i've just had a new computer with windows vista home premium and it was working fine with all the window switching, aero stuff then i installed my camera software with quicktime and it has said that the program qttask.exe has performed an action that requires windows to temporarily change my color scheme back to windows vista basic and it will change it back when this program or other...

Is there any registry cleaners out for Vista yet? I spoke with a live rep from CleanMyPC for Registry Cleaner and they said it worked but the product info page doesn't claim that. I prefer Registry Mechanic but again it doesn't state support for Vista. -- Sam

I've had Vista for a couple of days and everything within the OS is great. Just one HUGE problem...the screen gets jumbled into a bunch of horizontal bars after I do a couple of things. After closing the lid to my laptop and opening it back up, even after changing the setting to "Do Nothing when lid is closed", and after disconnecting another monitor. The only thing that has allowed me to...

Hi, I have a IBM Thinkpad A30 running with Vista Home Basic very well except of the 3d and directx graphics because ATI is not compatible with Vista which graphics card can I use instead of ATI Mobility Radeon? Thanks for your comment

Hi, I have 2 issues I need help with. Firstly - They say curiosity killed the cat well it has killed my "open with" option in the right click context menu. I have managed to restore the option but it has no function. No matter what file type i click it is there but not options. On some files there is a sub menu link to it but again this has no function. If i double click a file with an...

So I finally installed DreamScene but now I have a major issue..... IT DOESNT SUPPORT DUAL MONITORS!!!!! MS are you serious?! (see attach) anything I can do? or do I have to take down a screen off topic: also, isnt dreamscene an app? or just go to win desktop background......

Have you guys seen this website? The URL is http://www.windows-vista-update.com It's the most comprehensive Windows Vista website. Windows Vista Update at Windows-Vista-Update.com is the premier Microsoft windows Vista information portal. On this site, you can find news, information, tips, new features and updates

Have you guys seen this website? The URL is http://www.windows-vista-update.com It's the most comprehensive Windows Vista website. Windows Vista Update at Windows-Vista-Update.com is the premier Microsoft windows Vista information portal. On this site, you can find news, information, tips, new features and updates

I have installed Vista RTM on my Dell XPS Laptop (bought circa late 2005). I have updated all the drivers for the laptop that Dell has recommended (e.g. BIOS, chipset, etc). When I try to move file from my Windows 2003 Server or my Maxtor 300 GB External HD I get two distinct problems. One, it takes far longer to copy files to the Vista machine than it did in XP and the message "Calculating...

I had some trouble installing and I am not sure if everything installed correctly. Anyway, I have so far noticed the following issues--which may or may not be related. (1) The default icon for folders is the recycle bin for some reason. I have right clicked on the folder and went to properties-customize and change icon. It asks me if I want to apply these setting to all folders and I...

I can't get vista to go to sleep and stay asleep. I made sure that in device manager the mouse and keyboard are NOT allowed to wake vista but when I put it to sleep it shuts down but then almost immediately starts back up again. Any clues on what I need to do to get this function to work? Thanks,

I have built at least a dozen high end computers a year or so ago when Rambus meant High End. People wanted powerful platforms that would last at least 5 years.... In the meantime the systems are still great performers and the only issue I have is that Intel dropped the support and manufacturing for Rambus at the same time support and manufacturing stopped at 4x AGP. Many, like myself, now...

I installed Office 2007 in both my XP and Vista partitions and noticed the same issue. Some programs after install (including all the office apps) would not appear in the prefetch folder. The only way to fix this in both cases was to delete the prefetch folder and rebooting. -- Cheers,

Ok, so now that Vista can use a memory stick to enhance performance; what kind of memory stick do you buy? I have a standard PNY 2 gig stick yet Vista says "I don't think so bub, it's not my style". What is the correct style of stick to avoid cracking the case on my XPS machine? Thanks...

Greg Hayes from Raxco Software has posted the following information. Raxco has discovered and reported to Microsoft a bug in volsnap.sys that can (if conditions are right) cause corruption and loss of the partition. Raxco has just released PD8 Build 50 (SP4). With Build 50, Raxco has coded around this issue with volsnap.sys. If anybody is running PD8 on Vista, please be sure to update...

I installed Vista and it ran fine for about the first 3 weeks. Last week, i started to get fatal errors in games that I was playing. It would constantly say 'the memory could not be read'. This weekend, I moved my computer to LAN with my friends and I started blue screening with the 'PFN bsod'. Before you guys suggest that it is memory related, I would like to mention that on the day I...

Hi guys, I need some help, when I am running my system at its defaults the licensing is fine, but when I over clock my CPU I get pop ups saying that it has stopped working. Any ideas how to fix this? I am running Vista Business, P4 HT 3.06Ghz CPU @ 3.81GHz, ASRock MB, GeForce 6200 256MB video card.

Hi I am getting the following error message when running certain programs on Vista. "The procedure entry point ExtractVersionResource16W could not be located in the dynamic link library SHELL32.DLL" What could possibily wrong with? regards

In MCE 2005 when you had a sound for menu popup u could hear it on the start button too, but now in Vista I have a menu pop up sound but I cant hear it on the vista logo when I click it. but sounds work anywhere else, anybody try this?

Hi I am getting the following error message when running certain programs on Vista. "The procedure entry point ExtractVersionResource16W could not be located in the dynamic link library SHELL32.DLL" What could possibily wrong with? regards