folder management

After a refresh of Windows I cleaned the system files. Do I need to delete the Windows.old folder too?

I have activated the History backup facility in Settings, but all get is a folder FileHistory and various sub-folders, all empty. It is a facility I would like to use to cover new files etc. made since my last regular image backup - is there any other way of setting it up properly. If I cannot...

I've come across a weird issue in Windows 10 Pro x64 1703. In C:\Users\ Windows 10 repeatedly shows 2 weirdly named User folders. I look in Control Panel>User Accounts and as expected I'm the only user. I delete these 2 bogus folders numerous times a day and they contantly re-appear...

I have a folder called 'PG'. I "Cut' this folder and then attempt to 'Paste' it under a folder called 'XXX' which does not have a folder beneath it called 'PG'. When I attempt to do the 'Paste' operation I get a message in a "Confirm Folder Replace" dialog: "The destination already contains a...

Hi all. I have installed Windows 10 with very few problems (other than the learning curve), however, the free space on the hard drive is now 20GB smaller than before the upgrade from Windows 8.1. Poking around, I discovered that there is what appears to be a "backup" folder of 20GB within the...

Dear All, We are using Windows Server 2012R2 for sharing folders on the network. Our requirement is : 1. Around 8 Shared folders 2. Depends on folder we need to give Modify permission for small group, Read+Write for another group and R+W permissions including Modify permission on some...

Hey, Link Removed I'm using many files in many projects and I need to access from another folders. The links aren't a solution and libraries are link. The aim is to have total synchronization of all files in all virtual folders and have the file write only once. The visualization can't be in...

By accident I have screwed up a pair of user system folders. In moving their locations from the system drive to a second drive, I carelessly managed to point the system 'Videos' folder location and the system 'Music' folder location at the same folder. The two system folders are now totally...

I'm running Windows 7. I have a folder that I've put photos (JPG) from past Easters. They are in the folder in date sequence, just the way I copied and paste them. I want to scramble them in unsequenced order, so the photos are not in date order. Then load them onto a flash drive and run a photo...

Hi I am using Windows 8.1 and just about getting used to it! However I cannot find a way to select multiple documents or pictures in what I know as File Manager. In previous versions of Windows you could do this by selcting one document then holding down the shift or CTRL (sorry can't...

so i have a few pictures that are actually the same but have a diff name they are in a folder with a lot of other files so i was wondering if u guys know any way i could find them for example theres like 3 of them but i wanna delete the 2 and only keep one. hope u guys understand :)

I have an account on OneDrive for Business. After synching, I see a OneDrive header in Windows explorer. I didn't like the name Windows gave it so I changed it to something else. I did this by opening the "OneDrive" tree, selecting the library and changed the name. But after re-boot, I find...

Hello all, I recently changed over to gmail and I have created an IMAP connection, however I have some old emails from my old pop3 account that I wanted to sync up to gmail. From all posts I've read all I need to do is create a new folder in outlook, which will create a folder in gmail, which...

I'm having this annoying issue for quite some time now and I wanted to ask all good folks here how to set up a write protection on a specific file or folder which is saved on external USB drive (namely, a phone) ? Files in a certain folder are showing up by themselves and take a ridiculously...

I had a look at all my files and folders on my data partition (not win7 system partition!) and found a lot of different file and folder owners e.g. Administrators Peter S-1-5-21-1078081533-1326574676-725345543-1005 .... I am not sure why one *.pdf file has a different owner than its neigbourgh...

Hello guys! I'm wondering about a script I made after the installation of my Windows 7 x64 ISO is done. The script (bat) contains this: How should I implant this script after the Win7 installation is done. Tried with SetupComplete (see spolier): Problem is, I cant use GPO either...

In "Windows Explorer" it used to be that if you right clicked a folder you would get a drop down menu that would include many options including "NEW". That would let you make a subfolder for the folder that you clicked. Recently, when you right click a folder the menu does not include "NEW"...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

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