I recently moved a hard drive to a new computer and I can't gain read/write
access to my old folders.  
My computer puked.  I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard.  So, I bought a
new tower and moved the hard drive.  Old system XP, new system Vista.

When I download files using a third party downloader (Free Agent) or not, the
files are downloaded to the directory that I specify but Windows Explorer
(Vista Home Basic) can't see them.
If I go to another program, say Windows Media Player>open> show all files;

One thing I notice when I download a file through pc to
users\name\downloads, or use Getright and send download to a file called
downloads, when I click on file name to call download I notice below it
evey single file name I downloaded in the past, and a lot I have already

I think since XP SP2 days, a new security attribute was added to files
such that files that came in by IM, email, or across the network were
separately identified and blocked from being executed.  To unblock,
one need to go the Properties of the file and then click the Unblock

For numerous file types (pictures, movies, music amoung others), Vista does
not seem to update the "date accessed" file attribute after the file has been
opened/viewed.  Does anyone know why?  Or alternatively, what needs to be
done to get the file attribute to be updated?

I am unable to associate .tpo files w/the default program, Topo.  I use the
Set Association feature and when I get to Open With I navigate to the
topo.exe file but it never shows up in the list of Other Programs.  Why oh
why??

somehow or other my solitare game for windows has dissipeared. I've gone to
control and tried to see if it was on the games to reload it on my windows
but failed How can I get a copy of just the regular games that was on my
windows xp?

I want to get rid of vista and install xp pro on my computer.   I
purchased a full install version of xp.  
Xp won't install over a newer version.  I can't fdisk with vista.  I
can't figure out how to delete the primary partition and completely

I have a serious problem which makes Vista practically unusable on my
amd64 machine. Here is an example of it:
Having changed my default browser, the .html and .htm file associations

Couple questions about explorer.exe and what it shows as "Computer".
Is there a way to configure "Windows Explorer", which I think is still
invoked by "explorer.exe", to open by default in the quasi/pseudo-directory
shown in explorer and on desktop as "computer", what previously I ...

This is test to see if I can send message and receive reply using posting
alias.

I have just noticed that my desktop location has changed from
users\"user name"\Desktop            to
users\"user name"\Contacts\Desktop
I cant seem to figure out why this has happened or how do I fix it ..

How the F@^!@ do I delete the stupid sync crap. I accidentaly hit make
available offline on a server and I cannot get this POS to stop!!! IT IS
SERIOUSLY F'ING UP EVERYTHING
HELP!!!!!!!

I dunno what I've done but my favourite links folder has gone!
Anyone know how i can get it back???
I'm on Vista.
Any help will be appreciated as I'm getting stressed with this.

i delete items then go in and check there still in files but deleted i like
delete that to