I've just been offered Windows SP2 via my Windows Update manager. My history on this computer is excellent with regards to updates so I'm inclined to have this update installed. Everything regarding updates is current except for IE-8. My one reservation is that I've declined to update IE-8 in the recent past as I'm a Firefox user and I've seen all the traffic about how cloggy IE has been...

I bought this computer in March 2009. In April I had to send it back to the Gateway Service Center because when it started turning off by itself, the tech at Gateway told me to recover the hard drive. The computer shut off while I was doing this and needless to say, it crashed it. I got it back in late April and as of yesterday, it is doing the same thing! Their answer? RECOVER IT AGAIN! I did...

Hello, Could you please advise is it okay to delete Per User Queued Windows Error Reports and System Queued Windows Error Reports? They are taking up 182 and 103 megs respectively. Thanks for your help Bruce

I installed a software developed for previous versions of Windows (Flight Simulator 2000) in my new PC with Windows Vista. When I opened the help file I got a message saying my help file was not supported anymore and that I should get a patch so I could get it to work on Vista. I got the patch and installed it, and now I can open the help file. The problem now is that, when I opne the help,...

I ran a defragmenting session last night to clear up some space, and for some reason my C drive has dropped from 33.1 GB to 29.1 This has happened to me once before, but the other two recent defragments I've ran cleared up a ton of space. I honestly have no idea where the other three GBs have gone and I have not downloaded anything. I run a disk cleanup every night. Thanks for any help.

Hello, I have a vista home pc which is getting slower. Is there any fix without buying product? I have increased the pagefile but still slow. Any help appreciated. Jane -- janeokelly

Vista ultimate 64 could not get to download windows updates (error 80074024) so tried various fixes found on the internet. stopping and starting services etc. Found that my windows and event viewer cannot be started, because the service is not running. Can't start the service due to error message like 'Error 1079 the account specified for this service is different from the account specified...

My Recycle bin is gone on my desktop an when i search for recycle bin it dosen't show anywhere. its very agrovating since this is my first time using vista how can i find another recycle in my registry

I've been trying to back up my laptop since I bought it last year, but the first time I did it, it said "backup failed" (I didn't look at why, just gave up) and since then, every week when it does its sad little attempt to back up, it says "last backup failed". I finally decided to give it another crack tonight, but when I looked at the D drive, it said that I only had 1.28GB free of just...

Dear members, 12 months ago, purchased Fujitsu Lifebook S-series factory loaded with Vista business 32 bit. I do my Complete PC backups once a week to a number of USB HDD (Maxtors and Lacie). Lately, when I wanted to restore, it forced me to restore from the "recovery partition" which forced me to use the Fujitsu Recovery Discs. That's not what I wanted so I aborted.

F-Secure Security suite prompted me whether I wanted to allow Wudfhost.exe to send outbound traffic to IP 67.135.105.130 - after I inserted my 16GB Corsair USB drive. Is this normal or is there something viral on it? It's been a long time since I inserted a thumb/USB drive into this Vista Ultimate system I was running AVG AV before so I've no way of knowing if this is normal for Vista. I'm...

Hi. I've been experiencing this problem for a little while now and (i'm not sure if this is the right forum but please direct me the right direction if it's not) it didn't occur long after I got Windows Vista. Anyways, When ever I attempt to do File Save As or Open the dialog will pop up and then will cause the program that I did this in to hang and it will no longer respond. I have 3...

When I go to "Favorites all the folders are there. Once a folder is opened & I select a favorite it will not work. Favorites was working 2 days ago, but not now. I have done a "reset" to a previous date, but did nothing to help. -- bajanet

It seems like it's impossible to disable the Task Scheduler service in Windows Vista. It keeps launching tasks without my permission, and constantly freezes any applications that I have open. Why did Microsoft make it incredibly easy to disable Task Scheduler in Windows XP, but not Windows Vista? I don't get it. Is there a way to completely prevent it from taking control of my PC? --...

right click on the speaker icon at the bottom right. select Playback Devices highlight the icon with the green check mark click Properties click the Advanced tap uncheck Enable audio enhancements Not sure if that will lower the sound quailty but at least my lowly P4 2.66Ghz doesn't skip anymore. Now audiodg.exe run less than 5% of the CPU time.

I am using an Acer Aspire 5290G laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. The laptop has 2GB RAM but I have been getting Low Memory warnings after which I have had to reload Windows. At the time the only not automatic applications running are Norton Internet Security, Messenger, iTunes and iPlayer from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). I've tried increasing the virtual memory...

WELL I FINALLY FOUND HOW TO MAKE THE REALTEK SUBWOOFER WORK (THANKS TO KNEECOLE) BUT IT'S SO FAINT, YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR IT. HOW DO YOU CHANGE THAT? *I DON'T HAVE REALTEK MIC BUT AN OLD MCALLY MIC. :HUH: NOT CERTAIN HOW TO ACTIVATE IT AS IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN THE WINDOW IN AUDIO MANAGER. * *I ALSO CANNOT GET AOL WEBMAIL ALERT ANYMORE SUDDENLY. NOT SURE IF IT CONFLICTS W/SOME POSSIBLE YAHOO...

I just build a new computer and installed Vista Home Premium (64 bit). I only have one hard drive (640 GB). I've added a few applications and music and pictures from an external HD. I checked my disk usage last night and it said I had used 195 GB! I got that by right clicking on the C drive and then properties. I noticed I had a Windows.old directory and manually deleted it then emptied...

Is there any way to get the time display in the task bar to display seconds? Thanks

keep losing all of them and the windows key stops working on the keyboard. can see wallpaper but no icons if I minimise programs that are open -- Irri_Tant I'm an Irri Tant and so is my PC :shock: