System running Vista Home Premium Upgrade since release and all updates automaticaly downloaded. On Startup, a long beep followed by 2 short beeps occurs, by switching off power supply and restarting system will boot mostly on first restart but sometimes it takes up to 4. When system on brown off button or "restart there are no problems only when powered shut down. I have checked boot...

I have Vista and a Microsoft 6000 wireless keyboard and mouse set. The option under their properties in power management to "allow computer to turn off this device" is grayed and unavailable. Anyone know how to make this option available? I tried going to Administrative Tools, but it's the same things there - still unavailable. I'm trying to select this option in the hopes that it will...

I have got a toshiba laptop which is 18mths old with windows xp. I am finding it extremely slow when i turn it on as there is a lot of programs in which startup that i really don't want to startup when it is turned on. Also the hard drive is constantly running. I am about to start studying again and would like to fix the problem before it causes any more. I am not very computer smart and...

I went to do a defrag and it looks like partition D has only 9% free space. How do I copy some of the applications to C and not lose the data on D. I would appreciate assistance. Thank you. Mary C. Lydon

I am unable to use windows Aero or any thing requiring Direct3D. the device manager says: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12) If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system. Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

Hi, I have a hard drive which i took out of an old computer and which has lots of data on it, i bought an external hard drive case and when i connect it to my computers, i have two one vista and one xp it tells me in computer management that it is unallocated, does this mean that i have lost all my data on the hard drive, also it shows up in device manager but not on my computer on the vista...

Is there a way to link a parallel printer to an usb ? Thanks ms

I can't get the mic on my Logitech Headset to work. It uses the 3.5mm ports not USB. It works on XP, but it won't work on Vista. I use it with Ventrilo.

Hi, I have a Microsoft Laser Mouse 8000. I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium. When I'm streaming/downloading files to my PS3 via 802.11g, the mouse cursor is slowing down. I have no problem with the Keyboard 7000. Can someone let me know what is going on. Thanks

I'm running vista Home Premium, on a HP Pavilion. Removable memory cards from my Canon digital camera worked fine for several months, now all of a sudden, its acting up. The card reads fine the first time I use it after boot up, and after that I have to reboot for it to be read or I get this message in the device manager: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a...

I bought a laptop HP Pavilion DV9428, AMD Turion X2 2.2GHz, 2 Gb RAM, 2 x Toshiba 120Gb HD (device manager says SCSI !) I would like to mirror my main HD to the 2nd one in the event of a HD failure. I searched in my owner's manual and in Windows help file and could not find any information on how or if it can be done. Any comments or help will be appreciated. Thanks

Hi There I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it into my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong vista picks up my other external drives ok. Any help would be appreciated as I have tried everywhere for a drive but to no avail. Sue

I have an HP 1020 networked with a linksys print server. The printer is not printing the last page of all documents sent to it from 2 vista notebooks. I do not have trouble with the xp laptop nor the Gentoo linux desktop. If the document is one page it seems to send the document to the printer but then does not print. The printer flashes and gets ready to print but doesn't. Help.

easyshare wont run in vista windows message says easyshare has caused an error and closes program to search for solution. Solution is link to kodak eastman, which doesnt solve problem!! After several attempts to repair/modify program & getting installation successful messages, program STILL wont run...HELP!!!

I bought a microsoft bluetooth mouse on ebay. It came with no directions. What can I co with the two buttons on side and how do I program them?

i amd currently trying to add a slave hard drive but for some strange reason vista isn't reading i have one even though in device manager it says there is one can someone help me out on this problem.......... also when i start my computer up it says that i have 2 hard drives one a master and the other a slave..............

Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal?

I've recently install Windows Vista on my notebook (BenQ Joybook S52E), the wireless and bluetooth does not work anymore. The start sequence dose not pick up or recognise the built in wireless device and bluetooth device on start up. Can anyone help. Mark

I accidently deleted the main playback device on my computer. Consequently, I have no sound available. How can I fix it?

Vista shows that the drive array is OK with good drivers in Device Manager but when you go to My Computer the Raid Drives are not seen so they can't be used. I tried to change the Array from 0,1 to striped with the same results. Any help would be appreciated.