hidden files

Hi guys, I'm having some trouble with the Windows 7 RC. I can't seem to delete/move any folders that have a file in them from my user folder. This is especially annoying in the music folder, where there is the hidden album art files. It prevents me from deleting them saying the file is in use...

Hi, Not quite sure how to explain the problem, but I will give it a go. I've upgraded my laptop (HP 2510p) from Vista to 7 and everything is working just fine. The only problem is that I have a part of my HDD which is called HP_RECOVERY. I would like to create a backup of my new system, but...

Hi all. I did a download upgrade to Win 7 on my Vista machine. It went extremely smoothly, and I love Win 7 so far. Except: I had been using a program called Magic Folders with Vista. This is an app that hides folders of your choice, even encrypts the files therein if you want. When I...

I recently installed Windows 7, I copied my GC bookmarks and such onto the windows 7 side, but where do I put them. It may be in users, local settings, like on XP, but there is nothing like that in my user folder. Maybe it's hidden?

:confused: So a little background on how I got to my current situation then to the problem. I have 2 WD Hard drives, (C:\)1 for speed (H:\)1 for space... The fast one had windows XP on it which i ended up erasing and replacing with Win7. The one for space I ended up transferring my...

Hey Guys I recently just bought an SSD and installed a fresh copy of Win 7. Upon completion everything worked fine until a recent restart the boot mgr couldn't be found. I did a startup repair and everything worked fine EXCEPT my secondary drive which had the old version of windows 7 on...

I installed Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trough Windows XP, but I installed on my non primary HDD to back up files. Once the files were copied to the new HDD I re-formatted my HDD. I have an issue with My Computer recording the space usage. It says I have used 553.GB of my 111GB Drive Link Removed Link...

this happened with two hard disk drives. ill only talk about the one im using right now. i installed windows and some programs. i right clicked on the C partition where the OS is installed then properties. 97.9 space used 11.1 space available. Total size is 109 as you can see. thats right. I...

I went from windows vista 64 to windows 7 OEM, and have been having trouble for days. My latest trouble is that I finally got 7 to install, but when i restart or turn it back on it goes to gateway System recovery options! its been doing this all week. 7 is installed, but it wont boot to 7. I've...

I went from windows vista 64 to windows 7 OEM, and have been having trouble for days. My latest trouble is that I finally got 7 to install, but when i restart or turn it back on it goes to gateway System recovery options! its been doing this all week. 7 is installed, but it wont boot to 7. I've...

Before I came to post here, I considered every possible alternative to "it just dissapeared". I'm by no means a novice user, and also by no means a complete expert. I've been in user support for over 12+ years so I can safely assume I know what I'm talking about...and I hope you can too...

My windows 7 install is using about 13GB. I want to keep all (as much as possble) my data out of the Windows install partition. If I view the properties on the USER->MY-ACCOUNT folder, the dialog says 2GB. If I navigate into the folder all the subfolders (Contacts, Desktop, Downloads...

Out of the 287 GB total, 201 GB is being consumed right after a clean install of the Windows 7 RC. I did delete the windows.old directory. I also checked with TreeSize, and it says I am only using 41GB of the harddrive space. Where could the rest of the 47 GB hard drive space be coming from...

Hello! I'm currently using Windows 7 at the moment and it's working out pretty ok! Now to my problem.. I can't seem to find how to find the hidden files? I've tried everything I know but I still can't find out how.. Anyone who knows mind posting an answer here where to click etc. Would be very...

I have a program (DXBase 2007) that always stored it's INI file dxb2007.ini) in the Windows folder. Since installing Windows 7 RC1 and installing this program, I can NOT find the .INI file anywhere on my computer. I have the windows folder view settings set to show ALL files and folders...

I think I have found why I cant dualboot my system with XP I have tried all sorts of different ways the last was an article on dual booting XP and Vista from MicroSoft themselves. I set the system files to be shown and the hidden files and folders, when I look in the root of C drive which is the...

Hi folks, Question here, First I have System Restore disabled so that can't be the source of the issue. It seems that my drive space (the partition Win 7 is on) keeps getting smaller even though I haven't added any programs or large amounts of data. I'm not talking a great deal of space just 200...

This isn't a huge issue, but it certainly is an annoying one. I set up a data partition which contains all of my music and common files. I clean installed the 32-bit version of RC 7100 on a separate partition, and the 64-bit version of RC7100 on yet another partition. Vista 64 remains on its own...

Just go to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT ,there are 6 hidden themes there. You can double-click the .themes file under sub-directory Theme to install the theme Note:You need to change your folder options to show hidden and system protected files. I am sorry if most of you already know this or...

Hello all, So this is whats going on. i installed windows 7 on my laptop. my laptop is my main computer, i dont use my desktop much any more. so i decided to put it on craigslist to gain a couple dollars. i wanted to save all my files from my desktop. since i dont have an external hardrive i...