I posted this on several Vista groups in desperation. I can't get control of my own computer although I'm the only user. I can't understand the complicated directions given to OWN my own PC so I can delete unwanted files downloaded to it in error from a backup external drive. I'm the admin and only user on my Vista comp and can't delete old files I no longer want. How do I delete these...

I guess, the folder Start-All Programs-Maintainence has been created by the Vista Installer. There are a lot stuff here all user need to use from time to time. But only administrator can see all icons placed here. This folder has set following permissions for Everyone: access, list, read, execute. To solve my problem I tried to let inherit these permissions by all sub-objects. While being...

Hi All, I have been having problems with the above error code and have been reading my way through the forum and found a tip that worked for me. Go to Network and Sharing center in Control Panel once in here locate where your connected at (linksys, netgear..etc) to the right it should say view status click Properties it will prompt you to confirm privilages push to continue while in Networking...

For some reason 2 of my 3 user accounts work fine. The account I set for myself as administrator is very slow when surfing the web compared to the other accounts. I do not sign on as the administrator when I use my account. All the settings I know how to find are basicaly the same. I logoff all other accounts. Is there a simple fix out there ? Thanks for any advice. Karl

I have a Toshiba Satellite Laptop, 3G Ram, Vista Home Premium, AMD Turion 64x2. I would like to know, if any loss of info or damage to hardware and/or software could happen by never doing a shutdown, just logging off and pulling the plug? Very Curious!:sick: -- haplyss

When I have a certain location open, Windows Explorer takes up nearly all of my CPU usage. My Sidebar Gadget (Multi Meter) is showing full usage to ~95 for both cores. I open up the Task Manager, and the "explorer.exe" process is using up my whole CPU. If I close the offending location, it drops down to normal (~5%). One of these places is my removable HD, E:. The green loading bar...

I don't really know where to post this, but my reason for asking is because frankly, my graphics card stinks. It's an integrated ATI IGP 320M, and vista's drivers for it aren't horrible, they're just not what I'm looking for. So, can I use the omega drivers for this card (which work in xp, i've tested them) on Vista 32bit? That'd be fantastic!

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Hello, after having installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on Home Premium and adding another gigabyte of RAM, I decided to Generate a health report. After confirming by clicking continue the box opens, but it's black. Another five seconds later a download box (that of Internet Explorer) appears prompting me to open, save or cancel the download for a file named: Wait (1)The download box...

Hello there, I've been looking around for a registry defragment tool/cleaner tool for windows vista to keep my laptop and desktop in top shape. Both are running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition. Both have at 4gb of ram (laptop has additional 1gig intel turbo flash cache for ready boost) I saw

I am having random BSOD in what seems to only be windows environment, no crashes whilst gaming. Most commonly BSOD about 1-2 minutes after system startup. May happen once or twice more after that, sometimes it only does the one BSOD at startup and then its fine. Asus P5Q-PRO E8400 3.0Ghz MSI 8800GT WD 640GB WD 400GB

Running Vista 32 and although " remember each folders view setting " is checked in Folder Options / view each folder seems to revert to the default view - re-arranging icons and view size and locaiton. I've searched google and tried a lot of fixes unsuccessfully. IIRC XP had the same issue. Any thoughts ?

I have a bit of a quandry. I have a Toshiba Satellite x200 dual core, 3G ram 250 G HD with Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 I wish to utilize the ready boost function. When I plug in an 2 g sd card or a flash drive and try to use them as ready boost the system detects the 512 NV cache that is available and in use as part of my hard drive and instructs me to disable this cache in order to utilize...

Hello. I have been happily using Vista for a year and half no with no problems whatsoever. Yesterday for no reason that I can deduct my loading time slowed to over two minutes for text pages and for sites like HULU the videos tale over 5 minutes to download before they play and then they are buffered every 30 seconds so it is basically useless now. I have been researching this and applying fixes...

Hey guys First needy post here, I have a Dell M6400 Covet quad core with 8gb ram (notebook :devil:!) I am using vista ult on it though I used server 08 as my last notebook os. I am using an intel x-25m ssd for my boot and intensive program drive, and I find that if I disable my page file on drive 0, sleep fails - it never makes it to sleep, and the pulsating power button, it gets hung up. If...

I hope someone can help me out on this. I'm not a novice, but I'm not far from being one either. The problem started with an unusably slow operating system. I ran chkdsk on both of my drives, and this seemed to fix the problem, since I saw several bad sector events in the event viewer. But, the CPU is now constantly being taken up by a svchost.exe process and windows search index process. ...

I have Vista Home Premium SP1, which came pre-installed on my PC. I recently bought a UPS (APC ES700) and have been trying to set up its accompanying software, PowerChute Personal Edition. I downloaded the correct Vista version. The documentation states that PowerChute requires Hibernation enabled, so I have been trying to get Hibernation to work on my PC, without much success. APC Support...

Problem Signatu Problem event Name: Blue Screen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information about the Problem: BC Code a BCP1 00000016

I needed to see if someone could help me figure out where my toolbar went to. :) When I am on the internet the upper and lower toolbars are gone. If you put your mouse at the top, the toolbar will appear and when you move the mouse away it disappears again. Yesterday, I was typing an email and i remember accidently hitting the spacebar along with other letters, and that is when the problem...