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Hello everyone. Having had to buy a replacement hard disk for my childrens PC and manually loading the manufacturers image I am now unable to restore any of the data backed up by Vista Backup and Restore Centre. Having looked into the problem I understand that my problem can be resolved by...

Go to www.bootdisk.com - this will allow you to create any boot disk you require. You can then format the the PC with DOS 6.22 using the /s switch to make it bootable. Else, if you want to keep the Windows install, delete the system files from the root of C:\ and then use the SYS A: C...

I have experienced a similar problem with MS Office files. Refer to Microsoft TechNet, article Q201601 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;201601) Even if this does not fix your problem it may point you in the right direction.

Refer to Microsoft TechNet, article Q173309. It states that hive corruption is the cause of this, most commonly reported as a problem with winsrv.dll - hope this helps.

In this instance, the DOS XCOPY syntax would be (assuming your files were on D: and you wanted to copy them to C:) :- D:\AAA:>xcopy *.txt C:\AAA\*.* /s This will copy all txt files from D: to C: and place them in the same directory structure.

Possibly:- Check the user's local NT profile. If a temporary local profile is being created during login then the changes will only be valid during that session. When you log back in again a new, default, temporary profile will be used, hence why the setting is lost.

Within XP, right click on your messenger icon and select "Compatibility" - within this section set messenger to run in Windows2000 mode - this will allow you to use netmeeting with earlier OS.

When I right-click from within the Start Menu I do not get any menu to allow me to sort by name. I there a registry entry within which you can enable/disable this function?

Refer to Q262213 on Microsoft TechNet:- Copy the Nppdf32.dll file from the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 4.0\Reader\Browser folder to the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins folder. This should help.

IE5 on WinNT WS4 (SP6) - The URL entries on the pull-down menu of the address bar are no longer being recognised as URLS but as files (the icon on the left of the entry shows a share icon rather than an IE icon.) What causes this and how can I fix it?