I have a 2 month old Dell Studio Mini that has been great up until a few weeks ago. My wife went to start the computer and got a black screen that said something like "Windows did not shut down properly the last time, Do you want to start in SafeMode?" When she got it started a tool bar was missing. When I got home i ran Norton DiskDoctor and immediately got this message: Error on Hard Disk 2,...

When i was using Windows Vista beta, everything seemed to work fine. Once I purchased and installed the full version (March 07), my computer slowed a bit. Everytime I use media player, even when no other programs are running, my hard drive spins constantly. Songs constantly skip and then my hard drive freezes, my computer blue screens, and reboots with a message says it cannot find the...

Hello! I'm new at this forum, and I'm a new Window Vista user. The last couple months, I have been having some problems with missing d: drive. I have had it restored from professional help, they told me that if I use a cd rom that is 98/Me/2000/XP it would make the d: drive to disapear. So. I was wondering if this software that I purchased, "Platinum Print Master Version 17", which is...

Hi, I recently purchased one Microsoft Basic USB Optical mouse to use with my SONY VAIO VGN-FZ18L which is preloaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. But whenever I plug the mouse to any of the 3 usb ports of the system a dialog box appears saying " new hardware found", but then it looks for the mouse from the microsoft website and nothin happens. Then it asks for the device driver. i've...

Check the BIOS settings for ACPI...are they on? acpi subcomponents are required.... From: "JW" Subject: Hyper-threading hangs OS loading Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM Did you fdisk and reformat the old disk in the new machine before trying to

DVD/CD Rom and other external drives locked by vista. so when you plug them in or try to run a cd it just comes up with the messages optical device locked ?? Any idea how to un block them.

i switched on my computer, and it says that i didn't switch off my device properly the previous time, so it gave me an option to start windows normally. but it didn't start up normally and it didn't work. what can i do to solve it? =((

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

(I asked this question in the general forum, only afterwards I noticed that this group was available) Hi, I have an Acer 5920 which includes a Bluetooth adapter. I pair a bluetooth GPS with no problems, and any program can open the port and communicate with the GPS. But if I put the laptop to sleep, when I wake it up the GPS still connects to the laptop, but the port cannot be opened anymore....

hi! i have Vista home premium and its been running fine until i try to use USB devices..it chooses when to recognise them.. i have a 250gb external hard drive that when i plug it into any of the 3 USB ports on my computer nothing happens (no noise to say its connected , no autoplay or the drive name doesnt appear in the computer section) there have been occasions where the device connects as...

hi, yes i feel a bit stupid... i was pleased to see Vista had the option to delete the driver software when you uninstall a driver, so i tried it out on the Microsoft ATI WDDM driver before changing to the ATI catalyst driver to see if i could get glass. the catalyst driver didn't work, and now i can't revert to the WDDM driver either. what's more, i have extracted the install.wim file from...

hello, this is my very last try to fix this problem! perhaps the solution is very simple, but i have no more ideas to solve it. i just want to use my usb-storages on my system. neither my 2,5''-usbhdd nor my sandisk cruzr usbstick is accesible. vista asks me to provide special drivers from the manufacturer. but there are no special usb-flash-drive-drivers. the mainboard is a asus p5k. the...

I am using ASUS S200N notebook. The hardware comes with XP Pro OS when I bought it. I need to install a so-called ATK100 driver so as to use the keyboard to change LCD brightness, audio volume, go to sleep mode or hibernation mode. Now, I am using an RC1 VISTA OS. When I do Windows Update, the update will help to load ATK100 driver for me. However, when I use it, it has a problem. I can change...

Just purchased microsoft fingerprint reader and intellimouse explorer 2.0. Software crashes ie 7 frequently. I've searched for solutions just about everywhere. Any ideas or fixes. BTW I'm running vista home premium. -- Tim Styer

I am installing C5180 as USB device - using HP setup CD - printer is unknown. if i install device via network all is ok. What is failing in USB installation? Please give me note. Thanks advice.

my PC has been reseting in 3d game and once on internet explore this pc is new but the biulders could not find the problem i have tryed at least 10 vidoe drivers could somone help hope to hear from somone sincerly Timothy Bunston

Want to install Vista on my desktop, but video card is not supported. Is there a way to find out if the one I'm considering buying is?

started with Vista 2 months ago on a new laptop and everything was ok....but suddenly 2 weeks ago I can not open some pages on internet, it says something about HTTP........ I have not change anything on the computer, what shall I do? I logged in on my sons hotmail-he lended it to me so please if you have a great solution my own mailadress is: I am living in Sweden...

I got the X800 XT AIW to work. Took me all day Saturday to figure it out...but I used to spend more time than that installing Windows 95 from floppy years ago =-) 1) Install the drivers and multimedia from the original x800 cd. 2) When the install fails and a pop-up askes to try it again using recomended settings click yes. 3) reboot 4)After install when it is trying to load drivers and...

I got the X800 XT AIW to work. Took me all day Saturday to figure it out...but I used to spend more time than that installing Windows 95 from floppy years ago =-) 1) Install the drivers and multimedia from the original x800 cd. 2) When the install fails and a pop-up askes to try it again using recomended settings click yes. 3) reboot 4)After install when it is trying to load drivers and...