My System Rating seems to have a Bug. When i first got my HP Pavilion dv9000, I ran it and it updated fine. Several weeks later it reverted back to it's original score. Now, nothing is displayed there. Not even a 0, or a faded out score. Just a blank space. Any ideas? Thanks, Joel. -- joel hj60

When I first installed Vista (Home Premium), I enabled sleep mode and noticed when sleep was invoked my computer got quiet (I could hear the drive and fan going quiet) and would notice the light indicating my computer on my wireless network router would go out. That was great! However, now when I invoke sleep, I just notice the monitor going blank, that's it. Any ideas would welcome. ...

Sometimes when I open a submenu of the start menu (e.g. Programs) the empty menu frame pops up almost instantly, but then there's a delay before the icons appear. At times it's as much as a second or two. It seems to be worse with the larger submenus. Once I've opened a given submenu, the next time I open it, it fills in immediately. But after a while the delay comes back. I had a...

I originally set up my system to have automatic updates, which for someone that is not very techical seemed to be the way to go. Last month an automatic update goofed up my screen and it took several attempts and hours to get it fixed. Now I am leary to do any updates. Is there a place to check if there have been problems with updates. What is the best thing to do about updates. At this...

Hi all. Has anyone figured out how to reset or clear the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" logs.

When I tray to have the score from my Vista Business n I get an error message that say....Impossible to complete the asked operation. The system dont' have multimedia support needed to complete the evaluation asked..... If i control inside the performance and stability monitor notes for all HW tests, score assigned is 0. This problem dont' appens if I tray to do same operation in Vista...

Hello, I am running Vista SP1 fully up to date on modern hardware (Quadcore, X38 Gigabyte board) with all current drivers. Windows Explorer will freeze whenever I tried to copy a few files one after another if the total sizes approaches 1 GB in total. Even more strange is the fact that the freeze will occur even if i REBOOT the OS between each copy of a smaller size file (like 300MB each),...

I am new to Vista, and have recently purchased a new pc with vista home premium. I seem to be having intermitent problems. Say for instance I want to close a program, I cannot click directly on the Close button on the top right of the screen. I have to place my cursor above and left of the button, until it changes colour then click to close. Even scrolling down a page is giving me grief.....

Hiya, my motherboard has become quite unreliable and I was thinking of buying a new one however I can't get the same model because its no longer produced. Would my OEM license key still work on another motherboard? Thanks

So, I've looked everywhere for a solution to this, but most people seem to be having trouble waking up from sleep. My problem is that if I leave an application running overnight (ArcMap - labeling a large map) my machine goes to sleep at the scheduled time, even though it is still busy. I guess my main question is, what are the criteria for determining when the system is idle? Is it just...

I just got a new 64 bit laptop with VISTA---all of the other machine sin the house are XP. I usually run DISKCLEANER once a week and SCANDISK and DEFRAG once a month on the XP machines since we have very busy family with a lot of use. What should I be doing for the VISTA machine? Should I follow a similar schedule? I heard that VISTA doesn't need the same level of maint as XP? Please...

Dear Somebody. When I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the entire system. I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running...

I recently built a new system and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate 64. The system has 8GB of Physical RAM (DDR2) clocked at 1098 and a E8500 clocked at 3.47 Ghz. Everything is running very stable for a few weeks now. When I look at the system report I see that Windows is setting up 16GB of Virtual Memory which seems excessive, I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't be better for me to...

I am running Windows Vista Business on my Dell Inspiron 1501. I am no longer able to check my drives for errors since after I schedule a check for the next time my computer restarts and after my computer does restart, the error checking appears to start, but automatically gets cancelled even though I do not press any key to cancel it. Can somebody please tell me why this is happening and...

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Performance And Reliability Monitor total CPU usage is higher than the combined processes. There is something mysteriously using the CPU. I let the computer idle down and took a snapshot so you can see all processes running: http://cid-d82a3813e9bd0e49.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Images/IdleHigh.png You will see the CPU claims to be using a total of 33%, however you will notice there are only...

Hi everyone, Im a little lost on where i go next with this issue. I got a computer about 1.5 years ago now with Vista Premium on it. Everything was great up until a few months ago. My computer started restarting randomly. I thought it might be a virus so i did the normal scaning and found nothing, just to be safe i reformatted it with a clean windows install. But its still happening. I...

Since a week or two i have problems during boot time on Vista. When i get to the logon screen my HD is still higly active. This has been normal for me, but it keeps on going for more then 2 minutes. When i logon it keeps on going, and using task manager i see that system is taking a average of 80% processortime. Resource monitor doesn't give me any additional information, and services like...

Hi Members I have vista home premium i installed last yearafter activating it three times i uninstalled went back to xp home. in april this year i upgraded system and installed vista premium upgrade i like it. As it been 10 months sins i used vista oem can i install it on new drive and use original product code or is it still reg to my old motherboard which was scrapped.robin

My PC has recently developed issues with executing a complete PC backup (my preferred method of backup). It is reporting a Error 0x80070002 Cannot find file, however does not specify the missing file. Having searched several forums I have not been able to find an effective solution and have tried the following recomendations: - Verifying registry keys for UserProfile paths - These all appear to