i use vista ultimate 64 bit. One of the problem that I see is uncontroled grow of unused files. Microsoft creates lot of files that never uses in future. Also it prevents access to temporary files making it easy for hackers but problem for me. How I can get control over file system grow. When I setup vista I had 40mb free. Now I have 8mb free. disk clean cannot help. -- Aleks Kleyn

I have a separate HDD to which I make daily backups of my C drive. I wanted to try out a couple things with the backups to which I needed all the ZIP files that Backup & Restore has created. I first selected the folder X:\backup directory in Windows Explorer and then entered *.zip in the search box in the top right hand corner. All zip files were listed. The search took a while because of...

In the server (SBS 2003) I have a folder with several sub-folders and hundreds of files, The entire folder is set to be available offline as they are all the sub-folders and files. The problem is that some of these files are not available when I go offline. What is weird is that in Windows Explorer all the files, including the ones that are not available, are marked with the green round logo with...

Dear all: does anyone know how to disable non-indexed searching during search in vista. for example if I type "tree" all my documents would appear immediately -- however windows then attempts to search for file names with reference to "tree" -- files which have not been indexed and is extremely slow. is there a way to disable this? thanks.

This is a quite important flaw: When renaming a folder (f.e. after pressing F2 to rename), the keyboard Delete key does not delete a character in the filename but erases the whole file!! This is not the case when renaming files instead of folders.

i am at a loss to understand " Documents & Settings/ all users/ " i seem to have "/application Data " files some 20 + directories deep. whilst there are only 2 users on my PC myself as administrator and my wife as a separate loggin. What have i done wrong and how can i correct it. Stupid as it might seem i was contemplating deleting Documents & Settings/ all users/application...

This thing happend second time, on another new account. After perfectly customizing my personal folders view and settings, everything worked fine until I checked "Show hidden files". My system files started to look like "Pictures and Video" folder - on the root of C: i have detailed view and "Play all" button (yea, play me some config files). I can't customize system partition like other...

Hi, I wish that all folders and files, no matter which type, gets organized/displayed as large icons. How can I do that? Am tired of it coming up as list view. In advance thanks.

I just installed the final version of Vista and Office2007. When I do a search for the outlook PST files it doesn't show anything. Outtlokk shows all my items so it's there somewhere. What do I need to set to show them in search? You'll have to activate "Include non-indexed, hidden and system files (might be slow)" in the advanced search. You'll find the files are in...

hi, my computer is having problems that seem to be cause by the graphocs driver. I went to the ATI website to see if there were any updates for the driver and I can't seem to find out what version I have so that i can select the appropriate updates. I tried looking to find out what I have but cannot find it on the computer. Can someone please tell me how to find out what version I have. ...

I have found a bug in \Windows\Fonts folder. If you select a file and press Ctrl+C you will not be able to paste it anywhere, but drag-n-drop works properly. P.S. I've heard about free key of Vista for Vista testers, is this information correct? If it is, how can i get one? :) P.P.S. After 1 week using, my Vista can't log in 3 of 4 times - after 'welcome-screen' i could see only black...

I've been running Vista x64 Home Premium Edition now for a few months, and in that time I would of expected Microsoft to have sorted out the 'maximized' problem. What I mean is right click on Windows Explorer shortcut, click on Properties, then Shortcut, then change 'normal window' in Run: to 'Maximized'. Apply, OK. In XP no problem. Each time you click on that Windows Explorer shortcut it would...

*MY REASON*: I have in many times needed to do a certain thing to the files in a music play list, for example to copy the files to another place (Now, you should manually see the file locations and copy them one by one!) *My Suggestion*: It will be very good if one can explore a music play list in Windows Explorer, just like it is a folder (Explorer should automatically see the file locations...

*MY REASON*: I have in many times needed to do a certain thing to the files in a music play list, for example to copy the files to another place (Now, you should manually see the file locations and copy them one by one!) *My Suggestion*: It will be very good if one can explore a music play list in Windows Explorer, just like it is a folder (Explorer should automatically see the file locations...

hello this is my first post here and i dont know if i posted it in the right section. i used a tweaked tcpip.sys file and now that file is causing a BSOD every time i boot up my windows. i m using windows vista ultimate x64. i ve seen a similar problem on this forum and somebody attached the original tcpip.sys file but now the file is removed. can someone please help me by attaching this file...

I moved my pictures and music into Disk D, how do I change my Pictures/Music in the start menu to take me to Disk D instead of Disk C? Changing properties doesn't work

I've recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my network, in which domain and file and print services are provided by a Windows 2003 R2 server. I'm looking to encrypt a number of files on the network using EFS, but I'm getting errors on attempting to do so. While I can encrypt files on the local disk without problems either through Windows Explorer or the cipher command, it works...

I am trying to burn pictures on a cdrw, so that I can add them later. Well, I went thru one burn and then put the cd back in to burn some more pictures on it and it won't let me. Now it don't even recognize the pictures that were already burnt on it. My computer is brand new(only 2 months old) I have burned millions of pictures on windows xp, so I have an idea of what I am doing. In...

Hi, I was working in a network folder in offline mode and created a word doc, done my work, only 10 minutes to accidentally delete the file. Is there any way I can get the file back? I've tried everything I know including recycle bin, file recovery software, etc Word tricks like tmp files etc