file size

Not all files but some zip files that I download upon opening I get a Windows cannot open the folder The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid but I get the same file using Firefox and it opens fine w/o error. Also when saving there is a file size difference in IE it's much smaller then it is...

I can't delete a huge 80 megabyte file from my desktop. It hangs up and says preparing to recycle but never does. I left the computer on all night and in the morning it was still "preparing to recycle" the file. I tried moving it to another folder but a window comes up saying thats it's "moving"...

all of the programs in the "programs and features" list either have an incorrect file size or just nothing for the size column. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi guys, My windows 7 was working really graet a few months but than (I think after an update, but not sure) I just couldn't save any files downloaded from any internet browsing programm. Mozilla shows that the files are actually downloaded but they somethimes don't have the same size as it...

Hi, Every now and then, I have this problem that a download stream, is not shown until it has finished! This is unclear, so I give two examples: I want to watch a YouTube video; after I open the video page, I see only the black video screen and it will take as long as the video is fully loaded...

I am rapidly tiring of windows 7 search. I does seem to resemble Vista more and more and not for anything good. I have added .tps to the index, and now Windows 7 will find that file type when searching. Sort of... Thing is - Windows 7 won't recognize the size of these files - they show up as 0...

I figured losing all the information from the Windows Explorer status bar wouldn't be a real big hassle but I've just realized it is...... I create directories to hold digital images, and those directories need to be the right size to write to a DVD. In XP all I needed to do was click on the...

Is there a way to tell the total size of all files in the recycle bin? It seems in XP there was a info taskbar on the bottom in XP, but I have not been able to find it in W7. BTW, I am using W7-64.

I want to be able to see the size of a folder or file when I hover the mouse over it, but it doesn't seem to work. I have the option 'display folder size information in folder tips' selected... Is there something I'm missing? Ideally I'd like to display folder size in the column like you can...

Here is whats happening, i tried to download the beta of a video game, it was a big file around 6gigs so i left the computer to download it over night, it was gonna take like 4-5hours. I came back to the PC the next day and the download had basically frozen and it said i was connected to the...

Just been looking at this game i found while browsing the Nvidia website. I looks really cool and the graphics are amazing. It is only available for the PC and is a Digital Download only. Futuremark are the developers and it is available from November 4th. I decided to go for it and the cost is...

I just recieved a email from digital river with a link to a ISO download but whenever i try to download it the download gets to about 500MB give or take even when it says it 3.0GB is the file size and says that it is complete! can anyone shed some light on how to resolve this because i am...

I've been trying to download windows 7 pro 64 bit for the last few days. I purchased it from Digital River through the Microsoft website. Every time I attempt to download it, it get to about 68% and stops completely. It just so happens that 68% is 2044 MB or about 2 GB. I'm wondering if...

I am wondering if it is my hdd or something else, if I transfer a big file "3gig" from partition 2 to partition 1, at the same time, open up IE or anything, My system becomes very sluggish, transfer speeds shows copying the 3 gig file from 30 mb/s & drops to 20 mb/s when I try to open something...

Hi - sorry for the rookie question - I'm getting close to maxing out my hard drive and I suspect there are a lot of files and apps that are on there that are large and unnecessary. Is there an easy way to ID by file size what is on my machine so I can uninstall, delete, or move large stuff that...

Hello, I have been using Windows 7 for the past few months, and I am very happy with it. I have worked in the IT/MIS field and for years all you would get out of me when it came to windows would be gripes about this or that.. Many of my overall problems with Windows as an OS (Security Issues...

I was wondering if any of you knew of an alternative to foldersize on XP that would work on Seven, I already lived for too long without it on windows Vista... It basicly showed the foldersize next to the foldername in windows explorer, at the same place as windows show the size of regular...

Windows 7 build 7600 x64 is expected to be leaked soon on various torrents but don’t rush to grab it one,first confirm whether the torrent is real or fake as we would be seeing lot of torrents popping up,most of them would be fake. Here are some details of Windows 7 build 7600 x64 File Name...

Hey people. A really irritating problem. I can't see the folder total size in windows explorer. When you stand in any folder and select all, the status bar only shows you the number of files. You can see the in the details pane the actual size of each file, but you cannot see the...

Hi All, here goes my problem. for the last one week am trying to delete a file from my desktop in vista. But the system is not able to do that. Apparently, it shows something like ' estimating the size of the file' and goes on like that(System shows this whenever we copy/delete things) The size...