Quite often an open window will suddenly darken or gets very gray for no apparent reason. If I'm clicking through a bunch of pics in a folder, after I close the last one everything dims down. Or it could be during a movie, if the scene changes to a night scene it will darken even more 'til it's barely visible. Please help. Thanks wwp

I have been having to use the Task Manager to shut down Internet Explorer due to the pages freezing up. When I open task manger it indicates that the page is not responding. This happened approximately 30 times today alone. I have no idea what is causing this problem so I don't have a clue as to what to do to fix it. I finely got so frustrated I just gave up and shut my system down. I'm...

All the Windows fonts are fine except the font that Windows uses to fill in blank fields in menus and headers in Windows mail. If I enter the data the font is okay but when Windows enters the data the font is too small to read. The font in the body of the mail is fine.

I keep an empty folder on my desktop to hold files I have downloaded until I can work on them or for temporary storage etc. With xp this folder's toolbar had an "X" icon for deleting any highlighted files. For some reason I can't find this in Vista. Please help if you can. Thanks wwp

I've been playing around with both the 32 and 64 Bit versions of Vista Ultimate on my new PC. The system specs are as follows; CPU: Intel Q6600 (Quad Core 2.4) MB: Intel DG965WH RAM: 4Gb (1Gb Transcend PC 800MHz x 4) Video: PNY 8800GTS In Vista 32-Bit, System runs well (Good CPU Utilization) but will not see all 4Gb RAM (3.2+GB Seen), system seems to be using a fair amount of RAM.

When I right-click on install files, I don't see a 'Version' tab like I used to see with XP. Where the 'Version' file property tab in Vista? In Vista Right-Click- Properties tab offers 'General', 'Digital Signatures', 'Security' and 'Details'. The 'Details' tab does not offer the file's version. Most apps offer version info together with the software creator info in the 'Version' tab that's...

We have 2 laptops running XP and connected through a Linksys WT1100 router and they work great. We just got a new laptop with Vista and it has all kinds of issue connecting to the internet. We can sometimes get it to connect but if we also connect our XP PCs the router freezes up and no more internet. At one point we had all 3 PCs working for about 5 minutes then the freeze up. The only way to...

About a month ago my computer starts up with this message - 'Warning: The battery cannot be identified. This system will be unable to charge this battery. Press any key to continue. Press F2 two times to enter setup. Press F12 and enter any key to enter boot menu.' This happened out of the blue, nothing happened to cause this problem e.g. any error messages. What can I do to stop this...

im running vista 64 home basic. and recently i havent been able to change my background or change my desktop icons. i get this message. "Your system administrator has disabled luanching of the Display Settings Control Panel." i am the only admin on this pc and as far as i know i did nothing to change this. unless i have a virus or something. can anyone help me out? I just want to have my desptop...

Hello, My name is shawn:) This is my first time posting on Windows Vista Forum, the problems below are from my explore 7 (your internet has stopped working) and me?. To further the problem Dell's warrenty has expired and can not afford software $$$ that promises to fix it today. I would like to get some knowledge on how and where I would

I'm running a laptop and would love for the power settings to automatically change from high performance when plugged in to Ballanced or Power Saver when running on Batteries. Does the system do this....?

How can I get the following error message to go away: c:\program2\kodak\easysharesetup\registration_7.1.30.7.sxt The specified module could not be found I don't use Kodak Easyshare anymore, but can't get rid of this message.

I've installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my HP nx7300 laptop.Before I had XP Professional.Now I have this problem : volume icon in the taskbar doesn't respond wyhen I click on it.I have reinstalled Vista Ultimate,but another one,different .ISO size,genuine,no crack.First times,like in the previous Vista,worked...after few times clicking on it to adjust the volume : no response . Volume mixer and...

I've installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my HP nx7300 laptop.Before I had XP Professional.Now I have this problem : volume icon in the taskbar doesn't respond wyhen I click on it.I have reinstalled Vista Ultimate,but another one,different .ISO size,genuine,no crack.First times,like in the previous Vista,worked...after few times clicking on it to adjust the volume : no response . Volume mixer and...

ok, I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check the progress?

When ever I'm trying to Right click on a folder, My windows explorer crashes. It also crashes when I highlight the folder, and Hit the delete button, Windows crashes. I'm pretty sure I'm Running a Vista home premium 64bit. I know for sure its 64bit, and That its vista. But I forgot where to see what version it is. But this is really frustrating and I need some help.

I am running Vista Pro. When I log onto YouTube and attempt to run a video, the video runs but I get no audio. I have installed the latest Flash player version but sitll no luck. YouTube videos that are emailed to me play audio just fine. The YouTube Help video on YouTube's help site plays audio just fine as well. Any ideas? -- JMS

Hi, I'm hoping the someone can help as I've searched the internet. I have a 120 GB hd on my lenovo laptop with windows vista. the SW_Preload says 13.8 GB free of 104 GB. However, when I check the size of each of my folders/files within my C drive, it only adds up to barely 20 GB. I'm wondering what could be causing this discrepency?? The folders for example are "users", Windows, Program...

I have done everything I can think of to try and fix this. I have a Compaq laptop with Windows Vista. It's less than a year old, Vista was on it when I bought it (new) My desktop is split into 4 screens. Like, there's 4 sets of start buttons and everything. PLEASE HELP! I have shut it down, restarted, played with different monitor/display settings, cleaned the whole thing out, ran multiple...

When using Vista Backup we are receiving the following error: "A shadow copy could not be created for the following reason: Insufficient storage availabel to create eith the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data. (0x8004231F)" The error aborts the backup. We have plenty of disk space and cannot figure out why we would receive this error. In order to eliminate Vista Backup as...