Windows 8 :: Creating Directory Junctions That Keeps Existing Files?

Drag Files / Folders From One Directory To Another

Feb 18, 2014

I am trying to organize the files on my system, and am consistently butting heads against this problem. It always seems to be the last file I highlight. In other words.. I have two directories open on the screen, and am simply looking to drag files/folders from one directory to another. To do this, you almost always have to highlight the folder you want to move, and doing this seems to put a lock on that folder. If I highlight more folders, it seems to be ok, except for the last one I highlight will always fail to copy.

Any way to prevent windows from locking files in this way?

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If I upgrade to Windows 8.1, will it delete all my programs/files/etc.?

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This computer has been crashing after coming out of sleep since I built it.

I have tried changing the hybrid sleep options, but it still crashes like clockwork.

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Dec 26, 2013

Is there a tutorial here or somewhere on the net that will walk a person through using Windows 8 and the differences between 8 and 7?

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Aug 19, 2014

So recently I've been uploading my physical DVD's to my system to keep as backup and to watch here and there. In doing so I can access some of them, but others it says 'The directory name is invalid." They are all in the same directory (F:/Movies) and each is named the same (Name (year).)

I can however view these movies using XBMC, I just cant view, edit, move, rename or copy these from file explorer.

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Is there any way to take the icon from one file and use it for another? For example, if I create a "File Explorer" shortcut to a PDF file so I can pin it to the taskbar or start screen, I'd like to remove the File Explorer icon from it and use the PDF icon that Adobe Reader uses. But I don't think it's included in the icon files available.

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Possible To Append Value To Another Existing Registry Value?

Sep 7, 2013

For example there is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftABCEFG]
"HIJ"=hex(7):25,00,77,00,69,00,6E,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33 ,00,32,00,5C,00,77,00,
62,00,65,00,6D,00,5C,00,63,00,69,00,6D,00,77,00,69 ,00,6E,00,33,00,32,00,
2E,00,6D,00,6F,00,66,00,00,00,00,00

And I want append (without overwritting) there more data (green below) and remove some data (red above) to have:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftABCEFG]
"HIJ"=hex(7):25,00,77,00,69,00,6E,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33 ,00,32,00,5C,00,77,00,
62,00,65,00,6D,00,5C,00,63,00,69,00,6D,00,77,00,69 ,00,6E,00,33,00,32,00,
2E,00,6D,00,6F,00,66,00,00,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6E,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33 ,00,32,00,5C,00,77,00,
62,00,65,00,6D,00,5C,00,6E,00,63,00,70,00,72,00,6F ,00,76,00,2E,00,6D,00,
6F,00,66,00,00,00,00,00

Is it possible by some batch, script, command line...? (Please note, that two 0 values in red has to be deleted from the original string 1st.)

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Dec 8, 2012

I have a home network set up by geeksquad. They have set up a filesharing where the public drive is on my only PC with a Vista Operating sys. They have a WORKGROUP called WORKGROUP. I connect everything else wirelessly. Have 2 Windows 7 Home laptops connected. A shared printer is also connected.

I now have a new laptop with Windows 8 and just want to add it in. I named the Homegroup WORKGROUP and I can see the other computers when I click on network, but I can't access them. When I click on the other computers especially the Vista PC with the public drive, it asks for a network user ID and password. I tried everything I can think of and it keeps telling me password invalid.

So my new laptopwith Windows 8 has yet to be added to the filesharing and printer sharing.

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Apr 28, 2013

I just purchased a Lenovo laptop / Win 8.

I changed the Workgroup name to match my existing XP workgroup. Win 8 found the new workgroup, connected to it and changed the workgroup name. However, I cannot access the shared discs or printers.

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Slow Searching After Moving User Directory

Feb 10, 2014

I recently got a new laptop and have just installed Windows 8 onto it clean, I then upgraded to 8.1. Everything has been running perfectly but the HDD has two partitions so I wanted to put all my personal documents and files on a separate partition to my programs and Windows.

I achieved this by creating a new Admin account and moving the user's folder to the other partition and then I modified the path to my personal documents via regedit. Everything went according to plan and works fine so far.

However, one side effect of doing this seems to be that the live search found by hovering over the right hand side of the screen is now incredibly slow. Even keystrokes into the search bar suffer from some kind of lag and once a search query has been input it takes around 20-30 seconds to display results.

I have logged into the temporary account I used to move my personal documents and the search is fine on that so I'm guessing it's something to do with having the account on a separate HDD partition to the Windows files and folders.

get my search back to it's original speed whilst still having my personal documents on separate partition to the Windows directory

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Get Message Saying File Directory Corrupted And Unreadable?

Jun 27, 2014

i'm not sure why this has started, but when I now try to DL any files or save ANY files, I get a message saying 'File directory is corrupted & unreadable'.

I tried to open an image with 'Windows Preview' & got 'Windows Photo viewer cant open this image, as the file appears to be damaged to large or corrupted' (none of which is correct)-yet I can still open ALL images by double clicking to use the windows photo/image viewer App

I also can not save anything either- I tried to take a screen shot & save it using paint- I just got the same 'File directory is corrupted & unreadable' message.

With Windows Internet Explorer, I have been trying to DL a torrent, but cant "open" the DL link (I click "open", but nothing happens), nor can I 'save it' (as I get the same 'File is corrupted & unreadable' message for both "save" options), nor can I click cancel to close the DL options box in Internet Explorer- as again, nothing happens when I click it.

To try get around these problems I tried using the magnet link option- which worked ONCE, but now even that wont work, as I cant DL the 2nd file- the DL starts (after taking ages to DL meta data- which is odd in itself), then the torrent is shortly terminated & I get the 'Error: File or directory is corrupt & unreadable' file message .

TO add to this I cant listen to a podcast with chrome either (tells me QuickTime failed to initialise Error#0) when I click "listen in a new window" & when I click "download" nothing happens at all.

EDITED: I forgot this problem has also prevented my VPN from working- I get the same Corrupted file/directory message every time I've tried to re-install it.

DL was fine, viewing images worked perfectly & I was able to open things in new windows without a problem.I have tried fixing with command prompt- it said it couldn't run to find the problems, tried using the windows restore thing, again said it couldnt complete a restore due to not being able to run properly.

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Opening WinExplorer With Pre-defined Directory Does Not Work

Jun 10, 2014

I want to setup a shortcut which (when double clicked) opens Windows Explorer with a pre-defined directory.

Under Windows 7 users could setup a shortcut with auto-expansion and auto-marking that directory (sample: C:data) in left side tree view with the following command:

%windir%explorer.exe /n,/e,C:data

It works fine in Win 7.

When I try to setup the same cmd/shortcut in TaskBar of Windows 8 it does not work resp. does work only partially.

Yes, on the right side the content of C:data is shown. But on the left side tree view the tree is NOT expanded and the directory C:data is NOT marked.

How else can I achieve auto-expansion + auto-marking in Win 8 analog to the Win 7 command?

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Aug 27, 2014

At my company we are currently running a server (with Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard), without Active Directory, and we have a bunch of laptops running Windows 8.1 Pro. Now we want to install Dynamics CRM which requires an Active Directory domain.

I am trying to run through every anticipated problem before I do the domain configuration. The last problem that I anticipate is the following:

Our MD's laptop is currently logging in without a Microsoft account (in other words, he uses a standard local user profile in Windows 8.1 Pro). He has a whole lot of data in this profile from a few years of work. So now, when we configure the domain, obviously he will have to sign in using an Active Directory username and password. So question 1 is, is it possible to synchronize the current local (non-Windows Live) account with the domain account? The second question is, how will this affect his data, settings, etc? And the third question is, when he's working from home, without the domain controller to authenticate logins, will he still be able to access his data and profile? In other words, what I'm really asking is, will we be able to kind of "integrate" the Active Directory account and local account as one account, but the authentication is AD based when he's at the office, but local if he's at home?

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Nov 13, 2013

So, I did a refresh of Windows 8 which created Windows.old. I could later delete all the folders in it but for a few. Although I deleted all the files, I ended up with a few folders in Windows.old. I am unable to delete it now and it shows "Error 0x80070091: The directory is not empty."

I have tried 10's of solution available on internet and on your website. Nothing works

Note: I am able to change the location, name of the folder and the sub folders. The only exception is happening when I cut and paste it in an external drive, it just copies whereas if I paste it back in any other folder, it cuts and pastes!

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Sep 30, 2013

I have a very frustrating issue with Windows 8 where my software disappears when I select to open an existing file from within the parent program. It is not minimized and it is not 'off' the screen. I open task manager, and it doesn't exist as a process in any state. The program is Xilinx's ISE for programming FPGA boards.

Before, I get the obvious response that it is an issue with the ISE gui and not Windows 8, I've had a similar problem in another program in Windows 8 in which when I tried to create a new folder in a select file dialog box to save a file, the program would disappear. (Though, I don't recall which program that was.) It's as the program closes completely! (I'm lovin' Linux even more now.)

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Feb 26, 2013

I just received an Asus Zenbook with 8 preinstalled.

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Then set up a dual boot configuration, so I can have a clean "office config" and an "home config" with the same licenses and software in which I can mess with the configuration and setup my home stuff (DLNA server, access to home headless server, software to flash android handset, etc).

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Mar 7, 2014

I am running into a problem with newly upgraded windows 8 computers not being able to register DNS with our existing domain controller that is currently on server 2003.

I am getting the following error: The system failed to register host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapter with settings:

Adapter Name : {0D2F7524-B997-4850-BE6E-50B502FE46A8}
Host Name : ########
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DNS server list :
172.29.1.10, 172.29.1.12
Sent update to server : <?>
IP Address(es) :
172.29.5.145

The reason the system could not register these RRs was because of a security related problem. The cause of this could be (a) your computer does not have permissions to register and update the specific DNS domain name set for this adapter, or (b) there might have been a problem negotiating valid credentials with the DNS server during the processing of the update request.

You can manually retry DNS registration of the network adapter and its settings by typing 'ipconfig /registerdns' at the command prompt. If problems still persist, contact your DNS server or network systems administrator. See event details for specific error code information.

I blanked out the computer name and domain name.

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If say I have a Windows Guest running its own AV software whether it's Windows defender or anything else then it seems to me that by having the HOST also running an AV software we are going to have two pieces of AV software running on the same data areas (the VM Disks).

It would seem to make sense to exclude the VM directories from the HOST's AV scan when the VM's are running -- but I haven't seen any mechanism to dynamically turn off parts of the AV system -- it's either an ALL or NONE mechanism.

I'm sure the performance of both HOST and GUESTS could be enhanced if AV software was ONLY running on the machines it needed to be - but AV software doesn't seem to allow for excluding certain parts of the machines.

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At my company we are currently running a server (with Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard), without Active Directory, and we have a bunch of laptops running Windows 8.1 Pro. Now we want to install Dynamics CRM which requires an Active Directory domain.

I am trying to run through every anticipated problem before I do the domain configuration. The last problem that I anticipate is the following:

Our MD's laptop is currently logging in without a Microsoft account (in other words, he uses a standard local user profile in Windows 8.1 Pro). He has a whole lot of data in this profile. So now, when we configure the domain, obviously he will have to sign in using an Active Directory username and password. So question 1 is, is it possible to synchronize the current non-Windows Live account with the domain account? And second question is, when he's working from home, without the domain controller to authenticate logins, will he still be able to access his data and profile? In other words, what I'm really asking is, will we be able to kind of integrate the Active Directory account and local account as one account, but the authentication is AD based when he's at the office, but local if he's at home?

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Dec 5, 2013

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