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Vista Troubleshooting...
prawnstar69
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I installed Vista today and it's great, I really like the interface etc.
However, I tried to move a folder containing some mp3 files from My Documents to Music and it tells me that it requires permission to do so, so the usual happens.
I give Vista permission to move the files and then an error message appears saying that I need permission to move the files and I either get to "try again" which does nothing, or close.
It's frustrating, my User is an Admin and I can't see how I can fix it, googling didn't really help either. A few posts on forums about the problem, but no real solutions.
Help, please.
Oh, it's 64-bit Home Premium btw.
EDIT - Turned the thread into a general Vista troubleshooting thread as my original problem is solved. Only, now I have a new, more annoying problem.
However, I tried to move a folder containing some mp3 files from My Documents to Music and it tells me that it requires permission to do so, so the usual happens.
I give Vista permission to move the files and then an error message appears saying that I need permission to move the files and I either get to "try again" which does nothing, or close.
It's frustrating, my User is an Admin and I can't see how I can fix it, googling didn't really help either. A few posts on forums about the problem, but no real solutions.
Help, please.Oh, it's 64-bit Home Premium btw.
EDIT - Turned the thread into a general Vista troubleshooting thread as my original problem is solved. Only, now I have a new, more annoying problem.
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I assume you're talking about the Vista "feature" that asks you every time you want to do anything.
This can be disabled by going to the Control Panel, User Accounts, and uncheck the User Accounts Control option.
Naw, the feature I don't mind so much. It was literally not letting me copy this folder regardless.
I made a new folder and copy/pasted the files from the old folder and then deleted the old folder. Annoying but it worked. O_o
Yeah I got vista a while ago and immediately turned this off. Only now it keeps telling me that I've turned it off by making a little icon appear in the bottom right, its only purpose, seemingly, is to annoy me. Any idea how to get it to stop doing that?
Vista has hung on me, twice. First time I was installing Half-Life 2, the 2nd time I was ripping CDs.
I've just installed a crap-tonne of updates, hopefully one will fix it...
EDIT - gaddam, make that three times. Again while ripping CDs. The DVD-RW drive spun down, stopped and then Vista hung. It had 2 tracks left to rip in WMP.
Heh. Sounds like a plan.
I really like vista, this hanging is now my biggest issue.
Have you checked your Application and System logs?
Everything's new, gah. Where do I find them? Control Panel > Admin Tools?
edit - found the logs. nothing too weird. A few updates have failed to install though.
And, under Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Reliability and Performance Monitor. You can get a nice reliability monitor graph which should show app crashes, etc. Should help pinpoint problems.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
It says that it's not been running for 24 hours. I only installed Vista today. I guess I'll check it after a couple of days. I'm assuming it doesn't mean 24 continuous hours?
EDIT - I checked the device manager and the SM Bus had a (!) next to it, I've used the mobo CD to install drivers. I'm hoping that could have solved it.
Also, I had a crappy USB webcam in which I have no drivers for so I've unplugged it.
Fingers crossed.
I bought STALKER today and I can't install it.
I've had trouble with Vista freezing when ripping CDs in Windows Media Player. Half-Life 2 froze on me when installing, but then decided to install second time round and today STALKER keeps freezing when I get about 1/4 way through the install.
It seems whenever I use the DVD drive for an extended (longer than about 10 seconds) amount of time, Vista will freeze. I can still move the mouse but nothing responds, I can't CTRL, ALT + DEL to open task manager or anything, I have to do a hard reset.
I can't find any useful information at Microsoft's site or via Google. If anyone has anything to try or a fix. Please let me know as this is getting ridiculous now
I tried plugging my DVD drive into a different SATA port on my motherboard, but nothing.
My system is....
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ 2.6GHz (Retail AM2)
Gigabyte GA M56S-S3 AM2 Motherboard
320GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA2 16MB
ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB PCI-E2.0
Samsung SH-S203 20X DVDRW - SATA - Black
Patriot 2GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x1GB)
Seasonic S12 II 500W PSU
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 OEM
Something could also be wrong with the drive's settings, like DMA mode or somethin...
You know, I'd not actually thought of updating drivers. How foolish of me.
I'll give that a go, I finally got STALKER to install. I had to pop out the DVD and pop it back in everytime the system froze, after about 5 minutes of nothing it would continue installing again, very slowly.
Although, the HDD is fine and that's SATA too, wouldn't that be affected?