When I open outlook, vista stops running after a few minutes Whenever I work in Oulook safe mode there seems to be no problem. This started after I downloaded SP 1 Someone experience?

Is there any way to turn off indexing and defragmentation when I unplug my laptop to conserve battery life? I would like the disk to shut off while I am using a word processor to take notes and such.

Hello, I recently purchased a HP a6200n which works relatively well. The only complaint is that frequently (at least once daily) the system will lock up. When this occurs the only way out is to hold the power button down and reboot. When the system locks, the screen will actually freeze the contents and make it appear somewhat 'snowy'. This happened on a factory system OUT OF THE BOX. ...

http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic4921-12-1.aspx Great tweak...speeds up UAC nicely. Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums

Hi, I can't seem to install any drives for items. I have windows VISTA home premium, and a Dell inspiron 1501. I cant get my system to intall drivers. I get an error message that "Windows found the necessary software but was unable to install" when I try to plug in an item that requires plug and play (For instance, my wacom tablet, and my ipod). They both work on my other dell inspiron...

Hi, since yesterday I get an Error ("the transfer syntax is not supported by the RPC server") while Backing up my System. I'm not sure, but I think this error appeared after the installation of Nero8, though I uninstalled Nero the Error didn't clear out .... Does anybody know how to solve this problem? --

OK I had an online game, sothink flv player, and windows media player all open, which is normal for me. During this the computer froze and i had to do a hard reset. When it came back on, the normal startup screens came up, but then before windows opened a blue error message screen came up and restarted the computer. This happens every time. Startup repair and system restore have no effect. The...

Hi, I have 32 bit Vista business. After reading a article in microsoft, I went to turn off some of the features which were not necessary for me and found that window feature dialogue box is empty. Any suggestions? Thanks Yogi

I had a random crash today while installing the program Zone Alarm. Once I rebooted everything seemed fine except the Sidebar. All the gadgets appear blank and do not function and I can't seem to find any way to fix the problem. I tried downloading a new custom gadget but it did not work either. I tried looking at the help function and here but didn't see anything that would would.

Has anyone had a problem with their wifi after logging back in from being away for a while? It won't connect or even detect any networks. If I restart the laptop it will connect properly. Is there anyway for it to work without restarting? M

I was using Auslogics Disk Defrag, and I was told about "junk files" in the disks that I should scan and remove. When I click the link , it was trying to sell me the software. I'm not ready to buy yet. Any way to remove the junk files without spending money ? It does not identify the junk files and the locations, so I don't know how to look them up. Thank you. -- davidjchuang

My computer running Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1 just developed this problem. My computer began to grow really slow and started to crawl while I was just on the internet browsing a few pages. I tried to ignore it, but finally got tired and was going to restart, suddenly I noticed some rectangular boxes (looked like inactive classic windows titlebars, blank, to me) started to come up...

turn on pc get message/the ordinal 1340 could not be located in the dynamic link library lmUtilsU.dll. How do I fix this or get help to fix this

how to disable system restore in windows vista 32? this system restore is useless. when i do system restore, the computer got even worst and it becomes a painful and frustrating experience -\ it is totally useless

After turning machine on and logging on, the task bar, side bar, and desktop icons appear as usual. But there is no response to left-click or right-click anywhere that I can find. The only thing which produces any effect is holding the power button down, which eventually powers the machine down. I have a sidebar gadget which shows CPU usage. As normal, following logon it fluctuates for a...

I had been reading Shawn's tutorial regarding improving computer performance. I have downloaded a few for later use. I have one question to ask. About suggestion #12 : remove unused windows features. When I looked at the list to check/uncheck, I didn't have a clue which is which. Can Shawn or anyone give me a list of what I need and don't need? My OS is vista home premium 32 bit, 2GB Ram, 120 GB...

I was doing a sfc scan and this was what the screen said : " Verification 45% complete. Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation " ( end of quote ). Someone please explain what are the possible reasons of only 45% completion, and what I should do to correct that.Thank you. -- davidjchuang

Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount...

I've read other subjects on this and can't find my answer. when i turn on the lap top it starts out like it is going to start up, then goes to "bootmgr is missing", of course when i press ctrl+alt+del, it doesn't restart. Vista came on this computer, i didn't install it myself to update the computer. as far as i know a program was installed, i restarted the computer and all was fine,...

I am a lot annoyed with Windows Vista Backup and Restore center. It does not allow much of customization what will be backed-up. For example I would be glad if it would not backup my Program Files folder. Why the hell does it need to backup Crysis level files? They have .pak extension, and they only take 4GB and I see it backed these files 5 times already (so it is about 16GB of wasted backup -...