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Hi everyone. Here is my situation. I dual boot XP Pro and Vista Home Premium, XP for game and Vista for everything else. I have set-up my partitions like this, a 3GB partition then a 15GB partition which has XP on and then a 20GB partition for Vista and then the remaining space is for my apps and games. I use the first partition for the pagefile to keep it separate from the rest. My question is is it fine for both systems to fill the partition with there page file and therefore sharing the same actual file. when i set-up xp to use the entire partition and then told Vista to use it too Vista said that a pagefile already exists and should it overight it, I said yes and rebooted. Both operating systems seem to run OK and just as I hoped they would, I just want to make sure that its not going to cause a problem. I have XP set to clear its pagefile on shutdown and would do the same for Vista, I just cant find out how, so if someone know how that would be good too. Thanks....

You need to goto the add/remove programs menu in control panel, I know its changed its name to programs and applications or something (Im at work at the moment so I can cheack to see it exact name). in there along the left side there is a button called turn windows features on or off (or sumething similar to that anyway). In there you can add and remove all the windows components.

Ive tried what you said, but I cant get it to make a system dump with them instructions, are they still correct with Vista or is there something eles needed. I think I will have to ust format and reinnsll vista soo though, becuase its just makes my PC unusable and I have alot of work I need todo.

So, no-one has any ideas at all...

I just installed and ran FireFox and it automatically changed it to the default.

Hi all, I've been using the final OEM version of vista since late January when I received it and had no problems at all until yesterday (Sun 11th Feb). While i was playing music in media player i started to notice small pauses in the music, about every 5-10 seconds the music would just pause for about half a second, when I started to investigate why I noticed it wasn't just the music but everything, even my mouse stopped at the same time. I decided to reboot to see if would stop but it made no difference. I then brought up the system task manager to see if the process monitor could shed any light on the problem which had been driving me crazy for the best part of the day. I found the on the pauses the main 'SYSTEM' process (NT Kernel & System) being run under the System user name was making large CPU spikes where it would do nothing for 5-10 seconds and then suddenly spike to between 80-95% CPU usage. This initially made me believe that either windows defender or another windows utility was running scheduled work on the system. So I investigated more found that Defender wasnt set to run on sundays and neither was auto defrag. Just incase however I disabled both these along with file indexing and system restore monitoring just to make sure windows didnt have anything scheduled to-do. I then rebooted and still had the problem. I decided to give up, shut down and try again this Monday morning to see if it would correct itself. Well it didn't, I run full scans with defender and even installed symantec anti virus and run scans with that, both of which found nothing. Has anybody had any problems like this, Is it known about and is there something that can help me. Since its the main System process I am presuming it is something the actually operating system is doing and not any malicious content. ps. I'm running Vista x64 Home Premium, and nothing has been installed on the system over the past week and the night before the problem occurred It was running perfectly playing HD-Movies without any problems. Any help would be much appreciated.

anyone one if there is anyway to get my X800XL accelerating mpeg2 files again. I use poiwerDVD and although the program still acknoleges that it has the potential to use hardware acceleration, as soon as it opens a file the option uncheacks and greys out. ( and the video wont play smoothly enough on my CPU) I was hoping that these drivers would fix it but unfortunatly they havent. Is there something eles I need to do which anyone knows of, or is it just a case of waiting for a fully functional Driver release.