i have window vista premium but can not gain access to recover some programs i live in seattle wa but am away on vacation this is the fist computer that i have purchased and i do not know much but learning the hard way most of the time can you help me

using nokia pc suite (for N95) i attempt to transfer photos via cut and paste from camera to desktop (Vista) . although progress bar shows downloading when finished the 2 photos are not visible on the desktop. tried search but nothing. Where are they?

I'm setting up Vista's Explorer to browse files in Details View with Grouping by Type. My problem is that in that mode File Folders are not the top items to appear instead they appear at position "F" (so for example the "7z Archive" and "Adobe Reader Document" Groups comes before the "File Folder" group because of their precedence in the alphabet). I used to overcome this issue in XP by...

vista make you dsl connection work like dial up !!!!! i try turning off the security off in windows explorer and mcafee -- no progress what can i do? help ..... !!!

I'm a standard user and I'm am unable to rename desktop icons, if I click rename, it just never gives me an edit box. If I go into users\username\desktop, I can rename the icons there, just not from the desktop. Also, if I go into a different user, that user can rename the icons. I did notice that I'm also unable to rename my icons on my XP box as well. Is there maybe one icon that's...

Hi, I recently moved from WinXP and Win Vista (business version). In Vista, I found that Windows Explorer stops showing the title, author and other information of a PDF file (which is usually stored in the document property of a PDF file, and can be accessed by Ctrl-D after the PDF file is opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader). In WinXP, if Adobe reader (7.0) is installed, the same information...

In windows Vista Photo Gallery, you cannot search pictures using operators such as AND, OR, NOT, if for example you want to find pictures tagged with "dogs" but NOT "closeup". Such functionality exists in the Search throughout Vista, but why isn't it present in Photo Gallery? The same thing is an issue on LIVE Photo Gallery, though obviously, this is not the right newsgroup. I just though...

I opened one of the many icons at the bottom right of the screen on my new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium loaded. This opened a window listing all the folders on my system, with a title of "Watched Folder Settings". It says I can start or stop Folder Watching here, and that the service watches for changes to the selected folders and keeps Smart Views up-to-date. There is no...

In earlier versions of Windows, it was easy to move the "My Documents" folder to another location. Right-clicking on the folder on the desktop, and choosing Properies, there was the coice. And so all programmes wood point to the new location for saving or opening files. I think it is a good idea to keep this main folder in a different partition in case of needing to format C: and install...

Thanks, the sysrestorepoint from dougknox works just great -- 73 STAN N 1 Z X

Note: I did post this in m.p.w.v.general yesterday, but I'm reasonably sure it's been lost in the more mundane posts :-P I have noticed that when I am copying or moving files from my Vista computer to my file server my free disk space on the Vista system decreases. As my disk in the Vista computer is rather tetchy to start with this is a point of concern on my part, especially as the files...

I have Windows Vista Bussiness laptop. My server was stolen so a I had to replace it. In my laptop I had offline files, but I forget to save them to a disk when I dettach and attached again to the new domain. Now I can´t find the offline files. Where are they in my laptop?? is there a way to recover them ?? Marcos

I have just purchased a new computer which has vista and so far I have not been able to transfer files from my old computer to my new one and be able to open them. The files appear in my docs but when I try to open them I get an error message saying that the files maybe corrupted. I have tried transferring with discs, flash drives and cable and still I'm not able to access them. Please ,If...

We were exceptionally pleased to see that Windows Vista included functions for shrinking and expanding hard disk volumes. However, aren't these capabilities seriously crippled by the fact there is no feature for moving volumes? For example, we want to shrink drive D and add the free space to drive C by expanding it. The problem here is that the space freed from shrinking drive D is at the...

Hi. can any body give me any idea about EDID file. Actually I connected a USB secondary monitor on my Vista OS and I just want to decode its EDID file. I m not having any idea regarding this. I dont know whether its a right forum to ask this question but if any body have any idea please share. Thanx

Open File Window 1. In Vista when you open programs on the OPEN FILE window there are "Folder Icons" on the left side..Theres a way to add ICON to the left side.... You can' do it by the usual shortcut to links/favorites folder. You need to type in an app line in run .... Does anyone remember the line of script you type in run to add the Icons to

Is it possible, in Windows Explorer Search, to display the actual type, rather than the description of the type? eg .mp3 rather than "MPEG Layer...." -- Doug

FIRST, we may be naive, but how do we specify the counterpart to the network file we need to sync? To sync a network file we mark it as 'Always Available Offline,' but where do we tell it what folder to sync with on our local computer? I'm doing a bunch of synchronizing and have no idea what it is being synchronized nor where! SECOND, is there anyway to synchronize two folders on the same...

Hello everyone, After some time of using Vista suddenly, I couldn't select multiple files in Explorer either holding shift or ctrl. Any ideas how could I fix it? I suspect Vista Manager tweaker has done this nut job, however Registry doesn't allow to view the dates of hanges in it, so I couldn't be sure it is Vista Manager. Thanks in advance,

Can anybody help me? I am unable to create new folders in Explorer. Windows Vista "hangs" when I create a new folder. It just took me about 1/2 hour to create 10 folders! This is the message I always receive(after hitting CNTL+DELETE+ALT and "END TASK" for the folder(each folder): Problem Event Name: AppHangXProcB1 Application Name: explorer.exe