file deletion

I just upgraded and when dragging my different media folders to where I want them to be, it suddenly will move them somewhere else and change the name. I'm dragging a folder called music to my desktop and suddenly it copies everything in to my music in some librarys directory, and I don't want...

I dislike Internet Explorer browser. It is so slow and backwards in the world of software compared to browsers like Flock and Google Chrome which are far more advanced and better than IE. which a lot of people including my self dislike it enough to want it gone from their computer completely...

Having multiple problems im trying to resolve after installing windows 7 pro. The back story is this computer had xp on an IDE harddrive. Then i wanted to upgrade my harddrive and windows os to windows 7, so I bought a sata 1tb hdd and got win7 and installed the hdd (while still using xp) then...

I'm looking for a way to change the functionality of the single click actions for files in Windows 7. As it is now, if you click on a file, it highlights it with a faint highlight. If I click it again it attempts to rename the file. This makes it a PITA to delete files if they are...

Hello everyone, I am having issues deleting what seems to be a bad file. Last night I downloaded a licensed program file for a software called Revit from Autodesk. Essentially this is a licensed file, and it is a 3D object for an architectural model. My problem is that I cannot, delete, move...

[SOLVED] Administrator Permissions not working on Administator Account Alright, so I did some looking through similar threads but couldn't find any with this exact issue. Hopefully this is not a repeat thread, I don't think it is. SOLUTION It turns out that some of the files in the folder were...

Running Windows 7, Explorer 8, and Norton 360 v4 When trying to rename or delete files or folders, I often get Folder in Use The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. I check the task manager and sure enough something is running. I do an...

Hey guys, Recently my wmp12 which came with win 7 is not working. i dont know what happened. if i click on a audio file which used to work with wmp12, i get this: no matter how much i click on wmp12, it doesnt respond. i switched the feature off/on and even did a system restore, but it...

How do I delete Windows 7 files/folders from an old hard disk I no longer use for booting from. I cannot delete these folders: Program Files, Program Files(x86), ProgramData, Windows. I get this error msg when I try to delete the above: "You need permission to perform this action. You require...

How to rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7 or Vista Manually: 1. Folder Options -> Views -> show Hidden/System files 2. C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local folder and delete the hidden IconCache.db file ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using cmd: 1. Ctr Alt Del -> Task Manager ->...

I'm running Win 7 64bit Home Premium and I have 3 problems that are driving me nuts. The First one: On one of my flash drives I suddenly have three 0 bit files showing up. No names on the files, just symbols. One is like an upside down, backward "L". The other 2 are listed with a "C" with a...

I'm running Windows 7 on a Dell Studio XPS 8000. I recently downloaded a trial version of watermarking software ("Watermark Software" was the product). I saved a trial version of the watermarked image into a desktop folder. Whenever I try to open the folder, I get a scroll bar stating that...

When I click on my personal folder icon on right side of start menu, I see a listing of all that is located in my C:/Users/Personal folder, PLUS 4 additional My Documents folders. I have my HD partitioned so my documents are on D: One of the 'My Doc' folders refers to the empty folder on my...

This program seems to have arrived with my win 7 Ultimate. Everytime I try to use my (very old MS Office) Office Enterprise tries to install itself. I'm not keen on a newer version, but I'd be prepared to let it install. Only....the install fails, saying it is missing EnterpriseWW.msi. I...

Hello I started out with Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my C:\-drive, then decided to, for evaluational purposes, partition it in two roughly equal-size parts using EASEUS Partition Master 4.0 Home Edition and labeled them Win7_1 (C) and Win7_2 (D) respectively. Win7_1 (C) holding the original...

I have a new (3 months) Toshiba laptop, with Windows 7 64 bit running on it. A couple of weeks after I got it, I had finished downloading a couple of torrents, I deleted the torrent files. However, I saw that the deleted files are still visible in Windows Explorer and I can't get rid of them...

Hello, I'm running a fairly new HP p6240f/Intel Core II Quad/2.50 Ghz/64bit with Windows 7 Home Premium. I've got a really strange issue. When I delete a file from either the desktop or a windows explorer window the file "appears" to not go away, but if I double click I get an error that...

Not sure if this has been addressed fully on this forum but Ive been trying to delete previous windows files on various drives and running into a lot of problems. Now before somebody tells me to google this and search on it as there are many threads on this throughout, I have tried everything...

Okay, I'm stumped. When I go under "Uninstall a Program", most of my programs aren't even there. At all. It shows 25 of them, when I have much, much more. I can still use all of my programs (I'm pretty sure!), so what's up with THAT? Secondly, I can't use ReadyBoost on my flash drive anymore...

I recently updated to windows 7 pro from vista home premium. My laptop has two hard drives, C (w/ 30 gb and D (w/ 180 gb). Vista came on my C drive but I installed 7 on my D drive because it had more space. Now though my C drive still contains the Windows folder from Vista and it's taking up 20...