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Windows 11 desktop icons
i am looking for script for all shows desktop icons windows 11 versions Control Panel, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Gallery, Home, Music, Network, Pictures ,Recycle bin ,This PC ,User's Files as well as other icons explorer, defrag, write cleanup, cmd, task manager- Pcgamer27
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- command prompt control panel defrag documents download explorer icons music network photo gallery pictures recycle bin scripting task manager this pc user files windows 11 writecleanup
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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OneDrive - complete uninstall +cancel OD desktop.
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...- bluenite
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- advice configuration desktop factory reset help onedrive remnants uninstall user files windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Reset failed
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...- den942
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- boot issues diagnostics file recovery hard drive pc repair reset system files user files windows 8.1 windows.old
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Help needed with making new system disk on new SSD
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...- ontodva
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- 500gb clean install drive letter old computer ssd system drive user files windows installation
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 10 windows file explorer
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- rkfjr
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- delete file explorer local temp safe mode tech support temporary files troubleshooting user files windows zero bytes
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Woops, Folders Issue with "This PC" pane
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...- PaulyD0051
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- c drive d drive data management directory file management folders link management music pictures ssd storage this pc troubleshooting user files video windows issues
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Changing Default Media folders
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...- NightEagle
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- change location compaq data management default folder desktop document management download file management hard drive library folders music pictures sata drive storage user files video windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 How to upgrade a dual boot 7 / 8.1
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- bochane
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- configuration dual boot nle ssd upgrade user files video editing windows 7 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 10 How big are your Windows 10 installations?
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...- MikeHawthorne
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- ccleaner disk space file management install size language pack partition size performance program files software installation storage system settings tech support troubleshooting user files windows 10 windows folder windows update windows.old
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 How to delete Temp files
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...- charlesh
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- control panel disk cleanup file management internet files maintenance performance system files temporary files user files windows 7
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Drive F fills automatically
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?- Rafid Mahbub
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- backup data recovery disk cleanup disk space file management pc maintenance storage issues user files virus concern windowsimagebackup
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 HELP, I think I got a VIRUS
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...- scotty1105
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- antivirus c drive data loss file recovery flash drive malware registry security software removal startup system scan task manager tech support temporary files troubleshooting uninstall user files virus windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 instalation, multiple hard drives
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...- William Leedham
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- error installation multiple drives partition program files ssd upgrade user files windows 8.1 workaround
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 All my desktop icons gone
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?- jason591
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- computer desktop display icons recovery settings troubleshooting user files windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 More stuff I didn't know...
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...- MikeHawthorne
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- cleanup custom recovery desktop apps image restore installed software paragon backup repair window system files user files windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Another question about partitions
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)...- June Jack
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- advice boot drive clean install data management dell guidance installation oem partition partition primary partition program files recovery storage system reserved user files windows 7
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Recovering Saved Games After PC Refresh: Need Guidance
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...- yorkrose26
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- bsod data recovery file system hardware refresh saved games tech support troubleshooting user files windows 10 windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Unidentified enormous file
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?- jsampson1945
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- disk cleanup file deletion file management file size privacy storage issues system files user files windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 error 42127 fix
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?- LEBRUSH
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- 42127 application data error fix itunes microsoft scan temp files user files windows
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Windows 7 Factory Restore, But Keep Some Files..
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).- lodo13
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- cleanup data preservation factory restore file recovery maintenance system performance system restore user files windows settings
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support