Unless configured otherwise Vista accounts should by default save to their respective profile default file locations. Shall I assume MS Word is the app in question? If so the default should be My Documents. What does the Word MRU show if you go to File->Open? Was a memory key in use at the time? Finally if you know the filename or type of document, do a search for it. Having said that, I am not a fan of Vista's default search by comaparion to previous Windows versions. For Vista and 7 I use Nirsoft's SearchMyFiles. Located here You would enter your search criteria in the "Files Wildcard" field.

It is possible the short cut is not pointing to the program, Ad Aware 2007, the actuall program should have installed in c\Programfiles have you checked there? Double click My-computer double click (local Disk) now look for the folder Program files, double click it look for Ad Aware there. You can right click and delete the folders to Ad Aware there to remove the folders. Really only need one Anti- spyware program running most of us here are using SuperAntiSpyware brlow please find the link for the free version of that program... Here is a link that might be useful: SuperAntispyware

I doubt the folder 'disappeared' in the sense that it is gone. If you are unsure of the exact name of the folder then use wild cards like this... Assuming the name was 'folder' and you are sure of only the first 3 then go fol* and it will show on the search. If you only know the middle then use *old* but expect numerous finds perhaps. If you know the name of the photo in the folder or only part do the same, something like pho*.* or *oto.* Note the second star is for the suffix if you are unsure whether it is a jpg, bmp or any other format.

"Usually" would be the key word here. It seems there was a glitch in the process. Only some of the folders were lost. DH never touched them, nor did he delete any of the messages in them. He only deleted inbox messages that had been uploaded to the phone. I have pasted the reply I received from Yahoo: Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Mail. I understand that you want to recover the lost emails that were accidentally deleted on your POP/IMAP client. I apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused you. Let me provide you more information regarding your concern. Please read on. According to our records, it appears a POP or IMAP client may have deleted your messages. A POP Client is an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, while an IMAP client is a mobile device such as a BlackBerry, or iPhone. Emails deleted by a POP client are now moved to the Trash folder on the server. As long as the emails were deleted recently, you should be able to access your Yahoo! Mail account from a web browser and recover the messages from the Trash. You can configure your POP client to leave messages on the Yahoo! Mail server or to delete them from the server. Check the instructions for configuring POP settings for your mail client by reading this article: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_SG&y=PROD_MAIL&page=content&id=SLN3255 Once messages have been deleted by a IMAP client, it's removed from your Yahoo! Mail account. Messages deleted by a IMAP mail client aren't recoverable. If your mobile device continues to delete emails from your account, I recommend contacting the vendor of the device or your mobile carrier for further assistance. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail. I guess I'm screwed and have learned a big lesson. All of my other files back up nightly, and I burn all client communication folders weekly. I never dreamed I would lose what was stored on Yahoo's server. I posted this because it may help someone later.