I can get Task Scheduler to display message. However, if I am actually USING the pc then the message gets shunted to the back of the screen, and is "displayed" UNDERNEATH the open windows. In other words the reminder is hidden and doesn't remind anything. It is pretty damned useless like this (as much use as a chocolate teapot) and I can't find the option to display the message ON TOP of the...

I've run into real problems with my laptop, running Windows XP Home Edition. It become almost completely unresponsive after booting up, and appears to be contimually scanning the hard disk. The laptop reports Minimum Virtual Memory set too low, although I've increased it to 2Gb, and the Error log on the machine states that "Dependant Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC is missing". Would a...

Hi: Exactly how accurate is PCPitstop's Overdrive scan? The free scan performs a number of security, maintenance, and other scans. Their signifiers come in checkered, yellow and red flags. I had a yellow flag on my memory speed. The test showed my memory action to be unusually slow compared to other comparable mobile computers. I will paste the exact results below: Memory...

A cry for help! Three weeks ago I bought a Gateway GT5676, quad core, 64 bit super duper machine. It has a DVD R/W 16X Flashlabel player. Today, I tried (for the first time) to play a DVD movie. Audio works, but I get nothing but little blue, green, red, yellow, etc boxes for the video - very psychodelic. Tried a number of movies that play in my other systems and got the same result. Changing...

Didn't have that problem with my old MB EVGA wiith nvidia chipset 780i Now I have an Asus Maximus Formula with X38 chipset and everytime I start to burn a DVD vista wil become to a halt, i can do anything during 1 minute and then it will come back to normal.... Whats it the problem ?? I was happy when I first start using Vista from XP that this annoyance was

Please can anyone help, I am running vista Home Premium 64bit and I cant open control panel, cant run windows update or update defender. Running PcCillin 2008 Pro tried Registry Mechanic & registry repair pro also run Ad-Aware. Still cant get any of them to run. This is causing some concern as I use the Pc for my business. Please someone HEEELP!

I am running Vista SP1. Yesterday I uninstalled the Netgear SC101 Management Software and was prompted to "restart the computer". Vista starts but will not fully boot, it continually re-starts shortly after loading the "Microsoft" slider. When I start in Safe Mode, Vista shows the last driver loading as "crcdisk" before it then re-starts?

A failed application installation (PCPitstop Optimize2 - but they say they've never heard of my problem) sent my Home Premium PC into chaos. Then a spiral of attempted repairs led to serious startup failures, with Startup Repair launching each time. Eventually I seemed to find a Restore Point which worked well enough to reinstall and update my Bullguard security suite and online data...

I recently shut down my gateway laptop so that the updates would install. Upon restarting the computer it gets to the configuring updates part of the boot up, briefly shows login in then automatically re-boots. It is stuck in this re-boot loop. Will not let me do a system restore saying the computer doesn't have any restore points. Only option left is factory restore. Any other options...

Hello. I have Windows Vista on a laptop and Windows XP on my desk. Both systems have been used for a Word document I've been working on. This Word document has a contents table and one other freestanding table. One of them has become corrupt -- I do not know which one. I see a discussion string about this, but the solution proposed there does not work for me. When I open the document, I get...

60 Day old HP Vista 64 Home Premium Desk top. Blue screen Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area acedrv.sys aprox 17 times. Can someone help me with the Minidump files? Jim -- yojoey

I have Vista, I beleive home premium. When the computer goes into sleep mode and it stays there for a while, i go to wake it, it takes a minute to wake. Then the color has changed. Instead of the light blue windows color in the windows internet explorer, or my outlook the color is a gray. The colors are different on certain webpages, then what they where when I looked at them previously....

This post is about: Restore did not finish sucessfully. Error code: The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057) It all started when a visitor (honest!) whom I let use my PC said "oh there was a message about data consistency on screen so a pressed Yes and now the PC won't start". Tried the VIA RAID utility - all checked out fine - two drives marked "Boot" as normal.

I have been successfully backing up from Vista for nearly a year but recently the backup and restore centre has failed so that the "back-up files" options are no longer even available when the backup and restore centre is opened. The automatic backup operation tries to run each day but returns a "class not registered 0x80040154 error". Any ideas for resolution thankfully received.

Can anybody tell me where i can find out the make of my battery as i want to buy another that lasts longer as a spare as mine only lasts about 2 1/2 hours.

My new Vista based computer has a 50Gb C drive and a 270Gb D drive. I want to increase the C drive by 50Gb and reduce the D drive by the same amount. I have tried to use the Vista Drive Management Tool, but it will only allow me to Shrink the D drive and not expand the C drive. Even the 3rd party tool Easeus Partition Manager will not let me resize the C drive.

Over the past several days I have been having problems with the following: 1) The Welcome Center window opens however the icons or center portion of the window doesn't come up. It is like it has been paused in the middle of startup. The only way for me to get rid of this window is through Ctl+Alt+Del. 2) The Clock and image in the upper right hand side of my desktop never comes up. This...

My mouse has stopped functioning inside of my Word Documents. It functions everywhere else...ie I can click from tab to tab I can work with Excel, etc. I can not highlight, point click or bring up the menu function (from right click) This just began a few days ago. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the entire suite, and I still have issues. I have chosen to update and not update (after...

Q1: Since using Windows Defrag tool many of the installed programs fail to show up in the Program and Features list. Only 6 of about 60 progs are listed but the missing progs are still showing in Program Files and Start Menu. All are working o.k. but this will create a future Uninstall problem in some cases. Any ideas ? I have tried a System Restore for 3 different restore points but all 3...

I got this error yesterday whilst running a browser, photoshop and secondlife on a dual core 3.0ghz with 4gb ram.. so what's up? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2550403615_36cbaa232b.jpg] "out of memory. please free some memory. then choose retry." However.... having a cpu and ram monitor in my sidebar we can see... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2550403831_a1b27b002f.jpg] the green...