appdata

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...

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...

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")...

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...

The following are Environment Variables in Windows 7 which can allow you to get to system locations more efficiently. What are Environment Variables in Windows? Well, if we understand that "variables" are things that can be changed, and if we also understand that the environment that variables...

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...

I recently found my hard drive to have grown hugely in terms of memory usage. On closer inspection, it seems my app data file - usually hidden under 'documents - is more than 10 Gb in size. I have no ideal what the app data folder does and whether it is important? Is there any way I can...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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!

Hi Some help please. I am using Win 7 Pro & Office 2003 Prior to 7 i used XP Pro and in order to setup my company's custom email signatures i copied a couple of HTM files & folders into (I think) docs&sett .. app data .. micrsoft .. signatures Does anyone know how to do this in 7 ? Thank you

On the two systems I've set up with Win7 Pro (x64) thus far, I've noticed that some applications store their settings in a "Roaming" directory and others store their settings in a "Local" directory under my C:\Users\username\AppData\ directory. There's also a "LocalLow" directory containing...

Refreshing Media Player 12 (A solution) Hay chaps, Has anyone figured out how to rebuild Media Player 12 as in pressing F5 or was it F3? I found this cool tip on how to do it:- Shutdown windows media player. Stop the media sharing service. Go to Start->Control Panel->All Control...

We have started testing Windows 7. We have discovered a quirk in the storage of temporary internet files that may have some security concerns. The official literature of Windows 7 says the storage point for the Content.IE5 folder has been relocated to...

Cant DL anything, wanted google earth and i get an error message saying C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\TMP could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred. Try saving to a different location. anyone know whats up?

The "All Programs" menu off of the start menu isn't working any more, at least not when logged in as me (it works logged in as Administrator). I think this is related to the fact that I move a lot of stuff off of my C: drive (SSD) onto the E: drive, with Junctions to make the paths from C...