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I stopped using IE a long while ago. I love FireFox and all of the hidden Easter Eggs it offers me to improve my speed and other things that I could never do in IE. Vista has always been an issue for me, either crashing, slowing up freezing etc. lately …

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According to System Information: Total Physical Memory = 8,189.35 MB Available Physical Memory = 6.22 GB Total Virtual Memory = 16.02 GB Available Virtual Memory = 14.26 GB Page File Space = 8.29 GB Two questions rolled into one ... what is the difference between Virtual Memory and a Page …

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Hi, I'm just wondering what a typical resource load of windows 7 is on memory. Mine's running at around 550 Mb (ram) and it seems to be quite a lot! is this normal? Thanks

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hi..friends i m using HP pavilion notebook..RAM is 2gb,AMD processor. i m getting Blue screen when i shutdown my laptop properly , i m manualy shuting it down nowadays.. is there any solution with our taking a recovery..if i suppose to recovery i m afraid i m i would loose …

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I am running an evaluation copy of Windows 7, an upgrade from Vista Home Premium. I really like the Windows Movie Maker in Vista, you can create movies in different file formats ie compressed for mobile devices without any hassle. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing the Windows Movie …

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This weekend I noticed that trying to delete a file from a jump drive caused Explorer to hang. When I got to work, I also had problems adding a subdirectory on my server. After using Task Manager to cancel out a few times, I noticed that about half the files …

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My friend installed Vista over Windows XP. The system gives the option to boot either from Vista or XP on a SATA HDD. I tried doing the reverse. I have an HP Pavilion with Vista pre-installed. I changed the HDD Controller from BIOS to IDE from SATA. After installing XP, …

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Hi, I am running Windows Vista. Sometimes my browsers will abruptly stop displaying webpages. The error on Mozilla says- Unable to Connect, on Safari - Winsock Error 10013 I am able to ping, my DNS servers are working (so its not a connectivity problem- other computers on the same network …

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A friend has a Compaq notebook with Vista Home Premium. Each time she boots up the On-screen Keyboard opens. It is not in the start-up menu nor is the program checked to begin at start-up. I have run malwarebytes, spybot, pccillin and adaware and none show it to be a …

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Hello, I'm not quite sure what to expect from this problem but here goes: I have an XP laptop and a Vista 32 bit home premium desktop. I can connect to my network with both, wirelessly. However, my vista computer will only give me local access no matter what I …

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I have an old SATA HDD out of a Dell laptop that wont boot up windows anymore because of a missing file (hal.dll) or something like that. I have it hooked into my new tower and i have done every fix i could find online about it but none seem …

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I copied my 120g HD so I can put it on my new 500g HD but when it was all said and done my 500g HD now thinks it’s a 500g HD!! Where did I go wrong?!?!?!? I used the program Acronis True Image and copied my whole 120g drive …

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my lenovo laptop was not shutting down for quite a long time so i used to give shut down command and quickly remove the battery for it to shut down, today it started acting funny, the shuttle service, camera started opening on its own so i thought it need a …

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The ziggytv icon is already at desk, but each time I try to onstall it, pops up a window saying "ziggytv is not a valid Win 32 application". I´ve already installed Java, but happens the same.

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I have a Dell Laptop 1525 Inspiron purchased about 4 months ago. I installed Yahoo messenger and MSN messenger. VIsta would not let me use Yahoo messenger. The screen went black as I was typing a message and the computer shut down. When I hit the on button it is …

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Iv spend a few days on forums searching for this and done every option i have found and i habe come up empty. Im using evil vista and i have 2 unprotected networks im trying to connect 2 Linksys-ow-26976 and belkin54g Linksys works just fine but has a really crappy …

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Help! I'm trying to load Sage instant V6.02 and Sage Line 50 V6.02 Accounting software onto my laptop which is running on Windows Vista. The software both load the initial install off the CD but then don't do anything after that no error message nothing. The annoying thing is that …

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Good morning. I have a new Acer 5738Z Laptop, and I seem to have problems with the igfx driver. It always stops working. I do not want to change my drivers either. Any ideas how to resolve this? Thanks in advance!

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please i need ur help. i have a dell laptop with vista os. but i want to load server 2003 on it, so i can use it for practical purposes. i have an installaation cd for the vista which i can always use back to load when am through. please …

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I just switched out my old hard drive and ram from my laptop for an upgrade but now my screen is black. When I power it up the power light comes on and you can hear the drive starting to spin but that as far as it goes. When I …

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Hi i just started to hear a loud clicking noise coming from within my computer at the same time as it froze up on me. it cleared when the freezing stopped. I have had it happen before at the same time i had some problems with this computer. i resolved …

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Me again and finally finished the computer i built! but there's only 1 problem and its pretty big.. (i have VISTA HOME PREMIUM 64 bit) when i first installed vista it worked like a charm no problem! but then i started installing drivers which include the g9 and g15 keyboard …

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I use a windows vista home premium in my core-2 duo laptop as a single user. when i open d folders, i find a lot of folder icons with a blue curved arrow on folders like My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, etc. When I double click on one of …

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I got a laptop with vista home on it. I never got any recovery CD's but was told all the software is on a separate partition? how do I delete all the info on my laptop and re-install vista?

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Do all older machines work with Vista? How would I connect this since it had 2 PIN Type Connectors that SCREW IN..Tower does not???

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Ive recently bought a new laptop made by acer. I am haing trouble getting the inbuilt microphone to work, ive tried testing it through skype which failed. I have also tried going through the windows troubleshooting application with no success, when I tried the test through windows it didnt register …

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Hi, while investigating a problem folder i enable the hidden files to be viewed in all folders a while back. well recently i had noticed these weird files that were exact duplicates of files in most of my folders except that they had a "._" prefix. i have been deleting …

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Its an OLDER style printer, what would I have to do to get it to run with windows Vista or can it?

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I'm running Windows 7 build 7100. As the title suggests, my microphone is always on. It appears to be acting like it's in listen mode, but it's not set to be. I've deca-checked that the mic is plugged in correctly, and it appears to be. The drivers (Vista) are installed …

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