Microsoft wants $59 to answer this question. I guess this forum is to keep
them from having to pay tech support.
My question, if anyone would be kind enough to answer, is how to fix the
favorites button. When I hit that button in IE it points to a file that

OK, I must be missing something obvious...
How do I do an XP style search?  You remember, right-click a folder,
click "Search", and have Vista search the selected folder?  I've been
unable to find this primitive operation.

Ok I've got this problem:
The User folders, containing documents, pictures, music, video's and stuff
normally normally have nice specific icons for each folder, like most folders
in the picture:

All of a sudden some programs start and go away, some others won't even
start.
As an example: I start "Gspot v2.70a", it starts and the progress bar starts
moving to the end; and then Gspot closes.

After SP1 pushed to 64 bit ultimate, I got an error message when my weekly
backup ran. After much trial and error, I found that the DVD recording
capabilities are gone. CD still works. As a temporary workaround, I
connected an external hard drive until I figure this out. ...

I can't see thumbnails of documents in explorer in my windows vista home
prermium despite that the "always show icons" box is unchecked. How can I
enable this feature?

Hi, I want to know how I can reset to the default programs for opening a file..
For example, I've got an .sav file from my Halo game folder, and one day I
was just fiddling around with the folders and I accidently clicked it and
chose Adobe Reader as the program.. then I tried ...

When I open a folder with a list of files for all View Options, the files are
not listed in proper ascending sequence. I indexed the files to make sure
that indexing may not be the factor in the Sort By Name not working properly.
After the files were indexed, clicked the Sort By ...

Riddle me this, why does Vista think this folder is of type "Pictures and Videos"?
Whoever implemented this feature needs to be made aware of the annoyance they are causing a lot of people.  Where is the button for that "we share your pain electric shock buzzer" cause I want to ...

How do i change an attachment code from xls  to PDF

up until this week when i downloaded files were large, windows automatically
compressed them, placing them in a folder with a zipper on it. all of a
sudden it does not do that anymore.
that part of vista is not working. my computer is a month old. i understand

I believe I've found a bug in Windows Explorer that I can reproduce reliably.
If anyone can get this to a QA engineer in the Vista group at Microsoft, I'd
appreciate it.  Here's how to reproduce:
1.  Open the Windows explorer browser (not Internet Explorer).  Set it up so

Is it possible to stop Vista wasting time on this stupidity every time I use
Explorer to copy anything. For example, I just copied a 4.3Gb DVD ISO
between two drives. It took Vista about 20 seconds to tell me that the copy
was going to take 15 minutes: it actually took about 6 ...

ALL of my documents have disappeared and I cannot find them in the recycle
bin or by searching Explorer.  Even the documents icon is gone.  Any ideas on
how to find them?

I recently installed a game on Vista Home Premium and after uninstalling it I
noticed that there was alot of files for the game left in the appdata local
folder. I found the folder and it was labeled Ubisoft ( maker of game ) and I
was wondering can I delete this folder? also why ...