explorer

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...

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...

Hello all. Recently I'm having this problem with thumbnails using windows explorer, whenever I open a folder configured to use large or medium icons, all I see are blank squares instead of the thumbnails or icons. It seems like a refresh problem because just by going to the view tab and...

I am taking a few online college classes and I save all of my work to OneDrive so I can get to it from work if I find myself with some free time. The problem is that the folder I created does not show up when I look at OneDrive from my work laptop. Both machines are Windows 7 and I created the...

Hello, I'm new here, I'm wondering how I can integrate software in the Windows. For example, if I want to add an item to the context menu, in the explorer window, to send a file to an OLD folder. So, after click in «Send to Old» it would create a folder «yyyy-MM-dd - Old» in the same path of...

A client is using an XP system until he retires from his business at the end of this year. He cannot risk upgrading or replacing his pc because his main database is custom built and cannot be replaced. Just recently the content of his "Explorer" is reading from right to left. I have enclosed an...

Situation: NAS connected to network. NAS is reachable trough intern and extern networks. Firewall has it webdavs ports open (5005 / 5006) Router forwards the ports to the NAS his static IP. HOW can i connect to this network externally WITHOUT the use of third party programs? When i go to...

I’m trying to setup a Homegroup connection between my desktop and laptop computers. Both are Windows 10. The desktop is connected to my router via Ethernet and the laptop uses wireless. The Homegroup on the laptop seems to be working ok. When I click Homegroup in Windows Explorer, it shows the...

Hello all, my Windows 7 install did something I've never seen it do before. When I go to copy the same file to the same location instead of the "Copy File" dialog box coming up with the 3 options: Copy and replace, don't copy, or copy and rename with (1), it just copies the file and renames it...

(PLEASE HELP) Hey everyone, i ran into a serious problem here. I got a Medion computer which had windows 8.1 preinstalled when it got purchased and i updated to Windows 10 a couple of months ago. everything was working completely fine until yesterday. I got called by my mom who also has an...

using Windows 10 in ASUS X555LN notebook with integrated Broadcom Bluetooth driver. After installing the Bluetooth software, when i pair my phone with the PC, my phone appears in the Explorer with additional hard disk partitions (Devices and drives). I do not want to unpair my bluetooth device...

Hi Here's another example of why I hate apps! I decided to try the 7Zip Opener app, I always use 7-Zip anyway and maybe the app will make it easy to use. It's very easy to start with. So I install the app, (now with the normal desktop version of 7-Zip you just right click on the .zip or .rar...