The mass Vista bugs/software bigs thread
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There was a similar problem with Com Surrogate crashing when you viewed .avi files in explorer. It was down to Nero. Have you tried updating to the latest version of Nero?
Error 1 with the folder's losing their view settings is very annoying, always seems to lose the Control panel view for me (keeps going to Details list rather than medium size icons)
Error 1 with the folder's losing their view settings is very annoying, always seems to lose the Control panel view for me (keeps going to Details list rather than medium size icons)
Vai said:There was a similar problem with Com Surrogate crashing when you viewed .avi files in explorer. It was down to Nero. Have you tried updating to the latest version of Nero?
Error 1 with the folder's losing their view settings is very annoying, always seems to lose the Control panel view for me (keeps going to Details list rather than medium size icons)
AHA! I am using the same version of nero because basically an "update" to Nero is a few hundred MB in size and I just CBA!
I also looked for the shellnoroam/bagsmru in Vista but the reg entry seems to no longer be there in Vista :/
I hate the fact that every time I update bios two of my drives on QD6 are set to unknown SCSI devices and Vista just sits there waiting for me to fix it in Computer Manager. It's a hard drive, there is no magic involved.
I hate that when I click on automatic search for the driver it goes on to search for it god knows where but not in its own pre-installed by OS drivers. I then have to tell it manually to go to custom location c:\windows and stop playing dumbo. Same happens to memory sticks or portable memory devices.
I hate that when I click on automatic search for the driver it goes on to search for it god knows where but not in its own pre-installed by OS drivers. I then have to tell it manually to go to custom location c:\windows and stop playing dumbo. Same happens to memory sticks or portable memory devices.
Quicktime is a huge problem on my system (Vista x64).
If I open media files located on certain partitions (that are on a drive that's connected to a specific RAID controller) then the whole drive vanishes from Windows. That's pretty damn serious. I can open the same media files from the same locations in anything else - WMP, VLC, etc without issue.
I've read about Quicktime destroying peoples Intel RAID partitions as well, which is quite scary (Google for it)
QT will also selectively play .MOV files on my system... some it's fine with, others its not. Strangely enough the embedded control in Firefox/IE seems to work ok.
Large movies also kill QT on my system, it just bombs out with a "Buffer overflow" error.
If I open media files located on certain partitions (that are on a drive that's connected to a specific RAID controller) then the whole drive vanishes from Windows. That's pretty damn serious. I can open the same media files from the same locations in anything else - WMP, VLC, etc without issue.
I've read about Quicktime destroying peoples Intel RAID partitions as well, which is quite scary (Google for it)
QT will also selectively play .MOV files on my system... some it's fine with, others its not. Strangely enough the embedded control in Firefox/IE seems to work ok.
Large movies also kill QT on my system, it just bombs out with a "Buffer overflow" error.
Installed Vista last night and am having two issues with it:
Firefox
Downloaded the latest version and it does a wild veritcal jig on the pages that I go to. Fast (and small) up and down movements on pages that I visit.
Edit: Okay, got this one resolved.
Sound
Creative X-FI Audio and no sound from it. Tried Beta drivers, XP drivers and am beginning to lose hope on it being resolved for now.
If anyone could advise or send me in the right direction in fixing these two things, I would be grateful. Hopefully they're two common mainstream problems.
Firefox
Downloaded the latest version and it does a wild veritcal jig on the pages that I go to. Fast (and small) up and down movements on pages that I visit.
Edit: Okay, got this one resolved.
Sound
Creative X-FI Audio and no sound from it. Tried Beta drivers, XP drivers and am beginning to lose hope on it being resolved for now.
If anyone could advise or send me in the right direction in fixing these two things, I would be grateful. Hopefully they're two common mainstream problems.
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as to the X-fi, are you sure you've set the output device over to x-fi assuming you had onboard before, uninstalled onboard sound drivers and so on.
errm, i'm not to sure exactly how bad the chance of data loss is, i mean, if you're crashing anyway the chances of data loss is fairly high, but is much of it important? no, does it make actual data on the hard drive itself more vunerable, i don't think so. i mean, if you crash while in a game with or with write caching enabled, nothing much will happen either way would it?
for other windows bugs, i definately get that same issue, i've started to get what i guess i would call, i dunno, a slight slowdown with hard drive performance. sometimes i'll click on a folder, generally with a large number of files in it of multiple kinds(but assuming its avi's making it upset) and sometimes it can take a few seconds where it will almost pause the system then go back to normal. no idea whats causing it. sometimes get slight pausing in other situations and also finding the supposed hard drive priority assigning is crap. i can be watching some video, unraring another file to that drive and it , while winrar is set to low priority and if i set WMP to highest priority will still cause issues with playback and stuttering. surely the highest priority program, even with default values the program on top should be getting the highest priority for hard drive access.
folders not all using default view is a pain in the ass. i don't ever want to use a different view, i try to use the "use current view for all folders" option and it seems to work most of the time, but not always.
EDIT:- i keep deciding not to do the write caching just in case it does go bad, but have checked before, for some reason my main drive, which is set up as a raid 0 on a 965 board, says "this device doesn't allow cache settings to be changed" or something along those lines. doesn't work on raid, i haven't, but it says i can enable it on the other drives, the options aren't greyed out either, just they don't change when you tick the boxes. also, is it just me or are the cache enabled and cache disabled performance results almost identical, no cache = 2mb/s slower, not a huge amount, 7mb/s slower burst rate, though 1-2% higher cpu usage.
errm, i'm not to sure exactly how bad the chance of data loss is, i mean, if you're crashing anyway the chances of data loss is fairly high, but is much of it important? no, does it make actual data on the hard drive itself more vunerable, i don't think so. i mean, if you crash while in a game with or with write caching enabled, nothing much will happen either way would it?
for other windows bugs, i definately get that same issue, i've started to get what i guess i would call, i dunno, a slight slowdown with hard drive performance. sometimes i'll click on a folder, generally with a large number of files in it of multiple kinds(but assuming its avi's making it upset) and sometimes it can take a few seconds where it will almost pause the system then go back to normal. no idea whats causing it. sometimes get slight pausing in other situations and also finding the supposed hard drive priority assigning is crap. i can be watching some video, unraring another file to that drive and it , while winrar is set to low priority and if i set WMP to highest priority will still cause issues with playback and stuttering. surely the highest priority program, even with default values the program on top should be getting the highest priority for hard drive access.
folders not all using default view is a pain in the ass. i don't ever want to use a different view, i try to use the "use current view for all folders" option and it seems to work most of the time, but not always.
EDIT:- i keep deciding not to do the write caching just in case it does go bad, but have checked before, for some reason my main drive, which is set up as a raid 0 on a 965 board, says "this device doesn't allow cache settings to be changed" or something along those lines. doesn't work on raid, i haven't, but it says i can enable it on the other drives, the options aren't greyed out either, just they don't change when you tick the boxes. also, is it just me or are the cache enabled and cache disabled performance results almost identical, no cache = 2mb/s slower, not a huge amount, 7mb/s slower burst rate, though 1-2% higher cpu usage.
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Slogan said:Installed Vista last night and am having two issues with it:
Firefox
Downloaded the latest version and it does a wild veritcal jig on the pages that I go to. Fast (and small) up and down movements on pages that I visit.
Edit: Okay, got this one resolved.
Sound
Creative X-FI Audio and no sound from it. Tried Beta drivers, XP drivers and am beginning to lose hope on it being resolved for now.
If anyone could advise or send me in the right direction in fixing these two things, I would be grateful. Hopefully they're two common mainstream problems.
Slogan, see you resolved that one at some point, how did you fix it. i couldn't 100% tell what you meant, but sometimes i notice that it feels like when i scroll the page isn't all moving at the same time, i can notice a slight break in the alligment and it kinda looks like 2/3's of the page moves up just before the rest of the page.
Got the sound problem fixed. Sound works best when you have the headphone in the right soundcard port/jack, I find. 
drunkenmaster, on the Firefox home page the screen would 'jitter' or 'jump' up and down. Not by much (few pixels) but enough to be annoying.
The solution is to either remove the Bookmarks toolbar (view > toolbars > bookmarks) or add a bookmark into it. But I don't think that's the problem you're having.
drunkenmaster, on the Firefox home page the screen would 'jitter' or 'jump' up and down. Not by much (few pixels) but enough to be annoying.
The solution is to either remove the Bookmarks toolbar (view > toolbars > bookmarks) or add a bookmark into it. But I don't think that's the problem you're having.
mrk said:Well they're compatibility bugs so I guess it counts
Well i personally would class them as Vista faults, i would class them as Apple and DivX not getting their software right. Its not as if Vista crept up on the software and driver people, its been coming for 5 years.
But my 64bit install of Vista Ult is still running nice and smoothly, much better than XP did on 32bit
Kimbie
Having a bit of an issue.
I have a text file that I made on XP (I had a second hard drive which stored all my media and documents) and I'm using that in Vista.
I can open this notepad file, edit it - but when I go to save I get the following error:
Any idea what this could be? The document isn't read-only, the location of the file isn't in doubt either and I have full read/write access to the drive itself.
Not a big issue at all, but if I had a load of notepad files that I needed to edit regularly this could be a pain.
Can't really see any clear solution - although it strikes me as a silly setting I've missed somewhere.
I have a text file that I made on XP (I had a second hard drive which stored all my media and documents) and I'm using that in Vista.
I can open this notepad file, edit it - but when I go to save I get the following error:
Any idea what this could be? The document isn't read-only, the location of the file isn't in doubt either and I have full read/write access to the drive itself.
Not a big issue at all, but if I had a load of notepad files that I needed to edit regularly this could be a pain.
Can't really see any clear solution - although it strikes me as a silly setting I've missed somewhere.
A new tip!
System restore - Basically the same as XP, it reserves 15% of disk space for system restore, this time round though the slider to change this value is gone in Vista. I quite like my extra 30GB thanks!
To check how much you're currently reserving to Windows for restore points punch into a new command prompt:
You'll be shown:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Robbie Khan>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C\\?\Volume{25b4e4b7-0197-11dc-92db-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C\\?\Volume{25b4e4b7-0197-11dc-92db-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 33.123 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 34.266 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 34.933 GB
C:\Users\Robbie Khan>
To change it simply punch in:
Where "C" is the drive you want to change system restore disk allocation on and for and where "2GB" is the size you want to reserve.
I set mine to 4GB, on a 250GB windows disk 4GB is adequate and I rarely need to restore back more than a day or two if the worst happens. I always create a manual restore point daily anyway.
Rerun the first command to check changes were saved and close
I've now gone from 173~GB free to 202GB free HDD space, nice!
Time for a defrag too I think.
System restore - Basically the same as XP, it reserves 15% of disk space for system restore, this time round though the slider to change this value is gone in Vista. I quite like my extra 30GB thanks!
To check how much you're currently reserving to Windows for restore points punch into a new command prompt:
Code:
vssadmin list shadowstorageYou'll be shown:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Robbie Khan>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C
\\?\Volume{25b4e4b7-0197-11dc-92db-806e6f6e6963}\Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C
\\?\Volume{25b4e4b7-0197-11dc-92db-806e6f6e6963}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 33.123 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 34.266 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 34.933 GB
C:\Users\Robbie Khan>
To change it simply punch in:
Code:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /for=C: /maxsize=2GBWhere "C" is the drive you want to change system restore disk allocation on and for and where "2GB" is the size you want to reserve.
I set mine to 4GB, on a 250GB windows disk 4GB is adequate and I rarely need to restore back more than a day or two if the worst happens. I always create a manual restore point daily anyway.
Rerun the first command to check changes were saved and close
I've now gone from 173~GB free to 202GB free HDD space, nice!
Time for a defrag too I think.
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Slogan said:Having a bit of an issue.
I have a text file that I made on XP (I had a second hard drive which stored all my media and documents) and I'm using that in Vista.
I can open this notepad file, edit it - but when I go to save I get the following error:
Any idea what this could be? The document isn't read-only, the location of the file isn't in doubt either and I have full read/write access to the drive itself.
Not a big issue at all, but if I had a load of notepad files that I needed to edit regularly this could be a pain.
Can't really see any clear solution - although it strikes me as a silly setting I've missed somewhere.
Perhaps XP locked it somehow ? just paste the info into a new txt and delete the old file itself
Another issue I've run into.
Downloaded some audio (totally legal, before we begin) and it's stored in the folder of the program I used to get it - it will play from within this software but cannot be located in the actual Explorer itself - nothing there at all.
Even with the full on search, nothing is appearing.
Any ideas?
Downloaded some audio (totally legal, before we begin) and it's stored in the folder of the program I used to get it - it will play from within this software but cannot be located in the actual Explorer itself - nothing there at all.
Even with the full on search, nothing is appearing.
Any ideas?
The file is probably marked as being owned by "Administrator", but you're opening Notepad as a user. You'll have to "Run as Administrator" Notepad if you want to save/edit that file, or change the permissions on it.mrk said:Perhaps XP locked it somehow ? just paste the info into a new txt and delete the old file itself
Slogan said:Another issue I've run into.
Downloaded some audio (totally legal, before we begin) and it's stored in the folder of the program I used to get it - it will play from within this software but cannot be located in the actual Explorer itself - nothing there at all.
Even with the full on search, nothing is appearing.
Any ideas?
Hope I can help with this one.
Vista has some security enabled, disallowing programs to save files in your programsfiles folders. Doubtless to prevent malware installing.
I noticed this as well, using a program which saved its data in the program files x86 folder, I couldn't find the saved data. Windows saves it somewhere else, but makes it look to the program like it's in the right place, so it can still access it.
There are two workarounds.
(1) run the program as administrator. Then it can save files where it likes
(2) (what I did) simply save your files in a seperate folder, not in the program files folder. It would be more "tidy" to do this anyway. Save your downloaded music in a music folder somewhere, would be easier to do backups then too.
Hope this helps
V1N.
EDIT: and as for where your music was saved. If I remember correctly, my stuff was found somewhere in c:\users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\nameofyourprogramfolder
Hope this helps also
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