I reinstalled Vista and wiped my encryption key......yeah I know, a complete idiot. A few questions. First, I did have an image backup that I'm not using but kept as security. It's on the backup but I have no idea where it might be or what to ever search for. Where is it normally save.......my documents? Second, if I can't get it from my image backup, is there any way to override it? What I...

Is there a way to move installed programs from one partition to another without uninstalling and reinstalling? I've just partition my HDD as I like to keep this tidy want to move the software about, is this poss without extra software or am I just going to have to do it the long way? Many thanks

Hi, In XP Home with Windows Desktop Search our users could search data on our network without having to have a copy of the 50GB of files on their laptop. Apparently, with Vista Business, the only way for our users to index this data is to have a copy of it on their hard drives (via offline folders). Is that correct? Has anyone found a way around this? Thanks

Hi, a little system specs here first: I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a brand new month old high end gaming PC with 500gb RAID 0 as 2x250gb drives. Before you get on me for lack of data redundancy, I also have a 500gb external hard drive being regularly used for backups using Ultimate's file backup and complete disk image backup too. My motherboard is an Intel 975x based and CPU...

Hello. We have a computer with Windows Vista Business 32bit on a Machine here in our Lab. We are trying to figure out why some of the files in our software are always hidden. We are logged in as administrator, and we have set the folder options so that it always shows hidden files and folders, and to always show protected operating system files. and to always show file extensions. In windows...

I've been using File Backup daily for half a year on Vista 64-bit Ultimate. The backup tool has been appending incrementals to the initial backup set which was created half a year ago. Now (finally) Vista prompts me to do a new full backup with this message in the system tray: "It's time to run a full backup. Click to start a new full backup." Now, when I click that message, it just opens...

I was downloading pics from my digital camera, once all transferred i created a folder to transfer them to. After doing this i went to move the folder to my pics folder, this moved to the side panel under all the other folders that appear on the side panel. In the screen next to the side panel where my folder was i deleted the other pics and the folder that i had stuff in, the pop up window...

I can't right click a favorite subfolder and drag it to Favorite Links and create a shortcut. When I relase the mouse button I am not asked to select: "create shortcut here". The bar which moved to the left pane, to Favorite Links, when draging, just disappears and the drag operation is ignored. Is it because I might have deleted some sample links when I was trying and fiddling to use...

I am trying to copy a file from an XP system to a Vista system and I'm getting an error telling me I do not have permission to do it and access is denied to the destination system. Here is the setup: I have a home network. On the Vista system I use START RUN and type in the name of the XP system (ex: system1). Using Windows explorer on the Vista system I drag the file from the source...

I can't create a new folder becouse I have lost the right click "new" feature.. How I can restore it?

okay here is my sad sad story. i e-mailed myself my essay and when i was opening it, i was asked if i wanted to open or save. i clicked open. then i finished my whole paper, and clicked the X button. then microsoft word asked me if i wanted to save or cancel and automatically, without thinking, i just clicked the save button. so somewhere in my computer...my essay has got to be saved, right?...

I was organizing my pictures into there own folders. I accidently moved a folder into another folder. How do I remove the folder from the folder I placed it in without deleting the folder and its content?

I am using Vista Business on my laptop, and I have downloaded the extension that lets me search my Lotus notes emails also. The problem is that this seems to lead to an ever-increasing mail file in Lotus. I am now at a 10 GB (!!) mail file, and it seems to be growing every time I use the desktop search. this not limited to Vista, btw, other people have the same problem under XP. Has anybody...

I have received an error message a number of times about this. Here is the event code. Product Preview Handler Surrogate Host Problem

When I use Vista's "advanced search" function, I can specify location, date, size, name, tags, and author. Is there any way to search by file attributes, e.g., to find all files with the archive bit set? -- Ray (remove the Xs to reply)

Hi, hope theres someone out there with a solution to this ugly problem on Vista!! Every folder and icon on my laptop has somehow changed from its normal title to the modified time and date. However, when I open up windows explorer it shows as documents, pictures, games etc in the left hand part, but in the main window and on desktop etc they show this annoying date and time making it hard...

Why when i hover over my Users folder it says one thing. Then when I right click on it and click prperties it tells me another? Example I hover over my Users folder and it says 4.76 GB,then when I right click and choose properties it says 38 + GB! Where the hell are all those GB? I have looked and there is no way I created them. What is going on?

I am having a problem deleting shortcut files as when i attempt to delete them it says that it could not find this item, they are also unable to be dragged into the recycle bin, nor are they able to be moved anywhere else. when i right click on them it says on the security tab after properties that it is unavailable or cant be displayed. This isnt happening with all the shortcuts but it is...

Does anyone know how to set default file details? I have files of audio tracks in which I only want track name and length to be shown; not artist, album, #, genre and rating. At the moment I have to change each file using the 'choose details' option. This is very tedious and when returning to a file the unwanted details keep re-appearing!

I'm running XP ME SP2 on an Alienware Area 51 m5700i notebook, Core 2 duo @1.66 GHz, 1.0 GB of RAM, 80 GB NTFS HD. I want AVG Anti-Virus and AVG Anti-Spyware to startup automatically. How do I add the programs to the startup menu in software explorer? The option to remove a program is simple as the click of the button, but I've searched high and low and not one search result has provided...