I have a laptop with windows XP on it and windows failed to load on me one
day...so now I have a new laptop because we couldn't figure out what was
wrong with it. There was no indication that the hard drive was damaged, so I
was told I could access the hard drive on my old laptop ...

What happened to this feature?  Anyone able to find it?  In XP you were able
to select a folder or a picture and choose Publish to Web..

I really can't keep up with permissions in Vista. Permissions for other users
of the computer vs. permissions for network users when sharing files - I'm
lost. And I must've done something horrible, because somehow I've slowed
explorer down to a crawl.

I always keep my data on a separate partition from the C: partition.  This
enables me to image the C: partition and restore it if there is any problem
without losing my data.
On XP you could simply move My Documents.  This doesn't appear to be

What's the command-line command to recursively delete all files and
directories with names beginning with "foo"?
"del /s foo*" doesn't work.
Doing it using the GUI, with Start/Search and searching for "name:foo" and

I'm using the Save As Dialog in my .NET application running on Vista.  When
i use this dialog to create a new folder and save my file to it, the
application knows where this file is.  However, if I use the Window's
Explorer window to then try and view this new folder, it doesn't ...

Can I install the window xp pro with vista license? I can't find the
information in microsoft website.

Well, hello, and sorry for my English :(
I have Windows Vista x64 installed. After few weeks after installation the
problem had came: in some folder I can select multiple files, in some - not.
It doesn't metter wich way to select I use: simply with mouse with left

I like the idea of the integrated Preview Pane. It's great for text files, so
that you don't need to open Notepad to read every file in a directory.
I would like to "register" many other file types with the same preview
handler. For instance, *.sql, *.cs, *.aspx .... however, I ...

Both my Pictures and my Documents menu link seems to points to Pictures and I
cant get them to change. any ideas on how I do this?

Now that Vista and Office 2007 have been RTM'd, I have installed Windows
Vista and then opened Windows Mail to check a separate issue on a Vista
Newsgroup.
I then installed Office 2007 and connected to our company Exchange Server.

Using Windows Desktop Search on XP allowed me to index all my email accounts
from our corporate Exchange (2003) server and (it then stored the index
localy).
Using Vista Search, this does not seem to be the case. Using 'Indexing

Dear colleagues,
I wonder how to create a compressed zip-file with a password in Windows
Vista without any 3rd party software.
In Win-XP we had a menu item in the file menu inside the explorer window but

No matter what options I select, I can't seem to get vista to search within
non-indexed files.
I have "always search file names and contents" checked and I am searching
"Everywhere". But vista will not show me files that contain my keyword unless

Is it just me, or didn't the folder tree in regedit expand just by clicking
on a folder, before RTM?
It was like it autoscrolled; now you have to use the bottom scrollbar when
you expand the folder tree?