I own a dell inspiron 1501 and i am running windows vista basic. My volume is way to low. I tried turning the volume and boost all the way up. please help. -- Cat Peterson

I just noticed my Vista machine that the Safely Remove Hardware icon is in the system tray. What I'm perplexed by and a little worried about is that there are 2 items in the tray that can be removed. One is the C/D Drive of the computer and the other is the DVD/RW drive of the computer. I don't think that this has always been there but I could be wrong. I have children and would hate for...

there is no place to customize my 4 button trackball. Does someone know how to solve this. using vista ultimate/ kensington expert usb trackball

1. Narrator will not start. 2. Error when I try to change Voice, Windows host process (Rundll32) has stopped working. 3. How do I find out what’s stopping Narrator working. 4. How do I reinstall the Narrator system.

Hi, I have a mystery on my hands. I subscribe to many newsgroups, through optonline cable. With m.p.w.v.general, I have no incoming posts since February 19, 2008. When I send a post to that group, all seems ok at my end, but it never reaches the group. All my other groups are ok. Any idea what the problem could be?

I just purchased a SanDish 4GB Flash Drive. When I put it in the USB drive a box comes up saying it needs a driver. I called SanDisk and they had me get patch #KB937187. I got it from Microsoft but the flash drive still is not recognized as a USB device. Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this? thank you

have an asus a7n8x-x mb with amd athlon 2500 cpu. was running with 3x512 mem tried to upgrade to 3x 1gig. running vista home basic it will not boot with anything over 2 gig total. anyone with any ideas (other than a new system)?

Why has Microsoft removed the Line In option from the recording devices?

My CD-ROM quit working one day. i went to Device Manager to see what the problem was. It says "Driver is corrrupted or missing (Error Code:39) I bought a NEW drive and still the same message, So its not the drive itself. The windows Driver is corrupted because its still there i looked. HOWEVER, windows cant locate a solution to the problem and i cant reinstall the driver with my Vista Disk...

I have downloaded HDDlife program and am getting an error, "No HDD's with SM.A.R.T. I contacted the source and was told that the problem as they saw it was that the motherboard had a driver (nVidia chipset) and that I needed to uninstall the IDE part of the drivers and rollback to default Vista drivers which support SMART. Any Ideas? Jerrynl34

for some reason my cd rom just quit working, i have had my laptop for only a year it shouldn't have broke already...it won't play any of my cd's or games..help?

Hello, For pretty much every USB-based storage device that I plug in to my laptop (USB sticks, external drives...), Vista is unable to find a driver. It first pops up a couple of times telling me that it can't find it and that I can choose for it to try and find a solution, and in the end it points me to this...

The sound on my computer works fine, but everytime I try to make a call using skype the sound mutes automatically. What do I need to do to fix this??

Hello everybody. I got as a present an external HD that was property of my girl friend. She has a Mac and the gave me the HD with some photos and mp3 she had. Well, as most of you know, you can't use a Mac HD directly on Windows, so I downloaded Macdrive 7.0 (trial version), copied the files and then attempted to format hte HD. so I can use it on windows. I formated the HD but I got a message at...

Hi everyone, for months I've been putting this off as I tried to fix the problem and couldn't, so I got lazy and am finally getting to the point where I really need my cd/dvd to work! I believe the problem stems from when I upgraded my XP to Vista because I think since then, my cd/dvd drive hasn't worked at all. When I go into the Device Manager, under DVD/CD ROM drives, it says "TSST corp...

Hi, Im trying to create a DVD using Windows DVD Maker. I have a Toshiba Equium A200 Laptop and it lists the DVD burner as 'MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-850S ATA Device. I have tried using the Toshiba DVD software and it finds the device and records, but I want to use Windows DVD maker. Can anyone help?

Hello I just got a brand new PC, and everything is working just fine except I can not get any sound to work. I use headphones, cause I do not have another audio device. When I put the headphone in the jack nothing happens. They work totally fine on my other computer with windows XP. I do not know the soundcard name either, sorry i'm very bad with computers but I really trying my best to make...

After installing 32bit Vista Ultimate, whenever I eject a CD/DVD I get a message that says: Windows - No Disk (Red X) Exception Processing Message 0x0000013 Parameters 0x75DE023C 0x88CAF0BC 0x75DE023C 0x75DE023C I've gotten advice that a third party program, such as Quicktime can cause this. But this occured for the first time when I ejected the Ultimate DVD just after installation. This...

Hi there, quite a long winded explanation below, please bare with me! Had my laptop for a while now, always ran smoothly but now this message keep appearing: 'Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute. Please save your work now.' At first i thought it was a problem with msn messenger, so i stopped it starting up using MsConfig. But the message...

Vista (32 bit) is randomly rearranging my icons on my desktop for no reason. I already have it set to NOT rearrnage automatically, I do NOT have a virus/spyware, I do NOT have bad hardware. I have an obscene amount of RAM so it is not a memory problem. This problem began about a month ago and is completely random, sometimes several times a day and sometimes only every other day. Happens...