Problem: sleep scheduled by power management fails, but sleep button works. History: system built March 07 and can sleep but can't resume. Nvidea driver update addresses this issue, sleep is hunky-dory for a while. Random infrequent Nvidea driver crashes require a couple more updates and hot fixes. Crashes go away, but now "sleep after 30 minutes" won't work. Sleep...

Is there a way to access those forbidden directories ? Like "documents & settings" ?

Hello, Indeed, I noticed that whenever I want to delete a Shortcut on it, the mouse-cursor "ring" starts spinning for...EVER!! So in order to accomplish successfully such task, I have no option but to move the mouse-cursor (with its still spinning ring) onto the desktop (where it converts immediately into an arrow) and it's ONLY THEN when I do left-click the mouse that I obtain AT ONCE the...

Unless the others who cannot get Vista to shut down, my machine shuts down automatically after being idle for just a FEW (less than 5) minutes. When I restart, I get the screen indicating that the shutdown wasn't "good" and asking me to chose to boot normally or in safe mode. After the restart, I can find nothing indicating why it shut down. Any suggestions or help?

I have a new computer, just a couple weeks old, and when I started using it today the scrollbar doesn't work. It worked yesterday, so I'm not sure what happened. Any suggestions or ideas for me to try before I take it in to Best Buy?

I bought a new toshiba satellite about 2 months ago. I just got on the internet with it for the first time yesterday. I tried to do some of the downloads for vista, and when microsoft attempeted validating my windows I received a message that my version was not valid. How do I fix this. I know, positively, that this is a brand new computer with the factory supplied version of windows...

The device, \Device\Scsi\JRAID1, did not respond within the timeout period. This error is reported in my log, and every time it happens the PC is blocked for various seconds. Can anyone help me?

Recently, my computer had been acting up, and the graphic card (NVIDIA 7950) even got messed up because of this. The computer wasn't starting up properly or anything. This all started after I downloaded an apple conversion software, Cucusoft iPod Movie/Video Converter. At first, it kept stopped working and said the program is not responding, and then, after a few weeks, it said "Rundlll32...

When I pull up a sight, the lettering is almost the same color as the back round and I can't make out what anything says.

In IE7 "manage add ons" window I have several addons that are disabled. I wanted to delete one. So I highlighted one of the disabled addons and the DELETE button should have lit up but it didn't. Advise.

I have an HP dv6275us notebook with Windows Vista Home Premium, 2GB of RAM and an Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor at 1.83 GHz. I have an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics card with 128 MB. I have also installed all of the current updates with my computer, both from Microsoft, and from HP. Whenever I try to pause a DVD using Windows Media Center and the screen saver interrupts, Media...

Well, I thought Cal Bear's advice yesterday would clear up the problem, but it has not (I ensured that no movie files were in the folders being used for the screensaver). The "my pictures" screensaver is still freezing up randomly, requiring that I turn off the computer. I have a new Dell Inspiron 531 desktop, running Vista home basic. The system is just a few weeks old, and I have...

when i run chkdsk is completed during start up, i am told that the comp will restart after restarting CHKDSK again start after it is completed vista doesnt start and my comp stays idle message shown on the screen is "disk check is completed" how can i start vista? i have XP as my second OS

A very simple question: When is a reboot absolutely necessary ? I hate rebooting, and it seems that logging off and logging back on my user account seems to do what I need. I guess an associated question is, what is the difference between just logging off and logging back on, and a full reboot ? TIA for your time, truly. Steve

I am unclear why my windows Aero would be 4.6 while my gaming graphics would be 4.9 add to that these are the two lowest numbers for the whole set. ???

I have, or should I say my daughter has an Acer Laptop that I would like to totally wipe clean all the way back to the factory settings, and i'm willing to lose all files as well because she has been downloaded all types of nonsense, and now the computer is loaded with junk from everywhere. Is this possible?

I don't have a lot of stiuff on my new VHPremium. But I've ntoted that my Win 98, and XP, when started at the same time with Vista load faster - much faster. And they are plugged with software. That aside, afer signing into VISTA, and the desktop settles down, the Vista is beatiung the hard drive for almost 6 minutes. So much so that dragging window, opening a window, moving cursor is al...

When I click start and click on Control Panel a box flashs for a second and disappears. I can get to the control panel by right clicking the start button. I am using Vista Home.

New BETA nVidia Graphics Drivers (ver. 163.71 21 September 2007): http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS!

i am running MS vista Home premium. when i run RDP, it runs ok for about 2-3mins, and after that it crashes the system with a blue screen error msg (below); Product Windows Problem Shut down unexpectedly