Made a registry edit to fix disable all of Vista's visual effects, or at least those found in Advanced System Settings and Window Color and Appearance. http://silenceisdefeat.org/~geekunit/regedits/no_fx.reg - GeekUnit

Does anyone else have problems with preformance problems with Vista Ultimate while running dual monitors? Everything runs great on this system, but as soon as I try to play WoW, it stutters and comes to a grinding halt until I set everything into windowed mode so everything is tiny. I know the obvious answer is, turn off the other monitor...well I shouldn't have to. I even went so far as to...

Happy Holidays to all: I have installed Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384. Also installed are Office 2007 Trial and PCCillin 2007 internet security suite. Windows Explorer is taking between 80 - 95% of the CPU and does not seem to consume less than 75% of the resources at any time. This is making the system extremely slow and nearly impossible to use. Has anyone run into this problem or...

Hello, I cannot seem to find anything that indicates that Vista supports the use of tape drives for doing backups. Tape drives have longer media life and are very reliable. The current backup strategies do not allow customers to keep offsite backups. Tapes are the way to go for offsiting. Do you expect customers to buy a bunch of hard drives or use some 55 DVD's to do a 400 GB backup. ...

What control panel applet or other application dialog can modify these settings? Registry modifications seem to work, but we wish to include clearly documented instructions in our manual. For XP we used screen captures of the Folder Options applet, but these cannot be found in Vista. We maintain a web application in which Word documents and Excel sheets can be returned to the user. Both type...

I have been looking at Vista for some time now. I have an AMD Turion64, 1.8Ghz 1MBL2 cache with 1GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon Xpress200M. The vista compatibility scanner thing tells me that my graphics card will not run Aero. I have read in the past that DirectX 10, which is not yet released, is required to run Aero... But I am ALSO reading people's reviews on the system and they comment on...

I was going to check the evnet viewer for a problem and I got the message event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running. I check in the services and application and it isn't even listed there. What next.

I have a ASUS notebook, and until now I had hibernate functionality. After cleaning my hard disk (using disk cleaner) I accidentaly select the clean of the hibernate file. How can I restore my hibernate functionality ?

Could someone point me at a more detailed description of what the adaptive display configuration actually DOES? I think it extends the time before going into display off...but by how much, and if this extended time remains in situ for future idle timings I don't know. Thanks.

Hi, Anyone know what Di /dI stands for when you look at a disc that has Vista backups on it? Jill, any help? Jeff

I'm doing a backup to a USB drive and can not select a folder on the USB drive to hold the backup. Only the root of each drive on my system appear in the dropdown and when the rppt is selected there's no way to navigate to a folder.

Hi, I'm running Vista x86 RC2 and have noticed really poor copy speeds. When I copy files that are 100*MB *or more I can get around 40 MB/s. That's copying from one drive to another (sata drives). But when I copy smaller files around 100*KB* then I can only get copy speeds of about 7 MB/s. This is about half the speed I can get in XP. Also, when I try and delete a bunch of these 100KB or...

i have an .avi file that refuses to be deleted. it was actually a download that i cancelled. however, the full 1.36GB of this file was allocated. it is unplayable. now i wish to deleted. but when i ask it to delete the whole folder stalls, and goes into "not responding status"...what can i do?

I havent actually tried any of the betas but after reading all the features of vista i fear that my computer is going to take a performance hit if i install it, there seems to be a massive amount of stuff related to looks that i would never use, and i like runing programs like games on high settings, ive known xp to use up a chunk of system resources, will vista waste more of my poor...

When checking for updates with Vista I am receiving a 80072ee5 error. I cannot find any refernce to this error in KB, support, or Technet. I am on a home network and we utilize WSUS (Windows Systems Update Server) on Small Business Server 2003 where group policy controls how automatic updates are installed. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Does anyone else think this app sucks? Maybe it's just limited. I want to be able to choose what gets backed up on my laptop, not have Microsoft decide what to backup. ie: I keep ALL my data, and I do mean all, in a folder called My Data on the C drive. I have been doing this for years. And that is all I want to backup. I don't do complete system backups, if that anything ever happens...

Why would you do a backup of files vs complete backup? It seemed quicker to a complete backup than a regular one. The Complete can be automated through a scheduled task, so why do a regular backup?

So, in windows XP, you could goto display on desktop and make the colors stand out more or less. It was a Nvidia option. I have vista, and the colors are good, i downloaded the new nvidia for vista. Is there a way to sharping or increase the colors on here also or not as of yet thanks

Im having trouble burning DVDs I am using Nero 6 which worked great with XP but now gets errors and its on event viewer as a paging error. help!!!

Does Vista have the ability to install a Recovery Console similar to WinXP? Is it a console specific to Vista? I have a new computer with one SATA drive and no floppy drive. I can't get into the recovery console at all because I get a blue screen, I think due to not being able to install the SATA drivers. Vista has the ability to access a CD for drivers, unlike XP, and I'm thinking if it...