Threads Replies Last Post 26 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26   Files in Documents Disappearing! I have had Vista Home Premium for about 2 months. All of a sudden, files in Documents are disappearing. I told Vista to show hidden files, even though none of these were hidden. No change. The files still exist. I can open a local web with Expression Web link, work on it, save it and open it again. But it does not show in Documents. Nothing shows up in search results either. It... 3 5/12/2007 2:48:00 PM .pst files from backup to outloook I'm running winmail on vista but also have outlook 2003 installed. My .pst files from the old computer are on a DVD. How to get them to outlook? thanks (windows blocked popups from its own site). ... 2 5/12/2007 1:57:18 PM Favorites Folder Redirected and now not working OK, not a serious issue, but definately an annoyance. I have redirected all my folders to my D:/DATA drive to prevent losing any information in the future. This includes my Outlook Data files as well as my Internet Explorer Favorites Folder. The problem, is that now, there are no Favorites in IE 7, nor can Adding to Favorites work. How can I undo this? Thanks in advance. -- MarkyMarc43... 8 5/12/2007 7:05:16 AM Finding user's Contacts folder programmatically A user can change where their Contacts folder (and other user folders) is located by accessing the folder's Properties and going to the Location tab. For my programs, I use the CurrentVersion - User Shell Folders key in the Registry (via the CSIDL API stuff) to determine where dedicated folders are located. But the Contacts folder is not part of that key's data and I don't think it is li... 2 5/12/2007 3:38:34 AM File associations Two related issues: If I select any program except Photo Gallery to be the default program for JPGs, the option to OPEN WITH is no longer available if I select more than 1 file. Second, if I select 16 JPG files to open in my program, the default Explorer action becomes PRINT rather than OPEN. At 15 JPGs, the default remains OPEN. How do I fix these problems?... 1 5/11/2007 10:16:00 PM Default JPG file actions The default jpg action from Explorer is OPEN with less than 15 files, but PRINT with 16 or greater. How do I fix this? ... 1 5/11/2007 9:27:00 PM File transfer XP to Vista The order and naming of files were changed when I did the transfer. Why did this happen? What will happen with mail merge if the merge document location is changed? Thanks. Marshall ... 1 5/11/2007 1:47:02 PM Big Problem with Vista - Please Help! I have all the usual difficulties with Vista and can deal with most, however, as a photographer, I am lost without the basic functions which help me organize my tens of thousands of photographs. Can anyone please tell me how with Vista, I can..... 1. Add a filmstrip view to my options as the "extra large" thumbnail icons are too tiny to be of use. and Most importantly 2. Add "mov... 5 5/11/2007 9:29:28 AM Deleting file(s) Vista Ultimate When deleting files, the only option I have is to permanently delete them, dialog asks: "Are you sure you want to permanently delete these n items?" This happens regardless oof using Shift-Delete or ordinary Delete. I have also checked the property settings of the recycle, Custom size is clicked (and have a big size allocated), i.e. "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin... 1 5/11/2007 8:23:52 AM Old files Hello... i was wonder as to how i would get my old files from the windows.old file to be added to my computer as before.. but they seem stuck int he folder.. i can take them out but they dont work.... can someone plz tell me as to how (w/o reinstalling) i get those files back to working functionality. also i play World fo Warcraft.. so when i attampted to open it with it's launc... 2 5/11/2007 7:42:30 AM customize "Send To" Command Instead of drag and drop method of moving/relocating files of folders, how do you add a location to the "send to" command box. I did it before with previous MS OS's, but it I can't figure it out with Vista. I'm sure it's there, but it's escaping my feeble mind.... 5 5/11/2007 6:29:52 AM the folder of WINDOWS\assembly of WinXP can't be copied in Vista There are two OSes installed in my computer, one is XP, the other one is Vista . 1. Under Vista: I Logon the Vista OS by administrator accounts , When I copy the folder (the XP's windows dir ) "d:\WINDOWS\assembly" to anywhere, an error happened . “the file 2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a can't be found in the path of d:\windows\assembly\GAC_32\System.EnterpriseServices” ... 1 5/11/2007 3:48:00 AM File Open window lacks file dates In Vista Business, the File Open windows on all? apps now lack a column for file dates. I am now unable to sort files by dates - all I have is names. This happened recently, probably a setting somewhere - Would appreciate some help - Thanks.... 4 5/11/2007 2:57:13 AM Importing MP3's into Vista Just got a new system, and Vista won't recognize any of my music files to add to my new machine. I've tried adding from a disc, as well as from my portable player, and in both cases it does not 'find' any music tracks in either source. Any advice? ... 4 5/11/2007 12:05:22 AM viewing a shared Vista outlook calender from an XP Machine This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0066_01C79318.10D19FA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are using a Microsoft windows network The boss has his schedule recorded in outlook on his VISTA machine. His = calendar has been shared to his staff. However the staff are running XP = machines with outl... 1 5/10/2007 9:29:57 PM Flip 3d - Anyway to keep it active at all times If I open a window while flipping through all the open windows, suddenly Flip 3d has turned off. When I reduce the file, everything is back in standard format, and I have to hit the switch between windows button again to get back to flip 3d. Is there a way to keep Flip 3d on, so when you close or reduce the window that you have chosen, every window is still organized in the Flip 3d man... 2 5/10/2007 7:52:32 PM How to add delete and refresh to the toolbar I am going through hunderds of photos and I would rather not right click and select delete on each one or select organize>delete. In XP it allowed me to customise the toolbar to add any other possible option you could find by going through the normal alt+f menus. How do I add a shortcut to one of those options on my toolbar in vista?... 2 5/10/2007 7:21:04 PM Sort by Type. Hi everyone! I'm running Vista Home Premium and have a couple of questions in terms of the organizing of files in Vista. By default all files are sorted by name which is fine, but in a few folders I want them to be sorted by type. In some folders, this is possible, and in others the option to sort by type doesn't appear. Why is this? Another thing in which I've noticed about Vista is... 1 5/10/2007 3:26:02 PM How do I customize folders with images,colour etc? Anyone know how to edit desktop.ini (or otherwise) to either a/ Set a background colour b/ Change the text colour of file names, properties etc. c/ Apply a background image in explorer windows? IconArea_Image/IconArea_Text either don't work or they need different header information from the old XP examples...(which I think I have tried accurately but to no avail) Thanks in advanc... 1 5/10/2007 3:20:01 PM library i dont see and add a folder to media player library... 2 5/10/2007 1:46:23 PM How to select Favorites in Windows Explorer How can I set and access favorite explorer links, such as c:\program files, c:\downloads, and etc. Otherwise I have to navigate to them from My Computer.... 6 5/10/2007 1:24:15 PM Organizing Programs on Start Menu There are a lot of Microsoft and Adobe programs on my computer. When I click on Start Menu>All Programs , want to be able to organize programs in folders; ie. all the Adobe Programs in a folder. I could do this in XP.... 2 5/10/2007 12:24:29 PM Controlling How Windows Explorer Opens I am not a fan of the Navigation Pane in Windows Explorer. Every time I open Windows Explorer I have to go to Organize/Layout and uncheck Navigation Pane. Is there a way I can control how Explorer opens so I don't have to do that every time? Thank you... 4 5/10/2007 12:23:07 PM Access denied to files and folders I'm a software developer and after a debug crash I cannot access a folder which my program was using. It simply says "Access denied". I have tried to restart Vista (Ultimate), but it doesn't work. I have tried from the dos prompt using rd and rmdir /S and it doesn't work. I am the owner and administrator of the folders which I'm trying to access. I have tried to change the How can I remo... 5 5/10/2007 10:20:16 AM Can't move a folder Hi, I've got Vista Home Premium, and in the Documents folder are a number of folders. On some folders, when I try to move them to another folder, it works without any prompt (as I would expect). On other folders I get the UAC permission request and after agreeing, it works. And finally, there are some folders where I agree to the UAC prompt and then get an additional window saying "You nee... 2 5/10/2007 3:35:07 AM 26 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26