Hi all Pretty sure that Planing and R&D at microsoft has think about it... Better give reference than making a long post..... www.whereisit-soft.com Small USB drive should also have the capability to be threat as a offline media because we can disconnet an store in a safe place.

I can't start Windows Vista. I have a problem similiar to: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=530722 I've been using 5384 since it's release, quite happily. Not had a single problem with it, other than the usual beta type issues. Until... I was using my 2nd machine, Vista went to the screensaver, so I moved the mouse

Ok... so this is how it goes: I have 2 HDDs in my comp, 1 is 80GB and the other is 300GB. After my Vista crashed I tried to do a dual boot of XP and Vista so I partitioned my 80 GB drive to 65GB and 15GB. I installed XP on the 15GB partition which was given the drive letter "E:". After configuring XP I installed Vista on "C:". The first thing I noticed was that is said one of my partitions on...

Vista has another annoying quirk. I download my cell phone information from the company, and am offered 2 formats, .xls (Excel) or .csv (Comma Delimited), and since I don't have Excel software, I have always opted for the .csv which would automatically open in Notepad after the download. Vista doesn't recognize this format, and since it still works in Notepad, I have to manually open...

Hello, Can I recover music files after a recovery PC process if I didn't create recovery discs? Thank you. -- cristina

I deleted an important folder from my desktop by mistake. I tried to recover it from the recycle bin but the folder was not there. Cant locate the folder with the search options...guess coz i deleted it in the 1st place. I need to recover the deleted file.

WHen I try to back up the disk asks to be formatted. This fails. So I can't then proceed to back up. What can I do? Thanks!

I have saved a lot of files on cd and for some reason all of a sudden the computer wont show any of the files on any of the disks I have. When I click on "open" it shows nothing there. When I click properties it shows how much stuff is on the disk but I cant access any of the stuff?? help -- janweix

I have successfylly searced for files by using the search field in the Start Menu. But after having moved a folder from my personal folder to our shared folder I no longer get any hits when I search for documents in the folder that I moved. I suppose I have to take some kind of action to make things work again - but I don't know what to do. Can someone please help me? -- Lise

Getting Windows Explorer to remember customized folder options has been a huge pain in th a$$ from day one. I have tried all of the recommended "fixes", but nothing has worked over the long-term. At this point, I have pretty much learned to live with it. Today, Explorer decided to throw a new quirk into the mix. I have a Temp folder that I use for holding video and audio files temporarily...

Hi there, I hope someone can help! I have Windows Vista Home Premium and basically my files keep disappearing. I have saved them in the same way I used to on Windows XP: I create some text files - straight forward Windows Word Processor - when I had about 6 I created a folder and dragged and dropped them into it. I uploaded photos which were also put in a folder and CDs likewise. After a...

Hello all, I made a big boo boo... We have two profiles on our Vista machine. I've gone through and merged a number of our personal folders (Pictures, Videos, Music, etc.) with the Public versions of these folders - effectively creating a single folder that both profiles can access easily. The oopsie is that when I went to merge the Saved Games folder on my profile with the Public Saved...

I have requested disc cleanup to delete "thumbnails" from items that were stored in a program that has been deleted from our computer. We cannot manually delete them or disc clean up them. Any suggestions?

My files that I have saved do not show up when I look for them, when i save additional files or resave those files they still dont show up. need help. the files that i have save can't be found any where, even with searching "everywhere" however these file have been saved in the correct location, because when i saved more files, the files that i had saved are there, are shown. I even try...

If I edit the file in notepad and try to save I get this message: "Cannot create the C:\users\nathan\documents\htmlfilename.html file. Make sure the path and filename are correct". See this posting: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=19395&st=0&gopid=195995&#entry195995 "Right-click on the Documents file and choose properties. Select customize Use this folder as template: All Items

I have a windows program written using VS 6.0. The program uses a vb front end to collect/edit data and to print forms. The data is stored in an Access database which is installed by default in the C:\Program Files\***242 directory. Our program works well on Vista, with one exception: a feature of our program is the ability to create backups of the most current data added to the database....

i ended a process and all the things on my desktop disappeared. the things like my shortcuts and my taskbar...how to i get those things back or restore that process???

I setup my auto fill form last year and sinece then I have changed my e-mail address. Now I can't figure out what I did to start with and the help button dosen't give my detailed steps I'm not that smart -- A friend is someone to call to bail you out of jail, But a true friend is sitting there next to you.

Once you've deleted all the history, searches, cookies, etc. from the browser window, are they completely erased from your computer? If they're not, where are they stored? How do you completely remove them?

There are files in a place called favorites and history that I want to delete. When I search they come up but I do not have the option to delete. What to do?