How do I delete a gadget from the side bar?
I know I can "detach" but how do I remove the software from my computer?
TIA
Paula

When I try to do a full image backup to DVD's, Vista says to label a disk #1
and insert it. It writes to the DVD and then starts verifying it.  After
about the same elapsed time it took to write to the DVD, It says "There was
an error in verifying the disk, please discard the ...

Does anyone know if it possible to get rid of the Shortcut 'arrow' that appears on desktop icons?
Used to be easy in XP via TweakUI. I am sure I have seen a tip where this can be done in VISTA, but I have lost the detail.
Thanks in advance.

I recently signed up to Technet Direct and installed Vista Enterprise on a
machine to play with.
So far its all been going well except when I try to use the technet website.
If i click on the subscriber benefits it will not load saying there is a

hey whats up i just bought a acomdata enclosure 509, for anyone who doesn't
know what it is, it's for making a IDE hard drive into an external hard
drive. anyways i can't find any drivers for it to work on vista. teh web
site says it will work on vista but theres no drivers.

Once I set the columns to display in Windows Explorer for a certain folder,
is there a way to propogate those columns so that all folders will show only
those columns?  From the Tools | View tab menu option, Apply to Folders
doesn't seem to work for column selections.

Hi, I'm on Vista Home Prem. I was just bragging in another post how this
upgrade install was more stable.
Anyways, usually my computer has been coming out of sleep mode better than
usual, but now I got a BSOD and an automatic restart. It then took 2 manual

My wife just got a new HP laptop that has Vista Home Premium edition
installed, and she is having trouble connecting to her work machine (running
XP Professional) with remote desktop. She regularly makes this connection
from another XP laptop, but the Vista laptop won't connect. ...

    Windows Vista is not running well in this computer
    I installed in a diferent drive , and have a dual boot system
    I will for now go back to XP
    Question :

Ok, I don't know exactly what this is for except to take up more unnecessary
space on my computer, but none the less, it is there.  Someone thought it
might be useful.  I guess there were too many people that don't know how to
read the configuration of their computer to tell if a ...

I have a program open, and I want it to stay open when I switch between users
so both can access it.  Is this possible?

I have seperate 2 Sata Drives. When I installed Vista I had XP on a partition
on drive 1 and installed Vista on a partition on drive 2. I now want to
delete XP because I'm pretty surprised by Vista's overall performance so far.
However, the partition where XP is installed is ...

If I understand the instructions for fixing the error in defender, you must
uninstall WD as the first step. How do you do this? I cannot find anything
that will allow you to uninstall any Windows components in Vista. Thanks.

in Windows XP i was able to add a file to the startup folder and, when
booting up, have windows run that file (it was a Lotus Organizer
file).
how can i do this in Vista? (Lotus Organizer is an old, old app and

Two questions:
1. Vista Home Premium insists on repopulating the recently used programs
list on the start menu with Welcome, IE and other programs that I haven't
started up even after I delete them one by one from the list. There are 8-9