file management

I am looking for an easy multi-folder renamer so that I could rename multiple folders at one time thank you very much Link Removed

I'm not very familiar with Mp3 editing tools, but I want to copy, en masse, all the values in my Mp3s' Contributing artists field to the Album artist field. I know that I can do this through Explorer in each file's properties, but I have a lot of files to do. Ideally, something like a...

Hello, i recently noticed that my customise folder options are not working anymore and i have to manually change the columns of each folder instead of applying the settings to the folders i want via the customise tab. For example instead of size, date modified etc i want to make folders for...

Hello all, I'm trying to load about 30 CD's on my WMP but every time I open WMP and then put a CD into the disk drive, I automatically get an error notice that WMP won't be able too rip some of the files and then I can't get any further. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks :)

Looking for a way to save/capture downloaded installation files from online set up programs such as .exe,.msi excetera rather than install them or at the very least to save the installation files for future use rather than having to go back online to download them again from their setup files...

Hi all, I have 2 drives, an SSD and a hard drive. Windows is installed on my SSD, but I moved my documents folder to my hard drive in order to save space on my SSD. This worked fine, but my hard drive is showing problems and I wanted to move my documents back to my SSD in preparation for when I...

There are many guides out there which tell me how to create an WinPE bootable USB flash drive. Unfortunately when I boot from such an USB flash drive later and create e.g. some shortcuts (to additional prgms) on desktop/TaskBar then these shortcuts gets lost after shutdown. This is because the...

Hello, I've got many photos to sort on a HDD in numerous folders. I found a software to recursively generate all preview thumbnails. When done, the cache is almost 2go. But when I restart my computer, more than half of the cache is deleted so I have to regenerate the cache once again. I know...

At times my computer runs slow. I even get message that memory is insufficient. When I copy a file from another computer on the n/w the copying becomes very slow. If I run anti-virus scan it displays no virus found. If I close a Word file and try to delete it I get a message File is open, but I...

I decided to encrypt one file on my PC. I most likely mistakenly set it that every file is encrypted that I create or download. They're accessible and I'm the only user on my PC. But its annoying that nearly every file has a padlock on it. I can disable the encryption through properties, but I'd...

Hi I'm still trying to get rid of the Avast folders on my wife's laptop. I decided to try and remove it using the command prompt, or the Power Shell in this case. What I want to delete is the folder at C:\Windows\Program Files\AVAST Software "Avast Software" is the folder I want to delete...

Hello I understood the way this was set up in the Fall creator update but am having trouble understanding what to do with the spring 1903 feature. I can leave it enabled and just allow those files I think are OK but I don't know what to do regarding settings. Do I keep them as low? I did not...

We have a n/w of 3 computers. Can I restrict others from copying a certain file from my computer. How?

When I move some nds files to the folders and what I got I can't delete it, it used Unlocker and it's not working, Help me

Hello, Windows 7 refuses to let me save/delete etc files on my Android tablet's SD card, claiming the file system is 'dirty'. The last time this happened I followed the prompts to correct it and ended up with a bricked SD card which was unuseable/unformatable and had to be discarded...

Since my computer is prone to Bluescreens (separate article), My Video thumbnails and some dektop folder thumbnails are not showing. I don't think if this is related to the bluescreen I'm saying. It is very annoying and especially I cannot find my videos easily. (note that the attached photo...

I am trying to copy music files from my external hard drive to my music folder and I get a message about file names too long or invalid. I have tried to shorten the names by renaming them, but it won't allow me. I would rather not shorten the songs names anyway. How can I get around this?

Hello All, I'm using 2 external HDD on my laptop under Windows 10. Both are exactly the same: same brand, same model, same capacity, same format (NTFS). I use 1 for my daily use, the second one as backup which I synchronize frequently with the first one. However I noticed a difference with some...

Quick access contains the folders: Documents, Music, Pictures, Video On the right side of the window, there is a Quick access search field. Entering a search will find matching files in 3 folders but not matching files in the Pictures folder. If I navigate directly to the Pictures folder then...

I can no longer copy/paste from one document to another existing or new file (both Word and Notepad) - paste does not appear on the right click menu, nor does Ctrl V work; I can however copy/paste a picture. Apparently the text gets as far as the clipboard as I get a message asking if I want to...