When i attempted to copy some *.jpg's from the picture gallery (on the hard
drive of my new vista machine) to a data cd-rw, i received error msg "invalid
ms-dos operation", and nothing was copied.   The cd-rw is about half full of
data files including other *.jpg's  which were ...

I started Magnifier once (at the logon prompt screen) and then later disabled
it (unchecked everything).   But it still launches at every login and refuses
to be disabled despite me trying various Magnifier setups options.  It's not
in my "Startup" folder either.

I'd like to get rid of the nagging
"If you change a file extension the file may become unusable.Are you
sure...?"
message.

For no apparent reason the dialog box with the green Progress Bar that
appears when you delete a file or rename it won't shut down. If I delete a
small file the Progress Bar would normally only appear for a brief moment
before completing the task. Now however it will not go away. ...

My laptop was working fine.  Then I install Lifecam vx3000.  It worked fine.  
I shut off my computer for the night, and in the morning, it wouldn't
restart. I got a black screen with a yellow bar down the right side.  Turned
off comp and turned it back on and got a screen asking ...

For all you MVP's & "wannabes" in training, here's a few basic
rules:
1) If a poster is having hardware trouble, always respond with "It's
YOUR fault, you should have done you HOMEWORK", regardless of the

A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
Internet Explorer.  Within a few seconds, Vista froze.  Couldn't move
the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work.  A hard reset was required.
Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet

I am using Vista Premium, and Simplified Chinese IME, but the Ruby text does
not show. There is a patch in support.microsoft.com/kb/939398 which is for
Taiwan, where they use Traditional, not Simplified, characters. Does anyone
know a patch for Simplified chars, which will show ...

I have scanned documents and tried to "open with" Works word. It tells me
that it cannot open it or the file may be corrupt. What am I doing wrong.
(Vista home premium--Canoscan LIDE 70) I have been trying for months.

I had to reinstall Vista, again, because of unresolvable Blue Screens after
NVidia upgrade.  Since I've had very bad luck keeping Vista happy, I extended
the grace period as per the microsoft method so I could make sure this
install sticks (so far its better with SP1), and now ...

I have lots of bad sectors and not even able to do a restore to a previous
restore point.  I tried chkdsk/f but on restart it doesn't do the chkdsk.  I
have a Vista repair disk and I ran the repair but I still have the sector
errors that prevent going to the previous restore ...

On occasions I receive email that when I right click on and select Junk
E-Mail
the menu's items are disabled.
Can anyone tell me why this is so???

Hi, I posted this in the Office (Word) forum and it was suggested that I post
it here.
I am using Office XP (Word
2002). I have Vista Business on my computer. I often need to insert one

We are not total scumbags here in the Vista.general group.  We do
really care about our fellow posters.  I was talking with some of the
other posters and we have decided to help Adam Albright.
Here is a link that you should take a look at

I have seen many people with folders' view settings not being
remembered. My issue is that I would like to have folders on the
desktop without the navigation pane. However, getting rid of one
folder's pane gets rid of them all.