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Free Registry clean-up / systems speed up programs for Vista Home Basic?

Lori Noble — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:54:35 GMT

Are there any free Registry cleanup / systems speed up programs for Vista Home Basic out there or just the free limited trial with upgrade purchase required?

i hate widow vista starter!

tuyenk07 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:46:11 GMT

"With Windows Vista Starter, you can have up to three programs open at the same time. For example, you can run WordPad, Paint, and Calculator at the same time. If you try to open a fourth program, you'll see a message telling you that you already have the maximum number of programs open.

.....

To run more than three programs at once, you'll need a different edition of Windows Vista. All other editions of Windows Vista, including Windows Vista Home Basic, allow you to run as many programs as you want."

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Please Please Please Help -- Vista Hangs Up!!!

shumonsaha — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:58:59 GMT

:unsure:Hi. I have recently loaded Vista Home Basic in my Acer Aspire 5920 laptop. The configuration is 1.86 GHz, 2 GB ram, 160 gb hard disk, Core 2 Duo...

After installing it was working fine. But suddenly it has started hanging up after some time of switching on.

I have not installed any new software. But tried to use an earlier restore point too. Has not helped.

I have Kaspersky antivirus 2010 in my machine.

Can anyone help as my laptop is no longer within warranty.

I had XP loaded earlier and same problem had inititally happened. Acer sent my a Hotfix which solved the problem.

But now I have vista in my machine. Cannot go back to XP.

Please help.

thanks

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Files Keep appearing on desktop

lillix — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:54:20 GMT

i recentley downloaded some mp3 files i delete them off my desktop and they reappear like an hour later

How to Delete a System File in Windows Vista...Access Denied when in System32

Jason — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:38:54 GMT

If you need to delete or overwrite a system file in Windows Vista, you'll quickly notice that you cannot delete system files, even as administrator. This is because Windows Vista's system files are owned by the TrustedInstaller service by default, and Windows File Protection will keep them from being overwritten.

Thankfully, there's a way that you can get around this. You need to take ownership of the files, and then assign yourself rights to delete or modify the file. For this, we'll use the command line.

Open an administrator command prompt by typing cmd into the start menu search box, and hit the Ctrl+Shift+Enter key combination.

To take ownership of the file, you'll need to use the takeown command. Here's an example:

takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui

That will give you ownership of the file, but you still have no rights to delete it. Now you can run the cacls command to give yourself full control rights to the file:

cacls C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui /G geek:F

Note that my username is geek, so you will substitute your username there.

At this point, you should be able to delete the file. If you still can't do so, you may need to reboot into Safe Mode and try it again. For the filename in the example, I was able to overwrite it without safe mode, but your mileage may vary.

Slow Boot Problem

vistanovice — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:23:10 GMT

I know its an age old problem, but this is baffling me.My computers clean, defragged and running fine. But booting takes forever.In safe Mode it starts fine, the windows bar only goes across 3 times before log on page. But normally the bar goes across 25 times before continuing. In the boot log the prefetchbootinit seems to be taking about 40 secs, and causing the problem. I only have 5 startup programs which have been disabled, but problem persists. Ive cleaned out the prefetch folder, still a problem.

What i have noticed though, is that the readyboot folder in the prefetch folder is always empty. Apparently this is needed to speed up the boot.

Could this be the problem? and does anyone know if the readyboot folder should be empty?

Thanx in advance.

Windows folder size

slvrvlt — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:31:48 GMT

I notice i was less disk space on my C drive, I was looking to what was taking up so much space and i notice my Windows folder taking up 20gb of space. Is this normal? Is there a way to get some of that space back?

Restoring Colours to Programs

hbeedee — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:54:53 GMT

G'day All

I have a Lenovo Laptop with Vista. I have turned the Vista auto updates off.

I have two questions

First

The other day I noticed that when I highlighted something so I could copy/save/move it, instead of it highlighting in blue as it has always done, it now highlights in red. And with black text, it is almost impossible to read (with my eyesight anyway). How do I change the highlight colour back to blue?

Second

Today, I opened my Itunes program to find that the background colour of the Itunes screen has changed to black. With black test, it means that I can't see anything at all. I slid my mouse around the top right hand corner until I found the "X" and turned it off. I re-opened Itunes and I still had a black background. I re-started my laptop and tried again. Still a black background in Itunes. How do I change the background colour?

Can anyone offer me some advice on how to fix these annoyances?

Cheers

hbeedee

FAN IS RUNNING NON STOP!! NEED HELP

ed_judo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:00:16 GMT

HEY.. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE FAN, THE LAPTOP IS A TX2120, FAIRLY NEW WITH A FEW MONTHS OLD, ALWAYS KEPT IN MY BEDROOM, THE ISSUE IS THAT THE FAN IS ALWAYS RUNNING SUPER FAST, AND WITHOUHG HAVING ANY WINDOWS OR MESSENGER OPEN, HOW CAN I DEAL WITH THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE THE NOISE IS DRIVING ME CRAZY, AND IS MAKING THE KEYBOARD A BIT HOT

THEIS LAPTOP IS RUNNING VISTA HOME PREMIUM WITH 64BIT

THANKSSSSS

Deleted Icons re-appear on Desktop

KiwiHawk — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:31:10 GMT

Hi I'm a newbie her, so apologies if someone has already asked.
But I have a problem where periodically any deleted icons or files from either my desktop or quick launch bar re-appear.
For example I have a bunch of PDF files on my desktop I don't need anymore, I dragged the files into the recycle bin, then emptied the recycle bin, refreshed the desktop and kept on working.
A few hours later they are all back again.
I can open the pdf files and the all appear as they did the day they were created.
I wasn't doing anything weird for them to come back, just checking emails, working on database on my pc and paying bills.
Also any icon from an old program re-appears, programs have been uninstalled long ago, but the icons keep coming back.
Doesn't matter what I try they keep coming back. Sometimes after a few days and reboots, other times only after a few hours.

I've never seen anything like it before in my years of using PC's

Any help would be greatly appreciated.....

Vista Services

mlong30 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Hi All,

I have Vista Home Premium, and I'm just doing basic wireless networking, and video chat with windows messenger, and MS office 2003. Which windows services can I disable to free up some resources?

Thanks.

Matt

Where did my ram go! Fixed in SP1

Jason — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:41:40 GMT

http://www.vistaforums.com/forum/Topic140059-12-1.aspx

picture thumbnails gone...my bad. How to fix?

john206 — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:41:47 GMT

Went too far too fast tweaking the startup programs via program explorer. I think blocked then deleted from startup the program or service that allows one to view thumbnails of images in the file browser (explorer). Anybody know which one that is and how to add it back to the startup list? BTW, my startup IS faster though:>)

Thanks
J

Icons for Desktop from Websites

edge — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:11:35 GMT

I have been trying to assign icons to web sites that I have on my desktop. Unfortunately, the only icons I can use reflect IE in the Icon. With XP, I can drag the URL from the address line and place it on the desktop or I can right click on properties and change the icon via "Change Icon>Apply>Ok. When one does that with VISTA, the Icon will not change. Hope I have made this problem clear. Thanks for any responses.

Hibernation

lolsonjr — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:17:57 GMT

If I understand hibernation correctly it is a form very deep sleep. But, what I have never figured out is the following. I had several computers over the past 8 years or so and even with the Macs, I have never had a computer that was really capable of using deep sleep or in this case hibernation. Every time I have tried it the present machine I have (HP a6300f) never ever wakes up. So I guess my question is do very many people use this feature and if so how do they get it to work?

Defragging

Faithyy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:15:37 GMT

I need help how do I defrag my computer , I have windows vista and i havent done a defrag since i have brought it.

what steps do i take and how long does it take and where would i view results?

Aero ON/OFF shortcuts

Jason — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:39:49 GMT

http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic12378-12-1.aspx

Stop User Account Control (UAC) screen flicker / flash

Jason — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:49:18 GMT

http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic4921-12-1.aspx

Great tweak...speeds up UAC nicely.