Music videos pause or stall in Youtube after about 2 minutes, and then continue after a 20second delay on HP DV6 2009 Vista64 laptop. Using a DSL connection 2mb, 4yr old dell pc using xp plays youtube perfectly and can download youtube music videos in seconds after the video concludes. HP Laptop downloads at reasonable rate but not instantly like 4yr old dell pc using xp. HP laptop updated to...

With Vista's new disk defragmenter, we apparently cannot see the 'detailed view' of the disks status as far as disk fragmentation goes. Is there a way for us to show this view that once existed in Windows XP?

Hi everyone i was hoping someone could give me a hand. When i try to uninstall a program from the control panel i get a message saying setup exe has stopped working. does anyone know why im getting this? or how i can fix it? this is a brand new vaio laptop and i just want to unintall some of the programs that came on it. thanks in advance for any help

The chkdsk utility will no longer run. Instead, I get this error message: "cannot open volume for direct access." I found some old KB articles indicating that this problem had come up under Windows XP and was going to be fixed by an upcoming service pack. Why am I getting this error message with Vista Ultimate?

My vista 32 stopped booting up. So I got the recovery disks out and started to do a recovery. First it asked if I wanted to back up, so I did. then it would not do the recovery. So I started it again. It did the backup and the recovery worked great the next time through. Now I want to get some the of the stuff back that I backed up. How do I do that? Any and all will be welcome. Thanks very...

Okay Had system 10 months and now I frequently start in START REPAIR MODE. It runs forever asks me to restore which I have numerous times does not work then I just cancel rstore and let run as long as needed which then it reboots. Many times it runs good for a while then poop again several times aweek. I will start in safe mode if it lets me and have done everything I know to do. Looking for any...

*I'm getting an error message in the center of my desktop when i start up vista which says; * * X* * Version Changed * * Bad License File*

hello guys. Ive got i big problem with my machine. I constantly am getting blue screen errors randomly. I have windows vista home premium here are some error messages - ---- Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

Every time I log off or switch user the next account I try to log into doesn't load properly. Half of the content on the background is missing and when trying to use the internet a page a saying there's a problem with the connection shows up instead of going to the address I typed. My internet connection is working fine. The only way I can get the pc to work is rebooting it. I'm using Vista Home...

Hi, My System crashes down atleast 2-3 times in a day. While i work, unexpectedly it goes to a blue screen and restarts again. I am clueless if its a problem with the Ethernet network or some hardware problem. I have mentioned the report below for reference. Kindly help me with a solution. Fault bucket 0xC5_2_nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+4ca, type 0 Event Name: BlueScreen Response:

This problem cropped up a couple years ago on this forum. I will provide the original post because he puts it perfectly: AJ;548558 Wrote: Any time Windows Explorer is called into action it crashes, causing loss of any information in the opening window and causing a full refresh of the desktop. -*doc*Edited out info that does not pretain to me*doc*- This is really getting to be an...

adobe flash ten crashes i.e. 7 and 8 even fire fox it dose this after a few mins of use have any one got any ideas am trying to help my sister out with this problem I have email adobe but they haven't came up with any thing.

Hi.. im using windows vista and runing a small online game server which sometimes crashes.. and displays the close box.. but i have a restarter.. which doesn't restart the app if i don manualy close it by pressing the close button.. is there a way to disable this close box displaying? just automaticaly close the program.. i need help very much please! -- collision

Hello! Explorer.exe began to use much of CPU (it look like) after increasing RAM from 2GB to 6GB. Explorer.exe uses much of CPU when I open a 4Gb mkv file in VLC player when uTorrent has been seeding for 8 hours already. OS is Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64. Page file is 'system managed' on G: HDD. Before increasing RAM, HDD was busy for several minutes in 30 minutes intervals when uTorrent...

Hello! Setting 'System managed' page file for my d: drive (EIDE Samsung SP2514N on JMicron JMB363 PATA and SATA controller on my Asus P5K motherboard) causes explorer.exe to use about 90% of CPU after a restart for several minutes and in about 10 minutes intervals during 720p video playback in VLC Player for several minutes. RAM 6GB, CPU Intel E6750. Vista Ultimate x64. I have set 'no page...

Hi, my side bar won't keep it's setting to start when computer starts anymore. I have no problem getting it to open manually and all tools are working correctly on it. I have selected under the properties to start when windows starts and apply/ok. But for what ever reason it does not keep that setting? Any suggestions to help? Very novice here as to terminology, but do appreciate any help.

my laptop monitor wont come on even thoug the system itself turns on and lights up. Anyone has some answers -- needfix

I'm using Vista backup and restore centre to do a full backup to a DVD and it's now been running for more than 24 hours! The little green bar showing progress is fairly close to the end but doesn't seem to be advancing any further. Must be something wrong. Should I just end the process and wait until I can get a portable drive to back up to and use some other software altogether? Will the...

My copy of Windows Vista is definitely genuine, it came with my laptop when I bought it. I have had it for about a year and a half now and it has never done this before. I shut it down to install updates, then restarted it, logged in, but it came up with 'the product activation code you entered is not valid' so I selected 'type new prict code' and entered the code on the sticker on the back of...

Vista 64-bit... I have to start somewhere though this isn't likely a Vista concern. I recently changed wireless routers from Netgear to Linksys, uninstalled and reinstalled Open Office Writer, and made some other various adjustments. Unfortunately I've discovered in 'name'\AppData\Local\Temp over 1,600 (and counting) 0 kb files named 'OPSnnnn.tmp', where 'nnnn' appears to be an...