I am running Vista Home Premium 32 bit on a very good spec laptop that is less than a year old. Originally it would shut down in about 30 seconds but now is taking anything up to 90 seconds. Are there some obvious things I can check out or do to try and reduce the time it takes to shut down. My computer "housekeeping" is excellent so it regularly gets a scan disc / defrag / anti virus etc /...

Windows Update downloaded Vista sp1 and appeared to be installing it successfully. However at the end of the process the screen froze on a line showing this series of numbers: !! OXC190036 !! 4089/66075 (RESCINST.DLL) I had to cut the power to turn the computer off and have been unable to boot up. Every attempt to boot fails and ends with the same line. Anyone have the same experience...

Have been recently plagued by system restore not working too. However I found that if I start computer in Safe Mode (F8) it will restore just fine. Is this typical of Vista HP? I believe SR worked fine when I first got new Gateway NB, but no longer does. Don't know why. If you know of a fix, please let me know. ----------------------- Also, I've recently experienced various problems...

is there a place where i can see the manual registry for vista win 32 ultimate version

I am having repeated problems with Windows Explorer. Whenever I attempt simple operations like deleting or canceling, the resulting dialogue boxes refuse to close and often this leads to the system jamming. Whenever I attempt to use the Search facility the system jams. More and more simple tasks result in open dialogue boxes refusing to disappear or system jamming which forces me to open...

Have not been able to get an answer in M.public.outlook Newsgroup so hopefully here? Maybe a topic for the excellent Winhelponline Blog? Approx late Dec 2007 all of a sudden any E-Mail in Outlook 2007 that has http://www.xxxx.php appears as a Red x and when you hover over it you only get CLICK TO FOLLOW LINK. The sender is in the Safe Sender List and all possible settings have been...

My system seems to be acquiring more and more small problems. When I delete or cancel items the dialogue box will not close or finish. When I try to re-name a file the system sticks. The search facility will not only refuse to work but sticks and jams the system. These and other small inconveniences mean that I am forever using the Task Manager to get rid of Dialogue Boxes and un-jam...

Hi, I am traying to go back to an earlier points but the problem i am not able to see the feature of (show restore points older than 5 days) i dont know why? can some one help?

Has anyone had any experiences, good or bad, with any of the following imaging software? I would appreciate any information you can give me. To the best of my knowledge they are all compatible with Vista. I've researched all of them but have no experience with any of them. I am currently using Acronis True Image 11. Active Disk Image 3.1 Retrospect Express HD Image for Windows Paragon...

I would like to *manually* save different versions of Complete PC Backup, but Vista won't give me that option and will only save incremental backups. As someone noticed here on the forums, "using the *scheduled* backup is the only way to get the checkbox to create full backups, each and every time you want one". However, scheduled backups is not what I want to do, as I'm losing control of the...

I'm still struggling to get my reliabilty monitor going. RACAgent fails with the following error: The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057). I disabled all the performance counters in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services and it still fails. I noticed something new, When my system has booted up and done it's disk grinding, RACAgent runs fine when I run it from the Task...

I'm having an ongoing problem since: 1) SP1 upgrade 2) Graphics Driver Upgrade SP1 installation via Windows Update appeared to install flawlessly a couple of weeks ago and didn't notice any problems afterward. However, a couple of days later I installed the latest Video graphics driver that was downloaded direct from Intel's download site. I noticed problems almost immediately after and...

my kids' computer won't turn off, at all, and only gets to the screen where it says it's shutting down every once in a while. if I want the computer to actually turn off I have to flip the switch on the power strip to turn it off which I know is bad for the computer. Is this a problem that anybody else has had and is there a software fix for it or is this a problem for the...

Hi our computer has Windows Vista on it, and its pretty new. Whenever it is shut down, restarted, or logged off, every single file on the computer is gone when logged back in, everything on our computer is gone. Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks

I get an annoying hum whenever I record my voice whether through my webcam or through an added microphone. It may be 60 cycle interference, but I have tried turning off lights, disconnecting printers etc. without success. Any suggestions?

I am using Vista 32 bit with SP1 and I keep getting random lock ups sometimes just minutes after I boot up. I noticed in my event viewer I have these repeated errors: How can I fix them? - The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: ASPI32 - Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for server side authentication. The data field contains the error...

I was playing a game in my living room and had my laptop disconnected and the battery light came on so I took it back into my room and plugged it back in so that it could charge. Ever since then, the red battery light on the front of my laptop will not go off. Plus, the battery icon on my screen says that the computer is plugged in but not charging. How do I make it so that it will charge...

Hello, I just got a new Dell XPS laptop and after Vista Home Premium did an auto-update, it began to go into sleep mode every 3 or so minutes, even after updating the energy settings to "never". Going in and out of sleep mode fried my motherboard. Anyone else having this issue with Vista Home Premium?

I have Windows Vista Professional and if I select all the options shown on the disk cleanup application it disables my computer. Unfortunately I didn't know what caused it the first 2 times it happened, but have isolated the problem to disk cleanup. There are 4 boxes listed in disk clean up that are the issue. They a - Per user archived Windows Error Reporting files - Per user...

I have been using Vista basic on a dell vostro 1500 computer i bought 7 months ago. Recently Problem Reports and Solutions stops responding for no apparent reason. The box comes up saying that it has stopped responding and the only option it gives is to end the program. This usually occurs upon start-up and throughout use. At times it will happen every 10 minutes or so and other times it...