program files

My hard drive is getting full so i bought a external hard drive to pick up the slack. my question is, if i move my program files to the external drive will they be found when i open a program

Hi! Today I couldn't see all my installed applications in the 'Uninstall or change programs' tab. It's only showing the x64 applications which are installed on C:\program files\ but it's not showing anything else. Nothing what is installed on D drive or to program files (x86) doesn't show...

Hi, We are experiencing problems with Unattended instalation of Windows 7. Everything works fine except the <ProfilesDirectory> field which "change the location"/rename of USER and ProgramFiles folders from C:. First we try to move USERS do d:\ drive. < ProfilesDirectory > D:\Userss </...

Hi. I've had this weird problem ever since i reinstalled Windows 7 some weeks ago. If I search after a program in the start menu search bar, it'll find anything but program-files. E.g. searching for "notepad" will bring back pictures with notepad in name, readme-files, logfiles from messenger...

Okay, firstly, I hate the look and feel of Windows 7 more than I ever thought was possible. In my quest to get it to look nicer, I ran into numerous issues with folders. For one, right inside the default Library thing, there were folders for Music and Video which I didn't even want there. So, I...

Hey guys I've been having trouble installing some programs and games onto my windows 7 home premium edition, Upon trying to install the game "Just Cause 2" i put the disk in my CD drive and it pops up asking me what do i want to do? and it says run autorun.exe and it starts, but once it starts...

My new Toshiba laptop has Windows 7. When I go to "Computer" it has 3 Program Files , files (Program Files , Program Files (x86) , PROGRAM FILES (x86) (x86) ). What is up with that? How I noticed is I have "Topo 4.0" program and went to save what I did in the topo , and I recived an erro ,see...

So , I just installed a fresh new version of win7. I understand I'm going to have to reinstall all of my programs. I installed the new win7 on a quite small hdd because I didn't want to remove all my files from my big hdd. Can the Program Files folder be located on another drive other than the...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

Hi! I was tired of not being able to save files in Program Files without starting the program [that saved files] manually as administrator. So I ran the command attrib -R "C:\program files" in the command prompt, and now Windows 7 seems to have reverted to some kind of default protection mode...

Not sure if this has been addressed fully on this forum but Ive been trying to delete previous windows files on various drives and running into a lot of problems. Now before somebody tells me to google this and search on it as there are many threads on this throughout, I have tried everything...

I'm having some serious issues right now. I just download some music with Frostwire and with bittorents and I can't find them. The ones with FW are showing when I look at them WITH FW but if I go to the destination (Program files (x86)\Music) they are not showing up. Same thing for the...

I have Windows 7 64-bit OS and have a software program application installed in the C drive. This application is not working though it is working in Windows XP. I understand that there are two program files folder in a 64-bit OS. The 32-bit applications are usually installed in the Program Files...

I'm having a strange dilemma. I am trying to upgrade to Windows 7 on my laptop and I'm getting two error messages that conflict: "You can’t upgrade 64-bit Windows to a 32-bit version of Windows. To upgrade, obtain a 64-bit version of the installation disc, or go online to see how to install...

Hi My apologies if i have not posted correctly or if i am repeating a topic. I have installed several programs to Program Files x84, however some of them may have been x64 applications, does this matter or make any difference? Many thanks Ravi

Hi guys! I have searched for a guide to make shortcuts to gadgets e.x "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe" /showcalender Have´nt find anything. Do anyone of you know how I can do this? I got an active desktop gadget that I want to start every boot time even if anyone has closed it...

I got a discount price on a win7 upgrade cause I am in college. I had 32bit vista. I chose the 64bit win7 upgrade cause my pc can handle it easily. I understand to go from 32 to 64 a clean install is needed. So today I did the upgrade, and thought I did a clean install. I have two hard...

Hi I just bought a laptop with windows 7. it has two versions of IE: 32 and 64 bit what i did was this: on the start menu i could see the two original internet explorer icons, so i took the 64 bit icon and dragged it to the desktop to create a shortcut and the icon disappeared from the start...

hi everyone please i need your help. I have windows7 home premium intel Q6600 quad core direct x 10.1 I have been using software calling:system mechanics version9.5.5(latest version). with no problem at all. So far i had problem with this software getting so slow to open up. i...

A bit of background on my situation: I recently installed Windows 7 Professional over Windows Vista Home Premium. A windows.old folder was created on my hard drive which stored all my previous files. Once the installation was complete, I moved all of my files back to where they should be...