I keep getting a window popping up on my Vista laptop telling me that "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it." If I click on the window for more information I get another window stating that "The location of the device is shown in bold type". There is then a tree headed 'USB Root Hub (6 ports) and the 'problem' port is number...

I have Vista Home Premium which inadvertently switches itself off and I have to go through about 7 or 8 manual boots under 'choose repair option' which repairs a little, switches off, I reboot, it repairs a little further, switches off and so on until I get to 'will start up at a point. Any ideas as to why this maybe ? The PC has Norton 360 on it... TIA

While running Malware I found the following in my computer! Not sure what it is but is called Rootkit.Agent and it had a green asterisk in front of the listing. I have run Malware several times and it says it is quarantined and deleted successfully. Also ran PC tools Spyware doctor with negative results meaning it does not show up. Yet when Irerun Malware the Rootkit.agent continues to...

I have a friend who is legally blind and I try to help him often with windows XP. He received yesterday in Windows Live Mail with windows xp a document from his previous company with an attachment "All_articles_finalreview.doc". He made many changes to it which took him over 4 hours. Then when he was finished he was asked to Save it and he said yes. I was at his house to-day trying to find this...

Certificate Error: Cert Chain not trusted. Do you want to trust this certificate in future sessions? Then, there's a page or so of data which is indecipherable to me. I've seen this a few times and it always comes up under all my other open windows. Does anyone know what it is and what I should do about it?

Frequently, my Taskbar ceases to hide. I think it might have something to do with open apps needing attention but I can't prove this and I'm not even sure it's true. I am using Windows 7 now - BUT I have had this same problem with Vista, XP Pro and OS's before that. It's only now that I'm searching for a fix (guess I was very lazy - sorry!!!). Can anyone help me? The only thing I've been...

I've often heard that the OS should be on a drive (logical drive) by itself so that, when it gets a problem, you can just re-install a new copy of the OS on that drive. However, isn't the OS modified when you install programs? Where would you install them? Can someone explain the procedure for this and how it works? It has always confused me and, if if works as I understand, I'd like to try...

When I first had my Vista Home Premium laptop, I was able to access Performance Information Tools via the Control Panel and the page would show the "Rate and improve your computers performance" at the top with the performance details and score below together with the "Update my score" button at the bottom. Suddenly, all the performance details and score, together with the "Update my score"...

I have an IDE to USB dongle that works fine with all my spare disks save one. When I try to get it to install I get the "USB device installed correctly" tone but nothing shows up in the Computer panel. I then go to Computer Management and check on the disk. It is showing with a tiny red mark of some kind (very hard for my eyes to see) and the word "unknown" under Disk1. In addition, 'not...

Can somebody help me? I have Windows Vista Ultimate and my Control Panel, Personalize and System Properties does not open, it cant' print too!! I tried a lot of things but none of them could make anything stable. Please, if someone know about this problem, answer.... Thanks in advance.

Has anyone found an answer to this problem yet?

Has anyone found an answer to this problem yet?

I have an IDE to USB dongle that works fine with all my spare disks save one. When I try to get it to install I get the "USB device installed correctly" tone but nothing shows up in the Computer panel. I then go to Computer Management and check on the disk. It is showing with a tiny red mark of some kind (very hard for my eyes to see) and the word "unknown" under Disk1. In addition, 'not...

I have a hp laptop using Vista. I am finding that I can no longer access my Reliability and Performance Monitor to generate a report on my computers state of health. When I try to access it, an error message comes up stating - Error: An error occured while attempting to generate the report. The interface is unknown. I have searched the internet for a solution, but not been able to find...

I have a hp laptop using Vista. I am finding that I can no longer access my Reliability and Performance Monitor to generate a report on my computers state of health. When I try to access it, an error message comes up stating - Error: An error occured while attempting to generate the report. The interface is unknown. I have searched the internet for a solution, but not been able to find...

A friend left a garbled message on my telephone answering machine asking me for help but I don't use Vista or iTunes, so I'm hoping some kind soul on here can help. Basically any file he downloads (it may be a photo of his grandson sent as an email attachment in jpg format, or a program such as skype.exe, or a pdf document) cannot be opened. When double-clicked, any downloaded file opens up...

A friend left a garbled message on my telephone answering machine asking me for help but I don't use Vista or iTunes, so I'm hoping some kind soul on here can help. Basically any file he downloads (it may be a photo of his grandson sent as an email attachment in jpg format, or a program such as skype.exe, or a pdf document) cannot be opened. When double-clicked, any downloaded file opens up...

When I set the Defragmenter to defag at a specified date and time it never does because where is lists the "next scheduled run" is has listed "never" and I don't know how to get rid of the "never" See screen shot below. Appreciate your help. http://www.idf50.co.uk/webhost/members/duane/images/defag.jpg] duane --

The font size in certain programs has changed to a real small font. Still readable but just barely. As an example, using AIM instant messenger, I can type an answer and adjust the font size there but when I hit enter to send it the text size converts to a real small size. It also is doing it in other programs as well. Any answers? Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista...

hi, when i clicked on 'Rate this Computer' this msg is shown (Cannot complete assesment. The assessment or other operation did not complete successfully. This is due to an error being reported from the operating system, driver, or other component.) i dont know why???? note: Drivers for all devices are installed perfectly. waseem