I just bought a computer that had Vista installed on it and I'm having problems with downloading any program files from the Internet to a second administrator account. Can anyone help me with how to fix this? Sometimes it will fully download when I click on run, then disappear. I try to search for the file, but it doesn't exist. Please, any help would be appreciated!

Hi, I bought 4 Gb RAM DDR 2 King max memory. Vista (Bussines edition) does not recognize it and show me 3,25 GB. I am sure that comp is ok because during start BIOS showing 4.194.304 bytes. Can you help me and tell me how to fix this problem.

I installed Vista Ultimate last week. I didn't encounter any problems, in fact, the whole experience has been very good. Everything I've installed has either worked or MS detected during the install of the software that newer versions were available. However, I checked my Reliability monitor and it hasn't updated since the install date of 2/6. Anyone have any suggestions (short of...

I'm new to vista and one care, the only way i have found to defrag my hdd is the old fashion way--right click on the hdd select properties -tools and defrag. is there an easier way? using one care i dont have the option for tune up as they call it--Am i donig something wrong?

I am using Vista Home Premium and would like to backup the system files, not all of the files. How do I do this? Thanks, CF

I've seem to have lost all the programs listed in my start menu, I was doing a bit of cleaning and deleted an empty directory and it wiped everything in the "All Programs", well this is how we learn :) When I drag and drop the programs I want to the menu the vanish I have to logoff then when I log back on again they are there, what's the easiest way to manage the menu? I've found the...

My mom's a bit concerned about me upgrading to Vista because she fears the notebook I want to upgrade would become unstable. How often does this happen? Remind me if an issue like this crops up.

I have a gateway 7510gx with 1.5G ram, running window vista x64. I also dedicated a 4G 150x Lexar usb jumpdrive lightning for the Readyboost. Every time the USB drive is writing data or reading the data, my sound card (creative audigy 2 ZS notebook) got very bad static noise. My CPU usage are at 20%-30% most of the time with couple opened programs, my question is: is this normal?

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Can anyone help? When I go to my control panel I get a message that my browser is restarting followed by a message starting browser. Then the tool bar disapers and the the screen goes to the desktop. After about 3 seconds the screen returns to normal. I have to repeat this two or three times before my contol panel icons appear. Any suggestions?

I'm running a radeon x1800xt 256mb but on installing vista i can only run it on 640x480 and using 4bit colours. When i look in device manager the device status shows "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)". I can't get my motherboard software to install properly and can't find any alternative on the net so i wonder whether this is anything to do with the...

Im guessing that vista must be utilizing superfetch on my computer because I just opened task manager to see that where the memory part is, it says that I have 2054 and that 1453 cache and 4 or 5 free. But what exactly is in that cache? How does one turn off the feature? My thoughts on this are that I may be quite sporadic in my usage of my computer, so if it's caching what vista thinks Im...

Ok, this just started and it is EXTREMELY frustrating. I have BitLocker installed and I am using it but it does this with or without BitLocker so I don’t believe that would be the problem. Anyways, heres what happens. I can be in Windows Vista doing anything and it will run fine, then I can go to restart or turn off the computer. When the computer comes back on it says BitLocker key...

My understanding is that with SuperFetch, I can load much of the new Vista OS into flash memory and thus accelerate the boot up process. Is this correct? It there a point where flash memory becomes excessive? Would a 4 GB Compact flash be useful or is that excessive?

By using a ReadyBoost USB Key, will it use it to speed up boot up time like with a ReadyDrive? Or is the Ready Drive feature exclusive to hybrid hard drives? I'm thinking about geting a new Vista computer, but might wait for hybrid hard drives to become more avaliable before if ReadyBoost won't help with boot up times. Thanks.

I've tried to use the system restore for a gateway running vista premium. I receive this message box: There was an unexpected error. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (0X80070078) System Restore will now close. I just bought the computer system last Wednesday, can anybody give me some help as to why this happened and how to correct it. I downloaded DirectX and

Sorry for my puor english. I have bought the windows vista home premium up grade italian version. I have had a lot of internet explorer 7 blocks, a lot of times i can't use the right clic of mouse for eny programs. Lot of times progmams selected can't be actvated after several times i have tried like the windows has lost the dll's. I've not expected this kind of problems on windows vista....

For the past few days I have been trying to figure out why it takes so long to connect wirelessly. I have discovered that I'm connected immediately after boot, it's the icon in the notification area that takes forever to change to "connected" Is there any rhyme or reason for this?

Windows vista takes about 12 minutes to boot on my desktop PC, it is too much. My PC configuration is: 3 GHz 32-bit (x86) processor. 512 MB of system memory. 128 MB of graphics memory. Although i installed the same DVD on my notebook with less configuration and it work normally and boot quickly (less than one minute). What can i do? Please anyone can help.

Hi: I have a question regarding the use of Speech Recognition and what performance hits I might be taking, if any. I am not running Speech Recognition for that purpose - it appears that my new laptop causes a high pitch noise any time the power supply charges the battery. But, if I place the Speech Recognition system into the middle option - not on, not off - but waiting for me to say "Start...