I had need to use System Restore and a notice that 'Not all files had been restored' appeared. I did not use my laptop for some time due to illness and after some time thought I had better go further back on System Restore to make sure all files were restored. In my absence there had been some updates and to my horror all System Restore dates now show not all files were restored. I don't know...

New here. hope I'm in the right forum My son just gave me his old computer running XP I've been using 98SE I've been able to install most of the MS updates, but update Q952069 refuses to download and install. Searched using google, but no help.

I've installed windows debugging tool with the required symbols and it ran fine. I reformatted the drive, reinstalled vista 32, sp1; along with the debugging tool. Now everytime i run it, i get the error message my symbols are incorrect. I've downloaded 4 different versions of the symbol set.... nothing works. I've tried with and without the Sp1 installed, but still will not work. I...

I've installed windows debugging tool with the required symbols and it ran fine. I reformatted the drive, reinstalled vista 32, sp1; along with the debugging tool. Now everytime i run it, i get the error message my symbols are incorrect. I've downloaded 4 different versions of the symbol set.... nothing works. I've tried with and without the Sp1 installed, but still will not work. I...

I've just put in another drive on this Vista Ultimate x64 machine. I found a tutorial on the web and have managed to move all the 'real' user's 'Documents', 'Downloads' etc. onto the new drive*. I have a significant quantity of stuff in the folders under 'C:\Users\Public' but I don't seem to be able to relocate that using the same method as I used for the 'real' users. None of the...

Hi All, I'm trying to run MS WW Telescope but keep receiving the following error message: When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box. How do I enable the JIT Debugger? Simple language for a simple person please...

::Hi,:: ::I am not quite sure if I am posting in the right place or not, if not please forgive me. Just to fill you in on how things started, I am going to start at the beginning, bear with me please : ):: ::My situation started when I turned my computer on and my desktop display was wonky, about a half hour prior to that everything was fine.(I had this issue before, and did a restore which...

i run vista home basic and am havin a problem opening files. the window opens but after its loaded it shows nothing in there. i've tryed restoring de fragging virus adware and malware scans and all are fixed i am also having trouble updating norton 360. -- XENIA

I am working with Vista Home Premium and have IE 7.0.6001.18000. I read and download some patterns from some Google groups and lately I am having a terrible time trying to download anything in these files. I am on dial-up (only option) and of course it is sloooow and sometimes the files will download and sometimes they go so far and fail. I expect slow but this has gotten worse within the...

OK guys, I am at a complete wall here. I have just built my new system. This is the 4th system I have built and the first to ever give me trouble. I had a heck of a time getting the SATA drivers for vista on here without having a floppy drive. Once all that was done it started to work great, for about a month. Now all of a sudden I am getting random system freezes. I can't figure out what is...

Hey all ! I have a question maybe somebody can help with. Recently I noticed that when ever I open my games explorer or right click my computer icon, when the window opens the icon sizing has changed most often to large size. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Hey everyone, i am having major problems with my laptop. It's a Toshiba Equium L40-17M, Vista home premium 32bit. First of all, when i turn it on it goes into a black screen and white writing says: "checking file system on C:" so i let it run, but it keeps popping up over and over again, once it did it like 20 times but never loaded. So i pressed any button and it stopped and i tried to load up...

Hello, I'm using Vista Home Basic. Avast 4.8 FREE I have it set to do an signature file update automatically. However, it never does an update automatically. If I run it manually, it works fine. Any ideas? No errors in the event viewer.

I believe my Disc Cleanup Utility is misreporting the amount of space I can free up but I want a 2nd opinion to be sure. My questions: Is it misreporting? When I open Disk Cleanup it tells me that I can free up 327 GB (G not M) of space on OS (C:) by clearing out the Temporary Files on OS (C:). This would be great however the total size of my Hard Drive for OS (C:) is 222 GB with 99.5 GB...

I have two computers running Vista Home Premium. When Service Pack 1 came out, my desktop, which is a clone I built myself, downloaded and installed Service Pack 1 without any problem, but my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop seems oblivious to Service Pack 1's existence. Although automatic update is on both computers with similar settings (full automatic update), and the laptop has downloaded a...

Hi Sometimes my cursor changes into a black box, about 100x100 px, and it first changes back when it change into another cursor (eg. when i mouse over a text or a link). It comes in any programs any times. Why???

Strange thing happen the other day.....booted up my rig(500GB partitioned in two,1 for vista 32bit and the other for windows 7)and it would not boot up into windows 7,went into vista and my hard drive showed no other partition just the used space for vista!!! went into repair mode and it showed my vista as xxxgb and my windows 7 as 0gb. i thought of re-partitioning my drive back in to 2 but...

First of all, I'd like to say this is a very nice forum. Thank you to the owner and staff. I sure hope we can be a helpful and productive member. That being said. Here's my problem. Something is erasing my prefetch files. I need to know how to find out what is doing this. Is there any way to find the source of this deletion? I've searched the internet, my computer and can't seem to find the...

Hi there This is an urgent problem. My sister's laptop was freezing on the 'Welcome' screen on vista... and when troubleshooting, at times it wouldnt even get into Safe Mode. I eventually got all the files off, and the error details and the minidump. It was most important that the laptop is fixed (even if temporarily)

using vista home premium cant open down load files because of error msg can anybody help?