my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave. -- Bressler

My Vista-SP1 PC starts rather slowly after it has been put into hybrid sleep and the mains power has been down. This is strange as it starts quickly after pure hibernate, what should be the same. Start times are as follows: Hybrid-Sleep (mains power on stays on): 15 sec Hybrid-Sleep (mains power has been off): 120 sec Hibernate: 35 sec Remarkable at the start after hybrid sleep (+power down)...

Windows base score is not showing up at all.. i need help .. can someone help me correct this problem.. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/fidelito17/performanceratingnotworkingimage.jpg can someone help me????

Hello, When I try to use the "Turn windows features on or off" function in Windows Vista Home Premium, I get this message: "An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed". I have tried several times on different features, enabling or disabling the feature, always the same error message and nothing is changed. When I bought this computer two months ago it was...

I bought my computer 12/19/07 and unfortunately it only had the option of coming with Vista. 2 months after purchasing my new PC, the desktop completely disappeared, leaving me with only an explorer window to navigate my computer. Since then, all of my USB drives have disappeared to where I can't use my printer, keyboard, mouse, card reader, etc. I spoke with the manufacturer who said they...

I'm running Vista Home Basic. The main toolbar at the bottom of the screen keeps locking up, I try to click on something, it won't work, then I get a message that Windows Explorer is Not Responding. I then click to restart it, it will work for a few seconds, then the whole process repeats. I have run a virus scan, done a disk cleanup and defraged it, to help. Is there anything I can do short...

I have tried to open the defrag screen to see when it is set to defrag. According to one of the posts, it does it automaticly. When I click on it, the cursor just sits there and spins. I even have tried to open it from the start menu, using the search option, and now when I hit the start button, I can't access anything else in there also. Why is this so hard?

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "John Campbell" John wrote in message ... Hello all, I repeatedly get an installation error when trying to install update KB938371. The error number is: 8E5E03FB. Since automatic update is on, this has been going on quite a while. I even tried downling the...

Hello and thanks for your replies. I just recently upgraded from XP to Windows Vista SP 1 and I've ran into a couple of problems. As I am using Internet Explorer and Office, and for no apparent reason, all of sudden I get an error message saying that it has encountered a problem and that it needs to close and restart. The last time I wa using "IE" it happened when I clicked on a preview of a...

Greeting! My Windows Media Player has stopped playing MIDI files. What could be the problem? Thanks for any help you can give me. :-

Hi this keeps happening every couple of months,running vist basic with a pretty new Dell inspiron 530.it entails a full format and reload to get the drives back.I think some-one mentioned once before this was a Vista problem Any Ideas thanks.

Hi.. I have been getting a few *.dll_unloaded errors recently which result in the explorer shell crashing and needing to be restarted. Its not a huge problem as it only happens perhaps once or twice a day (sometimes not at all) but it's a little inconvenient as I use a Dreamscene desktop video which I need to reset it after each crash. I have only noticed the error with the following dll...

I have a publication that I did with Publisher 2003 and can't open it up on Vista. I have my old Office XP disks and was wondering if there is a way to use the program off of the disc on Vista. How would I extract only the Publisher program?

I installed the lastest Vista Updates (8) yesterday (6/11) and I have noticed a significant performance degradation including it now taking about 15-120 minutes for my computer to start up. Has anyone else experienced this?

I keep getting this windows update error. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm31/xp0theadX/WindowsExplorer.jpg] I dont know if its updated or not because it wont let me do anything, and i tried updating it and it wont work. now i have no other choices but to try reboot my computer. anyone know anything i can try before i reboot my computer? --

I am trying to do a query to bring back only records that have a IP address from the event data: EventData Data Name="SubjectUserSid"S-1-5-18/Data Data Name="SubjectUserName"DAVE-PC$/Data Data Name="SubjectDomainName"WORKGROUP/Data Data Name="SubjectLogonId"0x3e7/Data Data Name="TargetUserSid"S-1-5-18/Data Data Name="TargetUserName"SYSTEM/Data

Seems like as good as place as any for this. Now I like system restore! in the XP days it saved my bacon many times In Vista SR runs off the scheduler with an MS provided template that I have not adjusted in any way. I am noticing that I am not getting any restore points set except the manual ones or at install uninstall of programs.

I was using my laptop and I got this blue screen of death!! It happened 3 times and I do not really know why it happened. Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem:

Is there a way of moving the side bar from one monitor to another on a multi screen setup?

Hi All, I installed Service pack 1 on my Windows Vista, and since then when I am running Windows Media player 11 it works abosolutely fine but as soon as i connect my pen drive to the computer the WMP11 crashes in few seconds Error message "Windows media player not responding". I click on the option which says click here for windows to find online resolution then it returns back saying...