pls i need somebody's help. i am new to this forum but i have problem with my system bootup. my system takes too long to boot and it started 3days ago. it takes about 120secs at bootscreen alone. i believe it is not my start up programs as it takes about 3 secs to start up from login page. i donot use any third party bootscreen. normally, my system boots in 30 secs but now i am facing a lot...

My gaming with Windows Vista Ultimate is too slow. The constant disk activity is slowing down my user applications. My current disk is basic disk with two primary partitions, one for the OS and one for game data. Does anyone have a suggestion to boost disk performance? -- jray ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jray's Profile:...

Have an HP laptop and until recently system restore worked fine but now get this message after restart and am at a loss--??? "System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and settings were not changed. Details: An unspecified error occurred during System Restore. You might try System Restore again and choose a different restore point."

Hi guys i own a Hp Pavilion tx2000 Notebook Pc. My processor is a AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-62 2.10GHz with Vista 32-bit Operating System. Any idea how can i Underclock my Cpu ? I know that in the BIOS it is locked is there any way i can unlock it ? -- Chandi

I have a new (3 month old) Acer laptop, factory installed with Vista Home Premium. Since the day I bought it, the computer keeps shutting down at random - power off, black screen, no auto restart. It's rarely online, and I do not download stuff off the net, not even music. This highly frustrating event is random - sometimes after 10 minutes of use, sometimes after a couple of weeks without...

Hello, I have a new HP desktop, Vista Home Premium SP1 x64 and I'm starting to wish I didn't. When I try to Update or Install programs I get the following: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance." When I try to download and...

Hello guys. I have got a problem. Ok basically I bought a whole new computer a while ago. It came with Vista Home edition 64 bit. Now on my old computer with xp I use to play a lot of games, and a game such as "Arma-Armed Assault". Well I found out that Arma can not be played with vista that is over 4 GB of ram. On here I have 8Gigs. So I found a solution to this problem by going o my system...

On my Toshiba Satellite lap top I cannot get the flash player to play in full screen. Have tried downloading player from both Firefox and I.E When I hit the full screen button all I get is a blank screen with a diagonal line right across. Am to to lap tops .Has anyone any ideas I could try. Thanks

I seem to have got a computer virus i basicaly blue screen every 2 hours ish. Also i recon i have some harddrive errors when i try to re install vista it seys i dotn have enougth room for the temp files. I have 50gb. This will be the third time ive re installed vista due to a virus in two weeks. And im sick of it anyone knw a good fre antivirus that prefable resource intensive (i can play crysis...

On my son's Dell laptop (Vista Home Premium, SP2) his battery indicator icon has disappeared off his taskbar. I'm sure there's a way to find it and have it show up in the lower right taskbar location but can't help him find it since my Vista system is a desktop. Can anyone help us locate and re-instate this feature? Thanks............................Paul C.

Ok I have a toshiba satellite with windows vista home premium 32 bit version and about 3 months ago I started getting this popup out of the blue that says "windows explorer has stopped working" the problem details say problem event name: APPCRASH application name: explorer .exe application version: 6.0.6002.18005 application time stamp: 49e01da5 fault module name: ...

In windows update I have an update showing but if I try updating with the *.msu of the file I get that this update is not for my computer though it shows as one of the updates in WU. I am confused :(

I have a document in my print queue that will not print. All other documents print fine. The document I am trying to print is the thread from one of these forums. I have tried pausing and resuming the document, restarting the document, turning the printer off and on, restarting my computer, reprinting the thread but none of the above work. There must be something unique about this document, but I...

I had to reinstall Windows Vista Ultimate which prior to the reinstall had SP 1 installed. After this reinstall SP1 does not show in computer properties. Is SP1 still available somewhere on the computer for upgrading or will I have to use Windows Update to apply it ? Your help please,Richard

it takes 52 secs for my laptop vista 64 Home Premium to pop the log in screen & 58 after log in to load 8 start up programs. My desktop running on XP Pro does all that in 45-52 secs total. I've defragged hard drive, registry, killed aero, reduced opening window time, readjusted unwanted vista service (SP2- safe) program according to Black Viper and I don't see why I have to wait more than...

Hi... sorry for my english... I've a "big" problem in Vista64Sp1... When i scroll with wheel mouse (e.g. on internet browser) the MediaCenter or MediaPlayer sounds very noises (during playing a video or a music cd) ... if I move the pointer over Inventor 2010 windows, the Player have too much noise... and the performance in Inventor are very very poor (e.g. rotating viewport and command delay...

Cannot boot to safe mode using f8. I can get there through msconfig/boot but feel there must be something wrong. Please help if you can. wwp

Hi, I have an issue that I've been trying to find an issue for, but so far I have not found a thread anywhere on the internet that even addressed my problem precisely. Occasionally, usually after my computer has been running awhile, my screen will randomly scramble up, and parts of it will become inoperable. There are no "black lines" going across the screen, and my screen hasn't...

I just got a new Vista computer and I found that my DSL speed was abnormally slow. I called the ISP and they said to turn off the firewall. This fixed it. I wasn't aware a firewall could affect your modem speed so much. The XP firewall had never done that.

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