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    Windows 8 How do you display your computers hidden files and folders in Windows 8?

    I have a 127gb solid state hard drive. I only use it to run my programs. All saved files are sent to other internal hard drives. I just happened to notice today that I only had 7gb of space left on my C drive. I did a quick check and found that I only have 44gb of programs and files that appear...
  2. Windows 8 List of features removed with each "upgrade"

    List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And somehow, despite everything removed, it still takes up to 5x more...
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    Windows 7 problem after installing a game

    i have installed a game on my c drive which is of 15gb.after the installtion i coudnt find the game or folder.but the space of 15 gb was filled.can anyone explain how to rectify this problem.
  4. Windows 7 32 bits or 64 bits Windows? Pros and cons?

    Ive just made an upgrade to my pc. Bought new motherboard , new processor, new graphic card here are the rellevant links to all my components : ARK | Intel® Core GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-P61-S3 (rev. 2.0) http://www.gigabyte.com.ro/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4361#ov I was...
  5. Windows 7 Can't perform a backup to my desktop computer

    Apologies if this is elsewhere, but I've been searching Google for the past hour and am continuing to have issues, and can't seem to find the solution that works. I just got two new harddrives for my birthday - one for my desktop, and one for my laptop. The desktop drive is 3 TB, which Windows...
  6. Windows 7 Suddenly there is lots of extra hard drive space!

    I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...
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    Windows 7 where has my memory gone?

    Since installing WIndows 7 memory has been disappearing. My C drive indicates 6.51 GB free and 139GB used. The total of the items listed in the C drive only around 22GB. I need to regain the use of the missing memory and to stop the disappearance before my computer becomes unusable.I also have a...
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    Windows 7 Hidden Links after deletion of files

    I secure deleted some files - nothing very sensitive - but pointers remained to the files - i.e.: f:\\\5545.jpg - etc. Everything on my C:\ drive had hidden links that simply would not delete. Turned off the Firewall - AntiVirus - cleaned the MFT - everything and it would not go away. Then I...
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    Windows 7 *==> Hard Drive Problem <==*

    Hi everyone.. After i reinstall my PC, i have question about the hard drive, because this was a first time i reinstall a PC, idk what shoud i do with the hard drive, the hard drive was showing only local disk C, i used one software and i split it but on C and E, i want to change the "Local Disk...
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    Windows 7 Where is the extra memory being used?

    Using the tool WinDirStat, I have been able to trim my hard drive down to 47 gigs (according to the program). However, under my computer, it says that the drive still has 179 gigs of data. What is causing the huge discrepancy? I just ran a chkdsk, and nothing spectacular happened. I am trying...
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    Windows 7 program files

    Hello, I started to have a problem with an overloaded disk space and windows7 always reminds me of this so i deleted some of big files but still have a low space left. I also noticed that i have two "program files" folders, one of them called "program files x86". This of course takes high...
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    Windows 7 External Hard Drive problem

    Hi, I just brought a WD Elements 1 TB hard drive, and I backed up my C drive from my laptop onto the hard drive. I used R-Drive Image 4.7 program to back up for the process. I used the copy a disk to a disk method. The C drive has 451 GB space which successfully backed up over 200 GB of date to...
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    Windows 7 Trying to figure out what folder my pictures are really in

    I am running windows 7 on a HP Pavillion Elite m9040n PC. My first drive is saying it is full. With all of these folders (my pictures) showing up with pictures in them does that mean I have several duplicates on my hard drive? Are all of these picture icons in the items folders really pictures...
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    Windows 7 WIM image untick "compress this drive to save disk space"

    When the image was captured there was system drive compression enabled. Is it possible to edit WIM image without deploying and re-caputing it to untick "Compress this drive to save disk space."?
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    Windows 7 Can't Backup ...fails every time

    Although originally working, now W7 backup will not work. I am running 32bit Ultimate I have emptied the backup drive,started a whole new backup - the back up starts ... runs to about 80% of progress bar ... then fails with message Backup failed to complete. The error code is ox81000015...
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    Windows 7 Is there any way to get Win 7 backup to use multiple backup devices /partitions?

    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...
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    Windows 7 system image backup failure in Windows 7 error code 0X8007002

    I have a DEll XPS 8500 with Windows 7 64 bits. I am trying to backup the data to an external HDD (WD 500 GB) connected to USB 3.0 using W7 backup function. The USB 3.0 is based on intel drivers.My whole C disk contains approx 110 GB data (should fit in my external HDD without problems). W7...
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    Windows 7 Folder moved inside system volume information folder

    Hi Guys, hope you can help me with this problem. Due to a NTFS hickup, a folder (1,3TB) ended wrongly up inside the system volume information (win7) folder. Wanted to move it back to it's root, but to no avail... Tried take ownership, cacls, safe mode, tools etc. :( Need to to really move it...
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    Windows 7 something filling up my OS Drive. Please Help

    Hi. for the last 3 weeks something has been filling up my C: and I don't know what it is. when I reboot the lost space is back to free space. I have to reboot every 12 hours or so. I have a Sysinternals ProcMon Log for anyone to look at and tell me what the culprit is. WinDirStat doesn't help me...
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    Windows 7 Server says it's full but it's not

    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...