filesystem

Symbolic link not showing up in Navigation Pane of Windows 10. Instead of using Quick Access. How to get show up there?

I noticed this folder created in my C: root. There are no files in it. It's an empty folder that was created last week. Have no idea where it came from. Something related to Azure and IPC? I'm just guessing. Folder name is MSIPCCache. Any info would be great. I find nothing on it when doing a...

Goodmorning, I had 3 drives on my pc (1 ssd-m2, 1 hdd, 1ssd) and because i need to switch data from one pc to another i bought a docking station. Right now i put my internal HDD and SSD (2/3) in it and if i tried to boot windows without the docking station on, i receive this error ( Reboot...

Hi, As I have been getting on well with my installation of Linux Ubtuntu 20.04 on a SSD I installed it to a few months back, I decided to delete the partition I was using it from on a HDD and extend the partition for saved data to utilised the entire HDD. However rather than simply extend the...

Hi, I just installed virtual box from the ubuntu repository as part of the snap store selection however when I go to open up an old saved .vdi virtual box file it won't let me select it, its as if it wont recognise that file type in the directory in which it is stored, has VB changed in the...

Hi guys, I dabbled in having an Ubuntu partition on my laptop but for various reasons have decided against it, I want to delete the partition but I don't know which one it is.

I try to give permission in with the commands: New-Object DirectorySecurity.FileSystemAccessRule ('User', 'FullControl', 'Allow') acl.SetAccessRule ($) Set-ACL c: \ windows \ system32 \ drivers -AclObject it should changed to FullControl In PowerShell when I...

Why does %AppData% refer to the roaming folder?

Hello. My DVD+RW with UDF is suddenly write-protected despite I have never finalized it. I just used it normally, and on the next day, it was suddenly write-protected.

Idk wth is going on but its getting extremely annoying... I have a folder "neard" in c:\ so its c:\neard\ and its a lamp stack. every time I try to delete a folder/file in c:\neard\www it get a administrator required and then it still fails. I've tried setting the permissions and they all show...

Hello everyone, I've been trying to set up central "Documents" and "Downloads" folders for the two desktops and one laptop that I have and which are chatting away to each other in a miniature Windows network (homegroup). The reason for this was that I sometimes use one PC, sometimes another, to...

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...

Hi Still debating how to go about moving my install of Windows 10 to a different drive. I noticed that my backup software will allow me to clone Windows 10 directly to the other hard drive? That would be easy and quick, but it still doesn't address the registration issue if I want to leave the...

Hello, I use a single PST file as my main information store between home and office. The file is 100MB and has recently been compacted. At the office, we have an Exchange Server, and at home I interface with my POP. Ultimately evertything gets filed in this PST file which I carry on...

What I'm looking for is software that can create backups of installed software just by right clicking a desktop shortcut and selecting 'create backup' or something like that, then the program would make a note of the install directory the shortcut is referring to, then it'll scan the HD for data...

I just assembled a desktop, and shortly after I began using the machine(days), it started to give different BSODs coming out of sleep. Sometimes it appears to happen during sleep although I am not sure(someone may have woke my computer during the sleep). I have run memtest86+ tests with no...

Greetings Microsoft, Since Windows largely dominates the OS most gamers, even regular Windows users own, I highly recommend the size of the OS you will be creating to be much smaller, I started gaming on Windows 98SE and it took up about 2GB of storage space, my performance with my games was...

I'm scared and confused after I see this mysterious local disk appear in My Computer. Opening it gives this error: How do I kill it? What do I do?

It would appear that some Win 10 users are having issues with update KB3020114. Microsoft have posted an official solution on the Windows Insider Hub: ref: Insider Hub found on Windows 10 Tech Preview

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...