[lbo-talk] help with Vista

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

I recently discovered another amazing feature of this
fucking piece if shit Vista - it disappears files. 
For example, a pdf file is created by an apllication,
and when I try to copy that file using Windows
Explorer, I get a message that the folder where the
file is located is empty. The file exists somewhere on
the machine, it just cannot be found using Windows
Explorer.

After struggling with this for a while, I finally
learned that this extremely annoying feature is due to
"virtualization" i.e. files being stored in an obscure
sub-folder called "virtual store" instead of the
folder in which it was supposed to be stored. The file
temporarily appears only when an obscure file
compatibility button is pressed, and disappears again
when the Explorer is closed and reopened.

What the fuck is going on here?  What is the purpose
of this virtualization idiocy and how to disable this
cretinous feature?

I understand that Vista is an exceptional piece of
shit and Microsoft gangsters should be sent to
reeducation camps if not beheaded for their arrogance
- but this is what I am stuck with for a while, and
spending over $1000 for a new computer that runs some
alternative to Vista OS is not an option for me at the
moment.  So I would greatly appreciate any help making
this piece of shit behaving more predictable, so I can
fnd files where I want them to be instead where some
Microsoft hack thinks they should be.

Wojtek 

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