On my Toshiba Satellite lap top I cannot get the flash player to play in full screen. Have tried downloading player from both Firefox and I.E When I hit the full screen button all I get is a blank screen with a diagonal line right across. Am to to lap tops .Has anyone any ideas I could try. Thanks

I seem to have got a computer virus i basicaly blue screen every 2 hours ish. Also i recon i have some harddrive errors when i try to re install vista it seys i dotn have enougth room for the temp files. I have 50gb. This will be the third time ive re installed vista due to a virus in two weeks. And im sick of it anyone knw a good fre antivirus that prefable resource intensive (i can play crysis...

On my son's Dell laptop (Vista Home Premium, SP2) his battery indicator icon has disappeared off his taskbar. I'm sure there's a way to find it and have it show up in the lower right taskbar location but can't help him find it since my Vista system is a desktop. Can anyone help us locate and re-instate this feature? Thanks............................Paul C.

Ok I have a toshiba satellite with windows vista home premium 32 bit version and about 3 months ago I started getting this popup out of the blue that says "windows explorer has stopped working" the problem details say problem event name: APPCRASH application name: explorer .exe application version: 6.0.6002.18005 application time stamp: 49e01da5 fault module name: ...

In windows update I have an update showing but if I try updating with the *.msu of the file I get that this update is not for my computer though it shows as one of the updates in WU. I am confused :(

I have a document in my print queue that will not print. All other documents print fine. The document I am trying to print is the thread from one of these forums. I have tried pausing and resuming the document, restarting the document, turning the printer off and on, restarting my computer, reprinting the thread but none of the above work. There must be something unique about this document, but I...

I had to reinstall Windows Vista Ultimate which prior to the reinstall had SP 1 installed. After this reinstall SP1 does not show in computer properties. Is SP1 still available somewhere on the computer for upgrading or will I have to use Windows Update to apply it ? Your help please,Richard

it takes 52 secs for my laptop vista 64 Home Premium to pop the log in screen & 58 after log in to load 8 start up programs. My desktop running on XP Pro does all that in 45-52 secs total. I've defragged hard drive, registry, killed aero, reduced opening window time, readjusted unwanted vista service (SP2- safe) program according to Black Viper and I don't see why I have to wait more than...

Hi... sorry for my english... I've a "big" problem in Vista64Sp1... When i scroll with wheel mouse (e.g. on internet browser) the MediaCenter or MediaPlayer sounds very noises (during playing a video or a music cd) ... if I move the pointer over Inventor 2010 windows, the Player have too much noise... and the performance in Inventor are very very poor (e.g. rotating viewport and command delay...

Cannot boot to safe mode using f8. I can get there through msconfig/boot but feel there must be something wrong. Please help if you can. wwp

Hi, I have an issue that I've been trying to find an issue for, but so far I have not found a thread anywhere on the internet that even addressed my problem precisely. Occasionally, usually after my computer has been running awhile, my screen will randomly scramble up, and parts of it will become inoperable. There are no "black lines" going across the screen, and my screen hasn't...

I just got a new Vista computer and I found that my DSL speed was abnormally slow. I called the ISP and they said to turn off the firewall. This fixed it. I wasn't aware a firewall could affect your modem speed so much. The XP firewall had never done that.

Better question, will it run it well enough to actually do work? This machine will be transported all over the world - a laptop won't work for various reasons as the machine will have to be left on overnight. So I'm building something that can be transported in a hard case along with a 17 inch cheap monitor. 1 Linkworld 43706-228FU+P04 Black Steel MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case 430W...

I'm supposed to be backing up the *imageres.dll* file because I'm replacing it, but I renamed it inside the System32 folder, and now every thing in my computer's a mess. :cry: I dunno what to do now, I can't rename the file nor I can't replace it, it's always error. Now, my computer can't open like half of the stuff it needs to and now half the icons for like folders and stuff are retarted. I...

My machine, Dell Inspiron 530, 4GB RAM, hundreds of megs of free drive space, is getting a lot f Diagnostics-Performance errors regarding boot, shut down and standby monitoring. I'll list portions of the first first few issues in the log. First is an ERROR Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance Date: ...

I am running vista home premium and I've started to get the following error messege on boot up, 'Failed on loading skin name "minibcont" The file "shell.css" is required in you "sscommon/skins/minibcont/css/" directory' any thoughts? J

I recently have had a rash of shurdowns when I leave my notebook on overnight. I am curently running Windows Vista Home Premium on a Toshiga notebook. WHen I leave it on overnight 60-70% of the time when I go to bring it out of logoff I get the meaasage "Windows have recovered from any unexpected shutdown, windows will notify when a solution is available". Has anybody else had this problem...

I recenlty installed an update for Vista X64, but after the computer restarted there was just a black screen. I can move the mouse around, but I can't do anything else. I tried to run the system restore, but it says my c drive contains errors and it won't work. Anyone know how to fix this? -- Kaim

I have downloaded windows vista updates they are standalone updates like Windows6.0-KB9*****.msu I want to know how to install these one after another automatically more than one at a time? Is is possible using cmd.exe? J Dsouza

Somehow I turned it on, but I can't stop it from starting every time I boot the computer. I can't find the options anywhere.