I have Vista Home Premium....I get the error that says the task manager has
been disabled by the administator.....I'm it and I didn't disable it...I've
tried going into the regedit etc. and changing the value to "0", but that did
not work.....?????   How do I enable it?

Sometimes there are loud clicking noises and the computer is generally loud
when it starts up or whilst it's on. The computer will crash on occasions and
won't start back up. I am thinking it is a problem with the hard disk as when
it doesn't switch on, it is as if the computer ...

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 ...

I am using Vista Home Premium on a Lenovo laptop (Thinkpad Z60m). After
updating I have not been able to shut down the laptop normally. It continues
to show the screen with "Windows is shutting down" - after 5 - 10 min it is
turned into a blue screen and restarts telling me, that ...

Can you please tell me how to get my present boot ini ,which follows,from this,
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\D

My computer will not stay in Sleep mode. After only a few seconds it comes
back on.

the file,view,etc menu bar is missing across my taskmanager, any ideas on how
to get it back, i am sure its something stupid and simple
thanks

Why are shortcuts being automatically added to my desktop when I open and
close programs from my desktop? It's driving me crazy!
Don T

Anyone have a solution, besides reformatting my external backup drive to
make space again? My external USB backup drive is 500gb and now have 70gb
free on it. I acknowledge there is not enough free space to backup the 184mb
in use so far on my 500gb C drive. But the Complete PC ...

My computer alerts me that I have low disk space in recovery  "D".   Recovery
shows 1%  of disk space left.  How to I correct this.  This is my first post
and I'm a beginner at this.

I recently installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0.0.357 on my Windows Vista
Ultimate. When it scanned for the first time, it found a
trojan.win32.monder.gen attached to the efcBtsSi.dll. After this I received
about 50 alerts alarming that Windows Explorer is trying to access this

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/logoprogram/sweepstakes/thankyou.mspx
On this page, there is a download that offers to keep the user up-to-date
with Vista-compatible products, drivers, etc.  After I downloaded it, I saw
that the it added a (I think it's called a "Sidebar") to my ...

Hello everybody yesterday i try to install windowsblinds in my computer
then i notice that everything looks blurry then i decided uninstalling
but today i try to install vista manager x64 and my windows says: "the
eception unknown software (0x0000005) occurred in the application at

Why is it all of the sudden anything I choose as a desktop background is
enlarged and out of focus? Not just images I've downloaded, but the "stock"
backgrounds offered by Windows. I'm getting close-ups on both. I've tried
re-sizing them but no soap. I haven't changed any ...

System restore is not creating automatic restore points.
I am using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1