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

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...