data management

Hello... I am hoping there is something out there that will enable me to either auto or manually backup and restore all the "Windows Update" downloaded updates that are located in my "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\" folder (and Sub-Folders). I know Windows has a "Backup & Restore" feature in...

Hi I'm trying to make a set of DVDs so that I can transfer Wow Wrath of the Lich King to a friends computer. I made 5 folders numbered 1 through 5 and then moved the folders from the installation to them in a way that keeps the size of any one folder smaller then the capacity of a DVD disk...

I finally gave up on Backup My PC and went to Win 7 backup, but my external drive does not hold more than 2 backup cycles' worth of data. I'd like to use excess space (in a separate partition) on a 2 TB internal drive to offload some backups, but I can find no way of doing this. Any ideas...

Hi In Windows7 SP1, I noticed that the ACLs of the root directory of a logical partition (D:) formatted NTFS are different from those of the root directory of the system partition (C:): C:\Windows\system32>icacls c:\ c:\ BUILTIN\Administrators:(F) BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)...

I realise that this question has been asked before but I don't see anything recently so am not quite sure whether to add to a thread start a new one. I decided to post a new one so forgive me if I have posted badly. I am running Windows 7 x 32b Recently, and all of a sudden, ALL of the folders...

Hello: Let me say right off the bat that I'm not a fan of Windows. It just happens at the moment that I need to set up a Windows 7 system, and namely to set up a local backup. Let me give you the specs: - Windows 7 Ultimate desktop - Internal HDD: 932GB - External HDD: 1.18TB Initially I set...

Hi all! I have an ultra book with 128GB. I also have a 1TB NAS drive on my network. I want to go through and archive old personal data files and move the archives to the NAS drive. I don't want to totally get rid of it. I know I can just move over want I don't want to keep on my computer...

Hello, I'm having trouble with my server - whenever I try to copy a file from an external hard drive to a folder in my network server, a window pops up saying the space is full. However, I know that there should be space. The server holds about 1 TB of data and there is currently only 200 GB or...

How much harm am I doing to my Laptop by Cleaning via c-cleaner,Auslogics Disk Defrag, and Glary Utilities duplicate & empty files finder then defragging again after restart of each about 2-3 times per day? I have been utilizing bit torrents recently and then deleting said after watching and...

i do a backup of my stuff manually each month via an ext. HD. right now, i was backing up my AppData folder (so much is in there!). being anal, i compared the size of my laptop's internal HD compared to the ext drive when it was done. results: internal: 5+ BG ext. 2+ GB so i compared the...

This is from a non-technical person: I back up my SSD to a HDD by cloning using EaseUS ToDo software and a USB HDD docking station. After cloning my SSD to my HDD I defragment my HDD using the docking station and then clone that back to my internal SSD and, in effect, have a...

I was going through my AppData folder and I open the AppData>Local folder and see the following folders than when I open them they are empty: So my questions are: what are they for? What program or programs are creating them? Is it okay to delete them? Is it okay to delete stuff in the AppData...

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...

Ok, i accidentally dragged my main folder with all of my stuff in it into a folder next to it. I clicked undo move but here is what happened. I open my folder, every folder within that folder was gone but those subfolder's contents were still there, just completely unorganized. Now every...

I did a backup to an external usb sata drive. I used win7 to do it. It seems complicated to use it. I did find instructions at this site, but lost the link. Does anyone know an easy way to use that back up? I did a fresh install, but it will take a lot of time to install all the programs and do...

Consider the following scenario: You share a folder on Windows server. On Windows 7, you make this shared folder offline. There is an .xls file in this folder. You edit the .xls file, and then you save the .xls file to the offline folder. You open the... Link Removed

You have a Virtual Disk Service (VDS) 3.0 hardware provider installed that supports “LUN NUMBER SUPPORTED” feature on a computer (HOST) that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. When you run the Diskraid command to list the LUNs on the... Link Removed

Hi I know that fragmentation makes a lot of difference. I've had times when the difference between having fragmented files vs un-fragmented files would determine whether some processes would complete or not when generating 3D video. If the files were fragmented it would just hang up after a...

Hi I haven't changed an internal hard drive in years but my main concern is getting the correct type of hard drive to add. My friend has a Dell Dimension 8300 from abut 2004 that he want's to add a hard drive to. He has only a 80 Gig drive in it and wants to get some thing it the 160 to 250...

Hi I really don't get this! If a computer can do anything it should be able to find files. Today I needed to find a file that I did for my niece a year ago. I don't remember what I named it or where I saved it. After trying a few things I decided to narrow it down by just getting a list of...