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    Windows 7 Windows 7 cannot find file.

    I “used” to have a .docx file on my desktop but somehow it has disappeared. I searched my hard drive and search finds the file but when I click to open I get the following message: Windows cannot fine ‘file:///c:/<file name> Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Is there...
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    Windows 10 Is there any way to recover my files?

    I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...
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    Windows 7 Restoring Lost Files

    Recently made a major housing move - in the process of crazy packing, boxing up, redoing living area, I lost my drive on my desktop to who knows what. Old age maybe. 5 year old desktop. Anyway, I have since replaced the drive and many of the older files that I had backed up on an external drive...
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    Windows 7 Why are there 4 (!) RECYCLE BINs on my partition? Outer and Inner RecycleBins?

    After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...
  7. Windows 10 Recuva lost files?

    Hi This isn't really a request for help, more curiosity. This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin. Only after that did I realize that there was another folder in it that I did need. I've never used Recuva but I downloaded it and tried to see...
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    Windows 10 Help Needed: Fixing 89D1 File Conversion Issues After Update

    all my files in the computer are converted to 89D1 files. how to convert them back top normal. is there any default setting that went wrong? Can this happen after the updates and if so whats the solution now? please help..
  9. Windows 10 Does corruption of OS is always/generally caused by Virus/Malware?

    I always have a folder named 'Temp' at my desktop to keep files temporarily, which later I organise and shift at permanent places. Since yesterday, I have noticed that its get deleted(like vanished!) automatically without my knowledge. It once got deleted, and I tried to recover the data through...
  10. Windows 10 win-8 disk that has login protection

    hello all - FIRST TIME POSTING QUESTION we have a win-8 drive that is being pulled out of a dell box that had a win login& password established. if i were to install this drive into a win-10 box as a secondary drive (drive-D or drive-E perhaps with a usb internal-2-external housing), will...
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    Windows 10 Can't Find The Install.esd File

    I want to make a iso file of my current win 10 build but in my surprise, suddenly i can not find that "install.esd" file. It used to be in a hidden folder named "$WINDOWS.~BT". But neither i can find the Folder nor the esd file. For information, I didn't do any disk cleanup and also i don't use...
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    Windows 8 can anyone tell me

    i am user of window 8 . but in my system some files are missing. how can i find this.and uodated
  13. Windows 10 Missing folders and driver errors

    Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...
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    Windows 10 Update Problem and Question

    My computer (ACER) has windows 10. Mid-last week, overnight, the windows updated by itself. The entire format of my computer change and my documents were all moved around. I generally keep most of my documents on the desktop, which was now moved into another separate folder that I had to find. I...
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    Windows 10 Deleted disc files

    Hello, I just installed Windows 10 on one of mine disks. Install process ends fine but after that I found out that on other disk are not data, but there is old version of system disk! There are completely copied system disk data. I dont need that old version of OS but I need data which was there...
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    Windows 10 Restore help needed

    Hi I have a pic that had the dreaded Zepto virus I have removed that and I thought I was doing well as I had backed up my files to an external drive however here is where the problem is I can view the files in control panel and in the one that shows the file changes and all the files are there...
  17. Windows 10 Accidentally moved all my folders.

    I was trying to make hidden files appear, but I made a huge mistake and I unfortunately don't know what I did. When I was on the properties tab inside the users folder, I checked the box where it says hidden. I accepted everything about permissions, iirc, then it started a loading window doing...
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    Windows 8 restarting Windows 8 laptop

    I'm having difficulties with my windows 8 laptop when I tried to just restart all of my things on my laptop I booted it I guess, and I accidentally deleted all of my files. Now it's stuck on a install windows saying: "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error...
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    Windows 7 Can I use System Restore Points WITHOUT Shadow Copies? Relationship?

    I am uncertain what the differences are between System Restore Points and Shadow Copies. Actually I need only System Restore Points. 1.) Can I use SRP without (!) Shadow Copies? 2.) When Shadow copies always necessary: Why are SRP invented? Why not using Shadow Copies only? 3.) Assume I...
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    Windows XP Changing file systems, can't access files

    Hi, I’m having a problem accessing some of my files. I think it might started when I changed laptops and restored a backed up copy of all my files on to the new computer. The old one had a FAT 32 file system with Windows 2K, and I formatted the new one, which is running XP as NTFS. I’m mainly...