Any idea, how to stop Vista loading and installing --- Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 -tietoturvapäivitys (KB936181) --- over and over again ?? Until today I've had 8 succesfull installations. It is classified as "important", but isn't this enough allready??? risto

Hi, I have a portable USB hard drive. I have it installed and configured, but I can not find how I actually back up my files. The only help I can find on the Windows help site is for Vista. Can anyone help? Thanks so much, Blair

Hello I'm running Vista 64 with 8 G Ram, 2 Tb sata hard drives. Using Windows complete backup, I am backing up to an external drive with options for either E-sata or usb connections . The external drive is connected as an "E-sata" drive when the backup freezes on disk one 3rd partition which happens to be an sql database (not running). If I turn off the external drive, the system...

My laptop is newish. Maybe 2 months now. The model is Advent and I'm running Vista Home Premium. The checker wants to check the Vista drive for consistency. It want's to scan 3 stages. I only gets to the first stage and displayes someting along the lines of:

Hello everyone, There are 2 screenshot links. Please tell me why there is a difference. Screenshot # 1 : -- 'ImageGrotto: Free Image and Screenshot Hosting' (http://imagegrotto.com/view-taskbar__113585.JPG) Screenshot #2

I am really tired of Vista deciding what it wants to do with no input from me. This time all the font sizes in the display windows decided to grow larger. It was fine when I turned off the PC, but when I turned it on the next day all the font sizes had grown by at least 100%. I tried to change the size of the font, but that did not work. In reality I would like to get rid of Vista and go...

These events have occured since I installed the following updates: KB947562 KB915597 (three definitions) I select the shut down icon from the start menu. Vista goes through the normal shut down sequence which includes ceasing the signal to the monitor and an external USB hard drive. However, the power lamp on the computer does not go out. Within a few minutes ( I have not timed this) the...

My computer is having a few problems lately.. When I try to shut down the computer, a screen pops up saying 'initializing crash dump' and suggests a memory check for a corrupt file somewhere. The only way to get the computer to shut down is to Hold Down the Power Button until it shuts down... How would I find a corrupt file? How do I do a memory check?

I am new to this forum, but need some advice on the disk defragmenter. I tried to defragment the disk last night and left it on all night. In the morning, the disk defragmenter 'still' says... this may take a few minutes to a few hours. The disk defragmenter is ususally on a schedule which is every wednesday, but I am beginning to think it has never been defragmented. How do I defragement the...

I AM NEW HERE AND HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FIND HOW TO ACTIVATE MY FLASH DRIVE MEMORY TO BE USED AS REGULAR RAM (- I READ I COULD SOME PLACE AND PURCHASED A 8 GIG SD FLASH USB- ) *OR AS A READYBOOST AND WOULD LIKE TO TRY IT OUT INSTEAD OF BUYING AND INSTALLING RAM (* -CURRENTLY AT 1 GIG RAM- ) IN TO MY LAP TOP. ANY IDEAS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED AS WELL AS ANY IDEA'S ON HOW USING MY FLASH DRIVE TO...

How do I delete entries of disabled programs from the msconfig startup list? -- viviand

To fix this problem all you have to do is: Shut your pc down. Unplug everything. Hold down the power button for 30 Sec. Take off side panel (open your pc) Remove your battery. Plug back in your power cord. boot pc for 1 minute. Remove power cord. Put back in battery. Put pc back together. Then choose the other new line command. Disable your A or floopy drive. Problem solved.

Vista HP BSOD'd this morning... When I went to check the reliability history ("System Stability Chart") to see what happened, I found the history ended on 26 Aug 07! I have checked that the RAC agent is enabled (as per "Enable Data Collection for Reliability Monitor" in the Management Console Help) and it has been running all this month... where's the history then?

Used a USB flash for ReadyBoost for a period of time. Saw no improvement in performance. Want to use flash drive for normal data storage but have been unable to remove the ReadyBoost file form the drive. Advice please

I asked this question in vista.general but no one answered me; so I hope someone in the group will help me. When I put my computer into Hibernate sometimes it will stay that way (all night), but, other times, with nothing changed from the night before, it will be Awake in the morning. What should I do to have Hibernate work all night every night? Thanks.

Hi. I've been using Windows Vista Premium for over a year now. So far I've no problems with it yet. However, just recently, I noticed that the icons for the computer and recycle bin were gone. Futhermore, the icon for some of the folders on my computer were either blank or a icon of the computer. Some files (ranging from the .dll to .exe) were changed to the computer icon as well. The icons...

I just bought a new PC and ran the windows experience index rating and received a 3.0 for the graphics part. I don't know how that is possible, here are my specs. EVGA 790i Ultra SLI Motherboard C2D 8400 @ 3.0 Ghz processor 4 x 2GB Supertalent 1333Mhz memory at 8-8-8-18 for 8GB total XFX Geforce 9800 Gx2 1 GB video card Windows Vista 64 bit Ultimate

I have Vista home premium and Windows Explorer has been closing down and restarting a lot. The Start bar will also disappear without warning and I have to restart explorer.exe to get it back. Any idea what's wrong?

Eu got a big problem in my pc.First of all,i give my system´s properties and also i have to add that i recently had installed ubuntu desktop edition in my notebook. HP pavilion dv6500,Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU,T7300 @ 2 GHz 2 GHz,RAM "GB,wondows vista 32bits The problem i got is it´s first of all (vista) work more than normal and sometimes without objective!!!While when i work with ubuntu...

Hi, I have a problem with Performance and Reliability Monitor into Windows Vista. I created a Data Collector Set with an agent (alert type) with Free Disk Space (megabytes) counter that should fire when it will be less than 80GB (so I put 80000). I also set the checkbox to write an entry into event viewer application log and also it should run a task (a batch file that create a simple *.txt...