Please help me! Whenever I download ANY file form ANY site when the download gets to 100% the download dialogue box closes and the file is not where I donloaded it to. I have tried searching for the files but no results return. This is very frustrating as when I download the files it's still taking up space on my hard drive the files just arn't there. HELP??

I have several directories that I access fairly often so I would like to add them to the top level listing of "My Computer" for easy access. I know I could do shortcuts on the desktop but would also like access via the "My Computer" listing. Is there anyway to create a "virtual" directory pointing to the subdirectory I want jump too and having that show up in "My Computer" ?

Can public folders be disabled? This my home PC and I'm running Home Premium. Nobody else uses this PC and its not on a network. So, the concept of public folders is irrelevant for me. I found that some programs I installed placed files in my public folders. And, when I remove them, my program no longer works. And, there's this little public folders icon in my task bar that's taking...

Been reading this forum for help, but can't find my identical problem. So I'll try to explain. I'm having a problem with files on my new computer, Vista 64 Ultimate. I have my OS and Apps on C drive, and all my data on a separate physical drive which I call F. Today I sent documents and some pictures from the F drive to my Users file under Document and Pictures. But when I checked my C drive I...

Hello, I have two separate hard drives in my HP Laptop, running Vista Home Premium, 32 Bit. I also show the partition for my Vista re-install. On the second Hard Drive I use it strictly for miscellaneous storage items. Today while going through some fonts I had saved from a group I discovered Vista WILL NOT let me delete those fonts I don't want .. *THESE ARE NOT INSTALLED Fonts*, only in a...

In Vista 64 home premium SP1, in running chkdsk for C: at the end it states that there are 85,144,492 "total allocation units on disk" but the next line says there are 187,552 "allocation units available on disk". No disk errors were found. 1. What are allocation units and why are they there? 2. Does this mean I'm running out of allocation units? If 187,552 represents 0.22% of the...

Hello This is my first time here. *My OS is Vista 32 home premium* * * *I found an error in the event viewer, which is -Event 55 NTFS-.* *The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. * *Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume OS_Install.* * * *So I ran the chkdsk through the command prompt as the administrator

Whenever I click on any of my folders they just won't open I cant even right click on them and press open!! no folders wil open it just says that windows explorer is not responding!! whatcan I do to fix this?? -- silvis

My laptop is an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC and my OS is Vista Home Premium Version 6.0 Build 6000. I haven't been able to install SP1. I've done a mirror image of Drive C on an external HD by Acronis. Acronis offers the option of accessing Startup Recovery (through F11) if the OS fails to boot. Is there any danger of a conflict between this and Vista's own startup repair system? Second...

My PC tried to run its weekly backup tonight, but failed. This is the first time this has happened - the last successful backup was on 4th February 2008. Running Vista Home Premium, and I back up my C Drive files onto a second internal hard drive. This drive has two partitions (Z and F). Z is just used for backups, and there is still 176GB free out of 238GB on the partition. The error...

I am unable to associate .tpo files w/the default program, Topo. I use the Set Association feature and when I get to Open With I navigate to the topo.exe file but it never shows up in the list of Other Programs. Why oh why?? Topo does show up in my list of installed programs BTW.

I'm using the Vista backup utility every week. On the first week I did a full Backup and since then I've been doing incrementals. Oh, I have the Vista Home Premium version of Backup. I've noticed that my incremental backups are very large (gigabytes) despite fact that I've hardly made any changes/additions to my files since the previous backup. Does anyone know why this might be?

Hi, I have a problem. when I create a new folder and try to rename it (to anything other then new folder) I get this following error: "the file or folder does not exist". does anyone know how to fix this? thanks

For the first week or so after I installed Vista Ultimate x64, the Indexing Service ran almost continuously. After a few days, Vista complained that it was running out of room on my Drive C:. The index file was taking over 10 GB on that 20 GB volume, crowding out everything else. So, I created a new 20 GB volume (I've got plenty of hard disk space nowadays.) and dedicated it to just the...

Please tell me how can I find a file, such as a text file, that contains a specific string within the file. For example I create (AutoCAD) Autolisp programs with an extention of *.lsp which is just a basic text file that contains my code. In XP (I got rid of the dog and set it up to the advanced appearance) I just clicked on the search button and entered *.lsp (in the first box that says...

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!

When trying to remove a file, I keep getting an error, that states the item is not found and that windows cannot delete or move the file because it is no in the specified location. I can see the folder, it is there, it just won't delete or move to the recycle bin.

I went from Win31 though Win95, Win ME, and Win XP (by far the best of all). They did not give me any serious problems (just to say that I am not an absolute Newbie). Now I had to buy a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed and, after several weeks, I am getting more and more frustrated. The main pain is Explorer, and I wonder if I should give up, format the drive, and install my old XP...

I made a post on the MSDN forums but I received no help. If you read it though it will detail the steps I've already taken to correct the problem, none of which worked. It'll help when you make suggestions that I might already have tried. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?postid=2309384&siteid=1 Anyway. A brief synopsis of my problem: Using either the Windows Explorer Search...

Hey there, I was wondering how do you give yourself permission to -copy- into a system folder in Vista? Thanks. -- xochie Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com