Hi. This weekend my computer started acting funny. explorer.exe is constantly using 49-50% of my CPU. I downloaded Process Explorer, and found that its ntdll.dll!RtIntegerToUnicodeString+0x67 that is using it all. Any Ideas to why?

my new vista laptop keeps making a "toot-toot" sound when i am on the internet. what is this?

Intei Core 2 2GB RAM ATI RADEON 1600 Crative XFI Extreme Gamer or Realtek High Definition Audio I am continually getting a blue screen that says the following: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP: 0x00000001 (0x0000004, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x82771645)

for over two weeks now my vista has been asking me to backup all files, so i followed all instructions set up wizard and let it run its course. within 75% of running, the whole thing just came to a halt and hasnt moved since. i decided after eight hours to cancel, with that i could not release the dvd without having to close reboot all. I am using a dvd-r 4.7gb. Where am i going wrong,...

I have Windows Vista Home Premium. Since 2 weeks, I have blue screen that appear once a day in average with SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION. I'm beginner in debugging blue screens. I used windbg on the same PC and below is the result. I called Dell and they advised me to reinstall all the operating system and Dell programs. I prefer to come here and try to pinpoint the problem. I...

ive had vista for two weeks now and i get prompted to back up. i had a go using wizard but at 75% of the run it has froze and will not allow me to take the dvd out. i am using a dvd-r 4.7gb. I have left it running now for over eight hours without anything moving. Does it take up to a day for completion. Ta. Micky D

RealPlayer sometimes crashes for 1 second at the start of a new song; it did this on my old (XP) PC, too. However, in Vista; Windows Problem Reporting jumps straight in and tells me the program's crashed and forces me to close it, when really, I'm sure RealPlayer would recover after a second or two. Is there any way to disable the Problem Reporting and WerFault.exe? Thanks.

My interactive service detection is telling me a device is not working with vista. I have not installed any new hardware or software.this the message i am given. No comprende. Any help would be great please and thank you.

I'd sure like to get this capability back. In Windows Vista Ultimate x64 if I select "Performance Information and Tools" the page displayed does not have the current index or index items displayed. It tells me when the last rating was and that's about it. No number and no details. I ran Winsat with the formal flag and it stored the xml file in the datastore. When I tried to view it...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "KevinDK" wrote in message ... I tried emailing help and support and they just redirected me back here. is there anything else i could try the ts guy didn't have a clue what i was talking about Perhaps you didn't describe your symptoms very well?

I was working on the Internet through MS Explorer (google.com) when a dialog box popped up saying the Windows had a problem and needed to reboot. I clicked OK and Windows shutdown and tried to reboot. The screen went black, the hard drive light flickers and nothing happens. Let it run for 15 miniutes and still nothing. I rebooted in safe mode and Windows does boot up. I ran the 'Windows...

New Realtek HD Audio Driver (ver. 1.88 5 March 2008): http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#High%20Definition%20Audio%20Codecs 1. Fix BSOD issue for WLK 1.1 System-Common Scenario Stress With IO test and System-Disable Enable With IO test under XP. 2. Customizations.

Looking in TaskManager Processes after enabling the Virtualization column I noticed that several drivers or driver configuration utilities had virtualization enabled while others did not. There haven't been any particular problems with the related devices but it had me wondering whether this setting was correct or whether it would be better to turn virtualization off for all hardware related...

My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium. After putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to operation. Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all night staying in standby. I asked this group about this and got the advice to go to advanced settings in Power Options and change the multimedia setting "when showing multimedia" to...

Ok I was on my laptop yesterday, (Dell 1520 with Windows Home Premium 32bit. purchased last september) and I had been surfing the web, doing homework, and watching videos, that sort of thing. Anyway, I closed everything and then tried to open Windows Media Player. When I did that everything froze. I could still move the cursor around, but everything else had stopped. After waiting a few minutes,...

On my system I have the following: Asus M2N-E Motherboard CPU: AMD 64X2 5200 5.1 Mem: 4G DDR2 4200 4.8 Graphics: NX8600GT 5.9 Ganing Graphics: 256M DDR3 5.6 Hard Drive: WD 120 SATA 5.4

Recently my 250 GB Seagate Hard disk has been damaged. I bought new maxtor 320 GB hardisk. While trying to restore Complete pc backup taken on old hardisk which comprise of 9 dvds, suddenly restore on 6th DVD said restore complete restarting your computer and a incomplete backup was restored. How can I retored remaining DVDs and What is the problem.

I just bought this new computer which has the Vista Home Premium operating system. When I attempt to run a back up I get the following message. The backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error. Catastrophic failure (0x80000FFFF) No other information follows. I do not know how to correct this and cannot

My operating sytem is vista ultimate. I like to use windows standard in order to just operate most of the time. However when i go to pages i have visted while running aero or vista basici get images not showing up with red x's in teh middle of them. How do i enable images to be visible in windows standard operating on vista ultimate pc?

My icons seem to be mixing up and even my quicklaunch icons are affected. the icons just rotate but the name of the program stays adobe becomes call of duty 4 icons, cod4 icon becomes firefox on desktop. In quicklaunch desktop icon is firefox, firefox icon is desktop. What is going on?