In Windows Vista your files are stored in a different location compared to fiels stored on a Windows XP computer. On Windows XP your files were in documents and settings, then your username. In Windows Vista your files and folders are stored in C:\Users\your username. Watch this video tutorial to see all the details on where your files are now on Windows Vista and how to access them.

This video tutorial shows how to select files and folders  in Windows Vista. You can tell you have selected a file or folder when it is surrounded by a blue background. In this tutorial you can see how to select more than one files or folder, copy these files, then paste them to another location. You will also see how to make a new folder to place the files into.

If you have been using Windows Vista for a while now you would have realised that there is no gpedit.msc available!!! The only versions that have group policy are Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Professional ,Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Server “Longhorn”.

Unfortunely if you have Windows Vista home basic or Windows Vista Home premium then you have missed out on the pleasure of accessing your local group policy. Of course they are other ways to change settings that usually were in group policy, however they are all labour intensive.

I have nothing against Vista, however why downgrade a feature that was readily available in the last few additions of Windows XP. Unfortunely if you are a group policy junkie like me, you will just have to upgrade to the next Windows Vista edition that does allow access to gpedit.msc.

In Windows vista you can simply double click on a zipped file or folder to see the contents and if you wish to extract the contents you can. All you have to do is press on extract from the top menu.

With Window vista you do not need to install an extra program to unzip a file.

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