file properties

Hi, I have an 500gb external that ive recently let alot of people use to download movies and tv shows onto their ipods and computers. My problem is that when I open the external all of my folders have been turned into shortcuts that do not open. When I click on properties for the file it says it...

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...

I have this problem. Now I have WMP to play music. I had always shown in your album name, song title, etc. Now this is not: Imageshack - 87089873.jpg The file properties also Imageshack - 12763020.jpg Recently, I have a new anti-virus - Norton. In the properties file is a backup forum...

Whenever I attempt to copy a picture or music file to my USB drive or to a CD/DVD, I receive the following message for example: "the file IMG_1303 has properties that can't be copied to the new location. Do you wish to continue?" How can I remedy this problem?

Right clicking on a file icon in "my computer" and choosing "properties/details" reveals a considerable number of fields - "author", "copyright", "title" etc. These can all be edited individually, but how can I update a folder containing perhaps as many as a hundred files in one go? I would...

until recently, editing an icon (right-click on icon, select "details", edit "description", "comment") and then save by exiting was no problem under win7 homeprem 32; now, however, i cannot save anymore whatever I added to "details, description" anybody some idea of what happened?

I have asked this question elsewhere with no solution. I had an electric outage and lost some open Calc OO files. Now every folder/file (PDF too) on my computer is hidden. I have a check mark next to "Show hidden files, folders or drives" in Folder options. All files are shown but grayed out. I...

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...

There are picture files in my folders that I cannot see. I know they are in there because they show up in the OPEN windows of photo editing programs. The thumbnails in those OPEN windows have a little yellow "padlock" icon in the lower left corners. The files were created by me opening a...

My WMP12 library recognizes the ID3 tags for about 80% of my collection, but for the other 20% it lists the album and artist as "unknown." I have looked at a couple of other threads (e.g. Link Removed and Link Removed - Invalid URL) but haven't been able to fix the problem. When I right...

Windows 7 x32 Home Premium Hello. I have an odd issue, which I'm sure it easily solved once you know how. Premise: I backup software discs onto my hard-disk as I have lost softwares in the past due to CD scratches. I have a folder named "Disc Images" and then "CD" as a sub-folder.I typically...

I've been trying to add album covers to my music folders by using the customize tab in the folder properties. However, when I select the jpg I would like to use in the 'Choose File' menu, then click 'Open', nothing happens. A blank icon does not even appear. Where the folder preview should...

Windows 7 - new installation on OE new computer Windows Media Player Library I have some photo files that I have deleted , including the original sample photos - Penguines, chrysanthimums etc The files and folder are not there but when I open windows media library the thumbnails are still...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits. I have all my photos in an external drive that I created in a Vista pc. I plugged it in my new Windows 7 pc and changed the ownership of all the files to me, since I knew otherwise I would have permission issues. But that did not help! Now in...

Is there a way to do that?? This is rather annoying!

When I rebooted my computer this AM a number of icons on the desktop had been replaced with the windows default icon used when Windows can't find the icon specified. Also, I could not access a number of root folders and the programs in them would not run from system calls as in the startup...

Hey guys, i'm a freshman here so hello @ all first. First of all, don't care about my english mistakes because i'm from Germany ;-) I've got Windows 7 prof. (64bit) since a couple days now and i'm very satisfied (for an MS OS ). Just yesterday my Winamp.exe Icon decided to vanish and never...

I have a weird.. error? happening with the image preview. Basically whats happening is, I'm taking pictures and cropping them down in photoshop, and then saving them as a JPEG. Now I can open the image in Photoshop, Picasa, Windows 7 Photo Viewer, Firefox/Chrome/IE/Any Web Browser etc, and I'll...

Hello How in Windows 7 does one remove the properties from a file such as a .jpg so that when right mouse is clicked Properties does not disclose the owner details? Thanks Kiwited

My windows 7 install is using about 13GB. I want to keep all (as much as possble) my data out of the Windows install partition. If I view the properties on the USER->MY-ACCOUNT folder, the dialog says 2GB. If I navigate into the folder all the subfolders (Contacts, Desktop, Downloads...