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Microsoft’s latest preview servicing wave appears to move Wi‑Fi 7 out of the “consumer preview” bin and into enterprise conversations — but the story is not yet as clean as the headline suggests. A handful of outlets and community posts are reporting that the September 2025 Windows non‑security...

Why does %AppData% refer to the roaming folder?

Users today are mobile, transitioning from one device to the next throughout the day. Increasingly, these same users expect (or even demand) to take their data with them. Fortunately for us, roaming app data makes this a reality. Today, we kick off a two-post series that explores how to use...

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In this episode, Robert is joined by Peaky Yuter, a Microsoft summer intern who worked on the Link Removed. This very cool extension helps you keep track of your extensions across all of your development environments. It keeps track of the extensions you have installed by creating a synchronized...

I've been blogging about Visual Studio Extensions here for about, well, forever. During that time I've found a few that I can't live without. A few that I always have to find and install again, and again on every new dev machine. Visual Studio 2013 introduced roaming settings (Synchronized...

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I have an SSD machine with 90 Gbytes of storage running at home, not connected to server. I use a USB drive for extra capacity but I seldom have much spare space on C: as I have SQL server and Visual Studio installed. Looking at storage use on C: I notice 1.7 Gbytes of files in...

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...

Hi people, I'm new on this forum and I'm having a little problem when I try to install a new application, the DAZ 3D. I can't install because Windows 7 shows me this message: "There has been an error. Error creating directory C:/Users/?Wagner/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D" Something (not me) is...

Credential Roaming allows organizations to use Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to roam a user’s certificates and private keys to any machine the user logs onto with their domain account. For more information about this feature visit... Link Removed

Hi, Recently I started having weird processes popping up in my Task Manager: A57E.exe, AA9.exe, 934CC.exe, A782.exe. Their origin is in C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming. Everytime I kill one of them it pops up again in about 30 seconds. Even after I delete the executable, it reappears soon after...

Today at Microsoft BUILD, Microsoft confirmed that the developer bits of Windows 8 will be available for download starting at 8 PM AST (this translates into 12 am Atlantic, 11 PM eastern time and 4 am british). It includes demonstration/developmental apps and a fully featured metro UI. Taken...

hie,i am using windows 7 64 bit , with 3.5 gb ram, 1 tb hdd slave and 160 gb hdd master, i recently found out that i had about 4 700 images (jpg) all from screen captures i did not do, amounting to 6 gb in C:\users\my username\AppData\Roaming. i would like to know what causes this and how can i...

I am wanting to copy my application data file from my PC (Win 7 Prof 64)to my laptop(win 7 hope premium) . I have autocad user info etc and other prog info which has been stored in the roaming profile which I need to access on laptop. I want the same autocad settings available on laptop Can I...

I have a user that has a problem with the printer settings being reset every time she logs in to one PC. She has a Win7 Roaming profile. Both PCs are running Win7. It works fine on her PC, but when she roams to the front desk the label printer always has the wrong paper type. We can change...

Another new Windows 8 feature was revealed yesterday, likely as a result of “playing around” with the leaked Windows 8 Milestone release. Roaming options are integrated into the operating system, which apparently are only available for users who have linked the operating system to an online...

It appears that a user's 'Roaming Options' would be sent to the cloud and would be retrievable on a friend’s computer or on another device. Link Removed

While it was already known that Windows 8 would feature heavy Windows Live cloud integration, the actual extent of that integration will likely continue to take shape as development progresses on the upcoming OS. One more aspect has now been uncovered, thanks to Windows 8 enthusiasts over at My...

I just got a new HP laptop with windows 7 home and I get excellent connection in my living room (where my desktop is located) but as soon as i go into my room i still am connected but get 'no network access'. Then in a minute or so it totally disconnects. On an older laptop that is windows XP...