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Via long distance, I'm trying to help my mother-in-law with a new Vista computer
she got from Dell.  It came out of the box and seems to work.
Now the thing is that she has a CD someone made of her personal files from her
old system that died and she'd like to load those ...

How do I get rid of the sidebar but not the gadgets? Anotherwords have the
gadgets float on the screen? John

I detest those shortcut arrows that get put on all the desktop icons. I used
Tweak UI in XP to get rid of them but can't find anything that works in
Vista.  I tried Frameworkx that did absolutely nothing.  Are there any easy
solutions?

I can't get my Vista 64 bit computer to turn of the monitor (after 10 minutes
of no operation), and to turn to sleep mode (after 20 minutes) in power plan:
high performance.
Both functions are available when in power plan: balanced. But I want to

This problem suddenly began occurring about 2 days ago, and nothing that I
have been able to do has fixed it permanently.
I had my Quick Launch toolbar on the Windows taskbar set to show only four
icons, which I had arranged in a specific order. This has worked fine for all

I was playing around with Ease of Access Center on the logon screen and
enabled Narrator. Now, everytimes I log on into my account, Narrator will be
started. This only happen to my account only. All other accounts are not
afffected. I tried in vain to disable it but so far to no ...

I also believe that you should be able to warship the GOAD of your choice.
On my money it says In GOAD we trust.

If I create a folder (directory) named "temp", Vista search will not
find a file in it, even though it is checked under indexing options. In
fact, if a folder named "temp" appears anywhere in the path, no files
below that level will be indexed or searchable.   I'm not talking about

Please help! I obtained a 64 bit Vista Home HP Pavillion 9700 Laptop;
the idea was, I would write data to the DVD drive, on RW discs, then
insert in my PC - but when I wish to make changes on same, am told the
Disc is 'Read-Only.'

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Does anyone know how to stop IIS starting at startup? I used to turn it to
Manual in Services in XP, but I cant see it in Services in Vista. The IIS
Control panel just has Start and Stop and I cant find anything about not
starting it at startup.

The taskbar won't allow me to unlock it, even through the control
panel.
I think this has something to do with the fact that my computer
doesn't seem to want to store any data for any forms or menus. Even if

In my laptop when I am trying to  view  CD  (E: drive folder )   , the
system will push the CD into outside and will show the following message
'Please insert the cd'  . the system is showing E drive in its explorer ,
But I can't play the CD . At any time when I an trying to play ...

i have been trying to access my usb hard drive (formatted in xfs to connect
to a nas drive).the nas wont pick it up any more so i have tried ufs explorer
and it says there is a missing or damaged superblock ,does this mean that the
data is no good now and the drive needs to be ...