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Hi Geek, I want to show my thanks for this great website – thank u for all the efforts and energy into this website. It has been a really great website and the reply was just so great and helpful. I would definitely recommend to my friends. If there is anything that I could help on to make this website a success, please let me know.
Once again, keep the good show running.
Ashley
I purchased my vistal ultimate Nov.2,2007 and have had nothing but trouble, trouble with it. First no sounds would play, shutting down etc then the hard drive crashed .,I had to get the DVD recover disk from HP to have the Vista Ultimate reinstalled on my HP Vista Ultimate-(by the retail store I bought it at with a 3 yr. warranty) it ran good for about 3-4 weeks,, now it’s doing all kind of weird stuff. I thought it was just me doing something wrong, but it looks like a lot of people are having a lot of problems with the new Vista PC. Wish I had waited for another year and hopefully microsoft will get the bugs out. I can always rely on my faithful XP though. I’ve had some of the exact problems mentioned in the blogs I’ve been reading. and since I don’t know much about how to fix the problems I’m having again, I’m thinking seriously about reformating my hard drive and reinstalling Vista Ultimate with the disk HP sent me. but may run into technical problems I don’t know how to handle. But it may just be easier for me to go ahead and do the reformat and re-install. Maybe I’ll learn something with taking that route instead of constantly trying by trial and error .If I mess up , guess I take my computer back to the dealer. I am impressed with the knowledge some of the people seem to have about ways to fix their computer. Bet you are all young people who started out with computers in kindergarden. I’m just getting started out now that I’m retired from work and have time to use a computer. Any advice If I should try the reformat and reinstall method?
Without your site, I would never be able to close a frozen program without restarting my computer (I’m talking about Task Manager Disabled in Windows Vista Premium). Though I do have one question. Why does my computer freeze when doing a long task, such as ripping a DVD with Handbrake while creating a document with Wordpad and listening to music on WMP? I lost a lot of work on that fateful day; I had done two pages before it froze. It seems that my computer can’t handle more than three tasks at once. Do I need a larger CPU?
Ubuntu is one of the best computer systems I’ve heard of.
It is also one of the easiest computer systems after i have used Linux SUSE.
Love from George .D. McKay######
thanks too mush for you help my problem solve now
Thank you very much for this beatiful tutorial.You are help me a lot because I took last update for vista,and after that my volume mixer was not working.I found in device manager tutorial for sound and fix this problem.Thank you and I will always use this site.God bless you…
thanks, just what I needed!
Can i Compliment this Website Founder/Creator and the People Behind the Computer Help!
The solutions saved MY LIFE(Notebook’s) :O
Many Thanks!
I tired this but it did not help the botton was already checked and when i unchecked it it did nothing so i changed it back to being checked. I remember that when i did it accidentally it had something to do with clicking the print screen botton. My folders are also surronded by some of the shadow on the right. Any help.?
thanks for the flashplayer tip, found your site after 2 days & countless attempts to download from the link on Adobe. Worked perfectly. How CAN’T this info be posted on Mozilla or Adobe help sites?
Erik’s comments is very useful.
Under Ubuntu 8.10, it needs only
sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk tomcat6
and remove the security restrict
sudo vim /etc/default/tomcat6
add
TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no
to override the default configuration, otherwise some application will fail to be deployed.
such as eXist, axis2.
~Malix
Thanks, really clear and simple explanation, gets behind the usual pretentious Microsoft techno-babble
Thank you so much for this help. Very much appreciated.
i like it
Thanks Steve Lobel
This worked for me !!!
USERNAME: ENTER EMAIL ADDRESS AND NOT JUST USERNAME
POP Server: pop3.live.com
Port: 995
thank you GUYZZZZZ
hey, guyzzz… i need help
my task mamager is disabled,
my reg editor is disabled
my search menu is missing
my help and support men is missing
my folder options(in control panel) is missing too….
desperate….
Hello geeks ………….. YOU GUYS ROCK …………….. keep up the good work.
Many thanks for all the helpful tweaks and articles. I like the new laptop section too. Please keep up the good work.
After looking for a solution for this problem (icon background) in 100 web pages and forums, I find this little tutorial and…IT WORKS PERFECTLY.
THANKSSSSSSS…..
Exceptionally detailed, wonderfully framed, finally some one tries to help us 2, thnx mate, cheers
GREAT fix! I can’t thank you enough!
Thanks for the article.
wow, I wish I had an aid like this all the time in RL….thanks a lot!!!
Yes, but what if it asks for your Administrator Password and there is no cursor with which to type it in and you have never set up an Administrator Password in the first place?
I am told by a local compter store that I probably have a virus. Microsoft wont handle it and Gateway wont handle it.
Hooray for Vista!
My Vista laptop suddenly stopped hibernating and my son’s new desktop would never do it from first start.
Your solution worked immediately.
Thanks and Regards
K. W.
Always do the right thing
this will gratify most people
and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
I love this site–BUT—plese tell this newbie how to SUBMIT typed question on the forums
submit
There Was No ‘SUBMIT’ Button after I spent half an hour to try solving my issue with this forum [message kept scrambling all over the page,had to retype 3 times] then attempted to submit–But No SUBMIT Button!!
Or if you wanted to you could just go to Start; Run; Type “msconfig” minus the quotation marks. This brings you to the “System Configuration Utility”. Just Click on the startup tab. As you scroll down, you will see the program in question “jusched.exe”. If you uncheck it and then click on “Ok” or “Apply”, upon Computer Restart this program will not be started up with Computer. Hope this helps.
Thankyou Very Much For Helping Me Restore My Recycle Bin In WindowsVista. YouRock !!!!!
thank you. it worked
classica
Incredibly helpful! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks a lot Geek!!!!!! The BEST information I had after trying for hours to run an unitentified program on Vista!
Aero is such a hog on lower end gfx cards, but shouldn’t pose a problem if the video card is GTX275-ish / ATI HD4870×2-ish. I have HD 4350 in my system, which is woefully inadequate to suffice a full-fledged Aero theme with flip3D, let alone running Quake Wars in windowed mode. I personally feel that I don’t miss Aero when I’m using Windows Classic in Vista; it’s stylish enough for me. I toggle off Aero when I intend to run games or other gfx intensive apps.
I have two identical sets of icons on my vista desktop one on the ight one on the left hand side of the screen. PLEASE how do I get rid of the right hand side icons leaving only the left hand side icons.
Hey! really your way solving my prob is simply superb, at last i got my gmail in my OUTLOOK . Thank you very much
A suggestion:
After installing RealPlayer SP v.1.0.1., every time I load either IE or Firefox there is a brief, loud musical sound. Some folks may like that — I do not. It would be nice if that sound could be disabled, but there is no obvious way of doing so.
Perhaps a future issue of HowToGeek can address that issue.
Eric