I am trying to migrate data from an XP unit to my new vista unit. I am using the easy transfer software. My old unit only has a 40 Gig hard drive and the new unit has a 320 gig drive. When I plug in the cables it searches for the data and then tells me the new unit may not have enough storage to complete the transfer. If I click "yes" to continue it eventually shuts down telling me there...

I have been using Access 2002 to maintain a fairly large database of hyperlinked saved webpage news articles in ...for instance C:\Documents and Settings\Ken\My Documents\My Webs\LHArchive\2007-2-1_PRNewswire_01.mht and Access is able to handle the spaces in the folder titles and still recall the files when clicking on the hyperlink. This is what it changes to when opening the file:...

The next version of windows is going to do away with folder, t will go completely virtual. The main reason Vista isn't is probrably complexity and the customer base - they wouldn't understand it. So the intro of tags toward that ideal is doing awy with much of what people like passwording folders and customizing folders. So will Microsoft considder this: 1. Allowing tags to behave like...

why is it so many files cannot be tagged?????? Notepad (txt) files cannot, PDF's cannot (XMP belogs to Adobe) for that matter neither can PSD's and many more... I love the tagging features but so many file format won't allow for it. Something has to be done, PDF should be taggable!

The save dialog box has changed, it far more reduced, leaving the thinking to a minimum users can basically click ok doc go to documents folder and images to photos folder etc... However on the dialog box I would like to ee an option field for tags, isn't that blindingly obvious - if you plan to allow user to save anywhere then let them tag file there and then. Otherwise I have to go and...

I've been running Vista Business since it was released. The last few days, I have noticed the hard drive is being accessed almost continuously, even with no applications open. There is nothing taking up excess RAM or CPU cycles according to Task Manager. I made a few changes to the indexed locations a few days ago, but nothing drastic (I have since gone back to the default settings). The...

Hi, I'm dual-booting the Vista Business x64 with XP Pro (and will for some time, untill most aplications run flawlessly on Vista:). For disk space efficiency, I'd like to keep a Program Files folder in a common place (partition) for both OS'es - how do I do it? Of course, only the Vista's Program Files (X86) should be physically the same as the XP's Program Files... Similarly, I'd like the...

Hi everybody, it really looks like as if encrypted files and folders (using the Windows built-in Encrypting File System - EFS) are not participating to the items that are searched using the built-in indexing engine. Can anyone please confirm this? Should this be confirmed, then I will use other crypting engine... Best regards, Marc Ochsenmeier

I love the vista sidebar notes, but how do I back them up, where are they located and does anyone know the file extension?

Hi, I have a series of folder shortcuts for easy access to a few hidden away folders in My Documents. Under XP (2003, 2000, Me, 98, 95...) , no problems: From any application, select the Desktop, double click on your folder shortcut, and bang, save. Game over. Under Vista, no shortcuts appear in the save/saveas dialogs... You have to

I installed the beta version, but did not receive noitification of the expiry date, hence the version has now expired and I cannot forward any of my emails, copy or open any of my other applications. How do I uninstall the beta version, or at least get all me information back onto my computer?

In Win2k and WinXP, there was a Summary property sheet for all file types. However, on Vista it only seems to appear for certain types of multimedia files and structured storage documents. Is there any way to reenable it (short of registering my own property sheet handler) ? Roger

I installed the vista version a cuople of months ago, to test it out. I never received a expiry time or date and hence this version has now expired, taking along with it all access to email use of forwarding and copying as well as beinfg able to us any other office application. How can i uninstall this, or get my computer information back

In Windows Contacts The only menu items I have are "Organiz3", Views" and "Burn". Where are the other buttons (eg Organise Contacts) and how do I get them back? Other explorer windows have buttons specific to their content (eg those containg images have "Slide Show"). If it's of use, the contents of the desktop.ini a

When changing the picture folder from the default C:\Users\xxxx\Pictures I accidentally set the pictures folder to E: I have tried changing the My Pictures registry setting at the following location but no affect HLCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders How can I restore / Fix this?

In the event that I want to format my OS, reinstall it or upgrade it, i will have to backup my documents folder and all the nonsense inside it. To fix that problem, ive just created a partition on my hard drive called "Documents" and another called "Pictures". That way files i actually want to keep, are not located and taking up space on the operating system drive. My question is: Is there...

There's been plenty of reason to gainsay how Windows Explorer presents things to the user in Vista. But how is it that Windows can see its own System32 folder as a picture album? Isn't that just a wee bit insane? And why on earth do I have to click so many times to turn on or off file preview? Giix

Greg Hayes from Raxco Software has posted the following information. Raxco has discovered and reported to Microsoft a bug in volsnap.sys that can (if conditions are right) cause corruption and loss of the partition. Raxco has just released PD8 Build 50 (SP4). With Build 50, Raxco has coded around this issue with volsnap.sys. If anybody is running PD8 on Vista, please be sure to update...

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