My Preview/Reading pane in Windows Explorer is broken all of a sudden. I'm not certain, but I think this coincided with my uninstallation of Office 2007 Beta and installation of Office 2007 Home & Student Trial edition last night. Now, when I click on any file that the preview/reading pane supports, it just shows a completely blank screen. No matter how long I wait, it just shows a blank...

Hello, I used to have the problem of : having the entire list of my favourites in the drop down list in either the web address bar in IE (XP) or in windows explorer also in XP. Am wondering how to fix it in VISTA?? And there is no up arrow in windows explorer or my computer,to navigate to the folder above in the folder hierarchy.WHERE is it???!

Is there any way to use real file paths by default intead of using breadcrumbs? Thanks

Thanks to all the MVP and otheer folks that help out people on Vista. Eugene

Hi, allways when I try to backup my files on a Harddisk I become the error Message: An Error occoured by processing a shadow copy (0x8004260F) Has someone any idea what's wrong? Thnkx for your help.

How do I change the default behavior of the double-click option on My Computer from Open to Explore. In Windows XP in was under Tools, Folder Options, File Types, n/a Folder. Highlight Explore and set as default.

How do I get the status bar to show the amount of space used in the current directory?

Hi, In windows explorer...if I right-click on a folder and goto properties and then customize there is a list of several presets to choose from (music, video, documents, etc) to display which attribute columns display. Is there a way to edit these, or even better create new templates? Thanks.

IIRC, I have this same problem in XP, so it may be a problem in my approach... I like to have different views applied for different folder structures, and both XP and Vista cater for this in theory. I can specify that a folder (and all sub-folders) contains documents, music, pictures etc... and thus a view appropriate to that file type should be applied. However, in many cases it gets a bit...

Hi, I know that you can turn System Restore on / off on any given drive. What I'd like to know is whether or not specific locations on specific drives can be turned off so that the Shadow Copy feature stops keeping Previous Versions for those locations. The Previous Versions feature is a nice one. A lot of people apparently thought that such a feature was implicit in the Windows XP version...

I installed an older version of acrobat reader (5.0) which turned out to not be compatible with Vista. I ran the un-install application but it could not remove some folders under C:\Program Files\Adobe. When I try to delete them I get a no permission message. How can I successfully rid my machine of them? Thanks in advance. Bob.

Ok I made a mistake. Before I bought Vista I had setup a partition for 10GB for a windows os (I was using Win 2000 before Vista). So I’m redoing my system and I want to install SQL Server 2005 on to a different drive. In order for me to do that it still has to copy 1.6 GB of temp files to my C: drive! So I’m trying to move some files off of my C Drive on to my data drive temporarily. My Problem...

Hi, During the reinstallation with the Vista CD,it said that it was saving the files from the then current OS on my hdd,with no option to do otherwise.And now i cant delete it from D:\. How do I turn off that security security feature that is stoppping those files being deleted??

Is there a way to store and sync your files to a different location say a extra hard drive

Hi Is there a Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Configuration tool in VISTA? I want to see and manage the assemblies and code groups etc. I've installed the SDK TIA

I am having the same problem with Vista build 6000. The OS installed with no problems, but then over the past two weeks it has become impossible to select multiple files. The "Select All" feature is disabled. The registry changes did not seem to work for me. Has anyone found a solution to restoring folders to the correct format? It seems like the "Apply to Folder" buttons are not...

Is there a way to get rid of it? I know I can tuck the Folders bar away at the bottom, but what I want is exactly the opposite - Folders pane full-size and no Favorite Links. Any ideas?

I tried to burn a CD with some mp3 files on a Plextor PX-760A SATA burner using Viste X86 RTM. Vista seems to format the CD OK. After dropping the files the green progess bar in the address bar progresses slower and slower. Even when I let it run for hours the burning does not complete. I tried using CD-R and CD-RW. The cancel dialog hangs. When I end it using task manager Vista Explorer...

Is there any way to bring back the '..' folder in Windows Explorer? Having to drag the mouse halfway across my desk to hit the back button (which is not really what I wanted to do anyway) is becoming a real pain. Thanks, Jim

This has probably been asked before but I'm running out of time to get an answer and my initial search turned up empty. We have an application that runs as a stand alone application and also a hosted "module" of 3rd party applications. We have found just recently that one of our 3rd party host applications is certified on Vista and seeing our Stand Alone application works on Vista (after...