Hello, I am trying to free up a bunch of files that I royally stuffed up. I originally attempted to restrict access to a folder tree. When I tried getting access to them using my administrator password, however, I was denied. I am able to take ownership using my Administrator account (takeown /f in the command prompt). But when I give all the accounts and groups Full Control in the security...

Lesson learned the hardway: After accidentally deleting a number of bios settings, and receiving an error message that read: Your Operating Sytem is missing., when simply trying to change the boot sequence order of my OS, I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium with the OS disk and the apps. and drivers from the recovery disks I had made shortly after purchase. I was not aware that running this...

This is actually two questions that may or not be related, which is why I am posting them both under one topic. Downloaded (from sun.com) the latest SPARC DVD image of the install. 2.47Gb later, Vista wrote the file to the target (a srtiped drive 170Gb in size, SCSI). Now the file will not burn because Nero claims it's not an image file... And that's AFTER it forced me to update to the...

Hello everybody! (names for things might be different in English. Sorry if I confuse) I just got Vista Ultimate x64 on my system, and I've been changing the placement of the user folders to my secondary drive, because I want to keep the main drive as a system and application drive, and not a media/document drive. This worked nicely (I even followed a tutorial here to change the icons!) until i...

I wish to prevent access to certain folders on the extrenal drive , in such a way that among 3 computers it is only accesible from one. for a scenario: "MyDocs Copy" should not be accesible while the music/pictures should be note all systems users can be admin/standard account so setting Admin access only - serves no purpose.. as it is external and accesible from other pc, where someone else...

Hi, I'm trying to move c:\users\...\pictures to other place. I created directory d:\pictures, than I created junction from c:\users\... \pictures to d:\pictures. It works fine until I logout. When I login again shortcut "Pictures" in "Favorite Links" in file open dialog don't work, and it's icon is blank. This works fine with windows xp. If I create directory d:\testdir, than junction from...

When I try to search for a file in windows explorer, the window stops responding after I have typed the first letter of the search name. When I attempt to delete a file a window appears saying "Calculating time remaining" this just hangs; attempting to close the message window causes a message "cancelling" to occur in the message window but it continues to hang. The explorer window becomes...

I deleted a number of files on a removable hard drive and now realized that I would like them back. I was wondering whether there was a recycle bin in removable drives and how I would undelete the files? I am running Vista Ultimate RTM. Ben

These are not the folder icons inside the User folders, but in the folder called 'Users' itself. A picture is a thousand words: http://i36.tinypic.com/2ujtje0.png] Album art appears on my user folder, but the other user folders remain using the generic folder within folder Vista icon. I've tried all icon settings on the folder with the art but it remains the same no matter what.

It's always empty... anyone know what's wrong/how to make it remember something At the moment, I could employ a goldfish to better advantage in remembering where I put things... :) Thanks!

I use "TreeSize" to show me how my disk space is used. On my other Vista Home Premium laptop as well as my XP Pro computers, it runs fine. But on my new Vista Home Premium laptop, it constantly says "Access is denied" for many folders. How do I get rid of this and let the program access every folder? TIA, Paul

I am having an annoying problem (upon file open or save /view ... I CAN'T GET TO SEE the precious "date modified" under VIEW DETAILS, even if I select it each time -- I only get the NAME Column under VISTA and Office 2003) Is this a known problem under VISTA and office2003 ?? system: VISTA Business SP1, Office 2003 SP3 --

I bought an Acer with preinstalled Vista. If I delete the partition, will I be able to install xp on the computer. Will there be any problems? Thanks, Richard

Can someone please help, when I try to access a file such as local settings or my documents, I get an access denied message, Is there a way to get into these folders. Thanks for any help.

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Auf meinem Desktop machen sich jetzt schon zwei identische Dateien breit, die es angeblich gar nicht mehr gibt: Beim Löschversuch wird gemeldet: ..."Das Element befindet sich nicht mehr in C:\Benutzer\admin\Desktop...." Allen weiteren Löschversuchen haben sich diese Dateien bislang entzogen. Weiß jemand was? Horst

Is there an easy way to merge 100 directories into a single directory? (without writing a long batch file) I was thinking ROBOCOPY or XCOPY would do the trick.. I also tried using the search function of the file manager GUI in Vista, but after it found 1000+ files and tried to move them, it would just "hour glass" for 8+ hours.

I've mapped L: to a folder named c:\L-map on my C: drive. It looks like this: L-map(\\Pauls-compaq\c)(L:) But programs that want to open files on the L: drive fail. For example L:\copies\abc-file.txt is not found, but does exist. Any idea what's wrong? TIA, Paul

Vista marks everything spam! Is it really necessary to mark each message individually as spam or safe sender? Is there some way to batch them before marking them? Probably 50% of the stuff IS spam. I'm using Outlook 2003 in Vista. I have not yet moved my .pst over to let it know of the 'old stuff' that is spam.

Vista 65 Ultimate I am logged on as ADMIN but still can' taccess folders that have small arrows like a shotcut. They appeared after a restore. Not on a networkk, Can't be sharing or can it, because it was restored. Changing permissions don't remove arrows. Crazy! Anyone help? --