If you’ve ever opened your Windows 11 Downloads folder only to face a wild jumble of screenshots, installers, and files you barely remember downloading, you’re not alone. For countless users, the “Downloads” folder on the C: drive gradually transforms into a digital landfill—a cluttered heap...
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Hi. I know how to disable creation of thumbs.db, and now know how to delete them locally (using Disk Cleanup), but some were created on external drives before I had disabled creation of them, and it seems Disk Cleanup isn't able to access these drives. Any advice on deleting all thumbs.db files...
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Just a quick question. I bought an upgrade version of win 7 from Vista. I couldn't upgrade it because my old os was in english and the new one is in french, so I did a fresh install of win 7
Now, everything went well, but I always have a promprt asking if I want to start under vista or 7...
I was doing some hard drive clean up since some of my older saved apps won't run on 7. After deleting around 4gb worth of data, I looked in the recycling bin and...it only showed about 8 things in it. When i went to empty it, i told it to show more detail and it was cleaning out everything I had...