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Chad,

Your way will show the Title, Author, Subject columns indeed, but they will
be EMPTY!!. For those who don't type in Title authors for their pdf files,
it's obviously not a problem. But for me, the title and authors info, which I
keyed in myself, is very important, not just the file name.

I'm trying to ask Microsoft but it doesn't want to support OEM Vista.

Cwret

If you document the issues you are seeing, someone might be able to help.

First, you should post this message to the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing newsgroup. Here is a link
to that group.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing

There is also a blog available, maintained by the Microsoft Core File
Services Team, that has an endless amount of information on the new file
protocols in Vista. Here is that link with the results of a search for
"Sync".

The Filing Cabinet : Search Results For Sync:
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/search.aspx?q=Sync&p=1

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After the fourth crash of my laptop of 5-years I upgraded to a new one which came with Vista Home Premium. I ALWAYS used PCAnyWhere to sync my laptop with my desktop. It's a piece of cake to do so with PCAnyWhere. Unfortunately I would have to upgrade to a newer version of PCAnyWhere for it to work with Vista. After reading all the MS hoopla about the capabilities of the new SYNC feature, I decided to just upgrade to Vista Ultimate so I could sync with my Networked device. I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the poor design of SYNC incorporated in Vista. It is totally bogus the statements that one can keep a specified folder on the laptop in sync with a corresponding folder on the network. I earnestly recommend that Microsoft redesign this application to make it so. The "Offline" feature is not satisfactory. Nor is the "Folder Share" subscription. I've been in this business for over 40-years, and, my friends, this is the poorest new feature MS has come out with yet. -- CW3RET

Josh

From yopur description, it's not real clear what you are seeing?

When you open Windows Explorer, you should see your user profile folder at
the top of the Navigation Pane on the left side of the window. This same
folder also exists in the C:\Users\your username. These are not duplicate
folders. The folders at the top of the navigation pane are simply a mirror
copy of the actual folders that exist at C:\Users\your username. They are
mirrored there for convenience.

If you want the user folder at the top of the navigation pane to show the
same folders that you see in the C:\Users location, you need to go to
Organize/Folder and Search Options/View Tab. Select the Show Hidden Files
and Folders option there.

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"Josh Young" <joshyoung77@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I don't know how I did this but I have my user profile showing up under my user profile when looking at it in the explorer, but it isn't showing up in the file system like that. How do I get rid of this extra profile folder that keeps showing up in my home folder when I open up my home folder from the start menu? Remember it is only when looking at it in the home folder in windows, not when you go to the file system and go to your profile folder. I also moved my contacts folder back to my profile but I accidentally moved it to the same location as my profile and I don't have a contacts folder anymore and don't know how to make another one. I keep getting new contacts in my C:\Users\<Profile> directory too. How do I tell the system where my contacts folder is by assigning it another folder and getting the icon back as well? This is a highly complex system and it can be easily messed up if you have any IT experience.

Bob

It depends on where you are copying and pasting the folders/files. Areas
such as C:\Program Files, C:\Windows, the Root of C:, some user folders, etc
are heavily protected by security permissions. Moving folders and files in
these areas should be something that is rarely done.

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The number one annoyance to me in Vista is the number of confirmation dialogs presented doing a simple folder paste overwrite. In XP yes to all handled it in one click but in Vista seems to be confirmations for both files and every subfolder :( No way to having it the old way (1 click does it all) in Vista?

Quote:

Security tab for the file and the directory it's in says full control for SYSTEM, Administrators, and my own username, so I don't see why I should need to be administrator. It seems this permissions stuff needs a bit of work before it can really be usable. Daniel It sounds like you may need to "Take Ownership" of that file before you can modify it. This link will show you how to do it. snip

I already know how to do it, I'm just sick of having to do it five times a
day just to get work done. How is it that files created by myself aren't
owned by myself?

Daniel

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Daniel Noll;422090 Wrote:

Quote:

Security tab for the file and the directory it's in says full control for SYSTEM, Administrators, and my own username, so I don't see why I should need to be administrator. It seems this permissions stuff needs a bit of work before it can really be usable. Daniel It sounds like you may need to "Take Ownership" of that file before you can modify it. This link will show you how to do it. snip I already know how to do it, I'm just sick of having to do it five times a day just to get work done. How is it that files created by myself aren't owned by myself? Daniel -- Daniel Noll Nuix Pty Ltd Suite 79, 89 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia Ph: +61 2 9280 0699 Web: 'Home - Nuix - Makers of fbi Communications & Data Analysis Software' (http://nuix.com/) Fax: +61 2 9212 6902

Daniel,

Yeah, Vista is very protective of it's system files. The default
administrator account that Vista gives you at setup is basically like a
Standard account that you can give permission to run something with
administrator privileges. Then it just adds another layer of protection
by adding this kind of protection for the system files. Even if you
created them. It is all in a effort to protect your system from being
taken over by a rogue program.

However, you can enable the real built-in administrator account that
has almost full access like in XP. This is the same one that you boot
into safe mode with. You can enable this account and do all your work
in it and just use you default restricted administrator account that
Vista gave you for every day stuff. Here is a link for how to enable
the main administrator account.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Thanks Dave, but I have the latest version (2.0 1606) of Foxit Reader installed.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Dave Wood [MS] wrote:

Quote:

As long as you have the *latest* version of Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader then Vista search should be able to search the contents of PDF files. These products include a plug-in into the Vista search indexer that makes it possible for these files to be indexed and searched. "Bert Kinney" wrote Hi John, Yes, the Vista search will not look inside PDF's. In an open PDF Foxit Reader's search function works fine, as long as the contents are not scanned in images. Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org John Hanley wrote: I also did a similar test just now. I have several PDF's within which I get search results with Ctrl+F when the file is open in Acrobat 7.0 . However, searching for the same term (within a file) using a Vista search does not give that file as a result...which I think is what you were experiencing. I also see in my Indexing Options that there is a check mark for pdf, so I seem to have the same mystery as yourself. And then a later post said that the problem was solved by upgrading to Acrobat 8.0, which I shall look into. Cheers.... "Bert Kinney" wrote Hi John, I just tried searching for text within several PDF file and and there were no results. It only searched on file names. Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org John Hanley wrote: Not sure this is helpful, but: I have some PDF documents in which the text content is actually a 'picture' of the text and not truly searchable text. When one tries to search those 'picture' PDF's (Ctrl + F), no results are obtained. I imagine that a Vista search for text within such forms of PDF's will also not return a result. Does that make sense, and would that be the case in your PDF's? "Dave Wood [MS]" wrote There's not a built-in filter to index PDF documents in the box in Vista, but if you use the latest versions of the products you mention below I believe you get support for indexing and searching the contents of PDF files. You can use the Indexing Options Control Panel -> Advanced -> File Types to see if .PDF files are being indexed. Also I'm not sure which products support 64-bit Vista ... "Kees" wrote I have the same problem, no indexing of the contents of pdf files in VISTA whatever buttons I push. If someone knows an answer I would be really grateful. "DevilsPGD" wrote: In message <293E39B3-B50C-4C84-A17B-4067E2DE8683@microsoft.com Yuri Yuri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: The pdf extension is being indexed, but it does not search for the content of the files, which was what i intended all along. I have Foxit Reader instead of Adobe Reader. Can Vista search the content of the pdf file? You can try using the "plain-text" filter, but this may or may not get you the results you expect. I'm trying the latest Adobe Reader (I'm a Foxit user normally) to see if I can tolerate it enough for the searching feature. -- Insert something clever here.

Hi Daniel

The key to this behavior is where are you creating / saving / renaming these
files?

The folder structure in Vista has changed from previous Windows versions.
With a different security model, you may need to rethink some ways that you
have always done things in order to maintain the integrity of the new
structure and avoid all of the elevation prompts.

Any user created files should be placed somewhere in that users account
folders under C:\Users\your username or the C:\Users\Public. If you try to
save these files in areas such as, C:\Program Files, C:\Windows, the root of
C:, etc, they will be subject to the elevation prompts and permissions like
you are describing.


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Quote:

Security tab for the file and the directory it's in says full control for SYSTEM, Administrators, and my own username, so I don't see why I should need to be administrator. It seems this permissions stuff needs a bit of work before it can really be usable. Daniel It sounds like you may need to "Take Ownership" of that file before you can modify it. This link will show you how to do it. snip I already know how to do it, I'm just sick of having to do it five times a day just to get work done. How is it that files created by myself aren't owned by myself? Daniel -- Daniel Noll Nuix Pty Ltd Suite 79, 89 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia Ph: +61 2 9280 0699 Web: http://nuix.com/ Fax: +61 2 9212 6902

Chuck, were you able to fix yours?

I am having a very similar problem which I would *love* to find a "fix" for.
Here are the details so far.

Similarities to previously mentioned "Windows Search" service problems:

Same error message when trying to manually start the Windows Search service
(error code - 2147218141)

Related services (RPC and DCOM S.P.L.) running, no problems (that I can tell).

In the Control Panel, in Indexing Options, mine also displays "Indexing not
running". "Modify" and "Advanced" buttons are also grayed out.

SFC /scannow had no effect

The folder: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data " is present and has 3
folders in it. They are: "Applications", "Config", and "Temp".

The folder: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Config" is present and
contains two files: gathrprm.txt and schema.txt.

Registry values same as Nevet described in his second 8-1 post - all seem
correct.

Here is something that I thought seemed peculiar, in the registry at:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
Search\Gather\Windows\SystemIndex\Sites\{s-1-5-21-2809944867-2680333499-3313531811-1107}\Paths\15"
when I click on the "15", I get an error message saying, "15 cannot be
opened. An error is preventing this key from being opened. Details: The
system cannot find the file specified." Along that same registry path, under
the "Sites" key, there are four peer keys; the one I mentioned and three more
with similar names.

Does the latter info shed any light as to what's going on with my PC? I am
open to and would greatly appreciate any suggestions (short of totally
reinstalling) anyone may have.

Thanks,
Brad

==========================
"Charles Roper" wrote:

Quote:

I have the same problem whereby the Vista search service won't start. However, I've checked that gathrprm.txt and schema.txt are present and correct and they are (I even copied new ones out of the location as intructed - they were identical to the ones I already had). Msscolmn.txt is also present. I'm at my wits end with this. I don't know what else to do. I've googled this problem until my fingers are numb. SURELY there must be a way to fix it? Further explanation of my particular situation can be found here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1983517&SiteID=1&mode=1 If anyone can help me with this I'd be eternally grateful. Thanks, Charles EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com

Kerry I am having the same problem with the SD card. I checked the update
KB936825 to be downloaded, and found out that it was automatically downloaded
on 6-15-07 but I am still having the problem trying to load pictures onto my
SD card. Any more suggestions to hopefully solve the problem. I can transfer
to my memory stick, but not the SD card. Thanks Rick

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Quote:

Have you installed the recent Windows updates? This was one of them. Update for Windows Vista (KB936825) Installation date: ?13/?06/?2007 8:51 AM Installation status: Successful Update type: Recommended Install this update to resolve issues with Secure Digital (SD) on computers running Windows Vista. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. More information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936825 -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Dennis" <dencd2004@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:410B86DD-C6ED-4752-9123-9241C863E086@microsoft.com... When trying to copy files to a SD card, I have copied lots, as it is a 2GB card, and then it generates this error... Error 0x80070052 Files can not be found or do not exist. This is NOT the case as they do exist on my Hard drive, but Vista will not let me copy them over. ANY help please.

Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:

Quote:

The key to this behavior is where are you creating / saving / renaming these files? The folder structure in Vista has changed from previous Windows versions. With a different security model, you may need to rethink some ways that you have always done things in order to maintain the integrity of the new structure and avoid all of the elevation prompts.

Well, what you describe is how I have been using Windows forever anyway.
I've always been putting files under %USERPROFILE% since the first time it
existed, mainly because I'm used to this sort of behaviour from UNIX-based
OSes which (usually) also enforce this kind of structuring.

Quote:

Any user created files should be placed somewhere in that users account folders under C:\Users\your username or the C:\Users\Public. If you try to save these files in areas such as, C:\Program Files, C:\Windows, the root of C:, etc, they will be subject to the elevation prompts and permissions like you are describing.

The files are being created under a subdirectory, C:\Users\Myself\Projects.
I use it to store checkouts of software I'm working on, keeping it out of
the way of ordinary documents and so forth.

Daniel


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joanie7;420437 Wrote:

Quote:

The message I get every now & then is index fileing not working, ususally when I start up the computer. I found the box with the title index filing but there are no options to check eg modify or other choices, the box is blank. How do I fix this short of restoring the computer? Thanks -- joanie7

Hi Joanie,

Try going through the steps here to see if it will solve the problem
for you. It should reset the index for you.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

Shawn


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Hello.
I'm 100 with Leanna.
Finding text within a document (file) in Vista seems to be
a frustrating experience — despite the certifications of
other contributors between Leanna 6/28 and Leanna 6/29
…
Honestly: I don't understand what they mean or aim at
(Sorry Pru Joy, Dave Wood, Neil Harley, but it might be
because I am still missing something …): It still does not
work — properly.

Watch this:
(After some tedious laboration with "IndexAlternative");

Make a *.txt-file (F) (f.ex. in NotePad);
Type in some text;
Save (F) on a known directory (D);
Copy some text (T) in (F) to ClipBoard;
Open FileExplorer to location (D) (to be safe);
Press function key F3, the Vista search engine opens;
Press WindowsKey to make an initial Test;
Try first to search on the Start menu by pasting in (T),
try also with quotation marks f.ex. "Try This":
NOTHING HAPPENS. No results.
Cut "Try This" to Clip and return to the opened Search
Engine from F3:
Paste "Try this" into the search textbox;
Voila. Perfect result. Vista finds it!
It also works without quotes by initializing
Clicking the Search-button first, then
Click »Search in file content» logo.

BUT STILL
NOT IN A *.DOC-file;
NOT IN A *.WPS-file;
NOT IN A …-file;

Leanna and similar (please, I bleed with you);
It works — and it doesn't work.

ALMOST the SAME was also the case in Windows XP!;
XP »Could» find text in *.txt-files, but only partially in
*.doc-files — namely IF the phrase was NOT preceded by
a WORD SYMBOL FORMATTED CHARACTER (which forces
special coding in WORD-documents, i.e., doc-files).
The type *.wps-file (from Microsoft WORKS) did not work at
all, and so it is still in Windows Vista.
MOST people do NOT write such type text. But mathematicians do.
Lots of it. So: I made my own Windows Hard Disk Explorer on
my XP-computer with the help of Delphi4 (and it works
Heaven, and I am about to export it on my new Vista
computer too unless someone can convince me such a
most fine Vista-tool already exists!). I bleed with all the
others (Leanna) who does not know how to do this
excellent work.

So, in Abstarct:
Vista cannot do IT.

My suggestion — Until som Expert reveals the hidden
treasure:
Microsoft has Obvious Programming Problem: it might
even be so that DIFFERENT PROGRAM COPIES HAVE
DIFFERENT RESULTS — on different continets: We have
different references.

Compare:
I just bought my Vista-computer days ago: TWO NEW
COMPUTERS at the shop OnOff DID NOT WORK:
"Input Not Supported" said Vista. Tough days.

I had to switch to another model to even get in. And
WHEN I did, PASSWORD ERROR occupied us for a while!

Bad news, Microsoft.
Simple as that.

What can we do? Any suggestions?
Windows Vista clearly has heart problem.

(Thank you all Type
Leanna [Text Search in Vista],
Sixhearts [How to search for content inside files],
Bev [Search for text in documents],
Just Askin [Search all files in a folder for a string]
and others too).

PS
The suggestion from Ilia Sacson [MS] to install a
"Windows Desktop Search" program has made no
change: it is still only txt-files that works.
DS
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"Leanna" wrote:

Quote:

Please try again to answer my question. Suppose I want to search for a particular document occurring in a particular folder. In XP, we had the option to browse for the folder we wanted to look in, and then we typed the key word to be searched for, and bingo, it brought up any occurrence of that key word in the title of any document within that particular folder. In the new Vista search screen, I find no such option. Please help, it's driving me crazy. "Neil Harley" wrote: outtolunch wrote: I'm not sure if I'm just dense but in XP under Advanced Search it was easy to search documents for text even if you didn't know the documents name. You could type in *.* or *.doc and then do a search for specific word or text. I am unable to see how this is done in Vista. Can someone point to the solution? Start (Orb) / type in the Start Search entry box. If you want to locate specific text within an indexed location type the phrase in commas. If a lot of results are returned just click on the 'Show All Results' and then you can filter by type (Docs, Music etc) If what you're looking for isn't returned and you know for sure that it should be, make sure the location where the file is stored is being indexed. hth

Re: the Start Menu search. The Start Menu doesn't search as many locations
as the Search box in explorer by default. You can change this behavior by
right-clicking on the start button, going to "Properties" and then
"Customize". You can switch from "Search just this users files" and "Search
entire index" which makes the Start Menu work more like the Start -> Search
window.


"BJ" <BJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Quote:

Hello. I'm 100 with Leanna. Finding text within a document (file) in Vista seems to be a frustrating experience — despite the certifications of other contributors between Leanna 6/28 and Leanna 6/29 … Honestly: I don't understand what they mean or aim at (Sorry Pru Joy, Dave Wood, Neil Harley, but it might be because I am still missing something …): It still does not work — properly. Watch this: (After some tedious laboration with "IndexAlternative"); Make a *.txt-file (F) (f.ex. in NotePad); Type in some text; Save (F) on a known directory (D); Copy some text (T) in (F) to ClipBoard; Open FileExplorer to location (D) (to be safe); Press function key F3, the Vista search engine opens; Press WindowsKey to make an initial Test; Try first to search on the Start menu by pasting in (T), try also with quotation marks f.ex. "Try This": NOTHING HAPPENS. No results. Cut "Try This" to Clip and return to the opened Search Engine from F3: Paste "Try this" into the search textbox; Voila. Perfect result. Vista finds it! It also works without quotes by initializing Clicking the Search-button first, then Click »Search in file content» logo. BUT STILL NOT IN A *.DOC-file; NOT IN A *.WPS-file; NOT IN A …-file; Leanna and similar (please, I bleed with you); It works — and it doesn't work. ALMOST the SAME was also the case in Windows XP!; XP »Could» find text in *.txt-files, but only partially in *.doc-files — namely IF the phrase was NOT preceded by a WORD SYMBOL FORMATTED CHARACTER (which forces special coding in WORD-documents, i.e., doc-files). The type *.wps-file (from Microsoft WORKS) did not work at all, and so it is still in Windows Vista. MOST people do NOT write such type text. But mathematicians do. Lots of it. So: I made my own Windows Hard Disk Explorer on my XP-computer with the help of Delphi4 (and it works Heaven, and I am about to export it on my new Vista computer too unless someone can convince me such a most fine Vista-tool already exists!). I bleed with all the others (Leanna) who does not know how to do this excellent work. So, in Abstarct: Vista cannot do IT. My suggestion — Until som Expert reveals the hidden treasure: Microsoft has Obvious Programming Problem: it might even be so that DIFFERENT PROGRAM COPIES HAVE DIFFERENT RESULTS — on different continets: We have different references. Compare: I just bought my Vista-computer days ago: TWO NEW COMPUTERS at the shop OnOff DID NOT WORK: "Input Not Supported" said Vista. Tough days. I had to switch to another model to even get in. And WHEN I did, PASSWORD ERROR occupied us for a while! Bad news, Microsoft. Simple as that. What can we do? Any suggestions? Windows Vista clearly has heart problem. (Thank you all Type Leanna [Text Search in Vista], Sixhearts [How to search for content inside files], Bev [Search for text in documents], Just Askin [Search all files in a folder for a string] and others too). PS The suggestion from Ilia Sacson [MS] to install a "Windows Desktop Search" program has made no change: it is still only txt-files that works. DS -- wkg/bj "Leanna" wrote: Please try again to answer my question. Suppose I want to search for a particular document occurring in a particular folder. In XP, we had the option to browse for the folder we wanted to look in, and then we typed the key word to be searched for, and bingo, it brought up any occurrence of that key word in the title of any document within that particular folder. In the new Vista search screen, I find no such option. Please help, it's driving me crazy. "Neil Harley" wrote: outtolunch wrote: I'm not sure if I'm just dense but in XP under Advanced Search it was easy to search documents for text even if you didn't know the documents name. You could type in *.* or *.doc and then do a search for specific word or text. I am unable to see how this is done in Vista. Can someone point to the solution? Start (Orb) / type in the Start Search entry box. If you want to locate specific text within an indexed location type the phrase in commas. If a lot of results are returned just click on the 'Show All Results' and then you can filter by type (Docs, Music etc) If what you're looking for isn't returned and you know for sure that it should be, make sure the location where the file is stored is being indexed. hth

it is definitely NOT the panda antivirus .. i uninstalled it, but nothing
happened, same problem.
the eml-files are generated by our own program. theay are ok.


"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:

Quote:

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:16:01 -0700, Martin Weber i have a network with 5 pcs, one with win xp, the others with vista. On the xp there are some *.eml files. When i mark such a file Define "mark", here? with one of the vista pcs the date of the file is changed, without doing anything. how can that be? ..EML are dangerous files that often come from outside the system, either as saved email "messages", or delivered as attacks. So my guess is your av is scanning these files when they are touched. The problem is that we backup all files which are changed, so the old eml files are copied again and again and that costs a lot of time. I would exclude .EML from "data" backups, both because they are dangerous file type, and because they are from "outside". In XP, no matter what email app you specify to be the default, .EML files will "open" with OE. This in turn exposes exploitable surfaces to the content of the .EML, which may include deliberately malformed embedded inline files, attachments, scripts, URLs, etc. ------------ ----- ---- --- -- - - - - The most accurate diagnostic instrument in medicine is the Retrospectoscope ------------ ----- ---- --- -- - - - -

"David H" wrote:

Quote:

Mike i have the same problem if you find out how let me know. Also when I save a file in docutments it also saves in my user folder. "Mike" wrote: While moving files off one hard drive to the new Windows Ultimate install, somehow I have managed to duplicate all the folders under my user account (Michael) within the Pictures Folder. I also have second Pictures folder (plain looking yellow icon) that has just my pictMike ures. I want to get the duplicates out of the Pictures Folder (i.e., Desktop or Documents, etc) so they only show up once under my User Account Name and get the pictures into the correct Pictures folder. I checked in the registry and under Current User, Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version, Explorer, Shell Folders; all folders appear to be correct (C:\Users|Michael\Pictures, etc, except I have one Registry Key that says: !Do not use this registry key and under Data it says: Use the SHGetFolderPath or SHGetKnownFolderPath function instead. Are there any experts out there that can help me straighten this out? -- Mike

Dear Mike and David:
Sorry about the earlier post, I am new to this and could not figure out
how to reply to a post!
I have the same problem as you two. Just transferred files from a XP
machine to one running Vista with Easy Transfer over a network. Well, Easy
Transfer hung up 3 times while in the middle or towards the end of the
transfer. It said that my transfer would have to be restarted. Well, when I
checked my Vista computer after restarting the transfers, I noticed my files
have been duplicated and triplicated on my Vista machine.
I need a quick fix to get rid of the duplicated files. I will deal
with what was missed in the transfer later.

Having a similar problem and this solution seemed like it could solve it.
Moved pictures and music to an external hard drive. Operated pc for a period
of time disconnected from the xHD, during which time the Start Menu right
collumn links to pictures and music also seem to have lost their targets.
When I right-click and select properties, only a very basic menu appears
which neither allows me to restore defaults or choose a target location.

"dean-dean" wrote:

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How did you move your folders initially? If by Drag and Drop or Cut and Paste, your registry won't have the correct information. I would try this: Move the folders manually back under C:\Users\(Your User Name). Then right-click on the Music and Pictures folders, choose Properties, and, on the Location tab, choose Restore Default. Then, for each folder, do the same again, only choose Move..., and move them via the Select a Destination dialog. "Alisa" <Alisa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F6E60EE5-79DD-489A-822A-8E68E035BC27@microsoft.com... I moved my pictures and music into Disk D, how do I change my Pictures/Music in the start menu to take me to Disk D instead of Disk C? Changing properties doesn't work

I have attached a picture of the 2 user explorer folders, 1 user folder
showing the users in the C:\user folder on the file system, and 1 user
profile folder showing what is in C:\Users\Josh Young folder. If you look
at the address bar where it shows you the explorer version of the location
it shows my username "Josh Young" twice (another one under my user profile).
This means that somehow the system has be tricked into thinking that there
is another user folder under my profile when actually on the file system
there isn't.

I think I did this by accidentally moving my user folder on to the C:\Users
folder instead of creating a folder by the same name as my profile name like
C:\Users\Josh Young and then moving to C:\Users\Josh Young instead of
C:\Users. I know your thinking why the hell would you do this... I'll tell
you why lol. I was just trying to see if I could move my user profile
location to my storage drive so I don't ever have to backup being that it is
instantly done everytime I do anything. Well that doesn't work too well
obviously, but I have moved most of my subfolders under my profile to the
storage drive and it keeps me from having to run a process schedule for
backing up all the time when it does it instantly as I change my files.

Thanks for your response,
Josh Young

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@invalid.org> wrote in message
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Josh From yopur description, it's not real clear what you are seeing? When you open Windows Explorer, you should see your user profile folder at the top of the Navigation Pane on the left side of the window. This same folder also exists in the C:\Users\your username. These are not duplicate folders. The folders at the top of the navigation pane are simply a mirror copy of the actual folders that exist at C:\Users\your username. They are mirrored there for convenience. If you want the user folder at the top of the navigation pane to show the same folders that you see in the C:\Users location, you need to go to Organize/Folder and Search Options/View Tab. Select the Show Hidden Files and Folders option there. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Josh Young" <joshyoung77@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:CAACED96-A7CB-4510-9086-D43075656A8B@microsoft.com... I don't know how I did this but I have my user profile showing up under my user profile when looking at it in the explorer, but it isn't showing up in the file system like that. How do I get rid of this extra profile folder that keeps showing up in my home folder when I open up my home folder from the start menu? Remember it is only when looking at it in the home folder in windows, not when you go to the file system and go to your profile folder. I also moved my contacts folder back to my profile but I accidentally moved it to the same location as my profile and I don't have a contacts folder anymore and don't know how to make another one. I keep getting new contacts in my C:\Users\<Profile> directory too. How do I tell the system where my contacts folder is by assigning it another folder and getting the icon back as well? This is a highly complex system and it can be easily messed up if you have any IT experience.