I just got window vista with my new laptop. However, I found out that I'm using way more disk space than the software says it would. I've installed a 2GB software on my window xp and it's fine, but when I install it on my vista, 4.2 GB of space is used instead. I tried uninstalling the software, but it only gave me 1.4GB of space left. When I install it again, I lost another 4.2 GB, so it...

I run the windows experience index and if fails to finish. I get a box that says a device or program is preventing it from completing. Anyone with a fix??? Bill

I have a new HP a1740n with Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 @1.86 GHz & 1.87 GHz and 2038 MB of RAM. The machine has Vista Home Premium installed. I have owned the machine 10 days and have only installed office 2003. Today, I tried to unzip a 20 MB zip file containing 1,500 files and it took an unbelievable 28 minutes. 28 minutes!!! I couldn't believe that this was accurate, but some quick...

I wanted to uninstall a game that I can't get working on Vista so I clicked my Control Panel link to get into it...my screen flashed a white box(about the size of the Control Panel window), then vanishes. My cursor indicates that my computer is doing something for about 10-15 seconds after, then stops. At first I thought it might be missing an update, so I clicked on the link for Windows...

I've been having this problem with Windows Vista Ultimate where if I leave my machine downloading unattended it will shut down and reboot on it's own. When I log back in it tells me that Windows was shut down unexpectedly and searches for a solution but finds nothing. I've heard people saying that if your processor overheats it will shut down the PC but it would not reboot on it's own. I've...

I'm using FrontPage 2002 with Vista. Whenever I try to insert a hyperlink, FrontPage shuts down. Any ideas?

I am haveing a issue with the slow load of startup programs. After I get to the Vista start up screen it takes ~ 1min 30 secs before all the startup programs load and the network is connected. I have just clean installed the system and the only thing which is loading is a color profile for the screen, Norton Internet Protect, Sigma Tel Audio, and Intel Desktop Utilities, all of which are...

why the icons on the desktop are so big,can i change it into small size like 16*16?

I am seeing high CPU utilization on one core of my core 2 duo proc. one core stays approximately 60-80% even with minimal os services and no extra apps running. The other core shows no more than 10% at any time, unless loading/executing an application. Task manager shows the utilization, but Processes show system idle at around 95%. I can't seem to track down what is taking the cpu time or...

To all, and especially those readyboost programmers: I have been using a 4 gig flash drive to accommodate readyboost. This, I thought, would speed up my computer. Normally I am correct, but during startup, my computer is anything but quick. I first noticed the problem when I couldn't open Outlook within ten minutes of booting my computer, and it became more apparent when I was trying to...

did you find a solution to this as i have the same issue? -- dai154

I rarely shut down my computer, however last night i installed some "optional" updates and rebooted, and I noticed that the load time is extremely long. I'm not quite sure if this was before or after the updates. Here are my system specs: Intel core 2 duo 6600 @ 2.4 Ghz Asus Striker extreme motherboard 4 GB DDR2 OCZ Titanium 800Mhz 150 GB Raptor as primary

Using Ultimate and like to do a full backup once a week. I see how to schedule limited data file backups but don't see a way to schedule the full backup. How do I set the schedule for a full backup so I don't have to worry about forgetting?

It seems sometimes my harddrives are operating like crazy without any active program using it. This is really annoying. Does Vista run any optimizing or something at random or what?

Hope someone can point me in the right direction on this one: Basically, we had a new Vista Business PC that was misbehaving and dog slow. After trying all sorts of tweaks with virt mem, AV, themes, etc I decided to do a reinstall. It is a Asus P5LDT-TVM board (Intel 945G chipset) with a Dual Core (PD-935) 3Ghz CPU, 512Mb (DDR2-667) RAM & 80Gb SATA 7200rpm HDD. I know the RAM is a little on...

Does anyone know after Vista Update downloads and installs if it deletes or keeps the update installation files and if so where? TIA, john

i have a computer that has an amd sempron in it, and i am thinking about upgrading my processor to a dual core, i know it can be done, my motherboard supporst the x2's and fx processors, (socket 939) but i was told i would have to repurchase windows if i upgrade that, is that true, i run windows vista ultimate, and that would be very bad, considering i would have to purchase it all over...

When I'm conducting a file search on my hard drive, does Windows Vista update the file's Last Access Time?

I have the same problem. Upon wakening from sleep it changes to a lower resolution. My resolution is set to 1440x900 and when it awakens it goes to 1024x768. everything is HUGE. Why is that?

Is there a place where I can manually submit a possible bug or issue with windows explorer? (windowsvista 64bit ultimate edition) details: I just noticed that my windows explorer is using 50% of my CPU (love the dashboard widgets!). What seems odd to me, is that if I drag the window size smaller, the CPU load goes down accordingly. Full screen = 50% CPU load. 1/4 screen = 00% (which is where...