My desk top and icons blink every 5-10 seconds. After 10-15 minutes, the icons disappear and nothing will work unless I restart the computer. Whats going on??

Hi all! I need your help. I have a new HP laptop that came with windows vista home premium, and I cannot get it to print any office XP word documents or PDF files. What is really odd is that it registers the printer, shows the ink available in each cartridge, and the printer will print my emails from comcast. I loaded the newest drivers, updated everything. I am stumped. Microsoft...

Hi, Been trying to delete from my Vista Ultimate desktop some Win 95 TTF in vain, because Vista tells me every time the file is open in another program. Are you kidding me, Mr Gates? I've got administrator rights and yet... nothing! Anybody has some idea what to do? Thank you. Demichan

I get a window that contains the following: Error: An error occurred while attempting to generate the report. The interface is unknown Please Advise. John

My monitor is showing up like a negative of a picture. The colors are all wrong. Any suggestions how to get it back to normal?

My comp showed a windows update, so i told it ok, i haven't been able to get it to stay on since then, It comes up Windows has encountered a critical error and will restart in one minute. And it does shut down and restart. Can you please help.

I need to show this led finger light with a white background. But the light needs to be on and show a little color on that white background. If I just use a brush and white out some area around the light hitting the table then it does not look very good. I want to make a great looking photo to put on the front of this website. I would appreciate any help at all. There is a photo now on the front...

For some unknown reason I cannot get my PC to boot into safe mode (Windows Vista Ultimate) When I turned on my pc I kept pressing on F8 till the boot options came up. I click on safe mode, my system looks like it's going into safe mode, then absolutely nothing happens & I end up having to reboot my system with all the normal settings. Why is this happening please? -- I just picked my...

i have very recently purchased a proper, certified copy of windows vista 32 not long ago i encountered a problem in which when i start up the computer, the desktop, including icons and task bars are black. The only thing that shows when i start up windows is a random my documents folder. I can access everything from here, including an application named 'explorer'- located in the windows...

Now that summer is starting over here in Australia, when I run heave duty applications like video encoding my CPU tends to overheat a little. Around 60-65 Celcius range. And I have noticed that this causes Dwm.exe (Desktop Window Manager) crash every 10 minutes or so continuously. The desktop returns to normal but it shouldn't be like that. The error message is as follows (irony as it...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Becky P" wrote in message ... When trying to install SP1, I encounter the error 8007010B. I've tried all 8 suggested resolutions on the microsoft page, but no luck. I've searched the forums, but the answer I encountered might as well have been Greek. My hints to "Stymied Jack" for getting...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Charlie" wrote in message .... It drives me crazy that every post about this error in the "Vista community" is about XP.

I have a new PC with 4x1gig 1066 PC2 RAM, is it worth it have additional ready boost memory added? If yes can anyone recommend something? M

Hello everyone, While going through the Programs & Features, I saw the above listed. I have no idea what it is. Does anyone recognize it ? I am using Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Do I need that program ? Thank you. -- t-4-2

Hallo, I cannot send messages using my nokia 6110 navigator, i can surf the internet and receive mail. If anyone can help, i would appreciate it. Thanx H

On my HP notebook, I selected my screen saver for 3 minutes on my Window Vista. I clicked ok than apply. No screen saver to be found after 3 minutes. What am I missing here?

I just started my pc this morning when the first thing i saw when got to desktop was 2 missing files: C:\Windows\system32\fswgtdsk.dll (Access denied) C:\Windows\system32\mlJBRLeF.dll (The model/file could not be found) It was in Danish so i wasn't sure what it means in english 100% It worked good last night, and i haven't done anything that should destroy them

I have a new computer with plenty of capacity, the right hardware and a Vista Ultimate O/S but can't get Media Center to synch with my cable TV set top box. I know something is working properly because Media Center opens properly and the news clips are current but when I run the TV set up wizard, I can't download the "most up-to-date TV set up options" without Media Center crashing and...

My monitor icons and toolbars are upside down how can I fix this

I purchased my copy from Best Buy the second week it was released and all has been well until about 3 weeks ago. I started getting error messages that my copy was not genuine. In the lower right corner of the screen it stated: Windows Vista (TM) Build 6000 This copy of Windows is not genuine, One of the error messages is that "Windows Aero is not working" forgot what