so, I've tried to do some looking around through various options on my laptop and found that pretty much if it can be accessed through the control panel, it simply closes right when it opens

A couple days ago, I noticed that my gadgets didn't load in vista (Premium 64-bit). I restarted, they still didn't load. I tried closing and restarting the sidebar, and still nothing, so I went to...

with the card installed, the computer will not power on, so my guess is it has a short, it is defective and draws way too much power now, or has succumb to some other calamity, possibly overheating...

nevermind, seems my 8500GT bit the dust, switching back to my 6150LE for the time being, yay nvidia

I'm having issues with my 3d programs mostly, especially games. a few days ago, they suddenly started getting about 1-2 fps, while reporting that they get 12-15 fps, which is considerably lower than...

Well, before they jumped up in priority, my 3d apps and games ran fine, but since then, they get maybe 1-2 fps, though they report something like 12-15 fps (still less than half of what was normal). ...

Okay, these processes have always ran at normal priority, but now they have jumped up for some reason. I can't change the priority manually w/ task manager b/c windows says that they're critical...

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Archiving:
IZarc
http://www.izarc.org/

Office Software:
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org

Regular System Maintenance:
Auslogics Products
I recommend at least picking up the free software, the defrag seems to be much better than...

Well, I tried that and no improvement.

The dvd movie is straight from the dvd, the other files are both on my hard drive and streamed from the web. I haven't had any virus/spyware problems lately. I also just ran a scan and some cleanup...

video files are .wmv, .avi, .mov, and .mpg
graphics card is a GeForce 8500 GT

okay, here we go, this is my dxdiag output

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System Information
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Time of...

I'm having issues with video files only showing up as faint red and/or blue highlights. I've checked my codecs and they seem to be in order. I didn't have this problem less than a week ago and...

I fixed it, I had to right click on the my computer icon and run through that sorta hidden process in the manage menu.

I have an issue with a new IDE HDD that I'm trying to install.

I have been running from the SATA drive that was already installed in my comp. Now I want to add an IDE drive, I tried master,...