I have installed Vista Beta 2 32-bit. While trying to gain access to My Music
and My Pictures folders from my XP partition, I have now made them
unavailable on XP. The permissisons feature was confusing for me. Now, when I
boot to XP, those folders show empty, with access denied. ...

After finally managing to enable the Administrator account, I still
apparently don't have permission to access the Documents and Settings folder.
Neither can I access the Application Data in my User folder.
So far, Vista is being extremely resrictive... I don't suppose there is a

I assume that this is a bug, I will report it to MS, but wanted to make sure.
I installed Yahoo! messenger on build 5348.4, and for some reason I can not
delete the Yahoo! Messenger folder. So, being accustomed to XP, I go to the
Start Menu folder in both Admin and my user ...

I was wondering if anyone is having problems with explorer when you go to
move files no matter the size
it eats up so many resources that it ends up freezing its a major pain in
the buttocks

I installed (upgraded) to Beta Vista
I have a compaq and my documents were under
Compaq Ower
Now every photo, document, download everything is missing

I thought that live icon preview was enabled by default in Vista... none of
my Word, Excel or PDF documents show up that way... any idea how to enable
this great feature?

I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2.  I am wondering if there is
any central location to manage keywords/tags?  I'd like to avoid duplication
of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones
and have it dynamically update across the system.

After finally managing to enable the Administrator account, I still
apparently don't have permission to access the Documents and Settings folder.
Neither can I access the Application Data in my User folder.
So far, Vista is being extremely resrictive... I don't suppose there is a

LOOKS like microsoft has a lot of bugs to deal with, but I am overall pretty
pleased with Beta 2. Many of the programs under XP work fine without
compatability changes.
There seems to be a problem with the Explorer system. Anytime I try to

we have company data on a server, which is connected to every user using
network share (like Z:\).
I find the indexing feature quite cool and helpy, however useless on the
client's computers, since all data (thousands and thousands) files are on

Is there any way to make the Windows Search indexer more aggressive? I've
looked at 'Indexing Options' but don't see any such option.
In Windows Desktop Search (WDS) for XP there were 2 specific options. 1 to
specify whether the indexer should kick in 'sooner' rather than waiting ...

will my old programs still be ther when i upgrade to Vista?

Hello people,
i'm currently testing the search function of Windows Vista !
but it appear strange or buggy ? :-(
i explain:

I was wondering if anyone is having problems with explorer when you go to
move files no matter the size
it eats up so many resources that it ends up freezing its a major pain in
the buttocks

I am trying to email a jpeg.  When select the folder (my pictures) explorer
only shows 1 image even though I have many more.  this only occurs when I try
to upload a file using ie7.  If I navigate through the folder outside of ie7
it shows all the images.  Any ideas how to show ...