audiodg.exe , what is it?? (Windows audio device graph isolation?) It uses crazy ammounts of CPU and memory when I am just doing something simple like watching WMC live TV. Do I need this? Can I turn it off or stop the process without killing my Vista install? Is it supposed to use up this many resources when doing simple tasks?

Hello, I've got two question: First, How can I resize a desktop icons ? For me, they're too big. And second, in Beta 2 (build 5384) there was a feature, which showed a small preview of a window, when you put mouse arrow on name of this window in Taskbar. This was really nice and helpful, but now in RC1, I can't find this option. In Beta 2 it was even default.

Is there a way of hiding the available Windows Vista Ultimate Language Packs in Windows update that i dont' wish to install?

This will be a general question. How does the performance in the RTM compare with the performance of RC2 (build 5744)? Performance was generally good and in some cases faster in RC2 than XP, but some other areas were slower, especially Windows Media Player 11 where mfpmp.exe ate a lot of CPU resources (up to 10%) and DWM also ate a lot of CPU resources when WMP11 was running for some...

Had Crucial Ballistix ( 2 x 1 gig dual channel ) running Vista and just added some PQI ( also 2 x 1 gig dual channel ) that I had purchased (lt I had the crucial replaced as it was faulty.) Now it only shows as 2.48 gig memory under Vista. Any reasons why this would happen ? btw: Motherboard is Asus A8N32 Sli deluxe but cant find the manual

Hi. I've spent hours trying to find this answer so thanks if you can help. When on the "computer" window and icons set as tiles, hard drives report "free space". I like this view. Usually showing blue but changes to red when free space is 10% or less. I wish to change when Vista considers my hard drives are nearly full (ie the 10% default setting). As an example, one of my storage hard drives...

Just finished my Vista Ultimate install and received a free 1GB usb flash drive with the purchase. Plugged it in and configured to speed up system and was wondering if I'll actually see a difference on my system ( 2 GB ram installed). Anyone play around with this yet and have an opinion? From what I read with 2 GB system memory the speedup won't be much and it will be hard for me to tell...

Just some of the multitude and ever growing reasons not to use Vista. Government agency tells schools to shun Vista http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285414,00.htm IBM will not use Windows Vista - but will move to Linux desktops http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5436/ Long list of Vista bugs

I'm trying to figure out how to use the second drive for other than just backing up data... will this work for my second drive and how best do you do it with Vista: I don't have a drive for just the pagefile, but I do have a second physical drive (a RAID 1 array) that's used as a secondary data drive. I don't access it frequently, so I put the pagefile on that drive. You can specify the...

Vista used to automatically switch to the Vista basic settings when I used a program that wasn't Aero compatible, and then switch back when I was done using it, but now it stopped. Where can I find this option to turn it back on?

Just some of the multitude and ever growing reasons not to use Vista. Government agency tells schools to shun Vista http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285414,00.htm IBM will not use Windows Vista - but will move to Linux desktops http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5436/ Long list of Vista bugs

Is there a limitation on the amount of memory recognized by Windows Vista? I know in the past Windows versions it would only show a maximum of 3000MB even if you had more memory in the computer. Thanks in advance for anyones help.

I am running Vista Home Premium on a Core2 Duo E6400 running at 2.13ghz. My bios tells me that the processor is running at 2176Mhz which when halved is 1088Mhz, roughly the 1066FSB for the processor. Vista reports in Computer properties the correct processor and speed but reports the FSB as 800Mhz. I have checked the power settings and these seem ok. My understanding is that if the FSB is...

Using Vista Business, is there a way to dial into a VPN connection durning login? I cannot find that as an option with the login screen now that I have upgraded.

When I do shutdown via the start menu, it shows as shutting down and power does go off. The odd part is (when AC plugged in and battery is 100%) if I go turn this on 2 hours later or even less (without AC) battery shows about 85% - 91% level. Why does it lose about 10%-15%? This can't be normal. Also, is it normal that it takes about 10 seconds to get out of standby or hibernation (sleep mode)...

using Windows Vista Ultimate When I try to start the service, it returns "error 4201: the instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider" Thanks for your help.

So, im trying to once again run disk defrag. It hasnt worked in a couple weeks. What happens is i start it up, it runs the "anailzing disk" part and i can see my HD run for a min or so. But then it stops and thats it, i left my computer alone for like 6hrs, and when i came back, it still said "anailzing disk". ANyone got any help on this. When i goto task mgr, i see it in there, but i cant end...

Upgraded my XP notebook to Vista business last week. I've noticed that Explorer has slowed down considerably. For example; loading My Computer can take 15-20 seconds or opening the dialog to save an attachment from Outlook even longer. I'm running a dual core processor with 2gb of RAM so i don't believe it's hardware issue. does anyone have any suggestions?

Data: We were able to retrieve this time capsule that was launched into space a few hours before word war III started. It was a probe with ion propulsion and its intention was to preserve all the information from the global computer network they called the "internet". It had crashed on this large asteroid. Picard: This discovery is of monumental value... all information of that ancient...

When I try to use the Event log Online help link in Event Viewer I get a Windows Script host error ( "There is no file extension in..." .) any ideas why ?