file structure

Hello, I've had a nice setup for myself and my family using Win 10 and Onedrive for cloud based files that served either as a backup or ability to share between people. With recently installing Win11 on a couple of computers (first my wife's Surface, and now my personal laptop) everything moved...

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

Could you please let me know what the slash and period "\..\..\" notation mean in a folder path: C:\Users\Username\Documents\Project\..\..\SubProject\Module.bas as I'm trying to understand and old VB6 project that errors out on the path? Maybe VB is not listing the full path so as to fit at...

I don't know what did this but if I am in a program that ask me to select a folder for a video to be saved to or imported from it has changed the name of a directory path even in windows explorer it shows an incorrect complicated path that looks like something to do with zune. I have created a...

HI, Recently I took the 2.5" SSD off from my Windows notebook, formatted it and installed MACOSX to use it on. a Mac temporarily. Some time later I bought a NVMe M.2 SSD to upgrade the MAC and a M.2 SSD to upgrade the Windows notebook. As the Windows notebook accepts two 2.5" SATA SSDs, I...

Well, my nephew dropped his laptop with win 7 (Dell) and their software/recovery stuff is cr*p (you don't get an actual windows disk when you buy the product - thanks Dell!) and it won't boot so I tried to help him recover gigs of music etc from the "bad disk". Using win 8.1 I was able to buy...

I just set up a brand new laptop running Windows 8.1. I am not new to Windows. I have been using it since the first version came out and WAS very familiar with the Windows file structure. I don't seem to be able to find much of anything in Windows 8.1. My husband would like me to create a...

Hey all, I'm in the process of organizing the data explosion that are my files and folders and until recently had been using the "Library" focused Windows 7. I'm working with a different PC now which has Windows 8.1 as its OS. I'm a little confused by 8.1's lack of "Library" filing structure...

My external drive on F: is a Seagate Goflex. A list of folders contain my backups but when I right click on a folder the drop down window does not contain "New" so I can not create subfolders. But when I right click on an empty space, the drop down window has New and I can create and rename new...

After a HDD failure, carried out a clean install .. Now however I have ended up with some 'odd' account naming. I have the following view: Link Removed My account (administrator) instead of being .. 'Rick' is now 'Rick.Rick-Home-PC' I know that home-pc was name I gave to computer...

Ok, i accidentally dragged my main folder with all of my stuff in it into a folder next to it. I clicked undo move but here is what happened. I open my folder, every folder within that folder was gone but those subfolder's contents were still there, just completely unorganized. Now every...

I'm running Windows 7 on a system with two hard drives. I have the OS and applications installed on one drive (SSD) and moved my user folder (documents, pictures, etc) onto a second hard drive. Well, that second hard drive died on me, so I have to replace it. My question: how should I go about...

Ok, I've searched far and wide (mostly in forums relating to WAMP and APACHE), but I suspect this is related to Win7, so I thought I'd try here. I've used WAMP for several years, with several vhosts set up on development machines using WinXP, then Vista, and now Win7. This *same* setup worked...

My Win 7 PC was able to see the XP PC file structure, but has now become invisible. However, the XP PX is able to see the Win 7 file structure. I also note the little pointer next to the network entry is no longer showing in the Win 7 file system. Discovery is on in Win 7 and files are...

I've often heard that the OS should be on a drive (logical drive) by itself so that, when it gets a problem, you can just re-install a new copy of the OS on that drive. However, isn't the OS modified when you install programs? Where would you install them? Can someone explain the procedure...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

I have two computers on my network. Both use Windows 7-64 and both have Homegroups enabled with all the file types enabled (video, printers, etc). My problem is that I get an error message when I try to connect to any subdirectory under the users name (on the other computer). I can see the file...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

Hello, I am a new user to windows 7. I have used XP but skipped Vista. I am wondering what is the difference of "Program Files" and "Program Filesx86"? Most of my files download onto Program Files x86. Thanks:p

I plan to run windows 7 Professional on my pc. I had an idea that i would install it on a small 80 Gb HD and then install most of my programs to a separate, much larger, HD. If i do this, will windows be able to cope with the file structure as both my 32 & 64 bit programs will be installed to...