Hello frieds,
Someone told me that if i format my vista and if i did not have a a
recovery drive , then i might not be able to use the same key again ....
I have installed a vista business at my pc and i want to create a

Wista B32, NTFS, latest updates installed.
After yesterday "chrome browsing" I have one file on my desktop named "Josef
Ziemer",
I tried to see its photo exif, or something else..

I am surprised that no one has respondded to my post of 2/19 on "unstable
screen". Maybe I chose a bad subject line, but this characteristic in my new
vista program where the worksheet in Excel amd other programs just
vanishishes is a very real problem that I need to solve. Can ...

I have a Dell Inspiron 530s purchased 5/08.  I upgraded from Vista to Vista
Ultimate.  I recently tried to install the Windows 7 Beta and received a
message that it could not identify my drives and I could not download the
program.

Hi yall!
I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of me

Not sure what I did, but now when I try to open a program, Adobe reader
opens. All the program icons on the desktop show Adobe. Only way to stop
it was uninstall adobe. Don't see anything in file associations to
change it. Reinstalled Adobe and it did the same thing even after I

Vista does not display any properties (e.g., Title, Subject, Keywords)
of a pdf document in either the details view of Windows Explorer or in
the details pane.  Is there any way to customize by editing the Registry
to cause these properties to display in Windows Explorer?  Thanks ...

When I'm deleting a large number of files, it takes forever.  Why is this?
This a new laptop which is supposed to be faster.  It has 4 gig memory & a
large hard drive.  It is also very slow when emptying the recycle bin.  In
fact, everything in Vista seems to be slower than in XP ...

My friends HD crashed. Before I reformatted it, I went into the Command
Prompt option from the Windows RE and copied all the files and folders to a
usb harddrive. (I used the robocopy command from the command prompt.) Now,
when I connect the hd to another machine, I cannot see ...

I created three files home exercise 1.jpg, exercise .jpg, exercise 3.jpg in
Public/Physical Therapy.  When I searched for execise in Public none of them
showed up.  When I searched for home only home execise 2.jpg showed up.  I am
using Vista Home premium.  The folder is index ...

I'm gonna post this here because there is no Win7 usenet group (yet).
Plain and simple: library search doesn't work for me at all.
I've done the steps exactly to the tutorial: add ONE folder with subfolders
(and I kept it to one tree for now)

can anyone help me. I installed an renewal of my anti-virus software, and some how all my favorites are either gone or the few that remain are not working. I had really important information in there and I dont know where it all went. This is what I have tried, I went to restore ...

Is there a way to remove the toolbars in explorer?  The one that says
organize / views / burn / and so on...  Also itd b cool to remove all the
toolbars at that.  I dont need a back and forward button or file / edit
/view...   I am in windows standard view not in aero mode so ...

There are files *without* an extension that get weird icons from
quicktime (*.mov) files or sometimes from *.srt files (I adjusted the
*.srt files to get a special icon). How can I change this. I've tried a
program called Unassoc that can unassociate file extensions but because

I am using Windows Home Premium. There is no indexing options tab in my
control panel under System and Maintenance. The Windows Search service
is started, and there are no Administrative logs on the problem. The
checkbox on each drive property windows is checked for indexing the