directory management

Anyone looking to manage users, computers, and policies within their home lab or work network quickly discovers that Active Directory (AD) remains a foundational element of Windows deployments. While seasoned system administrators have long relied on AD tools in Windows Server, the demand for...

Hello everyone! I have a bit of a unique issue. I have a rather large library of media files of many different types. JPEG, GIFF, MP3, ACC, AVI, MPEG, MP4 ect... Most of the files have an incorrect extension, or no extension at all. This is entirely my fault as my fix for not enabling...

An investigation of my 64bit Win 7 systems shows that the folder C:\Windows\assembyl\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_64\Temp\ has almost 12 GB content. I have never seen such a big space occupation before (for a Windows "Temp") directory. I must have bloated in the last weeks. What could be the...

Hello All, I am looking for some script/program for Windows that allows to copy multiple files from one large directory to an isolated place on the hard drive. I have a list of exact file names I need to copy across (excel table), but the folder is ~1000 sheets and therefore search will take a...

I am a photographer and generate "raw" and JPG images. At a certain point in my workflow, I need to delete all the JPG images before proceeding. That's easy enough; in Windows Explorer, one can sort by type, then delete all the JPGs, or one could open up a command prompt in the directory and...

I have reorganized the directories in my storage system so the links in my Windows Media Library are invalid. I went to WML > Tools > Options > Libray and changed the Folder. That didn't remove the contents already in the library so I removed Windows Media Player. Then I reinstalled it and found...

First post here and need some help. I have an image on bootable media (DVD). The image spans 3 dvds broken down into SWM files. I have been able to combine the SWM's with imagex into 1 large wim. In viewing the contents the WIM contains 2 images (image 1 & image 2). During the initial image...

I had downloaded a file and when I was done with it I wanted to delete the folder, subdirectories, and files. I kept getting "Access Denied." Went into properties and under Security, the owner was not named and I could not change it by editing it. Everytime I tried to change the attrib read only...

Hi! It seems I've gotten myself into quite the mess here. I am trying to relocate my Users folder into another HDD to save space on my OS HDD by using this guide: Move the Users Directory in Windows 7 I am currently inside cmd on the Win7 Ultimate Edition(x64) DVD and have executed the...

I have a lot of directories that need to be transported via USB drive later (the files/folders vary each time). I want the files to remain in their original location, but have some kind of folder or structure where I can group the folders so that when I need to copy them, it is a simple matter...

Setup: Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) I've been accessing the same couple of mapped drive shares, that reside on a linux host thru several versions of windows, XP, Vista and now Win7. I continue to get a rather ridiculous error message that only happens on win7 (I no longer have a Vista OS...

In Vista i had a user directory named Michael. When i upgrade to Windows 7 from vista a new user directory appear named Michael.000 Could somebody help me how to rid off the new directory?, what shuold i have to do in my registry? Some program use Michael and some use Michael.000 which confused...

I keep creating folders that I want to share over my network and they keep getting marked as read only so that my other machines can see the folders but they cant access them. I noticed that when I create folders as a subdirectory of users I can open access the new folders but they come back as...