Where does Vista stores a backup of update files ? They are consuming a lot of disk spaces and i want' to delete them. Thx

I think Vista must have a serious file management problem, that I hope is fixed with Windows 7. I am trying to copy files to a hard disk, and get the message "Could not find item" I see from this group that many other people have had this issue. I dont want to delete the folder of course, since am trying to make a backup of it onto hard disk. But cannot, due to the 'Could not find item'...

Hi all, Vista Home Premium, 4GB, C:\drive internal, I:\drive USB The accesslight on my 320GB D: drive containing ONLY Userdata music, pictures, documents started recently to permanently flicker in a steady rhythm, say 20Hz. The drive sits in a dockingstation, on top of the MEDION computercase and connects through USB 2.0 C: Drive 320GB has all programs and programdata on it, so they are...

Hello, I have a file on my desktop named Fitzgerald -. I do not know where it came from. This is no surprise given that my daughter uses the PC under my login from time to time. The file size is 0 bytes. The properties security tab says "The requested security information is either unavailable or cannot be displayed". The attributes info is "A" (don't know what that means). I can move...

im working on vista home premium 32bit. i downloaded a flv file which seems to be corrupt. now a cannot delete the file.. i tried deleteing it from the command prompt, tried using the software 'eraser'. i cant even move the file, or rename it or view the file properties. wat shud i do in order to delete it.. any suggestion is welcome. Pls help me ppl !! Thanks.

Hi, I need to search files or folders that have $ or § or # in the name if I put a $ in the search box, I get near all the files in my hd... even if they doesn't contain that char... I use Vista (...), in XP with standard search (NOT desktop search) the results were fine... Any advice?! thanks in advance

recently itunes has corrupted and told it to unistall i did so and after that everything had gone ultra slow and i turned it off turn and on again same thing. slow. i put it in safemode and still to no avail, slow. i've started and done transfer of files i want to keep.i then tried to go to the vista repair and from F8, i clicked "revert to out of the box", it then went blank and turned off i...

hi vista is no longer letting me create desktop shotcuts, anyone got an idea why not i keeps telling me the disk is full which its not! ????? help craig

why cant i place a desktop icon on my desktop.it says the disk is full ---its not anyone know what the problem is craig

Today i deleted my hosts file where it is located on C/System32/drivers/etc as i was trying to get on an l2 server...does anybody know if i can download it from somewhere??:cry::cry::cry::cry: Please answer me as soon as possible i ll be waiting!!!!:( -- FromZeroToHero

Hallo to all...... My Problem is that i want to bring back a file that i deleted from the recycle bin....is there any programm that can bring it back to life?!!?!?:cry: Please answer me as soon as possible....!:( -- FromZeroToHero

In XP I liked to open several similar websites and then add them one by one to a dedicated folder. XP remembered the folder each time but in Vista I have to start from Favorites and go find it. Is there a setting I can change for this? -- tiverson Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hi, my laptop came partitioned with C(30GB)and D(190GB) and the C: has been sitting at 88-90% full for a long time. Recently when I upgraded to SP2, it told me that it needs at least 15% free for installation; so I deleted all I can to make room(removed updates, messenger, office, etc)...finally able to get to the 15% needed, successfully switching to SP2. But the problem came after the upgrade,...

I have a system with Vista Home Basic and Vista Ultimate (dual boot). I have a RAID 5 with 4 500 gb drives that is partitioned into 2 500 gb drives. I also have a SATAII 500 gb and 1gb drive installed. I'm upgrading all the drives to all 1.5 GB drives. I can juggle drives in and out of the system so I can always have a clean 1.5gb to move data onto. What is the best software to clone/copy...

What can i do if i want to change this. My other partitions (D, E) are much bigger. But C is too small! -- kame Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hello. I've been having trouble for a while now I have been searching online and none of the solutions will work for me. I have many files that just wont delete. I try to delete them and they say: "Could not find this item this is no longer located in "C:/users/britts/documents/saved. Verify the items location and try again. " They are just music and pictures about 50 files total. I cant do...

Hey everybody, this is the second time I can't delete a 0 kb file off my desktop. Vista tells me that it doesn't exist, but it's there on my desktop. I've tried several things, restarting, deleting in safe mode, deleting via cmd (as administrator), deleting as another user and lots more. And unfortunately Unlocker doesn't support Vista 64. Last time it happened I successfully deleted it in the...

So I transfered all my Corell files from my old Xp computer to my new Vista home premium computer and even though I installed the Corell program on my Vist computer It wont let me save any new documents. I can open all my old documents, make and print a new document in my corell program but it wont let me save it anywhere... What am I doing wrong ?

Still testing the msvista server emailing.

My computer no longer recognizes .wav files In the window to set a program to open types of files .wav isnt even listed as a choice. Any Ideas?? -- Squa190