should have said =first post =,sorry for the typo

hi most of that you should have said in your fist post

its all obvious ,bye bye

please start your own thread ,and explain you problem in full

hi,did it ever run fast

your right it doesn't ,but to the best of my knowledge ,ping is a network troubleshooting command to use to see if you can connect to a network ,has no other purpose ,i don't think, so yours' is...

your welcome
more commonly know as sound schemes

if you open mycomputer and go to C:\Windows\Media you will see them all ,they are windows file like i said before ,for windows sound schemes , they were likely there because you told wmp to search...

ok so they are small midi fle ,likely used by other programs on the computer , wmp may have scaned computter for all file types ,do a start /search for one and see where it loated.

edit ,just...

unknown items which have appeared in my Windows Media player

i have a problem understanding this ,a wmp is only a player ,how can it actually have anything in it !they must be some where else on...

check to make sure laptop has latest video drivers ,could be you laptop dosn't have good enough graphic device for playing games ,make and full model# of your laptop migh help ,also check the...

you bought a laptop with windows installed ,then you we and bought another copy of window and install it ,not using the orignal windows ,so the recovery cd you would make are of no use to you as you...

download it here and run the install after its downloaded
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

didn't know ,as some of you more seasone pros could have tolde me so if you read my last post . anyway it found the recovery i created on partition 2 but then could not find a drive to copy it to,so...

im creating a image now to a internal drive i have in my computer and will play with installing from image to another partition on that drive later today

a system repair disk only hold tools/commands to use in a windows repair, recover a crashed OS. .its not a full backup of system,

EDIT=it is also used to restore the computer from a image sorry...

shortcut to all that is right click on mycomputer and click on manage, then diskmanagement ,and this is what you see if you click on to shrink volum ,you pick the size ,but i think bob needs to...

sorry about that i have to confess i didn't click on any of them ,i searched and posted my last links based on what OP said in post #3.
i will step back, way back , and read a bit more befor i go...

i never did check on the attachemnt you posted till now ,also im just using www.google.com to find answers for you !my limited experience i cant say for sure what to do ,but i would try and disable...

to advise you what services to stop one would need to know what svchost is what .this site is for winxp but the how to see svchost/service is what workes for me on win7....

as far as i know, it shouldn't ,cant say for sure though as it is a computer and anything can happen ,if it were me i would do it ,what the fugg

it just so happings im doing allmost the same thing you are doing with your computer ,i have installed a drive and put win7 on it ,and have a drive with winxp on it [2 partirtions ] only difference...

hi ,i never backup ,been copying personal file the way you did for years, so your win7 is installed on the 500 gig drive correct ,if yes ,then all you need to do now is right click on 300 gig drive...

your welcome

yeah ,firefox can be funny like that

i chose vista as os ,go to the video link at the bottom open it and click on download for ati driver and it gave me an option download mager or download with browser ,so i chose browser over...

hi Dell site for your model laptop shows lates driver for Vista 32 bit as 5/21/07 - 8.36-070314a have you tried that ...

so you have the latest vista driver install on win7 ,correct ,did you right click on the desktop ,chose screen resolution/advanced settings/monitor ,check the refresh rate ,what is it showing ,maybe...

me to,in 1996 I got a 486 computer for my daughter ,she
didn't like it so i got into it ,so as not to wast the 750 dollars i paid for it .nuff said

sorry typo .shold have been www.dell.com, sorry but you own the dell and should have caught that one

hi,no standard vga graphics is what vista is using ,you need to find out what video adaper you have and install the drivers for it.
go to deel.com and use you service tag #,should be on you computer...

so you are posting in the Vista forum ,so i will assume you have vista and are changing back to xp, the laptop is fairly new so i will also assume your problem is SATA harddrive problem ,xp does not...

I'm sure Suspishio will be please you approve !
and no im not going to click on the link in your signature !lol

all i can say is its only beta ,and not meant to be you main OS yet ,unless you want to have to find drivers for this and drivers for that , I installed it on a second computer i have and no drivers...

does this mean you got the problem solved ,if so please mark thread as solved

chkdsk doesn't "CLEAN " the disk, it repairs the disks sectors/file system and such !

what program do you suspect has/had the memory leak!
as for having virus/trojans on a computer with a...

post your hijackthis log

you could check it out here .
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269238

sorry forgot i was in vista forum ,not sure if the recovery disk will do you could try it i guess .
I don't really thing it will fix you missing dll's anyway

go to run in start! and type in sfc /scannow. to fix and replace missing windows files ,you will need the winxp cd in the drive to replace files , if any are missing