I have had less issues with my vista than I ever did with my xp. First, I have a card reader that is hooked up to the usb internal port. I can read sd cards etc. with it. My problem is that if I take out the card and then want to put it back in later the card reader goes away out of my view window under my computer. I then have to unplug my card reader from my mother board and then get lucky and log off and log back in or sometimes have to restart to get it to work and show up again. Does anyone care to comment on this My second problem is that if I put in a cd or dvd it will not auto play. I have to go into my computer and double click or go to media player and whatever player I decide and hit play.
I am networking Vista and XP. Everything seems to be working EXCEPT the XP computer does not show up in in the Vista network folder. I can access the XP computer by entering \computername in the "start search" box, after which I see all the XP shared files and can access the files as expected. When I run the "map complete network" function, the network map is correct and shows the switch, XP computer, and Vista computer. The XP side works 100%
The only problem is that on the Vista side when you open an explorer window and click on Network, the XP computer doesn't show up. For purposes of debugging, both firewalls are off. Authentication is set to NTLMv1 level, and the XP LLTD patch has been applied.
Why, on Earth, that even my desktop computer which I've just recently re-installed windows XP is it annoying me with the yellow shield saying I need updates?! I just did it now and it said "done, now we need to restart" I click restart, it boots up and it STILL says I need to update! Could it be because, this computer ALSO has Microsoft Office 2003? If Office 2003 the problem, or is my luck just crap bad nowadays?
Is my first post and i have a problem with avi file icon. I am from Cyprus and my english its not very good. Some of my avi files show a picture and some others show a black icon. I did not have this problem before. Before all my avi files show a picture. I have K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (new version). I try Vista Codec but i can solve it. If you don't understand my english, one of the moderators please delete my post.
I Just got a new computer and upon first turning it on my daughter accidentally hit the button on my power strip turning the computer off mid-installation. Now when I turn on my computer it looks as if windows is trying to start but goes to a message stating "Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer, restart the installation." I then click "OK" and it just brings me back to the same message after re-starting. Could anyone please help me get this thing back on track?
Have had pavillion dv9408nr home premium vista 32 notebook for 2 and a half years,no problems.Untill 3 days ago laptop would not restart after sleep. Lights on but screen black.Started to do the same when i try to boot up from cratch ,never done that before. Takes a few attempts to boot up. Updated the bios and a few drivers but still the same problem also tried a system restore never worked either.
My PC will not restart. Windows will shut down, screen goes blank (but still powered) then nothing... Power is still on, No HDD activity, just sits there all day long! You have to manually press the reset button on the case. Ive re-formatted with no luck. Even exiting bios does the same! I had a few problems yesterday when something went haywire and i lost registry keys to the point where windows would not load up in norma mode. no problems in safe mode though. So today i formatted and then i noticed this restart problem.
i,ve been playing about on my satellite pro. got board at 3a.m yesterday. since then when i restart my laptop and logged in, when the start- up screen comes on there,s a cmd exe box that appears. inside the box the dialog goes off and on to quickly to be read, need help to get rid of this please, totally annoying and also how did it get there in the first place.
I had been putting off updating to Vista SP2 but bit the bullet 2 days ago.After downloading the machine shut off never to restart.When I restart now it wont boot.I have done all the recovery tests and programs.I have tried a manual restore(all restore point were somehow lost) via the command prompts nothing seems to work. The startup Repair log says registry is corupt.I can see my files and obviously want to retreve them before I do a complete system restore.As I see it I have 2 choices. Buy a external harddrive,run unbuntu and hopefully copy files to the drive. Option 2 but a internal harddrive,buy a new OS,load it, connect my bad drive and see if I can copy the files that way. Computer is 2 years old (Dell) no Vista disk,downloaded the Vista recovery disk(didnt help) Vista home premium 32 bit.
I have Windows Vista 64 bit and have been experiencing problems AGAIN. I have to actually pull the plug on the computer to restart it because a message keeps coming up saying I have another instance of Windows mail running in the back ground. I THOUGHT the problem was solved when we un-installed and re-installed Norton but it worked for about a week and now I have the same problem all over again. I can open the mail ONCE and the when I exit and try to go back in. it says " Another instance of Windows mail is running in the background. I can't even go to Start/ re start. I have to unplig everything. Has anyone else had this happen?
I have a problem with my girlfriends Inspiron...I was running Partition Magic today and wanted to resize one of the partitions ... After restart Vista won't run... I pick the Launch StartuP recovery, it shows System recovery Options window with nothing in it .... When I try to load the drivers it lets me to choose from 3 partions ... but there is no Partition C with the OS . When I run startup repair it says: The Partition table does not have a valid System Partition. repair action : Partition table repair ... girlfriend nearly killed me ... cause of "lost" music etc ...
Each time I restart Vista Home Premium, it logs me into a user account I don't use anymore. I then have to log off and then log in to the account I want to use. If I delete the unused account and then restart, Vista then tries to log me into the deleted account, giving me the error, "The user name or password is incorrect." I then have to "switch user" to a valid account at the startup screen. How can I delete this account? Or, how can I make it so my preferred account becomes "default" and remains the login account after a restart?
I was wondering if anybody out there is having freezing/random restart problems using Asus' p6t deluxe MOBO or having problems using Corsair's 6GB 1333Mhz ddr3 tri channel (TR3X6G1333C9) while using Ultimate64.
My default LCD Resolution is 1680x1050 When I run Half life 2 or source any games which has a 1024x768 as my default resolution the game ran perfectly.,then I exited...the DEsktop res is still 1680x1050 BUT when i restarted my PC the resolution changes to 1024x768 when LOGON screen appeared (the screen resolution is from the game itself) it seems that vista is not changing it back when I exit the game (this is in the registry, I think) Drivers updated Bios updated TMM disabled Base video UNCHECKED (this is by default) System restore I've followed All the suggested options to fix the problem in all other forums including this one.. ALL HAD FAILED The only thing left is the registry....... thousand of people are experiencing this...specially those with laptops...mostly GAMERS No issues on XP sp2 32Bit only on Vista
I have just re installed crysis today on my system and all was fine, I played it for a few hours on high settings and max res. I went to work and got home tried to load it and it begins to load then 20 seconds in causes my system to restart....
my laptop,running vista, does not obey the restart function. neither when prompted by an update nor when i invoke.it will shut down but on restart it closes down. then i get the bios info.then it stay black screen,power indicator on only,no activity. every now and then,very rarely,it completes the full restart.
somethings wrong with my explorer. it has to restart every few seconds and i dont know why. i keep on scanning my laptop for a virus but nothing comes up.
i have been having a few problems with my new vista computer its a hp txz 2500z with vista buisness and im the administrater acount if that will help first prob is when i try to log off or shut or restart down the computer it hangs in the shutingdown or loging off screen and i have to use the power button to turn it off
other prob is the taskmanager wont show up. i see its icon in the bottom right bar (green gridlike box) it jus wont show up on the screen last some programs wont open like itunes or the conect to a network and network setings and sometimes windows defender i think they might run in the background but i cant get taskmanager running
I am using a Vista Home Premium Edition x64. I have wireless internet on it from my grandmas router in her room. Here's the problem though..., I am a real dedicated gamer. I play America's Army v2.4.0 so im real picky about lag. Sometimes I can just turn my computer on, and load up America's Army.. It will run very fine for hours and hours. Then again, I can turn on the computer and load it up, and everything will be going real slow. Even when I let everything have time to load. Maybe there is some kind of system performance tool I could use? Or maybe it's just my wireless connection. And if it was that, is there anything I could check to find out if it is really my connection?
What the title says I had restarted my computer after adding another adminstrator account and have no Internet connection and have this ugly xp looking theme. If u want to know why I added another account is for deleting this file when it ask you need permission to continue that's why
I have a Sony laptop with Windows Vista as operating system. The system crashed. So I initialised a new start via CTRL, ALT and DEL. Unfortunately, the shut down process got stuck and the screen just displays "shut down" without doing anything. It remained like this for a couple of minutes when I hold the turn-on/off button pressed. I was expecting to force my laptop to restart again (which is the usual case on a Windows XP machine). However, my laptop just went to the stand-by modus. Pressing the turn-on/off gave back the frozen display of "shut down".
Very often, my computer will restart during hibernation. Occasionally, after the restart it will give me an error message to the effect of "Windows had to shut down unexpectedly...". Very occasionally, it will tell me it was a hard drive error associated with hibernation.
I am running Windows Vista Home Basic and I accidently performed a hard shut down earlier today. Now when I boot up my computer, it will boot up and then it will completely shutdown and restart again. When it shuts down, it gives me a blue screen and then says "Windows has been shut down to prevernt damage to your computer. bad_pool_reader". I can boot up in safe mode, but if I try to boot it up regularly, then this cycle happens all over again. What do I need to do to fix the problem (preferabbly without having to reinstall Windows/deleting all of my information on the computer)?
My restart time went from 1min 3sec to 1min 28sec and the only thing I did in between times was run chkdsk.exe which came up with a clean report.I did 3 consecutive restarts to confirm this extended time.I also ran autorun.exe and all items were the same.What else could I check into?
I throw this thing out the window? My pc auto. restarts, every thurs. after doing downloads. The last few times when it has looked like the screen was from 1990. I have tried to go to control panel, adjust resolution, chose screen 1, and moved the resolution pixels to 1280 by 960. My screen still looks older, and it is wider but, a little sharper. I have a resolution reminder that keeps popping up that states my pc's resolution may not match this monitors optimum 1440x900 setting. See printed or online documentation. Press AUTO button on the side of this monitor after adjusting the screen resolution. I have tried that AND do not understand why in Control Panel, I CAN NOT set my resolution/pixel to 1440x900, I tried going up to 1280x1024 and the screen just gets wider! ---WHAT AM I MISSING? Does NVIDIA need to be adjusted too, if so where?
I have a new Asus Laptop with Vista. Windows Mail has never worked right. After startup it only works for a period of time. (Anywhere from 5 minutes to 1 hour) It then just shows the following error messages. It also will not send an email until I restart my computer. It always works after a startup. I have Zone Alarm, but it acted this way before I loaded it. Is there a setting that should be changed? My internet connection is a Sprint Mifi. This is quite frustrating. I was able to load previous contacts from Outlook express without problems.
An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C0148. An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C0148
I was downloading an important file while I was away from the computer, and when I returned back my PC had automatically rebooted due to Windows Vista update. I want to avoid that if possible.
