Does anyone know why when I click 'enable write caching on disk' in device
manager/disk drive/policies that it wont stay ticked on a vista machine?
Its got an SATA disk fitted if that has any bearing. Maybe with SATA disks
you cannot select disk caching could that be it?

i have read there's a virutal thing in vista if you have a virtual
processor. a processor capable of the virtual thing. what exactly is this
virtual thingy? i also have read a long time ago that vista would include
the ability to run virtual oses like using vmware and vpc. but it ...

I recently installed the latest version of Nero on my Vista Ultimate PC.
The software works fine and I noticed a new plug-in in Media Center when I
tried to burn a TV recording to DVD - a Nero plug-in. I tried to use this
plug-in and it recorded the TV program onto DVD OK - but ...

I tried it... gave it a go.. at first things seemed to work ok...
after I installed a few hefty VISTA COMPATIBLE applications... the crawling
commenced...
All drivers were also from vista itself.. I added no extra ones.. only those

I performed the 60 s system performance scan (I can't remember the exact name
but it was in the Control Panel) both with and without my ReadyBoost-capable
flash device connected to the PC.  My device has 4GB of space, but my PC has
1 GB of RAM on it, so I set the device to use ~2 ...

My XP  PC came with a partitioned hard drive, with the operating system on
one partition. This would have been useful if I needed to reinstall the OS.
However, maybe I was lucky but never had the need to reinstall.
I now have a new PC with Vista Office on a 160 Gb hard drive. ...

help!
This laptop has a mind of its own after installing Vista.
I cant type in a straight line.   Text jumps all around the screen and types
over itself.

One day my Local Disk hard drive read the free space as 12gb. A few days
later it decreased to about 8gb. Today i added a few more files, but instead
of decreasing as it usually would, it now said i had 9gb. This constantly
fluctuating hard drive space has been happening a lot to ...

Well as i said i have decided to leave winblows vista has anoyed me for the
last time. no i get random crashes hardware incompatiblity, and not enough
drivers. so therfore i have decided to make the move to linux the safer more
stable OS. i personall hope that all of you come to ...

My computer will not go into sleep after the set amount of time i've set it
to. the screen turns off but that is all. Also, when i close my laptop the
screen stays on. i would really prefer that the screen turned off as to not
burn the monitor or anything. Any suggestions?

I have neither Nero nor DivX on my Dell E1705 Vista Business 32-bit computer,
but I'm still getting this error when I start Windows Mobile Device Center.  
I tried exempting COM Surrogate from DEP, but then the application doesn't
open at all.  Is this related to a program I've ...

I recently got a new computer with vista pre-installed. it came with no cd's
incase i need to reinstall it for any reason. I asked at the shop that i
bought it from and they said that if i make back up disks it will include
vista, but I am not sure this is correct as everything I ...

After upgrading to Windows Vista, My Picture folder won't open.  It keeps
saying I don't have permission to open that folder.  What should I do?

Despite signs that businesses are lukewarm to Microsoft's Windows Vista, the
company on Thursday said it achieved record third quarter profits partly on
the strength of sales of the new operating system.
For the three months ended March 31, Microsoft said net income rose 65%

Vista won't install (over XP) because it detects some Symantec products.
They're not listed in Control Panel / Add/remove programs. Norton WMI Update
*IS* listed but refuses to go away claiming some other program that uses WMI
Update is still installed on the system.