file access

I have on a network drive a folder that contains downloaded movies and TV shows. If I try to open the folder so I can play a file, I get the "handle is invalid" message. I had this problem with Windows 7 and the problem has stayed with the upgrade to Windows 10. If I go to a different PC...

Installed windows 10 a couple days ago I get a notice that I can 't save to my documents without admi permission. I am administrator It will allow to save to another folder (picures) How can I allow to save to documents

Hi Everybody, I have something new happening in my Windows 7. Three of the directories <Data> <MSOCache> and <Program Data> have tiny 'lock' icons attached to the top of the tree. I'm guessing these mean that I can not open any of the files. So far, it has affected all of the PDF manual...

Hi, I had to reinstall with my flash stick w8.1 & now all fotos do not open saying I do not have the correct permission. I am the administrator. Could it be because I chose not to create an MS account? I do not think that I signed for MS acc. before. ....thanx ....nick __________________ Asus...

So i was redirecting some of the default folders (music, photos, doc, etc) from my SSD drive to my HDD drive. But I accidentally named two of my drives (doc and downloads) D:/ . Now They both have the same files and are both unrelenting in changing back. I tried to change location of it, but...

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

Hey guys, First of all I'm going to start by saying that I'm not really a Windows related man so please explain everything step by step. The problem I had today was that I couldn't rotate some of my photo's. This was 'solved' because I went searching on the mighty Google and I found a forum on...

We have a small "workgroup" network - 3 users, 3 computers running XP and MS Office 2003, 1 Buffalo TeraStation NAS, no servers On each PC, there is a U: drive mapped to the user's personal folder on NAS One of the users intermittently got an error when opening his Outlook "Unable to open your...

Hey guys, I got a problem with my laptop. My old laptop crashed some weeks ago. It doesn't work anymore if I press the power button. So I took the hdd and connected it with desktop-pc to rescue the data. I had to get the rights for the user folder and windows got it automatically for me. But now...

I have a desktop system that had WinXP on it. I bought a copy of Win7, put the install CD in the drive, and booted. After waiting a long time(*), it finally booted and offered me a choice: Upgrade Complete install I'd swear I chose fresh install, but when it finished installing all my user...

Hi guys!, I recently came across Ubuntu and i liked it, so i decided to install and try it on my computer. I did try out Live USB and i thought that i wanted to install it on my computer, but my system was, or had "EFI" so Ubuntu didn't recognize WIndows, so i found this guy on youtube who had a...

Hi, I have written a Database management program, and it runs as an .exe. It has been working fine, but i have just added a backup option so you can can create a backup copy of the database. It has suddenly come to my attention that none of the program is now working. - I have done some...

I'm having a problem with both of my drives (one solid state, one HDD) where when I try to browse files within any kind of program other than windows explorer they appear to be completely empty except for files under the "My Documents" directory. An example of this situation would be trying to...

when I try to open a folder on a phone connected to pc. the folder on phone show up, but when I click on any folder, windows file explorer when close, the screen flash for 1 second then come back. I tried both windows phone, and android phone, also different user accounts, all doing the same...

Hi all, I had W7 on my PC, then partitioned the HD so I was able to dual boot with Ubuntu. Now I don't remember because it was a while ago but I'm nearly positive that after installing Ubuntu, I also used W7 and it worked. But I'm not 100% positive. I can still access the W7 HD from within...

Hi, For my projects I crate a technical documentation DVD, what is a copy of the documentation on my HDD. The documentation is divided into 2 areas: C :\Paths\Documentation\CommonFilesPath\ (Datasheets and similar, common for all customers and projects) C :\Paths\Documentation\UserProjects\...

A couple of months ago I had an issue with Windows Explorer crashing when I tried to open the Videos folder. After much research and help from other forums it turned out to be a dodgy windows update, KB297519. Once this was manually removed I was able to access my videos folder again and the...

When I want to open a file or folder from programs I go oftentimes to a menu File--->Open Which in turn calls the default FileOpenDialog dialog box. This worked successfully on 64bit Win7 here in the past. However when I do this in certain (but not all!!!) Office programs like Excel 2007 now...

Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit Client System: Windows 8.1 64-Bit We operate a small office setup with a server and about 8 clients. The network drives we access have always been compressed: under HDD Properties>General Tab: 'Compress this drive to save disk space' is checked...

Made an account just for this. I randomly got a BSOD while my computer was on, but I was not using. I restarted the computer (as prompted) and attempted to access the dmp file; however, upon doing so, I am told that access is denied and I do not have permission to retrieve the file. I went into...