In my network, sometimes my user's laptops freeze during the logon script. Well the computers don't actually freeze, they just don't move beyond the logon script. When I go into task mamager, cpu is running at 100% (2 gb ram and very new processors) and the process taking up the most memory (48,748k) is svchost.exe. I think it's associated with the windows search indexing but I'm not...

Hi everyone, The forums have helped me tweak my Vista quite a bit. I have a problem, however, with something else other than tweaking my boot, my L2 Cache size and what not. When I open Control Panel, sometimes Windows Explorer dies on me and restarts. I have a baller computer, so there is really no issue with the computer specs and running Vista. When I open the Control Panel, there is nothing...

hey please tell me how to make my window sidebar appear every time i start up my computer.....idk it comes on when it wants to...looking forward for a reply thanks bye. -- AncientComp

I just bought a laptop from a friend and it was running perfectly until i shut down my laptop and when i turned it on in the morning it ask how i should run my laptop. I ran the Windows normally and i got to the sign in screen, but i wasnt allowed to sign in, it says "please wait" and ive waited for about an hour. but when i ran it in safe mode with network or whatever i was allowed to get on the...

hi to all, i'm at my wits end, really hope some sage person can help me out here... i have an HP Pavilion dv6910us entertainment notebook pc, running on vista home premium, bought within the past 12 months. i have had nothing but problems with this computer. the fan gets REALLY LOUD, a grating whirring sound like like i'm about to take my propeller plane for a spin...

Not sure if this is the correct group to post this question so please correct me if I'm posting to the wrong Newsgroup. My son's got a Vista laptop running off a wireless Linksys router. It's been running great for almost 2 years but for some reason his wireless connection recently went from `secured' to `unsecured'. Have no idea what caused this change. Nothing was done to the router. Can...

The speaker icon has disappeared (lower right). I have no control of the volume and it is set to zero. I need volume control - machine is useless to me without it. How do I get it back and prevent it from disappearing again? Many thanks LSK

I have tried everything I can think of to get rid of this problem including everything that is stated in the tutorial section of this site but can't seem to resolve this issue. When I try to run the report I get the attached message and the report won't run. Could this be because I have added new drives to the...

On my 32-bit Vista machine, backup times have increased dramatically after installing the Vista SP2 update - at least twice as long as before. Since I run BOINC projects nearly 24 hours a day, other than pauses for backups, virus scans and the like, any assumptions that I won't notice the increase aren't true for me. I've even seen signs that the backups are pausing whenever the screen coes...

I just purchased a computer with Vista Home Premium 64bit processor system. I downloaded the latest Firefox. Both I.E.7 and Firefox worked great. Then I.E.8 downloaded itself and I could use neither Firefox nor I.E. as browsers. I had to get help to use my computer. I loved Firefox and want to get it back. Would it be safe to try again or should I wait until a perfect Firefox for 64bit...

I just recently started getting the blue screen of death (BSOD). How can I tell whats causing it? I am running Vista 64 bit & Norton 360 V3. The only thing I can think of is the IE8 update.

Hi, I'm running vista SP1 and store a lot of VERY large files, 29gb is not unusual. These files are mainly video AVI files. Each time I access the directory which hold these files my systems hangs for about 10 minutes and then works again. If I move my mouse over one of these files, it seems to work, but shortly afterwards it hangs again.

The very first time I rebooted after installing Vista Home Premium SP2 my Live Messenger application refused to start. Now, after several reboots I still will not start. Is this being caused by SP2, or some other sort of problem? Nothing new, other than SP2, has been installed and it was working fine just before SP2. Questor

I have found it impossible to enable an application to start minimized using Vista Home Premium. Although a shortcut to the application has been created in the Startup folder and its run type is set to 'minimized', on system startup the application always starts in 'normal window' mode. This applies to any application. Is minimized startup achievable?

I have tried to install an old DOS based program on my Vista based computer. The program has installed on all previous versions of windows. All it did was add the same two lines to my Autoexec.bat file every time I tried to install it. How can I delete these lines from my Autoexec.bat file? I can go to the file, highlight the lines and delete them, but when I try to close out, they all...

Running Vista Premium 64 bit I am having a problem with the Visual C++ Runtime Library. The error message says Program: C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. IE (32 bit) was the only application I was running. I was at gamesville.com...

I am new at Vista and always have a memory dump. Please help me resolve this issue. Problem signatu Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: f4

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81786-disk-defragmenter-command-prompt.html Disk Defragmenter Tutorial I found useful and therefore used (had been looking for weeks). I have run defrag.exe c: -w to do a full fragmentation.. above say dont close the command prompt until the Hard drive stops running... Well my computer keeps going to sleep every 5 min of idle time, whereas it sounds like the...

My computer is starting to crash regularly showing different errors each time when i reboot the disk checking takes place which gets to 40% it then stops and i get the message "an unspecified error has occured" my computer then continues booting succesfullyand seems to run OK. When i shut down everything is normal no delays etc, but when i restart i get the screen which tells me the last shutdown...

Hello there, A 2 year old neighbor kid stepped on my computer and apparently messed up the way windows works. Let's see if I can give you a couple of examples: When I click on icons on my desktop instead of launching the program the properties pane comes up, like I have right clicked and hit properties. Here is another: in Internet Explorer when I try to type in an address, lets say...