up until this week when i downloaded files were large, windows automatically compressed them, placing them in a folder with a zipper on it. all of a sudden it does not do that anymore. that part of vista is not working. my computer is a month old. i understand that this automatic compression is intrinsic to the vista system and may not have a file extension. how can i repair vista to get this feature back.
View 4 RepliesIs there a way to stop compression? I know that for a fact that when you delete email after you have received them, they do not go away. Instead, they are merely stored in one file and then compressed. I would like to be able to delete and not just compress them in an ever bigger file. I don't know if this question has ever been asked before.
View 5 Replies View Relatedjust after some idea of what's gone wrong.I was playing Warcraft, got up from desk then heard a weird noise ( by weird almost like a fizzy whooshy kinda thing, lol sorry )the pc went off and appeared to start up but with no display, the keyboard won't work and the keyboard backlight flickers like mad, plus the power button will not switch it off when pressed down...Power is there, lights and fans on processor n graphics are on, DVD drive lights on, 2 on the back are on (unsure what they for), all seems ok but can't see a display, tested keyboard n monitor on ps3 all ok with it being various bits could it be motherboard ? Not fussed bout pc though, just want to make sure it doesn't sound like hardrive, photos n stuff, sods law I didn't back up on Saturday as normal !!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a Compaq Presario desk top computer, and my wife has basically the same computer as mine (also a Compaq Presario), but in lap top form. Hers is about a year newer than mine. My computer came with 1GB or RAM, and I installed another 1.5GB about a year ago (by replacing one of the two 512mb memory cards with a 2gb card), and now I have a total of 2.5GB of RAM. My computer model, according to Compaq, is expandable up to 4GB.
In the last month or so, I've got into using DVD ripping programs to abstract video from discs and into my computer. Using Roxio at first, a 25 minute television show was taking about three hours to complete, with a video file of only 578MB being produced. On this particular program, there is no settings to produce a smaller or larger file. I have to say that the DVD rips were coming out just as good as the DVD version when I played back the "wmv" file in my computer, so I was very pleased with that, at least.....
Which is the best program for compression? Which one has the best compression ratio?
View 7 Replies View RelatedCan the compression of the drive c: cause a hang of Windows Vista 64 when I try to unlock Windows Vista 64 in about 8 hours of its being locked? The Windows uploaded through BitTorrent when it was locked. The Windows Vista 64 does not hang if it has been locked less than 3 hours. The Windows Vista 64 did not hang before I compressed the drive c: to save disk space.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter enduring the black screen and mouse pointer of death all morning with 4 system restores I have decided to go ahead with a back up/restore program (Acronis) outside of what came with the laptop (backup the backup). Presently I have several gigs of stuff I don't use but don't want to delete so would like to compress on one of my external drives. My goal is to, after packing my old stuff on my 125g Maxtor I'd like to create one image of the entire laptop drive, programs, files etc, then back up the My Documents folder and pics as they are changed on my 1T WD Book.
Herein lies the rub, I have downloaded 7Zip and have begun compressing some files. It was a crap shoot due to my having zero knowledge of what each of the settings mean and how to set them to get the most out of the 2 hrs it takes to do the compression. Dictionary size? Solid block size? Number of CPU threads? Word size? I went ahead with what they recommended (normal) but was not seeming to save any space so I stopped and tried Ultra. I understand this is a powerful piece of software but where can I find information on all this. I have searched this forum and the 7Zip forum (which is a post-apocalyptic waste land of unanswered posts), Google presented nothing. (When I searched for 'what is "solid block size"' I found "solid block size dictates the size of your solid block" LOL)......
I've disabled this on other systems without a problem, but I have one that I cannot disable it on. In fact I can't seem to be able to change anything in 'Turn Windows features on/off'.
Vista Home Premium 32bit, I have administrator rights, UAC is turned off, and I have tried it in both normal mode and safe mode. It looks like it's working, then just tells me that 'An error has occured, and not all features could be changed'. Doesn't matter what option I try to change (enable/disable).
I've asked this in a couple other forums over the last couple of weeks with no response (except to tell me I need to be an administrator). Just wondered if anyone else has come across this.
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and just compressed several large directories on Outlook 2007 and under my Documents directory in Explorer. After the compression was done, the amount of free space was less than before. Why did this happen? Is there a trick to using compression, or a better way to free up space?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI can't find a way to search for file types in Vista without entering part of a file name. For example, if I want to search my C drive for all PDF files or all photos, the search function won't work without entering text from a file name (which doesn't work, because all files of a particular type don't necessarily share letters or characteristics in their names). Has anyone else experienced this problem, or am I missing something?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just purchased a new Toshiba laptop. It is 64 bit with Vista Home Premium. Desktop is Compaq with XP. Connection between the two is cable direct connect through a Linksys router. Occasionally I do go wireless. Its a very simple network and its doesn't require any security since i am the only person that uses both computers. Toshiba can read and write files on Compaq.
Compaq can see the Toshiba in its network places but when I double-click on it, I get a request for a username and password which I do not know what to respond to since I have no passwords set on the Toshiba. I've set sharing on Toshiba C-drive and even turned off the Windows Firewall. How do I turn the password prompt off or at least know what to respond.
Recently I burned an iso file from a website. I was given the option to save, and I saved the file to a CD-R. The burning was successful. However, I have Roxio Dell Edition burning software on my pc, but it appears not to support iso files. The burned iso file has the Roxio logo. My question is 'Can Vista burn files'. Os is Vista Home Premium, 32 bit
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have vista 64 and ive been trying to install intels 8.3.1.1009 chipset drivers(inf).
Ive tried downloading from intel and gigabyte. same version which "DOES SUPPORT VISTA 64"
problem is , it runs the installation process ok but after reboot i check device manager and the same drivers are there? it doesnt seem to want to install the newer drivers?
The older drivers are outdated so i need the newer versions since i do like to overclock.
Gigabyte told me its a vista issue and a common one. and that i have to contact microsoft for an answer.
Editing the "UserDictionary.lex" file is now a simple matter in Windows Mail under VISTA. This is the text file where you can add new words in your emails to the dictionary file inside WM. I have an icon on my Desktop that opens this file directly. The path to the file is: Desktop/(user's name)/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail WordPad opens the file for you to check the words you have added. You can change, add or delete entries, then SAVE the file as it is. Since I use many unconventional English forms, it's a wonderful access point, because the spellchecker in WM no longer allows direct access to the file as the spellchecker in Outlook Express did.
View 4 Replies View Relatedim a newbie to these forums and im a very inexperienced person with computers but here is my problem. My laptop became infected with trojans and spyware because of a doggy download which opened a hole for this stuff to spread. That rouge software winPc defender installed itself onto my computer. Although I was able to get rid of that pretty quickly and other stuff as well (using norton360, spybot and spyware doctor) that annoying "Insecure Internet Activity. Threat Of Virus Attack" message kept coming up, I also found that whilst using google i would be redirected to pages not relevant to what a had search for (such as blinkx or myspace video)
Using smitfraudfix I was able to remove that message But since I have used smitfraudfix my laptop has been running very slowly and has been crashing and failing seemingly at random. Whenever i try a google search on IE7 it still directs me to blinx and other places that I DID NOT type into the search engine and so I began to lose patience and I downloaded firefox3. Despite countless scans and checks nothing ever comes up so I suspect some spyware or malware may have sneaked its way undereath so that it is virtually impossible to detect.
I have been dual booting XP PRO for some time, with my main operating system on drive 1 (Primary Master) and my gaming system on drive 2 (Primary Slave). I control which system to boot up by the simple modification of boot.ini thus:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWs
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 2"=optin /fastdetect
And it has worked flawlessly. Now I have bought VISTA Ultimate, removed my two XP drives, and have a beginning VISTA system up and running on a separate drive1 by itself (Primary Master). My plan now is to do a similar dual boot scenario, mixing my XP gaming drive as drive 1 with my new VISTA drive as drive 2. I figured I had to choose this order because I discovered that VISTA has no boot.ini file (?or does it?), and so will have to choose system selection from the XP drive's boot.ini file. When I tried it, booting from the XP drive worked fine. However, when I tried to boot from the VISTA drive, the bootup hung with a blank, black screen. So I figure I can't do what I am trying to do.
From time to time I get e-mails with PowerPoint applications attached. I use Visa and Windows Mail. When I click on the attachment I get a message that no program is associated with that file. However, when I download the file to a desktop folder and click on it, Vista has no problem opening PowerPoint's viewer application. Where does one set Vista Mail's file associations???? Or is there another setting somewhere?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a corrupted System32 file on windows Vista. I tried to boot from the windows 7 disk and also from the windows XP disk to do a clean install. This doesn't work however, I set the boot in BIOS to cddrive so I don't see the problem. does someone know how I can instal windows 7 or windows XP on my corrupted Vista?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit, and on one particular drive, I had backed up some files with extremely long names from a different system. The kind of stuff you find as temp files in the "Content.IE5" sub directory of "Temporary Internet Files."
Now, I'm trying to delete a parent directory where all these files are located. But Vista, in it's ultimate wisdom is giving me an error, indicating that it cannot delete these files becuse the overall path is too long - It suggested I move the files to a place with a "shorter path," but when I try, it won't let me do it for the same damned reason! The Source path is too long Nothing works.
Attempting to delete individual files, the parent directory, the "grand parent" directory all fail because Vista attempts to calculate/sum space and thus accesses each individual file, and fails because the "path is too long." When I try to rename individual files, it grays out the "rename" option. Is there any way I can either get rid of these files or bypass the "file length" warning so I can delete them? Formatting the drive is *not* an option. This is a SAN drive with lots of stuff on it and I'd never be able to off load it all.
I recently just re-installed Windows Vista Ultimate and before i had no problems what so ever. But... now when i tried downloading a file to the downloads folder or anywhere els it does not save. I have searched the whole drive C and nothing. can you help me? i also noticed when installing AVG it doesn't run. When installing Dreamweaver could not find dreamweaver folder in /Adobe/
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn XP i can select a folder - key inthe file name approx and bang it finds it. vista has to have that slow thing along the top. the green slime of death slowly creeps along the top of the screen while Vista finds the file - maybe.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWill Windows Easy Transfer work with only XP? I'm getting a new laptop before my old one stops working and I don't want to move to Vista. I just want to move XP pro to XP pro.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow do you find and delete the temp files in Vista. Not the temporary internet files, just the temp files that are not needed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was messing around trying to install another OS which didn't install right and doesn't work and I seemed to erase the windows vista bootloader. So I try using the windows vista recovery disc to repair windows but it does not show up in operating system list in the recovery disc so I click on the option that says to click if your operating system does not show up on the list and it brings me to this file explorer and requests a configuration file in order to view vista. So could you please tell me what configuration file is the one I need and where I could find it on my hard drive since windows is still intact on it, only the bootloader is gone.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently bought a new PC that has the Windows Vista Home preloaded on it. It has no 3.5 floppy drive which I need as my family history files are all stored on floppy discs. I bought an external floppy disc drive, it installed ok, but will not read or open the data on the floppy discs. I get the message "too many arguments." I can't view any jpeg files from my floppy discs as I receive the message "Vista photo viewer does not support this file." My saved text Word documents on the floppy disc will not open either, I get the message that the files are corrupt. Also, when I insert the floppy disc into the external drive, I am instructed to Format the disc before using. I just want the external drive to read the data!!
View 4 Replies View RelatedTo rename a file, you do not need to open the file in a program.
Right-click the file that you want to rename, and then click Rename.
Type the new name, and then press ENTER. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Tip
You can also rename several files at once. If you give files of the same type the same name, each file will have the same name followed by a different sequential number (such as Renamed File (2), Renamed File (3), and so on). This can be useful for grouping related items. To do this, select all the files you want to rename, and then follow the same steps as you would for renaming an individual file. Each of the files will be saved with the new name, and a different sequential number will be appended automatically to the end of each file name.
Using WAIK, I created the autounattend.xml file by putting it on a DVD of Vista Ultimate SP1 64 bit.
1
Primary
24000
false
2
Primary
true
true
C
1
1
NTFS
false
Windows_Vista_SP1_64_bit................
When, however, I do the boot from the DVD, Vista does not erase the disk and does not create the two partitions indicated by my file.
i recently got a hp windows vista notebook, (i am new to windows vista) after setting it up i connected to the internet to get software updates and once i was done this message came up (error in C:usersownerappdatalocal empvgscxaus.dll - missing entry:run) since this has come up, now when i log into windows the message appears instead of the main background with no desktop icons, so nothing is starting up has anyone out there every heard of this problem or have i done something wrong in the setup stage.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHard drive died, replaced, reloaded Vista Premium x64. I can read the files on the bad hard drive, have attached as an external drive and want to transfer all Windows Mail files to the new hard drive and then restart Windows Mail. Is this possible? Can all files be transferred? The files and folders are in (user name)/App Data/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail. Can I just replace the Windows Mail folder with the folder from the old drive? Are there additional files that will need to be copied?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to help someone running Vista Home Premium setup his network to share files and folders with his XP Home laptop. Oddly enough, there are no share options AT ALL. No share buttons or no share options in the context menus -- NOTHING. We've named the network and simply went out to share a printer (which we have the option to share) but it turns itself off. Same in Network and Sharing Center. We turn the options ON and then turn themselves OFF. We've done all the rebooting, etc. and still no go. I have gone through all the disabling of the UAC and ownership and permissions, et. al. but, can't get anywhere without the SHARE OPTION being available. Is his install of Windows Vista Home Premium broken or needing to be reinstalled? Could that be the problem? Could it have been setup improperly? I have successfully done this before on my Vista Business computer and my XP Pro laptop and although i did have a few 'permission' problems, they were at least workable.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 (all current SPs and updates installed) and 3 Windows Vista machines (also al X64 versions). When trying to copy a (large - maybe 50MB +) file from the Windows 2003 Server to the Vista Machines (the Server Shared folder is mapped to a drive in Vista) - I will get an error like "There is a problem access I:igfile.txt - make sure you are connected to the Network and try again" Once in a while I will see "Error 0x8007003A" I can copy those files just fine from Windows 2003 to another Windows 2003 machine or Windows XP machines...
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