Files and Folders

When an MS Word file is in use, I mean open and being edited. It seems to lock the file, so nothing else can be done to it. Also, I see the temp file it makes in the directory. My question is, can this be overridden or changed so that another application can read the file's contents? For...

A couple months ago I was moving some files from my old laptop to a flash drive, and then when I checked, it has 40gb+ of files but I thought it was some photos and didn't think much about it. After a while, here I am writing this post after seeing some "unique" files and folder. I'm not quite...

My friends launched a batch file on ,my windows computer with his USB key. He explained to me that this batch file loop and create a lot of folder on my desktop. After that I tried to remove them by using the windows terminal. I failed. I can't delete them manually, because i can't open the...

My friend is going reinstall windows on his c drive because he is upgrading his CPU an motherboard. The problem is that he has foto's, video's and documents on that drive that he doesn't want to lose. Now the question is how can he move all those files to his d drive? Can he just copy paste the...

As the title says, there are missing files on my hard drive. This is my first post here, so please let me know if I made any mistakes. 2 weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my PC with a new video card and a new processor. As I am 15 years old and do not know much about how to handle those things, I...

I recently reverted to the most recent restore point on my Windows 7 machine but it uninstalled 1 big big program (15GB) but left the file folders untouched in C/Program FIles. I want to free up space on my SSD and reinstall that same program again. But what do I do now? Do I just delete the...

I am experiencing a really strange phenomena which I can't quite work out how it could be happening. Basically these are the steps: I work on a Samsung T5 external SSD drive At the end of the day, I delete a folder called 'code' on my main Computer hard drive (older version 15/04/2020) I then...

I upgraded my PC today. I upgraded CPU, motherboard, ram, and added another SSD. My problem is that some applications on my old hard drives are not showing certain applications. For example, I had Geforce Experience installed but when I search for it nothing appears. I do see all devices listed...

I was downloading a file today for a vr related thing. When I downloaded it on google it showed up with a windows explorer logo as the file icon. When i opened it, it took me to windows explorer. Is there anyone to turn this off?

So recently i have had an issue with a game on steam (Total war warhammer 2) eventually i decided i would uninstall it from my ssd. I uninstalled it from steam and restarted my PC, when i came back i looked in my folder and the game was still there? So i decided to try and delete it directly...

Hi. I am currently building right now and I have no idea where to plug the pump into. I am using a ASrock AB350m mATX and the cooler is the Cooler Master Naster Liquid Lite. I assume I plug the fan into the CPU fan header (I may be wrong), but where do I plug the pump?