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Why does this context menu display “0??????(O)”? And how do I repair it? Edit: Clicking on it does open C:\ normally.

Hello everyone. I installed one of a update. After, exporer.exe is always crashing.

Hello everyone, I've come across a weird problem that I'd like to share with you: under certain circumstances, Diskpart and some other programs don't report the correct capacity of a hard disk. The disk in question is a new 4 TB, or 3.64 TiB (3726 GiB), Seagate BarraCuda, initalized as a GPT...

So I am stepping in for my father who is having some issues with his laptop. For a few days now, he couldn't get into windows 10. Upon starting the computer, a big white rectangle would flash during POST, and then it would load for a second before going into the blue diagnostic screen like...

I'm a former Systems Admin. so I should be able to figure this out, but nope... so I'm asking: I bought a small, external 2.5 Toshiba HDD to use as additional storage. I put it in a case and plugged it in. No dice, I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I checked Device Manager, and it shows up as...

Sorry, I could see no way to search this forum. So I post. win7 "restore previous folder windows at login" is ticked, can show image proof if wanted. Yet explore windows suddenly will not restore at startup. Used to. Tried un-ticking it, restart, tick, restart - no joy. Search, googling...

I have a WD My Cloud Expert Series EX2Ultra connected to my home network. Everything has been working perfectly. But, after the latest Win 10 desktop update (Version 1607 Build 14393.1593) Windows explorer no longer finds the NAS. I have a Win 10 laptop (Version 1703 Build 15063.540) Windows...

Hello! I'm facing this issue where the drives don't appear in This PC under the Windows Explorer or a Search folder prompt. All my drives are online, have a letter assigned and are fully accesible by manually typing the path (E:\something) or by apps (Steam can play games stored in my F:\...

Hi This is a strange phenomenon that I never have come across during my many years of fiddling. I saw on my media server b(running on Windows 7), a series that was misplaced, upon opening the correct directory, I found.. nothing, the directory and the files didn't exist in the series...

(hey mods, there's no Windows 10 thread prefix) Hey before I start downloading and testing, I figured I'd ask first. My ideal windows explorer would have one simple function, and that's that when I navigate to a folder -> it switches to the window of any preexisting explorer window open to...

Hello ! I'm Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit user. For long time I'm facing frustration against modifications of default file explorer to show all folders and files as following.: No categories like Music, Video, General .... I want remove all and keep just one category for every kind of file. It can...

Hi there. Something I used to do in windows 7 doesn't work anymore on windows 10. What I am trying to achieve is running my own program before desktop initializes, so I can display a simple menu without any desktop gui. In windows 7 I did it by replacing value [...

I just did a fresh install of windows, all I installed was the network driver, graphics driver, and Microsoft security essentials. The windows update wasn't finding any updates for some reason. After I restarted my computer the only thing that shows is my background. There's no icons, explorer...

I just bought Diablo 3 retail last night and I played for around 3 hours, then I got tired and shut it down. then this morning I went to play it again and I got this error 0xc0000142, I searched this error and any answer I found did not work. so I uninstalled the program and installed it again...

Hi, Blank Screen after login! I wonder if anyone can help.... I had some malware/adware downloaded and although having removed it I now have this error.. a blank screen AFTER logging into my user account - I have tried creating a second user account I get the same.... if I press...

I am trying to shut down my old computer and transfer the files to my new computer. I have tried to use a USB transfer cable and also a flash drive to move the files. Anything inserted into any USB port does not show up in Windows Explorer, but if I go into an application such as Word or excel...

I've been having a problem with my windows 7 laptop recently. Sometimes when I either create a new folder or copy & paste some photos they don't show up until I press the f5 button then they become visable. This doesn't happen all the time though it can be quite random. I've googled this problem...

Hello again, My Windows 7 Pro machine started up with all the desktop icons (except three 'MS' ones) blacked out (black square where the icon should be). "Rebuild Shell Icon Cache" on right-click menu on desktop does nothing; they're still black. Restarting Windows Explorer doesn't help...

Whenever I try to open windows explorer, after about 5 seconds the window freezes up and so does the taskbar, until I restart windows explorer in task manager. This happens every time I open it and now I can't use windows explorer. Also, I think this happened on a day when I took apart my...