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Something is suddenly changing my files to Read Only. It seems to be affecting Office 2016 files. What's causing this and how do I stop it?

Something is corrupting files on my computer by putting 3 unprintable bytes at the beginning of some files. The characters are unprintable and the hex values are always the same, EF, BB, and BF There are over two hundred files like this on my system. Most of the affected files have the...

I reinstalled windows 10 today. I connected my Toshiba external hard drive afterwards and although it shows up in the File Explorer, the usage information is not displayed and I cannot access the data inside. I plugged in two of my other external drives and it worked fine. I plugged the Toshiba...

All my data is on my D drive. I want to make that the drive that opens when I go to open a file, rather than My Documents. How do I do this?

Last night I logged out and when I logged back in again all my files, tiles and everything had disappeared and I was unable to access anything, all that was left on the screen was a few original icons but nothing would open. This morning as a last resort I did a system restore and to my relief...

I need help configuring Windows 7 Backup in Windows 10 Pro x64. I know I need to manually pick the files, but I forget which to backup and which to skip. I've got Windows 10 Pro, programs, apps and newer games on my M.2 ssd. I got my older games on a 2nd ssd with symbolic link on the C: drive...

I share files on my home network between my desktop PC and my laptop. I often move files between the two computers by placing folders on the desktops and then working with them or moving them to specific folders. The network for my laptop lists its desktop folder, but for the desktop PC, the...

At Build 2016, Microsoft introduced to the world the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) [WSL], which enables developers to run native Ubuntu user-mode console binaries through the Bash shell in Windows 10. If you’re in the Windows Insider program, you’ve had the opportunity to try out this...

It seems that when I got my computer, it had one partition. Then I dug into administrative settings and discovered that I really had four. One was Windows 7 (C:\), which I labeled, one was HP_TOOLS (P:\) and contains a "backup of the bios", one was SYSTEM_ (V:\) which contains a copy of various...

Hi, I’m having a problem accessing some of my files. I think it might started when I changed laptops and restored a backed up copy of all my files on to the new computer. The old one had a FAT 32 file system with Windows 2K, and I formatted the new one, which is running XP as NTFS. I’m mainly...

I have an older computer running full version Win7 pro and I am going to build a new computer and start out with the same Win7 before going to Win10 at some point. Can I have both computers running the same Win7 just long enough to use a transfer cable and migrate the files I need? Thanks Ivan

My PC is infected with a Trojan that NOD32 can not cleaned. Before Windows 10 I would just go ahead and reformat. However, since WIN10 have the reset option (keep my files but reinstall all Windows files) I was wondering if I should just go this route.

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. An attacker who...

Can any one tell me what this is and if it's spyware how to get rid," Desktop.ini", I keep deleting but it keeps reappearing, Thanks

I am trying to shut down my old computer and transfer the files to my new computer. I have tried to use a USB transfer cable and also a flash drive to move the files. Anything inserted into any USB port does not show up in Windows Explorer, but if I go into an application such as Word or excel...

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For some reason my songs are out of order. I tried to rename them but it won't let me. Trying to get it organized like all my other folders. Any ideas?? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

When thinking about your app data, one aspect to consider is data lifetime. In general, when it comes to the lifetime of data, you have two options: local data, which exists as long as the app that created it remains installed, and roaming data, that will continue existing online even after your...

Whenever I try to open windows explorer, after about 5 seconds the window freezes up and so does the taskbar, until I restart windows explorer in task manager. This happens every time I open it and now I can't use windows explorer. Also, I think this happened on a day when I took apart my...

If I put a file (picture, song, video, etc), on my Desktop where shortcuts would usually go, where is the file actually stored? Is it stored in the Desktop file? Or is there another place it actually resides? I'm going through a file recovery problem, a want to know where to have my program...