Just thought I would let everyone know that I solved this problem for my situation when I tried to do a system backup today and came up against the dreaded "Access is denied" notice, with the explanation that the backup devices could not be found. I had previously done a backup to an external hard disk with no problems. Now that external drive was configured as two volumes each with its own...

Help! Suddenly its reading nothing. I put in a music CD, blank CD to put photos on. It reads nothing.... anyone out there know something I can do?? I have a laptop, when I put the Disc in, the little disc icon shows up for a second on the mouse & disappears.. Help...thanks!! :)

Hello, all. I have a current Vista Home Premium (32-bit) build. I have 4 WD 160GB SATA drives, non-RAID. I also have an external backup solution. My motherboard supports software RAID through an Intel controller. Here's what I would like to do: Go from a non-RAID setup to a RAID 0 configuration, without having to reinstall Vista (along with everything else currently installed).

I just built a machine with the parts listed below. Runs fine Blu-Ray looks GREAT. Problem is audio drop outs on Blu-Ray playback and when playing lossless WMA across the wireless. BIOS and all drivers are newest on the web. I've tried disabling everything in the device manager one at a time. Removed memory and tried one stick at time. Ran dpclat.exe and it shows DPC latency average...

I lost my wireless and my security program somehow. Attempted to use system restore and received a message that there us a "system curruption on ..C" and to check disk for errors. When attempted a message stated WIndows cannot check disk when running, do I want to check when starting computer. I clicked "Schedule disk check" and nothing happens. After shutting down and restarting the...

Since upgrading my Office machine from XP to Vista Business I have noticed the remote (Office) machine is very slow to display the Window when I click on "Computer"..drives, network shares and remote (home) drives appear slowly. In fact the progress bar makes 2 passes before the window appears. If however I choose not to allow local resounces on the Remote Connection, "Computer" window is...

Hello, I have two Vista Home Premium SP1 boxes he - neither is in a domain - both are members of the same workgroup - both have the same admin account name & password - both have the Remote Registry service running - both are on a network marked as "Private" in Network and Sharing

I am seeing a SVCHOST.exe using a about 116,360K of memory on my Vista machine. I have ran all my ONECare antivirus/spyware tools and nothing is coming up as a problem. I see that the Super Fetch service seems to be the one that is hogging all this memory. When I stop that service it releases the memory. Is this normal? What can I do to fix it? Thanks!

What happens when I click on Task Manager/View/Update Speed/and set it to High? It was set to Normal. Are there any adverse affects by changing it to High? Why would I not want it to be set to High? Does it adversely affect graphics resolution? -- JamesPB

I have Vista Home Premium, and I have been trying to do CHKDSK (auto repair and scan for bad sectors) on my C: drive (main drive) by going thru the Tools tab under Properties -- nothing is wrong with the drive itself, but as kind of a maintance thing... The CHKDSK starts fine (after I reboot, but not in safe mode), but it just hangs at the very beginning of Stage 1 of 5 (it has hung at 1%...

On my XP machine I ran a batch file that replaced notepad with metapad, a really great ascii text editor. Here's the link: http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ It offers a method of replacing notepad in Vista. Is there some way to automate this? Here are the instructions... A: Here's one method:

What is the best way to be able to allow only certain startup programs when logging in with a specific user? -- ckentrun

(I originally posted this in the vista installation/setup discussion, which I think is the incorrect discussion) I've been fighting this for weeks (maybe months?!) and several programs won't install because of it. Several programs (Dynamics NAV, Jet Reports, others) seems to require MSXML4 to function and I must have a corrupted install. I've spent tons of time researching this and it...

I originally bought this laptop because I was going to use it to play mmo's and the guy selling it to me said It'l do the job. I can load it, but nothing moves smoothly, (I guess I could describe it as "chunky") Also games like Heros v, Civilization 3, Fable...games like that. I have Windows Vista basic and I've got 54.7 free of 69.1gb. I'm wondering what I can do to get the best...

Since I started using Vista Home Premium my CPU when my computer is idle would run at 2-3 %. Now at idle it runs at 50-60%. What would cause this?

I have just installed a few days ago the windows vista personally I have the ultimate version. it is in my opinion that we the computer users need added the means to keep the register clean, up to date drivers and also a gadget that can keep the cpu, ram, GUI, internal temperatures and speed of the system I do see that parts of this should be in the Windows live care and part is for general...

Hey guys. Here are the specs: Dell 1720 Windows Vista Ultimate x64 2 GB Memory NVidia GeForce 8600M GT Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2GHz

when i log in i get a message that appears C:\Users\becky03\appdata\local\temp\efcBsPFu.dll if anyone can help that would be great -- B3

I'm trying to delete a program and it gives me the 'cannot locate file uninstall.exe' then asks me to browse or cancel. how can I fix this

Hello, I replaced my system disk (hard disk) with a much faster SSD (solid state disk 128G) and now my system is slower not faster. (boot and shut down are much slower) When I check the disk using HD Tune the results say the disk is much much faster then the old one (old type) I had. My Windows experience disk index went from 5.6 to 5.9. Before I go into exact timimgs can we have some...