file transfer

Assume I have two computers A and B which are connected (through WLAN/Wifi router) in an inhouse net. Now I have to transfer huge file archives (> 10 GB) from A to B and other huge file archives from B to A. I could either do this file transfers 1) in parallel (=start copying files from A to B...

For many times I have struggle with sharing photos or videos or big files over internet using messenger app. It's not only consume my mobile data but also speed is really slow and sometimes it is compresed and become low quality. Could you share with us what file transfer app do you have? Cheers~

I recently upgraded a win7 computer on our lan to win10. now i find I cannot copy files from another computer on the net, winxp, to this new win10. previously I could and did, quite frequently. now the win10 computer tells me i need admin permissions. and the winxp computer tells me to...

we have about seven computers all running some version of windows from xp to 10. So's I can move files between them at will I habitually share all the drives. And, of course, every time I do I run into Microsoft's warning about sharing root drives. never worried me. but now we have this...

This is the situation. I have to identical laptops bought at the same time. I was looking in the device manager today and one of my laptops is missing a driver but the other one has it. Is there a quick and easy way to copy the driver from laptop1, put it on usb and then install it on...

I have a SSD and I'm copying 2.5 GB of mp4 videos from my desktop to a desktop folder and it's so agonizingly slow. I have a $2,500 desktop computer so my computer isn't crap . It can handle anything I throw at it. Is there something in the settings I can change or something? It's been...

I have a wireless router upstairs and I use wifi to get online and switch downstairs for the LAN. Currently I have a separate IP address for the wireless and another for the switch. I would like to use the same IP address for the switch and the wifi (transferring files with the switch). Is...

Hi all, I'm trying to combine my music collection into a single folder on my hard drive, which I've named "Music". The problem I am facing is that over the years I have used a variety of different music players and their associated music storage systems. This has resulted in music being saved in...

Here's the setup on my home network: Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in). Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...

Dear all, I am trying to find a way how to block USB, but only read from USB. To be more specific, I want to allow copy from computer to USB, but deny copy from USB to computer. Is there any way how to do it with Microsoft tools or free programs? Thank you in advance LostInHistory

So, when I ordered my computer I saw that I'd have 1TB of storage. I see that the default area where things are installed (C:\) only consists of 149 GB total, while the Data (D:\) drive has a total of 780 GB. I'd like to move some files over there, but I'm not sure what I should do. I would also...

I managed to bluetooth pair my Envy laptop and Windows 8.1 Lumia 535 phone but I'm now looking for an entry for the phone in Windows Eplorer (or Powerdesk) so that I move files around. Although they show as being paired I can't do anything with them. I've also used a USB cable but that won't...

Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk. During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged. I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows...

Hello I have two win8 computers and one ubuntu on a small lan. If i try to filebrowse from ubuntu to a shared drawer in any of my win8computers a login is required and i have no idea what username and pw i should use... I have tried my hotmail account and all other i could think of but i just...

While moving files accross hard drives, and doing some backups, my system almost crashed, and was lagging tremendously. I do much more hard core multi tasking usually, and Windows 7 handled it fine :( Hoping there's a fix!

I saved a windows 10 disk image on my Windows Home Server and created a recovery DVD. Then when I want to check all is well, I found that while the recovery DVD worked fine when I tried to set a path to the WHS disk/file I could not log on to the server from within the recovery program. Asks...

I am trying to migrate Win 10 from a 1tb partition on internal drive C: to a 128gb internal SSD. I am using EaseUS Total Backup Ver. 8.2 to do this task. EaseUS suggests that you back up your documents, music, video, & pictures folders to a separate drive then erase all of the files in those...

I am running Windows 10 having upgraded from Windows 7 on a Dell desktop. I have run into what I am calling the "semaphore" problem. I am trying to copy/paste a folder that contains large video files. The source is on a drive inside a Synology DS413j server on my house network. The target is...

I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...

A shortcut is mapped to an FTP server, and shows up in W7 File Explorer. It works on occasion, but more often throws a paths/permissions error. When that occurs the site isn't available via a browser either. Have seen it do the same in W8.1 as well, but rarely. The SC has been deleted and...