I double click the c drive under My Computer. The left pane (whatever
that is) starts with a thing called "Desktop." What is that? The first
thing under Desktop is my user folder, I think.But my user file is also
under c:\users and neither one is a shortcut. It turns out that if ...

I downloaded a software file and my security software changed the file type
from *.exe to *.efw.  I need to rename the file to an exe file but have not
been able to do so.  If I right-click on the file and click rename, I can
change the name by adding .exe but the file type does ...

I recently copied over my browseui.dll, and explorer.exe files, and I
forgot to make backups and I want to switch them back, so I would like
maybe a link to thise files or something.

Dohhhh! The title should read: Batch file to close a _*folder*_.
I preface this by saying that I only have a rudimentary knowledge of
batch files. Also, I searched high and low for this information before
decided to make this post.

Out of curiosity I searched my hard drive  *.msc. The search returned over
70 msc files but most were the same file but in different locations. Some
files
names being listed in 5 different locations.

Anyone got any idea where the data files for windows calendar are located?
I lost the mobo on my old machine so I bought a new one and I'm trying
to migrate my backup from old to new and the only thing I'm unable to
find is my reminders and appointments from windows calendar. I ...

i have some questions about search history in windows vista :
1. i wonder if "Windows Search"(windows logo button + F) stores a
history of my previous done searches. Can you please tell me where does
"Windows Search" keep this history? If so, how can this be deleted?

I just have a quick question; I am using 3rd party software to move
music from my ipod to my computer.  However, recently, I copied several
folders over to my itunes folder, realized they didn't have the proper
labeling they had on the ipod, and so I decided to delete them and start

-I was going through my folders and in my doctemp folder I have four
folders f3644, kp319,up839,uu480. Can I get rid of these? most of the
file are little dell GIF images and JPEGS, the uu480 is a veiw of my PC.
Or should I leave them.-

Not sure if this is the right group for this question or not, but it's
about Windows Explorer, which is used for file management...
In this case, "HP" stands for "Home Premium" and "Hewlett-Packard".
I have an HP Pavilion Vista Home Premium 64bit that I bought last week

I recently deleted some downloads but the shortcuts still show up when I type
the name into search. The path is
recent items (c:\users\admin\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows)
but when I attempt to delete the file, I get an error message saying that

Can someone please help me? I installed Net Tool 5. But when I run it, I
get the error "Component 'Mswinsck.ocx' or one of its dependencies not
correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid". I've look for help
other places and was told to use a program called RegCure. It only ...

I use Vista Home Basic.
Whenever I use Recent Items (under Start selection) for re-running previous
documents, I always get
old items sorted out by 'abc' order.

I'm experiencing a strange problem.
I have two Vista biz pcs, one is a laptop and the other is a desktop.
I have prchased a network RAID drive for backups and storage and I have
created 3 volumes over this drive.

I have Windows Vista Home Premium.
A weird problem is being faced. I had created a folder in my Documents
folder, and after I had finished with it, I deleted it. But it refuses to
stay deleted, It keeps recreating itself every time I start the machine. I