user folder

Hello, i'm new to this forum but I was hoping someone here could help me out as I'm unsure what i've done. Last week I turned off my desktop normally and there was no major differences that had been made whilst it was on. I leave my desktop for one week and the next time I logged on it...

Windows 7 File Search Indexing Options The built-in search feature in Windows 7 is significantly better than the horrible search options in Windows XP. Instead of installing a third-party program like Google Desktop to search for files on inside files on your computer, you can now do it with...

Hi, I have 3 'Download' folders (folder icon with down blue arrow): 1) my documents library\'Downloads' 2) users\'Downloads' 3) users\Avery\'Downloads' This seems a little ridiculous, but perhaps there is some rhyme/reason. I would prefer without knowing more info to only have one. More...

I have somehow managed to delete the \users\ directory from my admin profile in windows 7. Forexample previously I had C:\Users\John\Start Menu\Programs.... now I only have C:\John\.... This means I lost all my shortcuts my "roaming directory" etc. The system is still running but many...

Dell Studio XPS Laptop - Win 7 Home Premium - Intel i5 - 4 GB Ram At 97% completed, after 2:40 of back up time, Backup reported complete but a file skipped. "Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Paul\Desktop\2010_06_14. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified...

Hi all, I have a problem I've never encountered in any version in Windows. My C:\Users directory has disappeared from Explorer, but I *can* open CMD and use the command line to get to it (cd c:users\userid\..... etc.). I have set folder options to show hidden files and folders, but I still don't...

I have one administrative account and two standard user accounts and one guest account my wife is one of the standard accounts. When she tried to switch user from my account on the switch user screen only my account icon was there and one that said “Other user” icon is blank and when clicked on...

I'm working on a tool called Link Removed, which will help manage Windows 7 Virtual Machines. When run, the tool first tries to locate the Virtual Machines folder. I wasn't able to get the folder's location from the system, so I'm relying on the location of another system folder. My problem is...

Hi, We are experiencing problems with Unattended instalation of Windows 7. Everything works fine except the <ProfilesDirectory> field which "change the location"/rename of USER and ProgramFiles folders from C:. First we try to move USERS do d:\ drive. < ProfilesDirectory > D:\Userss </...

I have two computers on my network. Both use Windows 7-64 and both have Homegroups enabled with all the file types enabled (video, printers, etc). My problem is that I get an error message when I try to connect to any subdirectory under the users name (on the other computer). I can see the file...

When I click on my personal folder icon on right side of start menu, I see a listing of all that is located in my C:/Users/Personal folder, PLUS 4 additional My Documents folders. I have my HD partitioned so my documents are on D: One of the 'My Doc' folders refers to the empty folder on my...

Hello. I'm very new to Win7, and this is my first time here at this forum. I just upgraded from XP about a week ago. I was wondering if Win7 has a Documents and Settings folder similar to XP. I go to Windows Explorer>C:\>Users. When I double click on Users, I see three folders, one is...

I've followed the help and support instructions for redirected my user folders to a new location, which works. I have a problem redirecting the public folders to a new location. When I open the properties window for public folders then I can open the Location tab, but the buttons (Restore...

Hello Fellow 7 users, I have just switched OS to Windows 7, and i am impressed so far. I want to backup my data on an external harddrive. I would like to use the function ROBOCOPY in the command windows because then i don't have to third party program running all the time. But the copying...

I have a new Dell laptop with Windows 7 Professional. It came with McAfee security. I am comparing W7's Explorer's left hand folder tree with that of my desktop computer which has Win XP Pro. I find W7 to be confusing. W7 has a folder called \Users\ which seems to be similar to XP's...

Hello, I got a new computer last week and it was working fine up until now running windows 7 professional 64bit. I activated the guest account and logged on to it, and when I tried to log back to the administrator ("owner") account, I got the following message (on the windows logon screen)...

In the upper part of the tree of folders in explorers left pane is my user name (Stan Hilliard) followed by my user folders. Lower in the pane is the folder Computer followed by OS(C:). Below C: is a folder called Users.A folder under Users contains my sub folders and files, but this this...

I had a setup of Lineage 2 Interlude on this path C:\Users\ExTaCy1337\Desktop\Folder\FORMAT\Format\ExTaCy1337\Lineage II Installers\LineageII_interlude_client\ And I was running the setup and nothing was happening... when I movied LineageII_interlude_client to C:\... like...

I'm having a problem with Outlook 2007 and need to access the folder: "Users\(username)\Local Settings". This was formerly in Documents and Settings. Whenever I try to access the folder, even when running as administrator I get the message "Access Denied". How does one get around this? Is it a...

Hello in windows7 there is "document and setting" and "users" folders. they have the same contents and size. and they take up duplicate space. can i delete one of the folders? how can i save capacity in HD? my 'windows' folder growing all the time and now its 11gb size. there is somting to...