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Hello all, I am the soul user of my computer. I run it as Admin, unless I'm online banking or credit-carding. In that there are no other users, and never will be, I wonder if it's more reliable to keep my general data in the normal Users place (My Documents, etc.) or just on the root of the...

I have an SSD machine with 90 Gbytes of storage running at home, not connected to server. I use a USB drive for extra capacity but I seldom have much spare space on C: as I have SQL server and Visual Studio installed. Looking at storage use on C: I notice 1.7 Gbytes of files in...

Hello! I just noticed I have $UPGRADE.~OS and $WINDOWS.~BT in the root of my C: drive. The former "size on disk" is 264 MB and the latter is 3.3 GB. The latter has tens of thousands of files and thousands of folders. I ran Disk Cleanup on the drive. It removed a lot of files, but these two...

Today I tried to save a file to my flash drive and found that when I saved the file it also created a shortcut for the file. I attempted to delete the file, I was able to delete it but then a second later the file returned. I thought maybe it was the flash drive but when I was searching my...

When i open www.google.com and www.facebook.com it opens the homepage of browser . I cant directly search from google search for chrome it opens chrome's homepage i.e https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ same for opera and firefox And Internet Explorer is not responing any more from...

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hey guys, i have a win7 pro, Sony Vaio Laptop, 500GB Hard Disk with 4GB Ram. my hard disk space has been fluctuating for a couple of days. From what i was sure of, or at least the stable remaining memory left in my C Drive Hard Disk was around 5 GB or something, however today i logged and...

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I have 1.50 GB left of my 132 GB storage. I have no idea what I can delete or even what I can transfer to my D Drive as I have 71.7 GB free on there. Just a quick look and I have pagefile.sys which is 3,931,448 KB Any Help or Advice would be appreciated... Cheers

I have a dual boot PC with two separate HD's, one with Win7 on C: drive and the other with Win8 on the D: drive. When I boot to Win7 and use the Windows Backup program to make an image of the C: drive, it automatically includes the D: drive. I only want to backup Win7, how do I do that...

I get random BSOD`s when my Games and My internet is running. Here are the BCCodes i recieve: BCCode: 109 - (I have a suspicion my C: may be causing this) - happens 85% of the time BCCode: 24 - (This could be my network Card) - happens 10% of the time BCCode: 3b - (This could be caused by RAM)...

When reinstalling Windows 7, does all of the system drive get erased/formatted in the process (I think so) or only the C:\Windows folder and subfolders (which would have been ideal)? I forget since last time. Thank you.

Can you use the built in Windows 7 Resize Feature to resize a Raid 1 Mirror (2 hard drives)? My C: drive is actually two hard drives in a Raid 1 Mirror and I would like to resize the partition so I can have a C: and a D: drive. Does the Windows 7 Resize Feature resize a Raid 1 Mirror?

Hello Everyone, MSI laptop - Windows 7 32 bit very recent fresh install (1 month). 320 GB Hard drive partitioned in two= C" & D" for data. The other night, I started my laptop and the first thing that appeared after boot-up was the windows utility. The message said: " Drive C has to be checked...

Recently managed to brick my computer by trying to clear up some space on my C: drive. I checked 'Compress Drive'. The problem is when I boot up my laptop it goes straight to a blank screen with the following: WIDTM is compressed. Press ctrl+alt-del to restart. I can't access safe mode. I can...

For about two weeks or so the 31gb c drive on my HP Mini has kept on filling up, sometimes within 20mb of space. I have run disk cleanup and defrag and used CCleaner, but they only free up about 200mb of space at a time, and eventually that gets filled up again. Once I freed up 1gb by restarting...

Guys.. I have been trying to re-install windows 7. I have 3 drives i.e C,D,E. I want to format only C drive. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!

So in my disk management I'm trying to put my C:/ drive back together after a mishap with Ubuntu. I get here. I click "delete partition" upon right clicking the section labelled "Free space", and it tells me that "There is not enough memory on the disk(s) to perform this operation". What does...

Hello All, I am using win 7 64 installed on a 240gb ssd It has suddenly started showing nearly full. I don't keep any data on the drive just programs and if I add up the contents of the folders (not hidden)it only comes to 35 gb, how can I check what it filling up my drive ?

Hello, I recently became the proud owner of a Windows 8 BSOD. I did a refresh and afterwards I can not access my C: drive. I have gone in to the Properties Tab and tried to change the writes/ take ownership for Administrators and Administrator and applied them. While applying them I get a...