Hard copy files and folders

I am running windows vista home.  I seem to have lost the ability to copy a file from one place to another or to rename a file.  Or I can create or rename folders.  I can open a file and save it under a new name.

Does anyone have ideas, what would cause this?

I am running windows vista home.

I am running windows vista home.  I seem to have lost the ability to copy a file from one place to another or to rename a file.  Or I can create or rename folders.  I can open a file and save it under a new name.

Does anyone have ideas, what would cause this?

I am running windows vista home.

Do you remember a time when you did NOT have this problem?
If so, do a system restore and use this date as your restore point.

Start button > Search box, type system restore > press the Enter key > uac prompt > click on choose a different restore point > next > select dates as your restore point, until the click > next > finish
To sit and wait. The machine restarts when it's done.

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