I have a one year old Dell XPS 420 with Vista Ultimate. A friend told me to wait until all the kinks are worked out before I download IE8. Is it easy and safe to download without causing all kinds of problems?
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1) how does ready boost work?
2) I have a 2 gig usb drive that im using with ready boost but I havent noticed a memor difference in my graphics applications.
3) Can I add more usb drives and use more ready boost to up my ram?
Im a noivce to Vista.. I am runing 2 gigs of ram on my laptop a dell (hell) and I have running - 3d max 7, photoshop cs3 extended and usually either IE or flock running to upload my images to the web. I have a 2 gig usb drive hooked up using ready boost - it is allways flashing.. any way to add another usb drive to use as ram? or overclock the 2gig usb stick?
I get the option to "Speed up my system using Readyboost" when i put a (4g) SD card into my computer, but then when i click it, there is no readyboost tab. It is my understanding that I have to enable this in the systems.sfc,buuuut.... I have tried cmd prompting sfc/scannow, and it tells me "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility." Note: I am not trying to remote connect. I am trying to enable this locally on this laptop on this administrator account. Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
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View 9 Replies View Relatedmy computer, running windows vista 32 bit, will not use ready boost properly, as i have a 1 gigabyte jumpdrive plugged into your standard USB 2.0 slot. Every time, however, i go to use ready boost on the formatted lank drive, it pops up this device will not work as a ready boost device, or something along those lines.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a flash drive that is enhanced for readyboost. When I plug it in to the USB port on my PCI card Vista says it does not meet the requirements. Is the drive the problem or does Vista require that the USB port be off the motherboard?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just wonder if he has been tempered by all the people asking him "what is it with that vista, why did you release it with so many problems?" questions by friends and technical savvy folk. I'm sure he might not be accepting how bad vista is out in the open. but he has a problematic product in his hands.. If we had a way to snoop into what he really thinks about vista, I think it would be a big surprise for fanboys. I'm sure he is wishing vista would just go away... perhaps that's why they are pushing hard to get win7 ready.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...). Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of 1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista is chewing up more than 1024 MB?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedMy understanding is that a ready boost drive is a usb drive that vista uses to dump data to, rather than a hard disk as the readyboost drive is considered to be faster than the hard disk. So if my comment above is true, and I can now buy a 32gb readyboost drive for $70, is it a good idea to install games such as FsX onto a readyboost drive, and get better performance than using a HDD...
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Vista Ultimate 64, sometimes when I am downloading a large file download does not finish and I get an error box that the download had timed out. How can I stop this, the sites where is happens do no support resuming and I only have a slow connection.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedi hav a new asus lappy with the main hd drive partitioned in 2 plus recovery section (as it comes), and 2 external usb hdd in enclosures. am running vista ultimate, i am the administrator of the system, only user, no guest accounts. UAC is off. now my problem is that ALL the drives have turned them selves into "ready only" and i cannot delete any folders, files or stuff. click on a folder an check properties, "read only" highlighted. uncheck it, it comes up with a box asking if i want to change this option, click yes, goes off, comes back saying i need admin rights to do this. but i am the admin of the system. as far as i know i havent changed anything.
View 6 Replies View RelatedTo email a photo from Photo Gallery I click on a photo. Then I click on "E-mail" in the toolbar which brings the "Attach Files" box. I click "Attach" which brings up the complete email message format with attachment, as intended. However, the software always includes two text msgs in the body of the email. They are: "Your message is ready to be sent..." and "Note: To protect against computer viruses..."
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhenever I click the link to open an online radio station windows media player within internet explorer just says Ready - it doesn't even begin to buffer and doesn't play at all. Has anyone else experienced this recently?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI read on a couple different sites don't ask which ones can't remember I think Threatfire was one of them, that having 1 to 2 antivirus programs running was a good thing. That the second one would catch things that the first one might miss. So I'm gathering that this isn't true? I did look on the Kaspersky web page last night as I saw it listed on another firewall question and thought it looked pretty good. So which is better? Kaspersky Internet Suite, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, or this AVG one. I do want to purchase the whole program as the free trials only last for 30 days.
View 9 Replies View Relatedso "Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista [released] to manufacturing" see: Before you get too excited, note that: "In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update". So the bottom line is, we have to wait another month.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi had windows xp like 5day ago and i upgraded it to windows vista (home basic) i got the upgrade from the shop. now i got it, it will not let me download any thing from a cd or the net. when i try downloading it syas run, save, open and i click run and it gos to 100% but it dont download to my pc.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedThe version of Vista I use, running IE7, cannot download .exes. My XP computers, running IEs 7 and 8, and once 6, have never been so irritating. (i'd say my faith in vista is dwindling, but it was never there to begin with.) I've tries to download many a .exe. This time, for reference, it's Ventrilo. Certainly not a shady program - trusted by supposed millions. When prompted, if I click Run, the file appears to download, but when it has finished, the dialog box disappears and nothing else appears.Ever.
When prompted, if I click Save, the file appears to download, but when it has finished, the dialog box disappears and nothing else appears. Not even the file, at the location I saved it. There is no error message. There is no message of any sort. Repeated attempts to download do nothing. Renaming the download to .ok, or some other name (in anticipation of renaming it to .exe once downloaded), as suggested in a previous thread, does not work. I have tried temporarily turning off certain securities, to no avail.
I have Windows Vista Home Premium. Windows Updates wants me install Service Pack 1.
1) I am up-to-date with Windows Updates, so do I really need the Service Pack?
2) Also, isn't it just going to take up unnecessary hard drive space since most of the fixes in SP1 were already downloaded by Windows Updates?
3) Does SP1 automatically not install whatever is already on the computer?
I followed the tut here -> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...ate-1-rc1.html
Got all the prereq installed. Then after waiting the 10-15, I acutally had dinner and came back started to d/l the SP. It got to 6% and stopped, sat there for a while and then failed with a code of 80070002. Click on the get help link and followed the instructions for clearing out the Software Distribution folder.
Then I checked for updates again. Did the same thing, stopped and failed at 6%. This time I clicked the 'Try Again' button. This time after hanging out for a while it went to 19%. But then it failed AGAIN! If I try again it just stays at 19%.
I figured that maybe the server is overwhelmed. It was 9pm EST or so. I tried again here at 5:15am figuring that most of the US is in a coma at this time. Same results.
Any ideas on how to get this SP? I'm plum out of ideas!
I'm down for anything, just to get this to work! Why did they have to change the way SP where handled? The d/l from a URL was just fine!
I am on Vista Ultimate 32 bit, puzzled by unknown download - I am getting about 100 MB of download each day and know nothing about this, where it is coming from, what it is.
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View 9 Replies View Related"Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista [released] to manufacturing" see: Before you get too excited, note that: "In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update". So the bottom line is, we have to wait another month.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have read many persons posts, but none have been quite the same as mine. With many tips, but no further explanations for the questions I have. I have a DELL Ispiron with Vista Home Basic 32bit and I use Internet Explorer. I am able to download absolutely nothing from the internet. I have a feeling it has something to do with the incorrect installation of AVG. A week ago, I wanted to try a different sercurity program, while keeping AVG. I downloaded Online Armour from cnet.com and after a couple of days uninstalled because I didnt like it. I figured I would just update AVG 8 to AVG 9, so I went to AVG Free - Download installation files & documentation, I think I should have downloaded the recommended installation, but instead I selected "intallation files" and selected one of those options. Now it list in my program files AVG 8 and AVG 9. In my programs, selected Windows Start>Programs, it list AVG 8.5. Now I read somewhere, a person with practically the same problem, that I could uninstall and then reinstall AVG and the problem could possibly be fixed. Also if problem persisted to try uninstalling AVG while in Safe Mode. I could do neither. Under program files AVG 8, selected Windows Start>Computer>Hard drive(C)>Program Files>AVG>AVG 8>setup, has a setup option. But when selected reads, setup window:Installation failed. Then selected Details reads, setup window:Installer initialization failed due to following error: Error: @AvgErrorCode_0x0253 %FILE% = "C:Program FilesAVGAVG8" @AvgErrorCode_0x0020
Under program files AVG 9, selected Windows Start>Computer>Hard drive(C)>Program Files>AVG>AVG 9, has no setup option, I assume I did not install the correct file, my mistake. Under my programs, selected Windows Start>All Programs>AVG Free 8.5>Unistall AVG Free, it list AVG 8.5 and when I try to uninstall the the same error occurs. I dont know if this is the reasoning for my issue but this is when the problem started. However I would still like to know how to remove AVG as well as the initial "fix." If this possible, should I delete the AVG program files one by one, just by right clicking on them and deleting? I also tried to run a System Restore thinking it would go back to a previous date before I changed anything, but the earliest date I could choose from was not soon enough. It did nothing except remove some updates and a toolbar that had been installed. Also, I am unable to install updates, I assume its because they use the internet to do so, idk.
