Four dumps in two days. Not cool. Here are the minidump files. Can someone please read the tea leaves and point me in a direction to troubleshoot. All was well until this last batch of windows updates came down. Thanks HG

Just got a new PC with Vista Home Premium. Now, Disk Defragmentation won't load. Computer thinks for about half a second and then nothing. Help. FYI....does same thing for Lavasoft Ad-Aware. any ideas?

I have backed up my C drive as an image twice before. This time after installing SP1 when i tried to backup my entire drive it reported an error of insuficient disk space. Well i thought it would delete the eariest file but i went ahead and formatted the external HD. Same error. Renamed it, Same error. Changed drive letter, Guess what, yep same error. Is this a SP1 problem or just a backup...

could not load or run c:\windows\inf\other.exe

My firewall won't stay on?????

I found that my vista's disk size has boost up by 10GB within a few days. I checked every dirctory in my computer and I found that this directory: c:/windows/system32/data/{my IP}/web directory has grow up by 10.5GB. I tried to delete them up and clean up the recycle bin, but they come back again the other day. What can I do?

I keep on getting an error message of "could't find valid definitions file" Go to Program Options Page and click update definitions. I can't find it anywhere. Can someone help me. I'm not extremely computer savvy. Thanks Fed up with Vista url:http://www.ureader.com/gp/1694-1.aspx

Hello, I tried several thing posted around here and elsewere but with no sucess. I already know that: 1) It's not related with pending.xml file, because I don´t see it (with all priviledges required) 2) The service is starting 3) I've already tried to renew the SoftwareDistribution folder I´m placing here the content of a clean WindowsUpdate.log file if someone can help me. Thanks!

We're a 2 person office on a little network. My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after she types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no use. What might cause this? jeff

Hello, Could anyone please tell me what I can try to speed up my computer when I start it up or close it down? It will take 4-5 minutes to do both. After that the speed is just fine. Thanks, Deb K

One guy wrote this: " The first couple of times I inserted the microphone into the jack there was a Vista pop-up giving 4 options the first of which was "Microphone". Worked perfectly the first time. During the second time, I clicked on the check box which said "Don't ask me this again." and then clicked on the microphone option thinking that Vista will remember that when this device is plugged...

I open my home page to Yahoo or Aol which came with my computer bought in 07. I have windows vista home premium and I can go to yahoo, my bank site and a few but I can't go to msn, microsoft, geico, at&t. And when it does open it says Internet Explorer can not open page. I checked my internet connection and it's fine. Please help.

I keep getting this error message when I start up my computer or when it comes away from sleep mode. It just started around yesterday or 2 days ago. It reads: Your system could become unstable A potential problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown buggy application to prevent damage to your computer. ****WXYZ.SYS - AddressF73120AE base at C00000, DateStamp 36b072A3

Good day all, Im just curious if Im missing any fixes that dont show up in Windows Update. The computer will sometimes appear to be fine when I turn it on. Other times it just seems slow, unresponsive and hangs on almost everything. I could click the start menu or the explorer or even have it hang on the control panel. Makes no difference I just get the little blue circle for a few minites until...

I've installed a couple of flash drives that are supposed to support ReadyBoost in Vista on a couple of my Vista computers, however I'm not seeing much on an increase in speed. I've looked at the Task Manager, but I'm not seeing any type of memory size increase either. How does this work? Would it be better to install more ram rather than this setup? Ronnie

Hi I have suffered some sort of system failure on my XPpro machine - the blue screen of death! It would get to the login screen, go blue then reboot. I first removed and swapped memory and video cards etc, to no avail. I then tried a disk check from safe mode with both options ticked, reboot and let it go. Still same problem when starting normally. I have a RAID 0 (mirror only) and had to...

Anyone else have any problems with drive conversion in x64 Ultimate? I have a 100GB 7200RPM SATA HDD( no RAID), (USB Key-no TPM) used the Bitlocker drive prep tool. Conversion of drive would never go past 0%. When I checked event viewer, Event ID 24592 — BitLocker Volume Conversion could not restart. I would again set bitlocker to convert, defrag, and run chkdsk( no errors/bad sectors...

What is going on with Vista 64bit drivers? I am still hearing that thare is too few drivers. Vista64 is what I want. Does Microsoft have a program that will test your system to see if the software and hardware can work with Vista64? Thank you; David

How do I uninstall a program that Vista doesn't recognize as being installed at all. I have been moving all my old programs to a new Vista machine including one from back during Win95 that failed to install correctly. I tried a couple of things and somehow got it installed twice while using comparability mode. It wasn't working properly so I uninstalled it. Actually I uninstalled one of the 2...

I intended to install AIM onto my laptop (inspiron 1525) and my security system asked if i wanted to update all these files, and i said no thinking it could be a potential virus, needless to say AIM did not work so I decided to uninstall AIM and when I did it messed up my laptop. I can no longer open any application. Can someone please help, I am desperate.