The xp 'search' command might have been slow, but at least it found the
files I was looking for. The Vista version is quick, but cannot find files I
know to exist.
Can I get the xp version of search back ?

ok,, i have installed xp sp2 32 bit onto a sata h/drive. its run perfect, i
then install vista 64 bit onto another sata hard drive,, (not a partition,,
another sata drive) vista now runs perfect, when i go to my computer, i can
see all drives and access all files in xp from vista ...

I opened up the Vista Font manager and was shocked to find there were over
1700 fonts installed on my system. Won't this many fonts impact the my
system's capabilities just as it does in other Windows versions?  I suspect
most of these were installed as a result of 2 word ...

I have a couple of shared folders I want anyone on my internal network
to be able to access. I thought I had set up the permissions correctly
but they still get access denied messages. How can I share to
everyone? I have given the everyone group full contro but my daughter

Can someone explain why the Vista backup program, which is supposed to be an
"incremental" backup, is backing up all my applicable files each time, taking
a full 2 or 3 hours, and filling up my backup hard drive??? I know have 4
complete backups. What is it about this backup ...

cPetty I know, but I'm trying to learn to live with my new Vista WMP 11. All
seems to be OK so far. Could someone give me a clue as to how to change the
lite-blue background to a darker color like gray. The screen doesn't give
enough contrast making it difficult to read. Yes, ...

hi,  i see there is a way to modify power plans as to sleep modes and such
whether the computer is on ac or battery power.
is there a way to have it be on balanced/low performance while on battery
and high performance while on ac?

Can windows photo gallery be used in windows xp?

Ya'll,
Today my new HP 'puter with Vista decided to give me an error instead of
running my screen saver (the factory "Aurora" one). I get an error that
states, "The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or

the attached JPEG is what I received when launching Visual Studio 2005
Professional under Vista Ultimate, both the Microsoft products when last
I looked...

Hi I am rinning Vista on my home pc and use 3 external hard drives is it
possable to install XP on one of them and how can I boot from That drive (
the dreves are usb) Thanks

I want to reinstall Vista (my system has got really cluttered up with
all sorts of rubbish).
At the same time, I'm going to replace the graphics card and add some
memory.

As of last week after some problems and a crash ----I re-installed my PC,
being a 680Sli MOBO, 4 Gb memory and a raid 5 (3 x 320 Gb) and a JBOD of 3x
500 gb and a NAS 500Gb a Cie, etc. Vista Home Premium was installed and
confrontated me with a acpi.sys error and a very slow ...

I have a Dell E520 with Vista Home Premium and the taskbar keeps messing up.
It will stop responding, start fading and moving the items. The only way to
fix it is ctrl alt delete to start the task manager so I can end the
explorer.exe process and the restart it. I have tried all ...

My new Laptop has vista and a trial home and student office. Trial has run
out and from my old/unusable computer I have an XP office version. If I
uninstall home and student can I run office Xp version on vista?