folder management

If you’ve spent any length of time navigating files and folders in Windows 11, you’re likely familiar with the ongoing debate around File Explorer’s evolution. Microsoft’s flagship file management utility has, over the years, seen incremental feature upgrades—there’s the much-requested tab-based...

Mysterious Windows Folder or Hidden Security Shield? It seems Windows 11 users have been treated to an unexpected Easter egg, courtesy of Microsoft's ongoing security enhancements. The infamous "inetpub" folder has been quietly appearing after the KB5055523 update – regardless of whether...

Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...

(Unable to Find Resource:) ReportingEvent.Client.167; Parameters: 2024-11 .NET 6.0.36 Update for x64 Server (KB5047486) This is the error on the WSUS server Update Services Console. On the client, under the softwaredistribution download folder, I can see the correct filename but it is 0 kb. I...

If you've ever felt the ominous squeeze of limited storage space on your C: drive, you're not alone. The default user folders in Windows—namely, Documents, Pictures, and Music—tend to fill up quickly, especially if you're a multimedia enthusiast or a professional dealing with large files...

In the ever-evolving landscape of operating system advancements, Windows 11 has introduced a spectrum of features hell-bent on enhancing user experience. Yet, despite its promising facade, whispers of glitches linger. A particularly frustrating issue has made its rounds among Windows users: the...

For some reason, the Quick Access list of folders in File Explorer recently included an elastic list of folders from my Music library. If I remove one, it adds the next one in the alphabet. How do I remove all these Music folders from Explorer?

(Newcomer to this forum) Basically, trying to ‘save to a target folder’ or ‘open from a target folder’ goes to the Desktop folder instead of the target folder. Examples: Enter a file name in desktop search bar. List of possible files, desired file is in a target folder within another folder...

Hello, I've had a nice setup for myself and my family using Win 10 and Onedrive for cloud based files that served either as a backup or ability to share between people. With recently installing Win11 on a couple of computers (first my wife's Surface, and now my personal laptop) everything moved...

I'll explain the situation. OneDrive had files and folders which were present from a previous Windows 11 installation ('Documents' libraries). Old 'Documents' and old 'Photos' were kept so that I could go through them over a period of time, removing any old files I did not need. Once I...

I need a faster to way to copy searched folders from an Android device to Windows 11 PC. Right now I am dragging and dropping from the search results one at a time. I wish the searched files could be copied one after the other automatically.

Good afternoon, here at the company I have a Win Server 19 file server. Each department has its own folders and there is a folder for document processing where everyone has access. When a department needs to process a file for another department, they move the file to the processing folder so...

Does anyone know how Windows chooses which recent folders to display in the File Explorer's Quick Access menu? My software continuously displays slightly older folders, not the most recent ones. It randomly will add a new one however. I've tried opening folder several times in a row and it...

I'm really hoping someone can help me while I still have some sanity left. I finally gave in and decided to "upgrade" my photo editing computer from windows 7 to windows 10. (Replacement actually as it's not the same physical computer) Not my first windows 10 computer, but the things I could...

I Installed my win11 and enabled onedrive when windows was greeting me and now my desktop, documents and pictures is part of onedrive! how did this happen? I want my onedrive folder independent of all other folders how do I fix this?

Several years ago I gave my sister a T500 which I had previously owned and had upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. She no longer needs or desires it, but I have use for it. All of the programs and default new paths are currently set up in: C:\Users\Sisters Name\Folder How do I change all...

I've renamed photos within a folder many times without a problem but today I noticed that 2 or 3 photos had been given the same number. Eg. Pix 01, pix01, pix01 , pix02, pix02, pix02 etc The photos in each are different, intact and can be opened OK. Wondering how this can actually happen and...

Ok, I'm not enjoying Win10 at all at this point. Every day something new happens that causes me issues. Today, ALL of my directories are suddenly Read Only and I'm not able to update certain Word docs. I've gone online to see how to resolve the Read Only issue but it seems that everybody...

I setup the following columns as default for all (new) folders: Name, Size, Date modified Now I created a new folder with the name "work". Yes, all columns are set accordingly. Now I rename the folder to "_work" and the shown folders are automatically changed to Name, Date, Type, Size, Length...

Hi and thanks for looking at my post. I have no experience whatsoever about automating tasks in Windows but I have a huge task at hand currently and so I feel automating it is the only solution. Here is what I am trying to do: I have a huge collection of movie files on my NAS (Z:\Movies). Each...