Threads Replies Last Post 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20   slow file delete I've had vista home supreme or whatever they call it for about ten weeks. After incessant searching of sites where a newbie can get help with vista I found a "cure" for the notorious, maddening, infuriating, very slow file delete (calculating time gizmo) phenomenon. I don't remember what it was or anything more than my copying a few commands at the dos level and the problem disappeared.... 1 25.05.2007 21:18:13 Files lost after shutdown Hi, I am a Vista premium user(32 bit). I had few folders on my desktop that contained video, audio , photos, docs etc. Once after shutting down my laptop and restarting later, I found to my shock that all those folders were gone. I browsed and found that most of them were under "recently changed", but some were still missing and I could not trace them even on searching. I reconcile... 4 25.05.2007 20:30:28 Windows Vista Product ID I need to know where I can find my Product ID for the computer. Not for a program, but for the computer. Originally on Windows Xp you would find your Product ID here: Run > regedit Go here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion And in the Current Version folder would be the Product ID. Any help is appreciated.... 7 25.05.2007 19:47:59 winmain error Hello I launch my application with a breakpoint at the Winmain function,and I obtain the cpu windows stoppint just at the "ret" assembly command of the ntdll.DbgBreakPoint() function. What I have done wrong I think it is in Vista securities but where must I look? Could you help me please Thank you very much Patrick ... 2 25.05.2007 19:15:54 Permission to change file name? When I first set up my Windows Vista computer, I created a file called Audio, and have a lot of mp3's in this file. I decided to rename the file. I right click on it, and when I try to click rename, I'm told that I do not have permission to do so. I am the only user of this computer. I have administrator rights. If I create a sub folder to this folder, and then try to rename or mov... 7 25.05.2007 18:35:01 Windows DeFrag Does Windows defrag optimize the System Volume Information folder? James... 3 25.05.2007 12:40:45 Windows cannot find qfinder11.exe. Make sure you typed the name. .. . .correctly then try again. Clicking Search icon for Windows Classic Start Menu, a menu opens with three selections. Two of search functions work fine, the third, [Search] using QuickFinder, causes the error message. I searched the on board help, and knowledge base, no indication of Quick Finder, or qfinder110.exe. What is it? ... 4 25.05.2007 02:49:00 Vista changed folders to shortcuts - now access is denied THIRD time trying to post this - site is refusing posts? Any way, For some unknwon reason, Vista decided to change several important folder into shortcuts and when trying to access them, I get "...c:\foldername\... is not accesible Access is denied." Most importantly the following folders of the loggged-on user are inaccesible and access is nedied: User\Documents\... My Videos M... 7 25.05.2007 02:35:43 Network file deletion I have just some how deleted files via a mapped network drive. any ideas where the files went? they are certainly not in the recycle bin!! :(( -- cOS cossmo @at gmail . com... 3 24.05.2007 15:20:34 Can't use "Open with" in Vista I've allocated a program to open some of my files. It worked fine for about 2 weeks. Now the association has been lost and I can't allocate it again, the allocation block, list is full, how can I redo the allocation??... 7 24.05.2007 09:14:14 Video Folder Disappeared I had afolder containing various videos. The file was private (hidden) from others opening it. I attempted to move the folder from its existing location to a new and it disapeared off the screen. Also before I did this, the only way for me to find and open this file was by searching for it. Any ideas of what I did???... 4 24.05.2007 02:46:49 How to change 'Group' permissions on existing folder? I have a similar issue to Bob Eaton's previous post in that I have an app that stores data in [CommonAppData]/Company/Application. I need to give the local/users group 'modify' rights to this folder and have the modify right propagate to child files and folders. By the way, 'local/Users' also inherits special permissions on this folder which allow users to create files/objects and ap... 5 24.05.2007 02:43:02 html file tags don't show in windows explorer? Many of my .htm files contain tags ( <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="tags..."> ) The tags of other document types (doc, .xls) display in windows explorer, but not htm files. Anyone know if there's a way to fix this? Phil... 1 23.05.2007 14:59:31 Recreate Documents Folder in Favorite Links Hi, I had set the documents folder to be Drive D, using the customize feature and moving the location. When I clicked on the Documents folder in the Favorite Links section of explorer, it said the shortcut was no longer valid and asked if I wanted to delete the shortcut. So I did. Now I have no link icon to the Documents folder. Can I recreate this folder somehow? I tried to create a new... 3 23.05.2007 14:43:51 Start Menu\Programs: entries deleted after every reboot On every reboot all program shortcuts in Start Menu\Programs are deleted. The program groups are not affected, only the links for single programs are gone.... 1 23.05.2007 05:42:00 Changing default path of "My Documents" (User files)to D: drive? I know how to do that on xp (right click on "my documets" properties,...) but on Vista it dont have the properties options, does anyone know how to change the default path C:\users\math (my files) to for example D:\my documents, folder? I want to do this do freeze my C: Thx for u help... 4 23.05.2007 03:32:55 I_can´t_open_folders I save some photos in 1 folder, but now it doesn´t appear all folders, why is that? The first times appeared a question of relating files of the same kind, and then new folders show what can i do to view all my folders?... 1 23.05.2007 00:20:01 Extended Tiles - broken - any fix? The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp!... 3 22.05.2007 03:43:00 "Recent Files" Menu Maintains Over 120 Files. How is This Fixed? I have Vista Ultimate. In the Start menu, the "Recent Files" submenu always maintains over 100+ files. I can clear it out and within about a day or so, the number is up over 100+ again. I can't find a setting anywhere for setting the Recent Files limitation. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.... 3 21.05.2007 18:14:00 my documents How do I make more folders in my documents? -- Connie... 3 21.05.2007 13:28:40 hidden folder names hi. one day the folder names in my user folder (erm... the one with "documents" and "downloads" and "videos" etc) decided to disappear. not the whole folders, just the names. only list, details and tiles views display the names, extra large, large, medium and small do not. i know you can hide the file names with right click>view but thats not it,i thouight i should right click>view but ... 5 21.05.2007 06:12:45 remove file from index? I have installed Adobe CS3 and when I start to type something that begins "v" (virtual pc) explorer stops working. The reason it is stopping is because of the adobe version cue cpl. Is there a way to remove the version cue cpl from the index? NIK ... 3 21.05.2007 01:39:35 Hard Drive space Can and How would I remove Windows XP Pro from the hard drive since now I have Vista Home on it? -- Wayne... 2 21.05.2007 01:27:35 find file containing text inside the file 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... 9 21.05.2007 01:05:21 Rename a shared folder in Vista possible? I'm using Vista Ultimate x64 and find that when I share a folder for network access, the system selects a share name for me and doesn't allow me to change it. This forces me to name the actual folder what I want the sharename to be. For example: I have 2 drives and a folder on each named MEDIA. I want to share both folders and name one of them MEDIA-C and the other MEDIA-D. What I get... 1 20.05.2007 23:41:01 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20