When I go to control panel and try loading Program and Features, nothing happens. In other words, I can't uninstall or repair anything because I can't even get passed loading this page. Please help

Multiple programs on my computer (Vista Home Premium) are crashing. Windows DVD Maker, The Sims 2, and all Macromedia programs. Digital art programs such as DAZ Studio still work fine. The computer is nearly a year old and beyond some more common, minor problems that are associated with Vista, I haven't had this kind of trouble. Here is a copy of the Windows DVD Maker problem...

I tried to disable a lot of things without any success... (phising filter, protected mode etc) ex. www.pcinpact.com will take 10 second to load firefox 3 it will take 1 second and there is a lot of websites that behave the same way WHY IS Ie7 so slow ?? it doesn't make sense to be 10x slower on some pages

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Frij" wrote in message ... Running Vista sp1 have installed all updates via windows update and yet with this update I am getting error 80070570 (which I know is "can't open the file) why is this happening. Why can't windows open the file that it supposed to so...

Whenever I restart (or start) vista several programs won't run. The desktop is all loaded and I can run lots of stuff but some things just won't run until about 10 minutes after start-up. The only programs I have found to be affected by this is the game store program called Steam and a program I had for reading CPU temperatures. This also affects lots of windows stuff too. For example, the...

So every time I shut the lid to my computer, it goes to sleep. And then when I go to wake it up, the screen starts flashing and blinking like blinds. I dunno what to do. I just re-installed Windows after my computer crashed, so everything should be new within the system...right? I did a disk cleanup and there's nothing on here - no files or programs other than what came with the computer.

I turned my screen on today to find everything was enlarged like my msn my web pages n i cnt seem to fix it. Its nothin to do with the zoom as i havnt touched it and no1 else uses the computer and i dont knw wat seems to be the problem

I have windows vista home premium, and it initially had the aero theme turned on, but at some point in time it went away and I didn't notice it at the time so i'm not sure what could have caused it. I did do basic performance tweaks like turning off certain services and startup programs, but i'm not sure if any of those are connected to aero. When I go to the control panelpersonalizethemes it...

can someone help me i need to make some spreadsheets in microsoft works and it will let me start but always freezes and says this program has stopped working and will shut down now. it came preinstalled so i cant uninstall and reinstall what can i do i need this program. -- mindy b

On one of my machines (Dell Dimension 4550, 2.66Ghz, 1GB RAM), it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to boot Vista. Almost all of this time is spent at the phase where the little progress bar is displayed on a black screen with "Microsoft Corporation" written beneath it. Once booted, performance is fine. Any ideas what the problem might be, or suggestions for determining what exactly is...

I was trying to figure out what if any DEP included running prosesses can be removed without comprimising the computer. Any Help Thank You Slippy

I have a Dell desktop computer & a Aser laptop, both running Vista Home Premium. I have a HP Officejet 6110 all-in-one printer. I also have a wireless router. From the desktop computer I can print just fine but I cannot print from my laptop. I have tried Adding a New Printer. It runs through all the steps. I have tried selecting "use an existing port" and when that didn't work I...

Hi all, I installed photoshop cs3 on xp last month on my drive D: then i installed windows vista home basic on my pc. Now i need to get rid of Adobe Photoshop CS3 but i cant see any unsinstaller in the folder or in control panel. Is there a method for manually (safely) unistall programs on vista? Pls can someone give me step by step procedure. Thanks

Hi, I run Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I was doing the monthly updates when I got the BSOD. I went into event viewer and when I tried to access system logs I received the following message. Event viewer cannot open the event log or custom view. Verify that event log serice is running. The data is invalid. (13) I then went into Problem Reports and Solutions and found that my kaspersky...

Hey All, I have Vista Ultimate on my laptop and last night after making some updates through Windows Updates. All seemed well until latter on in the night when Windows closed down and brought up a screen that read: "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause of the cause." It then gave two choices: - Launch Startup Repair (recommended) - Start Windows...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Zac" wrote in message ... I have a P5N-E SLI as well. Installed a fresh copy of Vista Home Premium. All was well until this update and a few other Nvidia SATA updates popped up in WU. After update installation and a reboot I get a blue screen and all F8 booting...

In attempting to burn a disc to back up files, I am told task scheduler is not running. Searching through help, I am given a comm promt Taskschd.msc. No Action. I also added a . at the end. No action. So, how do I turn on same that I might burn a backup DVD? Bouncing around I get messg after messg telling me the service is not running, but no way to start it. Thanks, and peace.

Hello I have installed Windows Live Mail. When I type a word in the Quick Search it starts searching also in the Windows Live Mail folder.. As a resulto of this I see bits of my mails in the search pannel. Is there a way to modify the Quick Search so I could select which folders it should search? Thank you.

At first I thought this was an IE7 problem but after installing Firefox the problem exists there as well. Problem: Most of the links on web pages will NOT connect from this machine. For instance, using any Search Engine (Live search, Google, Ask.com etc) I can NOT connect to any of the sponsored links. When I copy and paste the named web address for that link then I connect without a...

Since I made the last Complete PC Backup, I've had to reformat the external drive on which it was saved. Now, when I open Backup Status and Configuration and select Complete PC Backup, that backup is still listed even though it's not the Last backup was successful Last successful backup 4/28/2007 Last backup location Data Backup (x) I would like to be able to clear that entry.