Hello, My name is shawn:) This is my first time posting on Windows Vista Forum, the problems below are from my explore 7 (your internet has stopped working) and me?. To further the problem Dell's warrenty has expired and can not afford software $$$ that promises to fix it today. I would like to get some knowledge on how and where I would

I'm running a laptop and would love for the power settings to automatically change from high performance when plugged in to Ballanced or Power Saver when running on Batteries. Does the system do this....?

How can I get the following error message to go away: c:\program2\kodak\easysharesetup\registration_7.1.30.7.sxt The specified module could not be found I don't use Kodak Easyshare anymore, but can't get rid of this message.

I've installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my HP nx7300 laptop.Before I had XP Professional.Now I have this problem : volume icon in the taskbar doesn't respond wyhen I click on it.I have reinstalled Vista Ultimate,but another one,different .ISO size,genuine,no crack.First times,like in the previous Vista,worked...after few times clicking on it to adjust the volume : no response . Volume mixer and...

I've installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my HP nx7300 laptop.Before I had XP Professional.Now I have this problem : volume icon in the taskbar doesn't respond wyhen I click on it.I have reinstalled Vista Ultimate,but another one,different .ISO size,genuine,no crack.First times,like in the previous Vista,worked...after few times clicking on it to adjust the volume : no response . Volume mixer and...

ok, I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check the progress?

When ever I'm trying to Right click on a folder, My windows explorer crashes. It also crashes when I highlight the folder, and Hit the delete button, Windows crashes. I'm pretty sure I'm Running a Vista home premium 64bit. I know for sure its 64bit, and That its vista. But I forgot where to see what version it is. But this is really frustrating and I need some help.

I am running Vista Pro. When I log onto YouTube and attempt to run a video, the video runs but I get no audio. I have installed the latest Flash player version but sitll no luck. YouTube videos that are emailed to me play audio just fine. The YouTube Help video on YouTube's help site plays audio just fine as well. Any ideas? -- JMS

Hi, I'm hoping the someone can help as I've searched the internet. I have a 120 GB hd on my lenovo laptop with windows vista. the SW_Preload says 13.8 GB free of 104 GB. However, when I check the size of each of my folders/files within my C drive, it only adds up to barely 20 GB. I'm wondering what could be causing this discrepency?? The folders for example are "users", Windows, Program...

I have done everything I can think of to try and fix this. I have a Compaq laptop with Windows Vista. It's less than a year old, Vista was on it when I bought it (new) My desktop is split into 4 screens. Like, there's 4 sets of start buttons and everything. PLEASE HELP! I have shut it down, restarted, played with different monitor/display settings, cleaned the whole thing out, ran multiple...

When using Vista Backup we are receiving the following error: "A shadow copy could not be created for the following reason: Insufficient storage availabel to create eith the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data. (0x8004231F)" The error aborts the backup. We have plenty of disk space and cannot figure out why we would receive this error. In order to eliminate Vista Backup as...

I've read this article. http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2007/01/16/processing-appears-to-st all-or-become-sluggish-on-multi-processor-machines-running-analysis-serv ices-2005.aspx and would like to know how to determine the numbers on these: Threads:Processing Pool Idle Threads, Threads:Processing Pool Busy Threads, and Threads:Processing Pool Job Queue Length performance counters I...

HI Everyone, My Toshiba Satelite laptop is of need of an upgrade to speed performance and was wondering if anybody had any ideas of the best angle do so.Anyways heres what I got to work with. Toshiba satellite p205 17" Vista home premium 32bit T5450 Intel CPU 2GB DDR2 PC5300 667 200GB SATA 5200 HD or here it is here 'Toshiba Satellite P205 Review'...

I got the message below when I ran the SFC /scannow as admin. What happens next? Do the files get fixed later, are they marked as bad and left alone or what. "Windows resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them." Running a system repair did nothing, and when I run SFC now it says no problems found.

Hi, I was one of the many vista x64 whose PC bugged (blue screen of the death) whenever the os called a mysterious file named acedrvxx.sys (acedrv08.sys in my case). I didn't find the solution in usenet but a few searches with google finally led me the http://www.protectdisc.com/help/driverupdate_v8.html Yes, the problem is known and there is a patch! I would have thanked the company if they...

Windows mail keeps trying to compact the the files when I close the program. It keeps trying and I get errors. How is this fixed? It's the most annoying thing as it doesn't quit, if I click OK - I get another error. How do I get it to compact the news/mail files? Never had this problem with OE I used this www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/ to compact and repair the database - it said it compressed it,...

i have a yahoo and a live email i am tryn my hardest to set them up on windows mail. my live i COULD receive but NOW IT WILL DO EITHER but my yahoo will not either THese are THE ERROR MESSAGE The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be correct for your outgoing e-mail server. For help solving this problem, go to Help, search for "Troubleshoot Windows Mail", and...

(cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "Glimmerung" wrote in message ... I'm having some problems downloading and installing windows updates. The two items in question a Update for Windows Vista (kb955839) and Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .Net Framework 3.5 Family

Hi I have noticed that Roxio is creating extra files in my Windows backups and is giving them the name of the 'real' file followed by "%%% Roxio EMC Stream." It looks as if the extra Roxio files are all 1k files but I don't know what they are and don't think I need them as the 'real' files have been backed up in their native format by Windows e.g. Word or Excel. However I can't delete the...

In Windows XP it is possible to set the maximum size of the Recyle Bin via the following system registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket\Percent However, I have been unable to determine how to accomplish the same task in Vista (via the registry, WMI, or Win32 API). If anyone happens to know how to do this in Vista (or could point me in a direction...