From reading around and from my own experience, there seems to be a lot of
problems with Vista Explorer remembering folder view settings (details,
icons, etc).
Whats the current state of play with this problem? Is there a solution to

Wonderful, I have all my pictures in Vista Photo Gallery, added Copyright and
Tags.
Now, I want to create slideshows. How do I do that?
The only way I could think of is: Add a special Tag for each slideshow I

Hi, when I open Windows Media Centre and click on More TV, I get an option
to download full movies from BigPond.  I clicked on the link and it tells me
I have to have the flash player installed in my browser, and won't let me go
past that point.  Trouble is I already have the ...

I have pictures of my dog, Chico, tagged as 'Chico.'  When I try to filter
search typing 'Chico' (just as the tag is spelled), it doesn't do anything.  
I can type any other tag, even rename the 'Chico' tag to 'Chinchilla' and it
works when I just type the first three letters, ...

I would like to change the decoder in media centre (vista). I just think the
TV quality is shabby and my videos (mpegs) are poor quality (lots of black
blotches all over it)
I have a copy of powerdvd. does anyone know how I make this the default

I just installed Vista on my machine and when I use Movie Maker I get a
blackish square when I drag on the edge of images/audio to change the
duration. Any ideas what causes this?

In Media Player 11 when looking at the list of songs there is a column with a
title of "#".  What is this?

When I select a file to burn to video DVD in Windows Media Center, I get the
following error:
UNSUPPORTED FILE TYPE One or more of the files you have selected is not a
supported file type and cannot be added to the list.

I'm having a problem with After Effects 7.0 Pro. I can't seem to get it to
work. I just installed it, and it would startup good. However, whenever I try
to import anything, it closes the program either with an error message or
just by itself. Anyone know what's going on?

OK, this may sound pretty dumb, but according to the online documentation, I
need to to access "tasks" from the "start screen" (it says"scroll to Tasks,
click Settings...) -- but I never see a start screen as is being described.  
I can access all tabs (library, rip, burn, etc), ...

I just imported a bunch of video clips into vista. I noticed that it was
taking forever to generate the thumbnails, and then only after I opened each
individual file. I was also getting COM surrogate errors. After doing some
research I upgraded Nero 7, to the Vista ready edition. ...

I have 2 hard drives installed both have 200gb free.  Everytime I chose to
record, my program records only a small portion of it & stops. How come I
can't record as long as I need to?
Thanks,

I just upgraded from XP to Vista Premium.  Now when I open Windows Media
Center, I get an error that says:  "The regional configuration settings for
this computer could not be determined. Please restart and try again."
Restarted, but still get the error.

I am really stuggling here. I have tried enabling the S-Vid on my card from
Nvidias drivers as well as from the Display Settings in Windows. With Nvidia
it will tell me that it will force S-Vid on but doesn't do so. It also says
that it will force detection on startup, but again ...

Vista Business.  Clean install.  Dell P4 (2GB RAM) with ATI Radeon Video and
latest Catalyst 7.1 Vista Drivers from ATI.
I'm looking for a DVD codec that allows DVD's to be played with WMP 11.
I'm not looking for full blown stand alone DVD player software, just a