I've got a black screen that is telling me I'm missing the followong file: ntoskrnl.exe It won't start normally in safe mode or any other mode. What does this mean for me and the future of my files? Thanks. --

Vista SP1 / 64 bit - is constantly showing 1 pending update. On shutdown it says installing update 1 of 1. This never goes away - each subsequent shutdown says the say thing. Where can I look to see what update is stuck and how to clear it. Thanks

Whenever I try to hibernate, the laptop would take a while... which it's fine, 'cos it isn't exactly top of the line, since its for college use only. However, instead of hibernating (eventually), it restarts. What's the problem and is there a solution to this? In addition, whenever there's an orphan/zombie process running, the computer

when i start my pc my resolution is 1440x900 i change it to 800x600 but every time i reboot it goes back to 1400x900 how can i keep it at 800x600

Can someone tell me how to get sounds to work again? When I click the sound icon on the taskbar a little window comes up and asks if I want to enable "Windows Audio Service." When I click yes I get the annoying User Account Control window and so click "Continue." The sound window comes up. I can select sounds and click OK.... but it sounds stay DISABLED and wont play. How is this fixed so we...

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Can someone tell me how to get sounds to work again? When I click the sound icon on the taskbar a little window comes up and asks if I want to enable "Windows Audio Service." When I click yes I get the annoying User Account Control window and so click "Continue." The sound window comes up. I can select sounds and click OK.... but it sounds stay DISABLED and wont play. How is this fixed so we...

Vista crashed on me the other day, and I used the recovery option to try to fix the errors. Instead, a new partition was created somehow. My C drive is now the smaller drive and E has been designated for program installations. I had made a backup just a week ago, but when I try to restore/install that backup I get a message that the file location is not valid. I presume that because it was all...

Hola, I'm trying to copy the files in my user account to a new user account (I need to change name on my user folder) but it is so slow... Now I have a rate of 3MB/s, the limit of the disk should be 3GB/s. I have set the disk to optimized performance... why is it so slow? The RAM is only used to about 50% and the CPU is only at 5% so there are a lot resurces to use... please why was windows 3.11...

I have had my vista laptop for around a year now, and the other day while a windows install was installing my battery ran out and the laptop shut its self down, evey since then everyime i turn it on, a blue screen appears saying a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent further damage to your computer, with other indormation below, i have tried using the recovery cd...

Folks: The attributes of my Documents folder have changed . They have changed to the attributes of a Image folder. Date Taken, Tags, Rating, Etc. The attributes of Date Modified, etc. are gone. Drew

just recently, my ibm lenovo 3000 became slugginsh. Resource Monitor show explorer is consuming a lot of CPU...nothing else.... ran anti virus and no virus detected. ran in safe mode, and system runs normally. ran in diagnostic mode which has fewer servies running than the safe mode and the cpu crawls. so it seems that it's not the running services that are causing the cpu to slow down. i tried...

Wondering if anyone can offer some troubleshooting tips. Periodically, a Windows Home Premium PC will engage in heavy drive activity, usually accessing the page file, thumbcache, searchindexer or a windows media 360 file ( forget the file name). When this drive activity occurs and an application is closed (usually IE, Windows Explorer), the application will hang briefly and often times...

Actually, the power schemes functionality in Vista Home Premium SP1 are sporadic at best. Sometimes I can invoke the recommended settings and they'll take but sometimes they don't and when I think my computer has gone into a power saving mode, I come back to it and find it's still up and running. WITHOUT any applications open! Why is this? And how do I remedy it? Thanks.

Hi I get a time out error whenever I try to generate a system health report. I see that others have had this problem, but there is no answer to it. I tried to set the "Performance logs & Alerts" to manual as suggested in the tutorial 'System Health Report' (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/82728-system-health-report.html) but it did not help.

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Hi There , One day I restored my system by back date, after that I am experiencing Indexing Probelm. Everytime "Indexing is not running " pops up everytime. I tried from Control Panel-- Indexing Options , but there all the options all disabled. Could You pls help me out of this problem, how can I restore my Indexing or can remove this pop up. One thing I noticed while searching in event viewer...

OK, I'm quite irritated with Vista asking me to activate so many times, i didn't even do any hardware changes. (I'm using the laptop for Vista) Whats going on? If Vista has a maximum number of licenses (activations) isn't Microsoft's broken software kinda like... cheating me of the licenses?!

I found a post asking a similar question to this, but the answer does not really help me, so I'll ask again. I'm looking to find out how to run a program (or script/batch file preferably) that will autorun when the battery reaches critical level. The reason I ask is that I have my PC and a Western Digital MyBook World Edition network drive connected to my UPS. For those who don't know, it...

The icons on my Favorites List are scrambled - some are correct but many have been switched. Is there a way to correct them? FavOrg used to do it with XP but I can't find something like this for Vista. Thanks.