file transfer

With the end of XP coming shortly is there a simple way to make XP connect with a home network but not have internet access? I meant like transfering files back and forth to use old software on XP that won't install on newer Windows. I think other people might be interested in this soon. I...

I have a pen flash drive with info from old PC. I already used it to transfer pictures to new PC with Win8, but now I cannot. I do not remember how to access it. I plug it into UBS port and... nothing. How do I access/find it in Wind 8? I am not good with computers, please if you can explain it...

Hi, folks : D I hope this is the right area here for me as new user. Here is my issue: I have got a single hdd which contains two partitions with one operating system on each partition. The first one holds Windows XP and Windows 7 on the second one. Now that I do not use XP anymore, I plan to...

I recently moved some important files from my external hard drive to my pc. I checked and everything had been transferred so i went ahead and formatted by hard drive, i shut down my pc and when i turned it on again half of the folders i had earlier transferred would not open. This is the message...

Hi everyone, I recently tried to Bluetooth some of my files from my cellphone to my laptop computer, but I accidentally make a new connection (cell phone connection) in my computer and I don’t know how to permanently remove it. Telephone connections appeared in the network charm under the...

My old vista laptop died so I upgraded to a new laptop pre-loaded with 8.1. I tried to load some files including photos from my Seagate hard drive but I get a message to the effect that they are not supported. How can I download the other files?

Hello I had a friend send me the file so I could burn it. I think I burned it as .iso and have to see it to know if it is.exe so I can burn it to disc properly if that is the case. Can you please send me the Win 8.1 pro x 64 file to burn and tell me if it is .exe or. Iso so I can burn a disc...

Hi there, I'm really in need of some help with my Windows 8. When I installed my Windows XP, for some reason my Windows 8 moved to E: Partition, when it previously was on C: Partition, now C: Partition is a System Reserved partition. Now what I want to know, is moving my Windows 8/E: Files to...

My Iphone does show up in device manager, as Apple Mobile Device USB Driver. however it doesnt show up in Computer. This is really an issue because my memory is full and i need to transfer my photos to my PC. What do i do?

Totally new to W8, but reasonably literate for a 64 yr old. Can anybody please tell me why I cannot simply transfer video from my W7 Samsung laptop to my W8 HP Touchscreen 11.6 netbook? Picture, docs, all okay, but with video it will transfer the sound but not the picture. Any thoughts please...

I have a folder in my mac laptop that contains .eml files. I need to access these files in windows outlook as I have to sell out this mac laptop now and I have transferred these files in windows but I am not able to get any way to import these files in outlook 2010. There are a few thousand .eml...

I've been using True Image for synchronizing files between my video archives, and it does a good job, with one small problem that I would like to avoid. It synchronizes both ways. To illustrate what I mean, I think of the primary archives as the master, and the other as the slave. Since the...

I have an NAS (Network Attached Storage) but I recently set up. (It replaces the old NAS I left turned off for three years. The drive is unchanged from the old machine, it simply has a new machine around it.) There are a lot of zip files I have stored on it. Every one of them, if I dry to...

Every time I want to upload videos from phone to computer or from computer to phone, this is the message that I get: "Device has stopped responding". How can I solve this?? I have tried using different usb ports on the computer, including the one on the back of the case. It's not my phone or...

I have a bootable USB stick of a maximum capacity of 30 GB and a current content of 6 GB. Now I want to make a backup of this USB flash with a minimum resulting size. At this moment oftentimes a tool "USB image tool" is mentioned. When I make a backup from this USB flash drive with this tool...

I have a computer that I'm punishing, so I installed Windows H8 on it. I did the H8.1 (for lack of a better word) update. I want to be able to move files and folders to and from the D drive. With XP it's incredibly easy, I just go to the drive I want to share and click share. Done. With Windows...

I just tested a new Corsair Flash Voyager 3.0 flash drive I got, and was curious why it is considerably faster transferring a file to the drive than it is to transfer the same file off the flash drive back to the desktop? Shouldn't it be about the same either way?

Hi I just got finished setting up a new laptop for the mother of a friend of ours. She is 88, years old and hasn't used a computer since some time in the 90s. Naturally it has Windows 8 on it. I tried to look at it as if I was 88 years old and didn't' know anything about modern computers. I...

Hi I thought I could speed things up if I added the computer I'm on to a home group so I could transfer things directly. But it keep asking for my homegroup password, well I never did this before, it says I do have a home group, but I know I never created a password for it. I looked online...

Is it possible to send a file from my Laptop to my Desktop Printer wirelessly?