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I was saving pics for years in my Downloads, in folders separated by years and each year by month, so I had a bunch of folders and sub-folders with pics and videos saved throughout the years. Today, while I was away content from all folders disappeared but named folder are still there just all...

Windows 11 opens files into a "Tabs" layout, can I remove this "busybody habit"? Thanks, Mike

Win 10 64. All software updates current. Every time I leave my computer for few hours upon returning I get this window. Any idea of what's happening? I usually get the same window for True Image. Sleep and Hibernate are disabled. This just started in the last week or so. ThanksLink Removed

I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...

Recently I have been having troubles, whenever I login theres a blank blue screen that stays for like 45 minutes and then I can finally use it. I some ways I found on the internet but none of them worked, if I can get some opinions that'll be great. Thanks. fyi: This is not the BSOD and it only...

Hi computer gurus. I have a strange problem. As the title suggests, when I play pandora music it works perfectly fine. But, when I open counterstrike go , the music stops. When I alt tab, the music starts again but when I switch back to counterstrike it stops again. It doesn't get softer...

Hey, people of Windows 7 Forums. :) I wasn't really sure where to post this question, but basically, I've had a Gateway desktop for about a month now. I've had no problems with it until today. I put the computer on sleep for a couple hours, woke it up, it said I had 11 updates...I shut down the...

Hi, my PC has recently started crashing when i play games. i dont think i installed something that may have altered the registry state or something, but i used to play games without any problems before. A couple of times even crashed while viewing a movie on VLC!! the blue screen doesnt say...

This is driving me crazy. Whenever I try to remove 'read only' status from a file or folder, basically NOTHING HAPPENS. I click apply and it acts like it worked. But once I look at the properties for that same folder it's still READ ONLY. I need to edit metadata on multiple files for class...

.... instead of "-- W7F 2.3" if I'm not logged in. I also have to totally fill password etc. etc.. This has only just (past week) started happening and I'm wondering if anyone has an idea why?

Some 30 minutes ago I performed an update threw Windows Update, everything installed fine and I continued to use the computer normally. I shut down the PC to watch some TV, and after turning it on again, all kinds of things stopped working. Windows Update won't open after clicking it; Right...

Couldn't really find anything through google, so I thought I might as well come here. It might be a little hard to explain, but... well it seems like after a Windows Update for today whenever I click any of the tabs on the menu bar (i.e. File, Edit, View, Tools, etc.) instead of normally having...