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 copying I tried to copy a directory containing 4062 files and 7.76 GB ( so vista tells me). Vista is telling it will take 9 hours to complete the copy, Ok some nice clever person please explain what is going on.... 9 06.07.2007 20:54:00 Cannot see my files? My wife purchased a new laptop with vista home premium. she pulled up a document from the web that i wanted to make a permenant document of on her pc. i made a tif file of it and the file appears nowhere. when i go to create the file it shows up in the dialog box when it asks me where to save the file, but when i go to that location through the explorer nothing is there. where is my file... 7 06.07.2007 20:28:07 Sort by name doesnt sort correctly in my opinion Explorer does not seem to sort files by name in the order I expect. e.g. 0x2A.txt 0x20.txt 0xA2.txt is the order shown but I expected item 1 to be after item 2. Doug Blake dblake@starbridgesystems.co.uk... 2 06.07.2007 19:58:55 Horrible, please help I downloaded something and was asked what program I wanted to use to open it. I chose UTorrent, a download handling program and accidentally chose to make it the default for all programs like the one I was dealing with. As it turns out, I didn't really know what kind of program the one I was trying to open was and now UTorrent is set to open many of my programs, including Windows Media... 8 06.07.2007 18:26:03 How to get to an older saved version of a document WordPad crashed last time I closed it and it lost hours of my work (BTW, I'm using an Everex laptop running on Vista -- AVOID!). How can I get to and open an older saved version? Even if I can recover the work that I had saved yesterday it would be great! Thanks!... 2 06.07.2007 12:56:02 Dragging folders to Favorite links won't work! hello, I have a small problem. whenever i drag a folder to the "favorite Links" section of the navigation pane in explorer, vista used to create a shortcut to that folder in the Links folder inside my Personal userfolder. But now, after i had tried out some thirdparty software to customize the windows icons, Vista doesn't create the shortcuts anymore. Instead Vista now moves the entir... 3 06.07.2007 10:47:26 Opening a previously saved document in WordPad WordPad apparantly crashed last time I saved a document, now what opens up is an almost blank page. I lost hours of work! (I'm using an "Everex" laptop which runs on Windows -- AVOID!) How can I open up a previously saved version of the document? Even yesterday I had saved most of the work. I know it's possible, but how? Thanks for your help!... 1 06.07.2007 05:24:00 How to set the search indexing behavior for a particular filetype? I have a problem with Windows Vista. I have a lot of text files that have the extension .xsl. Most indexed searches on these files fail, presumably because these files are not treated _as text_ and so are put through some kind of content filter. My question: I can't see any way to change this behaviour, because the options are grayed out? (Although under WinXp I was able to customi... 2 06.07.2007 01:59:17 The system cannot find the file specified I have a WINDOW VISTA BUSINESS OS running on my Notebook. When I perform a SYNC on OFFLINE files with WINDOW SERVER, I get a file conflict message saying: The System cannot find the file specified. It listed the name of missing file. I checked the relevant file in the folder on the server and my PC and I could not find any of the file mentioned. How do I get rid of this annoying... 1 06.07.2007 01:12:06 Indexing Options Doesn't Work... Hi, I am running Vista enterprise (32 bit) and am not able to see the indexed locations when I go to Control Panel -> Indexing Options. When I click there, Indexing Options box opens and I get message “waiting to receive indexing status…” and then nothing happens. I have also tried to go to the search screen and then add a folder or drive to the indexing locations but nothing ha... 1 06.07.2007 00:58:04 Program for highlight text I looking for freeware program to Windows Vista32 for highlight text in webpages, documents, etc. Like hilitext, http://www.fanix.com/hilitext.html Thanks ... 3 05.07.2007 20:26:02 Creating Workbook in Works w/Windows Vista I need to create a workbook in Microsoft Works, but all I get is a worksheet. I have Windows Vista. How do I get a new tab?... 2 05.07.2007 14:01:23 Deleting Files I cant delete a file and it says its open in another program. but i can seem to figure out what program is running it. is there anyway to force delete it or find the program... 3 05.07.2007 12:24:01 Navcancl / ieframe.dll - Solution Problem : ie7 refuses to open after Installing update KB 931768 Solution : find C:\program files\ iexplore.exe right click and "Run as administrator" After ie7 has opened : Tools\options\Advanced - Disable Pfishing. should be ok now - but of course be extra Alert for any Fishing emails. ------------------------------------------... 18 05.07.2007 10:58:01 After Upgraded to Ultimate... I upgraded to Ultimate and when i do a system clean i saw 4GB of stuff under the catergory of "discarded file by window upgrade" where can i locate those files???... 2 05.07.2007 09:29:18 Printing file lists Anyone know how to get a printout of folders and file lists. I know how to set this up under XP but it does not work with Vista. Greatful for sugestions. Thanking you.... 11 05.07.2007 06:04:10 Problem to preview or edit JPG files on Vista Desktop Dear Sir, I found a very strange problem of Vista. When I try double click or right click to select PREVIEW or EDIT a JPG files on DESKTOP, nothing happens. However, the other files i.e. PDF or shortcut all works fine on desktop and PREVIEW or EDIT works in other directories (or even of a directory on desktop also fine). Can you explain this? And any solution? Regards, Terence ... 3 05.07.2007 00:23:53 Closing Preview Pane in Explorer My zen mp3 player has an interface accessible through Windows Explorer. It's a sort of customized view, like a disk or folder ,with various available tasks showing up where one would usually see a list of files and folders. However Creative set up this folder, it disappears all of the typical Windows Vista Explorer buttons. The "Organize" and "Views" buttons along the top bar are missi... 2 04.07.2007 19:50:06 Icon Spacing Adjustments The space between Icons, Thumbnails, Folders etc is far to large for my personal preference, not the Icons themselves but I cant find information anywhere on how to reduce the size used, I have also been trawling through totally irrelevant google results and the Control panel in vain for a few hours trying to find these settings, could someone please tell me where to adjust this, if I ha... 5 04.07.2007 13:58:44 redirect user folder Hi. How can I redirect the "user's" folders ("user", documents, images, etc.) to be in D: drive instead of C: drive? Is it possible? In XP you use the properties tab to relocate My Documents, but in Vista I can't find the properties for these folders. Thanks. -- Nicolas... 3 04.07.2007 02:08:02 Re: Vista -deleting, moving and copying files "Marian Pudek" <henmar@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:... > > "Marian Pudek" <henmar@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:... >> >> "Marian Pudek" <henmar@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:... >> Hi Paul, >> >> Interesting approach. I never ventured there before but I think if I knew >> what I was looking for that could help. >> I... 1 04.07.2007 00:00:35 Vista thinks Save As is same as download Whenever a .htm page is "saved as" the download box appears and there is a noticeable delay before the saved file appears in its location. The download box is a nuisance - how to stop it appearing?... 7 03.07.2007 18:48:05 Unable to disable offline files via Group Policy I'm having the hardest time disabling offline files. This is what we have: Document, My Desktop and a few other folders are on Folder Redirection. I have the following settings on my OU that may affect offline files: Allow or Disallow use of the Offline Files Feature: Disabled Phohibit user configuration of Offline Files: Enabled Always wait for the network at computer startup and login: Ena... 1 03.07.2007 16:52:04 Text Search in Vista I'm not sure if I'm just dense but in XP under Advanced Search it was easy to search documents for text even if you didn't know the documents name. You could type in *.* or *.doc and then do a search for specific word or text. I am unable to see how this is done in Vista. Can someone point to the solution? ... 11 03.07.2007 00:37:35 Vista search isn't returning Excel files I am using Advanced Search in Windows Vista to find recently created files, so that I can copy them to other media. I have discovered that searching for files after, say June 30, does not return Excel files, although it does return .txt files and .html files. The location I am specifying is my Vista user name, and the Spreadsheets subfolder is located within that user name folder. Tha... 3 02.07.2007 21:30:01 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20