user folder

Hello all, This is my first post and have been able to find a lot of very useful information on this site. I have been searching for a solution to my problem with no luck finding it thus far. I'm sure I am not the only one that has had trouble setting this up. Anyways I have two seagate...

Hi, i currently have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit & i want to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit & i see the upgrade option when i boot from the cd but what i want to know is this, will i lose all my files that is in my user folder, my docs, roaming & desktop or will it just upgrade the OS...

Hello kind sirs... This problem has been bugging me since I got it. When I booted up my laptop my desktop lost all its icons and a dialog box popped up saying: Location is not available C:\Users\<Username>\Desktop is not accessible. The directory name is invalid. I went to the...

Ok i got a SSD awhile back and was able to install windows on it and have my users folder and default install folder on my normal HDD. It has worked ok till now but I'm sure i screwed a few things up when i did it because random programs still try to install on my SSD and when the install makes...

In trying to access AppData for the main user I managed to hide the Users folder so none of it shows at all (!!???). Then tried to unhide it by selecting Show Hidden Files and Folders, View option, but with no success. My other, older HDD running Vista clearly shows the Win7 Users folder and all...

I just installed a fresh copy of windows 7 and i left my other drive intact which has windows 7 installed on it to. The problem is i can get in to any folder on the root of the drive but it doesn't let me get in to my user folder where i kept all of my files. It says it needs permission to get...

On my new Windows 7 - 64 bit computer, occasionally the system would ask me if I wanted the Admin Privileges needed to perform some task I was trying, I'd say Yes, & life was good. But today I wanted to create a new folder in c/program files (x86)/turbotax, & the system said i could only create...

Hello, Can someone please explain Windows 7 Libraries to me? It seems it is saving all my work in several places. I do not understand '2 locations' and a couple of times it shows '3 locations'? And even another location if I opened it up to 'The Public'. As well, there is an addtional...

why does my command promt read c:\users\[same user twice\> and takes up twice as much room? what do i need to do ? Example, say i want to go to a picture, i go to pictures and its empty. i have to then go to computer then into drie C,then into users,then into user name,then into that' pictures'...

I did a system restore a while back after I installed an incorrect sound driver that kinda left my speakers void.. after doing the restore I noticed that a few of my features on 7 didn't work any more.. Not to say that the restore is what caused the problem.. It just happened around the same...

I've spent a lot of time searching for a solution and I'm hoping someone can give me some fresh ideas on how to tackle this annoying issue. My "Recent Places" link is always empty. Looking at ..\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent reveals that items edited (so called "Recent Items")...

In responding to another post here I ran a search for .BMP files in my User folder. The search found the files in C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures But when I look in C:\Users\... There is no All Users folder! I have show hidden files and folders...

When I click into C: Drive>Users> I have Public and Phil. I presume that the Phil folder points to the folder with all the My Pictures etc in. But I cannot access it. It says it is a file and not a folder. I checked on my mums computer as she has windows 7, and if i click into the users folder...

Overwhelmed by the information storm, in the web sphere, I still didn't get it how to perform an old fashioned file search. I was looking for a file (extend.dat) in the Users folders and used Search to achieve this but it would not return any match, using the name: filter, wildcards, partial...

Hi All, Let me inform you first about what ive already tried: 1. Changed indexing folder 2. Rebuilding 3. Googleing 4. Searching this forum 5. Restarted Windows Search service 6. Removed shareing for Users folder 6. Ensured all folders i want indexed have System security on it with...

Hello there , I have a question : In my user folder I see the following sub folders , My Documents , My Pictures , Desktop , My music , My Contacts , Favorites , Download etc. I wish to permanently remove a few of these folders , although I deleted , Desktop, My music , my contact etc...

Argh! I'm driving myself nuts trying to figure this out. Somebody must have tackled this. Win7 graciously supplied my "home" directory (c:\Users\jfs) with a bunch of folders I don't want -- My Videos, My Pictures to name a few. For heaven's sake, how do I get rid of them? I've been doing...

I performed a successful clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I installed the OS to a 100gb volume with the intention of using that only for the OS. I, without thinking, allowed the setup to name that drive C. Further, without noticing I allowed the Programs folder and the...

In Vista i had a user directory named Michael. When i upgrade to Windows 7 from vista a new user directory appear named Michael.000 Could somebody help me how to rid off the new directory?, what shuold i have to do in my registry? Some program use Michael and some use Michael.000 which confused...

I have a new Toshiba laptop using Win7 Premium. Somehow, there are three user folders that contain the same files (photos, documents & music). 'Steve' is 2.93 GB, 'Steve_2' is 2.72GB and 'Steve_2.Steve_laptop' is 3.19GB If I delete 'Steve' & 'Steve_2', will the same photos, music etc. be...