Having some trouble with my defragment task. I set up a scheduled task to wake the computer and run defragment. The computer at the appropriate time starts, but shuts off approximately 2 minutes later for a minute, then starts up again only to keep repeating this until I actually logon. I have the timer for the power profile under the main user to sleep after 2 hours, but this keeps...

System...AMD 64, 3.2 with 1 gig Ram, 2 internal 250's and 1 external 250 HD's Vista Ultimate 64 Office 2007 Cox High Speed Cable modem I am so sick of watching that green chase circle EVERY time I want to do something I am tempted to dump all these Vista installations and go back to XP on all of my machines. Especially the Internet and Outlook... Sheesh! I have turned protected mode off and...

There is a very annoying behavior on my computer. The issue is that when I open a window at times it collapses to the bottom task bar. An example is while composing an e-mail then moving the mouse to send the window might collapse and one think that the message was sent, however later on you see the collapse window in the bottom or two days later you see your e-mail in your draft folder....

I have a PC with XP Home installed. If I install Vista on top of this will I have the facility to dual boot or will I have to mess about repartioning the hard disk ? Regards

Where should I be looking to examine performance or operational statistics for Readyboost on my system? I put the USB drive it, got the usual alert, and it claimed to have put the drive into operation, but I haven't been able to either verify that it's actually being used or to examine anything about how it's doing it's job. - Bill

Drew wrote: I thought maybe some one here can help..First off Vista works great for my games and actually I have not had any problems with it at all but I want to improve things so,,, Currently running Vista Business on a AMD socket 939 motherboard with a AMD 3200+ 2000 processor 2 gigs of ddr500 Crucial Ballistix tracer ram Twin 160gig hdds in a raid0 format A PNY...

J'ai installé windows vista édition familiale Prémium sur mon ordinateur avec carte mère Asus P5B-E, un processeur intel core duo 6600, 4 barrettes mémoire de 1024 DDR2 PC2 4200 (533 mhz). Au démarrage le bios reconnait bien 4096 Go de mémoire, alors que vista une fois chargé n'en trouve que 2047 Go. Pourrais-je avoir une explication et éventuellement une solution pour résoudre ce problème ?

Bought one laptop, crashed for one day use; Changed another one, crashed for 20 days use. I just feel that Vista looks beautiful but has nothing practical, and it is not compatible with many softwares. I guess it very easily hurts memory.

"Mike Hollywood" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an old 40 gig laptop hard drive, and i put it in a USB2 case so now it's an external hard drive that works via the USB2 port. Can you copy your vista install to it, and then if your working version gets borked, copy it back via the usb port and be back in business? I...

In the olden days....when I had windows me...and then windows xp, all I had to do to open my word processor was hit the icon...my brand new POS vista OS doesn't allow for such ####. I CANNOT find ANY word processor in my program files. It's bad enough you people dump that POS program WORKS on our computers when everyone knows WORD is the better program...but now with VISTA...you don't let a...

For the first time, I'm trying to backup files using Windows XP. As the system apparently won't let you backup to a DVD, I'm trying to backup to an external hard-drive instead. However, the 'Backup or Restore Wizard' is only identifying the D drive (which is my DVD Re-writer. Using the browse button to find my external drive is not working (despite the fact that I can access data on the...

My copy of Vista Home Premium tells me that the file is not found, every time I click on Windows Defemder What gives?

Hi , My clean install of vista was working fine for a couple of weeks,but now i am having problems with windows explorer stopping working. The task bar goes all mixed up ,then when i try to access anything from the start button the box that appears is blank/see through and i have to restart using ctrl/alt/del to get things sorted again !! I have had a look at other peoples problems but cant...

Hi My primary SATA disk has win xp. I installed vista on the secondary SATA drive. At the start-up I get a menu to allow me to select vista or earlier versions. I am now thinking of wiping out or replacing the primary disk Would this in any way effect my running of vista from secondary disk? If so is there any way I can disconnect vista set-up from the primary (xp) disk before doing...

Hello- I've been putting my PC to sleep instead of shutting down. Every few days, my computer will wake itself back up- which is annoying. Looking in the Event Viewer, under System, the first message is: The system detected that network adapter Local Area Connection was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation. And so it seems to have something to do with the ethernet...

Hi Folks, I've posted a similar posting underneath a Sleep/Shut-Down issue... However the user was experiencing a slightly different issue with Vista than I am seeing, and wondering if anyone else is experiencing the issue or if there are any known Items that I can check out to possibly resolve this item. Here's the setup: 1 - Last Night Installed Windows with the Clean-Install Process...

After resuming frm Sleep mode the computer loses all audio (microphone or sound) capabilities. Perhaps there are other issues but I haven't foun them so far. Can anyone help? Thxs in advance.

I just bought a laptop with Vista ultimate installed by Dell. I am trying to repartition the C drive into two drives. In disk management there are currently 4 partitions preinstalled (a Dell diagnostic hidden partition, a D: drive with Recovery files, a C: drive and a Mediadirect hidden drive). The disk managment allows me to Shrink the C drive but when I try to create a new drive with...

When I am working with Office (just installed 2007) switching between Word and Excel files, sometimes the screen will black out. The taskbar will relocate to the top, which you can see, and when you run the curser over the black screen, it will sometimes show bits and pieces of the documents. I am also using a WAVpedal, which plays digital voice files. I'm not sure why this is happening,...

I had a call today from Dell warranty support and they told me that my XPS 410 has an incomplete version of Vista. Supposedly Dell was told by Microsoft that Vista was ready so they used it on the new computers they shipped out. Dell said to be patient, that there is a patch being put out by Microsoft the beginning of next month. This patch is supposed to fix the drivers and improve the...