Hi, I'm running two monitors off one video card. My power button is set to sleep mode. Three times now that I've hit the button and return from sleep mode, it shows me computer restarting and the Load windows in "safe mode" screen. I have one Samsung CRT 765MB and one Samsung CRT 710M. My catalyst drivers are 8.8. Anyone else have this problem? Safe mode works just fine with one monitor but it...

Why is the CPU Maximum Frequency is always 100%? http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2695/11062008jk9.png] http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/7761/1106200802qb0.png] -- looi76

Hi, when i want to play a selected piece of music from a folder it opens media player as usual and acts fine apart from the fact all it comes up with is alot of crackles in the theme of whichever sone i chose to play.:mad: its really annoying me and any help would be greatly thanked. -- Tabletop

Hello everyone, I posted the same question under " music pictures videos ", and I had an answer . Trouble is, the answer came in a form of a link which said "music background for Windows Mail and Outlook Express." The link used Outlook Express as example which started with Format tab background sound ,etc. There was no example for Windows Mail which I use. WM does NOT have Format tab. That...

im not sure if this is the right place for this or not but here goes i have an svchost.exe and its usig over 1gb and when i end it nothing happens. user name is system right now its using 115,000k host process for window services is the discription. What is this ?? -- tyrram

There's a small problem with WinSAT on my computer (a new Dell laptop). In the Performance Information and Tools section of the Vista Control Panel, I'm able to see the base score and subscores for the WinSAT test, but the link that reads "View and print details" produces the following error: "Could not create details page." It looks like...

hi I got a problem with the Backup and Restore Center when i click on "backup computer" i got this the backup application could not start due to an internal error server execution failed (0x80080005) please check your system configuration and try again well it a brand new installation , and before just when i receive brand news

I have narrowed down my serious start up degradation on a Gateway ML3109 to spiking CPU and Disk activity as I start up and do almost anything on the notebook. Something is making various services, apps and drivers throw up errors about taking too long to start-up and shutdown. I thought I had narrowed it further to Sound drivers but updating and repeated reinstalls only reduced the...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Harry Johnston " wrote in message ... Gordon wrote: A Repost as my original thread has gone off topic: Vista Home Premium SP1. Daily use account is a Standard account. WU is set to notify me of available updates. It does NOT notify me. In Windows XP, WU only notified...

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I tried to access the mouse pointers and can't do it. Event Viewer shows the following error message un applications. Faulting application rundll32.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549b0e1, faulting module SynTPCpl.dll, version 9.0.1.3, time stamp 0x454fe5cd, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000247d9, process id 0x6ec, application start time 0x01c7852b0757253b. Any help...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) Giancarlo Calderon wrote in message ... Hello,

Questions: 1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a few more restore points. How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks. 2. Is there a way...

There are a lot of System Fixers/Maintainers/Registry Repairers out there, which one is the best and what do you recommend? I've had good results with Registry Mechanic and heard good things about RegistryBooster 2 and noticed that they are Certified Microsoft Partners.

I read in a long-lost PC Magazine that there was some utility (built-in or otherwise) that lets you specialize your CPU cores, e.g. core one for foreground tasks/programs\core two for background processes. I can't rember how to do this. Can anyone tell me? I see an option in Task Manager to move an individual process to one core, but not categories of processes. Thanks.

*Running Tasks in Task Scheduler* Under Current Action there are several tasks running that I have never scheduled: AutoWake Task Handler Class Microsoft PlaySoundService Class Certificate Services Client Task Handler- there are 2 of these running

Hi, My laptop is joined to the office domain and gets windows updates from a WSUS server when connected to the LAN. Is there any way to run windows update when it can't access the WSUS server (as is frequently the case)? I have admin access to the laptop. Thanks

The contents of these folders are occupying 9gb. as far as i can see the download folder has copies of updates.I have no idea what the winsxs folder is for it did not exist in XP. Can any of these be deleted or moved? The laptop has been pre-setup by acer to have a drive formatted with a C and D drives and a hidden partion for re-installing software. It is only 1 month old and at this rate...

i am getting 2 emails with the same message at the same time. i am running windows vista and using window email for my email. how do i stop getting 2 of everything? thanks for help.

Hello everyone, In my snipping tool, my yellow highlighter and eraser don't work. Only the pen works. Any solution ? Thank you. -- t-4-2