Any thoughts on what kind of overall performance hit I will take (if any) were I to make my 80GB C:\ drive compressed via NTFS? Factors - disk seek time, expansion/compression time, cpu overhead, RAM usage, fragmentation, etc?

error states that shadow copy failure system restore won't start, just produces a failure message. anyone know what files to reinstall? happened before trying to install new vista updates. deleting updates doesn't help. was also trying to go online with halo 2, just to see if it works. didn't. jude --

OK, I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise server running AD and when I try to log onto this domain with a Windows Vista Ultimate laptop it A)takes FOREVER to boot and B)tells me that it couldn't find my profile and will use a temporary one instead. I have checked the security settings on the users profile, checked permissions on the profile folders, created a new profile for this user and even tried...

Hi, Anyone have any information on the Reliability Patch for new Intel Processors. There is no info givin on the page to download the patch. Apparantly its from intel and changes the processor microcode. But i dont want to patch this unless i know what it is. If it will speed up the system and make it more stable im for it. If it slows down the processor or has different stepping rates im...

hi all was wondering if anyone has the same problems i cant download alot of things this is really starting to annoy me and i want vista off my computer!! any would be much appreciated thanks

HI, I am having the strangest problem. When I view certain images on a SBS 2003 Network Share with my system running Vista they seem corrupted but if I go to another computer in the office running XP, the image appears fine. If I was to place that image into a powerpoint from the vista machine, then the image in powerpoint will look corrputed to all in the office, both on XP and Vista. Weird.

There are 2 users on my system, me and my wife. When wife tries to switch to her user it goes through the motions and ends up just showing a blue screen,with the cursor arrow. The cursor moves but has no function at all. When I tried to add a new user it went through all that it has to and tole me it was going to set up the desk top. Screen turned blue and the rest is stated above.

my computer is a GT5408 gateway windows vista and started running really slow out of nowhere i just want to know how to fix it because its getting irritating

My computer keeps randomly giving me a blue screen of death. My computer is fully up to date and fully swept for viruses and spyware. It is less that 4 months old and just started crashing. The error code I get is Problem signature Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033

I'm having difficulty trying to get the Aero Interface to start working. If anyone knows where on the computer I have to go to change my interface to Aero I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Hi, I am new to windows Vista, my machine constitute around 220Gb of space. It says on My Computer that disk space available is just 150Gb meaning I have 70Gb of space used. I checked all folders and it just constitutes around 30Gb, can anyone help me understand this? Or better yet, help me to free around 30Gb more from my disk space used? I tried searching for temp files but I don't know...

"John Hanley" wrote in message news:... "Rock" wrote in message ... "John Hanley" wrote snip I am one of those with the similar Vista sleep problem. In my disk cleanup menu the choice for "Hibernation File Cleaner" is and has been

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While online Vista switched from Premium display settings (or scheme/colors) to Basic and I cannot figure out how to get it back to the Premium display settings. Any ideas?

I just got a Gateway CX210X notebook preinstalled with Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. I've been trying to use the Vista Backup and Restore Center's Back Up Files setting to backup my files, after I realized that having a Complete PC Backup won't let me recover individual files from that image. However, no matter what I try, the backup fails, usually several hours into the process, and I...

I find Vista painfully slow at moving or copying files from folder to folder on the same PC or across the network. Does anyone know how to speed it up? -- keymotion

Hello, I use vista ultimate x64 on this pc: mb intel d955xbk, cpu p4 3.60 ghz, ram 4 gb, vga geforce 6800 ultra pci-e. After few min, vista slow down and the screen have a serious refresh problem, it's very very hard to use the system in these conditions. I don't have any overclock or application for overclock. I must restart the system and I can use it for other few mins... Someone know why ?

Hi. If I'm in the wrong section, I apologise. I am playing a game called, Black & White, which played fine on XP. Now I am on Vista home premium the game keeps on crashing, giving me a message saying, "lh has stopped working". I have downloaded patches from the game web site. Can someone inform me what I can do about this, and how.

Does Vista throttle memory usage? I have a new machine with Vista pre-installed, and it runs disk-bound all the time. 2GB ram and 5400 rpm drive seems like a huge memory mismatch - don't know why they still put 5400 rpm drives in. Maybe my cache is too small? The system seems to only use 1GB, so wondering why it's not taking advantage of the other 1GB???

Hi, I accidentally (doh!) deleted the SystemRestore Tasks in Task Scheduler (Vista). I'm recreating them, but what arguments (if any) are passed on to rstrui.exe when it's invoked as an action? Is rstrui.exe the right program to invoke?