so the other day I accidentally messed up something with the properties of all of my folders.... In the attributes I must have clicked on something, not sure what, but now I'm missing a great deal of information.... I tried doing a system restore, but it has only brought back a few things but not everything.... HELP! -- markaaro

This has happened 4 times with Vista: A word on the Desktop is opened, modified, saved and closed. Then, the word file is opened but it is showing an earlier version of the file. Any ideas on how to recover the word file and how to avoid this from happening?

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...

I am having problems sharing the administrators music file with another user on the same computer. Clicked on the music file. sharing, and then chose the standard users name from the drop down list that MS recs that you use for everyday use. I only have the 1 admin. and 1 standard account set up on this Vista Home Premium. It comes up "Your file could not be shared"

How to uninstall files from Office 2007? -- use vista and office

I often use "Computer" in Vista to view my photos within "Pictures". I also often use the slider under "Views" to enlarge the thumbnails to preview them easier prior to opening in Photoshop. Is there a way to keep focus on a selected picture while enlarging the view within the window? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with...

I have been trying to install some software recently, and each time I get to the Installation Wizard, it tells me that it cannot complete installation because the "documents" folder is either not valid, or not on the C drive. I have not changed any of my folders, but this seems to be the same message I get. I can download the software, but cannot install. It is not an issue with the...

I have a clean verson of vista home. I just ran my mcafee virus scan and it is finding 1,000's of virus's in the folder c:/documents and settings. Anytime I open my c: drive this file doesn't show up. How do I access this folder? It keeps making more viruses as fast as it is deleting them. Thanks --

Some how only one of my users whole computer was reset. the other three were untouched. Now my question is how do i restore his computer to a last date. I saw once one of my freinds went to this place in control panel, and he set the date he wanted and he got it back.

Hi, when i download a file and i choose to save it, the box "close this dialog box when download is complete" is check. I wonder how I can unckeck it, because now, when I save the files, the box close and i'm not able to uncheck it. Thanks!

Where abouts on my computer is the folder which contains the User Account Pictures? I would like to add some more but have done numerous searches but cannot find the actual folder, any help much appreciated.

I have Vista Home Premium. When I download items from the internet, they seem to go nowhere. I select a location, the dialogue box shows it downloading, then the dialogue box disappears and I cannot find the files. Does anyone know where they might go? This problem just started this past Sunday. I tried to do a restore point, but I cannot go back past a day or two. In XP, restore showed a...

Dear all I don't know if I am the only person who is facing this problem or there is someone else too who face the same problem. When I go to Control panel of mine most of my setting features are not shown amongst whom the important one is the Ease of Access. I don't know if it is a problem which came by updating the Vista or what? I was thinking if SP1 for Vista could help me so please let me...

We save our Excel and Word files as XML, so that we can do search and replace operations over the XML text files. This causes the following problem: Even though the XML files contain information about which MS Office application was used to create the document (e.g. ?mso-application progid="Word.Document"? ), when I double click on an Excel file in Explorer, the file opens up in Word,...

Vista has more powerful capabilities than XP at specifying folder layout (e.g. width in pixels, via View | Choose Details...). However, Tools | Folder Options... | View | Apply to Folders does not seem to inherit to certain folders. I’m not sure, but it seems that folders that have been migrated from XP do not inherit the layout specified on new folders in Vista, even if they are below in...

Vista has more powerful capabilities than XP at specifying folder layout (e.g. width in pixels, via View | Choose Details...). However, Tools | Folder Options... | View | Apply to Folders does not seem to inherit to certain folders. I’m not sure, but it seems that folders that have been migrated from XP do not inherit the layout specified on new folders in Vista, even if they are below in...

Vista has more powerful capabilities than XP at specifying folder layout (e.g. width in pixels, via View | Choose Details...). However, Tools | Folder Options... | View | Apply to Folders does not seem to inherit to certain folders. I’m not sure, but it seems that folders that have been migrated from XP do not inherit the layout specified on new folders in Vista, even if they are below in...

I’m looking for any suggestions you can offer. I’m new to Vista, but have a lot of experience with Windows. I’m having a problem that’s really bugging me. I paid for and downloaded an album from a reputable musical group’s website (Linkin Park). The download manager asked me where I wanted to download my files. I chose my desktop. Everything went fine… I watched each file...

Hi all, hope everyone is doing good? Basically, I have a custom built pc back in the UK which I will be taking apart soon, as Im selling up everything I have back in the UK. (Moved to Finland last year from UK). I want to keep my internal 300GB HDD from my custom built PC, and know I can do this, and also know what case I'm going for too, although it will be powered independently, with its own...

I turned off my computer without saving the changes to my file over the previous day. When I turned it on again, only the previousl day's saved version appeared on the list of files. I looked for an autosaved version, since I know autosaves take place regularly, but I have been unable to find autosaved or recovered files using an 'everywhere' advanced search. I have Windows for Business 2007...