Got BSOD after online for a few hours - no recent program additions or updates. Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 50

I have lost the option to zoom the icons in the control panel to a small or larger size by use of the mouse wheel. I can use the function in Windows Explorer etc but it will not work in the control panel classic or normal view anymore. Does anyone have similar experience? Thanks.

I have had the last update to nero 9 full for 6 months. I cannot use the burn engine in it because of "track following error" at end. I have read someplace that this could be a software disagreement between nero and sonic. Does anyone have some info on how to remove sonic burn engine from windows safely? I would like to try this method. -- Visit Family Radio Today

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Service Pack 1 My backup drive D: is too full to accept another nightly backup of drive C:. I can manually delete the many older backup sets I no longer need but the reference to them in the GlobalCatalog remains. Under drive D: "Properties" I've tried using "Disk Cleanup" removing the "System Restore and Shadow Copies" but no backup sets or reference...

Hello, can someone help me. vista freezes after a few hours. I cant use anything. only option is the power button. It started a month ago. No recent installations or other changes. I have no Idea what the problem is. neather does windows, I don't get any bad messages from vista it just won't work. thanks. com specs. acer aspire 7720 ZG

Looking for a true Microsoft type fix. Microsoft should have had a fix for this by now. What we have come up with so far in our case is: This is a function of the new Remote Desktop client. What is happening is that when you remote into a Vista PC it tries to set your local default printer on the remote box. When the session is ended, it is not getting the remote PC default printer set...

my windows media player is not working internet explorer also.. i can run internet explorer 64bit but it can't handle movie file ( it's not running ). and many other windows applications, and now even my yahoo messenger won't open. man i'm stress.. every time i open an application the message appear " the application has failed to start because it's side-to-side configuration is incorrect. please...

Hey I'm new to a x64 OS, I did have Home Premium (32bit) on my PC but upgraded yesterday. Since upgrading (clean install) I've notice that the boot times are longer and the shut down times have increased significantly. One of the reasons I moved to x64 was because of the faster boot and shut down times. A few other programs are taking longer to load/respond but I'm not sure if that's because...

Hi Guys, Another wasted evening... Here's the situation. Last year I did a clean install of Vista x64 SP1 (slipstreamed). 4GB of RAM (specs below). Everything was running great until today. Today I added a new HDD (1TB WD Caviar Black). Power up, and... endless reboots with the dreaded 0x0000007E (at the point it tries to load crcdisk.sys). 4 hours later, after doing whatever not it was...

First of all I would like to say I love this forum if it wasn't for this forum my Desktop/HDtv(as my monitor) would have a keyboard stuck in it. Why you might ask, well I was stuck on "Updates Configuring 3 of 3 - 0% // then Shutdown" and repeat. Also I'm a new Vista owner and so far its been shaky but I plan on over coming it.

Vista home premium SP1. . . I created a new account, and applied a password to it. I then went to make a password reset disk and when the wizard presented me a drop-down list titled "create disk in this drive", I found that the cd drive was not on the list. It appears in "Computer", but not in the wizard. Anyone have a solution or a work-around for this?

Just in the last 72 hours I have started to have problems with my Vista installation. Whether I start the computer in Safe Mode or regularly, the explorer.exe process runs up my dual-core processors to 100%, or thereabouts. The average usage for the process is about 60% - 80%. I downloaded ProcessExplorer from the Microsoft website, and the culprit thread is something...

Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with 4gb memory, When inside explorer, I can select continuous files by selecting the first file and pressing the Shift key plus last file. However when I try to select files using CTRL key plus files that are not next to each other, the highlighting comes off and I am unable to select files properly. Is this a known bug with Vista?

A query for those who've done this befo I have a two-disk RAID 0 volume running off an Nvidia driver with no Windows-based RAID support that I am aware of. I want to create a RAID volume on two new disks and transfer the data from the old array. I would like to install the two new disks in another machine, create the array and transfer the data from machine to machine, then simply...

Hi i am running vista home premium I have Mirrored 500gig raid and using a 80gig sata drive to back up my music docs ect. Recently i needed to change my back up sata due to tech probs. I am now getting the error code 0x81000006 i cant turn off the the back up change settings nor back up as it fails. I have tried a couple of forums were people are having similar problems but with no success....

Few days ago I noticed my harddrive light going crazy, when I wasnt doing anything. So, I looked in Vista's Resource Monitor under the Disk tab. And it was reading 1mb-100mb/sec, I did not have anything open. I cannot recall the exact file names that were causing this, b/c I dont know if to look at the Read or Write or Both. I do notice 1 file that is only named by -, that is all it says for...

hey guys, something has been eating up my computer's resources over the past few days. My CPU will idle around 30%, and my memory will idle around 40%. I have 3.5GB of ram, and a dualcore 2.4GHZ cpu. I was checking windows update, and it says it cannot download any updates, and it's most recent check was on 9/9/2008. I tried manually downloaded the windows vista service pack 1, but it keeps...

Hey guys, i've got 4 gb of ram installed on my machine, 2 x 2gb sticks. The motherboard allows upto 4gb max ram but vista only says i have 3gb =\ im using 64-Bit vista so i can't see what the problem is, CPU-Z seems to see it all ok =http://disc.420chan.org/tech/src/1238676494116.jpg] -- Umbrella420

Hi for the last 2 days i have been having a problem with my desktop When i log back on stuff on my desktop seems to delet its self (it has stoped) but now i cant install stuff on 2 my desktop. What do i do??? i have a web cam virus scaner my system (is clean just checked) i have a sound card its vista basics

When I set my computer to hibernate or it goes to screen saver, when I return whatever window I have open (whether it be Mozilla or a Word document) automatically closes. Not all my windows close, just the one I have open in front of me when I return. Any clues on how to prevent this from happening? -- amadeusmozart