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How can I let Windows how the current default "Downloads" and "My Documents" folders from COMMAND LINE? How can I change from COMMAND LINE the default "Downloads" and "My Documents" folders to lets say "D:\myspecial\"? How can I change directly in Registry the default "Downloads" and "My...

Hi, Please note this is Excel 2007 We have a user who is working on an Excel Spreadsheet and when he saves this it changes the links (The ones that are linked to other spreadsheets) to the same network location but through a different path. This is causing an issue as the file it is linked to...

A shortcut is mapped to an FTP server, and shows up in W7 File Explorer. It works on occasion, but more often throws a paths/permissions error. When that occurs the site isn't available via a browser either. Have seen it do the same in W8.1 as well, but rarely. The SC has been deleted and...

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Almost every search I run locally turns up hits with "roaming" in the path. I spent a while on the internet trying to find out exactly what the roaming folder was for. It seems the more I read the less I knew. Everyone seems to have a different idea on how to define or use roaming. I think...

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Hello. It seems as if my command prompt will not let me do any simple system commands such as ping, ipconifg, etc. And it will also not let me use commands for my compiler. The paths are set properly in the environment variables, but it still does not work. See the screencap below...

I have just loaded Windows 7 on my laptop and am not able to map to a network drive. I have another PC that has windows 7 loaded on it and is on the same network as my laptop and I am able to map to the network resource on it. Can anyone recommend what I need to do to be able to map to this...

Hello everybody. How do I find all the file named "whatever.exe" in my comuter? And the drives and paths they are in? Like in window XP. Don Cole

Hi I need some help with a slight problem. I have just got a new Win7 64bit desktop system which has the OS and some applications installed onto a 40GB Sold State Drive which is the C: drive. Naturally, there is now not a lot of room on it but have a 1TB drive (E:) which so far only has a...

I have a new Dell laptop with Windows 7 Professional. It came with McAfee security. I am comparing W7's Explorer's left hand folder tree with that of my desktop computer which has Win XP Pro. I find W7 to be confusing. W7 has a folder called \Users\ which seems to be similar to XP's...

have just "blogged" this: I was having a discussion on another forum, and got fascinated by an observation another member had made. If you use the default desktop, the welcome screen only stayed for 2 or 3 seconds. If you customised the desktop, this deteriroated to, in the worst cases, about...