I had my external hard drive stolen this week when someone broke into my car. The hard drive had all of my work on a project I've been doing for work for the last 2 1/2 months. Everything is lost. Most of the files were at least partially created or editted on my laptop which has Windows Vista. I've heard that Vista may make copies of documents accessed on your computer. Is this true?? If...

I have Vista Premium.. I installed Explore 8 version and now when I try to open Power Point attachment in Windows mail.. I get a message it can't find it.. and I have already saved it.. I can go to Works and Power Point and view the slide show. Something must have changed...

my brother jailbreaked his iPod touch 2g yesterday and had to put the comp in test mode. since nothing saved to the desktop, I went to an elevated command prompt or whatever it is. I typed "bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off" and restarted the computer. when I get to the desktop, I find the mouse and keyboard not working. the mouse is in the middle of the screen and doesn't move.

It's gone...I just booted it up and it's not there anymore. Anyone know where it went? Thanks...

Vista ultimate sp1 I upgraded the P4 processor. Enabled hyperthreading in the bios. PCwizard says the system can do hyperthreading, but it's disabled. Benchmarks indicate this is true. If I reload vista from scratch, hyperthreading is enabled and works. Benchmarks much better. I really don't want to have to reinstall from

I have been reading the posts on this site for some time and I am impressed with the depth of knowledge displayed by some of the experts. I hope that you will be able to help me with my problem. I am using a Dell 1720 Inspiron laptop with Vista Home Premium 32 bit. In use for more then one year with no problems until now. A problem has arisen with the Index and Search feature which has...

Posted at Windows.general 3/16 with no response Hope this is the proper ng Vista Home Premium Don't know if this is 'general' or not, but I don't know where else to ask this. Have a BSOD error 000000c5. A google search indicates this is likely a driver conflict and a number of site direct me to a debug utility which I have DLd and installed- dbg_x866.11.1.402.msi. I have enter, I think, the...

I would like to stop messenger from loading at startup. In |XP I was able to disable it in services, but cannot find an entry there that points to msmsgr.exe. Thanks for any help in advance. KW

when i restarted my computer a screen popped up and it gave me an option to create a boot disk so i closed the screen because i didnt have any disks...i just bought some and now i can't figure out where that screen is. please help

This is the third Vista laptop (out of 3) which i've experienced this problem on. Occasionally when you open a link 'In New Window' vista will start opening endless new windows and the only way to stop it is to log out or wait long enough for IE to crash and close all its windows. Any idea how I can get rid of this bug? Thanks --

This is the response on the Microsoft Connect site. Looks like one of Microsoft's best ideas of recent times has been scrapped? What a shame, this program would have made Windows so much better. I could be wrong but it looks like this project has been scrapped. Any reasons why? Thank you for participating in the Windows Advisor Beta program and using this support tool. Your feedback about...

I just bought a new computer 11 days ago with Vista home premium with 64-bit operating system and now I can't save any type of file. I click save or save as and nothing at all happens. If I close a spreadsheet and it ask if I want to save, I can click on yes and still nothing happens. Right clicking on a picture to save as, nothing happens. Please help me figure this out and is there anything...

Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of Vista after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior at 62, and my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for larger font size but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I went back to the default of 1288x600. My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small, so I'm forced to...

msconfig is missing is there any way to get the program back running vista home prem thanks lew

Because my Vista Business has become unreliable due to other family members installing all kinds of stuff, I want to go back to the new install image I took only 3 months ago using Vista complete pc backup & restore on two DVDs. I boot the machine using the the Vista ROM disk and (eventually) the repair menu appears. I then put in the backup disk, hit find backup and a search progress bar...

This is my 100th attempt at installing Vista, first 64 bit and finally settled on the 32 bit version with SP1. I continue to get the dreaded BSOD.... What i've done.... fresh format, new install... updated ALL drivers with the most current versions. Ran chckdsk, memtest86, and ran system file checker.... all have checked out okay. Could someone take a look at my last two minidump files...

hi, my restore point always shows a folder called backup on my c drive and it wont let me select another drive, even though all my backups have been performed on a external drive i labelled "b" drive which vista backup says that’s where the last successful backup was performed, it wont even let me select my other external hard drive as a possible location. i have a screen dump of the error...

For the last several days my automatic backup (Vista home premium, data) has failed with the error A shadow copy could not be created. Check the system event log for more information. (0x81000019) Backing up is to a USB 2.0 external drive with 491 of 931 GB free. Checking in system event log, I see shadow copy starts and then stops, but no error information. I have tried reboot, and checking...

Hi all My C: drive is 1Tb in size (931.43Gb), with Used Space of 73.8Gb and Free Space of 857.65Gb. I want to shrink the C: partition down to 200Gb, and use this just for my OS and App files - I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This would then leave me with a new partition of c. 750Gb for my data files and documents etc.

I need help My PC has been having CPU usage spikes every few seconds. This wouldn't be so bad as it causes a minimal amount of lag onscreen, but it makes the audio lag when ever it happens. This means listening to music is ruined and cutscenes in games can get out of sync. Please help me, thanks. :( -- Sk8punkEmO