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   "New txt file" missing from right click menu Hi I lately noticed that my Vista (32bit) doesn't want me to make .txt files. When I'll right click on desktop and choose new from the menu I'll get this: http://zepi.kapsi.fi/PropertiesMenu.jpg So, there is no "new txt file" option. This happens in every directory, not just only on the desktop. Is there any way to get the "new txt file" option back?... 4 04.05.2007 04:26:21 Offline Files (Plain Text This Time) I feel like you guys (Microsoft Offline Files Team) have really dropped the ball with this feature. From the start I have had nothing but issues with offline files. I purchased a new laptop with Vista Ultimate. Out of the box, offline files did not work. Using this forum I received instructions from the offline files team to perform a registry edit which initialized the service. Sinc... 1 03.05.2007 13:37:44 Deleted files appear in "File Name" drop down list I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and saved some media files into a folder named "temp" within in the Video folder. Since they were just temporary video files, I deleted them and the entire folder. However, now everytime I use Window Movie Maker (or any other program) and I attempt to "add a file" to the project, the "file name" drop down (where you specify the file you want to add)... 4 03.05.2007 04:02:15 Copy And Paste Handling Can this system be changed back to the XP style? The current "Calculating Time Remaining" is uneccessary and slows the whole process up, something I do very frequently, I'd rather it just copied the file/s instead of telling me how long it will take, as it's never overly accurate anyway. I can sit on my PC copying a 500MB file and it sits for around a minute "Calculating Time" then it st... 2 02.05.2007 23:13:45 Pictures & Memory Stick We upgraded to Vista Home Premium and now I have a problem with a memory stick I use as a back-up for a couple files I routinely change. Specifically when I go to save a file I get an error message stating the "memory is full." When I view the directory in Windows Explorer, I notice that 150+ .jpegs are now on the drive. Where are these coming from and how do I stop it? Right now I'm... 1 02.05.2007 16:47:02 Missing Torrent files? Hey all, It seems I'm having a problem with Bittorrent and the downloaded files not showing up in the Explorer. I think it may have something to do with Vista, but i'm not sure. Anyone have any suggestions? BTW the files are there, I've seen them while browsing from another program. Thanks. -- Chiseen... 2 02.05.2007 11:08:57 Lost Contacts Folder After a fresh install of Vista Home Premium 64, with all of the associated problems with SATA hard drives, I wanted to move my profile folders to my second drive for safety. During the move, I have managed to 'lose' my windows contacts folder. When I click on contacts in the start menu the second drive opens. Any ideas on how to get things back to the way they were?... 2 02.05.2007 03:13:00 Favoriting within your computer documents Hello, I have spent an hour or so looking for the favorite link button while you are still browsing within your computer. I noticed that Vista doesn't have the convient little button that xp has. Does anyone know how to favorite a computer url? Thanks... 2 01.05.2007 18:35:15 Folder Links on Desktop - strange right click menu MOVE or RENAME I am using the right click menu to send folders to the desktop as links. The strange thing is that when I right click on the link on the desktop, the highlighted default item is MOVE or RENAME AUDIO FILES. There are no WAV files or other audio material in any of the folders that I am trying to access. Everything works if I scroll down the right click menu to the open. -- Paul M. Jacob... 3 01.05.2007 06:39:02 Can't right click on desktop I can't right click on either the desktop or within Windows Explorer. Either way Windows Explorer hangs, stops working and restarts without me ever seeing the right click menu. Any ideas what's going on?... 3 01.05.2007 06:37:29 Vista DVD Maker I made a slide show with music in Vista DVD maker and it leaves the DVD open. Will not play on my TV DVD player. After several attempts with the same results I copied one of the disks into Roxy and burned a copy from roxy that did close and is playable on a seperate DVD player. Does anyone know why Vista DVD maker is not closing my disks??? Thanks ... 2 01.05.2007 04:08:56 Hide file names problem? I know that if a folder is for pictures and videos and the files are viewed as icon then windows will by default hide the file names. No problem there as I can change what the folder type is. The problem is when I go to control panels and it is showing the contents as tiles. When I change the view to icons all the "file names" disappear. As there is no way to change the "folder" type wha... 8 01.05.2007 00:58:59 I can't delete a folder I deleted this folder previously and everything except some empty subfolders deleted Now when I try to delete the folder it tells me: Could not find this item This is no longer located in C:\. Verify the item's location and try again. How can I permanantly delete this file? I tried rebooting with dosprompt in safe mode and it still wouldn't delete in dos safe mode... 1 01.05.2007 00:39:00 saving files - mouse "snap to" Hello, I have the snap to option for the mouse,and am used to that in XP,but i find that in Vista it doesnt go to the save button when i close for example notepad and other things after i have made a change that can be saved or ignored.Its a problem as i open and close files a lot. Is there anyway to get the mouse to "snap to" the save button,like it does in XP? Thanks ... 2 30.04.2007 23:23:45 Indexing - I got it stopped. Now, how do I restart it? 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 t... 13 30.04.2007 18:22:59 lost photos/pictures hi just downloaded vista now i have lost all my grandkids photos, where are they? shall i delete vista and go back to XP?though i cant even find add&remove programme -- ctitheb... 2 30.04.2007 18:11:23 Outlook and Search I want to exclude Outlook from the search index. I have a large 1 gig PST. Including it in the index seems to affect outlook's performance. Note, I moved the file file an Office XP machine so it is not indexed. I don't really want mail searching. I have have tried to MODIFY the indexing to remove the pointer to MS outlook but it keeps coming back. Is that because I am indexing my ... 3 30.04.2007 16:30:02 Contacts Import Trying to import an Access 2003 contacts db to Windows Contacts. I've exported the db to cvs (txt) but when I import it into Windows Contacts it puts .Contact at the end of all data. Any way to eliminate this? ... 2 30.04.2007 12:24:32 Problem with offline files: Synchronization error "no access" I use VISTA business on my VAIO TX5MN. When I change offline files on my VAIO in offline mode and later try to synchronize them with my PC with XP SP2, I get errors "no access". I found out, that files like {6354725448}.tmp appear on my PC with XP. New files on my VISTA VAIO or new files on my XP PC or files changed on my XP PC are synchronized without errors. This seems to be a serious ... 1 30.04.2007 07:59:51 new user folders Does anyone know how to create new user foders in Vista? Each user has Documents, Videos, Pictures and so on folders. I'm trying to add Books and Projects folders but it would be nice if they were somewhat virtual like the other ones. I tried to follow a post where someone saves search folder, but it doesn't seem to be the same. Thanks ... 4 30.04.2007 01:16:00 Please help, Loosing space some how?? hey guys i just installed vista home premium and for some reason i noticed that i'm loosing space: i have a 250GB Hard drive and after installation i have about 230GB. After installing my programs and stuff i want, i have 220GB. BUT.... now for some reason i'm down to 218GB and it's lowering every other hour or so that goes by, what is wrong here?? thanks. -- NateXSG... 4 29.04.2007 20:47:34 Deleting a shortcut to a program that no longer exists I installed a game it placed shotcut icon on desktop. Game didnt install properly so uninstalled. Now it want let me delete the shortcut as it says that it cant find the program. How do I delete this pesky shortcut? There is no security info under that tab under properties it seems there is no way to delete this shotcut file, this is rediculas!! Can anyone help please thanks steve.... 3 29.04.2007 17:15:59 file associations I want vista to let me open excel files (.xls extensions) with Corel Quattro Pro. I've gone thru the various methods of changing the file associations, but can't get it to stay. I select a file with an .xls extension, select "open with" browse to "qpw.exe", try to select it and say ok, but get dumped back to the previous screen. Help. thanks. ... 6 28.04.2007 07:52:38 Deleting undeletable files I recently downloaded a file for a program (design, Revit). The file did not download fully, yet the icon of the file is still on my desktop. When I try to delete it or send it to the Recycle Bin, the delete window comes up, but nothing happens. Is there a different way to delete this? I cannot even move it to a different folder to get it off the desktop. Thanks!... 7 28.04.2007 04:08:01 How do I delete many fonts all at once instead of 1 at a time? I did a very foolish thing, I admit it. I purchased and downloaded 6000 fonts from one of those font sites, and then proceeeded to download each and every one of them. Now my computer is a little slower than before. So I went into fonts to delete but it will only let me delete one at a time. Isn't there a way to delete many fonts all at once? Maria... 5 27.04.2007 23:26:03 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20