System restore is restoring the registry...........for 5 hours (and counting!)
I have vista home premium and i used the windows system restore to undo
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claimed to have failed and i was given the option to ...

Alt-F4 the keyboard shortcout to close the application windows is not
working in my laptop. It was working earlier, but don't know what happened;
it's not working now.
Thnans for an y solution.

I am not sure I am in the right place. I have posted this somewhere on
performance issues. I need to know how to fix this problem. If I should take
my computer back to Best Buy Geek Squad to have this fixed or if someone here
can help me fix it. I have Windows Vista Home Premium ...

At times my shift key does not activate a question mark when I use the
shift and the other relevant key.  Rather a capital E with an accent
over it keeps coming up, as if I have reverted to the French language.
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I'm running Vista Home Premium, SeaMonkey, and I have Defender turned
on, as well as Avast antivirus. I have Windows Update set to go
automatically. What happens is that about half of the important and none
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How do you change the color of the wording under each icon? When I go to
properties and to advanced... It will let me change the font but not the
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In Windows Explorer I have set my folder views so that they open in Details
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after using works word processing to construct a Resume and coverletter,
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They had XP systems and I had the same problem when sending to a
computer on the network. Do I have to have a converter system (works to

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hard drive...
Vista does Not see or recognize the hard drive in 'My Computer', but it does
show up in the Device Manager and it shows that it is "working properly".

i have and use my pc entirely for a MEdia Center.
I created a 40 Gig system partition which is now down to its last
GB which i find ridiculous seeing i have minimal applications
installed.

Out of the blue, I can no longer view any powerpoint presentations sent to me
in email (I'm using Outlook Express).  I have re-installed the most recent
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is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time I
tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will need the
whole procedure, just in case..

At first it was rare but it is happening more often as time goes by. Three
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saying that our desktop could not be configured and we are presented with a
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I need help with WMP in  VISTA!
It has been working fine,then all of a sudden it has been crashing on start
up.
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technologies are released. The goal of the program is to reduce