I have Vista Home premium for 2 years. About a week ago it slowed to a point where it may take 5 minutes to respond. Task manager Performance shows about 50% CPU usaage but Processes says 98% idle. If I start in safe mode Task Manager is the same but I seem to get a little better response. I use a free version of AVG. This problem seems to show up a lot in Google but each one seems to...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "PJcass" wrote in message ... 6/22/2007 12:10 PM...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint; Vista General) "PA Bear " wrote in message ... Entire thread history: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_frm/thread/a94a068af42ef26f While I'm sure we all understand your frustration, KB938126 cannot be installed if SP1 is installed, period. ...

Hi guys, I'll try to make this post short as easy to read. Hardwa * HP Pavilion Entertainment laptop (Don't remember the exact model, as I haven't got the laptop in front of me. I will include the model number + hardware spec when I get home.)

I have a strange problem. I an using Vista Ultimate SP1 on a Gigabyte mobo with a Q6600 CPU but cannot use more than two slots on the memory board. I run nicely if I populate two of the slots with 1GB matched memory but the minute I populate the other two slots with the same brand of matched 1GB memory boards, I get a BSOD. Is this a Vista problem? If I use either of the mobo slots to test...

I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I have issues with the system cold rebooting while surfing any websites. I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 system. I've had several avenues of support from Dell's "experts" from India. None has solved the issue so far. If I run a Video card stress test, then go on a website and surf, the system will cold reboot in less than 10-20 seconds. The CPU does not...

My start menu won't show unless I select Classic view. How can I fix this?

I found this really cool Rubiks cube scrambled and unscrambled icon set and I wanted them to be my new Recyc Bin icon but when I right click into properties on Recyc there is no Change Icon button. Is it hidden? Was it not included? Do I have to go somewhere else on Vista to change the Recyc icons?

There's a tutorial on this site for enabling defragging of the boot files. Here's the link: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/157352-defragment-boot-files-enable-disable.html When I look at my registry for these keys, the entry for OptimizeComplete is No, and the entry for OptimizeError is Error retry. The boot file optimization is enabled. Anyone know if this means it's not defragging the...

I bought a windows vista HP Pavillion. Within one year, my motherboard was burned. After fixing it, it crashed again. I fixed my computer with recovery disk. Not even pass one month, it crahsed again, and I fixed it with recovery cd. I really worring about my comuter. I am a student, and I consistently need to use it. If somebody give me some suggestion or tips so it won't crash again. It...

Hi guys, I have the following problem. Everytime i run chkdsk through the command prompt it summarizes "Winows has checked and found problems on your file system" .I tried the command chkdsk/f several times, and it was performed after a restart, but when i log on to windows and try chkdsk again it says the same thing. Now the weird thing is that if I run chkdsk through Windows menu...

I previously had a problem on my Gateway Laptop Computer - Gateway Core2 Duo Centrino, that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium, which I could not fix. I had to do a System Recovery using the on-screen program and did not back up any of my files, in attempt to clear out everything that I had on the computer. After I completed this process, I set up my desktop and internet, and...

I have Vista Business x64 SP1. I'm having a problem where programs will suddenly be gone from my system. I used to think this only happened when booting up, but I have noticed that the programs can disappear even when Vista's been running for a while. Here are some of the programs that disappear: SQL Server Management Studio, Java, Logitech SetPoint x64, Firefox, SQLNCLI, Lexmark printer...

My windows explorer will not open, it starts but then I get a message saying it is closing. Then it says that the problem was caused by Vista. I then get the following message "To view details about how to fix this problem, click the link under Technical information. This link will take you to a Microsoft Support Knowledge Base (KB) article. Follow the steps in the article to fix your...

Okey, so here's the deal. I have a 16.000kbps ADSL2+ broadband, and a D-Link DIR-655 Wireless Router connected to it. Currently I have a laptop, a stationary computer, and my xbox 360 connected to it. All wireless. Everything is fine when I have only one connected at a time, but when I connect my stationary and my xbox 360 at the same time, it seems

Hi My McAffee keeps popping up and saying that a file called xxwwx.dll is a trojan and is causing problems. I can't delete it from McAffee and if I try to delete it from system32 it says I don't have permission to do that. Now when I try to open anything using explorer.exe like My Computer or My Music that window immediately freezes and I have to restart or close Windows Explorer. Does...

When I open the Reliability Monitor I get the following message: Either Reliability Monitor has been running for less than 24 hours, or Reliability Monitor detected data corruption and has reset, any previously displayed data may no longer be available. (even after it has been running for days) I looked in the Task Scheduler and I could see that the RACAgent fails with the following error:...

After I removed some folders from my desktop and replaced them with shortcuts I had to reboot and the font and font sizes changed in some places. For example, the time is displayed in what must be 2pt, it's so tiny. Also in tabs and listed items, on the address bar, in email address and subject, etc. I was able to adjust some with Color and Appearance and font controls within certain...

Hi I am running Microsoft Vista Home Premium, and for some reason the primary partition is only 20gb, (although the full hard drive is 250gb). I only have about 500mb left of space on this drive, I have tried to extend it without success. It is easy to extend or shrink the other drives in vista, but not extend the primary partition. Anyone got any ideas?

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