I applied both fixes this morning and the rumoured file copy
performance improvement is real and substantial.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979

Also I lost my recyclebin by deleting it accidently from the desktop. After
the following procedure I managed to get it back on the desktop:
"Right-click on the Desktop and select Personalize.  Under Tasks on the left
pane select Change desktop icons.  Check the Recycle Bin box".

I have no sound coming from my laptop. It does not play media files or any
thing on the internet. Any suggestions? It shows that its working and I
figure it should be playing then. Problem arises when i hook up headphones to
external jack. thanks

I am running vista ultimate, and have scheduled backups that do not run if
user is logged off. The backups are sent to network drive specified with UNC.
Is there any way to have scheduled backups run if user is not logged in? By
the way we are running in a domain setup.

It ends up, unfortunately, my backup of my Vista partition is basically, useless.  You don't want to know the details they are far too ugly.
So I have an ISO image of Visual Studio.  How can I best friend that onto a DVD?
Right clicking it and trying a send to DVD does not appear ...

I have created a sysprep XML answer file for Windows Vista and when I tested
this answer file on my test network everything was fine.  I then went to run
the same answer file on a computer I was going to use as a master image,
which was configured the same as the testing computer ...

How can I convert my MOV video files so that I can import them into Movie
Maker?  Thanks!

I have a dual core processor and run Vista, when I run a single threaded
number-crunching application which is very CPU heavy I noticed a strange
behaviour. Vista is scheduling the application on both cores, resulting
in a 50% load on each core.

I have recently bought a USB Flash Drive 2GB and wish to add password
protection to it so it cannot be accessed by anybody other than myself.
However, many of the programs i have tried so far are complicated and
difficult to use. All i want is the following to happen;

My computer crashed (went into a blue screen) and then restarted.  After the
restart my desktop was filled with the my computer type icons that I had
originally deleted and added to the quick launch.  I can't delete these now.  
I got to delete and it looks as if it's being ...

I just installed Vistal Ultimate on a new PC.  I ran into problems with the
drivers for my DVD-ROM, and so I went to the manufacturer and downloaded
some new drivers.  When I was installing the drivers I got the following
error message:

Can someone tell me where I can find the list of "installed programs" in
Vista? I looked here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall
and though most of my installs were listed, several "invalid entries" I'd

See article in context at: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html#v05
Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology ...

I discovered that when starting to type program names in the start
button search bar, all entries in the "Programs" menu are found, but
the ones that have some {GUID} instead of links to .exe files won't
start.

I recently bought a new laptop with Vista already installed on it.  I was
able to create new folders in Explorer without issue.  In the last few days I
cannot use the New -> Folder option.  The next window that allows me to name
the folder never comes up & a folder called "new ...