In the third installment of the popular Springboard series roundtable hosted by Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, the discussion focused on Windows Vista performance, how to assess, measure, improve, optimize and set baselines on the performance of a Vista based system. He talks about some tools and tips as well as dispel some of the myths surrounding windows based systems....

It seems to me that Vista's built-in backup supports only 1 model: a full backup the 1st time, and incremental backups forever thereafter. Since I back up to an external hard drive, this is eventually going to leave me no option but to delete all my backups and start over from scratch. 1. Am I missing something in Vista's built-in backup? 2. Acronis True Image Home seems to be the most...

Okay, the last update that I have downloaded was : Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB915597 (Definition 1.43.702.0)Installation date: ‎9/‎24/‎2008 11:51 AM Installation status: Successful Update type: Important Install this update to revise the definition files used to detect

Both Avira (Av) and Windows Defender are shown ON when i open the security centre, but then when i generate a 'performance and reliability report' i get a warning saying that that no antivirus and anti-spyware products were found. To resolve the issue i installed (temporarily) SpyDoctor and AVG8 (uninstalled Avira first) , and both of them were recognized by the system diagnostics report,...

I have a brand new computer with Vista installed :( I really enjoyed my screen saver on XP but even though the preview shows up fine, the screen saver does not kick in on my notebook. Does anyone have the same problem? Have you solved it? -- Happy Cruiser

A few questions about this utility... What is "100% Highest Active Time"? Also, what are good criteria to sort the results by to determine what processes are using the disk?

any help with what this was all about: Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: d1 BCP1: 00000000

Folks: I saw a $30 program on the Internet that claims to allow you to watch digital TV on your PC, no wires. Your opinion please . Drew

Not sure who looks after these things but the Currency 1.0.0.0 sidebar gadget has suddenly lost Canadian dollars - hopefully temporarily. -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate Triple Boot P4 HT @ 3ghz, 4gb DDR, 700gb HDD Soundblaster Audigy 4 PCI Sound ATI Radeon X1650 Pro AGP Graphics

Vista Home Premium SP1. Using Backup and Restore to DVD-RW I create a full (file) backup and then incremental ones until I have a dozen or so DVDs then I create another full backup. I keep two such sets, overwriting DVDs as needed. Question comes as how to delete the information about what is on the sets that no longer exist. If I do an advanced restore and ask for restore from older backup on...

of non response .. :huh: I will explain :-) Last night I had my music as one does :-)..and a slideshow (windows media gallery) running .. when i came to close down ..found the controls tab wouldnt appear so as i could close down the slide show .. no matter what I did .. i couldnt access them at all ..so after an hour found i had to just pull the plug out .. which is bad news for any system eh ....

I'm a new vista user and have noticed problems with functions that say "drag icon" or "drag bookmarklet" to toolbars. There seems to be NO drag and drop. Am I missing something? -- llbtt

When i try to work on files or folders, the Vista always makes the cursor busy. It's always doing something. The green bar on the address bar is always starting from the beginning and moves to the end whenever i try to do something in the folder. And the mouse cursor is always busy. Even moving a folder is a slow and hard task. I turned off indexing. But Vista always tries to do something on...

I have a PC to sort out which has the following issue: On starting up, and before the Windows logo displays it throws up an error message: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Title bar text: LogonUI.exe This application has failed to start because SHELL32.dll was not found. RE-installing the application may fix the problem. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =...

Folks: I have a Gateway Notebook. I have been having some video problems. ( Temporary have screen video on startup, a blank white box left on desktop after closing message box) Yesterday I got the Blue Screen of Death twice. Right before that Spy-Bot ask for permission to change a Registry entry related to Yahoo Companion. Internet Explorer was not opened at the time. A look in my Device...

OK, so process explorer shows me which instances of svchost.exe are giving me trouble. Generally, it is two/three of them. I don't have any problems until I connect to the internet, but then CPU hits 100% shared between these two/three. I am then unable to connect. Afterwards, CPU drops down to normal levels but I am not connected. I tried suspending the offending svchost.exe (s) but...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "pelsql" wrote in message ... I have two items that always reappears to be updated even after successful update: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 for windows Vista Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack

... it goes through the motions and all my peripherals power down, but i have to use the power button in order to get it to actually turn off. Everything's good when i power back on though.. just as if it had restarted normally. it's not that big of a deal, just annoying. so, any help would be greatly appreciated*. thanks in advance

Folks, I have a user who is using Vista Business and trying to backup to an external Western Digital MyBook. When he tries to backup, he gets either a 0x8007065d or 0x0000065d. I was considering this may being caused by the drive or formatting, but when he tries to backup to another partition on the same drive, he has the same issues. I would appreciate any assistance.

Hi everybody! I have problems with "Open with..." in the windows explorer, I had a previous version of a Structural Analisys software and for ease I made that the type of files that the software generate were apened by double click in the explorer by "open with" command. Now I updated the software, but it was installed in an other folder and the older versión was unistalled, next I tried to...