folder management

Whenever I want to drag something across the screen, like moving folders, selecting text, working in photoshop, playing a game, the dragging is not working properly. Sometimes it picks it up after 1 second after holding the button, sometimes it does pick up right away but it breaks after a...

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Hello all, I just upgraded to W7 tonight and I have a question (surprise...). I backed up all my files onto my other hard drives, and made a little list of all the programs i might need to istall because I wanted to to a clean install. To be honest, I don't remember which way I upgraded it...

Can anyone pls tell me how to put a folder full of shortcuts in the upper part of the desktop. On XP was easy - you just take the folder and move the mouse up as high as possible and than the folder stays like an upper taskbar with shortcuts that can hide. On Vista was quite not so easy but i...

So I am trying to recover my files from the hard drive I was using on my last computer and I have to enable access to them to the admin on windows 7. Right now I am finding myself having to manage permission individual file by individual file is there a faster way to do it to whole folders so...

Not sure if this is a Windows or Word problem but didn't have it in XP so presuming it's the former. I have a couple of folder's worth of documents associated with Word okay but which now don't show their document properties when you hover over their titles in Windows Explorer. :confused: It...

When your in folder, doing folder or file operations in Windows 7, the auto sort will always be on and this is VERY frustrating! In XP, while in a folder, nothing will auto sort until you refresh the folder view or reopen the folder. This means if you create a new folder or just downloaded a...

Not sure if this is the right thread or if it's been asked before (searching on Start Menu brings up almost all the forum posts!) but I wonder if I am missing something here. In XP I could right click the Start Menu and open it's folder and add folders, rename them, delete them, create...

I just installed Windows 7. I can't seem to manually change the order of icons in my folders. I am bound by using the sort by name/size/date etc. How do I just change the order by drag and dropping the items?

Hello, I hope you are well. With the additional of Jump Lists, I see a lot of potential for new things. Right now, I am hoping we can somehow pin a folder to the Start Menu. For example, after installing Microsoft Office, a folder is automatically created with applications such as Microsoft...

tired to delete foldes such as my music my videos my other stuff ? :( Why W7 and Vista keep creating them after i deleted them ? Is there anyway to stop it ? Thanks in advance. Also is there a way to make preview pane to stay same size while resizing window ? if i re-size window to small...

how do I get control of the registry using regedit to make changes. It keeps telling me access is denied. i am its administrator. I am the only user. I want to make a change in this folder. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore\shell\Windows.newfolder

I have noticed a lot that I cant delete folders, usually on my desktop. I have found a workaround, because it appears its mcafee that is "locking" the file, by going to the services and stopping all 3 mcafee services, then deleting the folders, then turning the services back on. Does anyone...

I have been able to do this on my 2 other WIn 7 machines, but on this machine, when I right click libraries to "Do not show in navigation pane" the option is not there. When I go to the folders Properties, the option to Shown in Navigation Pane is grayed out and checked. I am an Administrator...

Hi Apologies if this has been mentioned before, however I installed Build 7057 on a partitioned drive, install went fine however all the other partitions have had a folder created in them called $inplace.~tr\machine\data and all folders with their have been moved under the that folder. The...

It'll take 15 minutes to upload 200MB to and external drive. Moving pictures to a new folder takes a little while, and the window doesn't refresh, so even once they're done, I can't tell until I go to the destination folder.

I have searched all the way and there is no solutions come up so I post a new thread here I am using Sony Vaio CR laptop with Window Vista Business SP1, 2.1 GHz, 2Gb RAM. My Window Vista has worked well before, but last week I have just installed the Vaio media plus, I found it has the...

I want to stop sharing my user's folder on the network, but when I go to "share with" > "nobody" it gives me the error "windows can't stop sharing selected folder". When I try to change ANY sharing options it gives me the error "This folder cannot be shared". What's going on? all I wanna do is...

Dear Friends, I would like to have your advise on this issue of mine I am stuck in. I had installed Avast antivirus a couple of months back, but even though the program was working and on, about five viruses happened to make roots and the system was unstable. I was advised to try avira instead...

Hello, we have vista ultimate... it was an upgrade from xp pro. I cannot delete anything from the "downloaded program files" folder. When I hightlight one of the objects then click "organize" i see delete there. I CAN click on it... but it does not delete the object... I cant remove...