and I try to save them to the correct part of the windows memory "system 32". Now, my computer is NOT part of a network, it is a standalone computer with a wireless internet connection. When I attempt to save it to "system32" it...

I've got 2 modem adsl: D-LINK DSL-302T URMET USB vista doesn't recognize any of them. can you help me? I've already checked the company which produce them. thank in advance ALberto

Hello everyone, I've got a problem with my1394 firewire devices. (2 scanner, 1 DVcamcorder and 2 printers) They all show up under Device manager and all the driver are up to date (no yellow triangles). They all do the kerpunk sound when plugged into my computer. But my programs cant see them nor do they show up under “My computer” When I first installed Vista Ultimate 64, 4 months ago,...

hi i intall bluetooth driver and i need to connect my bluetooth device but one massege showing *chang your discovering setting* can somebody tell me how to chang this setting in vista.and how to make bluetooth discoverabel. thanks