In working with Complete PC and wbadmin, I created a second volume to hold my backups, drive E:. I made my first Complete PC backup to this drive successfully. Now when I try to do another backup (which should be incremental), drive E: is not shown as a valid target, even tho the backup center in the control panel tells me my last back up was to drive E:. In using wbadmin to try and start...

Hello, I'm running 32 bit Vista Ultimate. Periodically I cannot boot my PC, it crashes with the blue screen. When I try to boot in safe mode, the boot stops displaying ../drivers/crcdisk.sys. Booting the "Last known good configuration" usually helps, but temporarily. There are many reports about this issue, but I couldn't find any good solution. I've tried chkdsk /r or /f, checked BIOS -...

am I correct in saying that DVD video's won't run using WMP11 on a vista home basic laptop... because whenever I try it I get an error, I can play DVD's back using my old PowerDVD but even with that installed and ffdshow codec utility I still can't get them to play using WMP? Or am I completely wrong, and if so what I can do (that is free-won't cost me any more money)to rectify this...

Hi guys, I've monitored the other threads aboiut on-screen keyboard but how can I get the keyboard to display the current language chosen. I have installed/setup three keyboards: English, French and German. When I want to type I use the Alt-Shift combo to change the keyboard but I'd like to see the keyboard on-screen as well - how do I do it? Advice appreciated.:confused:

Hi, When I have music playing in wmp 11 and I browse through pictures in the photo gallery, the sound skips pretty bad and the computer lags a bit trying to display the pictures. I was already having some other sound issues and I disabled all enhancements in the sound properties. It is a Dell e1505 laptop with Sigmatel HD Audio. Disabling all enhancements fixed my other issue (ventrilo...

Just a guess; battery or mains power used while doing it? -- Mad Mike "Jacek Godorowski" wrote: Hi.

Sys is a 2 gig 64 bit with 4 gig mem and Vista Home Premium. When I try to run Event viewer I get "make sure service is running". When I try to start service, I get error 4201. System is about 1 month old and never tried to look at events until 2 weeks ago. Event viewer has never run that I can tell. Repository has been reset 3 times already. After installing new progs and settings it is not...

OK, I thought I had cured my disk thrashing by turning of things I don't need. Then it came back again, and it goes on for more than an hour. Auto defrag is off as well. I do a lot of video editing and today have not been able to get on at all due to this disk thrashing again. The hard disk access stops smooth playback of video files. I tried running disk defrag and then stopped it. I think it...

Hi, I have just had to reformat and re-install Vista Home Premium defragmenting the drive removes all restore points anyone know how to fix this. I also tried Diskeeper same result. Thanks Steve

I am suddenly getting error code 0xC004F050 that my product key is invalid. I bought my laptop in Feb. from Best Buy and Vista was pre-loaded. I installed an update (service pack???) today and used my computer for several hours. Then suddenly this error! I've put in the key several times and nothing! I can't access anything except the internet!! Can anyone help? I'm a teacher and I was typing...

So I made an error with my PC... It started it when I restarted my PC and a popup keeps coming up saying that something like "Cannot detect the shell23 fiel. Re-installing it would help" And nothing shows up but a blank black screen--I can't even access my documents or files or anything! Other things such as "Task Manager" popped up saying that it stopped working.

I've suddenly developed a problem when logging on to my laptop. Once I enter my password, windows starts to load up, but explorer stops working before the desktop or anything else is displayed, and produces an error message. Clicking on the error message shuts the message down, but leaves a blank black screen. I can load the task manager. I can also load Internet Explorer by clicking on the...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) wrote in message .... I think the BITS my have become corrupt due to hard disk errors. Is there anyway to reinstall them? Them? AFAIK those qmgr*.dat files you were told to delete get regenerated.

I have imported photos from my camera to Windows Photo gallery and then copied and pasted them into my photo albums folder. When I try to set a photo as Desktop background , I cannot do it and get the following error message :- The FileC:\Users\dawn\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Windows photo Gallery\WindowsPhoto Gallery wallpaper.jpg could not be written . Please check permissions on this file and...

I cant install/use windows update i get code 80070026 un known error in Windows update. What can i do? Its to late to use a system restore point, i havent noticed that windows update havent worked for 2 mounth.

HI, CAN ANYBODY TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE A $RECYCLE.BIN AND SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION FOLDERS FROM MY DRIVE D I GOT THESE FOLDERS FROM AN INFECTED USB BUT NOW I CANT REMOVE THEM? PLEASE HELP!! -- moonlight

Whenever I startup my PC it loads perfectly except for one thing. I always get this error: WZCSLDR2.exe The procedure entry point apsinitialize could not be located in the dynamic library wlanapi.dll What could be causing this? --

I have just opened the Event Viewer and went into Diagnostic-Performance then Operational. It shows 56 problems in start up and shutdown over the last 3 days, (since format & reinstall). 44 warnings 9 errors 3 criticals Is this aproblem and if so what can I do, I then went into Generate Healh Report and it says there is no problems with this PC. I have Vista Ultimate

I have try to read my minidump and fix my problem I started to see random 101 BSOD in the last few days.... nothing been added to the system (software) nor any hardware change... so I don't know what is the issues. Attached is my minidump, could someone tell me how to fix it? ********************************************* *

I have had my computer for about a year. It has worked fairly well. A few days ago I noticed while working in Autocad, the cursor would start moving really slow. Other applications worked regular speed. I brought up TV on media center and it too moves real slow. I think the problem started when I tried to watch Hero's on NBC website. If I leave the computer for a while and then come back these...