I just read a post that nobody in this day and age would even consider compressing their hard drive. Well I did. It did free up space but is now very slow. Is there any way to fix this error in judgment and undo what I did? My son had some choice words for me all of them meant "stupid". He said to copy of the files that I needed to open up disk space. I work with a lot of photos and didn't...

Windows Vista Home Premium. Used by club member and not connected to the Internet at any time since purchase in May 1007. Some "wierd" events that he couldn't explain were happening, so I placed SP1 on a DVD and gave it to him to update his system. Now he cannot open some, not all, images in Windows Photo Gallery that were scanned from his 4 X 5 transparancies. They will open in Photoshop...

Hello, I believe I found a bug in Vista (Business). I have an application that has an issue with the Aero interface, and a workaround for it is to turn off the "Desktop Composition" feature in Vista. I can do this system-wide, and the application works great. But, for obvious reasons I'd rather leave desktop composition on for the entire system and use Vista's per-application configuration...

Hi, I installed SP1 Beta which resulted in a BSOD and corrupted something somewhere that wouldn't allow me to connect to the internet (even using the connection wizard). I have tried to uninstall (as previously recommended) the SP1 without success. It always fails to uninstall and does the "reverting changes" thing. I have tried the uninstall in safe mode, removed all my AV and...

Hi All...need some assistance or HELP (lol) I have an HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook with an AMD Turion 64x2 Processor with 3.0GB of Memory I recently did a System Restore that took up 10.3GB of Drive D which left 1.30GB remaining (approx 10%). Is there any way I can recover my Drive D to its full capacity?

I recall there is a Run command that will delete unwanted temp files and or cookies, but cannot remember it

I had a "work" laptop running Vista Business, from an upgrade disc, as XP had originally been installed. In line with good practice, I ran regular backups onto an external drive, from the MS software facility provided. So, following a recent crash, I bought a new laptop, and accepted it with Vista Home Premium. I tried to restore the back-up and even using the advanced restore, it could not...

I have this pop up error which states just OSD LAG. Is this a serious problem? -- iMush

I'm trying to get 8 GB to run stable with this motherboard and so far it's not working. When Kingston branded RAM would not work I ordered the exact 2 GB Crucial RAM recommended on the Intel's support site and it's not much better. As soon as I engage in any intensive activity (like downloading and installing Vista updates) the computer will reboot. Intel tech support escalated the issue and...

I get 0x080070570 when I try to either copy or transfer a file from several hard drives. It affects ALL files and is getting to be a pain. It does not stop the files from working, but just stops the transfer to another drive. I have 5 drives in all and the other 3 are fine. There is only Vista on the system and I want to transfer files that I wish to keep and wipe the rest with a fresh...

Hello! I have a big problem. Everytime I put my laptop in Idle mode, the screen doesn't come back when I restart activity. I usually press the power button once to go Idle and once again to restore it; but it seems that my screen doesn't respond. what can i do? I've already changed the configuration so my laptop doesn't go Idle again... but this is not what i want.

David;17586 Wrote: You may have some processes running in the background that Windows is recognizing as activity on the user's part. Check to see what you have running. Absolutely true! I had exactly the same problem and decided to see what was running in background. For me it was the software for the Logitech Harmony Remote. Run "msconfig", click on the "Startup" tab and unheck ...

I am using a 2GB SD card for ReadyBoost, and want to know what is the best format to use for quickest operation. I've tried FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS, but don't see much difference (except for available space!) Thanks in advance, Dave

After doing a check on the health and performances of my comp, the program gives me a red flag for the Avg Disk Queue Lengh with a average of 2, minimum of 1 and a max of 6 I have Western Digital Caviar RE 320 Gb * 3 raid 5 (so good and fast disks) they are only 1/32 full so lots of room, the disk is defragged, all temps files are binned

By now it should be obvious that, under the Vista operating system, I have Home Premium, there is a severe overall, general "has stopped working" problem. Thus far I've experienced: "Internet Explorer has stopped working" "Windows Explorer has stopped working" "Word has stopped working" "Sherlock Holmes Nemesis (Adventure Company) has stopped working" "Outlook has stopped working"

My backup drive D in Windows Vista is full up and I can't seem to be able to empty it or allocate more space to it. It only has 9.99GB of space allocated to it and my computer is now complaining that it can't backup. Does anyone know how to allocate more space to it, or should I just delete everything on it?

I downloaded a freeware incinerator and chose to shred the free space on C in order to get rid of all the files that had been deleted, but were still on the HD waiting to be overwritten. Since then I show practically no space left on C, even thou before I used the incinerator only about 1/3 of the drive was used. Does anyone know what I can do to recover this space? -- PBF

I noticed that whenever I insert either a blank CD or DVD that the System Log fills with, respectively, either 5 or 10 of these: Event ID: 51 "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation." The Event Viewer help indicates it's just an informational message and no action is required, but I'd like to know what's causing it since it's filling up the log. It's...

How do I log on as Administrator?

After I have logged into my account, I have my statup entries load fine. After AVG and MSN etc have loaded, the HDD activity seems to be constant for 2-3 minutes afterwards. During this time, if I look at the Reliability and Performance Monitor for Disk, I see loads of files randomly on there, like system files, some program files like Office and the odd document I have. The IO priority is...