Hi - I have a folder that contains about 250,000 zipped files. Windows explorer is having tremendous difficulty opening such folder, even when it displays results (after 10 or so minutes) it hangs after I even highlight any files for deletion. a lot of these files go back to 2006 and 2007. I kindly NEED a DOS batch file or some script that I would enable me to delete the files that are older...

ok i dont know if i should laugh cry or scream i jus upgraded to vista because i had no other choice and ive got a stash of shall we say naughty things and i cant of rhte life of me figure out how to make them private from the network but still allow myself to access them from my own computer it used to be so easy in xp all i had to do was tell it i wanted it to be private and voila anyway...

I went to RUN.... SERVICES.MSC and disabled the Windows Search service. I don't want indexing on my computer. However, when going to the Properties of my C: drive, the check mark is ON for indexing my drive. So which is it? Note: I "think" that if I uncheck the box that shows indexing on my C; drive, it will alter the characteristics of EVERY file on the computer for non-indexing, and...

Hi I have Windows Vista on my Dell laptop and I frequently used the Biondi font that came with vista. Just the other day the font seems to have gone missing and all the programs I use, such as Adobe Photoshop say that the font is missing and has been replaced. Does anyone know of a way I can get the font back without having to totally reinstall Vista? Thanks! Alana

Hi all, Vista Home Premium, 1.8 GHz Intel Duo Core 4300, 2Gb, 1000+ GB working fine albeit a bit sluggish after a year. Shutdown in less than 30". In search of the cause of a slowbooting, 2'30"before I see the Desktop, computer I find in nbtlog.txt among properly loaded drivers always the same 2/4 entries: Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS Did not load driver...

Hi. Using the forum I have found Control Panel - Default Programs. But i want to be able to make the extensions show on certain extensions, like in XP. Like say I have PowerISO, and I wan't windows to show me what is a .daa and what is an .iso. I really don't want to turn on the option to show all known file types, because I don't want to see all of them. Just ones that I chose. I know you could...

I accidentally deleted it folder and now any program i try to install it says cant acess folder public/desktop and it fails all installation -- MunkiBr

Has anyone, maybe a MVP, heard if or when Microsoft is going to fix the problem with moving folders in the Windows Explorer? For example I have folders A, B, and C. Each had multiple subfolders. Assuming that a copy of A also exists in C and some files in A have been updated. If I attempt to move A to C I get some dialogs asking if I want to replace/skip/etc. I select to replace the files and...

I bought a new computer and I want to transfer all my files from my old computer. Does Windows Vista support host-to-host? As soon as I plugged my USB cable into the computers, I was asked for a device driver. Device drivers are a pretty standard thing, but, is host-to-host not supported at Microsoft now?

Hi!! I tried burning a disk with vista, it gave a message of burning fail and option of "deleting the temporary burn files" i clicked on that. But my disk space has gone low and when i search the files are showing in "temporary burn folder" but i cannot delete them. I am attaching the screenshot of the same Please help!

I realize I can can 'drag & drop' or use the Edit menu items, or any of the myriad methods available since Win3.0; but those buttons were much easier to use. Is there any easy way in Vista to have those buttons (no manual registry hacks)? Any solutions from Microsoft? Or any third party solutions?

I need some help installing a program. Whenever i try to open it a pop-up comes up saying "The instruction at 0x0047237b referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be read." can anyone help me to fix this? --

I cannot get this to work with my 750GB SATA Hard Drive - Any clues, please ? Many thanks

I have a lot of photographs on my Vista computer. When I try to find a photograph ina folder the icon does not show me what the photograph looks like. It is just a generic mountain and lake scene for every picture. How can I turn on the actual picture to be depicted in the icon of the file? Thank you for your help. Brian Maskell

According to Vista's help system in the final release, Vista does not index the contents of network shares. It also doesn't appear to ask for help from Windows Server 2003 indexing service, when those files are indexed on the server. I have not been able to discover a way to do a fast search through the full content of files in a folder on a server. Is this really true? If so, this is a huge...

I am using Windows Vista (32-bit) on my computer. Lately, I have noticed that the reported "used space" on my hard drive (via right-click/properties) keeps rising dramatically while I add very little to my computer. I then made sure that I had turned on options to show system files and hidden OS files so that I could add up the used space. What I found is that all of the files on my...

Perhaps I am not using the 'help' properly with the right syntax, but I can't find any information on the advanced option for indexing file types. (how does one use help to find this by the way)... What I see are the extensions and a check box and a filter description and radio buttons below. What I want to ensure is that my email is being indexed, so I presume that is the .PST file. If I...

i have just recently become unable to download anything to any folder. all of my folders are set to read only and every time i try to change that setting, it switches back. i have set my permissions to full control on all files and folders, except some that come back with access denied. i have tried disabling the uac to no avail. any help on this would be greatly...

for my restore program to show on the screen? The restore function works fine but its forever getting it to show ... TIA

A pic is better than 1000 words: http://www.pctunerup.com/up/image.php?src=_200808/20080821111717_Senzanome.jpg I don't use registry cleaners etc. and maintain my system very clean so I really don't know when and why the WPG icon has disappeared, and only for certain panels... Everything with WPG works fine BTW, no probs with file association or whatsoever. Just the icon is wrong/missing...