"Jimmy Brush" wrote: I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post, I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer some common questions and respond to common complaints about...

i download a file into a folder it is there and when i click on it, the file vanishes? help

Is there anyway I can delete all the spaces in a document?

-- Cynthia, Chicago,IL

hey I have windows vista in my pc and as you know by default it displays the thumbnail view of every file. I wanted to disable that and i did by going into the folder options and checking show only icons never thumbnails. The problem is that i want the thumbnail view of only pictures in my pc and not for any other thing. How can i do that.? Please Help

When i turn my pc on i get a "com surrogate has stoped working" window. How can i fix that?

Hello All, I posted this on the programmer.ui group and got no help, so I'm cross-posting here. Hope that's OK. I've got a problem with GetOpenFileName on Vista. It never recognises the lpstrInitialDir field of the OPENFILE structure and always starts off in the current working directory.

When I run some programs, I get an error that I don't have this file. I've tried downloading it, putting it in my system32 folder, and regestering it, but I can't regester it because its a 32bit file, and im running on 64bit. How can I fix this? --

Can anyone explain this: 3219 The screenshot shows the folder view (in Windows Explorer), and a directory listing (in a Command Line window). Why is the Explorer window showing different filenames than the command line window? It's not so much of an issue, as I'm currently completing a scheduled backup of this drive using Nero Burning ROM, and will be formatting it soon.

How can one convert the list of files in a folder, as shown on "View...List" in Explorer, to a Word Document without first capturing the screen, printing the image, then physically scanning the printed page, and finally utilizing the OCR program? I do not wish to retype the lists as text documents, which I nearly and effectively have to do when the OCR has been used previously in this...

I experience annoyingly often, that when working with files and folders the Explorer does not refresh its window contents w/o my pressing F5. Even new folder request or moving files makes nothing with the file list, resorting the files does not help either - just F5. Annoying!!! Frustrating!!! Any advice appreciated, Peter

I would like to group all my folders AND files under individual alphabetical letters when 'grouping by name'. It would seem that I can't do this with Vista. Unless you know different. Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, Ian

Vista Home Basic, UAC off - I created a full backup over a year ago, on my C drive. I now want to make a new full backup to DVD, but I would like to delete the old one first because it is large (16 GB). When I attempt to delete it Vista goes through all the motions of recycling, then returns a message "Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action". The backup...

I had previously used a JBOD array of 3 hard disks to create a single volume in which to store all my music and videos. To make a long story short, I'm no longer using this JBOD array. I still want to store my music and videos on these three drives, but when I use Media Player to add to the library, I only want to be able to specify one folder, but the scan must go across all three drives...

How do I search the contents of multiple documents and spreadsheets using Vista's search? In previous versions the office Assistant could search the contents of files for information, providing the user with a list of documents containing the search term.

Where does IE store temp inet files ?

Whenever I navigate to a folder using a shortcut, the path displayed in the address bar does not show the full physical path of the folder. The path of the folder shows as relative to the location of the shortcut itself. For example: Suppose the real path is: c:\rootfolder\subfolder\targetfolder\ and I create a shortcut named "Fred" on my desktop that points to this folder. If I...

I want to play a game I have but it says "INI file missing. Unable to load movie playlist. It must contain a section 'movies with an entry 'movie01=pathname dir" Any help would sure be helpful. Thanks -- Cam

What must I do to uninstall adobe Reader8.1.2 . I am told there is not sufficient access to uninstall same, that I need to contact a`systems administrator.How do I do that, what are my steps? -- Marge T "Alan Simpson" wrote: Well said Jimmy. But just a couple minor additions. Using a computer in a

I've been using Vista x64 for about a year now, and am generally satisfied, but it has one habit that is VERY annoying: Deleting a single file in a "pictures" folder in "list" view causes the entire window pane to empty. I have to refresh the pane to bring back the list of the folder contents. Is this normal behavior? - it wasn't in XP. Is there a way to fix it so the pane auto-refreshes in...