I've changed to Vista Home Premium. I have an administrator's user account, user account control is switched off, and yet I can't access Documents and Settings or find the browser cache. It's really frustrating. How do I administrate my own computer?
William Thomas
Vista is actually a lot different from Windows XP, and you may be better off treating it as a search-driven operating system. You can't access Documents and Settings because it doesn't exist. There are some fake folders with familiar names – Microsoft calls them Junctions – but they're only there to redirect old software and preserve backwards compatibility. Windows Explorer shows the folders you have so it doesn't get redirected. The folders you want are now under C:\Users, eg C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files. There's a list of old (XP) and new (Vista) locations at jimmah.com.
