The strangest thing

[Tony Rizzo]

Hello,

This is the strangest thing:

I download an image when I am asked to save I navigate to c:\windows\ and
create a folder with the name xwin then save the image to the xwin folder.

When I go to get that image, there is no folder in the windows directory
called xwin.

I searched for it and found a shortcut only with the properties of
c:\windows\xwin and the path of the search shows:
c:\users\tony\AppData\roaming\Microsoft\windows
I search for the image and it finds it but it is only a shortcut
If I download a new image I can see the old image in the missing xwin
directory

Thanks for any info

Tony

 

[Paul Montgomery]

This is the strangest thing:

I download an image when I am asked to save I navigate to c:\windows\ and
create a folder with the name xwin then save the image to the xwin folder.

A stranger thing is your creating a folder in c:\windows to save
images to.

Why there? Why not in the Pictures folder or in c:\?

 

[Richard in AZ]

A stranger thing is your creating a folder in c:\windows to save
images to.

Why there? Why not in the Pictures folder or in c:\?

Sounds like a very good procedure for organizing data.
Not every image belongs in the Pictures folder and certainly not in the root
directory of C.

To the OP, make the new folder under your user name, rather than under the C
drive directly.
Many of the folders in vista are not really folders, but rather shortcuts to
folders. (if that make any sense).

 

[Tony Rizzo]

Thank all of you for your replies.

I also have a DVD that has a file called serial.txt on it and I cannot see
that file no matter what I do, but it reads on an XP machine with no
problem.

Vista is a learning experience.

Thanks again.

Tony

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Many of the folders in vista are not really folders, but rather shortcuts to
folders. (if that make any sense).

It doesn't: because none of those could be opened so that a folder
could be put inside them.