The only problems I'm having on my Vista box involve IE7. There are two of them:
1. The dreaded "IE has stopped working" thing, mainly when I am attempt to leave the program
2. A very weird one. I will be doing nothing in particular when IE simply goes nuts and starts sprouting ...

Hello all....
When I close down an Internet browsing window, I get an error saying
"Internet Explorer has stopped working. A problem caused the window to stop
working correctly. Windows will close the window and notify you if a solution

When I log in I get the "My Computer" window and nothing else.  No
background, no start menu or task bar or anything.  I can get all that
started by typing "Explorer" in the location line for the "My Computer"
window, but it's very annoying.  Any idea what to do about that?

where to go to activate vista?

Dear Sir,
The notebook I buy is installed with Vista Home Preimum. After using it for
a while, I found the LED of hard disk is lighting continuously. I spent some
time to search the related topics on the internet. And, then I tried to

Just in the last 72 hours I have started to have problems with my Vista
installation.  Whether I start the computer in Safe Mode or regularly, the
explorer.exe process runs up my dual-core processors to 100%, or thereabouts.
The average usage for the process is about 60% - 80%.  ...

I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.2 GHz.  One of the
cores show a 3% use and the other shows a 35%+ use all of the time.  I've
turned off off-line files.
It doesn't appear to show me what processors are using this CPU.  It looks

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in this fews days,when i open my laptop,the windows fail to open.then after i
try for many many times,i managed to open.but in not more than 10 min,a blue
screen appear n the windows shuts down.wat should i do?i din install anything
lately but i had increase the ram of my laptop ...

I am getting increasingly frustrated with the pemissions. Last time I
asked
about this on this NG, I was told that I was probably trying to make
a

I am having problems connecting to internet explorer on my laptop.  Whenever
I hit my e buttom to connect, the site opens, then I get a message that
internet explorer cannnot open the web page. I cannot get on the internet. I
am connected to the internet through my wireless ...

My mom-in-law recently got a new e-machine running Vista Premium. She was
just getting accustomed to XP, so some of the new Vista details can be
troubling for her. I try to teach her whenever I can. (She's 76 and never
used a computer before. She's taking to it verrrry slowly.)

Anybody know what could cause a record format 10 error in
WHEA. My system is a Dell XPS410 with added audio, printer
AIO, FDD as follows. Audio is SB extreme Audio, Printer is
Canon MP800 (has sheet/film scanner and multi cardreader),

%windir%\system32\defrag.exe -c -i
I have this in my Task Scheduler and was wondering what the -c -i is
for?  I have one drive seperated into 2 partitions (1 main, 1
backup).  Does this command line defrag both C: & D:?  Thanks for any

I tried a program for backup. Don't know what it did. It never made a backup
that was correct.
The problem is now there is a directory on my F drive which is an external
hard drive that I can not delete. There are 3 directories under it that I