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   Rescue Document Recovery Can anyone tell me how to restore a word document i was working on that suddenly disappeared and became a rescue document of gobbledy gook!... 2 20.04.2007 16:54:16 help restoring partitions i tried to install vista on my old desktop machine today, and it seems although my partitions are messed up. any ideas how I can cover these partitions back? -- cOS cossmo @at gmail . com... 4 20.04.2007 13:36:15 Files copied from previous XP PC won't open I copied all my filess from previous PC to a DVD and then copied from that to my new PC w/Vista. My Excel files get the following error: "This file is not in a recognizable format." If I click for it to go ahead, it will "open" the file with proper header but no date (same for Word files). None of my old pictures will open in Photo Editor, or Paint, or IrfanView. I get the followi... 2 20.04.2007 12:46:02 XP/Vista Folder Delete/Rename Conflicts I'm running two PCs, one with Win XP Pro and one with Vista. Both connect to my department's LAN. When I delete or rename a folder on a network drive, using Win XP Windows Explorer, the procedure appears to work correctly according to XP. When I view the same network drive using Vista's Windows Explorer, deleted folders reappear and renamed folders appear under both their original and ... 3 20.04.2007 04:30:01 driving me absolutely crazy First, I try to find a file that I know is on the computer (fsx.cfg) and it will not find it no matter what I change in the search field. Second, I found by accident the folder it is in but when I try to access the folder it tells me 'denied' even tho I change the access rules to all users. Whoever wrote this piece of **** ought to be fired. ... 2 19.04.2007 22:42:56 Size of explorer window Vista Ultimate explorer window is too small for me. I have to resize it larger each time I explore a folder. How do I get it to open in the larger size with the fields as wide as when I last closed it? Folder options does not affect this.... 2 19.04.2007 20:58:37 disabling non-indexed searching in instant search Dear all: does anyone know how to disable non-indexed searching during search in vista. for example if I type "tree" all my documents would appear immediately -- however windows then attempts to search for file names with reference to "tree" -- files which have not been indexed and is extremely slow. is there a way to disable this? thanks. alex ... 7 19.04.2007 02:11:08 desktop icons My desktop underwent a change today. I lost several icons, and the remaining ones "doubled" (2 of everything) and they appear to be the icons that were originally loaded (the computer is less that 2 weeks old). When I delete one icon, its "twin" is still there, but inoperable. When I try to create a shortcut on the desktop, I get the message: :"Windows could not place the shortcut on ... 3 18.04.2007 16:27:06 Sorting by date in recorded tv folder I can not get explorer to sort the recorded tv folder by date. I have tried all the views and nothing works. In xp explore the detailed view sorted by the date modified for all folders. If I try this in vista it sorts first by the tv program name then the date field. Thanks Jon ... 1 18.04.2007 14:54:02 Minidump problems I'm running Vista H-Premium and it's been for 3 months that everything were great till yesterday.. the first Blue Screen restart with (Minidump) !!! Now I don't know why it says that phisical memory bla bla .. the point is that it happens when I'm runing several aplications !! my PC is running PIV 3.4 HT with 2048 RAM !!! Please do help.. Thanx in advance.. Jinx... 1 18.04.2007 11:00:02 Indexing - list of questions [Vista Home Premium] 1. Where is all the clever syntax for Search described ("from:", "about:", etc.) 2. What does "Null Filter" mean on a filetype filter mean? What does the File Properties Filter mean in the context of radio buttons for File Properties Only/with contents? Example: two extensions: .bin & .nk1 - default radio for both "Index Properties Only" - but filter for .bin is ... 6 18.04.2007 08:50:01 Edit Menu doesn't work in Windows Explorer Got a big problem. Since I bought my pc, everytime I try to move folders from one to the other, or files from folder to folder etc... be it via a normal drag and drop or via a batch command, the menu Edit in Windows Explorer is grey, ctrl+a stops working, drag and drop more than one file doesn't work. I have used restore points in the past which have always allowed me to start again..... 6 18.04.2007 02:58:34 Size of Temporary Internet Files is 5Gb after deleting from IE I have been doing some housekeeping on my vista home premium laptop, when I noted that I seemed to be using a huge amount of disk storage for which I could not account. I traced a huge 5Gb of it to the C:\Users\Gordon\AppData\Local \Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files> folder I cleaned the folders cache, cookies, etc from ie 7 but the size still remains. Of course I can't see a... 7 17.04.2007 23:43:20 Offline files are ignoring group policy I am beginning to test Vista for a planned deployment in July and have run into an odd situation. I've created a test GPO and am trying to enable the "Administrative Templates/Network/Offline Files/Administratively assigned offline files" policy and adding the appropriate UNC paths. None appear in the sync center after doing a gpupdate and reboot, and none are made available offline. I... 2 17.04.2007 20:30:32 File associations This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C780CF.27E149D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi For some archaic reason my boss has overwritten the default for opening = ..zip files with Internet Explorer and would like to reset it, can = someone please tell me what the default setting for openin... 2 17.04.2007 17:36:09 Can't Open ZIP Attachments Over 1MB Regardless of which mail program I use, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Windows Mail (both on Windows Vista Business platform) everytime someone emails me a ..zip attachment over 1MB and I try to open it, Vista says that it's Invalid or Corrupt. Even when I attach .zip files and email them to myself I receive the same message. I have even saved the .zip file to my desktop and trie... 1 17.04.2007 17:30:11 Vista default tree? I'm trying to find out what the file tree would contain and how it is arranged, if I had installed Vista Home Premium on my new machine and hadn't done anything else. If you wonder why I'd like to know, here is the why. Over the years I've been using computers, from DOS on to Vista, the architects of each OS had slightly different ways of thinking about paths and branches and all that. And ... 4 17.04.2007 14:59:03 Permissions I uninstalled a program but not all the folders and files were removed, so I need to delete them manually. For some reason, even though I'm the Administrator I don't have the necessary permissions, and when I try to add the permissions, Windows gives me an error saying I can't add the permissions for myself. How am I supposed to delete these files?... 2 17.04.2007 10:07:37 Nokia PC Suite or Vista I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron E1405. I connected my Nokia 6126 to the computer using the most recent Nokia PC Suite Software. I am unable to see hidden files on the phone. However, I can see hidden files in my computer. I configured windows explorer so I could see hidden files, or so I thought. Am I missing something? Or is this an issue with one of eith... 1 17.04.2007 03:06:05 Bug in Vista Briefcase In addition to the generally dire re-implementation of Briefcase under Vista, another (XP/pre-XP?) issue has (re)appeared on Vista HP. I finally caught the briefcase out - in the (badly designed) Update dialog, the "master" version is marked as Modified, and the briefcase copy is marked Unmodified. Select "Details" and one arrives at a "Resolve Conflict" dialog - BOTH files being not... 2 17.04.2007 00:24:20 Trouble moving folders I've noticed that sometimes Windows Vista (Business Edition) asks for authorization before I can move one folder into another. When I give permission (I'm the administrator) I get a bunch of Try again messages They only solution I've found so far when this happens is to restart the computer. Is anyone else having this problem and if so is there another solution? This doesn't happen o... 1 17.04.2007 00:08:01 How do I delete a damaged ocx? How do I delete a damaged ocx from downloaded program files? If I select the file then click "organise", then "delete" nothing happens - no messages, nothing. The control just stays there. Now that is really bad programming - at least I should get an error message. Going to the folder via a cmd window gives an "access is denied" error. My account is set up as administrator but even as... 4 16.04.2007 20:53:30 Sorting program folders in start menu Hi! Is there a way to sort the program folders like it was in XP?: Folders on top, single files below. Vista has it the other way round... Martin -- chatman... 1 16.04.2007 20:40:17 How to make a full Vista MCE backup without the Video? Folks, Does anybody know how to use Windows Vista Backup utility to copy my main hdd to a smaller older ATA hdd without copying or backing up the videos and recorded TV? The full backup requires144 GB of room and I only have 114 GB of room. I should have more than enough without the video, but the backup program doesn't give me the option of doing a full backup without the Video ... 2 16.04.2007 20:29:57 Desktop icons won't remember position Has anyone seen this? Every time I log off and back on (or hit refresh) my desktop icons realphabetize themselves. If I change the sort criteria, it will resort by that (size, for example). I haven't found any way to get it to stop reordering my icons... This behavior seems unique to my one Vista machine. Disabling auto arrange fixes it, but I want new icons to line up in the next availa... 5 16.04.2007 19:46:01 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20