Hi,

I've had vista fro about a month or so now and decided that it was time to
do a re-install, just to speed things up a little and get rid of everything
that 'didn't' work with it.

I set up the automated backup and let it go every night for a month,
thinking it was that simple..... But no, when I came to check the size of
this, it was huge, not the 6GB or so I thought it was going to be! ....

Anyhow, thought I could use 7zip, which is great, but then I came accross
the 'Access Denied' problem others are facing (junctions to do with Windows
are stupid!, just for the record), but after I could get into those folders,
my backup went from the apparent 6GB (my user in 'Users') to 26GB!! I opened
the backup afterwards and found that it'd backed up about 6 levels of folders
into the user's folder! It went, Application Data, Application Data,
Application Data, etc.....

If I can't do a manual backup, whats the point of having the OS in the first
place? Don't get me started on wmp. Why would I want to buy music that I'm
already listening to, that I already own?? wmp10 all the way, top half List
Pane, pointless!

I don't use 7zip but you may want to tell the program to run as
administrator (right click on the program, run as administrator) and see if
that helps out. Vista doesn't like it when programs write to the program
files and some parts of the profile area.

See if that helps you out.


"sillybutsmart" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've had vista fro about a month or so now and decided that it was time to
do a re-install, just to speed things up a little and get rid of
everything
that 'didn't' work with it.

I set up the automated backup and let it go every night for a month,
thinking it was that simple..... But no, when I came to check the size of
this, it was huge, not the 6GB or so I thought it was going to be! ....

Anyhow, thought I could use 7zip, which is great, but then I came accross
the 'Access Denied' problem others are facing (junctions to do with
Windows
are stupid!, just for the record), but after I could get into those
folders,
my backup went from the apparent 6GB (my user in 'Users') to 26GB!! I
opened
the backup afterwards and found that it'd backed up about 6 levels of
folders
into the user's folder! It went, Application Data, Application Data,
Application Data, etc.....

If I can't do a manual backup, whats the point of having the OS in the
first
place? Don't get me started on wmp. Why would I want to buy music that I'm
already listening to, that I already own?? wmp10 all the way, top half
List
Pane, pointless!