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I have searched the internet to try and find a way to fix this issue and have tried every registry hack I've come across but have not been able to fix this. From all the reading I've done it seems that this has been an issue in some way or form since windows 95! Here is a run down with how it...

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...

Does any know if there is a way to monitor if files in a Public One Drive Folder are being accessed? I am thinking about putting a link in a forum and would like to know if that folder has been accessed and possibly how many times. I found a thread on the Microsoft site where the suggest has...

I recklessly changed the name of my computer in win7 enterprise 64 bit when I reinstalled after new HD so it didn't match the name used in previous install. Result is that i dont have access to some folders after reinstall and restore from backup. Need some step by step instruction on how to...

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...

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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\...