file management

So basically I need to search my PC for videos taken (date created/date taken) in 2014 & 2015. I’ve uploaded all my phones videos throughout the years and I completely forgot where I stashed each years worth of videos. Is there a way to search (Local Disk C,D, etc..) for something like .MP4...

I need a faster to way to copy searched folders from an Android device to Windows 11 PC. Right now I am dragging and dropping from the search results one at a time. I wish the searched files could be copied one after the other automatically.

I am trying to make a backup on a one-terabyte USB Drive. When I try to make a file history backup it will appear fine for about 5 minutes. Then it shows an error saying that a file on the drive is corrupted and cannot be read. After I got this message I checked the drive for corruption. I find...

Is it the same for other people? Is it Windows 10 that is like this?

Hi, This is my first day with Windows 11 and I'm already having a lot of trouble with a few niche things that are pretty important to my workflow. First: if I open the Photos app, for example, the first window opens where I want it to, but any subsequent photos I open while the first is open...

on my hard drive, I have three JOB files that have long numerical sequences after them. Each takes up 64 gigabytes on my hard drive. how do I reclaim that space? I have consulted AI and got nothing useful.

Hi - im new to windows 11. I need to attach files alot to emails. In previous windows this was easy, file attach - then the list was alphabetical. In windows 11 the list is sorted by some sort of date grouping today, yesterday, earlier in the week, etc... It makes finding a named file almost...

Well guys, if this message seems rare is because english is not my natal lenguage (I am from Chile) and i am using a traductor, also is my first time using Windows Forum I remember trying to save a picture from the internet and just grabbing the picture and putting it on the desktop, then this...

The windows 11 open/save file dialogue groups by time. As in Today, Yesterday, Last week. I want it to never ever ever do that. Note: I'm not talking about the view in folders in explorer, I said the open/save dialogue. As in File->Open. I know how to do it in explorer folders, how do I do...

Is it possible to force Winexplorer to have the files in the same place when I reopen the same window when I put them in my own order before? I tried it according to this tutorial - How To Disable Auto Arrange In Folders On Windows 10, but it only works 50% - after reopening the same folder, the...

I keep deleting them but they keep coming back. any way to delete those "temp" folder in documents and C drive?

I have a large 12gb .zip file that I downloaded locally. I started an upload to a network folder via a VPN connection off site. The connection is not fast so this would take 20-30min to fully upload. I canceled at 2% and decided to wait until another time to upload this file. The strange thing...

Hello all, I accidentally deleted about 700-1000 image files from my Screenshots folder. I tried using this command with the windows file recovery app - winfr C: D: /regular /n Screenshots\ But its not working. It is returning many many files, but the ones that were deleted yesterday are not...

Note taking with text editors is the best way I've ever used. The real note taking software keep files locally which is risky for data loss when the operating fails or when the notebook is stolen. Word processors are too clunky and risky of data loss when crashed. Mozilla Composer is the fast...

Hello, I am using a special data transfer cable with particular softwares: Bravura & PCLinq5 to link 2 mini-PC sticks together to recognize each other’s C Drives to wipe them clean and reformat to them, but I’m not able to see the C Drives of each no matter what I do. Both use Win 10. Is there...

have come across a situation where a file is stored with .ram extension instead of its default extension,so is there any shortcut on windows operating system to store file as .ram file,felt like some shortcut unexpectedly created it,can someone help on this? curious to know what might have happened

Hello, In case my computer gets hacked, I want to keep passwords safe into an encrypted file. Since the data I have is free-flow, KeePass won't do since it expects data to be in neat columns (logon, password, etc.) After checking several apps, I came up with the following requirements: 1...

Hi Guys: My windows 11 PC kept putting downloads under the wrong user. In my effort to stop this from happening I removed the system permission to use that folder. Now my computer will not boot far enough for me to correct my error. What can I do? I also have a laptop running widows 11. Is...

I've made a mistake on a cpu that has both windows 10 and 7 in different partitions. I was moving files between partitions and ended up moving windows operation system's files. Now I can't startup neither with windows 10 or 7 Is there a way to chose with windows to startup by using the dos system?

Is it possible for Win 10 to show the file structure like the mac?