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Background...
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Hello,
When I turned on the laptop and open my session, I notice that all the folders/ data of my session have disappeared except documents folder and some software too.
Any idea about the problem and how to recover the data?
Laptop on Windows 10 and anything happend on my previous session...
Greyed out timeline tile doesn't get removed
I know someone has asked the same question, but the answer doesn't work.
The suggested way to remove the tile (grey or not, I suppose) is to delete the files in the "C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\ConnectedDevicesPlatform" directory.
I did this and...
All the options just kind of disappeared. Various methods I've tried and failed include:
shell:startup
ctrl+alt+del startup menu
Windows Settings>Apps>Startup
/ProgramData/ path to the startup folder (created one to see if it'd populate, it didn't)
/AppData/ path to the startup...
access issues
appdata
boot menu
configuration
control panel
disappearance
file path
installation
programdata
registry
startup
task manager
tech support
troubleshooting
user folder
user issues
windows 10
windows 11
windows settings
I'm setting up a new computer and when my user was created the User Folder used the first five letters of my email address (which is ugly). I modified the folder name and adjusted the HKEY_USERS value. However, some work apparently had been done prior and I corrected the names in all the other...
Does anyone know what those folders whose names are long sequences of hex numbers enclosed with brackets are used for? I have hundreds of them in my AppData directory and a hankering desire to remove them all! None of them appear to have any files in them.
I just purchased an HP laptop with a 128 GB M.2 SSD Hard Drive. Besides the original setup and adding some basic programs, I've done very little in a week.
But my C: Drive has already used 42% (only 69GB free) A further disk analysis shows that, of the total used, Windows has used 30%...
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Windows 7 Pro SP1. Customize Start Menu option 'Recent Items' IS checked. Nothing shows up in C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent. Anyone got any ideas as to where to start looking? Maintenance is current. TIA for any help received.
Bob Helms
So, I've been having issues with my main harddrive (A 250gb Samsung 750 Evo SSD) constantly becoming full, mainly as a result of downloads and whatnot after having not much space left. So i decided to do a thorough search for the main problem, and strangely enough, it seems to be the Onedrive...
150gb
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dropbox
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Hello:
Kinda related to a previous thread, but not the same question so.....
Awhile back, I backed up my iPhone 5S to a computer. I have sensitive data on in (on the strong end, my clients personal financial data/SSN/cc numbers). I need/want to securely remove all of my phones backup data from...
appdata
backup
computer safety
credit card
data recovery
data security
eraser
file deletion
file system
financial information
itunes
multi-pass deletion
privacy
secure deletion
sensitive data
ssn
user data
windows
I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit.
Icons on my taskbar to the left of the notification area no longer show up. (The icons in the notification area are displayed.)
I recreated iconcache.db and replaced iconcache.db with a backup made before the problem began but neither fixed the problem.
All the...
64-bit
appdata
backup
icon cache
icons
notifications
pinned programs
quick launch
recovery
system restore
taskbar
tech support
troubleshooting
user profile
user settings
windows 7
I was trying to fix my nexus mod manager to fix it I had to make appdata visible right after I did this my user was some how deleted and now every thing is gone what do I need to do to fix this
Please bear with my long writing,
So, i downloaded a zip file, click 'extract here' in the Downloads folder. The folder is extracted in it.
Inside the folder, there are part 1-30 .rar files. I enter the part 1 .rar file and then enter another folder inside the part 1 .rar file.
Here, I...
Ive been using win7 for about 6 months now. Before that I was using xp for 15 years.
Im having problems with:
1-Search; the status bar gets to 99% pretty fast, then it's literally hours before the search finishes. Why?
2-Ive been using firefox for over 10 years now. I always set it to...
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appdata
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