folder creation

Hi all. This is my first post here so apologies in advance if it in the wrong thread. I am by no means an it expert hence me asking for help on this. I want to create a new folder everyday to keep a record of curtain work things relating to this particular day. So within a current folder I...

For personal reasons I'd rather not disclose, it has been years since I owned a laptop - now I am setting everything up and I want to get things right. I have completely forgotten how to create a folder - I am ashamed to say it. I want to create them by month, i.e. February 2021 for I plan to...

Using the command line, I would like to write a simple script that creates two folders C:\$X.~01 and C:\$X.~01 and then maybe uses the icacls command to set the permissions on both folders such that neither folder may be read, written or modified in any manner except specifically by a single...

Hello everyone, New member here. I bought a new computer at Fry's, when I make a new folder on the C drive I get the blue-circle-of-death and Windows Explorer locks up. Is this a know bug in 8.1? I went to the MS website and downloaded all the updates for Windows, then rebooted the machine...

I am using a Fujitsu NH570 Notebook and am running Windows 7 Home Edition. A few weeks ago I don't know what happened but the New Folder link at the top of say the documents folder or any place that has that option that a person would use to create a new folder doesn't work anymore. You click on...

Windows 7 Pro. Go Flex Drive attached, it is F: Going into F: with Explorer. Clicking on a folder, OK. But when I right click on this folder trying to create New > Folder, message: "Windows Explorer stopped working" and next: "Windows Explorer restarting". How can I create a subfolder...

Hi I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird for my e-mail client. I'm annoyed by getting all the duplicate Link-back posts (some going clear back to 2010) mixed in with all my other stuff. While trying to figure out if there was some way to block them, I found that I can make a folder in my inbox...

Trying to use the Win 8 Photos app to import some photos from an SD Card. I keep getting this vague error. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? Link Removed

I am not a coder or programmer. I will start by asking the question and then tell you what I want to accomplish. Can a windows command be run from the right mouse click folder context menu? I work with a lot of pictures and create a lot of folders to put the pictures into. Most of the time I...

I have always been able to create sub folders by using the menus or by right clicking on the highlighted folder. All of a sudden this capability is gone. Nothing happens when I click on "New Folder" in the top menu. If I highlight the folder and rignt click the only choice given me is to create...

On my new Windows 7 - 64 bit computer, occasionally the system would ask me if I wanted the Admin Privileges needed to perform some task I was trying, I'd say Yes, & life was good. But today I wanted to create a new folder in c/program files (x86)/turbotax, & the system said i could only create...

If I make a new folder, it won't appear until I manually refresh the screen. This could be within another folder or something on the desktop. If I rename a file, it doesn't change until I manually refresh as well. What can things like that be related to? It might've been like this close to...

I Need to change the fonts in a couple panes in my Thunderbird email program. to do this I do and %APPDATA% and drill down to my ******.default directory and create a chrome folder then make a userChrome.css file with the info I need in it. I get to the folder I need to create a new "chrome" or...

I was experimenting with creating different folders and now I can't make a new one in a specific destination. This is what I did. I created a new folder. I didn't rename it. I right-clicked and set sharing to 'Nobody'. The folder then disappeared and now when I try to make a new folder, it...

Hello: This is my first time posting here. Thanks in advance for any assistance. I have a batch file that worked faithfully in Windows XP. I wish to update the code to work in Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit). The code creates a folder with a date in its name. the code is as follows: @echo...

Brand new computer running Windows 7. Copying folders from external drive onto C: drive (root directory). Seems ok but on restart/reboot any folder that started with a number or the letters A, B, C, D, E are gone e.g. Bills, 1AXA Data etc. Similarly, if I went to create a folder that started...

I created a regfile that modified the context menu so that I could just make one click to create a folder. It worked very well in XP but now that I have changed to Windows 7 it doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the contents of the reg file. Windows Registry Editor...

I found the below problem on another forum and it explains the problem probably better than I could. I have the exact same problem as described, 30 seconds to a minute to create a new folder in Windows 7 Explorer, and then the same thing again after entering the name of the folder. I've also...

Hi In Windows XP, I am able to right-click within a folder, and when I choose New there is a listing of multiple file types that can be created (DOC, TEXT, HTML) and Folder. In Windows 7, when I do the same action, the choice available for New is only Folder How can I make this all New to...

Every time I try to extract files from a Rar file and try to to install the result in either a named program file or leave WinRar to make a new folder I am unable to do so because I get a an error message which says cannot create folder. I wa able to do this in windows XP with no problems,,,,,,,