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

First problem is that when ever I look up any website, sometimes it just goes to google says cannot find page. It doesn't happen all the time just when I am trying to load a page and it also doesn't go right away it takes awhile for it go there. Second problem is that randomly i'll get a Microsoft Windows message that says, "crack.exe stopped working". I have no idea what to do about this to...

hope this one fits in this category okey-doke, here's the story: Downloaded a program and then restarted my computer and it won't restart properly. Everytime I try to restart it, it goes halfway through and stops at a black screen and does nothing. HELP!!!!

I was trying to open a .rar file, and found I need a new winzip, but I couldn't install it as something was wrong in it chest. I was told to do a remove in uninstall, but it's not listed, there was something else too, but I forgot, as my short term mem is AFU, please help if you Grok. thanks greg:cry: -- fugitive

My old desktop is dying so I ordered this new HP tower to replace it. It seems it has a Phenom x4 processor, 4GB RAM and 640GB disk. Delivery is expected in a day or so. Re-reading the spec just now I am horrified to discover it will be pre-loaded with a 64bit OS. But I don't have any 64 bit applications. Use mainly MS Office, WMC, photoshop elements, CorelDraw and a finance package. Although...

I recently (within the last month) purchased a Dell Inspiron 531 desktop running Vista home basic. I have not installed any programs, games, etc. My computer randomly "freezes up" when the screensaver is running. A picture will remain on the monitor indefinitely, with all the keys unresponsive. I must turn the computer off when it happens, with the resultant "Improper shutdown"...

I have a 320gb hard drive and 150gb free. Whenever I look at my available restore points they are never more than 24 hours old. In XP, I always had a list of restore points going back a month or more. I haven't seen the same settings in Vista that allow me to change how much storage space is allocated to restore points. How do I get Vista to hang on to restore points older than a...

Hi there, i was using my laptop as i normally would, nothing i havnt done before on it, when i got the blue screen on death. Restarted my laptop and windows was failing to load, it still is failing to load. after trying to start in safe mode, i then tried the do not restart windows on failure option, and it turns out that some registry files are either missing or corrupt SYSTEM32/CONFIG/DEFAULT...

Why does Vista run OK on a smaller, slower dedicated HD than it does on a partitioned larger, faster replacement? My (3.2 Ghz Pentium4, 1 GB RAM) Sony Vaio PCG-K86P Laptop came with XP Professional I cloned the HD from the supplied 60 GB ATA/100 4200 to a 160 GB ATA/100 5400.

Windows Vista Business Edition 32-bit. Checking for Windows update never ends. Windows Update was enabled, and the system was manually updated a month ago. Since then no updates have been automatically applied. Checking for updates manually never ends. Turned off auto updates, rebooted and tried again with the same results. Interesting part is:

Lisa, can you give some info. of you laptop such as how much RAM, Processor etc. Your system resources may be limited and with this info. we may be able to better assist you. Make it a great day. -- Computer/Software Tech. Charles Richmond http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

I had been having problems using Firefox 3 (my preferred browser) with Vista Home Premium. On a regular basis Firefox would freeze up and not be available either to run or to quit running. I did not have this problem with Internet Explorer but really wanted to use Firefox for most of my browsing. I eventually found out the Ad-aware seemed to be the cause of the problem. I removed Ad Aware...