At times I have a process that simply stops. Mainly it's been either Firefox or Outlook 2007. I attempt to terminate the process in Windows Task Manager to no avail. The only way to recover is to go through a reboot which is, needless to say, a pain in the derriere. I just completed building my system which consists of the following: OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1 (build...

Good day everyone. When I launch the Administrative Tools/Memory Diagnostic Tool in Vista Home Premium the computer reboots, you get the BIOS screen, then what appears to be a DOS error screen that says file \boot\memtest.exe is missing or corrupt. It's NOT at all missing as you can easily see it on the C:\boot directory, and the version appears to be from SP1. How can I run the memtest...

Got a new Vista laptop last year which was a terrible mistake. I have not been happy with it at all. My problem is the computer takes a full 10 minutes to complete starting up. I assumed this was because it was short on memory and was paging like nuts. It only came with 1 gig. So I upgraded it to 4 gig but to my surprise, this did not make much of a difference. It still takes several...

I have a new Desktop with Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition & SP1 installed. If I restart my computer or take it out of Sleep mode, all Screen Saver, Display Shut Down & Sleep Mode power options are canceled. I have to constantly reprogram the personalization and power options each time I restart for updates or come out of Sleep Mode. I have saved every option I entered and even tried saving a...

Hi all :shock:. This is my problem, when i open start menu and click on white arrow, the options shutdown, restart, hibernate and sleep are missing. Also if i try shutdown my PC using Alt+F4 it will not respond. I can close a program using Alt+F4 but it will now react when i need to shutdown my PC with it, if you know what i mean. I think i have this problem since I installed SP1 . for now i use...

Hi, I've just got myself a brandnew Dell desktop XPS420 with Vista on it. Everything seemed to work fine, but my computer enters Power saving mode at completely random times while im actually on the PC. For example: I'm writing a document then suddenly my screen goes blank and it says "Entering Power saving mode" after which the green Power-light on the monitor changes orange-ish. When I try to...

I'm getting BSODs, but at the moment, I'm not asking for troubleshooting tips with the BSODs, just with the kernel dump files. What I need to know is: Am I running into an undocumented pagefile / kernel debugging constraint in Vista? My pagefile is on the primary HDD, but not on the C partition -- instead it's on a pagefile-only partition (D). The logic was that it wouldn't eat precious...

I keep getting the error message "WindowsUpdate_80070490" "WindowsUpdate_dt000" when I try to get Windows Updates. How have others handled this problem? -- Tres Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hello All I've been reading a bunch of posts here about this problem. It takes a few seconds to move from one folder to another when I am logged in as myself. However, if I login as Admin, the movement from folder to folder is instant, no pause at all. This was an inplace upgrade from XP Professional SP3. My system:

Hi, After installing McAfee Total Protection 2009 and every time I start my computer I am getting a bluescreen. McAfee support denies that is their software. Any help will be very much appreciated, this is the dump information: ******************************************************************************* * *

Hi, I have installed on my machine ( as OS ) MS Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Service Pack 1 ( Drive E: ). I want to install on my machine MS Windows 7 Beta ( January build ) but in another Drive ( D: ). After I finish the installation process, I want to install all the required drivers ( the same drivers - what I have installed for Vista ) and maybe some software programs ( as Live...

I run out C: drive space and have a lot of space in D:drive. I offen get warnning: C:Volumn is low I tried Shrink D:Volumn and extend C:Volumn To Shrink D:Volumn is OK but the free space cannot be used to increase the C: drive space. Help needed

Hi, I having this problem with thumbnails in vista not showing up for some time now. I have basically read all the threads I could and still found no solution. I believe this all started when I first installed CCleaner which probably erased my thumbnail cache but, on the other hand, when I open a folder with some images, they thumbnails show up for, say, a second and then quickly regenerate to...

Hi, I have a minor little problem taht I would appreciate help with. I setup the Screen Saver to display My Photos (i.e. I used browse to re-directed it to photos that I would like to display when the system "goes to sleep" and that WERE displayed with when I had WindowsXp). When I click Preview, the photos appear but when the system "goes to sleep", I get an error message advising "an error...

Every time I boot up my computer with Windows Vista operating system I get the following error: visual C Command Line Compiler stopped working It allows me to work on the computer by the error message is puzzling. Any ideas?

I've had this problem since I got my new Toshiba Qosmio laptop. I will be in the middle of typing something, and if my cursor is somewhere else in the text, it will quickly make me start typing there. 'Causing me to type the end of a sentence in the middle of a completely different one. I've read about how the cursor jumps around and how it could possibly be because I'm softly touching the...

am familiar with the repair option, ' startup repair", from the Vista DVD, or from the OEM. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx In XP, if a PC developed an error and the fix was to try a repair installation, if the XP PC had been upgraded from, for example, SP0 to SP1 and the user tried the repair using the XP SP1 installation CD ...

I apologize if this is posted somewhere else, I looked around for a bit but couldn't find the answer to my question. I figured it'd be best to just post it before my break is over. So anyway... I recently spent a metric but ton (technical term there =P) on a new computer. Bought an I7 processor, 6gb ddr3 ram, and 2 xfire vid cards. I spent the better part of last night installing all the parts...

Hi there! I hope you can help me a little. I'm using Vista Ultimate. You can suppose that if I'm writing here it's because I'm finding some problems (and I'm unable to solve them by myself). I'm quite sure that I don't have malware on my computer. It's usually not connected to internet. I think I have some kind of system files & registry corruption.

Hi: I was lurking and read something that confused me a bit and I wanted to make sure I understood this correctly. If I wanted to use a factory generated recovery disc to put it back to factory condition, can this still be done if I have SP1? I ask this question in response to something I read from a post labeled "Repair Vista." See post below: Thank you. My intent, Mr Barnett, was not...