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change back iso file's default open program in Windows 7
In Windows 10, I can use explorer to open iso file. I think windows 7 can also do it.
So I change an iso file default open program to C:\Windows\explorer.exe, but it didn't work, and I can't change it ...
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Broken thumbnails of .cur (cursor) files in Windows
I am on Windows 7 x64 with Irfan Viewer installed. Most of the .cur files in C:\Windows\Cursors have icons of random things (programs, link files, even my .ico/.cur stash). When I go to the Properties ...
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Adobe audition 2021 unusable with folder with lot of files
I am a big user of Adobe Audition 1.5, and I'm mainly working with small sound effects files merging thems togethers for commercials spot.
I'm dealing with quite big folders, even if they are low in ...
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Force "Group by" in a folder in Windows Explorer
I have a specific folder that I want to be always opened with Group by date view, in the Windows File explorer.
Every now and then, when I reopen this folder, it comes back to the default folder view ...
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Is it possible to change the tooltip delay for files in Explorer on Windows 7 or 10?
In Explorer, one can view tooltips for files by hovering over them, as below:
This tooltip can show some helpful information, such as full file names which are too long for the current Name column ...
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How to prevent Guest or other account from accessing my secondary drive?
On a shared PC, we can create multiple windows login account. But how can I prevent other user account from accessing my secondary drive? Is it possible to hide the secondary drive from other user?
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Explorer.exe Restore previous folder windows at logon fails
Having the restore option selected in Folder Options works fine, except for vpn drives and virtual (subst) drives that are not initially available at the time explorer.exe tries to connect.
The ...
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Windows video thumbnails have disappeared after running disk cleanup
I ran the Disk Cleanup utility that comes with Windows to clean temporary files and the thumbnail cache. Now all of my video files no longer show thumbnail previews and look like in the screenshot ...
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Win 7; How to stop the Explorer left navigation pane from opening it's folders when you click on drive letters?
On my 2nd bootable backup drive (W7 freshly compiled from NTLite), when I click on a drive letter in the navigation pane, it keeps on opening folders there and the center pane. That makes it really ...
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Windows 7 File Explorer doesn't shows folders but notepad does
I am using Windows 10 and Windows 7 dual-boot and today Windows 7's file explorer stopped showing folders on any directory, but it shows files (system files too if I deselect "Hide protected ...
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Keyboard Shortcut for Windows Explorer to fit the width of the name column to the longest file name in the folder
I would like to use a keyboard shortcut to fit the Name column to the longest name of the files in the folder so the file names don't get truncated with .... In a desktop you can use [Ctrl + +] to fit ...
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How to open windows 7 file explorer window in the position of a current file explorer window
I regularly use the Ctrl+N hotkey to launch a new file explorer window, but this new window opens 'far' from the currently open explorer window. What I prefer is that the new window open exactly ...
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In which order does Windows Explorer sort folders when sorting the results of the search by size?
The files are sorted by size but not the folders, so I wonder how Windows Explorer decides the ordering of folders when displaying them. I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
Example of sort by size:
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Unexpected error 0x8007000D "The data is invalid" when moving or renaming folders in Windows 7
A few weeks ago I began seeing this error every time I try to rename or move a folder in Windows 7 SP1:
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Things I've already tried to resolve this:
Remove ALL Explorer addins and shell extensions, ...
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How to setup Windows File Explorer to automatically open locations with custom "aliases" in the Address Bar (like "desktop" or "program files")?
I am trying to automate our project's directory and I thought that setting up aliases could help a lot. They need to be accessible from anywhere and, ideally from the Windows File Explorer Address Bar....
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kill explorer.exe for Windows 7 for kiosk for school student to use
Sorry, our school still using windows 7, I am running a simple flash application and auto shutdown in task scheduler for my windows 7.
I tried afew of Hide Taskbar Application but some how the taskbar ...
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Character in filename that makes it sorted in last position in Windows
A common trick to have files sorted first in Windows Explorer is to add the _ character as prefix, as displayed in the screenshot below.
Question: Which character can I add to the filename to have a ...
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Replace win10 Explorer shell with win7 shell
Seems pretty dumb, such question seems not to have any lead across google known internet. For me personally, win10 shell looks extremly overhelming in resource consumption (with no reason at all), ...
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Select multiple files individually in explorer
To my knowledge, I know 3 ways of selecting files in explorer.
Assume a folder with 10 files. Now,
I can select one individual file by single-clicking it.
I can also drag the cursor using mouse to ...
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Windows 7 - make folders from favorites open in new window
By default if I click on a folder in "favorites" (left hand pane), they open in the same window, as normal folders. But for latter I can hold ctrl while double-clicking to open them in new ...
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Which setting controls whether Windows Explorer will offer file/folder suggestions in Save As/Open dialogs?
I was recently working on a machine that had a setting configured whereby when either entering text into the Run dialog or when within a "Save As" or "Open" dialog, entering any ...
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How to force custom default Sort By options for all folder types in Windows Explorer
Quick note to eager mods: this is not a duplicate :)
My question has 3 parts, but to make it easy, of course I will mark as answered any answer that only addresses the 3rd part:
I wish to understand ...
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Do a context menu action for multiple selected files in the Windows Explorer
I'd like to create a Windows Explorer context menu action for multiple selected files.
I created a key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\MyAction\command with a string value
C:\python37\python.exe "c:\...
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Find the rotated images in folders
A folder contains 134944 files and 6919 folders.
They are graduation albums contains scenes and avtars.
The jpg images were generate by the scansnap sv600 and then manually slice, copy, paste, rename,...
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What could cause Windows Explorer to display the error that data couldn't be read from the source file or disk when attempting to copy a file?
Recently, I was copying a folder containing multiple files from my internal hard drive to an external USB drive - both drives formatted with NTFS. All of the files were successfully copied - apart ...
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Where are saved folder custom display settings such as "Group by > Date modified"?
I right-clicked in a folder D:\Test\ABC and selected "Group by > Date modified", this is really useful for some specific folders, see screenshot below.
Out of curiosity, where is saved ...
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Where does win7 store folder columns settings?
Windows file explorer columns show/hide (size, date, type, etc..). Where does Windows 7 store these settings? Are they stored for each individual folder?
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Save layout with expanded folders in Windows Explorer on Windows 7
I expand 'My computer' to have quick access to the hard drives on the left side, the next time when I open my computer the folders are closed.
I tried to not close 'My computer' window after ...
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Windows Explorer freezes when I try to right-click, rename or move files in a mounted cloud drive (via rclone mount)
I have already asked this question in the rclone forum, but unfortunately we weren't able to find a solution. Most people there seem to be Linux users, so I thought that I might have better luck here, ...
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Which process should I allow in the Windows Firewall to make local network access possible (e.g. \\MyRouter\USBDevice\)
Which .exe process is responsible for the Windows Explorer to have access to the local network, i.e. when you go in Explorer, and you browser for example \\Livebox\movies?
I need to whitelist this ....
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How can I jump (e.g., keyboard shortcut) to the first file of the list of the results returned by Windows Explorer after doing a file search?
How can I jump (e.g., keyboard shortcut) to the first file of the list of the results returned by Windows Explorer after doing a file search? I don't want to have to patiently scroll down/up to get to ...
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Cannot change properties of a file on Windows 7
In windows explorer if I try to change any of the properties of a file
I get this error: "An unexpected error is keeping you from applying properties to the file. If you continue to receive this ...
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Extra large icons in Windows 7
in Windows 7, we know that in right click option "View" we have some options, one of the is "Extra large icons".
Is it possible to
to view icons larger when we choose "Extra ...
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Windows Explorer's Preview Pane blocks HTML images in Windows 7
Why does it do this and how can I fix this in Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 11.
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How to modify start orb with resource editor? [closed]
I tried xneditor, resource editor, resource hacker, resource builder, and a few other programs to edit my explorer.exe. I simply draw over orb bmps to test the idea first. Some of resource editors ...
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Ghost USB flash drive on W10 x64
I have an old 128 Mb USB flash drive, FAT32 formatted.
When connected to a Windows 7 x64 machine, it can be used with no problem.
When connected to another machine running Windows 10 v1909 x64, it ...
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Open Windows 10 Windows Explorer to My Documents ("User Files") Specific Folder
How do I open a subfolder in the My Documents ("User Files") instead of the default under My computer? I explicitly do not want Windows Explorer to expand to the folder via My Computer. I intend to ...
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How long does Windows Explorer remember folder customisations for in Windows 7?
I've noticed that if I right-click in a folder, go to "View By" and then add custom columns from within the "More..." menu, I'll go back into that same folder several months later and my custom ...
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How to apply a script to a certain file/folder through a right click in explorer (for UNC-paths)
I'm looking for a way to apply a cmd or powershell script to a certain file by right clicking the file in windows explorer and choosing "Apply script XYZ".
A use case would be to make a file write ...
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windows 7 icons missing
After getting rid of 'black' icons on the desktop, all icons disappeared, only the texts remain. I can still start programs clicking on the texts. Icons disappeared also inside windows explorer, such ...
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Favorites doesn't display anything in Explorer sidebar
On Windows 7 x64, I'm having an issue where the Favorites link in the sidebar fails to show any shortcuts, and the usually-cited fix of right-clicking on it and clicking either Restore favorite links ...
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Force "Details" folder view to show standard columns in folders with music file in Windows
In Windows explorer if I change the folder view to details, for a standard folder the columns shown are Name, Date modified, Type and Size. When I open a folder containing files with audio extensions (...
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How to remove mapped network drives/locations from Windows explorer navigation pane?
I need to remove all mapped network locations from navigation pane and only from the navigation pane for a very specific reason which is mentioned in this question.
This seems like the only way to ...
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Windows 7 stuck discovering files/Items remaining when copying from NAS to PC (WD myworldbook)
My WD MyWorldBook is pretty old as you can tell, so I've taken it upon myself to transfer everything to my PC before it inevitably keels over, but when I go to copy everything, Windows gets stuck ...
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How can I copy the exact used space and free space of a partition in Windows Explorer?
How can I copy the exact used space and free space of a partition somewhere in Windows Explorer?
I tried going to the partition's properties but the number of bytes cannot be copied:
Maybe this can ...
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Delete a folder in Win7, folder name is too long and ends with ".." [duplicate]
In
C:\xampp\htdocs\crawl\lists\Standard
i have subfolder called
2019-05-26_Mythic Championship Qualifier Barcelona - Szcze...
This folder was created by a PHP script and since the folders intended ...
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How do I automate using a large .txt list of file names or file paths to locate and compile the files into one folder? [closed]
I'm using Windows 7
I have a large list of file names in a .txt document.
A couple examples of the file names:
22740A.pdf
23661 spec change.ai
23665B.cdr
The current locations for this list of ...
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windows 7 windows explorer keep on loop restarting windows explorerw
Windows-7 Windows-Explorer infinite-loop restarting windows explorer(WE).
It displays WE has stopped working then go to WE is restarting in an loop non stop.
Tried to run WE from Task Manager, no ...
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Windows 7 - Scheduled task fails on Net Use \\server\share
Issue is with a Windows 7 system with latest updates, on a network with Windows 2008r2 server in an non-AD non-domain environment.
From File Explorer, or within an application, I can access \\server\...
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Windows 7 : how to restore the "Security tab" on folders, if "gone missing"
For some unknown reason, I had no more "Security" tab when displaying properties of a folder, on my Windows 7 Pro SP1 (with an NTFS-formatted disk).
Thus, I searched the Web, including Super User, ...
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