Media Player Skips When My Browser Loads a Page..

I had this very same prob­lem with my brand new Microsoft Vista X64 machine. At first I though it was the fact that I was using the newest ver­sion of Fire­fox. But after a bit of research we came to the con­clu­sion that it wasn’t actu­ally the browser caus­ing the sys­tem lag, it was the audio codec. Most peo­ple are hav­ing this issue with Sig­ma­tel HD Audio Codec. In my case it was Real­tek HD Audio. Luck­ily for every­one read­ing this, the fix is quite simple.

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Jul 26, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista | Leave A Comment »

Vista Won’t Remember My Folder Views

*** Update ***
This fix is no longer valid. After a month of smooth sail­ing, we’re back to the same prob­lem. To our knowl­edge, there is cur­rently no fix that lasts longer than a month. This fix will last at least that long, but you’ll be back to the same prob­lem a month later. If you’ve tried some­thing that seems to show promise, please let us know with a com­ment. Thanks for reading.

Vista has made huge strides in becom­ing a bet­ter OS. If you’ve read any­thing we’ve writ­ten to date about Vista, it’s all bad. But since the release of Ser­vice Pack 1 and 2, Vista has really come into its own. Rarely do you see the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This due to Vista’s abil­ity to selec­tively shut down and restart ser­vices before caus­ing crit­i­cal errors. The user inter­face is beau­ti­ful and some­what famil­iar to XP users. The abil­ity of Vista to repair itself has made leaps and bounds. But there is still one thing that is an absolute annoy­ance and frus­tra­tion, and that is Vista’s abil­ity to remem­ber folder views.

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Jul 10, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista | Leave A Comment »