Hi, windows vista home edt. wont let me restore from anywhere but the c drive, every time i go to select say a external drive which crazy enough it recognises as being where my last successful backup was made, it just comes up with some rubbish notification saying it is not the location of the backup. I cant restore any backups this is crazy. Anyone else had this problem?

Some of us want to choose what "gets out" and what doesn't. And this info doesn't work since there is nowhere to make such a change in the Windows Firewall window that comes up. Configure it - HOW? Can someone explain how it's configured to actually work without being a programmer writing strange unknown confusing rules for everything that wants to connect to the net? If not, can someone...

The other day something happened on my computer when I restarted it. It was stuck on the green loading bar, then a blue screen flashes for a second and it goes to a black screen that says my hardware my be damaged or corrupted so it asks me to run recovery to fix the problem. At first it goes back to the green loading bar and stays there for a while when goes black and the harddrive stops doing...

Hi, I am dutch so my englishe is not very good. Since i have Windows Vista my pc stops after 30 minutes. (sometimes shorter and sometimes any longer.) When i am surfing 30 minutes on internet my mouse don't move anymore and i can't do anything, so i must put my computer off. And when i'm playing a game i have this problem after 10 or 15 minutes. And when i'm not on my computer but he's only...

How do i reset the restore points so as far as vista is concered no backups have ever been made on this machine, then i can try a restore by saying i made the backup on another pc, its the only way i can think of to let me restore my folder! thnx in adv.

When I boot my Vista 64 machine, which had been working normally until 2 days ago, the login screen comes up fuzzy--that is, I can tell it is the login screen, but the image is so highly distorted as to be unusable. The image is fine during the boot process (ie, the post graphics and the green progress bar are fine) until the Vista circle pops up. When I try to boot in safe mode, the screen...

I had a major problem with my installation of Vista Ultimate 64 and had to use my Windows Image backup to reinstall. Since then I occasionally get an error box saying MS DTCconsole has failed, look for a solution or close the program. Needless to say a solution is never found and I close the program. Does anyone know what it is and what the solution could be? Thanks

Hi, Going mad over a problem I’m having restoring a folder. I backup every month and last month i switched my backup media to a new hdd. About 20 days later (now) i have had a folder i need to restore, i began to perform what should have been the simple procedure of opening up the restore option and selecting what i wanted to restore, however when i click the "restore files" button and try...

I have Inspiron 9100 Dell notebook (several years old) with the full version of Vista. Sound cues confirm it is loading when the computer is first turned on; the screen remains black. I shut down the computer and try again. This time a prompt appears and I choose "Start Windows Normally." Vista loads in all its colorful glory and we're off to the races. Why won't Windows load normally...

This is a newish (budget gamer) computer I'll post the specs after the description. The BSOD happened once so far. The BSOD happened right after Vista loads and just before the Login Screen. It just BSOD's restarts and asks if I want to start windows normally and I did and it just worked... *System Specs*: Vista Home Premium 32bit Foxconn A74MX-K 'HIS Radeon HD 4670 512mb'

My computer has been experiencing glitches that require a hard reboot to fix. The problem seems to happen randomly, though I have only experienced it while gaming (most of what I do on that machine). This is what happens: the glitch first reveals itself by the mouse cursor looking screwy. Everything functions fine, but the actual arrow of the mouse cursor looks graphically different. Then,...

I recently installed software called “AVS Video Converter� and now whenever I try to burn a DVD using Nero I get an error something like “Windows host process rundll32 has stopped working. The program has halted.� Recently the problem has gotten worse and I get multiple error messages in rapid-fire and I can’t close them down fast enough so I need to reboot to get my computer...

Hi all, I am reading up on debugging minidump files, because I have been getting some blue screens and would like to diagnose them. I have downloaded Windbg, but most of the articles about how to use it seem to have been written in the WinXP days. The articles reference using C:\WINDOWS\I386 as the image path. This folder does not exist on the Vista DVD; what path should I use? Is there...

Has anyone met this error before? Any solutions or descriptions out there?

Im getting the error when the windows installer service tries to start. Also i Cant install any msi because i get the "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. In the event viewer I get the foolwoing error events: The Windows Installer service failed to start due to the following error: Windows Installer is not a valid Win32 application. and I cant install any service packs for...

I am trying to set disc defrag to run on a regular basis, i have asked many for help but no one seems to get the answer for me you are my last hope. When I modify the scheduler to run at a specific time the system accepts the information and sets the next date to run the scan, however when i look at the scheduler again the next date to be run now states "never" it seems as though the...

-- vista32bit ultimate.2x750gb sata hdd. 4gb ddr3 ram.intelquad core q9550 2.83ghz cpu 1330fsb asus mobo ..and OC...I have asked a similar question to this but had no real replies : when copying and pasting or even cut and paste large files i.e 3 to 10gb either between disks or from a dvd to disk the speed of the transfer slows dramatically i.e from 50MB/s to 5mb/s...the processor is running...

I know the following question is kind of silly but asking never hurts... (at least so they say :zip:). I tried to do a complete PC backup using Windows build in "Back up Computer". The next screen that pops is the one where I have to select the drive I want to save the backup image. -So my question is the following:-

could you help me solve this bsod error it shows up everytime. **STOP: 0x0000003B (0x00000000C0000005, 0xFFFFF8000226CED6, 0xFFFFFA6007F7A180, 0 collecting data for crash dump initializing disk for crash dumpbeginning --

Hey guys Built a new PC a few days ok. first day went fine. Today ive been experiencing freezes every 2 hours or so but my mouse can still move across the screen. I cant click on anything but it can move. Any help would be appreciated. Ive tried re-seating everything, patched everything, rolled back and reupdated drivers. ------------------