I tried a program for backup. Don't know what it did. It never made a backup that was correct. The problem is now there is a directory on my F drive which is an external hard drive that I can not delete. There are 3 directories under it that I can't either. The message I get is "Error 0x80070570 The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. I have ran chkdsk on the drive, I ran defrag....

I use to go into the registry to remove startup programs. Can I do that in Vista ? TIA Drew

Hello everyone, I was told less than 20 min. ago that all my screenshots require people to join something before they can see the screenshots. THAT is a shock ! I had no idea, absolutely none! Will someone please tell me how to correct this stupidity ? PLEASE!! -- t-4-2

I have 32bit Vista Home Premium on my Dell inspiron with 4 gb of ram, and 128 mb discrete memory graphic card. The system properties reports the memory as 4gb, while the task manager reports the total physical memory as 3.5 gb, which is fine since part of the memory is locked out due to memory addressing of the devices on the computer. However, the usage statistics of the 3.5gb total...

Hello everybody! I tried to run the Windows Diagnostics Tool after Vista SP1, but when windows try to restart and run the diagnostics test, they do not start at alland they are asking me to insert and the boot from the recovery windows cd, because they cannot find the memtest.exe file(error:00xc0000225). Is there any way that I can fix this problem, for example recover or find the...

Hello I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april, And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is doing nothing. i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also the superper frech thing

When I attempt to start stopped services, ThinkVantage task scheduler, in the Task Manager on a Thinkpad R61i with Vista, an error message says "Access Denied". If I try to start the services from Control Panel Administrative Tools Services, the PC hangs. How can I start these services. The account has administrative privileges.

I have vista home premium and explorer.exe crashes when i open any dvd, cd, movie fold on HD and several other places. The error says: Problem signatu Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 6.0.6000.16549 Application Timestamp: 46d230c5 Fault Module Name: StackHash_d6aa Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

I'm using Vista Home Basic and recently downloaded SP1. My multifunction is an HP K80, which worked well enough until the SP1 download. At that point, the K80 was no longer able to print from content online, from Paint and Word docs. I have a Dell 531S with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB HD. Dell tech support suggested uninstalling SP1, stating they've had several incidents

I can't access my digital locker downloads. I suspect that the vista digital locker assistant is corrupt. How can I reinstall this? Thanks, DiAngelo

Everytime that i install an update for vista, media player, or anything having to do with security, it fails to install. i have not been able to update anything since about two months ago. the only error message that i get is 8007371B. i have tried to look for answers to this message, or what it actually means, but i have been unsuccesful. can anyone please help me out?

Hi everyone, hoping you're smarter than me! Unable to create a point for my C drive (was ble to for other drives) I get an error- "not enough space" eventhough the drive is 50% full (325 GB drive), I deleted shadow copy, but still unable.....i'd rather not run recovery because of the re-install headaches. Thanks much! John PS: Tested C drive in BIOS- no errors

I read that these have been released. Are they available other than Beta yet? Have any of you tried these new releases? Thanks.

No matter what program I click to uninstall, it gives the same error; An error occurred and it may already be uninstalled. It asks if I want it to be removed from the list, but even if I click yes it's still there. That part is regardless because I already know my programs, say Firefox, work just fine because I'm using them to TYPE this. Something's wrong somewhere {sighs} Any thoughts?

According to SFC /SCANNOW I have a number of corrupt system files (such as autochk). For some reason my restore points only go back a few hours. IS there not some way to REAPPLY SP1 to get the appropriate system files. Otherwise I will have to do a repair install (assuming that is still possible in Vista) & then reapply SP1

Has anyone gotten a solution to this? All tasks return the same error. This happened without warning. Also, Is there a way of keeping Vista (5600-RC1) from performing a system restore at every startup and even on waking up? This causes me to lose all my carefully set restore points. Many Thanks, Jean-David

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Morose" wrote in message ... Hi all, Out of the blue I now have a recurrent crash of the IP Helper service. It's completely random, and happens after having Internet Explorer running for a while.

When I try to execute ANY ( yes, any ) executable ( *.exe/*.msi etc) file, I receive the error msg "is not a valid Win32 application". I am now at the point I can not add or update ANY software whatsoever due to this error coming up for any executable. Im running Vista Home Basic, I thought I was a power-user until this one, and my goal is to either A) Find out the problem and a fix for it....

When I attempt to utilize the back up function in Vista, I receive an error message: 0x80041321. It will not let me continue. How can I rectify?

This is a 2 part question; Each time I run the Complete PC Backup, the previous backup gets overwritten. 1. Can you have multiple Complete PC Backup points? When I copy the contents from the WindowsImageBackup folder to another location and proceed with another Complete PC backup in an attempt to create a second restore point, Windows Backup Utility will not detect the first backup point.