hi guys, my friend's latop comes with vista preloaded and is really slow and slugish. the laptop has only 1GB of ram but the task manager reports only 0 free usually ( sometimes 8 to 16 MB free but 0 most of the time) and about 120 cashed. I tried to disable some of the stuff that runs on startup that is rarly used, using the msconfig command on the startup tab. there is lots of stuff in that...

When I boot up my notebook, the sidebar doesn't appear, the network icon in the taskbar has a red X on it (but I'm still connected to a network), and the task manager won't appear after pressing ctrl-shift-esc or right clicking on the taskbar. When I try to bring up the task manager, all I get is a green grid icon in the taskbar which cannot be accessed. If I try to initiate task manager multiple...

I cannot download any updates from MS.com or through Windows Auto Updates

Gentlemen: When I download and install Windows updates I normally restart my computer. Often when I do this, during the restart, I get the message "Preparing your desktop". When my Desktop appears it is the configuration is was when I first got the computer 2 years ago. All my personalizing is gone. Is there any way to stop this from happening?

I have seen many people that have gotten this message. But there are very few that get it when they are trying to install a program. I was trying to install microsoft web developer express and I've tried everything and the same thing always happens. It gets almost finished and then says that setup.exe has stopped working.

Hello, I'm trying to find out why my computer keeps waking up from sleep. Unfortunately I've not been able to track this down. I leave the house around 9am, don't get back home till 8pm, and the computer has turned on while I've been at work. My fiancee can't ever remember to check right when she gets home to see if it's on then or not, so I have no other time frame to deal with at the moment...

We recently brought a laptop with Vista Home and have had on going issues with it not shutting down. Everytime we hit shut down it goes to the logging off screen but never actually makes it. We have left it running over night and come down the next morning and its still "logging off"! We have tried the Ctrl Alt Del combination to see whats causing the issues but the task manager doesnt load up....

Hello everyone, This is my doubt, I have 8GB RAM installed (max for my MoBo) and 2 Video Card 512MB. So this will mean that my Vista Home Premium x64 have to deal with 9GB RAM. How can I be sure that it takes full advantage of all RAM?

My Home Premium laptop keeps waking up from sleep. In Event Viewer, just before the entry saying it has resumed from sleep, it says "The system detected that network adapter Wireless Network Connection was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation." Immediately before this is says "Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the...

Hello: Is Windows OneCare still in business ? If not should I uninstall it and download something like AVG ? TIA Drew

Upon startup for the past week I have been recieving the following error "0x800106ba." Windows Defender will not start up. If I try to start it up manually I get the same error. I went to this page 'Error message when you run Windows Defender: "Error Code 0x800106ba"' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931849) as directed by Microsoft. I tried to uninstall it, but it's not in the...

My laptop took a mean spill and lost it's LCD screen. I repaired the screen and it began to give me errors. At the moment it's missing a "system32\config\system". I found my Vista recovery disk, it loads the files and shows me a Microsoft loading bar. It passes the bar and stops at a black screen with the arrow cursor on it. Is this supposed to happen? How long do it take for the disk to show me...

Everytime I return to work after putting computer to sleep, the computer wakes up without no problem. But once I move the mouse, a shadowed box appeared. With the moment of the mouse, the size of that box enlarges or shrinks. If I click on the mouse, that box disappeared but then a window opens. I close this window, only to find the pointer of mouse stop working and the screen is...

Hello! explorer.exe uses 90% of CPU after opening a HDD in a windows explorer window for minutes. Other windows accounts do not have this problem. I stopped the Windows Search service and in 6 hours the explorer.exe stopped using 90% of CPU after opening a HDD. How to cure my account? CPU is Intel E6750, RAM 6Gb, Windows Vista sp2 x64. Regards, Dima

My daughter's Compaq Presario F700 laptop has an intermittent no sound issue. It works through the laptop's speakers for a while, stops working for a while, and then starts working again. She is not aware of any specific activity that causes the symptoms. Running Vista SP2. The issue was happening before and after the service pack update (I do not believe it is related). I have done due...

What is the diff. between, Application and Processes ? Why are there more then one, program name.exe shown in "processes' and the program is not running? Help school an old man. Thanks for any and all help....................Tom

For the last few weeks, all my attempts to create a backup on DVDs have failed, almost always the second time the backup program needs to format a new DVD to write the backup to. It then says that I need to do a full backup instead - but asking for a full backup instead gives the same result. Something about a problem with the backup catalog - don't have the error message on the screen to copy...

Long story short, I loaded hive via regedit, and move some files from my desktop to the public folder while in there. Now I can no longer boot into windows, the computer simply restarts, and I do know that the volume is now corrupt. In retrospect, I realize that messing around in hive caused this, and I'm kicking myself for it. Now all I can do is try to correct this. I am currently...

This was the path to my stationery folder before I used Revo unstaller to uninstall the program "malwarebot remover" C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Stationery Now AppData no longer appears and the Local folder is empty. Did the uninstaller cause this and is it necessary to have these items in the list? I now access my stationery folder in this way:

Hi, got a Lenovo X61t laptop/tablet with built-in SD card reader and I'm using the reader mainly with a 4G sdhc for readyboost. Often readyboost decides to reorder/refresh the cache with lots of SATA drive activity for 5 minutes or so. On AC this is fine. But it also happens on battery which is drains the battery faster. So is there any method (say, even some 3rd party prog) to...