I have Windows VISTA Home Premium. When I run "back up files" to a pocket media drive inserted into the computer's drive bay, it will run to it's about 50% complete, then I get a message that "backup was stopped." Prior to running the backup, I disabled the antivirus and spyware. Can anyone help me solve the problem? Thanks.

Although I have read various threads about similar problems, none seem to provide me with an answer to this problem - help please. I have a simple system on which my 300Gb drive D is used solely for data backups (restore points are on C:). For months all worked well with small increments in disc usage, as expected. I could could easily maintain two backup sets and, to free disc space,...

keep getting a pop up message "task scheduler engine stopped working and was closed" What does it mean and how can it be rectified and the pop up stopped from popping up?? Many thanx ps am not too good with the techno stuff!!!!!!

When I open windows features to check which are on and which are off in my vista ultimate system, the features screen remains blank. No features show up at all. Just blank space with the option to pick OK or Cancel. -- Love to learn. Hate to study. Bad Combination!

Hi, I would like to install IIS on Windows Vista Home Premium. But the dialog opens but nothing getting loaded. It says "please wait" and it is empty. I tried comparing CTP/Knownclasses registry keys between two similar Windows Vista PCs. Everything is fine. How can i get this done. Your help is much appreciated.

Hello, I´m Ignacio and I have the Windows Vista Home Premium. I have two svchost.exe process running on mi computer!!! and I don´t know why! I don´t have a lot of memory to allow that. Does anybody know what it´s going on? Thanks!

Everytime I start up my computer the screen shows a configuring page which says configuring 3 of 3. It goes from zero to 85% then when it hits 100 my computer restarts and then repeats this over and over and my computer won't do anything else. I can leave it for hours even days and this cycle just keeps repeating itself. Is there a combination of computer keys I can press so the computer...

I am writing about a Dell Inspiron 1501. Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3500+ 1.80 GHz 1918 MB RAM 32-bit Operating System The Windows Experience Index was 2.0, held down because of "memory operations per second." So I just added two 1 GB memory modules. Now the score for Memory is 4.6 (yay!). But the score for "Graphics" is still 2.4. I went to "adjust visual effects" and clicked "adjust...

Hi, Something is continuously creating temp files in my C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp directory. About every minute, a zip file is created named something like Temp1_040528.zip. It contains a bunch of files named something like IM031130.DAT or CD045432.DAT, along with two directories, SUMMARY and LISTS. After a week, my drive fills up. I was running Trend. Removed that and installed...

The last few times I have used my computer, explorer has stopped working. Last time I just hit control alt delete and restarted, but this last time explorer automatically restarted. My computer told me to download this repair "Windows6.0-KB936316-x86" - so I did. When I tried to install this update, I got this message from the "Windows Update Standalone Installer" which said, "Installer...

Hi! Would appreciate advice on how to fix a problem with Dell Inspirion 1521 with Vista OS. Everything has been working fine since purchase 9 months ago, but suddenly will not boot no mater what I try. Comes up with "Windows cannot repair this computer automatically". I have tried system restore as far back as there are dates available, as well as safe mode and last known good log on,...

I haven't used my computer for 2 weeks as I was out of town and when I turned it on when I got home it went out on me with lots of thin colored lines comping up then it said windows did not start and there is a hardware problem. I contacted Dell and they had me take the battery out and plug the charger in and push F8 and start the computer. Started and added password then it began testing...

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the diagnostic started during the start up of the pc. my problem is i can not stop it. theree is no option to cancel the mem diagnostic. The result is the to start with every start up. i kindly ask you to advice solution to cancel .

I have the same problems as a lot of people, also with my network and sound my internet security icon also disapeares. Ive tried the fix in the registry but it just happens again later. I can reboot and everything is back but after awhile they just disapear again. I know is has something to do with SP1 because i didnt have this problem untill installing it. Is there any perminent fixes...

Hi all can anyone tell me how to turn off all those annoying window's needs permission boxes that i have to click continue on. They have got to be the most annoying thing microsoft have ever made. Thanks guy's

There's an application program called 'fix.exe' that Startup keeps blocking everytime I switch on my laptop. There are no description or publisher information and the startup type is 'Registry: Local Machine'. The program is located in the Windows folder on my C: I can't do anything from Startup Program caused the options 'Remove / Disable / Enable' are greyed out.. Please advise me what...

I went to my computer and the E:drive is not on the screen at all. when i put a cd in the drive or a dvd it doesn't open the disc. the light comes on but can't access the drive in the my computer area nor does any auto exec work when a disc is loaded. who do i fix this? i checked the device manager but it says hte driver for that is updated.

My windows xp that I have had for about 2 years suddenly started to shut down and restart on its own. Out of the blue, over and over. Boots up shuts down, Boots up shuts down. I use it for my business payroll and bill paying. When I do get it to stay on for a couple minutes I have to restart my active desk top. I have tried defrag and cleaning it up. Checked all my plugs and tried everything...

When the computer finishes booting up, and error message comes up that says Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused this program's service to stop. It says to restart the compuer, but this message still occurs after restarting. It also appears if I try to open defender manually. Any help?