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Navigating in Vista
My biggest complaint about Vista is that I have never felt comfortable trying to locate anything, whether it is download or when looking for a particular file or folder. Just recently I downloaded Flight Simulator 9 but have been unable to locate the FS9 folder although I have looked at what we used to call the "tree" under Start>Explorer. The program wouldn't start and I was trying to follow a Microsoft page on troubleshooting this problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837195 I miss the simple but effecient and easy to use My Documents and My Computer like in XP. Very intuitive, which Vista is not.
Can anyone tell my what the user interface is like in Windows 7? Is it simpler than Vista or even more confusing? Does anyone know how much longer XP will be supported and if it is possible to replace Vista with it? And how difficult is it to change the operating system? About the most complex thing I have done is open the case and insert more memory in an earlier machine. I have purposely not installed much on this computer other the Sim in case I do change the OS. Thanks for any guidlines.
I was conversing with a couple people on the FS forum and they said to locate the following file : C:\Users\"YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\Fsx.cfg.
I have pushed Start and looked at the "tree" but see nothing that would show me how to navigate to this file. I also can't locate Tools\FolderOptions\View. Can anyone set me straight here. Don't remember having this much trouble with earlier versions of Windows.
TheRealFireblad
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Posted December 4th, 2009 14:00
If you can't find files, it's possibly because they're 'hidden'?
But you'd probably be able to find it using the 'Search' function?
Click the 'Start' button, and in the small search box immediately above it, type the name of the file you're looking for - i.e. fsx.cfg.
If it's a hidden file, you'll get an error message when you click on the file found by the search, but close the error box, and you should still see a window showing where the file is located?
You're right SEFrost...you would think after all this time I would be able to find my way around, but Vista leaves me befuddled, sorta like the new and improved Dell Forums. Where do I go to see the hidden files. It seems like in XP it was in one of those tabs in Internet Options. And I can't locate the downloaded Flight Simulator to examine its files. The little file given above doesn't pull anything up, and I have no idea what file to put or path to specify in order to do a Search.
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Posted December 2nd, 2009 17:00
Windows7 is very very similar to Vista. I happen to like it very much. The Start Search is very helpful.
I can't imagine downgrading back to XP. I would encourage you to continue to work with Vista. I think you'll eventually find it to be very functional.
Microsoft has said they will continue to support XP until 2014.