My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my
new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try opening files from it I'm getting
trouble with permission.  
I have tried changing permissions on the security tab of properties but not

Running 'Create Backup' for the first time with Vista Home Premium (to a new
500GB external hard drive) repeatedly results in a failure message "The
system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)", although none is
specified!!!

I DONWLOADED SOME FILES FROM LIMEWIRE, THEN I ERASED THEM FROM WHERE THEY
WERE, AND NOW WHEN I SEARCH THEM ON WINDOWS, THEY STILL ARE THERE, BUT WHEN I
TRY TO ERASE THEM AGAIN IT APPEARS TO BE A PROBLEM BECAUSE IT SAYS THAT IVE
MOVED THEM OR THEY COULD NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE SO ...

I don't know how this happened as I did NOT change or alter any settings.  I
did surf the net yesterday.
Whenever I cut a folder and paste it elsewhere, it puts the two people
shared icon on it.  When I hit the folder properties, it states that the

All my files and folders, whether in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, appear in
reverse alphabetical order (e.g., when I click the "Open" button on the
standard toolbar, the dialogue box opens, but all the files are listed in
reverse alphabetical order).  This just occurred yesterday, ...

Hey guys . The wendows defender stopped working . The antivirus I have
is gone ( Kasparasky) , The Admisistrative tools wendow is empty . I
can't start the office any more . most of the start manue applications
are gone includug the system restore .

My hard drive crashed and i'm trying to locate and restore my data files from
my bad drive to my new hard drive.  
Where do i find the .pst file?  When i try to look through OUtlook, it says
it's in appdata/. There is no appdata subfolder.

Hi all, just started using Vista Premium.  Where is the search function
similar to XP where I select the search parameters, eg. My computer, Cdrive,
Ddrive etc?
Mickey

Hey all - does anyone know how you get the shortcuts back in the sidebar
of explorer?
Just to show you what i'm going on about here's them from a screenshot
i'd taken a few days ago:

Hello! I installed "The Sims 2" on my computer but uninstalled it the next
day as I have Windows Vista and it wasn't really compatible, but the desktop
shortcut is still there. I have tried right-clicking to delete it but a
message appears saying that it cannot find the file ...

Reccently I made the mistake of letting my girlfriend take my laptop with her
on a road trip when it came back all of the folder names that had a space in
them have been replaced with a %20. Any ideas what she did?

In the process of migrating from old to new computer I copied a large number
(80,000+) of files onto an external drive with WIndows XP (no problem). Now I
want to copy them to the new computer but get "Could not find this item.  
This is no longer located in ..." It says this for ...

Does vista backup and restore backup everything I have in my user account
folder?  For example the user account I use I named "Bob1".  Does vista
backup and restore backup everything in "Bob1"?
I use windows mail for my email.  Does vista backup and restore backup all

I accidentally replaced a file with an older version. They were copied in two
different locations so when I was moving files, it asked me to delete one
file. I deleted the wrong one...any way to salvage it? Thanks! S

After Vista Home Premium SP1 I cannot open Word files through desktop
Documents.  If I open Word I can bring up files without any difficulty from
there.   Also can't open attachments on Windows Mail.  Was ok before sp1 but
this may be coincidence.  Any advice?  Rod.