This isn't a very serious problem, more of a curiosity... When I right-click Computer and click Manage, Windows pops open a window asking if I want the...

Slightly OT, but I've been following the thread here about recovering data from a failing disk. I've been buying hard drives for more than 20 years and have...

My sister has a Toshiba laptop. She is getting a message saying that the hard is detecting problems. Is there a place on the hard drive that shows the Win 7...

Running Win7 and Office 2010 Could anyone please tell me how to stop Win7 from making documents into read only mode. I have an Excel file in one of my folders...

Strange little indexing problem, which I've never seen before. I have a folder as part of a library. Whenever I search for a file that I know for sure is on...

I've got a folder that's approx. 40Gb I want to save off to dvds keeping the folder structure. Not many folders but 100's of files, many over a Gb. I've...

This is odd. Recently I discovered some files had disappeared. One was vendors.txt, which has phone numbers and other information of various vendors. Local...

How do I look at LAN traffic? I have several security cameras and NAS and PC on my home LAN. How do I see the LAN traffic or at least the MB/Sec traffic...

I have a new computer with W7 Home Premium, 64-bit. In performing the first backup using Windows Backup, I get notification that "the backup completed, but...

I have .NET Framework versions 3.5.1, 4, 4.5.1, and possibly other older versions. Do I need all of the old versions? Or can I remove all but 4.5.1? If I...

What easy to use back-up program can I advice my friends? I use TeraCopy (for data on D: partition) but that's not a real back-up prog. I use Acronis True...

I have 8 files named iexplore.exe on my C partition and 51 on my J partition. Both partitions are on the same physical hard drive. Some on the C partition...

Hello and Happy NEw Year I usually put my machine to sleep but sometimes I close it completely. Some time ago, when I stopped the machine it told me...

What easy to use back-up program can I advice my friends? I use TeraCopy (for data on D: partition) but that's not a real back-up prog. I use Acronis True...

I deleted half a dozen files in my temp directory. They wound up in the recycle bin. When I try to empty it, one file remains. It reports that only an...

I have a HP 6330 computer with Windows 7 Premium x64 installed. It came with a WD hard drive of 1TB, and I generally clone my HD's to a spare HD so that...

An interesting problem came up in another group. You're old and, as a safety measure, you want to email someone every day indicating you're OK. They need a...

This seems strange. I installed an old version of a program that a few years ago I installed and ran on XP. I wanted to see if it would do same on W7. It...

Strange one this. Router, connected via (A)DSL to the outside world, and via wifi to various devices in the house. One of the devices, a W7 computer, showed...

I deleted half a dozen files in my temp directory. They wound up in the recycle bin. When I try to empty it, one file remains. It reports that only an...