I'm not quite sure how to fix this one... Just today, my explorer.exe started sapping my CPU. I haven't a clue why, but it's started to stop me from doing my everyday tasks. I haven't installed anything today, but I'm just lucky I managed to guess my villa's Wireless key to get on here. From the moment I log-on, my explorer.exe goes from 50% CPU usage to about 98%. It's awful, and means that...

Hi i am writing after i have just installed the new service pack 2 for windows vista and am just trying to suggest that with the disk defragmenter, as there isnt a lot that has been changed like the only things that have been changed are that you can now select volums to defrag. one thing that may help with this is to put a small graph (or GUI) similar to the windows xp one on it and maybe a...

I can not access my playback devices by right clicking the speaker icon in the taskbar, start World of WarCraft, access Folder Options or Playback devices from the Control Panel and a slew of other things without the error message"Windows Host Service (Rundll32) has stopped working" popping up. The program or task never starts up either. I've tried the view icons work around and that has not...

Hello, I´m a new user of Windows Vista. I have a lot of manuals in formats like pdf, doc and txt. This are manuals about C, Java, C++, C# and more. Does anybody now if exist some tool in Windows Vista to organizate this files? To have a better way to find something on them. Like a database of files? Thanks

*R-i-g-h-t- -C-l-i-c-k- -S-e-a-r-c-h-:-* SP1 removes the default right click Search feature from Vista. Right click Search functions can be reset. Re-enabling the default Windows right click Search option at Start button, Folders, and Drives. Click Starttype regedit Step1 2 delete the "LegacyDisable" value under the following registry keys: Step2 3

I have had this problem on my Alienware system. Some pc OEM's install junk and the system is heavily fragmented. If you tweaked your registry or performed multiple installs/uninstalls this can cause corruption. Try going to event viewer following a lockup (make sure to make note of the time of lockup). For me I did 3 things that fixed the problem- 1. do a full defrag through command prompt

I upgraded (a so-called "clean install" on same partition... it made xp pro x64 unusable by renaming various system folders) to windows vista home basic hoping that PAE would work. I had assumed that 4GB RAM would be no problem (the intel e6600 core2duo in this system supports 64bit instructions, and as a result PAE works on linux just fine) though it is not doing what I expected. After...

I cannot get wallpaper feature to work. Had someone look at my computer and they said I had lost the files.

Greetings to all... When I launch MY Computer, the navigation pane on the left "USED TO" display a Favorites List. It has now disappeared! When I right click on the pane and select, "Restore Default Favorite Links" nothing happens. Also, when I try to drag and drop and "create shortcut here" nothing happens. The pane is listed as EMPTY. The My Favorite Links folder is still on my C: drive with...

on every web page i go on i am having to press shift+a to improve the picture quality, i have to do this on every page. its very annoying. how to i make it so i dont have to ores the darn shift key??? the grapics seem very blurred and not clear.

My laptop, running Vista, is set to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". I have still not downloaded, nor have been notified, about Service Pack 1. Should I be concerned? Thanks, Owkmann

I have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to complete the...

hi how are you? my Computer Rating Vista 2.6 this Image the Rating http://www.vistax64.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4617&stc=1&d=1214079562]

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my vista home edition 32 bit hangs on the loading screen and does nothing. iv tried doing the start up repair thing but that didnt work, iv done a virus scan but it has come up with nothing. this problem is really annoying and any help is good

Hi there..I just upgraded to a new computer with Vista , IE 7 etc..and I ran across a small problem..and I can't seem to find anything in the "Help" on IE or Vista , so I was wondering if an expert could give me some insight to a solution... ** How do I fix the font size in "boxes" on web pages.. for example the 2 boxes on Google page ..."Google Search" .. "I'm Feeling Lucky" and other small...

"You have an older version of Pocket PC which does not support Activation. Activation requires Pocket PC 2002 or later." Device: Palm Treo 700wx OS: Windows Mobile 5.1.195 build 14929.2.2.1 OK, so it requires PocketPC/WM higer then 2002 ... well hot diggity dog! I belive WM5 is later then WM2002 isn't it? Can someone advise me on the best way to get this damn thing working?

Internet Explorer and Firefox have slowed dramatically. Have to hit refresh in most cases to get screen. Started about 10 June. Server has visited and checked. Found no problem. Have done all troubleshooting possible, clean up of files, etc. Appears to have resulted from an update. Can you help? Joe

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I just booted up and received the following message: "Systems settings protector has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." I have no idea what this means, but I don't like the sound of it. Late yesterday I did a clean boot on windows because I had to reinstall an mp3 player's...