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   The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium Lesson learned the hardway: After accidentally deleting a number of bios settings, and receiving an error message that read: Your Operating Sytem is missing., when simply trying to change the boot sequence order of my OS, I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium with the OS disk and the apps. and drivers from the recovery disks I had made shortly after purchase. I was not aware that running this ... 1 11/24/2008 7:53:32 AM 2.5Gb ISO DVD Image will not burn in Vista...Also, weird file problems on striped drive This is actually two questions that may or not be related, which is why I am posting them both under one topic. Downloaded (from sun.com) the latest SPARC DVD image of the install. 2.47Gb later, Vista wrote the file to the target (a srtiped drive > 170Gb in size, SCSI). Now the file will not burn because Nero claims it's not an image file... And that's AFTER it forced me to update t... 2 11/24/2008 3:48:04 AM Accidentally changed user folder to drive. Help? Hello everybody! (names for things might be different in English. Sorry if I confuse) I just got Vista Ultimate x64 on my system, and I've been changing the placement of the user folders to my secondary drive, because I want to keep the main drive as a system and application drive, and not a media/document drive. This worked nicely (I even followed a tutorial here to change the icons!) until i ... 4 11/23/2008 11:29:41 PM vista bug? shortcut to junction Hi, I'm trying to move c:\users\...\pictures to other place. I created directory d:\pictures, than I created junction from c:\users\... \pictures to d:\pictures. It works fine until I logout. When I login again shortcut "Pictures" in "Favorite Links" in file open dialog don't work, and it's icon is blank. This works fine with windows xp. If I create directory d:\testdir, than junction from ... 2 11/23/2008 1:16:34 PM Problems searching for, renaming or deleting files in windows expl When I try to search for a file in windows explorer, the window stops responding after I have typed the first letter of the search name. When I attempt to delete a file a window appears saying "Calculating time remaining" this just hangs; attempting to close the message window causes a message "cancelling" to occur in the message window but it continues to hang. The explorer window bec... 4 11/22/2008 2:51:36 PM Windows main executable has stopped working Everytime i startup vista and log on a message pops up saying Windows Main executable has stopped working. I close these tabs down and it does not appear to effect my laptop in anyway. Does anyone know what this message means and how to stop these tabs from popping up? Regards -- BMWBMW... 6 11/22/2008 12:18:51 PM User folder icons behaving oddly These are not the folder icons inside the User folders, but in the folder called 'Users' itself. A picture is a thousand words: [image: http://i36.tinypic.com/2ujtje0.png] Album art appears on my user folder, but the other user folders remain using the generic folder within folder Vista icon. I've tried all icon settings on the folder with the art but it remains the same no matter what. Just t... 1 11/22/2008 9:46:51 AM Where are my Recent Places? It's always empty... anyone know what's wrong/how to make it remember something At the moment, I could employ a goldfish to better advantage in remembering where I put things... :) Thanks!... 15 11/22/2008 3:16:05 AM "Access is denied" problem I use "TreeSize" to show me how my disk space is used. On my other Vista Home Premium laptop as well as my XP Pro computers, it runs fine. But on my new Vista Home Premium laptop, it constantly says "Access is denied" for many folders. How do I get rid of this and let the program access every folder? TIA, Paul ... 8 11/21/2008 10:46:04 PM Windows Vista Hi, Why does my C drive have a hybernate file (2GB file) when I never put my computer into hybernate? How do I delete this file? I am running Vista. ... 8 11/21/2008 12:53:29 AM file open/views/details -set detail for office 2003 under VISTA I am having an annoying problem (upon file open or save /view ... I CAN'T GET TO SEE the precious "date modified" under VIEW DETAILS, even if I select it each time -- I only get the NAME Column under VISTA and Office 2003) Is this a known problem under VISTA and office2003 ?? system: VISTA Business SP1, Office 2003 SP3 -- ktm_...an IT advanced amateur yet forever novice !... 1 11/20/2008 7:29:01 PM file open/views/details set detail for office 2003 under VIS I am having an annoying problem (upon file open or save /view ... I CAN'T GET TO SEE the precious "date modified" under VIEW DETAILS, even if I select it each time -- I only get the NAME Column under VISTA and Office 2003) Is this a known problem under VISTA and office2003 ?? system: VISTA Business SP1, Office 2003 SP3 -- ktm_...an IT advanced amateur yet forever novice !... 1 11/20/2008 7:23:01 PM opening files or folders Can someone please help, when I try to access a file such as local settings or my documents, I get an access denied message, Is there a way to get into these folders. Thanks for any help. ... 2 11/20/2008 1:12:36 AM merge 100+ multiple folders into one! How? Robocopy? Xcopy? Is there an easy way to merge 100 directories into a single directory? (without writing a long batch file) I was thinking ROBOCOPY or XCOPY would do the trick.. I also tried using the search function of the file manager GUI in Vista, but after it found 1000+ files and tried to move them, it would just "hour glass" for 8+ hours. -- edwardtilbury... 2 11/18/2008 9:35:54 AM A mapping problem? I've mapped L: to a folder named c:\L-map on my C: drive. It looks like this: L-map(\\Pauls-compaq\c)(L:) But programs that want to open files on the L: drive fail. For example L:\copies\abc-file.txt is not found, but does exist. Any idea what's wrong? TIA, Paul ... 3 11/17/2008 2:48:02 PM Can't access Folder with arrows Vista 65 Ultimate I am logged on as ADMIN but still can' taccess folders that have small arrows like a shotcut. They appeared after a restore. Not on a networkk, Can't be sharing or can it, because it was restored. Changing permissions don't remove arrows. Crazy! Anyone help? -- palm32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ palm32's Profile: http://forum... 2 11/17/2008 12:18:24 AM howto backup custom emoticons for Messenger Live in Vista I dont want to loose all of them again so 1. how do i back them up in vista? 2. Where are they stored (the full path please)... 3 11/15/2008 9:39:15 AM Drives magically write protect themselves I recently upgraded from Vista 32-bit to Vista 64-bit. I did this reformatting my C drive then performing a clean install of Vista 64-bit. I now have a problem with my volume(s) becoming write protected. I have to fight a constant battle against Vista to keep the volumes writeable. I have two drives: WD SE16 640GB: Primary or C drive Samsung T166 500GB: Secondary or D drive (used mostly for stor... 2 11/14/2008 7:11:01 PM I want to arrange files in my folder by type In XP, the option to arrange files by type was always there. In Vista, it is not. I know that I have to right click and select on of the 680 or so options for arranging files that are there, but to be honest, I use Sort by - TYPE soooo often, that I want it to be there all the time. Is there something I can do to make this a default option, maybe amend a registry key or something??? It drives m... 12 11/13/2008 7:34:37 PM Change Drive Letters Hi, I POSTED an earlier not about collapsing a Partition and redistributing the disk space to another Partition and also would appreciate help with Re-lettering these Partitions. I tried to rename a Partition "E" but "E" was NOT listed on the options (Change Drive Name an Path) although NO current Drives were named "E". I did name a Drive (Partition) at one time but deleted that Part... 3 11/13/2008 2:57:02 PM Star menu domumnet short cut I move My Documents folder and now the Documents folder icon in the start menu is blank, it points to nothing and when I right click and go to properties everything is blank and I can not edit it. I tried moving my documents back to the old location but no help. Anyway to get this short cut to find 'my documents' again. Thanks Jim ... 3 11/13/2008 6:10:42 AM Backup to Memory Stick? I have Vaio VGN-SZ4 Vista Business Laptop Is it reasonable to back up my data (all in a documents folder) to an ordinary 120Mb memory stick?. There is ample space to overwrite each weekly back up I want a backup stored outside my computer or its environment. Thanks Michael -- saxelby... 3 11/12/2008 5:01:07 PM Windows Directory Customized as 'Music'! Hi I have discovered that my c:\windows directory, and all child folders, has taken on the appearence of a 'Music' folder. As the properties window does not support a 'Customize' tab I am wondering if anyone can instruct me as to how I can reset this to a 'normal' files folder? Thanks -- zx12a1... 2 11/11/2008 12:29:22 PM How to see and read replies? [ F O N T = G a r a m o n d ] I ' v e b e e n n o t i f i e d t h a t s o m e o n e h a s r e p l i e d t o m y p r o b l e m , b u t I h a v e n o i d e a h o w t o s e e i t a n d r e a d i t ! H o w t o d o i t p l e a s e ? [ / F O N T ] -- gregson77 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com ... 3 11/10/2008 4:15:35 PM Inconsistent Partition Data I have a Vista 64bit installed in a VMWare VM environment and resized the harddisk from 35 to 45 GB (35 is definitely too small for Vista and a few language packs). Then I did start the Management console, connected to Disk management and extended the volume. This worked well when I had to extend 25 to 35 GB (I was too optimistic at that time). The a message box with "invalid parameter"... 7 11/10/2008 7:34:20 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