I have Vista Home Premium 32-bit OS. I possibly want to upgrade to Windows 7 equivalent. Here's my dilemma: I installed Service Pack 1 via Windows website download manager, and after a fashion, it appeared to have installed and it rebooted my system. It clearly shows as having been installed according to Windows Update History. HOWEVER, according to Microsoft, when I click START right...

Inspiron 1420 Laptop Windows Vista Home Premium Internet Explorer 8 Anti-Virus Webroot PC Utility Inc. Error Fix Startup/Shutdown- 5 to 7 minutes When booted, three different blank (green screens) pop up. The third, and last green screen closes after about 3 minutes Once bootup is complete, icons may not work

Inspiron 1420 Laptop Windows Vista Home Premium Internet Explorer 8 Anti-Virus Webroot PC Utility Inc. Error Fix Startup/Shutdown- 5 to 7 minutes When booted, three different blank (green screens) pop up. The third, and last green screen closes after about 3 minutes Once bootup is complete, icons may not work

After booting up the computer and logging on, everything works for ~5 minutes before the bottom bar freezes up. Turning on the task manager does nothing to help as that too freezes up right away. Minimizing a tab means losing it for good and the recovery disks do not seem to be working at all. I have tried to use a system restore, but that did nothing to fix the problem. I have used two different...

My Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) keeps freezing with a title bar error message 'Not Responding'. I t may or may not resolve itself after about 10 minutes - more often not! I am usually given the option to restart it but then the desktop is refreshed and I lose about half my app tray icons! I had read the (similar) threads here but they date back to 2007 and none offer a...

Anyone ever received this? I'm running Windows Vista Business, the full version, on a Compaq Presario V3000. My computer froze this morning, and when I tried to CTRL-ALT-DEL and stop the frozen programs, I started getting this error: "Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details." I tried to restart, but the only way I could was to hold...

I've posted vast detail about this problem at the link below. I wonder if anyone here has an answer. http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/889274-system-restore-will-not-restore.html

I have Vista Home Premium 32-bit OS. I possibly want to upgrade to Windows 7 equivalent. Here's my dilemma: I installed Service Pack 1 via Windows website download manager, and after a fashion, it appeared to have installed and it rebooted my system. It clearly shows as having been installed according to Windows Update History. HOWEVER, according to Microsoft, when I click START right...

Hi, I have something writing to the hard drive once every minute or so. I'm assuming this is preventing my laptop hard disk from sleeping when off power. It writes to 2 files, flipping between them: lastalive0.dat lastalive1.dat The process is svchost.exe. The files are in:

I'm running Vista Home Premium SP2 with 2 GB of RAM, all WU's, Firefox, MBAM, SuperAntiSpywareProfessional, CCleaner, Spybot, CA Security Suite, and WLM. The machine's running just great but after the last restart (to complete the uninstall of Ad-Aware) my little Lexmark All-In-One printer icon is missing from the notification area. It's usually placed right next to my network icon. I've tried...

Alright when i start up my laptop it goes into the HP invent screen and shows the F keys at the bottom. Than after a little bit it goes onto the screen that has the blinking underscore (the blinking _ sign" than it just stays there... It makes these loud beeping noises than stops after a little bit. I don't know what to do and I REALLY don't want to take it to a professional for reasons i don't...

I'm running Vista Home Premium SP2 with 2 GB of RAM, all WU's, Firefox, MBAM, SuperAntiSpywareProfessional, CCleaner, Spybot, CA Security Suite, and WLM. The machine's running just great but after the last restart (to complete the uninstall of Ad-Aware) my little Lexmark All-In-One printer icon is missing from the notification area. It's usually placed right next to my network icon. I've tried...

I'm getting what looks like inefficient use of the memory on two of my computers. On one, with 8 GB, Windows Task Manager - Performance currently reports: Physical Memory Usage History constant at 4.90 GB Physical Memory (MB)

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium operating system with my HP laptop. Suddenly from last few weeks the system has started throwing following error messange in a separate window continuously. "XPTask.dll has stopped working" Can you please suggest me the solution? Thanks, CJ

This relates to my experience with Vista Home Premium so I cannot comment on other versions. My experience has been that this ##### utility for reporting problems once it finds a fault continues to seek out solutions to it when there are none. It clicks in the werfault.exe application which can one one instance take 50% of CPU and on occasions runs twice and takes all the CPU time. Fingers...

This relates to my experience with Vista Home Premium so I cannot comment on other versions. My experience has been that this ##### utility for reporting problems once it finds a fault continues to seek out solutions to it when there are none. It clicks in the werfault.exe application which can one one instance take 50% of CPU and on occasions runs twice and takes all the CPU time. Fingers...

hi everybody! i bought a hp pavillion dv6 laptop and i'm using it about 4 months. it has dual core and 500 gb harddisk, 2gb ram. But it's performance is too low. espacially from the beginnigd. I'm using windows vista sp2. Thanks for your advices.

My laptop has gotten so slow and I dont know whats causing it and would like to know how to fix it without having to send it away to get fixed (im too skint) I have LOADS of space left, barely anything installed, and ive no idea on what is causing this problem. Ive tried using CCleaner to search for viruses and to clean the laptop up but it said there were none found. Thanks to all x

hi everybody! i bought a hp pavillion dv6 laptop and i'm using it about 4 months. it has dual core and 500 gb harddisk, 2gb ram. But it's performance is too low. espacially from the beginnigd. I'm using windows vista sp2. Thanks for your advices.

This is a question I am confident has been asked and answered but I have been unable to find the answer - maybe because I don't know the right search terms. Vista Home Premium Sometimes when I try to shut down the PC - START-SHUTDOWN and either shutdown or restart - the shutdown can take, literally, 60-75 minutes and sometimes longer. Since I usually don't have that long to wait, removing...