I've got Vista Premium Upgrade and wanted to know if  the Vista install will
carve out space for another partition on an existing drive (say one in which
XP is already installed).  I'd feel more comfortable doing a Dual boot
between Vista and XP Home until I know how well Vista ...

In Explorer directory tree in left pane has Mac-style triangles or plus-sign
boxes to indicate that sub-directories exist.  When focus is on left pane
they appear fine.  When focus moves to explorer's right pane they all vanish,
leaving only the vertical lines "between" the ...

I recently installed Vista onto an 80 GB hard drive, intending to just
check it out, but I now intend to use it as my main OS, and I'd like
to move it over to a newer, more reliable 120 GB hard drive, which
I've never done before. Could anyone tell me the easiest, most

I'm having the same problem.  This is a brand new laptop, clean install from

i have recently installed Vista Premium and trying to move files in my new
harddrive but am running into problems.
I'm trying to move files from a second harddrive using drag and drop with
the right mouse button and selecting "move files"..  everything seems fine,

What's the deal??? I downloaded an executable file to my computer, click on
it, and up came a  dialog window wanting me to associate a program with an
.exe file. I happened to know that this particular file was a self extracting
zip file so I selected WinZip. Only because I ...

How can I search for a text string in ALL files, every single one, I don't
care if it is txt, zip, or other binary file. If it is a file (takes up space
on hard drive), then I want to search it. Currently I can't find anything
because Vista refuses to check files other than txt, ...

Before I upgraded from XP pro to Vista Business I moved all of my folders and
files that were under My Documents to an external USB hard drive. I then
changed the default directory for My Documents to that location and
everything worked like a champ. Then I upgrade to Vista ...

I made some changes to my personal folder as I store my files on a separate
hard drive.
My Navigation Pane now indicates that it is (empty).
Would like to drag some folders from my separate hard drive to the

I have a C-drive (160GB) for my programs and a D-drive (400GB) for my
pictures, music etc...
I want to save my pictures and music in the public file for pictures and
music. However this file is per definition on the C-drive and I cannot change

There appear to be file backups made of my original Windows XP install when
I upgraded to Vista Home Premium.
Is it required that the directories be maintained or can they be deleted
once things seem to be in working order and no plans to revert.

I do not know why but when I right click and select new shortcut nothing
happens.
As this is the first time I have tried to create a shortcut I do not know
when or what I did to cause it, or maybe it is not what I have done?

If I move data from one partition to another one, through an Acronis
TrueImage backup, will the NTFS permission be transferred as well, or will
they be reset to the standard permissions already set on the target
partitions?

After having Vista since 2/1, I am running into more minor file/directory
problems(See list at end).
   No one has posted any solutions. I did try: Startup Repair from VISTA CD
and SFC /SCANNOW(System File Checker)! Please note that everything works fine

Everytime I try to rename an extension Windows asks me if I'm sure I want to.
Is there any way to disable that dialog?