I have a Pentium D 820 (2.8 GHz) and 2GB DDR2 memory. When I installed Pre-RC1 I had only 1GB memory. I decided to upgrade since it seemed like it was constantly swapping! It helped, no doubt, but I'm curious if anyone else is pleased with responsiveness with only 1 GB? Thanks.

Any chance you have 4x 512 sticks in an nforce 4 motherboard? I do and by default DDR400 memory runs at DDR333 speeds and I had to manually set them to DDR400 speeds and timings. Colin T "jbpete" wrote in message ... Have 2 G of matched Kingston PC3200 in a dual channel mode. Why would my memory...

Is it possible to run the Contig / PageDefrag tools in Vista? Are they needed? Or does Vista defragment the files / pagefile in background?

Using Windows Vista, when I try to copy a file from a CD to my hard drive, I get the following error message: "Cannot Read from the Source File or Disk" I can copy the same file on another computer with XP. Thanks for any help with this problem.

Hi all, How much of Vista 64 is really 64bit: kernel, drivers, etc....? How long will it take to convert it all? thanks, charles.....

Hello, New to Win Vista, last used XP-Pro. If I remember correctly. uninstalling programs would live junk in the system and registry. Is there a program that will take care of program uninstalling taking care of all the junk and registry? or is Vista taking care of this? Thank you Oscar A.

I woke up this morning to find my computer off when it shouldn't have been (I use a ups so it stays on if there's a power outage). I turned it on and got a message telling me that windows turned my computer off because my battery reached a critical state. This is a desktop computer, with no battery besides the ups, therefore this shouldn't be happening. I looked at the power settings, and...

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The resolution on my laptop just started to have problems. It had been working fine, but suddenly screen looks like it would have looked in 1985 with 16 bit color and huge letters. When I start in safemode everything appears to be fine. I've checked the resolution setting in the Display menu and that seems to be fine. I also tried reverting back to an older graphics driver. I have a...

Hey everyone, i am having major problems with my laptop. It's a Toshiba Equium L40-17M, Vista home premium 32bit. First of all, when i turn it on it goes into a black screen and white writing says: "checking file system on C:" so i let it run, but it keeps popping up over and over again, once it did it like 20 times but never loaded. So i pressed any button and it stopped and i tried to load up...

Just got a New Laptop was using a desktop with windows XP, got new computer and transfered files from old computer, Was this a mistake? my new computer is running very slow i havent really used it much on the internet yet will be hooking up wireless (waiting on shipment), Can i restore new computer to remove transfered files or am i missing something here? Dave

Problem I have is when i logon windows vista home basic on any account I get a message stateing (need to update driver for unknown devices?) This happens four more times after I cancel each window? I have tried getting said drivers without success? If I do this to all mrssages there will be the same amount of entries in the device manager? I uninstall them and apon re boot it starts all...

I dont know it it shuld be like this. But I have Overclocked the CPU and ram. This is not the issuse. My Q is. When I klikk Computer and Properties, the system say that the CPU is @ 2.4 GHz but in Bios it say 3.39GHz When I use CPU-Z it also say 3.39GHz. Whay, and does it matter? http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee127/1borgund/CPUZ.jpg]

After using the computer for a while aero mouse icons stop animating, and require a restart to return their functionality. Is there a program that can be cuasing the icons to stop animating? It's not a major problem, and more of an annoyance, however finding a resolution would be nice. Thanks for any help. 2d

Hi people, Im new to the forums and only found them due to my current problem - Ive built my own pc, xp works great but i needed a new HD due to running out of space so thought 'why not upgrade to vista also' i brought an OEM vista 64. So anyway, it takes about 4 to 6 hours to complete the installation on

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me troubleshoot this annoying issue. My computer randomly shuts off without warning and the problem is not due to overheating. Using the event viewer, I've noticed that the random shut-off is always preceded by event ID 10 (see detailed info about what this means he http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc727148.aspx). I have tried the fix...

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum so go easy :p When I start my PC I get an error message pop up. Here are the details of the message: Title: Microsoft Windows Search Protocol Host has stopped working Options: -Check online for a solution (Ive already tired, and no such luck) -Close

New to Vista. I transfered copies of Reovery D: to two external hard drives- to be safe-now I want to empty D: so that I can back up. When I tried to Back up to the external hard drives that I have one with 300 gs other with 100gs available, I was not able because it wanted to include C: and the drives would not hold both C: and D:-Thus, How can I safely backup weekly without getting these...

If I shutdown my 5 month old Vista Home Premium System, it gets to the logo, then black screens. It will not go further. I will try 5 plus times and finally the logo will stay on a little longer before getting to my user login.

When I go to schedule a disc defrag, I set it up to do a weekly one. Everything works okay until I restart the computer. When I check the defrag information, it says on the next scheduled run NEVER, but it still shows that I have a daily defrag enabled. I click the weekly and daily button, put in back to daily and it says it will defrag when it's supposed to. I even tried to schedule the...