I found a great download from System Requirements Lab that is my upgrade guide now for my eMachines T5234 with Vista Premium. It rates all of your hardware and drivers for how they will perform on Vista, with cool tabs for Minimum, Recommended and Optimal requirements. I learned after a ram upgrade that the weak spot is my graphics card, and which ones to consider. I also learned more...

Hi all. After an OS reinstall, Hibernate and Hybrid Sleep showed up for the first time on my new Vista eMachine pc. I set Power Options to Sleep after 30 minutes, enabled Hybrid Sleep (tho I had no idea what it is, even after reading the definition), and set it to Hibernate after an hour. Later that day I came back to find my computer turned off - it had hibernated successfully, saving my...

Hi Does anyone know if the long awaited SP1 will address the backup problems on Vista business? I have not been able to either backup files or PC as there is error messages to do with shadow copy etc (0x8004231F). I have a new laptop and wondering where to go what to do as I have had no joy from HP as they say it is a conflict. And no answer from MS either. Just been given the run around by all....

Can anyone help? About 3 weeks ago, I tried to change some of the startup programs and was denied access. First off, I got tired of Windows Defender never catching any of the spyware or other stuff so I decided to go with AdAware and disable Windows Defender. Now, I can't enable Windows Defender and when I try to get into my Startup programs I get this error message: Windows Defender:...

This backup program is included with Vista Ultimate only. The backup wizard lists the (C:) drive with OS, (D:) drive (HP's recovery partition) and (F:) drive I created using Vista's Disk Management feature. Both the (C:) and (D:) drives have a check mark which is dimmed. The (F:) drive has an empty box I can check if desired. Why is the (D:) drive checked and dimmed? It seems I should be...

Hello, I got a Vista Home Premium with the Dutch langues pack, and when i try to use the problemsolver it says: ------------------------------------------------------ The solution is not available in youre langues. But it is available in: English ------------------------------------------------------ Then I press on English and the computer ...

1 month from purchase my C drive was full all 68GB – no music, no videos. I use disk clean-up and a miserly 3mb are cleared. I search the drive for every file 1kb giving the total of all files hidden and not as 16GB. I try the computer tools/storage to ascertain why it’s full, disk rescan. I try number of things but nothing. The next day I reboot the laptop and as if by magic I have...

I have a new computer with Vista Home Premium 32 installed. I have a problem sometimes when a dialog box opens(e.g. User Account Control), when I click Continue/Cancel or try to close the box there is no response, sometimes for upto 1 minute, although I can 'grab' the box and move it. Eventually it will respond but until that point other operations appear frozen (clock not advancing) I have...

For some reason I can no longer open Windows Live Messenger. I have tried to re-install it, which it says was done succesfully, as well as uninstall it. In the Add/Remove programs I try to uninstall it and get the a pop up "The installer encountered an unexpected erro installing package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2330" I click OK and it goes away...

I have two accounts on my PC. In the past, I'd had the frequent experience that if I'm logged on to both accounts and try to shut down without logging off both first, it gets hung. I've found this also if I'm logged onto to one account only as well, but not as frequently as when both are logged on. The work around has been to log off first, then shut down. Today, however, I was logged on...

I was shutting my PC down last Thursday and saw that there were updates to install for Vista Home Premium, 32 Bit edition. So I opted to have it install and shutdown when finished and I went to bed. When I got up on Friday it was still on the "Shutting Down" screen. Gave the computer another 2 hours to process, still nothing. So I manually shut it down with the power button. Tried to reboot...

how can i derive the benefit from Vista updates that have negative unintended consequences? The latest Vista update was causing my KEYBOARD to abruptly lose power; after needing to reboot several times, i simply reverted to a past restore point. My Vista has been configured for auto updates for nearly 1 year and i have always had an excellent experience from them. MS Bashers can rampage...

Computer information: Gateway GM5461 E Intel Viiv Technology, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6300, 1.86 GHz, 2GB RAM, 400GB Harddrive 16X DVD +/-RW Drive Windows Vista Home Premium Memory Speed: PC2-4200 (533 MHz), Type: DDR2-SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 7500GS 256 Installed Video Memory

Ok so here is the situation I am dealing with right now. I recently built a new pc and got myself a copy of Vista Home Premuim installed on it. After installing Vista everything for the most part seemed fine without any problems or conflicts. After that got all Windows Updates and also latest drivers for my hardware. Now for the problem, even with the specs of my system (listed below) my...

Firstly i will like to say that i know 7150m is a very low-end gaming card and it cant play latest games higher than 640*480@low-mid settings. But then again it should be compared with other igps like 6150m x3100 etc because thats where it is competing. Now i recently got this laptop: Compaq Presario V3611Au and its specs are (after updating few things) 1.8ghz amdx2 processor 2gb...

I am having a problem with Windows Media Player on my computer. I'm running Vista Home Premium and this is the error message that is displayed each time I try to burn or rip CDs in Windows Media Player: Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: wmplayer.exe Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344 Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e Fault Module Name: wmp.dll

My new HP PC VISTA is rebooting every few hours. Please Help!!! Below is the error message. The previous system shutdown at 7:06:53 AM on 2/14/2008 was unexpected. Fault bucket 0x9F_IMAGE_disk.sys, type 0 Event Name: BlueScreen

This is a list of Windows Vista User Interface (UI) Bugs we need resolved before upgrading from Windows XP. I have also added a list of Flaws I think are important (before I use windows Vista personally). These were found within the space of 3 hours when I first used Windows Vista, and had to customise it. 1. CRITICAL BUG: When untick; Start Menu Properties – Keep the taskbar on top of...

Vista boots normally but after welcome screen and password check the screen is empty as the desktop is not loading at all but the windows screen saver is loading. By pressing ctrl+alt+ del, a screen appears containing the task manager etc.I don't know how to resolve the problem.

Hi there, I just reinstalled my windows because I upgraded my computer. Now, I have a Phenom 9500 quad-core processor with 4 GB of memory and a Radeon HD3870 X2 with 1 GB GDDR3 memory. I updated BIOS, Windows Vista and Graphic display drivers but I can't get Aero Glass because Windows is rating my graphics as 1.0, anyone having the same problem? I am using Windows Vista Business x64 edition...