Make sure Windows is up to date, and look for updated drivers for your soundcard at the pc's manufacturer's website. Look for fixes and enhancements at the website as well.

Do you have all of the updates from the Microsoft Updates website? If not, update your system there first. Also, you may want to visit the support page of your laptop manufacturer for fixes or...

Have you run Malwarebytes Antimalware?

Hack you checked your HOSTS file?

Is your network card enabled and properly configured? Do you get an IP address from your router? Can you ping your router? Can you ping Google.com?

Check your HOSTS file. Go to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc and open the HOSTS file with notepad. You shouldn't have anything other that the 127.0.0.1 entry in there.

Do you have the latest drivers and enhancements from Compaq?

New computers usually have a lot of unneccesary software installed on them that considerably slows the pc down. Use Programs and Features in the Control Panel to remove unwanted software. Also, some...

Uninstall IE8. IE verisions are always problematic when first released.

I would think video drivers or video card hardware. Do you have the latest drivers from nvidia?

Have you checked HP's website for fixes or a BIOS update that might resolve the issue?

Run malwarebyte's antimalware to see if you have any infections. Then check and make sure you have all the latest drivers and enhancements from HP. If that doesn't resolve the issue, run a memory and...

Can you boot into safe mode?

go to start>accessories>run and type MSCONFIG. Go to the Startup tab, and look for an entry for the regsvr.exe file. In the Location column, go to that location (common, registry key, etc.) and...

Do you have the latest Nero updates?

The installer is probably just looking at the size of the active primary drive (I:) and balking.

What Antivirus/Internet security software are you running?

Click Start>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore. At the bottom of the dialog box, click "open system protection". Select the drive you want to create a restore point for and click Create.

Sounds like Windows is corrupt. Do you have your Windows CD? If so, boot to it, select the recovery console, and run chkdsk /r. If that doesn't work, you may want to download the UBCD4WIN and use...

This looks like the way to go: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-762767.html

btrez.dll appears to be a part of your bluetooth software. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version from the manufacturer.

What version of Office are you running? Is Office fully updated?

Make sure you're setup for double-click first. Open up My Computer, hit alt-f, and select Tools>Folder Options. At the bottom of the General Tab, select the Double-click to open an item button and...

I'm curious, what is the mouse pointer water effect? The only thing I found after searching is this: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/archive/index.php/t-5638.html. But it doesn't seem related.

You'll want to get your entire profile tree, and any folders that you created elsewhere on the drive. To grab your profile, you'll have to login as a different user with admin rights after a fresh...

Vista can be a real pain when it comes to sharing files across the network. go to your Network and Sharing Center and make sure all the settings in the Sharing and Discovery section are setup...

Go for it. The only thing you might need that software for is creating recovery cd's.

Do you have the latest drivers from Gateway?

Have you added the help url to trusted sites?

Gennerally the Divx codec is the best one for avi's. If the divx codec for media player doesn't work, try it in the divx player.

Good to hear. Mark this thread as solved so I can get some juice:).

Could you give us more detail? How do you find owner and permission info for a registry key?

Usually mainstream PC manufacturers ship a bootable diagnostic cd with the system. If you don't have one you should be able to get it from their website.

Do you have any restore points set?

Try restoring your IE settings to the default by clicking Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Reset IE Settings and click the reset button.

Uninstall the current drivers and software from the programs and applications applet in the control panel. Reboot the system and install the latest drivers from Gateway at
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Can you boot into safe mode? Sounds like a driver or DirectX issue.

Those links appear to redirect to another site, which is probably related to the problem. Usually I just reset IE settings. Go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced tab>Reset IE Settings.

If your able to access the restore partition and start a restore, it won't matter what is on the C: drive. The restore process will just overwrite everything. You will want to backup your important...

Can you give us some websites that behave this way?