Hey there... (i have a notebook) I have noticed that unless you have three powerplans, the system tray icon doesn't really help. I wish i could RENAME power plans at will I wish that clicking on the system tray icon for power settings gives more than three options. The alternative is that i open up the power settings and UNHIDE the HIDDEN profiles... but why are they hidden?! they're pretty...

Dear All, As you know, we could find many products claim (or are tested) to be ReadyBoost-compatible, such as http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/. Is there any OFFICIAL certification mechanism of ReadyBoost for USB flash keys from Microsoft Vista? Best Regards, Neil

This is really a WPM11 item, but in Vista there is no option to roll-back to the WMP10 version. Please reinstate the "Add to Library by searching computer" function available in previous versions. The "monitor Folders" function does not provide a manageable alternative for large libraries. It forces unnecessary searches through the library each time WMP is opened. It also forces an...

The defrag function in Vista is very slow and does not show a progress bar during its operation. Is there a third party program available which is compatible with Vista?

In Xp it is 2GB. Even if you have more in your machine. I am porting Unix apps that required more. Will Vista be able to handle it? Also, is there a prefered flavor of Vista for running apps like this... ie Business, ultimate, etc. Thanks

Why does the CPU run at less than 100% of maximum frequency most of the time, even while CPU usage never drops to 0%? Vista (RC2) is showing the graph of my CPU usage and frequency, and CPU usage is averaging about 40% while frequency is averaging about 85% of maximum. During the times when the CPU has anything to do at all, shouldn't it be running at 100% frequency, and then drop down to 0%...

I've installed Vista 32bit and I can't get past the desktop before it stops. I've got the following spec computer; 160GB HDD 1GB DDR RAM 256MB GPU 2.93 GHz Pentium 4 CPU 16X DVD-RW Dual Layer Not that you need to know all of that but I can't figure it out, I've got the minimum specification but the performance is diabolical.

I am currently running RC2 with little problem, except the following: Whenever I close my IE 7 browser window, I get a pop-up error that says "Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working", and that it is looking for a solution to the problem. The IE browser then restarts. If I kill the restart, I get a "runtime error 217 at 03F71F76", or a "Com process" error. Any ideas? Thanks!

I have newly built pc with several hdds. One of these had xp home on one of 3 partitions, the other had Vista 64 bit on 1 of 3 partitions. I had a problem with this Vista installation which I was not able to resolve with the Vista repair utility, so I decided to reinstall Vista. unfortunately, rather than replacing the existing Vista installation, it installed a 3rd OS/2nd Vista on the...

I need to restore my system, but I have Windows 2000 and it doesn't have a System Restore option. Are there any alternatives?

Has anyone else experienced same or similar odd behavior with the Date & Time Setting controls? Here is the the substance of my Beta Client report to MS, followed by a summary of my system spec's. Beta Client Report: Anomolous behavior in Date & Time control dialogue displayed While logged in under the default Administrator account : - Opened the time & date controls to adjust for what...

I'm using the 64-bit RC1. The first WMP monitor (since search is no longer an option) of a specified folder is abysmally slow (compared to WMP10 on XP). I have over 50,000 tracks (all wma lossless and previously searched and found on xp). It would take WMP10-XP an hour or so to process. I don't know how long it'll take on rc1 ('cos it hasn't finished!), but I estimate it'll take at least a...

I have RC2 installed (clean install) on my laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor and 2Gb of RAM. If I'm not mistaken this should be able to run Vista fairly smoothly but it is the exact opposite. Opening most programs, changing windows, moving files (all which didn't produce that much lag in XP) slow my PC down considerably. Also startup times tend to run to about eight minutse. Any suggestions or...

I am using RC1 and having trouble with startup. Booting the computer takes more than 10 minutes. Fortunately I am able to crank up Task Manager in that time, where I noticed that the 'server' service is stalling for a long time before it loads. I confirmed this by disabling the service, after which the computer starts up normally. I haven't seen any reports in these newsgroups about this...

I'm planning to replace my desktop with a laptop, and want to get a general idea of relative performance in Vista. Anybody running RC1 or RC2 on a late-model laptop with a 7200rpm SATA drive, can you post your hard disk model and Vista's performance index hard disk subscore? I've got a 7200rpm 300GB Maxtor SATA desktop drive (model 6B300S0) with a score of 5.3 in RC2, and want to see how...

Running RC2 on an Athlon 64 3000 w/ 1GB RAM I run Start/Search and search for "name:small", using all the default search settings (Location is "Indexed Locations" and "Include non-indexed, hidden, and system files" is not checked. Results come up with 242 items, 1.41 MB. About 10% of the results are directories named "small", and the rest are files with names beginning with "small". I select...

Hi, Experimented today with a Verbatim 1GB USB flash drive as a ReadyBoost drive - its very fast in XP so I was expecting no problems. It worked fine in the 32 bit version of Vista, but the 64 bit version refused to use it as it "didn't meet the perfomance requirements" necessary. Any thoughts about how to get it working in 64 bit Vista - suspect two possibilities:

I installed DiskKeeper with Beta2 and then installed PerfectDisk with RC1 as DiskKeeper wasn't set for this version when released. I know DK is compatible now but I would like to know if it is best for us to use Vista's own defrag despite the lack of GUI (worst bit) I have DiskKeeper downloaded again but don't know if I should install or does Vista know best where the files should be? I use...

Greetings, I have 2 computers on a network at home. I am trying to backup files to the other computer on the network. The Vista backup wizard allows me to select the drive and even the folder on the other computer. However, when I click NEXT I am prompted for a name and password to access the drive. I used the one I have created for the other computer but I get the message.... "The...

I remember reading Vista has a feature to use Flash memory (ex. USB memory stick) as (extra)RAM. I tried to find this feature in RC1 - USB attached but no sign of it in Task Manager/Physical Memory. Michael