Hi, First time poster, I bought a Compaq SR5413WM about 4 weeks ago. I use it for Voip based applications, light browsing and some printing. Everytime I open IE7 the cpu maxes out at 100% and then bounces up and down erractically, it also happens with other applications such as windows explorer. I have a AMD LE-1640 2.7 ghz processor, 2 gb ram and Vista home premium 32 bit. I have no idea why it...

This is a problem I've had since I bought the pc in April '08. I'll start with the specs... HP Pavilion m9200t Preloaded with Vista Home 64-bit Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz nVidia GeForce 8600 GT 512mb Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 750gb Seagate SATA HD 6gb RAM

Hello I hope you can help me with an issue : My PC is Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9450 2.66GHz windows Vista Ultimate 32 bits 8,00GB ram. My brother wants my 2 2GB memory dim because he says 32 bits systems don't recognize RAM over 4GB. The system says 8GB, and the motherboard Asus P5E CHIPSET X38 supports 8GB. Is he right and I have 4 more GB Ram for nothing, or is the ram ayhow helpfull and...

OK, this is probably a very dumb question with a very easy answer but I'm baffled. I'm running Windows Vista and I've only had the computer about a month. I had my e-mail icon on the task bar so all I had to do was click it and it brought up my e-mail. I guess this is the same as the Quick Launch menu. Now I've lost my icon and there are two little arrows. If I click on the arrows a...

This is the situation as it is now: Vista x64 business is installed on a RAID 0 of 2 320 GB disks. This is controlled by the onboard RAIDcontroller of my motherboard and so Vista sees it as a 640 GB harddisk. So far so good. I bought 2 1TB disks and I want to do the following: Both disks should have a 200 GB partition for windows and all programs and they should be mirrors of each other. So...

Hello, i have a laptop ~ 5 months old that I use almost entirely for the internet. About 3 weeks ago, using IE, I noticed web pages stared loading poorly, with many errors. Photos would only half load. The problem got progressively worse. Now, I am unable to download any new files...windows update, firefox, spyware detectors, anything. They download ok, but when I try to install I get...

I think I can post this in all insult. :sleepy: *ReadyBoost do:* ReadyBoost take much of your computer's energy. It creates problems for the normal driving. And for the games. Some are experiencing high load on hard drive as if there running a scanned or index. The old games (Xp and below) will not tolerate that ReadyBoost start to use energy to get things to run while.

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to maintain the desktop settings after a user has logged out? For example, I would like to create one Standard account in Vista so many users can log in with that account. This means if one user changes these settings the origian settings are maintained when they log off. So the next Standard user must see the ORIGINAL settings.

Hi, I've experienced the "corrupted file" problem. I tried to fix it via chkdsk (run elevated), planed the scan after reboot, nothing happened. The chkdsk did not run. tried "sfc /scannow" So I decided to reinstall Vistas. It worked fine for like 10 days and now again. I'm using legal Vista Business x86 (32bit) on my Lenovo N100. - not some cracked version - original, with SP1 installed and...

For years now I have been using the Hibernate shut-down option (for XP and Vista). It provides for a much faster start-up for the computer (particularly Vista) and the windows I always use are loaded and ready to go. All of sudden Vista Hibernate is acting up. I can do the Hibernate shutdown and it goes through its routine and shuts down the computer. HOWEVER, the computer then decides to...

HEY.. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE FAN, THE LAPTOP IS A TX2120, FAIRLY NEW WITH A FEW MONTHS OLD, ALWAYS KEPT IN MY BEDROOM, THE ISSUE IS THAT THE FAN IS ALWAYS RUNNING SUPER FAST, AND WITHOUHG HAVING ANY WINDOWS OR MESSENGER OPEN, HOW CAN I DEAL WITH THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE THE NOISE IS DRIVING ME CRAZY, AND IS MAKING THE KEYBOARD A BIT HOTTHEIS LAPTOP IS RUNNING VISTA HOME PREMIUM WITH...

Friends, I'm trying to boot Vista into SAFE mode and for some reason the F8 key doesn't work. Is there another way to invoke it? Boot from the DVD media and then....?

MY PC will not install UPDATE FOR OFFICE PP VIEWER 2003 (KB949041) nor can I determine why or if there's any fix. The update that will not install or go away. It just sits there on the start bar option. I'd appreciate any explanation or fix. Thanks........................

Hi fellow Vista owners. I have a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet, perhaps one of you can help. My vista task manager has only a task tab, no processes etc. It's nothing like the one on xp was like, just bare bones. I desperately need to terminate a process (m s antivirus - which, ironically is malware that crept past my mc afee and windows defender) so that I can delete the exe...

I have a new Sony FZ4000 VAIO Notebook (Intel® Core 2™ Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz)-3 GB DDR SDRAM-160 GB Hard Drive) I purchased in May 2008 with Vista Home Premium for my daughter to take to college. Everything worked great until I installed an HP PhotoSmart 4385 printer. No problems with the installation of the printer, but afterward I noticed the startup time to get to the desktop...

Hi, When I start the task scheduler, I get the following error message: "An error has occurred for task Reminders - Account Name. Error message: The specified account name is not valid." The indicated account name is perfectly correct, and I have only one account on my machine. I can find the task in the task status pane,

I'm going to buy a new computer as my 10 year old one has finally had it. It seems just about everything now come with Windows Vista (32 bit or 64 bit). My question is what's better for me and which one is giving people more trouble. Some models even give you the option of going with XP. I don't know what to do. Would appreciate it if someone would explain how the difference between 32 and 64...

Hello, I have some problems with my Random Access Memory values. I have MS Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 x64. I have installed on my motherboard 4gb of ram ddr2. When my Vista wasn't updated to Service Pack 1 in the "System Properties" my "Memory (RAM)" was set to "3,00 GB". After i updated to Service Pack 1 in the "System Properties" my "Memory (RAM)" was set to "4,00 GB"....

*H*ello! *I* like the Aero theme, but would have more contrast to distinguish input fields from the background. *A*re there distinguish themes? *I* tested the keyboard combination Left ALT+Left SHIFT+PRTSCRN to

Twice, after using Vista clean up, I have had to use the installation disc to do a repair and Windows has added files , with several restarts before I can boot up normally. I cannot understand why using the Vista clean up I should have to do this. Is it me doing somethimng wrong by doing a clean up when it is not needed or is the Vista clean up facility too aggresive? How often should I do a...