Vista Network and Sharing Center slow? Vista giving you a Server Execution Failed? Possible Fix!

Windows Vista

Probably a common error/problem encountered in Windows Vista, another one of those niggly problems that is enough to make users annoyed but yet not significant enough to change to another OS altogether…

Well, here’s the possible fix which worked for me on Windows Vista Ultimate SP1:

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Skype Complete Freeze with Vista

Skype  

Skype

Recently I encountered a problem with my machine running Vista 64bit Ultimate and freezing completely upon running skype. This happens with nearly all version of Skype (I say nearly, because I haven’t had time to try every single version of Skype, but at least for the latest 3.8 and 4.0 beta 2 at the time of posting).

This has baffled me for around about 3 days, until I suddenly remembered a setting which I modifed while trying to install an unsigned driver.

 

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