i am not very computer saavy, but i know enough to get by...recently i bought an hp pavillion laptop with 512 ram, duo core 1.6, vista home basic...it's a pretty basic laptop that really does not run very expediently...any suggestions on upgrades i could make to it to speed it up??pls email me at with any suggestions...thanks!

Hi, i need help, i have a big problem. After to have change the screen resolution (800*600 - 1024*760), there was a black screen, and i can't restart vista (ultimate) ! Even the Startup Repair Tool don't restart vista (but it recognize a screen resolution error). I can't recover my last screen resolution, i haven't access to noticeboard to change it ! what i do ? help me please.

I tried three times to take my PC back 24hours to get a programme back, I was told each time that an error had occurred during the process , can anyone help

help! i dont know whats wrong. recently i've upgraded my RAM from 512MB to 1.5GB. the previous index score was 2.0. i tried to update the score afterward but nothing happened or changed. the score remains the same and it still indicates that there is a new hardware added. i've tried a few times now but nothing happen. please help me.

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I do not see a real improovement using 2GB Readyboost Flash on my laptop with 1GB, running Vista Home Premium. However, I could imagine following improovements to make is more useful: - Use it as cache for system icons. May be this improoves responsivenes of Explorer, or System Settings ? - Keep Cache on Flash Device after Shutdown/Sleep etc. This should be possible using hashing AND pagefile...

Operation on file "\Windows\System32\msxml4.dll" and "msxml6.dll" excluded from virtualization. Can someone tell me what that means in English. Also, does it need to be fixed and if so how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

In problem reports and solutoins I am told to manually decrease hardware acceleration for video adapter. But following thier instructions has got me puzzled being somewhat computer illiterate!! This is what is suggested;Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display. Click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced. Click the Troubleshoot tab, move the Hardware Acceleration...

just got vista, when i go into media centre the screen flickers any ideas?

Hi...Anyone know what is wrong with this mouse which sometimes needs about 20 clicks before it responds. Now and then things action on just one click but most of the time I'm clicking away to get anything at all. It's mighty annoying !

I realized similar problems have been posted, but I just have to ask: is anyone else having issues with the Vista That Just Won't Die? I bought a new HP pavilion dv6000 with Vista Home Premium installer. All is good (minus getting used to all the new options) except for ONE thing: Vista won't shut down. And no, I'm not trying to shut it down with that odd sleep button that fools you into...

As you may know, the "Fixed: Windows Calendar has stopped working" bug has now got a hotfix, see: Message-ID: Has anyone got a copy of the dialog box that appeared? I'd like to add it to a FAQ I'm writing. If you still have the problem, could you do and ALT+PRINTSCREEN to copy the box, then paste into an image editor.

I get many of these errors every day in my Event Log: "ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 28, function 5. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance" What does it mean?

I bought a brand new computer last month, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, AMD Athlon Dual Core processor. Yet, when I open Media Center into a maximized full screen window it is very slow. So slow in fact that I can't even play a song file and simultaneously navigate through MC's menue screen. However, when I open MC into a minimized smaller window it runs quite smooth. What does...

The Reliability Monitor stopped just over 30 days from the date I activated Windows Vista Home Premium. Is this by design? How do I make the thing work again? I have tried restoring the system using the earliest restore point available, but this did not change things. Any ideas?

in Performance Information and Tools all the ratings (vpu, memory,...) are gone and i don't know why it is just a blanck page under last rating and nothing is there please i need help? this the link just paste it in RUN Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Performance Information and Tools

Why is it that when you use Windows uninstaller is basically uninstall very little? Folders remain ... files remain ... the registry is full of entries relative to the program removed ... ?? Is it important to remove those entries from the registry? If so, can someone recommend a straight forward program that will do that without making a mess of things?

in Performance Information and Tools all the ratings (vpu, memory,...) are gone and i don't know why it is just a blanck page under last rating and nothing is there please i need help? this the link just paste it in RUN Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Performance Information and Tools

Hi Can anyone out there please tell me how I can check on the progress once I start a Disk Fragmenter task. With XP I could analize and decide if I needed to run the task and then on screen you had a visual of the progress. With vista all you get is that it is running and could take from minutes to hours. I cannot find out how the task is progressing. Please ,Please help me. I cannot find...

I'm having problems some third party software and need to access c:\Users\user\Application Data\ to remove a folder that is there. I am the administrator and the only person, using this computer. (This must get old) According to the Security settings in the properties of the folder All permissions are allowed (checked but disabled) for me (the user) and the Administrator but I'm still not...