I have a folder on my external hard drive called $Recycle.bin with several
subfolders
under that that they're called Recycle Bin. There is also is the same folder
on my c: drive.

Whenever I click on any of my folders they just won't open I cant even
right click on them and press open!! no folders wil open it just says
that windows explorer is not responding!! whatcan I do to fix this??

When i empty the recycle bin, all the items appear again once i restart
my laptop like it was before deleted to recycle bin..
Any suggestions to permanently deleted these items.

If I create a shortcut to a file and then subsequently move the file,
the shortcut no longer works (error message: "The item ... that this
shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no
longer work properly.") When I do this on my XP-Pro machine, XP will

My sweety and I take pictures and store them in folders.  I label mine like
this 2009 09 22. My sweety does 2009-09-22.  We figured that way they would
appear by date and each of ours would be separate.  But the order comes out
like this

Does DIR normally display hidden files?
On my system it does, regardless of the setting in folder options. I have to use the /a-h option to stop that behavior.
This seems different from what I remember on my old XP system, and seems to contradict the explanation of the DIR command, ...

Running Vista Home Premium 64 bit.  When you open a folder there are several
columns one of which is "Tags".  Is there any way to permanently remove this
column from all folders and subfolders or do I have to do this individually
for each folder and subfolder? I've checked the ...

Good Morning,
Recently I've been having problems with my Vista Ultimate.
1. It is my personal laptop with two users, me and Administrator.
2. While installing a program, I keep getting c:\Documents and Settings\All Users cannot be found. Install terminates.

for some reason, explorer has a tendency to freeze up for a few seconds,
when i create a new folder and apply its file name
any idea of what's up with this?

My new laptop has two partitions.  One (C) is labeled Vista OS & the
other (D) data.  Everything is going into the Vista OS partition.  How
do I set this up so that all my data (documents, photos, videos etc etc)
goes into partition D (Data)

I have an Access database I have to replace in a folder under program
files.
I can delete the file. I can copy the new version to the folder. But
when I open the file it's the old version.

I have Vista Home Premium Edition installed in my system.  Recently, due
to a problem with corrupted protected system files, I was forced to
conduct a clean re-install of the operating system.Before re-installing
Vista, I backed up my all data including softwares into an external ...