Hi, I'd like to delete the folders that appear in the user directory - music, video etc. I'm the only user of the computer. I presume you do so editing these reg keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User

I have Windows Vista Home Basic and as I'm a computer novice I originally bought several weighty bestselling tomes (Vista for...) and pc fix mags thinking I'd be set up with all proper apps for running and troubleshooting Vista. Turns out lots of these sources just plain wrong on Vista compatible utilities and don't even mention appropriate utilities. E.g. my computer manufacturer's...

I'm using the Vista backup utility every week. On the first week I did a full Backup and since then I've been doing incrementals. Oh, I have the Vista Home Premium version of Backup. I've noticed that my incremental backups are very large (gigabytes) despite fact that I've hardly made any changes/additions to my files since the previous backup. Does anyone know why this might be?

Hi, Does anybody know how I can find the icons was usually i earlier verisons of Windows in Vista? I miss the icons as "Delete", "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" in Vista! :(

I have backed up my files using the standard recommendations in Vista, i.e. the Vista Backup and Restore Center. Now my Vista PC is down, and I need access to the files. For this, I only have my old PC runing on XP. How do I open the Vista backed-up files on the XP machine?

In a flurry of adding/removing, somehow I deleted the shortcuts and Icons for the recycle bin and the shortcut to my Defragmenter. I know there are ways to get there, but I would really like to retreive those Icons/shortcuts. Any thoughts, other than it was an inattentive thing to do?

When I go to C/Local Disk the display reads as a list of music files with Name- Artist - Album-Genre etc - I cannot get it to display as a list of files as normally expected. OS vista Business - also have iTunes - is this the cause?

Marjorie here. Somebody please help me. I spent an hour or more today getting footage that can't be replicated. I copied all the image and video files from my camera to my hard drive (Vista) and, once successful, deleted them from the flash drive. In the hard drive folder, I innocently clicked on one still image to delete it, and all the new files disappeared. Poof! Desperate, I...

Please help me! I can not find any way to add the buttons Delete, Cut, Paste and Copy to the Windows explorer toolbar. I cannot find them anywhrer. (windows vista version 6.0, Build 6000) Maybe this is a registry-hack!!??

I have powerpoint on 2007. the Powerpoint has (.avi) movies embedded. How to I get the movies to work when I send a presentation to someone else? (How do I even find the names and locations of the movies??? there is no "properties" tab when right clicking!

OK, I've installed Vista for the first time and discovered the cool feature that Vista Personal Folder (contacts, favourites, documents etc) can be moved ie. your "downloads" folder can be pointed to a directory on another drive if you want to store the goodies there. Great, so I redirect Download, Favourites and a few others to my second HDD. The Problem: When I made the change the second...

I've seen posts where a user's folders can be moved to another partition, I can't seem to find a move command. So I chose Properties Location to relocate the folders from C:\Users\username\folder to Z:\Users\username\folder. All appeared to relocate OK. The Contacts folder shows up as being located in Z:\Users\username\Contacts however another folder gets created called...

hi there I have several folders with media files in them (videos). up till lately when I chose the "very large" "large" or "medium" thumbnails i could see some picture taken from the file. in the last couple of days i can still see these pictures in my old files but any new file i am adding just gives me a general thumbnail (showing the file type) and not a picture from the file. any idea...

The other, out of nowhere, my Downloads and Music folders lost their "Aeroness". I mean, in other folders, like the movies, documents, ect., the folders are blueish green and sort of translucent. But now, they are a regual yellow folder. I tried doin just about everything except System Restore because that will be the very last resort. Please, someone help me!

When open windows explore, how can I set display mode to "list" as default. My default mode is now grand icons and it's really make me sick. My os is vista home premium.

We are reorganizing our company's shared drive and I have to move files into this new structure. Before I move things, I'd like to know where everything was. I can run a normal Windows search that shows everything I've got. (files, folders, subfolders). Is there a way to get a print out of this list including file size, location, etc? Saved search does me no good. Everything will be...

I do not want my instlls going into c:/Program Files. It has become obvious to me that installing into this folder is very hazardous!!! I have searched everywhere in Vista but cannot find how to change the default install of a new program. I know I was able to change the default in Windows 98 to something other than this folder. What magic must be performed in order to get new program...

I have search indexing turned on, and several folders selected for indexing including the "documents" folder (which I have moved to the location "D:\documents"). However, some of the sub-folders in "documents" are not being indexed. I search for "*.*" or any other search term in a folder with hundreds of files, and nothing is returned. I must use the advanced search function and select...

Hi, When someone sends me an attachment of a word document i try to open it but it opens in notebook and all i get is a few words and a lot of code. Can you help me please???? This is really annoying me!

a copied a big file (bout 30Gs). Before HP total advise center said c drive had 34% free. About half way through it said it had 42% free and had 291GB. After it copied everything it said it was 40% free,291GB. I was confused so I deteted the file and it said it was 49% free and 291GB. I restarted my computer and still it is stuck on this reading 49%, 291.83GB. I havent done much lately...