I just attempted to drag an old icon on my desktop to the trash bin. Instead of going into the basket, it just moved to a different location on the desktop. I can right-click and delete with no problem, however. I created a second icon for a test, and it does the same thing. Rebooting did not help. Anyone got a clue??? Thanks in advance, Dave

When I booted up today, CHKDSK began running, but it freezes every time it gets to 6%. I have shut down and unplugged and restarted several times, but it always freezes there. I can't do anything once that happens, except turn it off. I have tried (as the screen directs) to cancel the check by "hitting any key" but nothing happens, no mater which keey or how many of them I hit. I even left...

I do not want Aero on my computer. Have followed instructions to disable, but the aero still "crops up." Cannot find anything in knowledge base or anywhere to get rid of the entire program display. Appreciate any help. --

I have a problem with Vista, Windows Explorer regularly keeps crashing. Each time it says it will look for a 'fix' online, then doesn't even advise me that one isn't available. Windows Explorer crashes every 15 minutes, i doubt whether Microsoft will release a fix that quickly, maybe it should be intelligent enough to 'not' check online when it is the 30th time it has crashed in a matter of...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Melelina" wrote in message ... Application Name: iexplore.exe Application Version: 8.0.6001.17184 Application Timestamp: 47ccc78e Fault Module Name: mshtml.dll Fault Module Version: 8.0.6001.17184 Fault Module Timestamp: 47ccc7ab Exception Code: c0000005

Hi all, When trying to download updates, it usually stops and shows a message concerning that PROPLUS MSI is missing. Can anyone explain this to me and advise how I can correct this please? Simple language for a simple person please? Thanx

I have just wasted 20 hours between 2 days trying to get my system restored.Once I had reinstalled vista and "ALL" of my programs and settings (4 hours total) and backed up to my external 120 GB USN Drive I then ran a test restore. Got the same error message,"No Backup image cannot be found,' even though I backed it up to the root of G: which is my external USB drive, and that is where I am...

Hi, windows vista seems to hang a long time when i shut it down i'm using windows ultimate. I've also noticed alot of errors in the events logs, is there anything i can do to eliminate the hanging at all ? I only formatted it a week ago and already its rather slow, its a pretty high spec computer. thanks

Hi, I have installed some programs that i always use. This is a new pc. IE seems to have a problem very often.Usually when i enter a url at the top and want to navigate there,IE page turns white,and will not close even using the Task Manager,until i reboot the pc. HOW do i RE-install IE from the Recover CD.Where do i find the exe file to do it or copy and paste the files ???

I have had some irritating system lockups with my computer lately and I am looking for ways to analyze the problem to see if I can pinpoint the offending application or driver. I have several mini dumps on the computer but unfortunately I don't have the tool to even open them. My computer uses an AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit processor but I'm running 32 bit Vista Ultimate. Following...

I am repeatedly booting into an unusable system - disk & CPU all used up, and when I can start Task Manager, System and svchost are taking it all. Cannot find which service, though. Network also does not connect. Not using ReadyBoost (on an SD card) improves chances of a reasonable system coming up. Vista home premium, HP dv2517 laptop, 1GB RAM, Office 2003, usual stuff. Any clues out there?

I have had some irritating system lockups with my computer lately and I am looking for ways to analyze the problem to see if I can pinpoint the offending application or driver. I have several mini dumps on the computer but unfortunately I don't have the tool to even open them. My computer uses an AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit processor but I'm running 32 bit Vista Ultimate. Following Microsoft's...

Today for the first time since this laptop was bought (over a year ago) I have experienced an OS software problem. To my grateful surprise VISTA sorted itself out without assistance from me or requiring me to call for help! Two days ago I tried to put the laptop to sleep at the end of my work. It refused to do so because it needed to shut down to install two updates which it had downloaded...

I just started using vista but with when i finding difficult using widows i try to format it like i do with Xp, but one i dont have the Cd with the my acer product though i buy a original software, then some one told me it is in the windows but still i fail to know how can i format this system without Cd, hope any one can help.

Hi All, I have Vista Home Premium, and I'm just doing basic wireless networking, and video chat with windows messenger, and MS office 2003. Which windows services can I disable to free up some resources? Thanks. Matt Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums

I'm having a problem with my MS Office suite 2003 on my new PC (Belarc analysis below). Two issues that have been coming up for me are that my email settings in Outlook won't allow me to bring in my email (IMAP/SMTP set up) and the second is that any time I try to change my office assistant it keeps telling me I don't have enough memory (!). What's going on with this? After all, this is a...

Sans doute par erreur, ou par une fausse manoeuvre, j'ai perdu mon deuxième compte utilisateur: " échec de l'ouverture de session par le Service de profil utilisateur: impossible de charger le profil utilisateur " Veuillez s'il vous plait m'indiquer la marche à suivre pour retrouver ce 2ème compte, Merci d'avance,

After updates on June 18th, we began getting the following message: "An Error has occurred initiating the Virtual Key Shared Cache" Whenever we start IE7 this message pops up. We tried the following steps listed on another post: Reset Internet Explorer ----------------------

Everytime the clock tries to synchronize, an error occurs and the clock is now almost 1 minute behind correct time. I know this has been a problem since vista was introduced, I changed something in the past and fixed the probllem, but I'm having a very long senior moment and I can't remember what it was I did to fix the problem. Any help??

I upgraded to Vista a couple of days ago. Then one time all of a sudden when I successfully typed in my password and loged into the system, all that appeared was the My Documents window and a black desktop in the background. There are no desktop icons and no taskbar at the botton of the screen, nothing. I've tried restarting the laptop on several occasions but the same thing occurs. When I...