My FIOS is way too sluggish. For example, it takes 20 seconds to fully load a web page such as talkingpointsmemo.com I have used scrubbers and cleaners and spyware removers etc. and think I've got something hidden in there making me a tool of some 15-year-old Russian. So, I want to do a system recovery. But I'd really like to copy/backup a bunch of applications and drivers so I can just put them...

:cry:HELLO..I just got bought a new computer and it has Windows Vista and everyhting was okay until I tried to open a email with a .pps extention..Igot a message that said* "this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. create an association in the set association control panel" * I don't have a clue what to do..I do have Microsoft Power Point viewer downloaded...

Can someone please direct me to a resource that informs how to read these error codes? I looked around MS with several searches on BCCode etc and all I find are people posting their errors. If not, what is this telling me? Additional information about the problem: BCCode: c2 BCP1: 0000000000000007

Hi everyone, Nice group ya got here. I am new to vistax64 and I was hoping someone could explain something to me. I have a dell xps 600 that originally came with xp pro. 2.8 dual core and 1 gig memory. I was doing a lot of audio multi tracking and wanted to up my memory to help out with some latency problems I was having. the xps600 manual said that the mobo could handle 2 gig on 32bit and...

I apologize if this is the wrong place to put this... I'm new to the forums... Background info: Vista, 32bit HP Pavilion6707 I've been having trouble with my computer not going past a black screen and a few green lines at the bottom (a word too, but don't remember) during startup

I have been living with an annoying sidebar issue and have been trying different fixes for related issues. Here is the problem. When I boot and select profile to log into I have absolutely no problems with sidebar. However, if I switch profiles either by logging out or sitching users the sidebar will not work. All I see is the background area for the sidebar with no gadgets. I will often see...

Hi guys, I know I am not the only one having this problem and I hope there might be a solution to it. I am running Vista Business 32 bits on a Dell XPS M1330, dual core CPU and the process WmiPrvSe.exe is really slowing down my computer (slow startup and taking 15% of CPU). I have scanned my computer with several scanner (Avast, AVG,Microsoft OneCare, TrueSword) but it didn't work.

Excel only uses upto 50% of CPU's capacity. Want it to use nearly 100% and speed up results. Vista, Excel 2007, Dell XPS M1530 Duo processor. Multithreading is set to use all processors. Suggestions?

Usually we are downloading or deploying many softwares into the machines and after some time that may uninstall or delete from the system. But eventhough we are uninstalling that software some dll or any other file may exist in the system unnceessarily. Some file may belongs to the directory of windows folder . In such cases we cannot find and remove that file because it belong with...

Hi, The Hard Drive LED light on my Sony Vaio keeps blinking EVERY SECOND. When it's really quiet I can hear it too, it's constantly writing. Constantly. I did my research - read all the threads on the net and so far I have disabled: Windows index

I noticed that my 280GB hard disk is seemingly suddenly down to 20GB. I see that my used shadow storage space is 86GB and the allocated shadow space is 88GB and the max shadow space is "unbounded." I have the commands to resize the max space, but I don't know what to resize it to. I know I have about 150GB of programs, files, etc on my c: drive. Can you advise? Is it possible to...

Can someone tell me what this Fault Bucket refers to, Fault bucket X64_0x9F_IMAGE_bcmwl664.sys, type 0. I've had several dumps on a new Dell Studio 540 w/ vista 64 bit. Any information on how to correct would be appreciated also. -- Stu

I got a new 64 bit HP laptop about a month ago and have recently completed the second complete rebuild. System restore did not work last time. My control panel launches and is blank; then the window closes. From my start menu, I cannot access any default program settings. My printer would not install initially, but I got that online and added last week. I went to print this morning and...

I am trying to insert background music in an e-mail. Here is what I did : Create Mail Format Background sound browse, select my music, click Open OK My problem is , when I sent it to myself for testing, music came on as I opened the message. But, when I sent it to someone, the recipient could not hear it. Any reason why ? t-4-2

Dear All: My system has a high CPU utilization. I was running on old version of XP Pro. I recently performed a bare metal install of Vista x64, and the system is still running with a high CPU utilization. I installed the latest Process Explorer (v11.33) and the highest processes listed by Context Switches, since the last reboot, are as follows:

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I seem to hava a problem with my Windows Vista-on my Toshiba A205 specs Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500 1.66GHz, 2MB L2, 667MHz FSB with 64-bit 2048MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory 250GB (4200 RPM) Serial-ATA (SATA) hard disk drive 1280x800 native resolution (XWGA) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 8MB-256MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory

Hello, I am at a loss as to where to post this so I made a guess. If I am misguided please let me know. I have installes WSUS 3.0 on windows server 2003. Everything works great but I have a vista home machine that I need to configure manually in the registry to use my wsus server instead of windows update. After making the modifications the update type and time are configured...

I am attempting to help a novice user so I want to us Remote Assistance. Sounds reasonable EXCEPT Remote Assistance doesn't work. I am playing the part of the novice to test the problem. Here is what I do on my VISTA machine. 1. Help and Support 2. Select Windows Remote Assistance link 3. On the Windows Remote Assistance window click "Invite Someone you trust to help you" 4.Click "Use e-mail to...

When i try to install Service pack 1 it gives me a message: "The Windows Vista Service pack Installation cannot proceed until you computer is restarted. Please restart you computer and try again" I have restarted many times and still get the same problem. I am running a legit copy of Vista Home premium 32bit No other programs are running when i start the service pack install. system...