Why are shortcuts being automatically added to my desktop when I open and close programs from my desktop? It's driving me crazy! Don T

Anyone have a solution, besides reformatting my external backup drive to make space again? My external USB backup drive is 500gb and now have 70gb free on it. I acknowledge there is not enough free space to backup the 184mb in use so far on my 500gb C drive. But the Complete PC backup is supposed to delete the oldest backup image(s) to make room for the new backup if needed right? At least that's...

Why are shortcuts automatically being placed on my desktop when I open and close a program from the desktop? It's driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!! Don T.

I recently installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0.0.357 on my Windows Vista Ultimate. When it scanned for the first time, it found a trojan.win32.monder.gen attached to the efcBtsSi.dll. After this I received about 50 alerts alarming that Windows Explorer is trying to access this harmed .dll file. The antivirus software asked me if i wanted to delete the efcBtsSi.dll and I agreed. After this...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/logoprogram/sweepstakes/thankyou.mspx On this page, there is a download that offers to keep the user up-to-date with Vista-compatible products, drivers, etc. After I downloaded it, I saw that the it added a (I think it's called a "Sidebar") to my desktop, with such gadgets as clock, local weather info, etc. But I am not really interested in having a...

Hi everyone I have a strange problem with the explorer. Whenever I click Computer or press Win-E, CPU utilization on two cores of my Q6600 shoots up to 50-60% leading to the fans spinning up and the machine not going into standby. Task Manager shows 25-30% utilization on explorer.exe, but there's no audible disk activity. The CPU utilization doesn't go back down until I browse into...

Hi All System restore is not creating automatic restore points. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1

Hi all, first post here, hope you don't mind about my low skills. My machine: Core2 Duo E6600, RAM 2GB, HDD 320GB, Vista HP 32+SP1. To install SP1 I did a fresh install on my machine and all went good, but the WEI windows experience index seems not to think so: since when I installed the OS again, the WEI detects a change in hardware which actually is not and asks me to update the scores, but...

Vista Home Premium 32 bit, What can I do to make this thing run faster. I have 4 gig of RAM, high end video card, AMD Athlon 64 processor 3500+ 2.2 GHz and this thing side by side with my XP machine 1 gig of RAM AMD processor 1.8 and my XP machine wipes the floor in every application. High speed internet connection and no shortage of service. I maintain a network for a living and all the...

i messed something up last night. i accidentally changed something to make my program files open in windows media player. when i double click on a program from my desktop, windows media player comes up and gives me the "windows cannot play this file" message. how do i fix this? if i try to open anything, such as Firefox or paint, it tries to open in WMP. :confused: any help is greatly...

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My vista will work fine for days then for some unknown reason will start to work extremely slowly (30 seconds to load?). This combines with a blurring of the screen or window until it eventually loads. Any ideas?

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. When I ask the comuter to shut down, the shut down screen with the spinning circle stays on maybe 20 minutes, then automatically restarts. My message seems lengthy, but I have tried to include as much info as I can right from the beginning. I would greatly appreciate any assistance to resolve this issue. Once the computer restarts, then after logging...

Why, all of the sudden, anything I choose for a desktop background image is enlarged and out of focus? Not just an image I've downloaded, but the "stock" images also. I've tried the pixel gig and no luck.

For years I have used a financial services website to monitor my investment portfolio (www.moneyextra.com ) For years with Windows XP/IE6 and later with XP/IE7 everything worked (and still works) perfectly. I now have another machine running Vista Home Premium SP1 with IE7 which will not work reliably with this website. When I view my portfolio, some of the web pages are often incomplete - but...

i updated it and everything, and it doesnt work whenever i add music, the program stops responding, and this is the first time that ever happened. and when i press the play button on slidshows i've already made, it doesnt even start playing at all. and the new version of movie maker doesnt read any of my old files. y is this all happening?

I accidentally deleted the System Restore point creation task from the scheduler, and I don't know what the fill-ins should be for this screen of the add/create task function: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/mayfayre/task.jpg] If someone could check their task screens and let me know what is supposed to be filled in so that I can recreate the 12am restore point creation, I'd greatly...

I get to the --- --- -- \MSMAPI\1033 but do not see a way to access "Inbox repair tool" Please, real slow, how do I access and use the Inbox repair tool? -- Charles H. Hayden

Hi there, I'm getting an error message everytime i start up, which i have no idea how to resolve, so any help would be much appreciated...... The error is: Error loading C:\PROGRA-1\MYWEBS-1\bar\1.bin\M3PLUGIN.DLL The specified module could not be found.

I am using Vista Home Premium. When I sign into a site the OS does not ask me it I want it to save my password. How can I activate that feature ? Drew