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    Windows 7 Trouble bringing old email profiles to new system

    Built new puter and installed Windows 7 Pro.....backed up old system before system went south (had Vista on it)...had been using Mozilla Thunderbird........backed up profiles (including old mails, as far as I know) specifically.......both system back and profile backup on external drive on new...
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    Windows 7 User folder is a subgroup of Desktop in Windows 7

    Hi, Using Windows 7. Go to start Username "Joe". My User folder "Joe" is a subgroup of Libraries. I think the folder organization is messed up and probably the reason I can't get MediaCenter to work. Also My Documents data is found under Desktop/Libraries/Documents and also under Desktop/Joe...
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    Windows 7 Need Help! I Deleted Something I Feel May Have Been Important!

    Hi there, I really need help, I may have deleted something that is important, yesterday I went into C:/Users/user/Appdata/Roaming to configure something with my Minecraft saves. After I was done Me being my stupid self thought I should delete a folder named "InstallShield" What I really want to...
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    Windows 7 Unknown desktop screen captures

    hie,i am using windows 7 64 bit , with 3.5 gb ram, 1 tb hdd slave and 160 gb hdd master, i recently found out that i had about 4 700 images (jpg) all from screen captures i did not do, amounting to 6 gb in C:\users\my username\AppData\Roaming. i would like to know what causes this and how can i...
  5. Windows 7 How To Prevent Skype from Crashing on Startup

    Is Skype crashing on start-up? Here is a quick resolution that seems to work almost all the time in Windows: If the Skype icon is displayed in the system tray at the bottom right of the screen, right-click it and select Quit. Click Start, type "run" and press Enter. (On Windows XP: Click...
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    Windows 7 No place left in partition C

    after short check the 2 folders that take most of the place which is couple of GB'S are C:\Users\eli\AppData\roaming and the second is C:\Users\eli\AppData\Local this is how looks the content of folder "local" Link Removed and this is how looks the content of folder "roaming" Link...
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    Windows 7 Damaged folder properties in explorer

    I was unable to see folder 'AppData' in C:\users\steven with explorer (W7). I tried unselecting 'read only', this didn't help. I then checked 'hidden'. I also applied these actions to c:\users (Stupid I know). Now I can't see c:\users and my favorites have disappeared in IE.
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    Windows 7 Frequently Used Program List (aka Most Recent Program List)

    Win7 Pro 64bit Problems with almost any program showing up on the FPL. The normal start menu list of programs works just fine. I noticed this about 2 months ago in that the FPL was static. Yesterday I manually removed all programs from the FPL and have run a multitude of various programs yet...
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    Windows 7 Unhiding Users, Libraries & Favorites folders

    In trying to access AppData for the main user I managed to hide the Users folder so none of it shows at all (!!???). Then tried to unhide it by selecting Show Hidden Files and Folders, View option, but with no success. My other, older HDD running Vista clearly shows the Win7 Users folder and all...
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    Windows 7 Curious AppData problem

    My AppData folder is about 1.7 Gb and has the usual three subfolders (Local, LocalLow and Roaming). I sometimes copy the whole or part of it for backup reasons. However, I cannot do so now because when I try to take a copy, it says the move will be only 345MB, and that is what it copies...
  11. Windows 7 "Recent Places" link is always empty

    I've spent a lot of time searching for a solution and I'm hoping someone can give me some fresh ideas on how to tackle this annoying issue. My "Recent Places" link is always empty. Looking at ..\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent reveals that items edited (so called "Recent Items")...
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    Windows 7 Unable to remove all remnants of deleted user account

    I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). When I installed it on my new home-built PC, I entered the account name 'Admin' when prompted. This creates the default administrator account. I subsequently created two standard user accounts for me and my wife. However, I have since had problems...
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    Windows 7 Is gidle.exe a Virus? Need Help with Startup Programs on Windows 7

    I hope this is the right forum for this but if not please move it. Yesterday when i logged on this came up gidle.exe. I went online to find out what this was. It could be a virus or malware or some other nastys. I have ran sever scans with these software. Spybot Malwarebytes Nod32 anti virus...
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    Windows 7 trash can is too full

    I have sort of a weird problem. I was clearing out my Temp folder in my AppData folder and I kind of got carried away. Before I knew it, I had over 60,000 objects in my recycle bin. I have a decent computer with 4 GB of RAM, but every time I try to recycle, windows explorer freezes. Ive tried...
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    Windows 7 Really need clarification! Need the nuts-bolts low-down on creating new user accounts in diff situat

    I am/have tried to create a new user account, specifically to take the place of a suspected corrupt user account (per MS Moderator posts re Excel not responding repeatedly when copying). I have looked around the web, MS support sites, and read posts all over a couple of forums and am trying to...
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    Windows 7 Access to \appdata\.. denied

    I think I did something that caused access to appdata to be denied to installed applications. As an example: I use RoboForms to save passwords, etc.. Old info saved can be used, but when I try to save new info I get the "access denied" massage. It looks like everything is set to "read only"...
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    Windows 7 Could not access network location %APPDATA%\.

    Im getting this error message everytime I try to reinstall my itunes or uninstall my quicktime. This all started cause my itunes stopped working, whenever I would try to open my itunes it would pop up with that same message so i decided to uninstall it which it worked but then i couldnt install...
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    Windows 7 Losing files in Content.IE5

    Hi I've lost some work by opening an attachment from an e-mail, forgetting to save it locally, and then saving the document and closing. I think it's saved the updated file to a Temporary Internet File somewhere, but I can't find it. I've tracked backwards by re-opening the original file from...
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    Windows 7 Reinstalling Dell Studio XPS 8000 Error

    I'm trying to restore my pc back like when I first bought it. I put in the cd for reinstalling Dell Studio XPS 8000 Computer software. It says on the cd that it is installed on my pc but I can't find it. When it's Computing Space Requirements, an error pops up and says, "Error 1606. Could not...
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    Windows 7 No AppData folder

    I just upgraded to Windows 7. Actually, I just had to recover back to factory (Vista) and reinstall W7 because it wasn't working properly. I honestly don't have this folder: C:\Users\User\AppData. I am trying to copy over my FF bookmarks and it's nowhere!