Is it safe to manually deleted those ophan folders left behind in the registry from uninstalled programs ? Appreciate any suggestions ! -- cp24

I have one of those Windows Sidebar Gadgets that show core usage (2), and RAM usage. Recently it changed dramatically for the better. Previously, both cores operated at 40% plus. They never dropped below the 40% threshold. Now, the cores run very low sometimes they are both at 5%, _rarely_ spiking to 100% seldom. RAM, however, has changed inversely. Previously, it never dropped below 50%,...

I have a pretty good system hardware wise. Before I ask my question can you see my system specs or do I need to manual post them in each thread posted? -- gravesmeister

My wife recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5100 Notebook for her work which came preinstalled with Vista Home Premium. At first everything seemed fine with it, then after a few weeks she started noticing that after startup, vista was virtually unresponsive for about 10-15 minutes. After that time everything ran fine. There has been only one application installed on the computer, but is...

When I insert my new 2GB Crucial USB flash drive in the slot, I choose ReadyBoost. But a dialog box appears saying "This device does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system." Does anyone know why I'm getting that message? What am I missing? Thanks so much. Diane

I am having issues with Vista taking 2+ minutes to boot up to logon. Looking in the Diagnostics-Performance section in the Event Viewer, I have many errors with Task Categories of System Performance Monitoring, Boot Perf Monitoring and Shutdown Perf Monitoring. Viewing the details tells me nothing about what is wrong or where to start looking. I was hoping to see a service or program causing...

I was wondering if there are any excellent FREE registry cleaners for Vista Ultimate that is recommended by microsoft? I found something from Ascentive that looks good but I am not fully sure (Even though it isn't free).

Hi Everyone, I recently got an Acer Aspire 5515 for school and it has vista. My question however is about backing it up. When I first got the system it instucted me to create back-up cd's so I did. The is also a D: drive that has nothing on it; it's factory name was data. Dose this mean it's the back-up data drive (I have an app that loads that will write a backup file to D:) and I should...

Can someone tell me what this application is/does? Thanks

Hi, hope somebody can shed a light. Have Vista Home Premium that when started uses 50% of physical memory, and constantly increases... to 80% at the moment (after 3 hours). I can see that the main contributor is audiodg.exe currently at 960.000 KB (according to Resource Monitor), (was using 810.000 KB an hour ago)... CPU is within normal levels. I am not playing any audio files or have...

I'm trying to back up from Vista Ultimate to a share on a networked Linksys NSLU2 I named NAS1. The share is 'backup'. Backup can browse to the folder at which point I get a userid/pw prompt. After completing login to NAS1, Vista backup consistently fails because "Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (0x80070087)". When I look in the share directory, there's a new subdirectory...

I am having issues with Vista taking 2+ minutes to boot up to logon. Looking in the Diagnostics-Performance section in the Event Viewer, I have many errors with Task Categories of System Performance Monitoring, Boot Perf Monitoring and Shutdown Perf Monitoring. Viewing the details tells me nothing about what is wrong or where to start looking. I was hoping to see a service or program causing...

I've recently installed Windows Vista: Ultimate, and have ran into 2 problems that i've noticed. One problem is that my taskbar freezes after double-clicking the speaker icon in the taskbar. I can hoover over the speaker with my mouse, and it would be ok, but once i double-click it, then the entire taskbar freezes, and only the Start button is accessible, as well as my entire desktop, but...

When I open "Performance Information and Tools", the Experience rating are no longer there and the "Rate my computer" button is gone too. Anybody know how to restore this or directly access the Rate my Computer? Thanks!

New to Vista. I transfered copies of Reovery D: to two external hard drives- to be safe-now I want to empty D: so that I can back up. When I tried to Back up to the external hard drives that I have one with 300 gs other with 100gs available, I was not able because it wanted to include C: and the drives would not hold both C: and D:-Thus, How can I safely backup weekly without getting these...

I have searched all over the internet for advice on this problem but have not found anything helpful yet. My screensaver never activates on my Dell, Vista run laptop. In fact, it won't even sleep after the 25 minutes it's set to fall asleep after. Even when I try to preview the screensavers, they will show for a second and then shut off. I have tried ending the ehtray.exe, but it does...

my computer has been doing this after a couple days, and programs like internet, even the arrow listing to the shutdown methods will not open. The computer doesnt freeze up. but it was going from.. maybe 1-2 hours after startup but now its only 5 minutes that I can open programs. I have never encountered the program before. but it seems I cannot access anything. desktop is not frozen and...

Hi, The question is as per title : I am thinking of uggrading my Media Centre PC graphics card to a HD4350 based PCI-E card with 512MB of DDR2 memory and I wondered if anyone here can tell me what I can expect in terms of Vista Performance Index scores for the video tests ? I want to compare it against other VPI scores so am not interested in replies alone the lines of "I don't think you want...

I bought a laptop last Christmas and it had various pre-installed stuff that I did not want and uninstalled them. A few weeks later and I have been trying use the windows media center remote to watch tv on my Toshiba Qosimio G40. So far I have'nt found it and I think I may of unintentionally uninstalled it. I have been to Microsoft web page and have been looking to try and download the package...

hi thanks for this great forum .. but really i don't know if this is the right place to my post . FIRST i use notebook .vista home premium 32 intel core processor T2450 2.0 GHZ 533mHZ 2 mB L2 Cashe i have upgraded my memory from 1 gb each slot 512 *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*__*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* to *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*__*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*