Just a stupid question. I do not have Microsoft Word, but my colleague had sent me their pirctured documents in Word (.DOC) version, it that any way to read these documents other than purchase a brand new Microsoft Word? Thank you.

The +/- icon of the explorer tree view on Windows Vista changed to arrows. How do I change it back to +/-. Need help - thank you Sergio5775

I am copying files from my old Win/ME disk to my Vista NTFS disk. When it was done I found every file had today's date on the Vista side of the copy. I am displaying Date Created on both sides. How can I preserve the creation dates when I copy from the old disk? John

Hi, is there a way to have Vista remember the previous folder that you opened? It is defaulting to My Documents instead of the previous folder that I was using. Thanks! -- Jackie

We use folder redirection via group policy to move "My Documents" to a network share. Vista search will not return ANY results from this location when I do a search. Even an advanced search for *.* at the root of MyDocs returns nothing. A checked with a colleague, who reports that search works fine for his MyDocs. I reset the indexing options to their default and then rebuilt the index, but...

Ok, the subject is probably confusing. I'm not sure if this is just how Vista is but in XP when you selected an object by pointing your mouse at it, it would highlight the object only as wide as its filename. In Vista, objects are highlighted as wide as the file with the longest filename. The really annoying thing about this is that if you a file whose name is 32 characters long and another...

Hi all, I used to have an app called Two Explorers. It would open 2 Explorer frames side by side so you could easily compare, copy and move files and folders in one go. Does anyone know whether there is a VISTA compatible app doing Two Explorers (or more!) available somewhere?

Following a recent new install I decided to defrag now. In other OS I used to have a simple box with some choice of settings - do you want this or that and repeatedly etc.? Also one would have a large window showing the movemnet of data and clusters around the disk and one could see if the defrag would hang and estimate how many more hours ;-(( Quite useful.

There is a problem moving folders where the folder already exists at the destination, and you have to do it twice. Please consider the following steps. 1. Open Windows Explorer (e.g. the Start Menu) 2. Move a folder to another folder (e.g. PaintShop Pro to Graphics folder) - Note that in this example there is an existing sub folder inside Graphics called PaintShop Pro 3. Windows Vista...

I have just customised my folder icons to display an individual picture to demonstrate the contents within through:- Right clicking the folder then Customize - 'folder pictures' - choose file etc This works fine displaying the picture in the designated folder but these selected pictures are showing up in other folders which I have not touched. Most I can 'restore defaults' but others e.g....

hi all here is an interesting question/issue... (well at least to me!) i have set my file headers for folders using the properties options. i prefer to include several headers but mostly i like size and date modified....However, when i attach files to an email (from Yahoo or web based excahnge) the file selection window always has the default headers..not the ones i set up. this is...

In XP, I set up the format and columns I wanted to see in a Win Explorer and used the Tools-FolderOptions to apply the settings to all folders. After that, each time I opened Win Explorer, the layout was the same. I tried the same procedure in Vista and noticed that the 'Apply to all folders' only gets applied to folders of the same type as the one I'm viewing. When I open another folder,...

I am usually very good with organizing my files. At work I have Windows XP and I have no problem with that, but at home I have Windows Vista and it is driving me crazy! For one, I have like 2 or 3 document and desktop folder, don't know why, and I tried to combine them into only one. When I did, they were still there and also where I moved them. Also when I deleted stuff that I thought I...

I have Windows Vista Home Premium. (I know it sucks) How can I back up only my music files. The back up wizard wants to back up the windows drive at the very least. My music files are on a different drive and I want to back up those files on a regular basis to an external drive. I would like it to back up only what has been changed since the last time. Can this be done?

Hi, I have Windows vista home basic edition. My PC recently crashed. So I tried to get the PC back to the factory settings.. When I tried to do it, it asked me whether i want to create a backup. I did so and created a backup of all the videos and other options that were given.. I backed it up on a hard disk. After getting the PC all up and running, now i moved the backup folder from that...

I'm using windows mail on Vista. I opened an e-mail, opened the word attachment and worked for 5-6 hrs saving all the time. I did not "save as" just hit the save button. Any idea on how to find my file. Normal search doesn't work. Thanks in advance. Kieron

I apparently have a damaged drive. I ran chkdsk C: on vista and it said the Volume Bitmap is incorrect. i have vista set up to run chkdsk /f on start up, but when it starts, chkdsk sits there at 0% and does not move. -- chainsinthewall

Even 8dot3 never had this problem. Error message 'File or Folder does not exist' Have 23 Folders with just the name New Folder and a number. This has to be the worst windows explorer yet. Any real help appreciated... Oldgoat

WHen I attempt to move a ppt file in windows explorer it shuts down. I am directed to KB938979. WHen I attempt to load the fix I get the message, does nto apply to your system. I have a 32 bit system and I am choosing the fix for the 32 bit system.

I generated some files in my matlab code using 'save' command, but it is not seen on windows explorer. I've already checked using 'command prompt' that the file does not exist. However, I can still see the generated files in Current Directory window of Matlab program. I do need to edit those files in notepad for my research,.. Please help me! I am using Vista home premium (EN) and Matlab...