vista seems to have finished indexing my hard drive, and it proudly tells me
i have over 4 billion searchable items.  how is this possible?  i have about
40,000 files on all drives, and possibly as much as 100,000 emails, but 4
billion is a rather large number.  where is it ...

After many re-installs from older betas, my disk space is rapidly
diminishing!
Can I delete the Windows.old, Windows.old.001, 002, etc. folders without
harming

I inserted a disc into my drive and found this readme.txt on it:
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This disc uses the UDF file system.
You are currently looking at the ISO 9660 part

Hi there does anybody have or has had the following problem.
When downloading files using IE7+ in the Vista Beta 2 all apears fine
however when the download has finished it effectively disapears, can't find
it anywhere even though it said it was saving in the documents folder it ...

I don't have this in my control panel and a search failed to find it.
Where is it hiding?
Thanks.

In the Local Settings directory of my username I have have 12 Application
Data folders. One inside the other and so on. Its about 12 gigs of what seems
to be completely redundant data.
There are other places that have reduntant Application Data folderes

I have a Western Digital Netcenter external network drive. Under Vista I can
see some of the files stored there but not all of them.
On other non-Vista PC's all the files stored on this drive are viewable.
Any ideas on how I can see all the files on this drive from my Vista

Every time I try a search I get the error message that the
"Searchindexer.exe" has stopped for unknown reasons.  Any suggestions for
cause or cure?

Please can someone tell me what features are extra or new in Windows Vista's
(Windows Explorer application) from Windows XP SP2 (Windows Explorer
application)?

Hi... I have troubles with searchin in Windows Explorer
If I navigate to C:\Windows\System32\ and search for net*.sys, couple of
files in drivers\ are found. However, If I navigate to C:\Windows, no items
match my search. Why? How can I search through all files on my hard disk?

I know it is supposed to be possible to sync my user folder among my personal
computers in Vista.  But I'm looking in the Sync Center in Vista Beta 2, and
all I see under "Set up new sync partnerships" is "Offline Files."
So, my question is, "How do I sync my files between my ...

while deleting files, the system launches pop ups stating that the file can
not be found and whether i would like to create it.  
Haven't seen this listed anywhere, but I have had several occurances when I
would delete a directory, or group of files. If I can take a guess at what ...

I'm trying to use the new BETA2 of Vista together with my old windows xp,
both x64 editions.
Problem is that I cant seem to get them running side by side, since some
files are created by XP then I need to read/write to them in Vista also,

When I run a CMD prompt in Vista and try to move files from one directory to
the other, I get access denied.  I am in the administrator group, but it
doesn't prompt me (of course).
I tried doing compatability on CMD.exe, but it is grayed out.

I have Vista installed alone on one drive and I have 5 other drives that
holds either my installed program and files, but I can not get them to be
indexed so everytime that I want to use the search feature in Vista, it just
take as long as in XP, perhaps even longer