I tried the suggested fix from Microsoft to go through CMD as administrator, and received yet another error message. here is a copy of the data from that page. Any suggestions anyone, I am at a loss here. C:\Windows\system32reg delete HKLM\COMPONENTS /v StoreDirty Delete the registry value StoreDirty (Yes/No)? y ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or...

Can anyone please tell me why Windows Vista Home Premium says I have 1014MB of RAM; while my Toshiba diagnostic tool says 1024MB? I have a Toshiba A 135 notebook... TY --

Hi, I have Sony Vaio VGN-TZ 150N with Vista Business. Since the very first days of its existence it did not create a signle restore point automatically, I have to do it manually whenever I remind myself of it. I have the feature turned on to create restore points on my c drive. I have also Kaspersky Internet Security 7 installed since some time, before I had Norton Internet Security as...

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When I was running XP and I deleted a file etc. it went to the recycle bin (Unless I held dn the shift key) When i delete a file, cookie etc with Vista Home Premium nothing goes to the recycle bin. Is it going somewhere else ??? Thanks

Hi All I've got Vista 32 bit Home premium edition installed on my laptop and things were ok until now. Now all of a sudden, it shows that the lsass.exe file is missing and the desktop is not appearing upon restart. The user login is successful, but the error shows up and the desktop is not showing up. I've tried searching around the Vista CD to no avail. Kindly let me know of any solutions that...

Is anyone having a issue while receiving email in Outlook 2007 running Vista? I'ts like using a 2400 modem. Thanks

I have a Dell 1501 Laptop with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200m graphics card. When I wkae the computer from sleep mode, the screen starts to show colors that cover everything and flash a lot. People have told me to just de-gauss it, but I can't figure out where the button is on my laptop.

Hello there, just came across this and thought I would pose my question here. I have a problem with vista, I have vista Ultimate and there is just a little something that bugs me. I liked it in XP that you could open another window when you click on a folder, well in Vista I can not do this, I have gone into the settings and changed it to do so, but it still does not can anyone give me any...

Just wanted to know if in SP1 updated the IO size access of Vista file storage system. As we know, in SP0, the access to Hiberfil.sys was done in Random transactions of 4k (4096bytes) IO size. Moreover, more than 50% of Windows Vista transactions were in 4Kbytes (see graph). Did MSFT changed this policy in SP1? Rumors say that MSFT changed in SP1 the IO size to 32K or 64K. If the rumors are...

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Hi Guys I have Vista Home Premium. I have noticed a while ago that vista will not keep any restore points. I can look now and it has only one point from system check. If I install anything it will make a restore point. If I uninstall it will make the restore point. When I look a couple days later they are all gone. This has been going on for months now. What would the problem apear to be...

Why I don't have all these annoying problems that other users have with Vista ????? Am I missing something? cheers from Holland Hans

From the installation OOBE to running the Aero test as part of the Windows Experience Index test, I have needed to go through hoops to get the system to not freeze, forcing a box reset to get things going again. Searching here, I applied one of the suggestions, that being renaming the DATASTORE folder to DATASTORE.old and the test ran and gave me a score and the use of Aero. Today I updated...

Not all is bad. I display the sidebar Multi Meter gadget that displays both of my CPU usages (2) and the RAM in real time. I can see instantly what program hogs push and tangle my system to its limits thus learning how to avoid App crashes and the like with this new OS. It is one of my best defenses. I have discovered that of course the ram fills with use and eventually reflects on...

Hi: When I try to play my windows demoes, they are all smdged. It's as if someone has placed a piece of distorted glass over wet ink.When the demo switches to the next page it's as if the screen is trying to morf itself from really bad to not so bad.I'm new to computers & I would really benifit from these demoes.I have tried eveything that I can think of, and I can't correct this.I am...

I've noticed that consistent use of high levels of RAM and CPU Processor for an extended period of time has the following result: The taskbar scrambles itself. The icons in all tray areas relocate themselves to new locations on what is left of the taskbar image. Start Button operation becomes impossible; when managing to get cursor to activate Start Button a shadowed, highlighted area...

I am currently experiencing a high number of Search Service errors, and I am missing the Indexing function (but not loss of the Control Panel icon and partial execution), access to Windows Features (in Command Prompt\Programs), and any Windows Mail search capability. I tried to run sfc /scannow. I did it as administrator. It started and began the verification process. After completing 3...

Hi - I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. I have a group of six CDF-MS files stuck in C:\Windows\winsxs\Temp \Pending Renames. Can anyone advise as to how I can get rid of them? I don't seem to be able to change permissions to be able to get at them. I've tried deleting them in Safe Mode, even tried turning off the UAC, but nothing works. If it helps, these are the files in...

Yesterday I was working on my desktop computer when windows I had open started to to close in an orderly fashion one by one. When what was obviously a restart began I got a message on the order of 'Installing Updates' (don't recall it exactly) Today, working on my notebook I got a window saying that updates had been installed and counting down to a reboot. It gave me an option to...