Vista seems to take an extremely long time to copy a file from one location to another on the same disk. The vista disk rating in a 5.9 SAS Drives Raid-1 Config. All hot fixes applied. Any ideas. Thank you.

Quick question, Q1) My Vista takes between 5-7 minutes to load. It just sits at the "Please Wait" screen seemly forever. Is there somewhere I can view what its loading? Q2) I am using a dual monitor display, however every morning when I bootup it mixes up my monitor resolutions (ones wide screen, others regular), also it makes the wrong screen my default with the toolbar... How do I set it...

I have two HDD's and have backed up to to my secondary drive without problems including restores. I installed SP1 RC1 (first public release) and then did a system restore after deciding that I didn't want to continue using it. Complete system restore brought up an error regarding a missing file. With much frustration I re-installed after deleting and formatting both volumes in Vista setup to...

My system restore is not working I get the error 0x800423308 which i find nothing on when searching. Any ideas?

if you do a startup repair will it fix anything else? Like xp had a repair install? If not, why not? Is vista going to someday have a repair install like xp? John

Can someone tell me if you can schedule backups to more then one external hard drive in Vista Ultimate? I have 2 external hard drives that I would make file backups to no different nights with XP Pro. With Vista I can only see the ability to schedule backups to one location. will I have to stope that scheduled and then manually schedule to the other drive everytime I want to do this? ...

First off, let me say that I love my pc and I'm using for college. Problem: I will start up my Acer Aspire 5100 and it will begin loading windows...and then...it will stop. Not even the light telling me the hard drive is working flickers. In a span of a day and a half, I restarted my pc over 2 times and this problem occured. When it does, I cannot even hear the hardrive working. Windows...

I may have to run a Vista "repair/install" and I wonder how long this takes? Soon seems best before SP1 is released, so any suggestions/advice about how to do this safely will be appreciated.

My mom changed her theme the other day and now there are no sounds for new messaged received, opening and closing windows, logging in or out, emptying recycle bin...etc. I've tried going into sounds and picking new ones, old ones and nothing works. In sounds where you can "test" a certain sound, nothing plays. It's not the speakers cause music plays just fine. I loaded all the windows media...

Hi everybody, In my trouble shooting of "black screen fatal errors" I came across the Microsoft site http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/wddm_timeout.mspx that lists a set of registry keys dedicated to the GPU Timeout Detection and Recovery in Vista as follows : - TdrLevel, TdrDelay, TdrDdiDelay, TdrTestMode, TdrDebugMode, On my system that run under Vista Ultimate with a graphic...

When I first bought my computer with Vista I have some really bad issues with the Norton and Mcaffe antivirus. I then downloaded Trend Micro. Between these three programs I ended up having some drivers removed etc.(that's been corrected). It was a huge mess and between customer support and tech. help from Trend Micro and e-machine I ended up removing programs that I was told were...

Recently I lost some Excel files that are modified every week. This should be no problem to restore because I backup every week. However, when I try to recover the file I only get a 10 month old version...the latest one just will not come up. A look at the actual backup file in my dedicated hard drive didn't find any of the Excel files that were modified every week. This suggests that...

OK was running Windows XP x64 and installed Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and this thing is so slow I can barely use it. I have 2 high speed scsi drives, 6 gigs of ram, a 64 bit computer and the 64 bit os installed. Two dual core Xeon processors each running at 3.2Ghz (So 4 processors). My video card cost me $1800 and is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400. This thing should be flying yep I can barely drag...

I am completely unable to set a restore point in Vista and it is not automatically setting them either. As as result, update installations are failing. Is my only hope to restore my computer to factory "new" and start all over with program installations etc? -- Lindsay

the machine is veery slow loading say the home page or a email,,it is not too slow starting up.it is a new dell with 4gig and i do not know wheather to delete some dell products and try that or what.and if that is not the answer then what do i do with the support deleted and all. everything on the machine seems to work correctly except for the page loading.we get our internet from cable and...

Hi, I have a very frustrating problem. The sound from my pc will work great one moment just to completely dissappear the next. I've had vista for more than a half year without any sound issues, but about two weeks ago this problem started. At first I figured it was a problem with the onboard sound, and decided to buy a regular soundcard (creative x-fi xtrememusic). The problem continues...

I’ve been having this problem for almost a week now.. What happens is my cursor stalls for I’d say about 3 seconds and then I hear a noise as if something just minimized or maximized.. Nothing other then that seems to happen but it’s starting to get me upset because I just got this computer no more then a year ago and I hope this small problem doesn’t lead to anything more drastic....

I would like to keep the calculator on top of my other windows while working. For example: When I'm working with one of my Excel files and need to use the calculator at the same time I would like to keep it on top of the Excel file I'm working on. The moment I click back on my Excel file the calculator disappears in the background. Does anyone know how to keep it on top?

my computer keeps freezing, usually when I'm using Word or Internet explorer. Does anyone know how to fix this for good- or at least how to shut my computer down safely. I end up having to hold down the power button or sometimes even taking the battery out. the ctrl+alt+del trick from previous windows operating systems doesn't seem to work. (I have a ThinkPad X61s, and I bought it about...

My desktop won't turn on properly. Don't know what happened! I tried to turn it on one day and as it is an e-machine it starts up but only displays the big e on the black screen. It has an 80gb Hard drive with little or no space on it, an Intel Celeron processor and 512 RAM. It served it's purpose for about 3 years and I was never too fond of it anyway but as it had some personal stuff on it...