Vista Home showing previous file versions

Hopefully someone can help.

For some reason, spontaneously, my version of Vista Home Premium has started
to display previous versions of files: the files with identical names but
different time/date stamps appear in the same directory as each other and
are accessible. This seems to be happening with pdf files, Office files,
notepad files, Photoshop files and others.

The previous file versions are cluttering the directories and confusing file
selection. I can't find a way to turn this "feature" off.

I haven't as far as I am aware allowed new software/drivers to be loaded.

Gareth.

Are you viewing hidden files???? Check here that both are selected:-

Start - Settings - control panel - folder options - viw tab - "Hidden files
and folders" - "Do not showhidden files and folders" and "Hide protected
operating system files"


"Gareth" <hotmail.com@dgareth_nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hopefully someone can help.
>
> For some reason, spontaneously, my version of Vista Home Premium has
> started to display previous versions of files: the files with identical
> names but different time/date stamps appear in the same directory as each
> other and are accessible. This seems to be happening with pdf files,
> Office files, notepad files, Photoshop files and others.
>
> The previous file versions are cluttering the directories and confusing
> file selection. I can't find a way to turn this "feature" off.
>
> I haven't as far as I am aware allowed new software/drivers to be loaded.
>
> Gareth.

"Spikey" <.> wrote in message news:...
> Are you viewing hidden files???? Check here that both are selected:-
>
> Start - Settings - control panel - folder options - viw tab - "Hidden
> files and folders" - "Do not showhidden files and folders" and "Hide
> protected operating system files"

Thanks but no - that's not it.

The filenames are idnetical and yet the files are in the same folder - the
only thing that is different about them is the time/date stamp and the file
size.

The files are definitely earlier versions of the same file. If I save a file
in Acrobat or Word whilst viewing the file manager window I can see the new
file (with the same filename) being added to the bottom of the directory
list.

Gareth.