Hi, Yesterday my pc took on a life of its own, the majority of desktop stuff vanished and all files appeared empty. When I looked at the disk space it was obvious they they must still be there as there was no more free space than normal. I have manged to get vista to show me the hidden files but some are still in a translusent type rather than normal solid colour. I have run defender,...

Hi all, earlier we used to have a command such as C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e, and when clicked it would show in the left pane a fully expanded folder, and in the righthand pane all containing files. Also the expanded folder would begin to open just under the roof of the Explorerframe, remember?

Hi... Tried this question earlier in another group, but didn't get any response. Please let me know, if the question is unclear.... I've made a full backup of my C: drive, using Vista's backup feature. I've saved the backup on a local disc, called my E- drive. Then I have formatted the C-drive, and reinstalled Vista. I wanted to restore some of the files from the backup, Documents etc. but now...

Just moved from W98SE to Vista Home Premium... major leap. Tried all settings for Windows Explorer, using the classical view, but cannot detect the old practical info at the bottom of the frame - in fact there seems to be no bottomborder, the page just ssems to continue under the taskbar - e.g. 43 items 2 hidden 3.43 MB This computer Any clues how to make those elementary data...

I've looked through quite a few of these posts but didn't find one close enough to my issue for me to just add to the thread. I am either getting a whole list of things that seem to have nothing to do with my search criteria or I get nothing. When I look at the indexed location all I see is "Offline Files" and it is checked. Even though I have over a hundred thousand files in my user...

I had the registry locations in XP of the "Right Click Start Menu" so I could establish the "Explore" and "Explore All" folder location(s) to which they would default, other than the "Start Menu." I am unable to locate the ROOT location for these entries in Vista, as I wish both to change the default folder and remove a McAfee "Scan" shortcut that has somehow been added to this "Right...

I am running a query in a web application and downloading the resulting file to my desktop. I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic. When downloading using web app, created new folder on my desktop and stored the file there. When I go to Windows Explorer, neither the folder nor the file are visible. However, I can open the "attach file" option in another web app like Gmail, and can see both...

I have thousands of photos. I'd like the Photos screenSaver to display from a SUBSET of those -- a perfect application for a saved-search, no? So I defined a saved-search that isolates the subset of photos I want (that worked), and then opened Photos to point it at that saved-search folder -- but (gasp!) Photos doesn't seem to accept or see saved-searches!! How do I get Photos screensaver...

How does one display the search query associated with a saved-search folder, when the search has more than one phrase? Here's what I did (you can too, if you want to reproduce the situation): 1) Open a search 2) Enter a query with multiple phrases, eg., "under:\baffin\photos and kind:pictures and not foldername:panoramas" (using the language at...

There are files I have deleted permanently. When I open my GOM Player, I go to a pull down menu which I click on "open files". I get a pop up which I then choose "video files". This then shows me a list of all the vid clips I've downloaded and already deleted and I can't remove them even when I right click and delete. They are removed from the choice box but they remain on the drop down...

can i customise the appearance of a network folder i.e change the icon. the option does not appear in properties as it does in other folders that are not on the network. thanks,

Okay, I give up. I've got a 750 GB partition that I've been defragmenting for over 24 hours so far - the process is still not complete. The first time I tried defragmenting, I used the GUI tool at start - all programs - accessories - system tools and finally cancelled everything after about 28 hours because it still hadn't finished. So, about a week later (yesterday morning), I decided to...

In Win XP, I used the /e parameter to open Explorer to C:\. This doesn't work in Vista. How do I do the same thing in Vista?

On my new Vista Home Premium box I was planning to locate my user-created files (docs, pictures, music, and such) in a separate partition, as was a pretty straightforward and usual thing to do in XP. But complications soon emerged in Vista when I began experimenting with relocating personal folders using Move on the Location tab in Properties view, so I started hunting around on this forum...

Vista Premium. Folders will not open in same window although I have ticked box under folder options. HELP (please) -- Dogspool

Hello, I've read all of the threads on reassociating .zip files with zipfixvista.reg. My problem is that I've accidentally associated my zip files with a music program that I'm currently using. I used the reg key fixer but the icons are still that of my music program. I uninstalled the program and re-merged the reg key but the icons are still the same. Does anyone know if it's possible to...

Windows 2000 & XP supported a somewhat obscure feature called Folder Shortcuts. Since it's a bit of an obscure feature...please let me clarify I am NOT describing a shortcut to a folder! Unlike a shortcut to a folder, Windows adds a Folder Shortcut to its namespace. It appears in the "Save In" dropdown in file dialogs, and in the left pane treeview in Explorer, just like My Documents, Control...

I am running Vista Home Prem and recently purchased a Seagate FreeaAgent Go drive to use as some extra storage. For some reason I could not (after hours of help with the Seagate help desk) get My Documents folder to sync. The folders were there but none of them contained any files. I moved the My Documents folder directly onto my "C" drive. I cut and pasted the folder then renamed it. ...

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