In an effort to speed up my start up time I downloaded instructions from Microsoft's download site. One option used Windows Defender. I tried that. It changed nothing. I then tried an option using msconfig. I unchecked certain programs leaving my Anti Virus and Microsoft Operating programs. After a restart nothing had changed. The desktop still had the same icons. Maybe there is something I...

When I used to run XP, I used Arctor to back up my important folders (My Documents, Pictures, Email etc.). It used to do this automatically every night, backing up incrementally onto an external hard disk. It did this for months or years without ever filling up my 160Gb backup disk. It must have been pretty intelligent about which files to save. When I moved to Vista, I thought I'd try the built...

SFc scannow is reporting that the system cannot repair some corrupt files. From reading the CBS log I found this entry: CSI 0000001d Cannot verify component files for 3c52bd14fb076de75da14b4b67a96f83, Version = 6.0.6000.16720, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:b03f5f7f11d50a3a}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral,...

Hi all, Im a newbie. Just purchased a brand new Toshiba Satellite L510, 1.8 Ghz Processor, 2 gb ram, Windows Vista home premium. The CD drive icon has dissapeared and does not show up in my computer, when I put a cd in I hear the cd spinning and laser head moving but nothing happens. device properties displays the following message. "Windows cannot start this hardware device because...

Everything has slowed down! Most noticeably if I launch qw.exe, close it, and then attempt to re-launch I cannot do it(error saying already running). Task manager shows the qw.exe process is still running and gobbling up memory! Killing process fixes it until the next time. Firefox has also been behaving similarly. Tried safe mode and same thing happens. QW is Deluxe 09 R6 and Vista is...

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Don't know why this happening. There must be a switch somewhere that tell the computer whether or no to show the sound icon - bit I can't find it.

Everything has slowed down! Most noticeably if I launch qw.exe, close it, and then attempt to re-launch I cannot do it(error saying already running). Task manager shows the qw.exe process is still running and gobbling up memory! Killing process fixes it until the next time. Firefox has also been behaving similarly. Tried safe mode and same thing happens. QW is Deluxe 09 R6 and Vista is...

I have 64bit Vista Premium and a rather big problem with it. In SysWOW64\config\systemprofile there's several HTTxxxx.tmp files, ranging from a few KB up to more than 2 GB, for a total of more than 15 GB. I deleted them a week weeks ago (they're .tmp files after all), but they've grown back, slowly consuming whatever space is left on C: Could this be connected to my winsxs folder which has...

I have 64bit Vista Premium and a rather big problem with it. In SysWOW64\config\systemprofile there's several HTTxxxx.tmp files, ranging from a few KB up to more than 2 GB, for a total of more than 15 GB. I deleted them a week weeks ago (they're .tmp files after all), but they've grown back, slowly consuming whatever space is left on C: Could this be connected to my winsxs folder which has...

Is there any DARN way to fix these "Search" errors that are so prevalent in the 32b version of Vista Home Premium? I don't have this type of problem on the 64b Vista system, thank God. But is there anything I can do? The errors vary in the "View System Events" area. Sometimes they relate to speed at which the "Search" function loads up, sometimes I get an error like "The application...

Hi. I have had this problem for a while now and am not sure how to fix it. I always browse the internet and when I close one window or tab, everything closes and internet restarts. I want to download itunes for vista but when i hit download, all windows close. Any one have any suggestions, please?!

I let Vista do two updates on my Tosh A300-1BZ Laptop - I think 1 was an IE8 compatibility update, the second a windows defender patch and the third (enabled in error) was a "windows live essentials" update which I cancelled half way through (by hitting Cancel and then Yes etc). The updater reported two updated done one cancelled and requested a reboot. After re-boot all I get after the...

Hi, I'm wondering if anybody here can help me possibly I'm not amazing with computers, and i'm having issues with deleting files to the recycle bin, moving files in general, and renaming files too It was all fine up until a few days ago, I got the Blue Screen a couple of times, and when I booted my laptop back up again, that's roughly when the trouble started, If I delete an item, sending it...

Hi, I'm new here. I came to this place trying to solve a different problem. That one got solved, so I figure I might as well ask this one! I got my Vista laptop last August (Acer aspire 4720ZG), and it got this weird problem since then. Whenever the laptop feels the need to update (there is a icon telling you that there is a pending update in the start menu, right?), and I don't do so by 3am...

Hi My Vista machine is suffering from repeated bluescreen crashes, caused by a variety programs, but the usual running program is ntoskrnl.exe, although I think it 's another driver which I haven't been able to identify causing the problem. I've checked memory in memtest86 and all is ok. The PC can go a couple of months without crashing and then I can get several crashes in a day. Any help...

For some reason, the majority of my desktop icons have black boxes covering them. The recycle Bin, a folder I created, and a text document seem to be immune to the black box, but for my other icons, I can't seem to get rid of them. Anybody know what I can do to get rid of the black boxes?

wrote: I read somewhere (in a magazine) that there was a way for 32 bit Vista to use all 4 MB of RAM - but I can't remember where I saw it. Anybody know? There is a way to use RAM above 4 GB but here's the deal. A 32 bit binary number can only "Count up to" 4 Gigabytes, and when you get there and add one it rolls back to zero again. This means that if you have hardware...

Hi! I have a lap-top with Vista Home Premium. Recently for no apparent reason, certain aspects of certain programs are auto scrolling and it's not the actual auto scroll button being on. For instance, any drop-down box that is opened automatically scrolls to the bottom and if i try to choose something in a higher position on the menu it automatically scrolls down to the bottom from what I've...

Please help, I'm using Vista Home Premium. Every 10 seconds my hard disk do something por half second that freezes my pc for the same period of time. If I'm moving the mouse, then the cursor gets stuck for half second. The biggest problem is that I use the computer to watch TV so the TV signal freezes every 10seconds which is very annoying. I disconnected the indexing service & I stopped the...