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Helen Bradley - MS Office Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

I'm a lifestyle journalist and I've been writing about office productivity software for a long time. Here you'll find handy hints, tips, tricks, techniques and tutorials on using software as diverse as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher from Microsoft and other applications that I love. My publishing credits include PC Magazine, Windows XP mag, CNet, PC User mag, SmallbusinessComputing.com, Winplanet and Sydney Morning Herald.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Vista

Oh, I love Vista (Not!)

Ok, here's my dilemma. I'm an administrator and I uninstall a program. It tells me during the uninstall that it has left bits and pieces behind in my Application Data folder. Ok, so I'd like to get rid of these. Problem is I can't see the folder and when I opt to see hidden system folders, I can't open it.

Yikes? Well not totally a problem. You see your

C:\Users\\Application Data

folder really isn't a folder - it's a shortcut - that's why its icon has the bent arrow on it. It is really a shortcut to a real folder - called:

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming

and that folder is totally accessible just by clicking on it.

So, you can clean up after programs if you know where to look!

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