Hey I'm new to a x64 OS, I did have Home Premium (32bit) on my PC but upgraded yesterday. Since upgrading (clean install) I've notice that the boot times are longer and the shut down times have increased significantly. One of the reasons I moved to x64 was because of the faster boot and shut down times. A few other programs are taking longer to load/respond but I'm not sure if that's because...

Hi Guys, Another wasted evening... Here's the situation. Last year I did a clean install of Vista x64 SP1 (slipstreamed). 4GB of RAM (specs below). Everything was running great until today. Today I added a new HDD (1TB WD Caviar Black). Power up, and... endless reboots with the dreaded 0x0000007E (at the point it tries to load crcdisk.sys). 4 hours later, after doing whatever not it was...

First of all I would like to say I love this forum if it wasn't for this forum my Desktop/HDtv(as my monitor) would have a keyboard stuck in it. Why you might ask, well I was stuck on "Updates Configuring 3 of 3 - 0% // then Shutdown" and repeat. Also I'm a new Vista owner and so far its been shaky but I plan on over coming it.

Vista home premium SP1. . . I created a new account, and applied a password to it. I then went to make a password reset disk and when the wizard presented me a drop-down list titled "create disk in this drive", I found that the cd drive was not on the list. It appears in "Computer", but not in the wizard. Anyone have a solution or a work-around for this?

Just in the last 72 hours I have started to have problems with my Vista installation. Whether I start the computer in Safe Mode or regularly, the explorer.exe process runs up my dual-core processors to 100%, or thereabouts. The average usage for the process is about 60% - 80%. I downloaded ProcessExplorer from the Microsoft website, and the culprit thread is something...

Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with 4gb memory, When inside explorer, I can select continuous files by selecting the first file and pressing the Shift key plus last file. However when I try to select files using CTRL key plus files that are not next to each other, the highlighting comes off and I am unable to select files properly. Is this a known bug with Vista?

A query for those who've done this befo I have a two-disk RAID 0 volume running off an Nvidia driver with no Windows-based RAID support that I am aware of. I want to create a RAID volume on two new disks and transfer the data from the old array. I would like to install the two new disks in another machine, create the array and transfer the data from machine to machine, then simply...

Hi i am running vista home premium I have Mirrored 500gig raid and using a 80gig sata drive to back up my music docs ect. Recently i needed to change my back up sata due to tech probs. I am now getting the error code 0x81000006 i cant turn off the the back up change settings nor back up as it fails. I have tried a couple of forums were people are having similar problems but with no success....

Few days ago I noticed my harddrive light going crazy, when I wasnt doing anything. So, I looked in Vista's Resource Monitor under the Disk tab. And it was reading 1mb-100mb/sec, I did not have anything open. I cannot recall the exact file names that were causing this, b/c I dont know if to look at the Read or Write or Both. I do notice 1 file that is only named by -, that is all it says for...

hey guys, something has been eating up my computer's resources over the past few days. My CPU will idle around 30%, and my memory will idle around 40%. I have 3.5GB of ram, and a dualcore 2.4GHZ cpu. I was checking windows update, and it says it cannot download any updates, and it's most recent check was on 9/9/2008. I tried manually downloaded the windows vista service pack 1, but it keeps...

Hey guys, i've got 4 gb of ram installed on my machine, 2 x 2gb sticks. The motherboard allows upto 4gb max ram but vista only says i have 3gb =\ im using 64-Bit vista so i can't see what the problem is, CPU-Z seems to see it all ok =http://disc.420chan.org/tech/src/1238676494116.jpg] -- Umbrella420

Hi for the last 2 days i have been having a problem with my desktop When i log back on stuff on my desktop seems to delet its self (it has stoped) but now i cant install stuff on 2 my desktop. What do i do??? i have a web cam virus scaner my system (is clean just checked) i have a sound card its vista basics

When I set my computer to hibernate or it goes to screen saver, when I return whatever window I have open (whether it be Mozilla or a Word document) automatically closes. Not all my windows close, just the one I have open in front of me when I return. Any clues on how to prevent this from happening? -- amadeusmozart

First problem is that when ever I look up any website, sometimes it just goes to google says cannot find page. It doesn't happen all the time just when I am trying to load a page and it also doesn't go right away it takes awhile for it go there. Second problem is that randomly i'll get a Microsoft Windows message that says, "crack.exe stopped working". I have no idea what to do about this to...

hope this one fits in this category okey-doke, here's the story: Downloaded a program and then restarted my computer and it won't restart properly. Everytime I try to restart it, it goes halfway through and stops at a black screen and does nothing. HELP!!!!

I was trying to open a .rar file, and found I need a new winzip, but I couldn't install it as something was wrong in it chest. I was told to do a remove in uninstall, but it's not listed, there was something else too, but I forgot, as my short term mem is AFU, please help if you Grok. thanks greg:cry: -- fugitive

My old desktop is dying so I ordered this new HP tower to replace it. It seems it has a Phenom x4 processor, 4GB RAM and 640GB disk. Delivery is expected in a day or so. Re-reading the spec just now I am horrified to discover it will be pre-loaded with a 64bit OS. But I don't have any 64 bit applications. Use mainly MS Office, WMC, photoshop elements, CorelDraw and a finance package. Although...

I recently (within the last month) purchased a Dell Inspiron 531 desktop running Vista home basic. I have not installed any programs, games, etc. My computer randomly "freezes up" when the screensaver is running. A picture will remain on the monitor indefinitely, with all the keys unresponsive. I must turn the computer off when it happens, with the resultant "Improper shutdown"...

I have a 320gb hard drive and 150gb free. Whenever I look at my available restore points they are never more than 24 hours old. In XP, I always had a list of restore points going back a month or more. I haven't seen the same settings in Vista that allow me to change how much storage space is allocated to restore points. How do I get Vista to hang on to restore points older than a...

Hi there, i was using my laptop as i normally would, nothing i havnt done before on it, when i got the blue screen on death. Restarted my laptop and windows was failing to load, it still is failing to load. after trying to start in safe mode, i then tried the do not restart windows on failure option, and it turns out that some registry files are either missing or corrupt SYSTEM32/CONFIG/DEFAULT...