Windows In Computer Not Openning Properly
Sep 26, 2009like a submarine. You open one window and the troubles start.
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ATI 2600XT PCIe Card Installed Properly But Not Working Properly
Dec 13, 2009I just acquired what seems to be a really old PCIe ATI card that I can't seem to install correctly. I went to the ATI support site and the drivers for the card just don't seem to work. Is there a specific order to follow when installing a GPU -- sorry, its been a while. It doesn't go into a PCI slot but its the bigger one, looks like a big ole' AGP card but it has a sticker right on the card that says PCIe. I can only find the drivers for a Radeon HD2600XT and I'm not sure if those are the correct drivers or not. When I first installed it everything went well and it installed correctly but the XP hardware wizard wasn't satisfied. So it doesn't fully install -- note, I do not have the original discs -- but just need the most up to date drivers.
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Jun 16, 2009When I reboot my computer through Windows the computer shuts down correctly, but then the monitor remains black and the bios starts beeping out the error code for "VGA not detected". Why would this be? I am forced to press the power button and wait from 5 to 10 minutes to reboot normally. (I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate x64, have an ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard and a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 280. 800 watts ZION power supply) Is this a BIOS settings or GPU problem? I already reseated the GPU. Could it be a power supply failure?
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Feb 8, 2009I've been having software driver problems with my Dlink DWA-552 under Vista. When I booted my Windows 7 64-bit partition, Windows effortlessly installed the correct driver set and I have no problems. I looked into this magic a bit further and discovered that Windows 7 had installed two drivers for my DWA-552, both from system32/drivers: athrx.sys by Atheros and vwifibus.sys by Microsoft.
Under Vista only athrx.sys is installed, which explains why my DWA-552 does not work properly under Vista. I have not been able to get a correct driver install under Vista, driver update is clueless and Vista update is equally clueless as is software from Dlink. How do I manually install vwifibus.sys for my DWA-552 under Vista?
Windows Vist 64-bit Is Not Display Properly
Oct 4, 2008I'm in the process of building a PC, so I thought I'd try the ole Windows Vista 64-bit version for the machine. I've got for the machine, a Philips 22" 220CW8FB/05 LCD wide screen monitor, which has a nice display, really.As one does, I've calibrated said monitor and saved the settings, everything looked great. Experience tells me to be weary of what might happen, so I restarted the PC to see that my monitor's resolution and setting aren't displayed properly. The image is stretched vertically,the Start bar isn't even visible - until - I go Personalize > and adjust the resolution to something else, select No when asked if I'd like to keep it and hey presto, my monitor displays properly now. Problem is, I have to do that every single time I restart the machine. Currently, I've got just the drivers that come with my components CDs, I haven't been able to check on-line for other versions (but there isn't one for the monitor) for say the motherboard or graphics card, because in one of typically brilliant Windows moments™ (like when my mouse stopped working and it prompted me to "click here to fix the problem"), when I tried to install the -Vista compatible- modem, Vista said it wouldn't install it without a digital signature, and that I should go to the manufacturer's website for more information. I would. If I had a modem. So, in your humble opinion, which is the bigger waste of money currently? Vista or my monitor (twice as expensive as Vista)? Alternatively, any suggestions as to how I would be able to resolve the aforementioned conflict? I'd really like to keep both of them.PS. I guess it could also be a graphics card problem. It's French (not really, it's from Taiwan, an MSI NX8800GT).
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May 6, 2008my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come) but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc?
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Jun 4, 2008Ive been trying to update vista to SP1 but for some reason I can not. If I use the windows update tool it wont update anything, it gives me error code 80240016 , 80092004 or 80073712 which doesnt even appear on the microsoft site even though its apparently very common. The only reason I wanted SP1 is because of the problem with virtual address space when playing games. My work machine will never have vista on it.
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Mar 23, 2008I can not send email's. it just happened. it goes to my outbox and I get this message ..The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'test', Account: 'Windows Mail', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E..
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Dec 15, 2008I have tried everything possible that is posted here - my issues are:
1) Randomly the laptop restarts by itself
2) When I close the lid, it goes to sleep (as set up under power settings) but when I "wake it up" - it restarts and I get the error that windows did not shut down properly.
Reboot Windows Will Not Start Properly
Dec 24, 2009I have tried to install Sniper Elite on my Toshiba Qosmio with Vista Home premium running 64bit. It seems to install OK (and is supposedly Vista compatible) and as for many other games asks for a reboot when finished. When I click yes for the reboot Windows will not start properly and in fact automatically uninstalls Sniper Elite. I will try and run compatibility mode when I get home tonight but thought if it is installing OK.........
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Mar 23, 2008I think I must have deleted one of my windows mail programs. I have Windows Mail (News) but not the other one, Windows Mail. I can use the windows mail to send and receive mail but when I click on an email address from the internet, it says that it can't do that because the default mail client is not properly installed. I've been to the control panel and when I go to default programs, I only get Windows Mail (News) to show up. I can go into options within the mail program and set it to
be the defaut mail handler, but as soon as I close the window after hitting apply and ok, it reverts to the other setting. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I don't want to reformat the hard drive as I have too much work on it and no time to back up at this point.
Display Blue Screen Can't Working Windows Properly
Jan 16, 2009I'd like to put a little disclaimer out here: I know very little about computers. I can navigate my way around them as needed for personal/school usage. Outside of that, my knowledge is spotty. Most of the technical stuff I need done on my computer is done by my father over breaks/weekends, because I can't leave my laptop with the Tech guys at my school since I take notes for every class on it.
So now for the computer... Oi. The computer I have is a Dell Inspiron 1420. I got it back in May. It's running Vista Home Premium 32BIT, and I'm using Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 (I don't know if that is relevant or not, but I'll include it just the same). Since I've gotten it, I've had more problems than I can count. The last problem I had before the current one (random BSODs), was a corrupt file on my computer (Dell Support Center). It wouldn't let me download or install anything, and I had to install SystemMechanic on my computer to get rid of the corrupt files/registries (I think. My father actually did this for me.) The SystemMechanic allowed me to uninstall/delete the corrupt file, and voila, it worked! For about two weeks.
Then I started getting blue screens of death. At first it was only one, and there were a few days/week and a half until I got another. And now, in the past two days, I've gotten at least two (I have left my computer sitting on my desk to do something and I have come back to find it "magically" rebooted and waiting for my login, or stuck on the black screen with the blinking underscore).
Windows Hibernate Sleep Wake Up Can't Working Properly
Feb 17, 2009I pressed the circle button with the vertical lline in Vista (from pressing Start) This sent the computer to sleep or hibanate I dont know which. I cannot get the computer to come back on. The monitor remains black (no picture) and says no signal. I have deprived the computer of power. This was achieved by unplugging it from the wall, and removing the power cable also from the computer.
I have tried restarting the computer but to no avail. I have also removed the keyboard and mouse when I try starting up. I have also tried, holding in the power button and then restarting. No matter what I try still no joy. No signal on the monitor. The lights in all cases come on, on the base unit and I can hear fans spinning etc. I have read about this issue in round about ways but all of the fixes seem to rely on actually being in windows.
Windows Not Shut Down Properly, Give Safe Mode Option
Mar 26, 2008i bought a 64 bit version of vista and i have built a new system with an asus p5e mobo 4gb of ram 8800 gt graphics and everything shows to install at the complete installation time it reboots and it then tells me windows did not shut down properly and and give me the safe mode option or boot windows normally when i hit safe mode it says it cannot boot into safe mode and when i hit boot normally it says the computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected problem and cannot proceed. to install press ok to restart and start the whole installation process over again.
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Mar 23, 2008The thumbnails that appear when you move the cursor over minimized applications or windows now don't show the contents of the window properly, apart (it seems!) from Windows Mail....all the others are blank with a small square icon in the middle. Anyone noticed that?
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Mar 23, 2008I have windows vista home basic, installed on my laptop and I am having a problem with the sound recorder. Everytime I open it up, a window pops up saying, "Windows Sound Recorder is not installed properly. Run REGSVR32 WavDest.Dll." How do i go about fixing this problem?
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Jan 3, 2009My speaker icon in the taskbar has a red cross on it. When I hover my mouse over it, it says "The audio service is not running", if I right click it I get 3 options
1. Playback devices
2. Recording devices
3. Sounds
I went to my start menu and searched services.msc and checked to see if plug and play, windows audio endpoint builder, and multimedia class scheduler were all set to startup type automatic & all started. they were. so then i go to Windows Audio, right click to properties, and it is stopped. So i click to start it and it says "Windows could not start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer. Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process."
I tried to restore my computer but my restore point is past the point when this issue originated. Also, Conexant Driver is installed and working properly. If I right click on the volume icon with a little red X through it... I can click on Open Volume Mixer, and It says "No Audio Device Installed" Yet, my audio devices are installed.
Windows Can't Format Drive H: - Check To See That The Disk And Drive Are Connected Properly
Jul 29, 2009i just bought My Book Essential 1 TB today... and when i got home i plug it and it works just fine but its bothering me that the HDD type is FAT32 .. so i format it and try to change it to NTFS.. but somethings happen and boom the electric in my apartment was down... and so when the electric back i want to format it again but i can't... there drive is detected but with no space detail... it says "Windows can't format Drive H: - Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, make sure that the disk is not read-only, and then try again.
For more information, search Help for read-only files and how to change them" when i open the Disk Management from (My COmputer > Manage) it seems it's already a volume.. but the weird thing there is no space detail.. and i cant erase the volume ... i've tried using diskpart but i can't do nothing because there is no volume and i can't erase the disk... no luck with fsutil cause its not ntfs... I havent tried 3rd party software and i havent tried it on other computer (don't have other computer right now) and WDC didnt give live cd for formatting because all of them was in the drive... though i already redownload it but the program is useless..
2 Windows Vistas On One Computer
Feb 24, 2010I just installed windows vista on my laptop because (i dont know why) a message popped up telling me to insert a cd which i had no clue about.
Anyway, when i the setup for windows vista successfully installed, i restarted my laptop. Once i restarted it, some 2 options came. both of the options were windows vista. I don't know how to remove one of the windows vista from my laptop.
Details:
The options come when i turn my computer on.
They come on a black background on startup.
This problem started when i installed windows vista again on my laptop.
I am normally quite good at fixing computers and i don't even need any help, but this is the first time ever i need help for this issue because it has never occured before.
The 1st windows vista option is the new installation.
The 2nd windows vista option is my old installation which i wanted to overwrite.
I am now always using the 1st option because i cant remove my old installation.
I did not do anything to the 2nd option just incase something goes even worse.
This is the only problem on my laptop. Everything else works in its best performance.
My laptops manufacturer is ACER and the model is ASPIRE 5630
This information is on a sticker on the laptop:
ACER - Aspire 5633WLMi - Intel(R) Core (TM) 2 Duo processor T5500 (1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache) - 15.4" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite(TM) LCD (16ms) - Intel (R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - 80GB HDD - DVD-Super Multi double layer (support DVD+R Double Layer/DVD_RW) - 1GB DDR2 - 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN.
Can Both Windows XP And Vista Run On Same Computer
Apr 20, 2008I have Vista, and some of my older (XP Based) programs cannot run. I heard that XP can be installed on Windows Vista. Question is...can both Windows XP and Vista run on same computer? i.e. Click to run XP...Click to run Vista.
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Apr 13, 2008I bought a new Gateway Laptop with Vista Home Premium already loaded. If I had a choice, I would never have Vista on this computer and if there was anyway to get it off and back to Windows XP Home Addition, I would if it didn't cost me an arm and leg.
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Aug 12, 2009My computer will not boot into Windows. I have a 250 GB HDD and a 500 GB HDD. the 250 GB had Vista x64 on it and then I partitioned it with Acronis (after backing it up to the 500 GB HDD) so I could install Windows 7 x64 on the smaller (about 55 GB) partition that I have just made. That didn't work so I reformatted my 250 with Acronis (the backup that I had) and tried to install Win7 on the 250 and just make a small partition from the installation screen. Now when I try to boot up there is just a black screen with a white blinking hash mark in the upper left corner. When I use a boot disk it does show that there is partition on the 250 GB and both Vista and 7 are installed, but for some reason I can't seem to boot to them. Long story short: I want to be able to dual boot to windows vista or windows 7. How do I do that?
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Jul 7, 2008I have a Dell Dimension E520, which won?t boot to Windows (Vista), and none
of the repair options work:
Startup repair
Reports repair fail due to problem with registry
System Restore
Reports no restore points available
Windows Complete PC Restore
Reports no backups available
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
No memory problems
Command Prompt. Can?t think of any appropriate command to use here. So I booted with the system DVD (as one would with XP) but the upgrade option has been greyed out. I don?t want to do a clean install. I want to repair the existing installation.
Windows Mail + Computer Freeze
May 27, 2008When I attempt to open Windows Mail for the first time each day the splash screen appears and then, 9 times out of 10, my computer freezes. This only happens the first time each day. It opens instantly for the remainder of the day. I am forced to power off and reboot which can happen 1 to 3 times before Windows Mail will open. I am running Vista with SP1. I have not installed anything new and no settings have been changed.
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Mar 23, 2008I'm not sure the best way to ask this. I have searched for the answer and asked Yahoo live and have not gotten anywhere. Here's my situation. I had a notebook computer that I bought and I installed ypops so that I could get my yahoo mail in the new Windows mail program. It went crazy and downloaded 400 of my emails from my yahoo account, which deleted them from there for good, before I could stop it. Well, I sent that computer back because it had a million problems. Now, I have a law suit going on with a company that I paid to customer make some furniture and they are not producing it. My attorney wants copy's of correspondence. Most of those emails were downloaded via ypops from Yahoo into Windows mail on the other laptop that I forgot to back-up or forward to this computer or any other....
Are those emails out there somewhere. Can I set up windows mail now on this computer and somehow have those there. I did not delete them. I guess, in essence I am hoping they still exist "somewhere in cyber space." And if so, how do I set up windows mail now in order to get the same results. I would have to use ypops again I suppose but I am hoping someone has a magic answer.
Can Install Windows On Another Computer After Decommisioning?
May 5, 2008I have an old computer on which I have installed my purchased copy of Windows Vista Ultimate edition. It has reached its end-of-life and I am about to decommission it. I want to purchase a customized desktop and install the same copy of Windows Vista Ultimate on it after removing it from the old machine (formatting old machine's hard drive). Can I install Windows Vista on another computer after decommissioning the one on which it was installed previously? Is this legal? Do I need to notify Microsoft about it? How can this be achieved? Do I need to re-activate the copy of Windows Vista?
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Jan 21, 2010I would like to know if i lose all my e-mails and contacts and everything i have in my windows mal e-mail, when i format my computer. It is very urgent that i format my computer but i have to be sure i dont lose anything.
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Feb 12, 2008I got a kernel missing or corrupt all of the sudden so I had to format and reinstall Vista Business. Im having Lenovo t61 BUT now after 'expanding files' inthe vista installprocessis complete at100% the PC is supposed to reboot, but I get an error saying 'windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase...' Ive read that I might try to install drive controller drivers in the 'load driver' thing.. The problem is that I dont know what file i need!? what driver do I need ? Im trying to install Vista on a partitioned Seagate Momentus [ ST9200420ASG ] i need a SATA Hard Disk Controller or what ? In that case i cant find them... Do they follow the chipset drivers or ?
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Sep 10, 2009My computer says
“ a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer”
Stop:0x00000050
(0x895BF018,0x00000000,0x84c2c367,0x00000000)
CLFS.sys address 84c2c367 base at 84c2B000 datestamp 4549acbc.
Windows Downgrade: Is There A Way To Switch To XP On My New Computer That Came With Vista
Mar 26, 2008I just dont like it, theres a lot of things I DID on my old computer (XP) that I cannot do now, my question is this, is there a way to switch to XP on my new computer that came with vista?
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Mar 31, 2008I have an Acer M5620, Intel Quad Core Q6600 computer, running Vista Home Premium.
It has all available updates but when I go to the Windows Update site it does not show Vista SP1 , just says there are no new updates available.
I am about to go buy XP Pro and get rid of this dreadful OS, I was only keeping Vista until I could see if SP1 made a difference in the way it runs, but if I can't even access SP1 then there's no point keeping it.