old files

Hi, I just installed virtual box from the ubuntu repository as part of the snap store selection however when I go to open up an old saved .vdi virtual box file it won't let me select it, its as if it wont recognise that file type in the directory in which it is stored, has VB changed in the...

Hellow guys I am new in the forum , please help me out to solve the problem . Few days ago I saw the old jpg pictures and words and pdf and video files not possible to open and this happened this time i never had experience of this problem . I explain the new word or jpg pictures and pdf is...

Hi, I encrypted some files with EFS in Windows 7. Now recently my system crashed, and got corrupted, and so I installed Windows 7 on a new disk. Now, I would like to pick up my old files, and that workd (Disk is ifne, but OS is corrupted), except I can't get to my encrypted files. I have...

Hello, Recently Ms-word is not supporting old saved documents, I got continiously error of unsupported format, I tried to convert the file format to .docx but it's not working, can any one suggest me what should have to do?

Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...

so i had a hd go out on me. so i order a new 1.5 tb hd and install win 7 fresh on it. when i try to access my old hd it just states it has drive I with no info and ask to be formatted before used. i want to recover my old files off of it. I really need them. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Bill Detwiler shows you how to weed through your old files with Windows Explorer's Arrange By feature. Link Removed

I noticed a lot of people have had a similar problem to mine in that an older version of a wmv-file has problems playing in Wmp 12. Mine is that the video plays fine but there is no audio coming out. After visitting a number of forums and sites I dug into the problem myself. Here is what I...

Bonjour Ã* toutes et Ã* tous, J'espère que vous allez pouvoir m'aider Ã* résoudre un problème. Ayant eu un pb avec un dd, on m'a passé un dd sur lequel était installé Windows 7 RC 7100 sur windows XP Pro. Installation non effectuée en Dual boot mais existe un dossier windows.old. Je...

I previously had windows vista, 32-bit, and wanted to clean install windows 7 64-bit. I did... i think, everythign works fine, but i still have all my old files in a folder called "windows old" or something. What i kinda wanted to do was to completely wipe my computer clean, and start from...

I wonder if anyone has overcome this. I installed Windows 7 home premium over xp pro. I used the clean install option. When I was done I didn't have any disc space left. I was under the impression that the install would clear out the old version and I would have a nice clean HD with just the OS...

Hi guys , First off i am not a computer wiz kid, so any help is appreciated. I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop - Requirements - AMD Turion Dual-Core RM- 70 3-gb ram 2.00 GHz - 32-bit operating system. I have had the laptop for under 1 year now, and i previously had windows...

I had installed win7 on My pc and win7 was installed perfectly, beside one thing! - it was installed over my XP without me formating the partition win 7 and XP are installed on. the problem is that win7 has created a new folder named windows.old (or something like that) which contains the old...

i installed windows 7 to replace my copy of Vista ultimate but i didn't bother wiping the HDD i just did it as an upgrade. this then proceeded to put all of my old files in a older called 'Old Windows'. The OS itself works great but when i go into my old program files and try to load word (or...

Can I delete the windows.old files that were left when I installed Vista? They take up a lot of room and since they are all xp files and you can't access anything in them, I just thought it would be nice to get rid of them. We did a complete install to Vista from xp, not an upgrade, but it still...