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Anyone had any problems with Vista going to sleep. My computer reboots when I go to the shutdown menu and hit "sleep". Talked to MB people and they say they don't know of any problems. Nothing in Bios seems to address this situation, and tried all the different settings in …
I have heard and read that putting your page file on another hard drive will help. I have done that for several reasons but now I want to know how I can or if I can delete the left over page file that is on the c drive where it …
i was sitting on msn and got a little worse. i have had it 4 3 weeks after they changed the main card on it and now the bluetooth and the bios have trouble.. i got a message on my screen and the only thing there stod was bios error. …
Thought time ripe (cheap) to get a 17" laptop, burn dvd's, maybe even partition hard drive. Even bought a Toshiba, grabbed some of my software, and...... What? Nothing would install because it wasn't Vista (got the software just before it's release). Calls to Toshiba, MicroSoft and 2 Geek guys (took …
Hi there, Ok, we have a serious situation here. If I'll read one more thread about issues with Vista 32bit not seeing 4GM RAM I'm going to vomit. Here's issue that will get you thinking. Ok. I've got installed 2 Ram sticks. 512MB each. Acrding to BIOS I've got 1GB. …
Hi guys, I really messed it up now! Flashed BIOS. Now i can't power computer up cause it keeps on saying that "the NB tachometer fan is very slow". Now my motherboard manufacturer told me that I have to clear comms. An how do I do that? Thank you for …
You, like thousands of others, may have installed vista on a machine with a gig or less of ram, and thought you made a good choice because microsoft's total care advisor may have said it will run smoothly. Well that is just wrong!! If your pc wasn't preloaded with vista, …
Hi, i want to tell my view of going back from a 150.00 vista home premiumback to xp mce sp2. It all started when i got a thought in my head that said "upgrade that xp machine via the vista os" not knowing the mischief waiting for any moment to …
[code] i downloaded wikepedia files related to some topic.i saw a desktop.ini file hidden along with it.When i opened it it didn't revealed any extractable information.its format was not understandable.When i opened it with dos it showed nothing.Can you tellme what it is and how can i see the contents …
How do i make a windows style menu in visual basic for my application i have a menustip but i shows only one straight column, but i want like it is in windows XP and Vista. so i have two columns for different kind fo things to add how do …
I was wondering if anyone else has had a problem with vista eating batter really fast. I had XP on my laptop when i got it well i got a free copy of vista from my school do i put it on my laptop now i only get about a …
I using window Vista home premium(32 bit) and I cannot use python after I save a file once I get the following error messages "socket connection error" "IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal fire wall software is blocking the connection" I have to …
how can i get vista to boot on my 2gig and 5400rpm notebook in under 20secs, as its current boot time is 50-65 secs.
I am want to know the difference of window xp vs. vista.Please discuss of the difference of window xp vs vista . About the difference of register,algorithm,data structure,skeduler and a good or bad of each windown.Thank u for detail.
Dear members, Please help me decide on buying a new PC since i dont know much about computers. I already have a 6 year old toshiba laptop and which is still works fine but has fairly old features (256 mb, usb 1.1, 30 GB, old graphic card, etc). These are …
Hello Everyone, and thanks for your insight on my previous post (that stunk) about vista installation. I have this one as an update. Here is the new one: You, along a plethora of others, may have installed a version of windows vista on a machine that had been purchased before …
Hello my name is Nikkole. I just got a new labtop couple months ago everything was running good. I got cable internet and hooked it up but with one issue. My wireless does not work now :) And, I can't work on any projects in high school that I need …
Downgrading a preinstalled vista pc to xp is the worst thing you could ever do to a pc! A vista preinstalled pc includes all the drivers to run vista smoothly. If you downgrade, the brand's special features, quick launch buttons, and webcam/microphone won't work. Sound, video, networking, and bios will …
Each time I close Firefox and restart it, the setting for excepting cookies is "unchecked". On the Privacy tab in the Options menu, I have selected "accept cookies from sites", "until the expire". When I restart the browser, the 'accept cookies from sites" is unchecked. I have uninstalled and reinstalled …
Can anyone help! I just installed windows vista ultimate on my dell dimension 3000 (with previous XP OS.) and I'm having problems with no audio on the multimedia audio controller which runs on a ADI 198x Integrated Audio Driver. I went to Dell support to down load a driver, but …
Ok im pretty new to coding in general and have two questions. 1. I downloaded a python script that packages my programs into an executable however im running Windows Vista(i believe this to be the problem) and when i try to run the executable i get a win32 error. 2. …
Hello everybody! I'm from Germany, so please excuse my language mistakes. My problem refers to the use of Aol Mail. I can access this site and even read my mails, but when I log out, I get a message that says: "Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this …
OK guys every time i restart my computer a window pops up saying restore unsuccessful i think this started after i removed wmp11 how do i get it to stop lol thanks guys
Hello, I have been troubleshooting this for a long time, this computer is brand new around 3 months old, and I am getting the following cases, here are the steps that I am doing... [LIST=1] [*]Press power button on computer [*]Windows loads [*]I press CAPS lock / or NUMLOCK to …
I just noticed another wierd occurance on my PC (I'm not sure if it's related to my other post about the WPD FileSystem Driver). I have an Acer T180 and I have been trying to update a lot of the drivers on my machine, and not having a lot of …
I have a windows vista laptop and a windows xp desktop that sits doing nothing, though the hardware is fairly good. Can I link the 2 so that while I play games on my laptop, it also utilises the hardware in the desktop? That way I'd have an extra 2 …
I have inherited a PC with 3 Operating Systems - on start up I must select one of the Operating Systems - the other 2 do not work. I have no idea how to get rid of the 2 redundant operating systems. I have a new Windows Vista Full package …
hello i have a problem i recently bought a new computer which has windows vista 32 bit. i tried to install my netgear modem router but when i get to the part where the installation loads up internet explorer i get a runtime error runtime error !program :c:/programfiles/internet explorer/iexplore.exe
I'm embarassed to be posting this here, but I've been having a problem with my computer lately. It runs Windows Vista 64-bit and has a whopping 8 gigs of ram. However, for the past few weeks, there has been a constant RAM usage of 30-40% being eaten up by svchost.exe. …
I am trying to call the GetLayeredWindowAttributes(hwnd, crKey, bAlpha, dwFlags) function but it does not work. I use Visual Basic 6 on Windows Vista Home Premium. I declared it using: [CODE]Private Declare Function GetLayeredWindowAttributes Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal crKey As Long, ByVal bAlpha As Byte, ByVal dwFlags …
I am using XP Home with SP2. I installed IE7 a long time ago and it was great until jut a few days ago. All of a sudden I cannot get to any webpages at all, I just get an error message "Address not found." I also have AOL and …
Hi I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent showing in BIOS... the wierd thing is their both present …
When I boot up my computer for the first few minutes it is normal. Everything looks and works just fine. After 5 minutes, the taskbar changes to the old windows gray color and my voume doesn't work. Sometimes when I startup the computer, everything works fine, but the majority of …
For the last 3 days my windows explorer and internet explorer have not been working properly. Window explorer will open but, when I click on a folder nothing happens. If there is a shortcut on my desktop I can get to the file that way. In internet explorer I can …
Every time I download something from the Internet the download only proceeds so far before freezing. When watching a video on the Internet (i.e. on youtube) the video only plays so far...but nowhere near the end. I've looked through/adjusted the Internet Options/Security Settings in IE and nothing seems to correct …
after my step son used my computer, the internet history mysteriously quit working properly. When i right click on something that i looked at yesterday expand it and look at the properties it will show the current time, not the time i looked at it yesterday. Please help, i don't …
Windows Vista Home Premium Everytime I start or restart my computer I have to re-install certain programs such as Flash Player or it gives me a message saying it is not installed (preventing many websites and programs from working). As soon as I "re-install" the program works - UNTIL I …
Hi, I am now connected to my router with a Cat6 cable. I could connect to my printer using Wifi but that stopped working so I bought a cable. I can find the printer. I type the ip address of the printer in, and it says: Cannot load wizard pages …
When I open Windows Explorer, there are several directories with a blue arrow on the folder. When I try to access them, I get, c:\blah blah blah is not accessable. Access is denied. (where blah blah blah is the directory) I'm logged in as the administrator account (which is called …
I have been using Vista Live File System to keep backups of programming code. Each day, I use Windows Explorer to add a new folder named according to the date (example: "080114") and then I copy files as needed to that folder. Then I close the session. I am finding …
Hi, my Windows 98 PC has, once again, had an error the following message appeared: A fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0028C000A882 in VxD VMM(01) + 00009882. The current application will be terminated. Does anybody have any ideas on how to resolve this issue.
Hi guys! You know how in Mac OSX how you can do admin tasks without logging in as an admin? All you have to do is click that lock and enter credentials you know? Is there a way to do that in Windows? Maybe with a command or something? (assuming …
Trying to delete d:\windows\gzip32.exe (my vista installation) but can't, nor can I rename it. If I copy it I can't delete the copies either no matter where I put them. I now have three other copies that I can't delete. Anyone know a solution to this: Things I have tried …
This is a challenge. My cursor seems to jump all over. When I'm typing in one spot, it jumps to another and continues there. Or, even better yet, if I'm typing an e-mail it will delete it and save it in drafts. This is a brand new Acer 5520. I'm …
Alright, about 3 months ago I bough an HP Pavilion laptop that has Vista on it as well as the HP docking station. For almost 3 months, everything worked fine, then about a week and a half ago, everything hit the fan. My first problem is the network center. It …
Please forgive any breach of protocol and politely correct if necessary. I could not find any threads specifically responding to this topic so I'm (obviously) posting a new one. I have Outlook 2003 and it is paralytically slow opening any links mentioned in email. I've tried clearing cache memory and …
i need hlp i have my x box 360 hooked up to my computer and internet hooked up to my computer but cant get on x box live how can i get on says cant get ip
I have a friend's laptop with Vista. When you boot up, and try to log in it takes a few minutes then stalls before the desktop icons and taskbar show up. All I get is the wallpaper and mouse pointer. I can't right click and the windows key on the …
A Microsoft rep, when fixing a "Windows One Live Care" problem noted when running a ipconfig command prompt, when pinging my computer, the request timed out. Should I, and why should I be concerned about this? Command Prompt answers: 4 packets sent, 0 recieved, 100% lost. Also checking on Status …
Hi all, We recently purchased a new Toshiba Satellite X205-S7483 with Windows Vista Home Premium already installed. The *only* problem to date is the fact that it refuses to read my older Sony memory sticks, the bluish ones about 1-1/2" long, not the tiny xD or Duo sticks. I have …
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