If I create a scheduled task in Vista, set to wake the computer from sleep mode, Vista wakes correctly, but goes back into sleep mode before the task is finished. I've seen a couple of posts here mentioning similar problems, and I'm wondering if Microsoft are aware of the problem. I have the same problem on two different PCs both running Ultimate (one upgraded from XP Pro, one with Vista...

Hello I am new here and hope you can help me. I have read through a few tech tickets on other sites with similar problems and none have really be fixed. Here is the issue. My computer works fine for about 3 months. I leave for a weekend, come home, and now there is no sound device. I am running an EVGA 780i mobo, and the sound is integrated. There is no device listed in the sounds option...

Recently receiving error messages: Error loading C:\Windows\system32\NvMcTray.dll & NvCpl.dll. I write to inquire what these do and if they have anything to do with my recent slowdown in connecting to internet sites. Also, installed internet explorer pro latest version. Still do not know how it helps me... I only see messages from URL recoveries. Guidance sought

Hello everyone, This is almost fruitlessly complicated, but I'm not making this up. I'm about to reinstall rather than deal, but I would just love some help trying to understand whay may have just happened here. Here's the sequence of events in a nutshell: 1. BSODed twice in two days, and once about three weeks ago, all with the same symptom of a disk activity light frozen "on" before I had...

Hello! I never get along fine when run IE 64-bit. It is always displayed a installing advice, but the instalation never finishes. Does any one knows how to solve this? Thanks, Marcelo

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Hello everyone , I have been using Vista for a couple of months and have done a lot of installations and uninstallations so far. My problem is that the PC boots up very slowly and I began to occasionally receive Blue Screen Errors. I think I have most up to date drivers for my hardware and applied most of the tutorials in the Speed Up the Performance of Vista Tutorial on my PC. However I have a...

You can't schedule an error check with chkdsk with multiple drives. If you have multiple NTFS hard drives on a system that you want to check for errors you have to schedule a check for one, restart the PC, allow the drive to be checked then schedule a check for the next one restart the PC again etc. You shouldn’t have to restart your computer for every drive you want to check, you should...

I have 18 updates waiting to be installed: 9 of them important, one of them a service pack from 11/11/2008. It seems to be installing, going through the motions, but then comes back with the following error message codes -- ::Code 80070652 Windows Update encountered an unknown error.:: ::Code 652 Windows Update encountered an unknown error.:: I have tried to only install the...

I have a co-worker who has a compac computer with Vista. They have had it for almost a year and never has been connected to the internet. They finally hooked it up and it had numerous updates. It would not get 7 updates. But now after the updates they get the blue screen and a page fault in a non paged area error. Can you please let me if anyone has expereinced this problem and if so how was...

maybe I'm missing something, but I cannot figure out how to log counters using perfmon directly to SQL - I have no problem with this in XP Pro Vista Home Premium SP 1

Hi, have clicked "Remember My ID and Password" nut my system appears to be very arbitrary in remembering the User ID and / or the Password. I thought I had checked all the correct boxes but it very arbitrary in what it remembers and what it doesn't remember. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Bob

Dell Dimension running XP Pro. Computer won't sleep or hibernate. It used to. Don't want to restore because I don't know how far back I'd have to go and don't want to have to update everything that needs to be updated after a restore. Any ideas/ -- dreampainter

The other day I noticed the case no longer "powers down" when my Vista Home 64 goes into sleep mode. It used to do this when I first installed, but not any more. I looked at the ntbtlog.txt and noticed it was saying the: Did not load driver %;ACPI x86-based PC -also the Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-l2tp-dispname%;*WAN* *Miniport* (Many different ones and...

For some reason, my laptop randomly goes into sleep mode. I have no clue why it does this; sometimes it'll do it once, and that'll be it, and other times, it'll go into sleep mode back to back, multiple times. I've had this problem since about a week after I received my laptop (Dell Studio 1735). I preformed a msconfig, as recommended by the Dell person - that didn't help. I re-installed Vista...

Hi, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with Internet Explorer 7. Ever since I upgraded my PC and installed Vista (about 1 year ago) I have had a problem with loading web pages. Every time I access the web I find that web pages won't load on a random basis. The issue appears to relate to all web sites (e.g. Google, Hotmail, etc.). I have provided a scenario below as an example of...

Check disk will not run at startup. Runs in read only mode without a problem. Have tried sfc /scannow. Have replaced autochk file. Have tried from elevated prompt, drive c: properties, as well as in safe mode. Tried Vista x64.com tutorial methods. Have searched the web with no luck. Any suggestions? Mike Lenovo R61 T8300 duo processor 2 gb ram

Hi, I am using Vista Home Premium 64, and up to now everthing has been reasonable OK. However every month ATI issues new drivers so this month I downloaded them but when I tried December's to install them it said that they were not 64 bit (drivers name is 8-12_vista64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_72275), they also have Vista 32-bit which are called almost the same (8-12_vista32_dd_ccc_wdm_72275).

The subject is available on my Vista Ultimate machines. Is it the same as Acronis True Image? My wife's computer has a smaller, older PATA hard drive and a very small (20 GB), old PATA drive that she uses for data. If I buy a new, large capacity SATA hard drive (the mobo and pws support SATA), can I use the subject Vista feature to image the PATA drive to the SATA drive, boot from the SATA...

I have Vista Home Premium 32bit on a Dell 1525 laptop. Whenever I try to load a new program (or when automatic updates are attempted) I get error saying "This application failed to start because msi.dll was not found." I have tried downloading the latest MS Installer but I get similar messages. I finally gave up and decided to reinstall the operating system. I didn't get far doing that when I...