I believe my partition E disk that contains my dell factory image is at 30.67% fragmentation.It will not let me defrag. how can I get around this? It says not enough memory when trying to defrag. -- venom762

When you download a file, most of the time the (save as) window has a new feature in Vista that hides the folder view. You can click a button on the lower left hand side to show folders. My question, Did you find a way to have this window show folders all the time as default and is there a way to have the size of that window stay to the size that you adjusted (bigger)?? :confused:

The real problem stems from my headphone jack intermittently not responding (hardware-related, yes). And thus this relates to buffering videos and me being too lazy to reload them wasting additional time. -- wdonnell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wdonnell's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/wdonnell.htm View this thread:...

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...

I had a picture I had taken set as my desktop.. what happen to it?... I turned on my puter one day and it was gone... and now I cant upload any pics I have on file to my desktop.. why?

I had to edit a .bat file so I changed the default program to run .bat files to wordpad. Under the file association, the previous default program was listed as "Unknown Application" so I don't know what to change my file assocation back to in order to run the .bat file. Can someone tell me what the default application should be to run .bat files OR tell me how to remove the file association...

Please help - all my dll files have been ::Associated with internet explorer and keep openining in a loop - how can I put this right???:: ::With thanks:cry::: :::: -- lufcboy

A window use to pop up and warn me with a little square box? Always ask me before performing this procedure. Some how that box was checked and now when I open a .doc file, that window has been totally lost. How can I go back on my p.c. and make that window pop up again and warn me or it says always do this before opening this type of file.

unfortunately my .exe files are associated to wordpad (open with...) and now my very expansive vista 64 is totally useless! Any idea how to reset association on .exe files? .exe is not included in control panel/file associaton thx

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...

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 have Vista Home Premium 32-bit. After doing a repair install, I had about 30 windows updates to install. All updates installed successfully except the following: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847) x86

Anybody familiar with these file extensions and what program it takes to open either?

I'm running winmail on vista but also have outlook 2003 installed. My .pst files from the old computer are on a DVD. How to get them to outlook? thanks (windows blocked popups from its own site).

Frustrating. The preview pane in Explorer won't show SQL file contents. Where do I tell Vista that SQL files are readable text? Argh.

Hi I have Vista on my laptop, and use off-line files to synchronise with a workstation running XP. I have found numerous .tmp files created through my file structure. This did not occur when I synchronised using a laptop running XP in the past. Any suggestions please? -- Many thanks, Mimar

1. is there a way to determine the history of a given .txt file (how was it created, what application, when, was it changed or converted to something over time, etc.) for example, whether the file was created from a MS word, NotePad, WordPad, etc etc, whether the format was changed?? 2. determine the log history of a file's timelines (e.g., for a given file, there's a time stamp that shows...

My .txt files always open minimized no matter where I execute them from. Then I have to dig around my task bar(which always pops up and covers the tiny little sliver of the top of the notepad file). Anyone know why this happens? Very aggrevating to say the least. Thanks....Eric

My computer no longer recognizes .wav files In the window to set a program to open types of files .wav isnt even listed as a choice. Any Ideas?? -- Squa190

With Vista Ultimate I had Excel 2000 (who can afford an upgrade?) dump a file I was working on - would not let me save it. Since closing down Excel the file has simply vanished from my hard drive. There are no shadows, no .tmp files, no backups, nothing in the rubbish bin, no hidden or system fiiles - it's as if this file never existed. I have never experienced such a clinical dumping of...