I am having issues with Vista taking 2+ minutes to boot up to logon. Looking in the Diagnostics-Performance section in the Event Viewer, I have many errors with Task Categories of System Performance Monitoring, Boot Perf Monitoring and Shutdown Perf Monitoring. Viewing the details tells me nothing about what is wrong or where to start looking. I was hoping to see a service or program causing...

I've recently installed Windows Vista: Ultimate, and have ran into 2 problems that i've noticed. One problem is that my taskbar freezes after double-clicking the speaker icon in the taskbar. I can hoover over the speaker with my mouse, and it would be ok, but once i double-click it, then the entire taskbar freezes, and only the Start button is accessible, as well as my entire desktop, but...

When I open "Performance Information and Tools", the Experience rating are no longer there and the "Rate my computer" button is gone too. Anybody know how to restore this or directly access the Rate my Computer? Thanks!

New to Vista. I transfered copies of Reovery D: to two external hard drives- to be safe-now I want to empty D: so that I can back up. When I tried to Back up to the external hard drives that I have one with 300 gs other with 100gs available, I was not able because it wanted to include C: and the drives would not hold both C: and D:-Thus, How can I safely backup weekly without getting these...

I have searched all over the internet for advice on this problem but have not found anything helpful yet. My screensaver never activates on my Dell, Vista run laptop. In fact, it won't even sleep after the 25 minutes it's set to fall asleep after. Even when I try to preview the screensavers, they will show for a second and then shut off. I have tried ending the ehtray.exe, but it does...

my computer has been doing this after a couple days, and programs like internet, even the arrow listing to the shutdown methods will not open. The computer doesnt freeze up. but it was going from.. maybe 1-2 hours after startup but now its only 5 minutes that I can open programs. I have never encountered the program before. but it seems I cannot access anything. desktop is not frozen and...

Hi, The question is as per title : I am thinking of uggrading my Media Centre PC graphics card to a HD4350 based PCI-E card with 512MB of DDR2 memory and I wondered if anyone here can tell me what I can expect in terms of Vista Performance Index scores for the video tests ? I want to compare it against other VPI scores so am not interested in replies alone the lines of "I don't think you want...

I bought a laptop last Christmas and it had various pre-installed stuff that I did not want and uninstalled them. A few weeks later and I have been trying use the windows media center remote to watch tv on my Toshiba Qosimio G40. So far I have'nt found it and I think I may of unintentionally uninstalled it. I have been to Microsoft web page and have been looking to try and download the package...

hi thanks for this great forum .. but really i don't know if this is the right place to my post . FIRST i use notebook .vista home premium 32 intel core processor T2450 2.0 GHZ 533mHZ 2 mB L2 Cashe i have upgraded my memory from 1 gb each slot 512 *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*__*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* to *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*__*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

I bought a Gateway Fx4710-EB802A and it gets the BSOD on start up with these errors Driver_irql_not_or_less_equal ecache.sys MEMORY_MANAGEMENT any help would be appreciated:)

This is a simple question -- my Windows Media is sputtering, especially when I am surfing to other pages. I assume that this is a problem I could fix by adjusting the allocation to make sure that WM always has enough resources, but do not know how to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks

Okay, today my computer's (Acer desktop) screen became distorted and it froze up, so I rebooted. Same thing happened again, I rebooted, and it happened yet again. This time, I got two options: Start this computer Normally, or Enter Vista Startup Repair (Recommended). I went into the startup Repair and did a system restore. Now, when I boot up the same thing happens again, I go to the System...

I cannot run this program when last week I was able to. This is what I get: problem event name: appcrash application name: tutor6.exe application version: 6.10.0.94 application timestamp: 44ad2964 fault module name: stackhash_66c1 fault module version: 6.0.6001.18000 fault module timestamp: 4791a7a6

Hello, I am trying to find out if this would help or harm, and, if it would help, how to do it. I am wondering if it is possible that I could create a new partition on my Vista home basic just for storage for pictures and document files mainly. If I could do this, would it help the speed of the computer? If so, how would I go about doing this? And, once stored in the new partition, would I be...

Hi Here's a second attempt at help. I didn't mention before that I have a SONY VAIO VGN-NR140E/S LAPTOP When I first turn on my computer it brings up a black screen and tells me that my previous set of windows maybe damaged or corrupted. Then it gives me the opposition to do a recovery files (recommended) or run windows as normal. Now I do the normal one and it gets the green bar and does...

I ran Problem Reports and Solutions after recovering from a BSD, and the "Solution for Windows" comes up with: The solution cannot be displayed Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The Microsoft server is encountering problems What you can try: Check your Internet connection. Try visiting a website, using your web browser to

Another thread on this problem has closed. I am adding this in case it can help someone with the same problem. I have just had 3 days of hell trying to get my HP dv9500 Notebook working again. (Vista Home Premium 32 bit) I tried most of the suggestions listed in the other thread although I could never complete a successful restore to a previous date even though I tried a dozen times or so from...

I was hoping someone could analyze my BSOD error and give me an idea of what might be causing it. I was recently infected with virus/trojan and I was actually in the middle of running a program (Combofix) to send to someone to analyze when I crashed. Don't know if it is related though to BSOD error. Problem signature Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6 Locale...

HELLO, I RECENTLY REBUILT MY DESKTOP WITH AN ASUS P5Q MOTHERBOARD WITH A RECENT AMERITRENDS BIOS VERSION, INTEL Q9550 CHIP, SAPPHIRE RADEON 4870X2, AND 2X2GB CORSAIR PC 8500 MEMORY. I USED MY VISTA ULTIMATE 64 FROM THE ORIGINAL HARD DRIVE AND IT REACTIVATED PROPERLY AND THE SYSTEM WORKED FINE FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS. TWO DAYS AGO, AFTER PLAYING DOOM 3 FOR AN HOUR OR SO, I EXITED THE GAME AND...

Hello, I'm trying to back up my file, but in the process I was asked to start the task scheduler. when I do start the task scheduler, I get the following message: Task Scheduler is not available. Verify that the service is running.! I tried command prompt as well but I get nothing.