I have a problem with the Health check program. It has my pc health status set at poor. The maintance problem saids you do not currently have a recovery disc for your files. When I click on repair it wont fix it because I already have a set of recovery disc made but the message wont clear does anyone no how to fix this?

Vista Premium Home came installed on my Dell desktop about 6 months ago. Since November 2007, updates hang and will not complete. Some at 15%, others at 75%. Some will install and others won't complete. Clicking cancel has no effect. Hard shutdown is the only way to shut down, as the computer continues to run updates. I really want to keep updates current, but... Any suggestions?

When I went to add a task to task scheduler (disk cleanup) I got hit with an error, my task library went blank & this is what popped up: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT:0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED) I'm running a 3 month old Dell XPS One, Vista Premium, any help appreciated thank you in advance

Vista Home Premium HP Pavillion dv6500 2 GB RAM After logging into my laptop, it shows one explorer window into "My Documents" and no desktop. I've tried the Ctrl+Alt+Del solution many a time, but I always have to do it again when I reboot. My registry entry for Shell under Winlogon is "explorer.exe" and always has been. Can anybody help me?

I have a Windows Vista Ultimate installed, with all upgrades. Everytime I tried to run ONE CARE it returns an error# 0x04100407. Can anybody help me to solve this problem? thanks ermindo/manaus/brazil

I bought a new printer and am attempting to "remove" the old one. By "remove" I mean I do not want it as an option on the print screen, which also contains One Note and Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I tried a right click and choosing delete but it never gets deleted, although in the print selection screen if it is highlighted it shows below that it is "Deleting - Offline". It has been in this...

I am runinng Vista on my laptop, its been fine. Had problems with my email yesterday and isp sorted it remotly. Since then everything is too big ! any web pay i open is large type, all the task bars and icons are big, its like working through a microscope. Even the start menu is giant. I have tried the the crontral qand scroll, but that is not perminent, tried changing the screen resoloution,...

Hi, I've just been reading another thread about slow boot times and was pointed into the event viewed to look at the logs. In there I've discovered that the thing that is slowing my boot seems to be Defender (see below) --------------------------------------- This startup service took longer than expected to startup, resulting in

Well my problem is this, or at least the most annoying part of it, when I remove any file, and it goes to the recycle folder this remains the same as if there aren't any file on it... and to the recycle icon appear in full "mode" I have to do a right click on the desktop, with the mouse, and press refresh to everything became normal... How can I put the refresh function automatic...

Hi, I bought a FujiFilm FinePix F47. I didn't find on the internet drivers (for Vista) for it but on its box write "Certified for Vista". I want to know if is there somebody who have a digital camera like of mine. If I install his manufacturer drivers (Windows XP) can crash that my Windows OS? Why I ask this? Well, because in the past, when i installed some drivers, the explorer.exe was...

It's not a bug - it's a completely idiotic feature of Vista Home Premium (and maybe Basic too) System Restore relies on Shadow Storage - which MS also uses to provide "previous version" file capabilities in higher-end Vista systems. However, Vista is in fact still taking copies of ALL your files - thereby eating up space that you might reasonably have thought was solely for System Restore...

I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks were damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music and e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full system backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous backup. How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

When I try to change my desktop background it comes up with a message that says, program disabled contact you system administrator. I know I did not disable this option myself and no one else uses my computer. How do I get the option to work again?

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "kimbo" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 with default Polish languange. I wanted to check the new addition "Dreamscene" that showed up in my "updates" section but it doesn't work - it downloaded ok, it installed fine (and says that...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "M. D. Metzger" wrote in message ... (Hmm...I actually typed this once already, but the page wouldn't display when I hit "Post" and it didn't appear in the thread. My Web connection wasn't interrupted on this end, but...oh, well. Here's another try. The...

Hi, I have a problem on my x64 Vista that I've had ever since I started using it. I was never able to find a solution for it even after googling the problem for months. First I will list my specs as I suspect that the problem might be hardware related. EVGA 680i T1 C2Q Q6600 OC to 2.8 Ghz 4GB DDR2-6400 (with modified timings & speed obviously)

Hi, Ken: I've enjoyed reading your posts. I posted this message to the Thread below, but wanted to make sure you saw it. So, I copied and pasted it here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, Ken: I have a laptop with three gigs of SDRAM housed in two slots: Slot 1, 2

Have just suffered a catastrophic software meltdown and had to do a clean install of Vista and Office. All are running fine, but I have noticed that instead of a single drive C like I used to have, Vista has partitioned the hard drive. I have managed to free up all the space on the Single Volume that used to hold my data but I cannot reassign the free space to the main drive C. Does...

I've upgraded my ram from 2GB to 4GB...the bios reports 4096 but Vista reports 2048...the exact same value before the upgrade. I'm aware of why Vista doesn't report all of the add'l memory but in my case I see no change at all...does any one have any ideas? Thanks! -- tony2tones

all day long i keep getting these 1/2 second soundbytes which, I think are some sort of alert. There are several sounds issued, and the computer rotates between them. Sometimes it's a cat's meow, other times it's the sound of the crack of thunder, and also a sound like a fist punch or a slap of some kind, which makes me think that it's a blocked pop up alert, but doubtful since I went to the...