I've noticed recently that system restore has stopped creating the daily restore points. Although, when I install software one is created. I checked "services" and shadow copy is enabled as well as Task Scheduler. Are there any other services that should be enabled for the system checkpoints to be created? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to run the following command WBADMIN START BACKUP -backupTarget:\\domino\backups\%username% -include:c:\users\%username% -quiet When i do this i get the following error ERROR - One of the source volumes specified cannot be included: c:\users\gstants

Hullo Everyone, I tried to find an answer to this on the forums. I found a lot on IE temp files etc. but nothing to solve the following riddle: I had a habit in XP to keep IE temp on a small "temp" partition to avoid fragmenting the system partition so much and to be able to defrag quickly and often. I kept all "rubbish" on that small "temp" partition. In Vista, I also tried to move the IE...

I have a 3GHz dual core with 8GB of ram on Vista 64 bit and the "system" process, that normally should only be a couple of percent, is always around 47%, regardless of what I do to the system (one of the cores is always at 95-100%). Using process explorer it's showing that it is the acpi.sys process and I'm unable to do anything to that thread. The actual start address within process...

I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop running Vista Business with 2 GB of memory. Most of the time when I start almost any program I get a not responding message. If I wait 10 to 30 seconds the program usually responds but most programs don't run very fast. This computer is about 1 year old and it has worked this way since it was new. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem?

I have been a developer since early 80's. I've been disappointed, and re-disappointed year after year at the lower and lower quality of crap that Microsoft pushes on us. But Vista absolutely takes the cake. I've been running it for a year, and still get frustrated every single day about what a total worthless pile of crap this is. Why can't Microsoft stop spening money trying to convince...

:::)glad to be aboard. i am getting a red line and a message that an error occured -catastrophic failure occured ox8000FFFF:: -- mmmarko

I have tried unsuccessfully to make a complete backup. I have two new machines from MPC, my own running Vista Ultimate and another Vista Business. I installed the standard software, Office 2007, etc. Then I tried to make a backup image (Complete) but when it got to the end, it said "The Backup Failed." "The parameter is incorrect 0X80070057." The first backup was to a second internal HD and...

I'm having loads and loads of issues with trying to install programs on my computer mainly due the extraction of files from installers before they are run. Here are a selection of issues I've been having. I'm assuming one problem is the root of all the issues. When trying Install the DirectX SDK self-extracting setup .exe: \"EXTRACTING FILE FAILED. IT IS MOST LIKELY CAUSE BY LOW MEMORY...

Hi, I'm posting this question to relevant newsgroups, I hope you don't mind. I subscribed to the alternative media program and I do not yet what to make of the six DVD set that I received from Microsoft. I had hoped to order the 64-bit media but something got screwed up and they sent me 32-bit media and the DVDs were dated 2007. Was this a clearance sale? SP1 was on a separate DVD. A more...

Vista x64 Ulitmate Hi .. I got this problem this morning with vista .. BSOD Any help would be great :) minidump attached

*Hi all iam new to this forum and hopefully iam posting in the right spot. When i open my Reliability and performance monitor under resource overview i get a little sticky note by network and one by disk.* *The one by network says {Nic Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Ethernet controller using 16bits and has a capacity of 100,000,000} * *The one by the drive says{Reads1.7/sec +writes 10.3/sec}* *Sory...

I am getting lots of critical errors in the event viewer. Event ID = 100, 200, 400, 307, 402.... (Below are the details for a couple of them). I have seen several posts on the web for this issue but no solutions. It seems to be an issue that affects a lot of vista installs on all different pc / laptops. I'm running an IBM (lenovo) T61 laptop. I don't know if these issues are related...

No infections of any kind can be found on this PC, yet MSMail, MozillaFF and IE7 lock up constantly. How can this be fixed short of a reformat and reinstall of the OS? Vista has been as unstable as W98 for us. Is there any way to get it as stable as XP? Does anyone know what causes these constant W98 type freezes so many of us are enduring with Vista?

Hi all first post and and looking for a little help... When in games (team fortress 2,Warhammer online) my computer bluesreens a random times.Could last 2 hours or 2 minutes.doesnt happen unless im playing games. Ive updated all my drives on reinstalled my graphics drivers. Also doesnt seem to be a heat problem. Always get one of theses to errors: Product Windows

When I click "Generate a system health report", I get the following error: "An error occured while attempting to generate the report. The system cannot find the path specified" Any fixes?

Hi, For about a year, I've been having occasional BSOD on my Dell XPS M1530 with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The specific error: "Driver IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL... Stop: 0x000000D1 (0x010E59E1, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x8FE54E8E) bcmwl6.sys- Address 8FE54E8E base at 8FE09000..."

I have just restored my PC back to it's factory settings owing to a startup problem. I decided to install Microsoft Visual Basic 6 as part of the rebuild process. Vista did report an incompatibility message regarding the software, but as I rarely use it, it didn't bother me too much. It appears as though the software might have corrupted something, as I cannot get one program to run which...

Hi, I'm posting this question to relevant newsgroups, I hope you don't mind. I subscribed to the alternative media program and I do not yet what to make of the six DVD set that I received from Microsoft. I had hoped to order the 64-bit media but something got screwed up and they sent me 32-bit media and the DVDs were dated 2007. Was this a clearance sale? SP1 was on a separate DVD. A more...

hi all, vista ultimate here on i7 940 with 6gbs ram. looking thru event viewer as the recent switch from xp to vista has got me probing the OS more and more and liking it too. but i in my trying to clear event log under "custom views" there is a folder for "Adminstrative Events" and below that is 1 more folder "Summary Page Events" which had many event id 10's in it. a googgle showed this