Hi everyone, I have been running Vista Ultimate X86 for some time now. Last week I did a format and clean install, installed some of the programs I regularly use, and last night followed some of the steps here on how to Speed up Vista. Today, I have started noticing that loading any program or say opening Control Panel (the icons are loading slowly). I am not sure what the problem is since I...

at first i had this side by side problem with msn 9 beta but i reinstalled it and it worked well again... but now im having this problem with Simcity Societies, i tried reinstalling the game but still the same problem: side-by-side configuration incorrect.. so any help from anybody??????? P.S: im using vista ultimate

Hello everyone, If I compose an e-mail mostly in English, but one or two words in other language. How or can I enlarge the size of the words of " other language " while the English words remain in default size ? Thank you. -- t-4-2

i was just wondering if anyone knew how to get the language bar back in my task bar. my boyfriend or kids accidently deleted it and now i cant find it. ive tried searching language and i cant find where to go to put it back in the taskbar. if someone could help me that would be awesome. thanks -- Cat..

To restore vista 'extract all' option when you right click... simply delete this registry key (by using regedit) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer \FileExts\.zip\UserChoice Simple!

Hi all. I keep getting a window poping up asking if I want to install Adobe latest version, once I click yes I get another message telling me I need to close the Adobe programme that's already running. Can someone tell me how I search to find and close Adobe please. Also, when I close the computer down, a window opens and tells me Adobe is still running, click 'cancel' or 'shut down' I'm...

I have an external HD with two partitions. One partition says it's full & shows that the pagefile.sys is 232G. I went to the manage virtual memory area and this drive shows "No Pagefile". My "C" drive has a 2G pagefile. This can't be right!! How do I fix it?

I cant get computer to come on, keyboard and mouse wont work (not wireless)screen says power save mode and i cant do a damn thing for 3 hours turning off and on - nothing

error occurred in the script of this page Line :159 Char:4 error object doesnt support this property or method. this is a problem that occurs on vista business edition on the update manager

Internet Explore and Windows Host Process Server on my computer are attempting to connect multiple times a day (20 or more) to numerous google.com ip addresses across a wide viriety of ports in the 45000's. I have been unable to close the processes. The Internet Explorer process has been running as a seperate program that I am unable to see and uses 45,000k of ram. It is also not possible for me...

I thought I could figure out how to run chkdsk /f . How do I run chkdsk /f? I ran chkdsk /f in administrator account. Clicked "start" then opened a DOS window. Typed CD\ to get to root directory. Then typed in chkdsk /f. Below is the message I got: "Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode." I am on a 32-bit Vista...

Many people I see are having the problem in regards to either a slow boot up, or windows is slow to load Programs. I myself have 4GB of ram, and I am using a SATA RAID 0 config. This can result in heavy fragmentation and a slow system- especially after recording tv on MCE. Deframenting speeds up the system dramatically, BUT using the default defragmentation doesn't defrag files bigger than 64MB.

Thanks for being here to assist, and I hope this is the correct group. I've been running XP Pro for quie some time and recently installed Vista using Partition Magic and have also installed Vista BootPro. I planned a full migration of all of my data from XP today but cannot boot into XP for some reason. I was going to export or save vital data from XP, so this is quite a bummer. I cannot...

Hi Everyone, I hope someone can help me with this problem I've been having. Up until November last year I had F-Secure virus protection on my computer and I changed it to K7TotalSecurity. I had some problems with K7 so then I tried Norton, but Norton gave me heaps of trouble and when I wanted to remove it I found it very difficult to get rid of. I eventually did remove it and installed...

I am running Vista Home Premium on a new desktop with Intel, 3gb ram and a 500gb drive. Everything seems fine except for when I go to print, it seems to take a long time for the print window to come up (15-20 seconds). Is there any know reason for this? Or a fix? -- Have A Great Day! Bill Meyer

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While doing day to day activities, my computer will slow down to unusable speeds, for about 20 seconds, then go back to normal performance. My drivers are up to date, and Windows Update offers no more updates available. Windows Vista - Home Basic Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.46GHz 1.50GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

** I Need help. I have a Dell 9150 running Vista Business. Everytime I try to install the Vista SP1 update it fails. I went to the View Update History and it gave me the code error 800705b4. I have done a little looking from MS but nothing syas it applies to Vista. Any help would be greatly apreciated!!! Happy 4th To All!!!:p

I get the message that Windows\system32 is disabled. I either have something set incorrectly or a problem file --help?? -- Thanx Chas

Hello everyone. Thank you in advance for your replies. I just got this a message this morning that I cannot get rid of, and I do not know what to make of it. Before getting this message, and while the computer was shut down, I changed my keyboard and that was the only change I did. However, because the computer was off and because the keyboard is a wireless usb enabled mouse + keyboard combo,...