Is there a way to get full permission over the registry editor? And if so how?. I need to remove some registry keys and it will not allow me, even when im on the key and goto permissions. continues to say you do not have permission even when I check the keys that are blank. Will not ever let me check special permission.. Thanks, Bob

I have noticed that my updates are not working when I hover over the tab it says cannot get updates and when I try to open the update it just flashes as if it is about to open but then it goes away. I have noticed that this also happens with some of the other programs like the calendar and my sidebar is no longer showing up either but the computer and all the other programs seem to be...

I just started using vista, and I can't seem to get my vista score past 1.0 for Graphics, and gaming graphics. Im using a Radeon x1600 pro 512mb. Ive seen people have good scores with a lot worse as well. I tried deleting the xml files in %SYSTEMROOT%\Performance\WinSat\DataStore like I found in another post, but nothing yet. Thanks for your time, I'm sure someone here knows what he/she's...

Since buying my new Dell Inspiron 531with Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor, I can barely watch any kind of small video. I'm talking about a movie trailer or a small how-to video from HGTV etc. Once the video runs through once with all the stops and pauses that shouldn't be there, I can replay it smoothly. I don't remember having this kind of trouble with my old computer. I still have the same...

I just recived my new notebook with a single partition on it. I want to repartion my hardrive.......... i tried with disk managment tool but it is not working....... i can able to shrink the drive but can't able to format that drive.......... That is giving me the error: PLz help

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Very often, but not always, my computer will restart during hibernation. Occasionally, after the restart it will give me an error message to the effect of "Windows had to shut down unexpectedly...". Very occasionally, it will tell me it was a hard drive error associated with hibernation. Any suggestions would be appreciated. On another note (I believe this is unrelated but who knows),...

Im sure this has been dealt with, but i have brand new lenovo 3gb ram, 160 gb 7200 rpm hard drive, lv7700 (core duo 1.8 ghz), and it takes 20 minutes for vista ultimate to load up. HELP ME! basically what happens is that thinkvantage screen comes up and then screen goes black for 20 minutes and then vista screen shows up and then its only about a minute until all is done. after that...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Keith" wrote in message ... yes, that is the right KB article. :-) And, yes I did everything in that article, including step 6, except this line because of this response: ==================== C:\Users\Keithproxycfg -d 'proxycfg' is not recognized as an...

Learned about Sync toy in this forum. How does Sync toy compare to XXCopy? http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm Installed it today, v2.0 beta. That is, will Sync toy when doing a second or third back up simply by pass unchanged files, thus saving time? It seems that it will pass them up and I am excited about using it but I wish to get to know a bit more.

Hi I have a Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium. I am attempting to use a Kingston Data Traveler thumb drive for readyboost. I do not get the "speed up system" page when I plug it in, nor do I have a readyboost tab when I click on properties for the drive. I have tried the thumb drive in another Vista machine and it works fine. Thanks for any help Rick

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Omar" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, I know that everyone has been recieving the error code 80073715 in different situations. I have looked at many of the questions and answers on these two numbers and have not found a situation like mine. Update:...

Several times over the last month I have come down to my computer only to have found that it has restarted in the night. I checked to see that it wasn't a vista update and there was none. Is there a way I can tell what caused this and why? I just installed vista in December and all else seems to be working great. Thanks. -- ingeborgdot

Do not have permission. tried all I know and still have no permission to remove this key that is preventing me to install adobe acrobat. Netscape is not on this computer except the key. HKEY_CURRENT_USER_\SOFTWARE\Netscape.... Who designed an os that wont let the administrator-owner-user to do what is needed? Sorry but this is ridiculous. Any assistance would be appreciated. UAC is off,...

So what's the deal with the interminable copies and moves with Vista? Can't MS get anything right? There's something going on in the background someplace that hoses file and directory transfers *-on the same computer-*. I turned off the ridiculous indexing for searches, no luck there. I even tried an external command (mv in Cygwin) and it still took too long. I suspect that the files I think are...

for windows vista home premium, which is best recommended for its three (3) file debugging and informatoin, small memory dump (64kb), kernel memory dump or complete memory dump? cant seem to find relative info on windows help and support unlike with windows xp pro/home where 'small memory dump (64kb) is best recommended; kindly advise soon and any good feedback is much appreciated; thanks.

Hello, I recently purchased (about 3 weeks) a new PC running Vista. I have been tweaking this machine for a few weeks and now I have a new issue. For approximately 4-5 days now I receive sporadically (maybe once and hour) a message box that states "Navigation to the webpage was cancelled" Then it continues, "what you can try?" "refresh the page" The strangest thing to me is that the...

I am the only user on my laptop. I accepted the Toshiba settings when I bought the machine, but I realise that there are a number of features that are disabled that (as an administrator) I should be able to use. for example: 1. Windows Defender will show me the details of start-up programs but not allow me to remove/enable/disable anything (the buttons are greyed-out/disabled). 2. There...

Defender alerts me that it is blocking some start-up programs (little yellow speech-bubble in sys-tray says "Click here to see which programs are being blocked"). When I click the alert it opens Defender, but there is no indication of which program has been blocked. How can I find out? thanks M

I have two user accounts on Vista Home Pro. One is a standard, limited user account (password protected) and the other is my admin account (obviously with admin privileges and password protected). I am not sure when this started happening but I am unable to launch control panel under my admin account. I get a pop-up of "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not...