user files

When I reinstalled os (factory reset win10), it loaded this mess again into my pc, which I don't want. I did manage to "uninstall" it, but the remnants are still there. I'm especially bothered by the confusion of the normal desktop with this one, which is in the c:\users\name\OneDrive\Desktop...

An attempt was made to reset Windows while keeping the personal User files intact. The reset did not finish and the PC won't boot up. I took out the hard drive to test it and check what files were on it after that Reset did not work. This is what I've found. Any help with what to delete or...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

i have a lot of filed in file explorer that I cant delete they have 0 bites they live in c/user/rkfr/local/temp I have also tried to delete them in file explorer in safe mode how can I get rid of these? rkf also these are numbers and letters

I was trying to move my Music, Videos and Pictures folders to the D: drive instead of keeping it on the C: (SSD) drive. Unfortunately when doing so I created this monstrosity and I can not seem to undo this mess: Link Removed How do I fix said issue to remove those D:/ links and actually move...

I have a Compaq Presario SR1819UK Desktop PC with 2 Sata hard drives installed. One is a 80GB Maxtor drive (Windows and Applications) and a 1TB WD Green Drive (File Storage). Because the OS is installed on a small hard drive, I want to put all my files on the 1TB drive. That means, that I want...

My configuration: Dual boot: W8.1 on a SSD, W7 on a HD, all user files from both W7 and W8.1 are on the W7 HD. The only reason for keeping W7 in the air was a NLE (video editing) which did not function well in a W8 environment. What should be the best / least risky way of upgrading my W8.1 Henk

Hi I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do. I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc. I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition. It uses 63 Gb of that. Only 10 of those are...

I have 109,522 files (122,143 folders) in my Temporary Internet files in the C:\users\my name\AppData\Local\Temp folder hugging 5.14 GB and slowing down the performance. When I try to delete those temp files: Message: they are system files and deleting them will interfere with Windows. What are...

The drive F of my sister's PC has been automatically filling up for some time and now out of the 76 gb only 6.5 mb remains. There is nothing in the drive except somethings called WindowsImageBackup and USER-PC. Why is this happening? Is it a virus problem?

Today I tried to save a file to my flash drive and found that when I saved the file it also created a shortcut for the file. I attempted to delete the file, I was able to delete it but then a second later the file returned. I thought maybe it was the flash drive but when I was searching my...

Hello everyone. First of all, I'm sorry if this has been addressed already, but I've had a good look and couldn't see a solution anywhere. I currently have Windows 8 installed on my ssd (drive C) with program and user files on drive E where there is more space for large documents and software...

All my icons gone. Ive tried going into my users file in my computer and the icons are there but not on my desktop. Any ideas?

Hi Here's some info about creating a recovery image that will retain your installed software, in Windows 8 that I didn't know about. This seems like a better option then restoring Windows and losing all of your installed programs. Everything You Need to Know About Creating Custom Recovery...

I\'ve just had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Dell laptop and my hard drive is 298GB. After the reinstall that\'s divided as follows 100 MB OEM partition (from original setup) 9.77 GB Recovery partition (from original setup) 100 MB System Reserved (System, Active, Primary partition)...

Hi all, I appologise in advance for the question I am about to pose as 1) it has probably already been answered to 'death' elsewhere in the forum (but having searched can't find specific answer to the question that I am about to post. 2) I have read the 'official' blurb with regards to what...

In C:\users\user I see a file called 'private' which is 10 gigabytes long. Does this originate from a Windows 7 process? If so, can I safely delete it?

I find I HAVE AN ERROR CODE 42127 AFTER A COMPLETE SCAN--ASSOCIATED INFO SHOWS THE FOLLOWING: IE5\5412joea, IE5\WC8RSQ8J, file c\users\vinny\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\tempfile, also shows: ITUNES64.MSI, which I don't use at all. any thoughts on a fix?

Okay, my computer is very clogged at the moment and I would like to do a complete restore, but I have some files that I need to keep. Is there a way I can do a complete restore but keep some of the files (no external hard drive).

I have joined this forum in the hope i can get help and advise in deploying windows 7, I have been deploying windows 7 for the last 7 months as a contractor for two different clients. Both clients have had different ways of doing the deployment, however both have the same concerns about data and...