I bought a Dell Inspiron 1501 with Vista on it. It has the typical performance problems that have been noted for laptops running Vista. It receives a "Windows Experience Index" of 2.0. The first thing you are told to do to improve performance is eliminate programs from startup. But when I go through the long list of programs, I often can't tell what they do. For instance, I see in this...

Hi, Just looking for some information, actually. I have no complaints about Vista. It's working better than any other OS I've seen in early stages. My question is about the defragmentation program. When it's set up on a schedule, does the program do an analysis first, or just run the defrag?

I have Windows Vista in my home PC. I find that screen has turned by 90 degrees. How do I restore the screen to vertical Regards T.S.Kumar

My girlfriend recently bought a dell inspiron 1520 laptop and it worked great for the first couple weeks. However, Monday when she started the computer up it gave her the error message "GoogleDesktop.exe - Bad Image - C:\windows\system32\wshtcpip.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or contains an error. Try installing..." Once closed, the same message came up but for SiteAdv.exe...

I am the admin to my Pc, whenever i log in however it tells me i am not...it also disconnects me from internet sites, very frustrating!!! I cannot log into my hotmail account coz it says im not the admin..PLZ HELP!!!!

I’ve a Vista Ultimate installed on a DELL Latitude D620 laptop. The problem started a few weeks ago when Symantec Antivirus reported catching Clone War (1) on my computer. I’ve since done a few clean scans using various scanning programs but some system files seems to have been lost or are corrupted. I tried running sfc /scannow under admin cmd window and also after starting the...

it frerezes up i tried system restore it is up to date and yet it freezes up some times wint minutes of running.any help would be great

Whenever I start my computer I get two identical error messages: Runtime Error! Program C:\Windows\System32\Rundll32.exe This application has requested the Runtime to teminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information I also get a similar error message when right-clicking on the desktop, except it says:

After I had installed SP1, my internet connection was vanished. The connection to my wireless was reported limited. When I clicked to verify the connection to my wireless, a problem with the wireless network connection was diagnosed. I was advised to check for internet protocol and driver installment. Hardware management (Dutch:"apparaatbeheer") reported "working correct" for the Atheros...

I get the following error message on shutdown. Can you please advise the reason and how I can rectify the situation. Thanks for your help Quote Failure - Security Options -- Logon process has failed to create the security options dialogue Unquote

I use Windows XP and am trying to help my neighbor who is using Vista. He system has "suddenly" (don't you hate that??) started running so slowly that it is even difficult for me to try to analyze what's going on. I was able to check her startup folder and verify that there isn't anything unusual in there trying to open. Tried to bring up task manager but after 8 minutes of watching the...

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So... I was in the middle of a work project that has to be done in 40 minutes, and my Vista Business machine was getting wonky, as Vista does when you run it for more than 12 hours. I decided to reboot. During the shut-down, I get the dreaded "Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update X of 5." That was 30 minutes ago.

Ever since I installed a registry booster program and ran a scan, System Restore no longer functions. After a lengthy time it quits and notifies that no changes were made and to try a different restore point. No other restore point works. What next?

Windows will not start normally though I've successfully restored the system. After completing two effective System Restores and countless reboots, Safe Mode is still the only way Windows will start. No new updates, installations, etc. have been added to my computer for about a month, nor has the internet been connected the last five + times that the computer has been used. My last...

When I click on the IE icon in the Quick Launch toolbar IE opens most of the time. About 10% of the time, the program starts but I get a blank IE screen and it says "not responding" at the top. I can terminate it vis Task Manager or click the X to close it and it will give me the option to close, report the error (which does nothing) and close and restart. Does anyone else have this problem and...

When I try to run chkdsk on Command Prompt, I get an error message back saying I don't have permission to do so. As well, sometimes my computer runs the chkdsk utility at start-up and it takes forever to run completely. Is there any way I can resolve this problem?

I do a backup every week and I need to restore a couple of files from a backup several weeks ago. I tried mounting the VHD using vhdmount and that worked except it was only the latest backup. I need to go back a couple of versions ago. According to the backup program my "oldest backup" is in February so I think the version should be there somewhere. Anybody have any suggestions on where to...

Why does CPU usage shoots up to 80 to 100% when using the webcam in live messenger 8.5, making it difficult to open other applications such as explorer or wmp. I've doubled the RAM to 2G and am using 2G ready-boost, but it doesnt seem to have improved. It used to run at 40-60% on XP. Any suggestions??