• - Tue, Jan 8 2019 • - Tue, Dec 18 2018 • - Thu, May 3 2018 You probably know that the C: Documents and Settings folder doesn't exist anymore in Vista. It was replaced by the C: Users and C: ProgramData. Vista uses symbolic links pointing to these new folders for compatibility reasons. However, many guides still refer to the old folder structure. There is a simple trick for using the old folder name in Windows Explorer, though. This way you can find configuration files easier. If you want to see the symbolic links, you have to enable first ' Show hidden files and folders' in Folder Options. ![]() To access the Folder Options you must press 'ALT' in Windows Explorer to make the menu visible. You'll find them under tools. Now, you should be able to see Documents and Settings. But if you double click on it, you'll get an error messages. ![]() Even administrators don't have enough NTFS rights to navigate to this folder. It is not even possible if you change the rights by taking the ownership. You can, however, navigate to subfolders of Document and Settings by entering the corresponding folder name in the address bar of Windows Explorer. For example, just type C: Documents and Settings%username% and you will see all of the user profiles' subfolders, you know from Windows XP. Mobile suit gundam seed sub indo batch mp4 free. This also works if you use a language pack other than English. On a German Vista edition, you can type C: Dokumente und Einstellungen, for instance. I have 2 windows 7 64-bit users, my issue is that one of them I can see the Document and Settings folder after you unhide it, the other one I cannot. Converting recently from Windows XP to Windows 7, I've still got programs I previously used in new Windows 7 paths namely C: Documents and Settings All Users Start Menu Programs, and C: Documents and Settings Marc Start Menu Programs. If Documents and Settings no longer exists or is a 'symbolic junction', how come it can contain actual files? What makes this confusion especially troublesome, is the introduction of 'Libraries' with Windows 7. Presumably a 'library' is a 'virtual file' containbing shortcut-like pointers to actual files contained elsewhere on one's hard drive. A few days ago i noticed that Vista showed SP3 installed. I tried to istall SP2 (for the 1st time) but the system said: 'A more recent version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is already installed'. Oct 18, 2016 Just wondering when the target date/timeframe is for Windows Vista Service Pack 3? Windows Vista is drawing to the end of its life. Under Microsoft’s official product lifecycle, the mainstream support phase for Windows Vista will end in less than one year, on April 10, 2012—five years, two months, and 16 days after it became generally. After converting to Windows 7, I found that my 'Documents' folder had become a Library containing actual files together with symbolic or virtual references to files located elsewhere on my hard drive. Presumably I have to move all the actual files out of Documents and locate them elsewhere in the system C: path. Of course I can create new folders on the C: path, but what happens to the Start Menu files in the 'non-existent' Documents and Settings folder? Please clarify this situation for me.
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