Hey guys, i'm not very computer savvy and am having a problem with my HP laptop (running Vista), right now i'm in safe mode (+ networking) mode because my computer froze last night, so I had to hold the power button and turn it off. Well when I turned it back on, it loaded all my desktop etc everything looked fine, I could move my mouse cursor and all but I couldn't click anything, nothing...

Hi I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit OEM (Self Installed) on a home built desktop. AFAIK all drivers are up to date and PC runs very well on startup. If left for some time (usually a couple of hours or so) it suddenly becomes extremely slow and unresponsive. This can happen even in the middle of working. I have a UK Network Rail Sidebar Gadget which is constantly updating with local train...

I have the Ultimate Edition of Vista and am having issues with media player. I would play a file just fine and go to play one later and it won't play. Media player will open up and load the file, but will not play it. This has been happening for the last week and am stumped on a solution. I would like to try a fresh install, but can't seeing how it was built into the OS itself. If I...

Every once in awhile when booting up my computer I get a screen with the message: Amount of Memory Has Changed and I'm given the option of continuing or going to setup. I have no idea why this happens, tho it seems to be connected with my Avast anti-virus program updating itself as I didn't install anything new. I have no idea what this means or what I should do about it. I have simply hit...

Hi, I received in "Problems Reports and Solutions" a "Driver software installation" problem everytime when I do something... IS THE SAME PROBLEM and the DATE IS THE SAME ( 19/11/2008 8:40 AM )... If I choose not to report it, will remain there and no more reports will be created... If I choose to send it a new report with the same problem will be created agan ( with the same date: 19/11/2008...

Hi, I'm using Vista Ultimate x64 German version and tried to do a complete PC backup via the Vista Backup tool to an external hard drive. The backup starts and after a certain time ("within the part "backup is being stored") there's no more raction at all. I waited for more than two hours and still no change. Then I switched off the external harddrive which had no reaction. Cancelling the...

Hello I'm running Vista Home Premium with all updates including SP1. I backup my files weekly to an external hard drive using the Windows backup utility that is a part of Vista. As I understand it, the backup is supposed to back up all new or changed files and does not back up program files. My external hard drive now has more used space than my hard drive. I must have some setting wrong or...

I keep getting the backup failure notice. I dont understand the backp to recovery disc and if and how I need to change that. It has always been set for automatic backups so whatever is going wrong is news to me. Thanks.

I am running Vista Home Premium 64bit and have been using Vista's Backup and Restore to back up files to an external disk, connected via firewire. Everything seems to work fine, and I've even used backup and restore to solve a printing problem (by reverting to an older backup). I now want to change my backup settings and backup to a new internal drive I've installed. Unfortunately, I am unable...

I'm sure there is a simple solution to this annoying problem,when I receive an email with a picture its ok but if I go to forward it to some one else the text is ok but the picture is blanked out?? my email is orange, I have vista premium,and have avast and stopzilla +defender anti virus etc,anybody help??:confused: --...

Hi, my Reliability Monitor System Stability Chart stopped updating on september 1, 2008. I've checked Task Schedular and RACAgent is still running: Status is Queued; Last Run Result is "Unspecified error (0x8007000D). I do what Clay propose. After running RACAgent.exe , no file in C: \ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\PublishedData and one file "RACREPCATALOG" in the StateData directory. HELP...

Ok, my file extensions are all hidden. I've always been able to fix this in the past under xp and even vista. However... There is no folder options icon in my control panel. The "Organize" Button on my windows explorer shows "Folder and Search options" but it is greyed out. I cannot select it. I believe I am running my Vista as Administrator but am not sure how to confirm this.

Hello and help!Windows hangs for about 5 minutes after I log in! When I look in the event viewer the errors a Error: DCOM got error "1084" attempting to start the service Wsearch with arguments "" in order to run the server: {F9A874B6-F8A8-4D73-B5A8-AB610816828B} Error: DCOM got error "1084" attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection

I've got one of these http://explore.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/A200/A215-S5849 It came with Catalyst on it. Always worked a little weird, though, so I figured I'd update to the latest version. Big mistake. First I had to uninstall the old version. No problem. Then reinstall the new. I've tried basically every version of the software that is compatible with my system, INCLUDING the...

Hi, I'm using the built in backup feature to back up my files i.e. "Backup Files" option NOT the "Backup Computer" option. Now I have a lot of back up files on my external hard drive and I'm running out of space. Can I go ahead and delete the old back ups? I wasn't sure if back ups were set up in an incremental fashion in which case deleting old back up files may

Hello Guys, I have the HP Pavilion dv2120ca Notebook. I get windows updates from Windows Vista, I started the download and when it's almost done I got the same problem for an error shows that windons failed to start a recent hardware or software change might be the cause. I have not installed any new software or hardware on my LT it was only the windows updates. Now it is asking for a file...

An error occured while attempting to generate the report "The wait for the report generation tool to finish has timed out". Can any one out there help? -- Bluesman --

I updated my monitor to a 22" Samsung and web pages are very tiny (about 1/q and print is light. I have another computer using XP with a 22" and everything is fine. Any suggestions? -- watchman

I'm new here so hello everyone. I've done the usual things, searched the forum for relevant threads and tried to get the info I need. Here's the problem: A friend, who is not so IT literate, asked me to tune-up his laptop as it was running slow and crashing. Did the usual (disk and registry clean up, etc.). Used VISTA defrag (manual) which was still running after 4 hours. Tried several free...

I am becoming frustrated. I have over 800 personal files on my PC, some of which are updated nearly every day, about 10 on average. Each day I run an Incremental Backup (Roxio's Backup MyPC). I now find that on some days most of the files on Drive 'C' have had the "File is ready for archiving" attribute set 'ON', the letter 'A' is displayed. This means that my incremental Backup covers over 800...