Vista Home Premium SP2. It happened a few times, ( not all the time ) when I tried to create a shortcut on my desktop, an icon would show up also. It's called " desktop.ini ". In the past I just deleted it. But I am wondering what it is, and was it wrong that I had deleted it ? Thank you. t-4-2

I have I tunes on both the laptop with WindowsXP and on the newly acquired Desktop, HP Q 8200 with Vista 64. For the latter I have downloaded the latest recommended version for Vista64, but even though I can see the imported and saved ( on an external hard drive) play list I can not play them. When I click on them on this new Vista 64 empowered Desktop, nothing happens.When I click on Beethoven...

I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit on a quad core 2.33 mhz cpu, 4 gb ddr2 1066, 2 500gb sata drives in raid1 mirror array. When trying to install sp2 it would stop the installation and revert. I tried the solution from the MS site and downloaded an .iso, burned to disc and tried again. After this install and reboot I got a message windows would have to be reinstalled and reactivated. I managed to...

hi, Im Jacky here, Y my notebook haven the msvbvm50.dll install? i brought last week. this is first time i using window vista then facing this problem. How can i get it and install it.

I am using a Gateway DX4600-09 Computer: Athlon Phenom X4 9300e processor 4 GB ram Ethernet - cat-5 to a 100 Mb switch. There are 9 other computers on the LAN (mix of XP, Vista and Linux) Performance starts out fine but will take a nose dive after a day or so connected. Right after boot: Machine to machine copies (mapped drives - to or from the 64 bit machine) will be in the 4 MByte per sec...

You sent me an ERUNT script to run the program in the background - but I have no idea how to use it. Would you help me please?

I have been looking in the forums for an answer to my vista ultimate hanging up and have not found an answer. I was having this hanging proiblem with the vista home premium that came with my system and thought it was a problem so I loaded vista ultimate and started all over with a clean hard drive. I am still having the problem. Sometimes explorer hangs and sometimes other programs such as...

Hi. I've tried restoring to an earlier point (several points) and each time, after going through the restore process, I get a message saying it was not able to complete so that the system is unchanged. I've also tried going into Safe Mode, but when I click on the System Restore icon, nothing happens. (It worked a few months back, but not now.) My OS is Vista Home Premium 6.0 (Build...

Hi recently I made a bad move.. I put something on automatic in the graphiccard options in screen options which you'll get in to by doing this. right click on desktop properties then you click properties again in that window then i changed something there to automatic then i restarted the computer and i starts normaly but then it just goes black and i can hear the vista welcome sound.. Ive looked...

So I just got home from dinner about an hour and a half ago and my computer looked very strange. The colors were all distorted (like watercolors) and the print was very large. It looked like Safe Mode usually does. There was no message screen telling me there was a problem so I'm not sure what the deal is. I've tried rebooting my computer, pressing F8 and selecting "restart normally" AND "Last...

My understanding is that if I want to use more than 4GB of RAM, I have to get the 64 bit version. If I do, is it still possible to run all my 32 bit apps? Old apps? Hope I asked this question using the correct terminology. The reason I'd like to consider 64bit is for speed and the ability to run more apps in the background.

My laptop has been running great for nearly 2 years. Several weeks ago, it began to have flickering horizontal lines flashing across the screen, a few at first, but as time went on they filled the entire screen, sort of line the rolling screens of TVs, but much faster. Then, as though this was just too much activity for it, it would suddenly go black, not like the computer went off, but I...

I found a post about abcPager, but reflecting on it resulted in an error message that the post was to old to be able to reply to it. The thread was about somebody who got a 'solution' to a problem with a particular program that crashed or something. This was found in his problem and solutions application belonging to Windows Vista Home Premium. I seem to have the same problem. Since there was...

After POST and before log in, I am receiving this message: Microsoft Visual C++ Library This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact the applications support team for more information. The machine in question is a Toshiba Satellite, 2 gigs of RAM, Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. This machine is new (just taken out of the

Hello! I set up my Windows Vista welcome screen so that users have to enter their username and password. I want one certain user name to always appear at the 'username' field at the Windows startup, so that I will only have to type the password. To make it clear, I don't want Windows to automatically log in to that user account (I do know how to set this up). And I don't want other accounts to...

Vista Home Premium SP1 Avast AV, Windows Firewall and Windows Defender. The error message I receive on the taskbar is "Windows can't check for updates". The problem began with the recent updates. I've tried Safe Mode, turning off Avast and Windows Firewall.

Vista Home Premium, SP2, IE8 I am having this nagging problem which started quite awhile ago even when I had SP1 and IE7. Now and then, when I played MP3, I received the audio but Windows Media Player did not appear. I had to manually open Media Player. Each time that happened, I had to do system restore to fix it. I have checked the default programs, Media Player is set with all its...

Somehow, I have 2 start buttons, one on top of the other, slightly offset so I can see both of them. Don't know when (today) or how this happened and it is only annoying as everyrhing seems to be working otherwise OK. Anyone familiar with this one? Thanks again BW

I recently bought an HP HDX9000 laptop and it came with vista home premium edition. I installed Office 2007 Enterprise Edition and everything was working fine until Microsoft Update did something and now EVERY TIME i open ANY Office program it loads a window with a progress bar that reads "Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007" that takes FOREVER to load! I...

I have an Asus G50VT with an Intel P8700 Mobile 2.53Ghz and 4G Ram.... For the past couple of days I have noticed that my computer has not been performing right! Only one core is working, Core 1!!! I have checked all Processor power management and performance utilities and nothing happened! I have checked the bios update and Device management, the Processor stil shows 2 cores!! Can someone...