I'm running Vista Ult. I did a clean install to a new system. I have 2 300GB SATA's set up in a striped array (600GB). Before Vista installation, I partitioned the 600 GB into "drives" C: (300GB) and D: (300GB) . I installed Vista to the C:, and all my data (docs etc) to D:. I did a full system backup to a third HD in my system. I had second thoughts of the striped array (1 drive fails...

How do I do a weekly backup, then incremental backups without filling my harddrive!!! 1. Can I get the complete backup to overwrite the previous? 2. My incremental backups are not any smaller. HELP!!! I'm close to going back to XP. --Shannon

I have no idea what causes this to happen but every now and then the taskbar on my machine messes up. The start menu, quicklaunch bar and any windows I have open are shifted to the extreme left side. But only the -image- of them is shifted. If I manage to click in the right place I still open the correct window, I.E., where the window was located before they got displaced. I discovered I...

I have just installed Vista Home Premium on my computer. The windows look "basic". Is there any way for me to improve my machines graphics without buying a new graphic card?

I want to have my windows vista machine to act like that of server 2003. How do I set the large system cache in vista to do the same thing? I know in older systems it was: large system cache = 1 size = 3 Is this the same in vista?

I Have The Windows Vista Home Basic Built In To My Computer And I got It From Pc World On 12.2/2007. Everything Works Great Except For The Realtek Sound For Recording My Voice. The Problem Is The Sound Rumbles And There's Lots Of Hiss And Is Not Clear When I Have To Send Messages. When I Had The Windows Xp Home Edition The Sound Was Crystal Clear No Hiss No Rumble. Also The Sound On My...

Hi, Ive been trying to find a solution to this problem for some time now. It started out on this machine when it was windows XP, i have reinstalled xp serveral times and since then have moved onto a fresh install of vista business. Normal internet, file copying etc is fine, yet if i need to copy lots of small files off an ftp site, or if i try and use skype etc, the entire lan system...

I'm running Vista Business, core duo 1.8, 1GB RAM on a Dell notebook. I am often running VMWare, which spawns several other processes. I want them all to run a HIGH base priority. Some of the processes are automatically kicked off with High priority now, but many of them start as "normal." Is there any way to set up specific programs to run at elevated priority? Via configuration, registry,...

Using xp, I had read a tip to move the paging file to its own hard drive. I bought a 10 gig drive but never got around to it. I am itchin to try but I can not find any options with ReadyBoost or moving the page file. Am I scratchin up a dead end or is something possible my minuscule brain cells have not thought of. Thanks in advance, tomorrow is another day to create! -- 7.1

Hi, i have a very annoying problem with Vista and that is: whenever the screensaver starts my harddrive suddenly gets active and only stops if i return to the desktop. I have a normally silent system so this harddrive activity is not wanted at all. I have a core2duo 6600 and 2Gig of Ram and a Samsung SATA Hardrive. With XP this has never been that way and since i use my PC more as a Media...

When I first got Vista, everything worked perfect. But now, I can't even watch a streaming video from the internet. I know it's not my internet because my other Windows XP computer plays the videos just fine. (I also can't play online games because I get booted all the time.) Looking at my computers task manager performance tracker, my internet utilization never goes above 10%. The CPU...

I know that Home premium doesn't have GPEdit but can it be installed? If so, where can I get it? (I don't want to pay all the extra $ for Ultimate just for GPEdit). Gordo

After opening several windows in IE 7, after a while a window will open but will not load. If I close a previous window, sometimes the new window will work on a second try, but the problem repeats until I can open no windows at all. I understand there's a memory issue with opening lots of windows, but after I've closed them all, I often can't even open a Folder Window, or even right...

I miss the old ways when I could place my *exe file in some startup folder to get my programs started whenever I started or restarted my computer. -Is it possible for me to get my windows mail and windows calender started automatically so i don't miss my appointments. Any time I remember to check my calender I have missed something already. I dont have a REMINDER until i remember to run...

I have Vista Home Basic and the darn thing won't defrag. I have tried multiple times to defrag and every time the computer acts like it's defraging and then says "You could improve performance by defragmenting your harddrive." This is getting on my nerves. Anybody got any suggestions?

Vista seems to be always losing my monitor specific settings, and reverting to generic. Is there something I can do to correct that? I am using a Samsung syncmaster 753 df crt monitor, if thats any help. And it won't let me increase refresh rate beyond 60 without giving me an out of synch black screen at reboot, or sooner. I have updated the chipset drivers for my motherboard (includes...

I think ive got some p2p programs installed from my xp (like kazaa nitro e emule) witch i think start together with my windows n uses all my band... want to block them n when i wanna use alow. Was expecting it easy now like just click n alow or block but the defender seens to be just for informations and not for actions. Ps: Sorry my english LOVE N PEACE! Cheers

On the occasions when I have uninstalled stuff I have noticed that the start menu shortcut and the folder in "c\program files" remain and I have to delete them manually. Is there any way to make this happen automatically? Cheers. Si

im running windows vista ultimate 64bit, ive seen a lot of the stripey screen since i installed it. it happens when i leave my computer for a while and come back then i cant even turn it off or when i try to launch some games such as WoW but then i can just quit the game by clicking esc what could it be? any help would be greaty appriciated

I am running Vista Home Prof. on a Vaio. When I boot up everything works but after I log in and the desktop appears, after about 3 seconds the whole screen blinks, as in turns black for no more than a second, then comes back on and finishes loading. I noticed that it always does this before it finished loading the items in the taskbar by the clock. And it does NOT do it when I startup in...