I have Windows Vista Home Premium. (I know it sucks) How can I back up only
my music files. The back up wizard wants to back up the windows drive at the
very least. My music files are on a different drive and I want to back up
those files on a regular basis to an external drive. ...

I'm using windows mail on Vista.
I opened an e-mail, opened the word attachment and worked for 5-6 hrs saving
all the time.  I did not "save as" just hit the save button.
Any idea on how to find my file.  Normal search doesn't work.

I apparently have a damaged drive. I ran chkdsk C: on vista and it said
the Volume Bitmap is incorrect. i have vista set up to run chkdsk /f on
start up, but when it starts, chkdsk sits there at 0% and does not move.

Even 8dot3 never had this problem.
Error message 'File or Folder does not exist'
Have 23 Folders with just the name New Folder
and a number.  This has to be the worst

WHen I attempt to move a ppt file in windows explorer it shuts down.  I am
directed to KB938979.  WHen I attempt to load the fix I get the message, does
nto apply to your system.  I have a 32 bit system and I am choosing the fix
for the 32 bit system.

I generated some files in my matlab code using 'save' command, but it is not
seen on windows explorer. I've already checked using 'command prompt' that
the file does not exist.
However, I can still see the generated files in Current Directory window of

Hi,
I'd like to delete the folders that appear in the user directory -
music, video etc.  I'm the only user of the computer.  I presume you do
so editing these reg keys:

I have Windows Vista Home Basic and as I'm a computer novice I originally
bought several weighty bestselling tomes (Vista for...) and pc fix mags
thinking I'd be set up with all proper apps for running and troubleshooting
Vista.  Turns out lots of these sources just plain wrong ...

I'm using the Vista backup utility every week. On the first week I did a
full Backup and since then I've been doing incrementals. Oh, I have the
Vista Home Premium version of Backup. I've noticed that my incremental
backups are very large (gigabytes) despite fact that I've hardly ...

Does anybody know how I can find the icons was usually i earlier verisons
of Windows in Vista? I miss the icons as "Delete", "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste"
in Vista!

I have backed up my files using the standard recommendations in Vista, i.e.
the Vista Backup and Restore Center. Now my Vista PC is down, and I need
access to the files. For this, I only have my old PC runing on XP. How do I
open the Vista backed-up files on the XP machine?

In a flurry of adding/removing, somehow I deleted the shortcuts and Icons for
the recycle bin and the shortcut to my Defragmenter.  I know there are ways
to get there, but I would really like to retreive those Icons/shortcuts.  Any
thoughts, other than it was an inattentive thing ...

When I go to C/Local Disk the display reads as a list of music files with
Name- Artist - Album-Genre etc - I cannot get it to display as a list of
files as normally expected.
OS vista Business - also have iTunes - is this the cause?

Marjorie here.  Somebody please help me.  I spent an hour or more today
getting footage that can't be replicated.  I copied all the image and video
files from my camera to my hard drive (Vista) and, once successful, deleted
them from the flash drive.  

Please help me!
I can not find any way to add the buttons Delete, Cut, Paste and Copy to the
Windows explorer toolbar. I cannot find them anywhrer. (windows vista version
6.0, Build 6000)