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cannot edit comment field why?

james — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:13:50 GMT

I bought a song from zune. I want to add text to the file's comment field
"bought from zune".

However, the comment field cannot be edited. In fact none of the values in
the details tab can be edited. When compared to other files that I can edit
the comment field, this song file has an additional field called "protected"
and is set to yes.

I already checked and changed the file security so that I have all the
permissions (delete, rename, ...).

How can I edit the comment field?

Is Vista updates recommandable before upgrading to Windows 7?

MAT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:22:03 GMT

Is Windows Vista updates recommandable before upgrading to Windows 7?

Should I just upgrade directly from Windows Vista in the original edition
(after a recovery) and without all the other updates to Windows 7 (saving a
lot of time), or is it better to do all Vista updates before upgrading to
Windows 7?

Is Vista updates recommandable before upgrading to Windows 7?

MAT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:22:03 GMT

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:25:43 +0100, "MAT"
wrote:

Quote:

>
>Thanks!
>Using a laptop with pre-installed Windows Vista and upgrading to Windows 7.
>Next time a complete recovery is necessary I'll save a lot of time going
>directly from recovery to Windows 7 upgrade, Besides I plan to make an
>image backup. Know it's not the right palce to ask, however many is
>upgrading these days needing a complete backup before upgrade to Windows 7.
>Any pro/cons Norton Ghost 15.0 http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost versus
>Acronis 2010 http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/ ?

Quote:

I have a friend that LOVES Norton Ghost, I have never personally been
able to make it do what I want it to do. Acronis however works
perfectly for me! I had a laptop I was working on with a bad hard
drive, I made an image and after putting in the new drive, booting
from the boot disk Acronis made it restored the image to the new drive
and everything was perfect!! I highly recommend it!!!

Installation of Office 2007 before or after upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista

MAT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:15:39 GMT

Is it recommandable to do an installation of Office 2007 before or after
upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows Vista?

Installation of Office 2007 before or after upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista

MAT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:15:39 GMT

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:15:39 +0100, "MAT"
wrote:

Quote:

> Is it recommandable to do an installation of Office 2007 before or after
> upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows Vista?

It normally shouldn't matter, but if it were me, I'd do the
installation after the upgrade, just in case.

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Massive Shadow Copy File

EyesDAonly — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:13 GMT

Hello.
I have a big problem with the windows Shadow Copy.

\System Volume
Information\{a20e83b4-d2e1-11de-970d-001e8c98772a}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

The file is 34 GB.
With my HD size I simply can't afford it!

My Vista Home Premium is working perfect, I don't even need system
restore points right now, and I take full responsibility saying that in
case anything crashes, I wouldn't even mind starting over fresh and
having that 34GB back would be a better solution that to live with it
right now.

I tried Disk Cleanup, which said it could remove all but the newest
shadow copies, and it didn't remove that file. Which means its a new
file? I don't know.

I'm quite sure it was caused by the defragmentation program that I used
"Diskeeper" that maybe somehow made that file a whole lot bigger, I
stopped using it and the file doesn't grow anymore. I believe it grew
from 20GB to 34GB just after letting Diskeeper run on Auto
Defragmentation, and I couldn't risk it making it any bigger.

Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks.

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Massive Shadow Copy File

EyesDAonly — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:13 GMT

Thanks R.C.White! That did the trick :-) 34gb cleared in 2 seconds hehe
All I had to do is tell it not to make Shadow Copy for the HD, then it
deleted everything. And now I can even let it do it again if I want, and
it will make the default small copy. Good to know its possible to clear
out the shadow every once in a while if needed. Much appreciated! :-)
And thanks Richard, good to know!

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shadow copy roll back started from boot dvd - no log entry

Erhard Glueck — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:52:04 GMT

Hello,
because roll back action form running windows was not successful
(Event VSS 8220)
I succeeded in roll back
when started after booting from the original VISTA DVD.

But if a view in the history of shadow copy snaps
I have no entry for the last roll back action.

Is there any log, which documents, that a roll back was done?

Thank you
Erhard
with VISTA Ultimate

shadow copy roll back started from boot dvd - no log entry

Erhard Glueck — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:52:04 GMT

"Erhard Glueck" schrieb im
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Quote:

> Hello,
> because roll back action form running windows was not successful
> (Event VSS 8220)
> I succeeded in roll back
> when started after booting from the original VISTA DVD.
>
> But if a view in the history of shadow copy snaps
> I have no entry for the last roll back action.
>
> Is there any log, which documents, that a roll back was done?
>
> Thank you
> Erhard
> with VISTA Ultimate

Sorry,
now I have found the log entry

Source: System Restore
ID: 8201

Are my files arranged as they should be?

browniebodrum — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:01 GMT

Try taking ownership of the folders.

Add "Take Ownership" to right-click menu in Vista
http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm

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Quote:

> When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems
> accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which
> was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have
> permission
> to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user
> of
> the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator
> rights in Vista.
>
> I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users
> or
> if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing,
> search and access issues.
>
> For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then
> click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand
> column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the
> top
> it says > [My Name] > Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is
> highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the
> sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I
> scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the
> right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one
> of
> them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I
> have
> to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on
> a
> SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents'
> folder. Is this the same for everyone?
>
> Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture
> Gallery,
> I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've
> had
> to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them
> using
> Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get
> a
> message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or
> that
> it's a system folder.
>
> I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or
> pointers to more reading.