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Windows 10 Music Files Loaded onto the Home Screen (100's of files!)
Hello, Forum Mates. Since I updated my Windows 10 files the other day, a large amount of music files, which I knew were somehow displaced, but which didn't harm my home screen, started to populate what should be my home screen. I have tried to delete them, but the recycle basket disappeared...- cnix
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- duplicates file management home screen music files recycle bin troubleshooting update issues user experience windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows when logging in gives system service exception
Recently my pc has been having problems where when i attempt to log in to my windows 10 dell inspirion 5555 laptop it immediately crashes with a system service error. This problem however first originated from a driver problem. I ran an acpi shutdown on my computer. Upon bootimg back up it could...- XxOrionxX
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- bsod driver issues recycle bin safe mode windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 The Recycle Bin on ... is corrupt.
Hi all, I am really hoping you can help me as I am so close to ripping my hair out! I have searched on google and my issue seems to be a little different to others... I am getting these four errors messages below: The Recycle Bin on \\SERVER\~ is corrupt. Do you want to empty the recycle bin...- dgoodwin
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- corruption file explorer recycle bin redirect
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Dedicated backup drive won't let anthing to be written to or deleted from it for no good reason!
Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 I tried to restore to a previously 'created restore point' but it failed (System restore error 0x80070091). Because I had an Audio Driver issue... Meantime I fixed my audio card driver problem (reinstall)... But immediately two irrelevant things are screwed up now...- cemster
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- admin rights audio drivers backup drive data drive data recovery drive issues error 0x80070091 file access ownership issues recycle bin restore point sfc scan smart status storage issues system restore tech support troubleshooting user account control windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 External backup medium. Delete to recycle bin possible?
- Is it possible to Delete to recycle bin when having and external backup medium such as HD or USB flash drive? - Is it ok to have a usb flash drive as a full backup medium? I am looking to get a 2TB usb flash drive as my main backup medium!- ztplru
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- backup media flash drive recycle bin
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Love-hate relationship with MS
Surface Pro-specific glaring issues: - horrible backlight bleed on 99% of devices (as deduced from accounts of users all over the world). Not even gonna elaborate on that, there's a separate 22-pages thread about it on MS forums. - auto-hibernation issue - same. - power drain in sleep...- Ekhangel
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- adaptive contrast backlight bleed bing calendar compatibility email issues frustration group policy hibernation microsoft microsoft edge onedrive power drain recycle bin surface pro themes touch keyboard user experience user folder windows 10
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- Forum: Microsoft Products and Community
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Windows 10 Recycle Bin default view
Is it possible to change the default view of the Windows 10 Recycle Bin when it opens? I figure there’s settings in the Registry somewhere. I would like the default to be view by details, sorted by date, descending.- John9210
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- date sorting default view details view file management recycle bin registry sorting user settings windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Understanding Windows 7 Reinstallation: Hard Drive Overwrite and Data Recovery Chances
When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...- rhubarbpie
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- backup browsing history data loss data recovery disk recovery file recovery file system formatting hard drive installation overwrite recycle bin reinstall storage system restore tech support unused space user questions windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Recycle Bin Icon Not Updating to Full After Deleting Files: Need Help
Here's my problem, when I delete anything it goes into the recycle bin and the icon changes from "empty" to "full", and I would simply right click on the recycle bin icon and select "empty recycle bin" but since a few days ago whenever I delete something it goes into the recycle bin, but the...- donb2012
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- delete empty file management full icons problem recycle bin settings user interface windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Stuck in 'Discovering Files'
I want to delete two massive videos (155 GB combined), but when I press delete, it starts the usual 'Preparing to move items to the Recycle Bin' procedure, and during that, it gets stuck on the 'Discovering items' part. Please help. Thanks in advance.- KapasG
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- disk cleanup file deletion file management large files recycle bin storage system performance troubleshooting video files windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 wHERE HAS MY DISK SPACE GONE ?
Hi, I seen a few posts relating to disks with less space than anticipated - but think I have gone through the suggestions. I have an older ACER X1301 which has been upgraded to W8 then W10 and with an SSD instead of the HDD. When I installed the SSD I thought I had a 'C' drive with approx...- Peter H Williams
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- acer data drive disk space file management forex trading hidden files maintenance mt4 old hardware recycle bin ssd storage issues storage optimization temporary files upgrade warning windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 How to make SD card act like perm hard disk in Win 10 Pro?
I'm setting up a Toshiba Encore 2 Tablet for a family member. I've already updated it to run 32-bit Windows 10 Pro 1607. It came with a very small amount of internal EMCC storage (24 GB available, NTFS formatted), but fortunately it also includes a MicroSD slot, which I've populated as a 128 GB...- Ninethe
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- recycle bin removable storage storage system protection
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Why are there 4 (!) RECYCLE BINs on my partition? Outer and Inner RecycleBins?
After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...- pstein
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- file deletion file explorer file management file recovery icons lock symbol partition privacy recycle bin storage system files toolcd troubleshooting user settings windows windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Recuva lost files?
Hi This isn't really a request for help, more curiosity. This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin. Only after that did I realize that there was another folder in it that I did need. I've never used Recuva but I downloaded it and tried to see...- MikeHawthorne
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- backup curiosity data loss data retrieval external drive file condition file deletion file management file recovery file restoration pictures recent activity recuva recycle bin software issues tech support troubleshooting user experience windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 Fully Functional Recycle Bin Toolbar in 9 Steps!
Ever wanted a recycle bin in your taskbar? Like Mac OS X? Well here is the clearest tutorial I can give you. Step 1 : Unlock taskbar if not locked. Step 2 : Make a new folder where ever you want. (I put mine under C) Step 3 : Name the folder something that you can remember. (I put mine to...- Vetral32
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- customization functionality recycle bin shortcuts steps tutorial visual design windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Windows 10 Why don't my desktop items get displayed?
I just transferred my system from Win7 to Win10, and everything came across nicely. File Explorer shows the desktop with 28 items, but they aren't showing on the screen. The only thing on the screen is the Recycle bin. What did I miss?- BudVitoff
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- desktop display issues file explorer migration recycle bin transfer troubleshooting win 10 win7 windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Disabling RecycleBin does NOT delete current existing content?
Assume I have an external hard disk with one (backup) partition which is currently mounted as drive Q:\ Now I right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on my desktop, then select Properties--->Drive Q: and enable "Don't move files to the recycleBin. Remoive files immediately when deleted" Much to...- pstein
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- backup data recovery disk cleanup external drive file deletion file explorer file management file system guidance hard drive hidden files partition recycle bin storage system settings tech support user interface windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 I have 2 questions about Notification area ?
How to remove OneDrive in Desktop trees folder while I'm turning it on or show all folders ? Even though I have deleted several times and make don't appear it into notification area too while I'm assigning as a toolbar of desktop. And how to create a shortcut of Quick Access with sub items menu...- Deby Ferdian
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- customization desktop english file management folders help notification area onedrive pc configuration quick access recycle bin shortcuts sub items tech support ui issues user questions windows 10 windows features
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Desktop Icons Frozen
There are four desktop icons including the Start Menu (open) that will not move, do not function, I ran a scan, I believe it was scannow and that shows file corrupt I am able to use the laptop but these icons need to go, I created another Recycle Bin that functions and I am able to open...- johnbgood
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- amd64 corrupted files desktop issues microsoft nonsxs performance issues processor publickeytoken recycle bin scan system scan troubleshooting user help version 11.2 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 SSD Free Space Issue
I have Win 7 Pro 64bit installed on a SSD 250GB along with my Programs and Data on a second SATA Hard Drive. Recently when I looked at my C: SSD from My Computer, I noticed the Used Space Bar was Red and I only had a small value of Free Space left (13GB). I used CCleaner to clean up Temporary...- Nasho23
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- archiving ccleaner cleansing compression data management disk space file system free space hard drive performance recycle bin sata drive ssd storage issues temporary files troubleshooting upgrade user experience windows 7 windows tools
- Replies: 22
- Forum: Windows Help and Support