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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...

Hello. I opened CMD and ran diskpart. I found 4 hidden drives I did not know about. One of these partitions I am not able to open because I do not have permission to access it. The other three say they have content stored in them. For example, 200MB free of 500MB. I open these partitions...

I have a laptop running Vista and my husband's pc runs Windows 7. We can access the files on the laptop from the pc but get 'access denied' if we try to access files on the pc from the laptop. We appear to have all the same network and sharing settings so what do we need to do?

Hello everybody I have Win 7 Home Premium in Virtualbox. It detects my pendrives but it won't allow me to see the contents. I get a message saying that the pendrive needs troubleshooting. I also get a message that the driver is Ok Can anyone help? Thanks and regards

Can anyone please help, up until recently my laptop was fine and i know ive opened files up a few weeks ago, now my laptop isn't opening anything i attach. i have a card reader, every time i put my sd card in my laptop says i need to format this drive, and when i try to it says windows is...

I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...

Hi Just a really quick question about running a OS in VMware Player (I said VB in the title and I can't change it now). I installed Ubuntu into VMware Player and it runs really slow. Everything works even the sound but video stutters etc, I'm assuming that's because my computer is really...

Sorry for the long post, I've tried everything for this issue. I tried asking on other forums and nobody could really help me cause it's an 8.1 thing. It's taken me a long time to figure all this out so I'm slightly discouraged.... Ever since I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8.1, I've had a problem...

I have a computer using XP, my wife had an older computer that had some hardware problems and we replaced it. The problem is, when I installed the drive into my computer, the icon shows it there but when I go to transfer files from my wife's drive it says the drive is not formatted. How do I...

This has been going on for a couple months, and it hasn't gotten in the way but now it is as it's preventing me from opening certain files and games i want to use, such as Skype, and games like Bioshock Infinite. Whenever i start up my computer or open specific programs, it says ...

Not all but like 50% of my Mp3 files can't be opened with WMP and I don't think it has anything to do with the music digital signature (pirated music) because even my itunes and the music I get from bandcamp.com can't be opened, so what's causing this?

Hi, Newbie to the forum, here. I write small programs for myself and friends. One of them I have just completed - which works fine on several computers - installs itself in the 'Program Files (x86)' folder. However, on my friend's computer (Win7), when it tries to access and/or create a...

Hey guys, My windows had crashed pretty bad and since it was cluttered anyway, I decided to make a clean start. since I just bought a new harddrive it seemed like the perfect moment anyway. So I installed Windows 7 to the new harddrive, leaving the old one with windows and everything, and after...

Hi, I accidentally deleted a corrupt user account in windows 7 before creating a new user account. I chose not to delete the files, thankfully. The files are there in the c: drive under the deleted user. My question is this; how can I bring those files over to my new user account? Any help...

Hi, (I'm not sure if this issue should be posted under hardware or software) Up until a few weeks ago everything was fine. As far as I know, no new hardware or software was installed on my Win 7 PC. During the last few weeks, external disks or disk-on-key connected to the PC are not...

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Dear Forum, Please ignore this question:- Hostsxpert has a make writeable option at the top!! Shame on me. _______________ Dear Forum I have just installed windows 8 for the first time. I have been using hostsxpert to amend the hosts file to control some of the rubbish that infiltrates...