Whenever I try and run a system health report, after about a minute I get the following error: "An error occurred while attempting to generate the report. The wait for the report generation tool to finish has timed out." Any ideas?

I ran a sfcscan and... It seems I have some corrupt files. This laptop doesn't have a recovery/reformat drive or i'd just reformat the laptop. Moreover, I don't have a recovery disc for vista, just Win-7. Perhaps anyone can pinpoint me in the right direction? I have the CBS file... However it's close to 24MBs... :confused: --

Can you tell me how to change Windows Explorer so it's not hidden? I need to back up a hidden file. AW

Can you tell me how to change Windows Explorer so it's not hidden? I need to back up a hidden file. AW

I'm running Vista Home Premium Version 6 (Build 6000) and I'm logged into the Administrator account. Vista does not save my cursor changes after I reboot. I change the cursors and they stay changed until I reboot, then they go back to the default Windows Aero scheme. Also, when I'm in the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties screen, the Apply button is disabled/unavailable (I cannot click it)....

This is a question I am confident has been asked and answered but I have been unable to find the answer - maybe because I don't know the right search terms. Vista Home Premium Sometimes when I try to shut down the PC - START-SHUTDOWN and either shutdown or restart - the shutdown can take, literally, 60-75 minutes and sometimes longer. Since I usually don't have that long to wait, removing...

I mistakenly downloaded MS Winter Fun Pack 2004 for XP on my Vista computer, I didn't see that it said for XP when I downloaded and installed it. Using the uninstall in Control panel, I tried to uninstall. I got back an error (1713) message that say's 'can't install'. Please help me get this program uninstalled. Thank you.

I have a vista machine (quad-core 500gb hdd) that's a couple years old. The registry is now 30.2 GB! So from time to time it goes out to lunch when it is doing shadow copy or restore point creation. I just can't begin to imagine what could be stored in the registry that is 30 Gig. The registry is supposed to be for settings AFASIK but I've seen blob chunks in there that are quite large and I...

Dear all, I've enjoyed my dell XPS M1330 laptop for over two years now. Never had any significant trouble with it...until now. It has Vista home premium 32 bit and 4GB of ram. Last week on friday I left my laptop on the whole night (it's something I did before and found no hassles the next morning) with plenty of air circulation where it was located. The next morning the laptop...

I have a vista machine (quad-core 500gb hdd) that's a couple years old. The registry is now 30.2 GB! So from time to time it goes out to lunch when it is doing shadow copy or restore point creation. I just can't begin to imagine what could be stored in the registry that is 30 Gig. The registry is supposed to be for settings AFASIK but I've seen blob chunks in there that are quite large and I...

I have my month old computer with windows vista home premium. On 12th of February 2008 I run Microsoft update to update my computer like I have done for years with no problems. I install all 38mb of the 11 new recommended Microsoft updates. IE7 will not connect to Internet. I get "Internet Explorer cannot display web page". I used IE7 right before I did update and it worked fine. I...

Since last few days, my system has starting to restart every morning sharp at 8:00 AM. I'm show this message (Attached below) and given 5 minutes to close all apps before restarting. But it's really annoying when that happens everyday! :unsu I've no idea, what program finishes running everyday, irrespective of whether I'm connected to the net or not. I've checked all the possible places,...

Since last few days, my system has starting to restart every morning sharp at 8:00 AM. I'm show this message (Attached below) and given 5 minutes to close all apps before restarting. But it's really annoying when that happens everyday! :unsu I've no idea, what program finishes running everyday, irrespective of whether I'm connected to the net or not. I've checked all the possible places,...

I have rather big executables (about 25-35 MB). Because I want my users to easily execute my application, I don't want them to install a bunch of DLL's, just xcopy-install is OK for me (and my customers). Because my software is often run from a network drive, and my customers' networks are not always reliable, I link my executables using the /SWAPRUN:NET option. This guarantees that the whole EXE...

I have rather big executables (about 25-35 MB). Because I want my users to easily execute my application, I don't want them to install a bunch of DLL's, just xcopy-install is OK for me (and my customers). Because my software is often run from a network drive, and my customers' networks are not always reliable, I link my executables using the /SWAPRUN:NET option. This guarantees that the whole EXE...

I couldn't find Windows-7 groups, so I'm posting here. Please redirect if required. On PCs where the user remains logged in, but is not using the mouse or keyboard, the memory used by the DWM continues to increase until some mouse or keyboard activity takes place. On my PC Hydra, for example, DWM.exe uses up to 600MB, and appears to cause other applications to give up their own working...

I couldn't find Windows-7 groups, so I'm posting here. Please redirect if required. On PCs where the user remains logged in, but is not using the mouse or keyboard, the memory used by the DWM continues to increase until some mouse or keyboard activity takes place. On my PC Hydra, for example, DWM.exe uses up to 600MB, and appears to cause other applications to give up their own working...

Hey, I cant open the Windows Media Palyer on my computer...anyone knows why or might help me? thanx

I have Windows Vista Home Premium installed on an HP Pavillian Laptop. I am having a problem with the vertical scroll bar in Windows Explorer. When I try to use the vertical scroll bar to scroll down in an Explorer window, the scroll bar jumps back to the top of the window. The same thing happens when I try to set a Screen Saver, the pull down window jumps back to the default (none)...

For the past few weeks I have been attempting to create a Vista Home Premium configuration on a new Core 2 Duo PC. I though that I had finally created a stable config with all the proper hardware drivers and many of my apps. I then noticed that the disk activity light was on solid - and I couldn't figure out why. I ran a number of process tools, the only one that seemed to provide useful...