how do I set folder options to still save documents in them but keep them
from being deleted by someone else?

I have Vista ultimate on a partitioned hard drive (C:).  The other partition
is a Windows XP OS (D:).  I would like to trim down the D: drive to a more
reasonable size; my first estimates (when reformatting) were a little high.
I want to take some space away from D: and allot ...

Is there a possibility to set the Windows Explorer so, that a single click on
a node's name in the navigation tree opens the tree?
This behaviour was working in Windows XP and was much better than now in
Vista where we need to find first the little tiny arrows on the left.

Amidst thinking I may have lost the files in my C Drive while upgrading from
XP to Vista. I think I've somehow copied my C Drive twice because before and
immediately after the upgrade I had used 44 Gigs of my harddrive. Now it's
saying I've got close to over 80 gigs of used space ...

Vista HP experience...
1/ Preview Pane does not show a Preview for shortcuts (e.g. to images) but
the Details Pane does... be consistent - show previews in both (the preview
pane can be larger)

When I click on the "Computer" icon on my desktop or when I click on the
"Computer" icon in windows explorer I get a blank page.  Previously I
saw the C & D drives and my cd-rom drive.  Can someone help me get them
back?

Just installed Vista. Not terribly wild about it so far. Willing to give it a
chance, though.
On Windows Explorer, what has happened to the ability to customize the
toolbars? I used to be able to add cut/copy/paste/delete icons to the

All my files and folder now display the dates they were created or last
opened and not the file names. I have tried right clicking on the desktop and
personalizin but that does not open as well.. I cant even go into user
accounts....Please help

A recent Microsoft note '8 timesaving tips for Windows Vista and the 2007
Microsoft Office release' pointed me to a way of previewing a file etc,
without actually opening the file.  This facility would be very useful to me;
BUT.... when I go to START<COMPUTER<ORGANIZE<LAYOUT - I ...

Hi, I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and a have a small but very
annoying issue, on my "Downloads" personal folder in C:/Users/[myname], the
regular, cool blue and green folder is replaced by a regular manilla folder
with an icon of album art (from a song) I put in the ...

How long do items stay in the recycle bin for?

I keep some customer documents, Excel and Word files, in a folder. The folder
is on a network share.
Periodically I need to search these documents for the presence of a string
of text. This is simply, quickly and intuitively done in XP.

I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?

Hi, I was attempting to move the Documents folder to another partition of my
hard drive when I lost it and can't restore it from the recycle bin - is
there any way I can get it back?  It was empty so not worrying about it's
contents, just need to have it restored as it was ...

Back in the XP days, Windows would generate a thumbs.db file to cache your
thumbnails.  This was easy enough to stop when I did not want it because
there was a folder option to disable it.  Now, in Vista, it seems thumbs.db
is back with a vengeance.