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Good afternoon I recently had to have Windows 10 reinstalled on my Acer laptop which fixed all my problems. The engineer replaced the HD and it the old HD which still contains all of my files is now acting as an external drive. I can open individual files via the relevant apps but I cannot...

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I have several external drives attached to my Desktop machine. One has Genealogy files, one is for Backups, another is for archiving Photography. When I work on the Genealogical files I like to bring an entire family folder onto the desktop, enter the current research and then have it copied...

I have a list of csv files that have to be copy into a list of folders with same names. Rather than manually cutting each one into the corresponding folder, is there a trick of doing this in windows?

I was successful copying a document I scanned to desktop then copied and pasted to Word -I think. It worked before but I guess I am missing a step b/c it is not working now. How is it done with Windows 10 -1809? I need to edit this document. Thank you

I am trying to copy names and addresses from a web page to copy them in a Word doc, (Windows 7). All i get is a circle rotating on the blank doc. I click the 'W' font and a box appears. It asks if I want to close the programme. I click yes and a bar appears saying it is searching for faults then...

This is the situation. I have to identical laptops bought at the same time. I was looking in the device manager today and one of my laptops is missing a driver but the other one has it. Is there a quick and easy way to copy the driver from laptop1, put it on usb and then install it on...

There are a couple of forums I go to and I can no longer cut and paste or "quote" anything in them. The function works OK outside of these forums, is there some setting I am missing to allow this function? I am using Windows 7 and IE11.

Hi For the last few days I've noticed that I can't paste into this forum. If I need to copy something here, I have to copy and paste it into Microsoft Word, then drag it from Word to the message window. I've tried using both Ctrl, C, V and the right click Copy, Paste options. I don't think...

i have been using my acer aspire 5742 with 320gb hdd for 2 years now and now I decided to upgrade it to 500gb but could not bear the fact that i had to loose my recovery drive and all its features with it. So I decided to transfer it to my new hdd. Now here's my problem; whatever i try, i...

Hello everyone, I have to make a few copys of DVD's, I do own them. I looked into a few dvd copying software programs but the problem is that I only have one dvd drive so I think I need a program that will have two steps to it, one to copy the dvd and put the files on the desktop and the other...

Hi, does anyone know how to copy the formatting style from a template and apply it to a another document (we have a reporting format where the formatting is stuffed). How do we store this as a certain style to be applied to other documents as required?

Hey guys, I often get random BSOD's when copying files to an external USB device. I haven't been able to tell what's triggering them. It can be a large group of files or sometimes even smaller files, so don't know if it's related to file size Am unfamilar with troubleshooting BSOD's. Any help...

Copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files will be smoother in Windows 8. Source: Yahoo! News

Hi, Tried copying a .mkv file from a DVD, written to it by a mate. The file is around 4.5GB and gets to about 30s left to complete the copy to my Desktop before I get an error message with the heading Copy File stating 'Can't read from the source file or disk.' with options to either Try Again...

I am wanting to copy my application data file from my PC (Win 7 Prof 64)to my laptop(win 7 hope premium) . I have autocad user info etc and other prog info which has been stored in the roaming profile which I need to access on laptop. I want the same autocad settings available on laptop Can I...

Addressing Full Text Copying and Pasting of News, Security, and Tutorial Articles We were recently made aware of what appears to be infringing content, in the form of full-text copy and paste articles from 3rd party websites. While we consider information posted online about computer...

I'm experiencing a critical bug or quirk in moving/copying files. It happens for example like this: I just want to move a directory, say 5-15GB, including a couple of movies or something. I have the source folder open and the destination folder open. So those two windows sit there and I start...

Did it ever happen to you, were you highlighted and copied something then forgot all about it and copied something else, thereby losing the original copied text? I was wondering how you can retrieve what you copied first? Does it have something to do with the clipboard?

I have to do a lot of copying/pasting of filenames at work for use in creation in URLs. With Win7, when I highlight the a file's name (say, document_v1.pdf) Windows only selects the name (document_v1) and not the extension (.pdf). Is there ANY way of changing this behavior so that...