A friend asked me to help, but as I'm an avid XP fan and haven't gone over to Vista, I've no idea so I'm hoping someone here can help. Vista Home Premium (IIRC) and she can't get on the internet. I had a look and it seems that there's a choice of network, ie, Local Only or Local and Internet. Her's is stuck on Local Only and shows a red X between the diagram of a router and the globe. We...

Hi All, I hope I'm posting this in the correct topic thread. System: Vista 32bit service pack 2 Here's my issue: -I backed up up my files to an external drive;

explorer.exe is using 50% CPU when the computer is idle. This started after being in hibernation for about 6 hours. I can log in, but have no use of the task bar. I can click on a program icon on my desktop and the program opens with no problem. When I mouse over the taskbar, either nothing happens or my cursor changes into an hourglass. I cannot use the Windows key on my keyboard...

Connects to wireless network router but won't go the further step to connect to the internet. I get a message in diagnose connection problems like this: "www.google.com" is not set up to establish a connection on port "World Wide Web service (HTTP)" with this computer. I've read the suggestions about removing nortons but I don't have

Connects to wireless network router but won't go the further step to connect to the internet. I get a message in diagnose connection problems like this: "www.google.com" is not set up to establish a connection on port "World Wide Web service (HTTP)" with this computer. I've read the suggestions about removing nortons but I don't have

Hello, I get the following message on my VISTA computer and I need to know is the hard drive dead and will I have to FDISK, or equivalent and reload windows from restore disk, or can Windows Vista be recovered without wipind the hard drive clean by and FDISK. Here is the screen: " Chcecking the file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for...

Does any one know how to restore the restore point from dos in Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I need to know the steps and directories in how to restore any one of them listed. For some reason the restore points are not listing. When I use Vista restore program I think it's a big bug that Windows need to fix in vista. Thanks

Hey guys, Today, I got one type of BSOD several times. The BSOD suddenly occurs; when my laptop is turned on (for a few hours), the blue screen pops up, mentioning something about 'IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL'. After the BSOD, Windows restarts, and usually just comes back to the logon screen. There's no specific handling i did which might cause the BSOD. I know this since my laptop was shut down or...

When our computer goes into sleep mode and we try to wake it the mouse is frozen. We have to restart to allow us to use the mouse. Is there a fix for this? -- novella8056

When ehtray is running the screen saver stops. Go into task manger and end ehtray process ,screen saver stars working. Anybody know how to fix. -- wt

Hello! I have installed Windows Vista Home SP1 (Greek Version) and if I try to download and update to SP2 it says that SP2 is supported only in 5 particular languages and I cannot install this update before will be released in my language! Is any way to "SKIP" this step and update my OS cause I want it a lot! I cannot wait a century for microsoft to release SP2 in Greek! I have already faced many...

I have a one week old HP with Vista Premium x64. I have not made the system restore disks yet. Been busy sorting out software problems I have the following problems: Control panel will not open on the start menu or through explorer when I click on it. The subdirectories will open when I click on the carrot on the left of control panel in explorer. FreeCell.exe will not run. System restore...

Volume is set to 100, Device Manager says No problem with devices. But often, I have to reboot to get system sounds to play. That also applies to app sounds. I have an HP Pavilion notebook with no viruses or malware. If I play a WAV file, Quick Time Player pops up and plays it. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks.......

During the past few weeks I have faced the problem of lost some GBs from my Hard Disk! My Hard Disk's Capacity is 500 Gbs! However, when I add together Program Files, Documents and Settings and any other leftovers they don't reach even the amount of 350 Gbs! So, I reckon that I have hidden (lost) some Gbs in my Hard Disk! In the past I used a software that used to analyze my Hard Disk Data i.e....

When our computer goes into sleep mode and we try to wake it the mouse is frozen. We have to restart to allow us to use the mouse. Is there a fix for this? -- novella8056

Hello! I have installed Windows Vista Home SP1 (Greek Version) and if I try to download and update to SP2 it says that SP2 is supported only in 5 particular languages and I cannot install this update before will be released in my language! Is any way to "SKIP" this step and update my OS cause I want it a lot! I cannot wait a century for microsoft to release SP2 in Greek! I have already faced many...

When the computer finishes booting up, and error message comes up that says Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused this program's service to stop. It says to restart the compuer, but this message still occurs after restarting. It also appears if I try to open defender manually. Any help?

Vista Home Premium 32 Recently my pc seems to be 'thinking' almost constantly. That is, the hour-glass equivalent seems to always be active as if its trying to open an app or complete a task. How do I find out what it is trying to do?

Hi folks! I own an HP HDX Premium Series, Vista Home Premium I applied some recommended update ("nVidia - Display - nVidia GeForce 9600m GT" and since then my graphics card has gone all wonky, and so has my "monitor" (i.e. laptop screen). It seems to have defaulted to some basic generic drivers, so that I can use my laptop but can't do anything involving graphics (I can't even play Spider...

Volume is set to 100, Device Manager says No problem with devices. But often, I have to reboot to get system sounds to play. That also applies to app sounds. I have an HP Pavilion notebook with no viruses or malware. If I play a WAV file, Quick Time Player pops up and plays it. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks.......