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For many Windows 11 users, seamless file synchronization with Google Drive is not just a matter of convenience—it’s an essential part of maintaining an efficient workflow, ensuring data redundancy, and enabling cross-device access to critical documents. Despite the variety of cloud solutions...

Email attachments, cloud backups, and file sharing all have something crucial in common: the need to deal with file size limits and efficient packaging. One of the most essential digital skills today, for casual users and professionals alike, is mastering the art of compressing and decompressing...

A new wave of changes is coming to the Microsoft 365 app experience for Windows users, and it is poised to leave a significant mark on the relationship users have with their documents—and with Microsoft’s own OneDrive cloud storage platform. From March 2025, Microsoft will begin a carefully...

Many users were left scratching their heads after April’s security patches for Windows 10 and Windows 11—specifically KB5055518 and KB5055523—began spurring the mysterious appearance of a brand new “inetpub” folder right on their system drives, even on PCs that had never heard of Internet...

As I mentioned above in the tittle - One PC, multiple Users = Different quantities of fonts on each accounts I'm using one computer for 2 - 3 people at the same time using program called ''ASTER Control''. And for some reason one account has less files in folder ''C:\Windows\Fonts'' than the...

I have a laptop that was using the Windows 10 preview that I never had time to update to the Windows 10 full version. Now when I try to start it up, it reads "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. A component of the operating system has expired file/windows/system/32/winload.exe error...

Hey, Link Removed I'm using many files in many projects and I need to access from another folders. The links aren't a solution and libraries are link. The aim is to have total synchronization of all files in all virtual folders and have the file write only once. The visualization can't be in...

I made my C partition 100GB thinking that i wouldn't need more than that for my windows and users folder, but it turns out that most of the time i am struggling to keep the 10% needed for the windows to function properly. Now while my User folder takes 18GB which is reasonable my Windows folder...

Based on my chkdsk log, I would like to find file 571934. Where can find out which one this is?

There are so many random files and folders on my Local Disk (C:) I can't tell what is important for running my computer and what is stuff that isn't important at all. I don't want to run a program to do it for me because I don't want it to delete something that I would've like to have kept...

Hi; I am having the following error when deploying Windows 7 via Windows Development Service. "Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070714" This error comes up right when the machine...

To put it shortly, I have that utility called advanced system optimizer and I performed a scan to find duplictaes on my partitions. It resulted a cluster of 10000 files. Ther are all kind of files and many are founded on several locations. I dont know if its safe to remove them and which exaclty...

Ok, i accidentally dragged my main folder with all of my stuff in it into a folder next to it. I clicked undo move but here is what happened. I open my folder, every folder within that folder was gone but those subfolder's contents were still there, just completely unorganized. Now every...

After some investigations I found out that some (many > 100) files of my hard disc are "sparse" files. These sparse files are mostly *.pdf and *.avi files. From what I know so far sparse files are files which occupy not their full official size on the hard disc. I don't know why e.g. the...

Hi all! I had my laptop running last night and I woke up this morning and my computer was frozen. It wasn't the "blue screen of death" as many mention as it was simply frozen but when I turned it back on (and continue to turn it back on) it gets stuck on "Starting Windows" without even...

Hello All, Would really appreciate some help. I initially had 1 500gb dynamic disk, with one partition containing all my documents and windows files. I created a partition in the free space to copy my documents into so I could overwrite Windows keeping my documents intact. However I...

I'm in a panic mode. My files are supposed to be inside a subfolder within the drive. Now all the subfolders are visible but there is no contents inside. That is My Computer - DRIVE F - Subfolder A (visible) - Subfolder A1 (visible) - contents in Subfolder A1 (EMPTY). Now when I check DRIVE F...

My ASUS (quad core) Windows 7 (64 bit) machine just won't boot. It has 1.75 TB hard disk space: one 1 TB Western Digital HD, and a defective (stock) Seagate 750 GB HD (unplugged and disconnected because of defect). My first guesses about the possible cause(s): 1. Bad hard drive: No, because...

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...

What is the purpose of file C:/windows/system32/shell32.dll?