i'm the only user with an account on my machine.
hence, the administrator.
still, i've been being bombarded with permission errors of every kind lately (most recently, while trying to install Python).
in researching, i've found i have no control of the Windows folder (when i should have full...
Hi, I'm currently using a Lenovo Y510P laptop, which I bought with an OEM installed, but I've removed it and clean installed Windows 10 with a recovery media I made with Microsoft's tool
Anyways.. in the process, I've noticed my laptop has a lot of, probably some unneccesary partitions left by...
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Hi. I know how to disable creation of thumbs.db, and now know how to delete them locally (using Disk Cleanup), but some were created on external drives before I had disabled creation of them, and it seems Disk Cleanup isn't able to access these drives. Any advice on deleting all thumbs.db files...
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I have found with Disk Investigator scores of urls and passwords on my disk that windows7 has somehow put in the clear on my C drive. I have tried using HxD to overwrite the passwords, but windows7 gives me an 'Access denied' message when I try to save the changes. This write is supposedly...
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Normally if a user accidentially deletes a file and want to recover it then he can take the following steps:
Load one of the many "undelete" tools (like Recuva) and let it detect,analyze and copy the file to another partition.
Now assume that the partition where the deleted files is stored has...
Windows 10 created a drive "E" for data, that is completely full, but I have not put anything on it. I am getting warnings that this data drive is out of space.
Prior to Windows 10 installation, my 1TB data hard drive was unplugged. That drive was drive "E." When Windows 10 installed, it...
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Considering the information below regarding the restrictions on a Fat32 partition. The question has arisen so a clarification regarding the wording of the files is necessary.
So, suppose you have a parent folder which contains no files but many child folders, approx. 660.
Each one of those...
Hi everyone,
I plan upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But, there is one small problem.
Nearly three years ago I noticed my computer does not launch Windows. It showed an error with "Your computer was unable to start". Okay, after few minutes of startup repair my computer finally made it into...
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My office pals are constantly creating lenghy file names and folders that surpass windows limits, which is causing problems when I perform or restore backups. Is there a way to just stop windows from letting a user write or copy a file which exceeds the limits imposed by the OS itself?. I´ve...
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Hello,
I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...
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Hi
I've already added this to as a note in some other posts, but I'm finally doing the reinstall of all my versions of Windows, working my way back up to Windows 10.
So far I installed a new SSD to run W10 from, moved the connections around to get it on Disk 0, and got everything to show up in...
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My PC showing some wierd error "this folder is empty" for C , D and F drives. My PC ran into this problem when the OS was Windows 8.1 and I recently updated to windows 10 still the issue is haunting . Please help me out , below I have attached screen shots of the issue.
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Is there a way NOT to enable + disable Pagefile.sys through Systems dialog but with a Registry key?
When enabling from disbaled state it should take the previously (eventually in the past) set partition location and file size.
If this is not possible then pagefile.sys should be set to "system...
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Some time ago I tried out the hidden folder tool Winmend Folder Hidden
free available from here:
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I uninstalled it later.
Now I found out that this tool installed silently a strange empty folder in root directory of each partition:
C:\Winmend~Folder~Hidden\...\...\cn\
Mind the...
I have 1 hard disk 3TB....
disk0 shows C 1784.55GB and F 263.45GB
disk1 shows E 746.39
How can I make F show as different disk? Currently there is nothing on F
also this adds up to : 2794.39 not 3 TB should I lose this much?
My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files.
There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in.
So I need a way to shift all...
Hi everyone,
I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like)
and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...
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