Hi to everybody! I´ve been running Windows Vista (Home Premium) normally since January 30 but today a strange behaviour started to happen everytime I close my notebook´s lid: I noticed that HD´s led kept blinking and, as I hadnt set my system to go into suspend/hibernate mode as soon as I close the lid, I reopened it to find the screen off but the power & wireless led were on as if the...

For years, I've been trying unsuccessfully to get Outlook to automatically delete messages over a certain age in particular folders. I've right clicked on the selected folders, chosen Properties, gone to the AutoArchive tab, and clicked the appropriate buttons, but it never does the deletions. Maybe it's a problem w/ Outlook 2003 that's be fixed in 2007, but I have my doubts. Advice?

When I first installed vista home premium 32bit and tried to play any of my games it would result in a BSOD with nvmcp.sys being the culprit. The helper system said that I need to update my nvmcp.sys file from windows update but there wasn't one to update to, it never listed it. I used the DFI (my mainboard mfg) Nvidia NF4 CD that came with my mainboard which is meant for XP and not vista to...

I have read a few posts on here with people having similar problems that I am having. I upgraded from xp sp2 to vista home premium. I have an AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 2 GB ram, NVIDIA Geforce 7600 gt. I am not running the 64 version of vista. my pc randomly restarts sometimes for what appears to be no reason. I play a lot of video games and all of them play the same as in xp except for...

I am a student who needs to run a c compiler named miracle c for my intro to computing class and i need to uncheck the box that says close on exit so when my programs finish runnign i can see what they did instead of a dos window flashing for a nano second then vanishing, when i uncheck the box and press ok i get the error "cannot update the properties for this program. the shortcut or .pif...

After an upgrade from XP to Vista, the "free space" on my 80 GB hard drive fluctuates back and forth between 36 GB and 42 GB, having hit both the higher and lower numbers several times. Using Windows Explorer and TreeSize I don't see where the extra material is, but both tools are denied access to a few folders such as System Volume Information. Is the 6 GB swing due to changes in size of...

I'm currently running 1Gb of DDR2 RAM on a home built machine. Installed Vista and so far no problems. My questions is... if I upgrade and add another 1Gb of RAM, will this require a new install? Seems to me there was an issue with either Win2K or XP that if crossed a certain line (total RAM) it required a reinstall to update the HAL any ideas?

my mobo on my dad's pc just broke and he has an oem version! from what i have heard your oem is bound to your mobo in some way, is there any way to lift this cos i really dont want to have to buy another oem.

I have just installed vista home premium and tried to install my first program which is a motherboard driver update. i am trying to save into the 'program files' folder but it tells me that i don't have permission 'contact the administrator' i have created my own user account and i am an administrator (not standard account). why can't i save to this location?

There are new drivers at ATI - AMD especially for Vista: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html It will stabilise the videocard problems for most of you I guess! I installed the latest ATI driver (Catalyst 7.1), I have a ATI Radeon Mobilty card and it fixed also some other minor video problems (first uninstall all old ATI drivers of course)

MS Vista Ultimate is operating system. System continues to try and access floppy drive, and this is annoying. Have turned off all indexing on all drives. Help. -- MN Charnigo

Hi, I've got a problem with transparency in Vista RC1. Recently I unchecked box below windows' color selection. Now I am unable to turn it on again. I can check the box, click ok, but transparency doesnt work - if I open settings again, box remains unchecked. Please, any suggesions? The Fallen One

My event viewer reports this error alot - actually for all my disks... It says something about that the resource handlerfor transactions has detected an unrecoverable error and failed to start. I get this for all my volumes - I don't think it is the disks that are at fault, but the service :) There is no info available for this event it seems. Event-XML-fil: Event...

Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model?

Interesting article about upgrade vs clean install performance: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2089952,00.asp Bob

I bought the PowerSpec V300 from Micro Center and it runs Windows Vista Home Premium flawlessly. But there was no manual for the machine itself so I wonder about some of its internals. I am only using the one SATA 160 GB hard drive right now, but need to buy a power splitter to add my old HD to transfer files. But then I want to add 4 more HDs, so I need to buy more splitters. It comes with...

After a "clean install" of Vista Ultimate I went online to "Windows Update" and got some additional updates. I restarted the machine and during bootup the system sat at a black screen for 20 minutes. No hard drive activity. Then the hard drive suddenly came to life and Vista finally loaded up. I went to ATI and upgraded my drivers to the latest version. Being prompted to restart, I went...

Can someone please tell me how to disable the feature in vista that constantly asks for permission on doing anything? hte one that pops up asking to continue after change on setting or moving files.

I continue to get the subject above text message. can you help running vista ultimate.

I have Win DVD Creator (latest version) and when I try to make a DVD it tells me Unable to detect an ASPI Manager , any ideas??