There’s a quiet pain point for every PC owner, an often-overlooked black hole lurking in plain sight: the Downloads folder. For many Windows enthusiasts and professionals, this default catch-all can quickly grow from a minor annoyance to a genuine barrier to productivity and storage health...
Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...
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I am trying to back up contents of my "Documents" folder which is on my C: drive of a Dell Win10 laptop, by copying the entire "Documents" folder onto my Seagate 2TB USB external drive. But something looks very odd with the result. When I compare the size of the "copied-from" folder to the size...
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Does someone have a clue ?
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I tried to figure out from where it comes but I can't.
Need to stop it. Can anyone help me please?
There is a folder on the root of my external drive with three dots as the name which suddenly appeared mysteriously on my external drive this morning.
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Hello everyone,
I am needing assistance since it's been quite some time I have had to deal with this. I have a current user who's mailbox (O365) business standard is almost full.
So, I wanted to export one of his folders to a PST which I already did. The pst folder is on an external HD so, I...
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The folder is placed on my secondary hard drive and it comes from an old PC of mine. The problem is that the folder was owned by my other PC's local account.
I fixed that by adding myself as owner and I still can't remove the folder.
I've even downloaded a regedit file that adds...
Can i copy aol email folders to my desktop , i know how to copy and paste information to my desktop by opening an individual email . Can i copy the entire email folder , to my desktop so i can view whats what and delete if nescessary . Thank you .
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