This is very wierd. Just a couple of days ago I installed Vista Ultimate onto my machine - clean install into an empty partition. No upgrade or file & settings transfer...everything is generic. I know a lot of people don't like the "Favorite Links" window in the Explorer navigation pane, but for me it would be very useful - if it actually worked! It almost always displays "(Empty)"...

I have seen several different people with this problem, so I am not the only one. I am running Windows Vista Ultimate, and everything was working fine, until one day I went to reorganize my music, and when I tried creating a new folder, it wouldn't let me rename it. "File or folder does not exist" pops up. This is quite frustrating, I have tried everyone's suggestions. They all fail. If...

I have Vista Home Premium, IE7 shutts down when i try to go to some pages, for example Dell's drivers & Downloads.

What is the difference between the "Last Accessed" and "Last Checked" columns in the detail view in Windows Explorer? -- Lawrence E. Lewis Director of R&D SAS Institute Cary, NC, USA

I am starting up a new computer and downloading a number of files. Problem is that while the system says the file has been downloaded I can only rarely find it. The process shows that files are downloaded into the /usrs/xxx/download folder. If I try to re-download the file I get a message telling me that the file is there. But, when I look into the directory it is not there. I have on...

I'm finding some strange behavior in windows explorer. If I have a folder open in Details view, right click in the main pane and select New Folder, a new folder gets created but does not appear in the explorer window yet. I have to press F5 to refresh the page for it to show up. In XP doing this would not only show the new folder immediately but put the name in edit mode so I can type its...

Hi I lately noticed that my Vista (32bit) doesn't want me to make .txt files. When I'll right click on desktop and choose new from the menu I'll get this: http://zepi.kapsi.fi/PropertiesMenu.jpg So, there is no "new txt file" option. This happens in every directory, not just only on the desktop. Is there any way to get the "new txt file" option back?

I am using Windows Vista Business. Whenever I search for files using Vista Search, it often returns documents present in the "Recent Items" folder. When I click on these items, they successfully open up with the appropriate program. However, if I right click on them and select "Open file location," it opens the recent items folder instead of the folder where the file is actually located. ...

where can I edit this menu/window? I had a file type working with a program before, then I moved it and it wouldn't work, messing around set it to another program and added even another to the "open with" window HELP

Because of the way that VS operates its shortcut is setup to run as Administrator (this is done by Vista when installing VS, not by me). If I double-click on a source file in Windows Explorer, or right click on it and select Open With / VS, I get an error msgbox saying "Windows cannot find filename". If such operations between contexts are not allowed (similar to the problem with dragging...

Hi, I want to know how I can reset to the default programs for opening a file.. For example, I've got an .sav file from my Halo game folder, and one day I was just fiddling around with the folders and I accidently clicked it and chose Adobe Reader as the program.. then I tried WordPad, etc.. - don't know why I did that. And I don't like it how all my .sav files have the little WordPad logo on...

I have two removable drives (a 250 G hard disc & a CF Card Reader). Usually I click the "safely remove" icon before I remove them, but sometimes it doesn't work and/or I forget. Now, I have three "phantom drive letters" in my windows explorer window, and if I plug in my Card Reader it is designated by three drive letters displaying in the Explorer Window. How can I remove these three...

hi there, i have vista home premium. Recently i installed magic video converter. after i installed the program, i went to "start" - "all programs, " i see this "programs" folder. I clicked on that, all it shows is the list of softwares/programs installed in this computer (same list of stuff from "all programs" ) Is there anyway to get rid of this? i like the video program but hate "programs"...

hi there, i have vista home premium. Recently i installed magic video converter. after i installed the program, i went to "start" - "all programs, " i see this "programs" folder. I clicked on that, all it shows is the list of softwares/programs installed in this computer (same list of stuff from "all programs" ) Is there anyway to get rid of this? i like the video program but hate "programs"...

I have Vista Ultimate. In the Start menu, the "Recent Files" submenu always maintains over 100+ files. I can clear it out and within about a day or so, the number is up over 100+ again. I can't find a setting anywhere for setting the Recent Files limitation. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

(this first posted on Vista General, but no responses there) I am using Vista Home Premium 64 Sp 1 on HP s3500f. I used DVD-RW to backup using Backup and Restore Center. When I wanted to restore a couple of files, I could only get so far. Here's what's happening...

I'm not sue this is the right forum, if not please direct me to the correct one. What is the rule of thumb for where to install software in Vista? I'm a software developer. I have an installshield script that installs my software in c:\program files\my program file With Vista I can still do that but I have an MS Access database and the application needs write rights.

This may have been covered in a another post somewhere but could not (easily) find anything relevant. I am running Outlook 2007 on Vista Enterprise; the index is completely rebuilt but I still get this message in the Outlook Search results box when searching my inbox. Strangely enough this was working for some time now but started to see this error over the past few days. Clues? -- Wendell...

How do you add a Drive, File, Document etc on the "Send To" tab... please help.....

On right-click on a name of file or folder in the explorer there's a context menu item titels "Send To" how can I add programs such as Notepad to the list? Avi