As noted by a post from Mike on 4/14/07 and answered by Victoria from Microsoft, defrag in Vista increases used space on the drive. I just discovered the same problem after running defrag c: -r, then defrag c: -w from the command prompt. I lost 3.6GB the first defrag and then lost another 1.75GB the second defrag. After turning System Restore off and on, my free space went from 16% to 41%. I...

Why does defrag increase the disk's "used space"? This happens with both the GUI version, and the command-line version. The command line flag "-w" results in a greater decrease in used space. I used (command line) defrag c: -a -v to generate a report, ran the GUI defrag, and then reran a report. It seems that the GUI version repeatably increases "used space" by about .7 GB. The "free...

ok i have a SR problem: My SR is WAAAAY too low. i can't view the screen resolution changer or scroll down to it, how can i change the SR? -- Azanaph

Hi hope someone can give me some advice.... just recently i purchased a new notebook ( Amilo Li3710 from Fujitsu) operating system is Vista... when i used the the first time the internet it crashed and showed me this error-message: Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Suggestions on correcting location of icons and having complete screen. -- youngfarm

Hi, I have a Windows Vista 32 bit Operating system. Everytime I turn my computer on, it loads as normal until it gets to the aqua coloured Vista welcome screen. After this the whole screen goes white for about 10 seconds. Then the desktop appears. This started today and I can't really think of any reason why it would happen. Would it perhaps be a virus? Or maybe driver software? Sorry I am no...

Hi, I have a Vista 32 bit computer. This has been going on for quite a while but I havn't really taken note of it until now. At random times, the computer simply switches itself off. It doesnt happen all the time, but enough to be an anoyance. Also, when it switches off, it doesnt just blank out, it takes the liberity of logging itself off first and then shutting down. Might anyone have some...

I keep getting this error constantly and its hard even to press F8 to get into the advanced start up options. I've tried running in safe mode and tried going to last know good startup point, but both end up giving me the bsod. Can anyone help? Thanks! -- jsaye2002

I keep geting this error message. I have pasted below, the additional details that one of these error messages gave me when I clicked on it: Problem signatu Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: spoolsv.exe Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005 Application Timestamp: 49e02592 Fault Module Name: ZSR.dll Fault Module Version: 6.20.1625.0

Hi, Greetings. Trying to get some help in resolving an issue with my IE and its file associations. Recently my IE refuses to open internet shortcuts, when I click on them i receive an error that there is no file association for the file type and i have to create one. When I do set IE to the default the shortcut opens once then reverts to the previous error. Another problem is that when I set IE...

I have Windows Vista Home Premium running on an HP Pavilion laptop computer. I have noticed that my disk space usage doesn't add up, because my total usage always exceeds what I can account for by 20-30GB, even after I have included hidden/system files (or so I believe). However, I recently installed SP2 for Windows Vista Home Premium, and noticed that somehow a large amount of space (around...

Using Process Explorer I determined that one of the following services running in svchost.exe process is causing constant very high CPU usage: Audiosrv, Dhcp, Eventlog, lmhosts, and wscsv. I stopped each of the services except for the Eventlog. Eventlog would not stop because other running services depend on it. There was no change to the high CPU usage. Casting caution to the wind I...

Have new computer with Windows Ultimate 32 bit installed and I cannot find the media center. The error message says it stopped working and cannot open. Do I need to do a clean install or was the upgrade that I did do what the problem is? I have a feeling I am missing out on a lot in media center and it sure would be nice to use it since it came with the program for $219.99 :-) Thanks all.

I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline

I ran sfc/scannow in administrator mode and it said it had found some corrupt files that it was unable to fix. I opened the C:\Windows\Logs\CBS directory and it contained 5 files: CBS,CBS.persist,CheckSUR,CheckSUR.persist and Filterlist. I attempted to open CBS but a message says " Access is denied ". The same applied to CBS.persist. I am able to open CheckSUR, CheckSUR.persist and...

Ok so i jsut got vista installed some games restarted pc and boom my desktop was like zoomed in and even when i changed the resolution it dident help i tried change the display resolution dident work i then tried to see if it was my icons that wer soomed in and nope there not i then tried downloading altes grahics drivers and nothing happend i even tried system resor like 10 time and it...

I'm a tech guy in a school system. We have Vista machines in a lab. Students log on using a student/student login, so no one has their 'own' account. We've locked them out of changing things, but somehow they've been able to make changes to the wallpaper as well as the Word program. The wallpaper is black. When you open up a Word doc the page is black not white. It makes typing difficult with...

" Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details. " this always comes up. If i click OK it just comes up again. I have been reading on some websites how to fix this by system restore, but i need some disk i dont have :) HELP!

I have Vista Ultimate x64 with build 6002 (beta SP2). When I go to Programs and Features the list won't populate, the progress bar eventually goes off the right of the drop - down symbol and half way across the red X... I recently put SQL2008 on, had to manually install .NET framework 3.5 first; that now shows up in the list but that's all - and the progress bar does the same thing as before....

Hey. Just recently got my new computer. It runs Windows Vista Basic 64-Bit. 4 GB RAM. Intel Core 2 Quad q8400 @ 2.66 ghz. NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT video card. I recently install a game onto my computer. Installation was completed smoothly, but without fail, I get a blue screen of death in the middle of a patch download. The info is as follows. BCCode: a BCP1: 0000000000000008