Very often after Windows has automatically downloaded updates I lose my connection to the Internet (wireless connection) and have to use Systems Restore to fix it. Can I prevent this happening? I am using Windows Vista Basic. -- MAR

I have a Dell Dimension E521, running Vista with a bt keyboard and mouse. My monitor went into sleep mode while running a spybot scan and now I cannot get it to wake up. There is no response when I move the mouse or hit keyboard keys. The batteries in the keyboard and mouse are good, just replace mouses' and I had just been on the computer for 2 hours before this happened, everything was...

For about a month now,I have been losing restore points every 2-3 days. I am set up for automatic Windows Updates and any restore points that appear over a 2-3 day period completely disappear after that period-(I can only hold restore points for 2-3 days in other words). I do have plenty of storage left on my hard drive-243 GB free,so I have plenty of room on my hard drive. I use to retain at...

If go to Help And Support or click (or use F1 key) for any windows' applications, the Help & Support Screen comes up but is blank. If type something in search get following message. HELP TOPIC NOT FOUND "This Content Under Construction" "We Were Unable To Retrieve The required Topic" Have tried all the reg. fixes have seen for restoring Help & Support and ones relevant to this particular error...

I apologize if this is the wrong place for this topic. I shut down my computer during a windows update and now every time I restart I get a blue screen message that lasts for about a second and then my computer restarts itself again. It does this every time. I'm operating in safe mode right now. I'm sorry if this sounds vague, I'm not very good with computer terms and stuff, but I'll give more...

Hi, Here is my system spec: OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name REVOLUTION System Manufacturer Dell Inc.

I purchased a WD 500 GB external, and used windows backup. It worked fine. I was planing to return my laptop for repairs because it was making funny sounds, so i deleted all my documents/music/pictures and so on. When i went to restore everything, I got a pretty nasty problem. everything was restored, but stored on the F: drive, which is the external. when ever i would start up the computer,...

*I know that this is really long but I tried to explain in detail what I've done to attempt fixing the problem. Hopefully it makes it easier for anyone to help* I am running an HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC with Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit. On 4-14-09, I turned on my laptop and found that it was lagging terribly (applications took a long time to start up, music/videos were skipping or...

Hello. Today when i started up my computer it gave me a blue screen error, and then restarted. I cant get the error code because my computer restarts before i can see it. I have automatic updates on and my computer downloads them and installs them @ 2:30 every day. I am using Vista Ultimate, and im wondering if Microsoft released an update yesterday that might have caused this...

I keep getting this error and the computer is totally new, I just loaded it up with a few programs (which ran fine on my old machine) and it started crashing to a blue screen that gives me a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message. I understand it creates some sort of minidump file, if this is helpful for anyone who might know what this error is and how to fix it, please let me know. -- Xzor64

HELLO ALL! When I try to generate a system health report all I get is the following error ... "An error occurred while attempting to generate the report. The system cannot find the path specified." I don't know how long I had this problem because I haven't tried to generate a report for almost a year. Is there a possibility that a file that I need for generating the report was moved or deleted?...

I'm working with Win Vista 64 and Office 2003. When I click to close down Word, nothing happens, after that the hour glass is shown and finally Word closes down. That is pretty ennoying when trying to work. Any helpful hint? Thanks in advance Jokobe

I have an HP intel Core 2 Quad Vista Home Premium 64 Pavillion with 4GB RAM & 4GB Ready Boost. Every week or so the computer runs dog slow for hours. The disk is pegged at 100% utilization. I have had this issue since I purchased the HP Pavillion m9250f in June 2008. Worked with both HP & Microsoft, they claim the system is nomral Vista decides to do some type of windows back-up,tons of...

On Windows Vista Ultimate I made a complete backup using the Backup and Restore Center ("Back up computer") to a USB 100Gb portable drive. It went fine, and the drive shows a WindowsImageBackup folder on its root. It totals about 65Gb. 2 days later that laptop crashed and I got another laptop with the same Windows Vista Ultimate. I want to restore some selected files (client work, not system...

I started Vista this evening and was greeted with this message when I tried to log in: "The user profile service failed the logon" Fortunately I found a solution involving editing the user SID in the registry while in SAFE mode. That was a big relief since I was not looking forward to restoring from an image. I can post the details of the fix if anyone is curious, but at the moment I'm...

We are unable to create a restore point on our computer. In trying to do so, we receive the error (also included as an attachment): "The restore point could not be created for the following reason: "The device is not connected. (0x8007048F) "Please try again. Subsequently, this problem is affecting our backup programs. In fact, this problem became evident when our backup programs started...

Is there a log available to Event Viewer that will give me the start and stop time of the Disk defragmenter? If so where do I look? -- Frank C Dell Inspiron 530S Win Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 Dell studio laptop Win Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 HP Photosmart D7260

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On a Toshiba with Vista Home Premium, it won't allow Updates to open the site. Whether from the Start menu, or Microsoft.com. It says Windows Explorer has a problem and needs to shut down, which closes all windows. From any access point the same problem occurs trying to get updates. I did download and install Service Pack 1 and it says it is installed, and only 14 updates are showing in the...

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