When I try to use the Search function in Explorer (search C:\), it
almost consistently fails to find the file, yet when I do a manual
search, the file is there in all it's glory. I've checked spellings,
used wildcards, etc., but still Explorer fails to find the files. Any

When i plug in the usb it flashes up 'removeable disc' and a drive letter
but it vanishes straight away, when i pull the usb out it flashes up again
and then vanishes. While its plugged in I can't find it on any searches?

just got a new computer with vista and when i right click on the desktop and
go to the "new" menu, it's empty. no "create folder" or "create shortcut" or
anything at all. it just says (empty). any ideas?

I recently copied word documents to disc. It copied correctly. Now I cannot
access the info on the disc because the original file/shortcut was deleted
from my computer. Can anyone help me with this so I don't lose all my
documents.

hi there im new here so hope im the right section :)
im also new to vista but having trouble
what ive done is transfered the music and videos from my mobile phone
to my computer by the memory card while i got a new phone

Somehow when I was wiping off my keyboard I must have renamed my recycle bin
(you know how that stuff happens) ... so I saw that it was numbered. I
renamed it Recycle Bin like it should be. Well when I go into Personalization

When I search for all my Word documents, 478 results appear, but I only have
239. Each real file has a paired search result that is from an old file
location. I used to store the file in such location but I moved it. I did
this by moving a high-level folder, i.e. I changed the ...

I have just rebuilt my PC to Vista RC2 build 5744.  Before undertaking a wipe
a load I took a complete system backup using the backup utility on RC1.  This
was onto a USB drive (drive E).  Now I want to restore some files but are
unable to.

Windows defender alerts me when it blocks one of my start-up programs.
Trouble is, it keeps alerting me throughout the day.
I want to turn the alerts off.
In Defender-Tools-Default Actions, I have set High Alert, Medium Alert and

Can anybody tell me where to find the temp internet Video file stored on the
PC while browsing the internet. I was watching video's from I tube site when
i click on some video it gets downloaded on the pc and then plays. I want to
know in which folder these files gets stored in ...

I have somehow maneged to link two of my shellfolders together.
Therefore I now have two Music folders and no Documents folder. I can of
course change the name and have two Documents folder and no music
folder. Every change I make to one of them appears in the other. If I

I'm in the process of transferring my Hi8 video tapes to my PC for safe
keeping.  The one drawback I see with the Hi8 tapes is that if the camcorder
dies, so does my playback mechanism.  To get the highest quality I'm
creating AVI files, and each tape is approximately 13 GB of ...

Hi, Could anybody help me find out how to stop showing my 'communications'
section when i search for other documents?

when i click Organize i c the icon folder and search option is inactive
i can't click on it ..... its not working
hope u understand what i mean

I have Vista on two of my computers and for the most part like the new OS.  
The only thing I do not like are the style of folders in Vista.  I liked the
folders in XP because you could see what was in the folder by the small icons
on the front of the folders.  I have thousands of ...