Vista 64 keeps on looking and never finds the external disk which I can see clearly see under Computer. It is a WD and I can see backups I made with Acronis earlier. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4367 (20090825) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

For instance, I have Winamp set to the modern skin, when it is on the desktop, the whole player is very tiny and I can barely read the menu. On my old computer, Winamp was a nice size and easy to see. I can't drag the edges to make it larger. Any help? Thanks

When doing an install of Win 7, Does the entire drive get wiped, or just the C partition? I'm thinking of course of maintaining the recovery partition. Dave T.

Hi guys, new to Vista and new to these forums. I bought an Acer Aspire 6530 last week. I noticed whenever I go to the GUI disk defragmenter (My ComputerRight click C:PropertiesToolsDegfragmentation) that it ALWAYS says I need to defrag the drive even after I did did one. But when I do the command line defrag (StartAll ProgramsAccessories, Command Prompt and chose “Run as...

I've had Vista x64 installed for about 2 full months now and I've recently begun having a **** ton of problems. One being: http://images.tomed.org/boottime.jpg] 187 seconds. What the ****. Before you ask, here are 'my specs' (http://tomed.org/specs.htm). Lots of fast memory, a fast processor, 7200RPM boot drive (not listed), and ****ing awful performance. What gets me is that the delayed boot...

I backed up my files (not the full system backup) using the Vista Backup tool. My computer crashed and it wont allow me to restore from the drive that I had previously backed my files up to (it says its a system drive for some reason). I do, however, see the backup catalog on the drive and can access the files within. Most of the files can be located and restored just by dragging them...

Hi. In another thread there was a discussion about spyware. I followed some of the advice given and now all of a sudden, the cursor movement is sluggish. Also, when I boot up, my password is sometimes rejected two or three times even though I am being careful in typing. Sometimes I have to click on a link three or four times before it works. My machine is a Packard Bell desktop with 32-bit...

Hello all.... When I close down an Internet browsing window, I get an error saying "Internet Explorer has stopped working. A problem caused the window to stop working correctly. Windows will close the window and notify you if a solution is available" 1 This happens when I intentionally close a window down. I use Windows Vista, and have searched forums and help columns but to no avail...

On my recently deceased computer, I had downloaded a registry cleaner many years ago. It was simply called "Registry Cleaner" and it was freeware. Looking around the modern internet all the newer registry cleaners are for sale only. The one had was terrific: cleaned the registry, uninstalled programs, etc. Is there anything out there right now? BW

I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a dvd burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions assume a drive D on the computer but there is none. Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads: "invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the...

:confused::confused::confused:I have a Gateway DX4200-09, AMD Quad-core, 4GB and running Vista Home Premium 64bit. When I try to logoff, it starts to properly, but then the screen goes blank and my monitor informs me that there is no connection with the system (but the system is still powered on). No matter how long I wait, up to 1 hour, I have to power-off the system to re-boot. During the boot,...

For the past few days, every time I try to back up my computer to an external hard drive, I get error message 0x80070005 - access denied. This never happened before. Does anyone know what I should do? I use Windows Vista Home Premium, SP2, on an HP Pavillion with 3 GB of RAM. I recently installed an updated version of Mozilla Firefox. My security software includes Windows Defender, AVG...

After installing SP2, on 5/25, System Restore seems to have stopped creating automatic restore points every 24 hours. I checked the Task Manger and it is set for 24 hours. It shows a restore point being created on 5/26. System Restore shows the last Restore Point being created on 5/25 about 1 hour after downloading SP2. -- richc46

I've posted before how I keep getting the blue screen and it crashed on me several times freezing and the only way to get rid of the freeze was to manually restart. I reformatted my computer. Everything has run smoothly until the second week, no freezing but the blue screen just comes up! Ever since that time it come up it does it now at least 2-3 times a day. I don't know what to do with this...

Hello! explorer.exe uses 90% of CPU for a minute when I open a folder with movies or scroll the list of the files. The view mode is the list. The thumbnails are not shown. How to know what codec makes explorer.exe use 90% of CPU? I uninstalled Divx Pro 7, this did not help. How to uninstall VP6 VFW Codec? I cannot fild a uninstaller for it. I do not see any other codecs. VLC Player is...

Hey guys, This has been going on for quite a while but its getting to severe points. What's happening is basically explorer.exe jumps straight to 95-99% when vista boots and remains like that without budging, resulting in extreme slow computer performance. Attempting to close the explorer then restarting will temporary bring it back to aroung 50% but it will soon jump up again, restarting doesnt...

Windows XP has a command function called System File Checker. Does Vista have the same thing?

Hi i need serious help. I keep getting driver state power failure at shut down. I need some help to this solution. I checked my mini dump file to see what the problem was and it said ntoskrnl.exe? How can i fix this. Im so ****ed i spent 2k on a gaming computer and i get this dumb error at shut down. -- Xth09

When a user is connected to the wired lan, then disconnects and connects to a wireless hotspot and tries to log off or shut down the normal 14 seconds ballon up into the minutes. I've narrowed the process down to GPClient, but as to what exactly GPClient is trying to do that is causing the increased time I have not figured out. Any suggestions on drilling down more on GPClient? Logoff...

Hey, my name is Brendan and i have an HP notebook (Pavilion dv2500CTO). Heres my graphics information: Geforece 8400M GS(Chip Type) Integrated RAMDAC(DAC Type) 816MB(Approx. Total Memory) The laptop came with 2GB of ram and i upgraded it to 4 GB and was wondering why i have not seen an increase in my Approx. Total Memory.