folder creation

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

Hello everybody, I am just new here and was wondering if you guys might have a solution for this problem that has been bothering me alot: If I run the setup of new program I recently get this error message more and more: Setup was unable to create the directory...

Win7HomePremium64: For now, in SOME programs, (Audacity for example), During Save As into specific libraries (Docs in my case): How do you disable the Group By view? Nothing else seems available in context menus, also, in this situation New Folder is grayed out. In my situation it's...

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...

In explorer when trying to get a new folder the new folder button looks as if it is working but does not ever provide a new folder. I have to empty an existing folder, rename it, and move it to the folder where I want it. Also as I type this the spacebar does not work and I will have to go...

I've been looking for ways to solve this for a couple of months now and it's driving me crazy. In "My Pictures" (only), the "New Folder" option on top is gone and no matter how much I try to arrange the pictures to view my "Subfolders" instead of viewing the pictures arranged by "Day" I can't...

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...

I am at a State U and want to create a temporary directory, say, C:\Users\temp, that can be used by multiple students that authenticate through a domain. A trivial task in Linux but are there other ramifications in windows 7? I have found %temp% is C:\Users\staff\AppData\Local\Temp. Would...

I am looking for a way to set all my folders (viewed with win. Explorer) to use one visual look. meaning: all use Details. all use the same columns (Name, Size, Type). all with the same column widths. It would be nice to set all current folders like this, and have any newly created folders to...

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,,,,,,,