I've got a Acer Aspire 5100 laptop and have just installed Vista Ultimate (Clean install) straight after install I downloaded Messenger Live and installed it, but it just won't load up, if I try and kill the process nothing happens it stays in my process list, also got a problem with Trillian Pro loading I had it working then needed to reboot and now it just freezes, finally, well at least...

After a crash with my Expression Web Total Taining DVD my Search Insexer kept crashing. I wiped my drive and did another clean install but this thie I left off the RealTek Vista audio software. My sound had become abnormal with the RealTek and I am running Total Training videos with no problems. My sound works much better now also. -- Sam

When I have to shutdown my notebook and it has to restart automaticly (after I installed a program or anything that will ask for an automatic restart), it won´t work anymore. So I have to completely shutdown by powerbutton and then manually start up by the powerbutton. I have Home Basic installed on a IBM Thinkpad A30 (yes an ´oldie´ but it works though), everything works very fine, accept...

Hi, According to technet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa940972.aspx) it is possible to override the feature scaling of Vista, as long as you are logged in as an administrator. I am logged in as such and have not been able to find the setting where I can do this. How does one do override the scaling feature?

Two questions First I have a water cooled cpu and was wondering about the different power saving states. If I put my pc on sleep or whatever that new power button does will my cpu overheat? Second if my pc is in one of those states and a scheduled task is supposed to run what happens? Does my pc wake up and run the task? Does it go back to sleep once the task is done?

I just installed Vista. Everything is fine except that I keep getting a program compatility dialogue box regarding the incompatibility of a driver - truevector device driver. I checked the Zone Labs website adn tehre doesnt seem to be a new driver (unless I just totally missed it). At any rate, assumign that there is no new driver yet, is there a way to disable the compatibility dialogue...

So i have some mp3's and other files im trying to cut and paste from drive D to drive E. Prob is, when i do CUT and Paste, vista frezzes up. All it says is calculating time remaining and stays like that. And when i click cancel, it just says canceling and stays like that. In order to stop it, i have to reboot my system. The only way ive found to transfur files from drive to drive is to copy...

I've recently upgraded to Vista. I've heard that there is some service that automatically defrags the hard drive when the computer is idle. Is this true? If so, how do configure this?

When I just installed Vista Ultimate, I went to update. I wanted to download the Chinese Language Pack, but I cancelled it just to speed up the updates. Now that I have time now to download, the update disappeared! Its still in my update history, but I can't get Windows Update to download it again. Is there some way I can download that update again? Thanks! Jimmy

Some day I found that Reliability Monitor shows only date: 1.1.1970. After some search in registry I found that it uses files in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\. But they was empty (size 0, but filled with zeroes). I deleted them. And started c:\windows\system32\racagen.exe (elevated). After this I could see all dates. But this information is not updating automaticaly anymore. How do I...

Anyone have this option enabled (under the Policies tab) and noticed any difference in performace?

I've seen many posts on Vista chewing CPU performance, but don't know how to solve the problem. My processor usage is constantly at 100%. When I go to the processes section of Task Manager, it says ZCfgSvc.exe is using 80+%. ZCfgSvc.exe is the driver for my Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG card. The are no updates for this driver so I'm not sure whether it is the problem or in conflict with...

I have the above video card and the latest drivers from Nvidia. I am running x64 RTM 6000 and I find my display is shutting down and restarting very often. There seems to be little pattern which I can detect, but it olny affects the desktop or sometimes video. I will simply need to click a link in IE, and the error occurs, the report pops up at the bottom of the srceen saying nv................

I put my PC in hybernation, come back and it's awake again! What is going on? Is there a bios setting I should change that I don't know about?

Ok, I bought Vista home edition at the store and it's the 32-bit version. Inside the packaged they offer the 64-bit version for only 10 bucks. I have the latest computer system which is capable of running the 64-bit version. Is there really any advantage to doing so if I'm not running more than 2 gig RAM?

Raxco is proud to announce that PerfectDisk 8 is the first and only defragmenter to be Certified for Windows Vista by Microsoft. PerfectDisk 8 Build 50 is now available for use on Windows Vista, as well as Windows XP Home/Professional, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Professional/Server. During the PerfectDisk 8 Vista certification testing process, Raxco's development team uncovered...

Disk Defragmenter in Vista is now more worthless than it was in Windows XP. For whatever reason the Vista team took out the graphical diagram that showed how much of your system was fragmented and the bits of the hard drive. The also took out the little progress bar/percentage of when the Disk Defragmenter would be completed. My wish is to PLEASE put back a real progress bar that shows...

Im curious if this is possible. It seems that I can modify the schedule for when defrag happens in Vista and it's default settings on my computer is something like Wednesday at 1am but I don't leave my computer on 24 hours a day and by 1am Im usually asleep. So does Vista wake up my computer when it's off on wednesdays at 1am, defrag everything, then shut it back down again? I believe that...

I'm running Vista RTM on a desktop. I've just bought a RADEON 9600PRO (256Mb) video card. I have installed latest ATI Catalyst Vista drivers. When I update my Windows Experience Index I still get a rating of 1.0 for both graphics and gaming graphics. The strange thing is that Aero can be enabled... Any ideas why the Windows Experience Index is not updating correctly Screenshot below.

Questions: 1) Is there an optimal (or preferred) allocation unit size the target disk should be formatted to for Vista complete system backup? 2) Can the target disk be compressed via the disk properties check-box? What if any impact will this have on backup speed, restore speed, and general backup reliability?