I have what I would think would be a fairly standard setup: I have Windows Vista machine with an external hard drive that is intended exclusively for backup purposes. I have set up daily backup of files. This has worked well for a couple of months. My C: hard drive on the Vista machine has about 200GB of data currently. The H: backup drive is 1TB. Now, the backup drive is full. The daily...

A couple of months ago I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1720 with Vista. I used PC mover to transfer all data from my Dell Inspiron 5100 running XP to the 1720. Now I believe I have updates and hotfixes from my 5100 on my 1720. Does anyone know if I can delete them? Or will deleting them cause me more problems than I already have. 1. Cannot download or install most updates, some do get through. 2....

btw I am "plzhelp" I previously posted that my disk space was dropping every few house by a couple GB. no way i downloaded that much. well I use jdiskreport to open a tree of all my usage, now i added up all of the used space by me and its about 26.7 or so. Looking at my free space, its missing like 60 Gb. how is it im only using 26.7 GB, but missing 60?

When my computer goes to sleep and I am supposed to be able to push the power button to wake it up, it does nothing. I have tried everything I can think of to wake my computer, but I have NO success. The only way to get it to wake up is to hold the power button down till it turns itself off and then reboot. I also cannot install Windows updates :( When I click the update button it trys to...

I have done a few restores already by just plugging in my external HD with the restore points, then press F8. about 30 minutes later, voi la, restored. Now, it does not appear as an option. Is there a limit to the number of restores you can do? Why would it suddenly no longer appear? Using this restore saves me about 8 hours of installing all the software I keep loaded, so I really need this.

I have my pc on a router so I can access my laptop. Just bought a new network adapter that is supposed to run at 108mbps but Vista only says 54mbps. I have been talking with Netgear and they said Vista has limitations but don't know weather it's just not showing 108 or it is actually only running at 54mbps. I like to know why Vista would do that and how can it be fixed? Did I just waste...

I use two Lacie 250GB USB drives for "double-safe" backup purposes. On my XP machine, a 2004 Dell desktop, I use XP's own NTBackup to create weekly full backups to Lacie 1, usually turned off but still connected to the machine. Once a month or so I copy the most recent XP backup from Lacie 1 to Lacie 2 and store that drive in a basement firebox -- as far "off site" as I can reasonably get. XP...

Hi, Hope someone can help. I have searched the internet and found several ans. but none have worked. When I try to update Vista Ultimate, the window freezes and goes nowhere. Only way to close it is through Task Manager. I have an HP laptop. I have registered suggested dll's, downloaded and ran progs that did this for me, I have deleted the SoftwareDistribution file and

I'm running Vista Home Premium. After updating to SP1, I got a message for the cumulative update: Media Center for Windows Vista (KB955519). Every time I try to download it, it fails. Unable to download or install, with error 80240016. I haven't been able to get past this or get any further updates since this problem started. Every time I boot I get the error msg that it's unable to...

hello everyone, i am glad to of found this forum. It looks like i will be active here, this has a lot of great things. BTW i am a nooby when it comes to this computer stuff. I have just purchased a computer operating under Windows Vista, it is said to have a 250GB HDD. well now when i go to "computer" it says X(variable) free of 231 GB. im not sure what thats all about. I thought it would say...

I keep getting asked to reinstall the library of my antivirus programme. Doing so or not makes no difference. I still get the same message, sometimes as frequently as once a minute. Surely the appearance of this message is in some registry somewhere and can be eliminated. Any suggestions, anybody? Thanks.

As already noted, dump the registry cleaner/booster. I don't know about UniBlue Speedup, but you could stop using it as well temporarily. Reduce the size of the IE cache to 50 megabytes or less, and empty the cache (temporary internet files). You can also run "disk cleanup" to empty other kinds of temp files. Better still is download Ccleaner and use it to remove temp files, including backups...

Hi everyone, for the past few mounths my Inernet Explorer has been preforming very slow lately, somtimes it will just fail to load the page entirely, somtimes it will load the page but not the Ads on the side. I have tried Google Chrome and Firefox just to see if the error contiuned, it was worse in firefox and about the same in Google Chrome. I have googled my probelm but with no Avail I am...

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:53:15 PM, on 12/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Boot mode: Safe mode with network support Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

Hi I'm running Vista Home Premium (32bit). Recently (don't ask me since when, I don't recall), while using IE7 and/or Firefox, the browser stops working. Windows live Messengers and Yahoo messenger keep working fine. Outlook (2007) also stops. Any ideas please as to what is going on?

I have run the diagnotic tool a couple times to see if my memory is running the way it should, and I am aware that after you log back into Windows, the tool reports whether your memory is working properly or not. However, both times that I ran it, the tool's icon appeared in the taskbar beside the little power icon and system clock... no status pop-up, nothing. The thing is that when I try...

Hoping someone might be able to offer some troubleshooting suggestions. Vista (SP1)'s Problem Reports and Solutions page says that Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Money Plus are experiencing Appcrashes - and point to OLE32.DLL as the fault module name. Are there ways to troubleshoot this issue? What causes OLE32.DLL to misbehave? Is it possible the file was corrupted during an update?...

how can i type in two languages English and Arabic? I've recently installed windows vista but i don't know what is the problem with Arabic language? need help please

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