A couple days ago I turned off my computer normally. I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit. The next time I turn it on the login screen is blank. There is no visuals or sounds only the mouse which i can freely move. So I turn it off again and disconnect everything and just let it sit for a while (no idea why I thought that would help). The next time I turn it on I can reach the login screen but when I...

I have faith in piriform defraggler. Cyrano.

Hello. I have installed and reinstalled vista numerous times this weekend in order to get my system to start. Few days ago I get the BSOD and the infinite start up loop begins. I reformatted and installed so many times, swapping ram, removing various hardware untill i swap out Graphics cards. I get a clean install and boot! I thought at last, I have this finally fixed. I update my drivers then...

Resource Monitor (perfmon.exe) is not displaying/updating any graphs or statistics all the graphs are empty. Any solution to this or anyone knows heads or tails on what's happening? -- From Au Yong

Hello: Often when I download and install Windows updates my desktop settings revert to the way they where when I got the computer. I get the message "Restoring desktop" I have to go into System Restore and go back to a point 2 or 3 days old. Is there any way to keep this from happening ? Thank you Drew

I get two of these warnings everytime I restart the computer and I don't know what it means. I use Vista 64bit and full computer specs listed below. The warnings date back many weeks to when I first install Windows.. Any information about this warning is much needed, or how to diagnose if this is the cause of my instability. Other than this warning my event log is fairly clean, so I'm...

Jay wrote: Windows Vista Business. No this computer does not update visa WSUS. Used WUA API to actually download and install the patch. For example, I installed KB937287. Went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Updates and did not find any information on that patch as I expected. So I am wondering where this information (such as InstalledDate, InstalledBy etc) is stored...

I did a complete restore of my system yesterday and I'm trying to bring my settings back right now. I am having a problem with setting picture on my background. If I select the full-screen picture, it is stretched and doesn't look good. If I select the center picture option, the picture is enlarged. Before I did the full system restore everything with the desktop settings worked fine, but now I...

"Ashton Crusher" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:14:48 -0400, "ColTom2" wrote: Hi: Windows Vista Defragmenter is about the worst that I have ever seen. It does not show you any progression status and it takes forever.

I am getting the following crash on my newly installed Vista ultimate system. Would like to know how to stop this. Here are some of the crash logs. #1 Problem signatu Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Explorer.EXE Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000

vistostimorth wrote: Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth wrote: Gordon wrote: "+Bob+" wrote in message ... On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:27:25 +0100, "Gordon" wrote: And it does slow down after time.

"Jim" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:14:48 -0400, "ColTom2" wrote: Hi: Windows Vista Defragmenter is about the worst that I have ever seen. It does not show you any progression status and it takes forever.

"JamesJ" wrote in message ... I don't worry about it. I just do those things for myself. I defrag, maybe once a month. I just feel the more items running slows my system down. And since I've been tweaking Vista services I've noticed my system starting faster and not having to wait for 5 minutes after the desktop...

"Bill Daggett" wrote in message ... Bill Sharpe wrote: A fragmented HDD is one of the least likely causes of a slow machine.... True enough, but if defrag will slow down the machine while it's running. Since defrag seems to work in the background it's not always easy to tell that it...

I find perfect disk to be the best at defragging. I love it and use it all the time. "ColTom2" wrote in message ... Hi: Windows Vista Defragmenter is about the worst that I have ever seen. It does not show you any progression status and it takes forever.

HI IM SOOO IN NEED OF HELP I HAD JUST RECOVERD FROM A VISTA ERROR WITH NEW VISTA INSTALLED (my uncle re-installed) AND HE LEFT AND I MESSED UP MY PC AGAIN ALL I HAVE IS A VISTA REOVERY CD NO re-install POSSIBLE. I PUT IN WINDOWS 7 THEME PLUS EXTRAS AND I RESTART AND SAYS "LoginUI.exe - Entry Point Not Found, The procedure entry point GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory could not be located in the...

Hi My PC is a Aspire iDea 510 with a Intel Core(TM)2 CPU T5500. 1 GB RAM. I'm running a 32-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 1 I normally leave my computer 'on' after finishing working, and after 15 minuttes it goes into 'sleeping mode'. During the night the computer automatically wakes up to search for software updates. If any update (normally Windows-updates) forces the...

Hi all, can anyone please help? I've recently had a new hard drive fitted in my Compaq pc because the old one was immently going to crash. Before I had the hard disk changed I done a back up with the backup and recovery program in Vista Home Premium and saved it to an portable hard disk. After the new disk was fitted, I reinstalled Vista Home Premium with the recovery disks supplied, and tried...

I'm trying to free up space on my C partition--I have about 25% left (8.5 gigs free out of 30). My Windows folder is taking up some 13 gigs, but none of the folders seem that large--System 32 and Explorer both have about 2 gigs. I have checked the folder options to display hidden system files, but still can't see anything. I have run Disk Cleanup a few times, as well as defragged. What can I...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Chiefs" wrote in message ... I have a 64 bit windows vista os and recently IE8 gives me the message "Internet Explorer has stopped working...windows is checking for a solution to the problem" When I click "close" on the message box, it goes away but IE is...