My OS is home premium 32 bit. I have 3 accounts, one of which is my Admin/standard user account. That's the account I have the problem. If I open the Internet Exporer, msn pops up, while the other 2 accounts will have the Google Gmail on the screens which is what I want. I know where the file is, but I can't remove it. I used Run As Administrator, unsuccessful. I tried to take ownership and for...

Is there any log generated when SP1 fails? I did not get any error codes. After one reboot, during the next phase, the screen just said that the installation had failed and that it was undoing any changes. Event logs show nothing (that I can find or understand anyway). If a log were created, perhaps it would be fairly easy to correct the problem and have a successful install.

My brother inlaws computer will lock up once it gets to the desktop after it runs auto update. The computer runs just fine as long as we have auto update disabled. I am going down this weekend to update drivers and run a manual update. If this problem comes back where would I look to hopefully find the source of the problem. I submitted a Tech support request about a month ago with no...

Being very smug since all previous Vista Ultimate updates have installed flawlessly (except for the Windows Live Toolbar security update that repeatedly refuses to install), I downloaded and attempted to install the stand alone SP1 pack (since it was not offered on Windows update at around 5pm EST). I had read the installation problem Microsoft web page that was provided by a poster in the...

Just d/led SP1 for Vista Ultimate 64 and tried to install it... It failed with error code 80070017 which MS has no info on, I searched the knowledge base and help areas Does anyone here have any ideas or a way to find out?? thanks, Richard

I am running Vista, everything should be running fine and such (Got antivirus, adaware, spybot SD, etc.) and yet my computer is now not opening programs. I click to execute, then nothing. When I open task manager, it shows that it is running, albeit not and with a very low memory usage.

I tried to manually create a restore point, but got the following message: The Shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation. (0x8004230f) What happened and how can I do a restore point?

My XP Professional was working perfectly until I ran Norton Ghost to do a backup. Now it will not boot from the HDD the POST runs up to just before DMA and then it stops showing "no operating system. Inserting a emergency boot floppy and restarting gets it going, but this is not really satisfactory. System restore does not help as with the emergency floppy this does not like things! Please...

This may be impossible, but I thought I'd ask. I have a program, DU Meter, which is a tray icon program that due to its nature (bandwidth measurement) will never have the same tooltip information twice--or almost never, anyway. Unfortunately, Vista (or XP for that matter) relies upon that tooltip information to determine how to act upon any of the "Show," "Hide," "Hide when inactive"...

Hey there. My windows vista has disc cleanup automatically set to run. Around every 30 days, I find my media content licenses have been deleted. I have Windows Media Player 11, which does not allow the backing up of licenses. How do I turn off the automatic Disc Cleanup feature? Or where do I find the file where licenses are kept so that I can back them up?

Vista is constantly doing mini-dumps, very unstable. Once re-started, I click on pop up for a solution to the mini-dump problem encountered. Recently it has begun to tell me the cause was Norton/Symantec anti-virus, which I do NOT have as my virus protection (I have Vista compatible CA). The solution instructs me to update my Norton anti-virus. Norton was not an add-on freebie with my...

When resuming Vista (32 bit Business) from sleep I frequently get an error pop up saying "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) has stopped working". The service is automatically being restarted so scanning afterwards works fine. It's just an annoyance that I would like to get rid of. Any suggestions ?

I have Windows Vista Home Premium (x64). I have a P5B Asus Motherboard and until today i have installed as sound drivers: SoundMax 6.10 but since i bought this OS with my sound i have only a problem: The bass was gone. (I have 5.1 audio system) Ok, today I enter in "Device Manager" and to my sound card I clicked on "Update Driver" with hope that will repair my device problem. Update complete...

Has anybody tried this program with Vista & does it work well? Also, I'm not sure what I should shut down in the back ground. I don't want to mess my computer up. Thanks!

I thought ready boost was going to speed things up, instead it's slowed thing down allot. Then svchost.exe has been slowing boot up times allot even before I started to use ready boost. Problem is that I have a system process that is using svchost.exe and it is slowing down my computer so much during the first 5-10 minutes of starting up that I can barley move my mouse around the screen!...

I've just installed SP1 (via MSDN) and I'm pleased to say it appears to do the trick...or at least so far so go. I've just copied a 200MB file from PC to server and it went like a rocket! In addition, I'm noting a responsiveness in the odd application; for example, I use Windows Mail to access USENET, and under SP1, I'm in and starting browsing much quicker - pre-SP1 there would be a slight...

Installed the SP1 sent to me in the Windows updates a few days ago and machine has been slow to boot and generally slow ever since. It was very much faster before SP1. I have a Vista Ultimate 64 bit machine, 2 gigs ram, more than enough disk space left (320gig drive half full) etc. The only change was putting in SP1. Thinking that this could have been some sort of stuffup between Mcafee AV...

I installed SP1 on my Business Edition Vista last night. What I had pre SP1 was when I go to Control Panel and change the view to Medium Icons, it changes the view to every other folder I open also to Medium Icons. In order to show the view in Details format as I want in some folders, I have to change Control Panel to do that. Visiting Control Panel at all actually meant that any Details...

I only have one user profile and when I try to log in with my password it starts to log me in then I get an error message stating that the logon server is not working? I can only log on through a safe mode. What do I need to do to be able to log back on to my normal desktop?

The update for the Intel Chipset that automatically downloaded (yes I've changed the automatic part to notify now) has caused me to get a "hkcmd.exe - Bad Image" error message upon start up. I'll get this message twice and then won't get it again till I start up the next time. The msg says: C:\WINDOWS\System32\igfxres.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try...