In windows 2000 and XP the drop down arrow at the right of the address bar at the top of the window would link you to all kinds of useful places including all of your hard drives, control panel, common folders and, most usefully, removable drives such as a USB flash drive, allowing you to quickly do a Ctrl+C on a file and naviagte to the drive, then Ctrl+V to copy over to it. In Vista...

i have downloading msn messanger 8.1 5 times i usse windows vista and i can't find the file anywhere and it is driving me crazy!!!!!! help!!!!!!!

Hello, I use Vista home premium on a laptop. I find I cannot add tags to some files in some folders, though I have no problem with other files. The files that cause problems are video files such as .rm, .ram, .wmv, .avi etc. Does anyone know how to attach tags to video clip files ? Thanks KK

I just loaded Vista on a new laptop. In the music folder under my user name, I have several other folders (MP3, MIDI, Karaoke, Guitar Tabs, etc.). When I click on music and that is the folder that is shown in the address bar...if I do a search for a file that I know exists in one of the subfolders, it does not appear in the search (for example, the song "nightmoves"). I found out the...

On my network domain, I have two computers with extra hard drives. I backup my users "My Documents" onto these drives using the standard NTbackup XP has no problem with this. Vista will backup to the drive once, but after that it will not. Permissions and security are domain related - both vista machines are running professional and the user is signing in with a domain login. Why wont it...

Hello Support Group I have MS Office 2003 Professional installed on my Vista Business laptop. The .mdb files on this PC cannot be moved to another PC or Shared Storage Directory on our Network and be viewed or edited with any other PC / Operating System when the file is opened with another PC using MS Access 2003 it opens up empty or blank. I also tried E-mailing the file to a programmer for...

This is just one of my problems. I have Vista Ultimate installed on my pc at home. I'm a web developer and I routinely use ftp programs (generally Filezilla but I've used others with this problem) to transfer files from other web servers to my pc and then back again. However, every single time I try to transfer a javascript file with an extension of .js the file errors out (I can't...

I have been doing some housekeeping on my vista home premium laptop, when I noted that I seemed to be using a huge amount of disk storage for which I could not account. I traced a huge 5Gb of it to the C:\Users\Gordon\AppData\Local \Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files folder I cleaned the folders cache, cookies, etc from ie 7 but the size still remains. Of course I can't see anything in...

I've seen a couple similar posts but no answers that seem to solve my problem. I am on the administrative account, and when I create a folder on my desktop to try to organize my icons, it won't let me copy any files into those folders. When I drag and drop it says I need to provide administrative permissions, so I click continue to provide the credentials. But then it pops up an Access...

Since this error is so generic, I have no idea if this is a Vista issue or Office 2007 issue. Opening a simple Access Database file on a network drive produces an error that simply states "File Not Found" . However the file opens and functions as normal after you select OK on the error message. It just seems to be a nuisance error. I have taken this same Access file to other networks and...

Have Vista Professional (64). The network can see me, but cannot see the others. All I can see is myself. Have diagnosed OK. Ping works OK. Run out of ideas. What could I do more? Thanks Kalevi

Hi, A number of functionality and usability issues have been raised in the forums concerning Vista's version of briefcase. In the absence of specific explanations, resolutions or satisfactory workarounds from non-MS participants, an MS response would be greatly appreciated. Issue Summary:

Hi, I am having problems finding things with the search in Vista. With XP when I set it to search system and hidden files it stayed that way. It also didn't give me ABSOLUTELY everything including emails, favourites etc. All I want to do is to be able to search for a file name and have it list ONLY the files that have that name. However, I want it to search everywhere. I would rather it...

Earl Yes, this is normal. When you first install Vista, you will see an initial increase in the amount of used disk space. While you are installing programs and configuring the system to your liking, there will be a lot of restore points being created, a lot of temp files being created, an index created for the new search features, and etc. Once your finished getting everything configured be...

Same question as posted and answered by another 6/14/09 but solution offered does not work for me. I moved the Documents folder, then added partitions and did some name changing which apparently messed up the Registry. When I try the solution of start | start search and enter Document shell personal upon entering nothing is found. Appreciate some help. -- Ed Bitzer