Ok Guys first of all my specs: Windows Vista Buisness AMD athlon X64 3200+ 1gb Ram Nvidia 6800GT 256mbram Gygabite K8vt800m MOBO VIA vt8237 Raid 200 GB maxtor S-ATA hd 160GB Seagate S-ATA hd

I tried using my 512Mb Kingston DataTraveller USB2.0 flash drive for the Speedboost feature, but the OS responded say something to the effect of 'you drive isn't fast enough/good enough' for this prupose. I'm surprised at this. Is there any indication anywhere of what is required of a usb drive to be suitable for SpeedBoost?

Norton Partition Magic 8.X comes with Boot Magic for switching between OS's. Do you know if this will work for dual booting XP SP2 and Vista, and avoid the problems with system restore files, etc.

Yesterday I telephoned Microsoft to activate (for the 1000th time!) MS Office. There was a long long pause then a voice said "I'm sorry, sir, all our systems are down at the moment". I fell about laughing.

I don't know how to describe this, so I've uploaded some pictures. It happened when openening foobar v0.9.4.2 with the columnsui plugin. http://users.edpnet.be/tehmiejas/rtm-bug.zip (1.10 MB zip with 4 PNG's). Hardwa amd athlon64 x2 4800+ ati radeon x1600pro (drivers from ati site) asus m2n-e

I've run repeated tests of Passmark Performance Test on the same computer with XP64 and Vista64. Most results are reasonably close (+/- 20% say) but 1 thing is wildly different. XP records a mark for 2D graphics of 1281 against Vista's 376 ie it is over 3 times faster. The difference is easy to see while the test s are running too and is totally repeatable. For this reason overall XP records...

I have a brand new Dell E520 with 2GB RAM and every time I run the WEI Indexing tool it craps out at the end, so I never get a correct score. I shows my Graphics and Gaming Graphics scores at 1.0, but it is a dual core Intel 2.8GHz CPU with the Intel G965 Express Chip set. Dell said it was Vista ready but the WEI test keeps failing. Any thoughts?? Thanks Kevin

I just tried windows backup using a networked computer. Backup finished fine however it did not backup any of the files that I desired it to. All of my music, documents and other important data is located on a different partition (formatted in FAT32, could this have been the cause?) and I could see no way to select these items. The option to select certain folders to backup would be useful...

Been trying to figure this out. I am running Vista Ultimate RTM on my laptop and have been trying to figure out why it takes 5 minutes for my wireless to connect to the access point after the computer starts up. I have narrowed it down to something in the startup process, it is still really busy after showing the ctrl-alt-del screen. I can log in and everything looks normal, but the...

With Linux I can hit ctrl-alt-F7, ctrl-alt-F8, etc to switch X servers (with different users logged in to each X server), and it's instantaneous. But in Vista on the same hardware, when I use FUS, it takes at least 15 seconds even if just two users are logged in and they aren't running any programs, with Vista reporting that only about half of my 1GB of RAM is in use. Why is it so slow?

I wasn't using the Sidebar for a while, and recently started, now that there are some useful Outlook widgets to use. However, when Sidebar is running, when the Photos screensaver kicks in, it drops my (hi-res) screen resolution down to 1024x768 or so. This is really annoying, because then all my windows have been scrunched up to fit. If Sidebar isn't displayed, the Photos screensaver leaves...

My computer is always not responding and I cannot run games such as Magic The Gathering Online. When I open task manager and go to Processes, it says That SYSTEM is using 99% of my Cpu. The size of memory being used is 236 k. It is not the system idle just System. It is getting really annoying, I even fully reinstalled windows however programs are still not responding and in task manager...

I'm looking at downloading the Vista Updates and integrating them into the WIM. In the "Computer Imaging System Feature Guide" it links to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp for the updates. This site is still under development is there any time frame when it will be available? Thx...

Has anyone else noticed that when a Vista defrag is running, that your PC can entirely lock up for a period (on my PC it's about 3 minutes)? I believe that when the defrag program de-fragments the windows page file, or some other key system files, that the GUI basically stalls until the file is unlocked. The DWM continues to run and you can move windows around, but all processes become...

I'm having some serious, and confusing, issues with this audiodg.exe program. Recently my motherboard went kaput, so I installed a new one and reinstalled Vista Ultimate. After that, I started noticing audiodg.exe acting up. I had never noticed it consume any resources in my old installation of Vista Ultimate RTM, but now it's using anything from 15% to 25% of my CPU when I'm playing music,...

MY SON'S COMP STOP WORKING WHEN I CLICK MY COMPUTER ,CONTROL PANEL I.E. IT WON'T DO NOTHING IT STAYS THE SAME I ALSO TRY TO PUT IT ON SAFE MODE BY PRESSING F8 WHILE RESTARTING TO PUT IT TO AN EARLIER DATE AND NOTHING I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO PLEASE HELP IS WINDOWS 2000

AMD 64 1.6GHz, hardwared mirrored SATA disks, 512MB memory, advanced performance options set for programs. When copying 200GB files off a shared drive from a win2k system on 100bT link, Vista RC1 is unresponsive. Thoughts?

I have my display to turn off in one hour. When I move the mouse to wake it, a blank screen comes up, showing only the mouse (and i can move it). I cant do anything until my sreen saver comes on, and then I move my mouse to wake the screen saver, and it goes back to normal. Is there a way to stop thanks blank screen, and go back to my desktop when I wake the display? thanks.

Victoria, Hi, Lost your original post for suggestions, so here goes: Spoke with Jill about this before ad nauseum, but, I think your focus group info/data may reflect that-true,many people didn't use the GUI, however, I think the decision to leave in out; was a mistake.

Hi Folks Is there a way to monitor what type of performance increase speedboost has? Or is there a way to see live what it is doing? Ta