If I view the desktop in Windows Explorer it shows shortcuts first. I have named folders with a leading underscore to keep them at the top of the list but the shortcuts are first. How do I change that? Thanks!

How do I have shortcut folders sort alphabetically along with normal folders in a directory? Right now, the normal sort by name sorts folders first and then shortcuts after... but I need them to all sort together... any ideas?

Whenever I search in my documents director C:/Users/username I get the message "... slow in non indexed locations". This happens no matter how many times I try to add the directory. I checked the indexing and the directory is not in the "excluded" list. It does seem not to be indexed because only search terms in the file names show up. I did a "dir /AI" and "JUNCTION Documents and...

In Win Explorer every time I try a search for something in a non-indexed partition I get a nag drop-down at the top of the folder/file area. Something along the lines of: "Searches may be slow in non-indexed areas. Click here to add index." ....with an X to close at the far right. If I wanted an index here I'd put one here. How do I stop this nag/warning drop-down?

Does Windows Search indexes data on NAS devices? I have Windows Vista Business. I'm planning to get a Apple's Time Capsule as Windows Home Server is expensive and I'm not interested in those additional features. But before that I would like to know whether Vista's search indexes items on remote drives. Thanks, Mugunth

When I open a folder that contains a large number of files they are off the "viewable" window area. I end up having to use the handles to resize the window so I can see all my files. When I close the window and reopen it, it has reverted back to the small size and I have to resize it again. This doesn't happen on my XP machine a home. Is there a way to make the resized window remain the...

Hi people, In Windows XP we can create metadata for all type of file (right click on a file then properties\summary) but when you transfer a file from XP to Vista all those metadata are been deleted ! so how can we keep it ? (and edit them under vista) Thx a lot

Hello Everyone, I was working on my friends computer, which she just bought, and it came with a partitioned hard drive C: with vista home premium on it, the partition was 10gb, and then a D: which was 290gb. As background, this is a brand new machine, and we bought it after she fried her last one with virus after virus. So of course, as soon as i left, she downloaded all these programs to the...

When I perform a search for a text string in a directory (and all it's files and sub-directories), it returns a list of files that were deleted fom the C: drive weeks ago. Not only that the sub-directory that the files were in was also deleted weeks ago. Any ideas on how to get around this? I have wasted hours on this.

I have an HP Media Center desktop system with 500GB hard drive. I also have several usb hard drives. Since my old system died (running xp pro) and I connected my usb drives to this new system, using Vista Ultimate, I have been noticing that digital photographs that I transfer from SD cards, etc. to the USB drives randomly get trashed so that I lose part of the image. It seems random but...

Hi, I'm building a VB application with installer. Well I want that after the administrator installation it creates a files and folders and if I run that application logged as user I dont want that vista copies my files to VirtualStore folder...I want the same path where all the users can write. I just used the path c:\ProgramData\MySoftware\... but it doesnt work...VISTA creates another folder...

All, I am follow this thread because I have my own issues. However the answers here have totally confused me. I have Vista 64 bit. I copied a folder over from my old XP Pro machine. Now all of a sudden that folder is read only when other PC's in my workgroup try to connect to it. I need to be albe to allow other computers to Add, change, delete these files. Everytime if open the properties on...

Yes, it's another Offline Files problem. (Just as well Microsoft made it so seamless and easy). I have just started using Offline Files to sync my Vista Business laptop to a Win2k3 server on our company LAN (domain). While everything appears to work (no sync errors), when I go offline the only files available are Office 2003 documents (*.doc, *.xls, etc). Other files such as *.docx, *.xlsx,...

using external harddrive, VISTA piles backup data on top of backup files from other XP computer backups on the external drive. Will not let me create a file or folder for the VISTA backup, only allows designation of drive. How to chose separate file for VISTA backup on this computer? XP lets you crdeate a file and name it on the drive prior to backup.

Hi there, I am reliant on Offline Files. Our server crashed and was rebuilt with the same name, but I had to get a new profile established. Offline Files has always worked beautifully for me until my new profile was established. I do have the option “Always Available Offline”, but I can’t actually select this option. I click to check it, and nothing happens. I right click again, and it’s not...

I have a problem with viewing my pictures. All of my picture icons were changed to standard-generic icons when I had my computer restored to the factory direct setting. Now they don't display anything except a flower, house, ect. My question is: How do I change the picture icon setting back so I can see a tiny preview thingy for each icon, instead of having to click on each one to...

Vista and newer versions of NTFS apparently have single instance storage functionality. I've done repeated searches and have not found any useful information about how or if it actually works in Vista. I would like to use single instance storage to reduce the amount of disk space I use by having different branches of the same source code on my machine at the same time. In other words, I might...

Hi I have a problem with refreshing using offline folders in Windows Vista Business. When I am opening a Word document a temporary file like ~doument.docx is created automatically. But when I close the document this file remains until I hit the F5 key. I know, this is not really a big problem, but I have a client which demands to resolve this!

i have two of the same music file i delete one (dosen't matter which) the other dosen't work. Is there a way to purge or combine them or delete one. please help

I would like to step through my folders using the cursor key and have Explorer autamatically display the content of the folder instead of having to hit "enter" or click on the folder. Who can help ? Cheers Kees