Ed. note: If you've tried moving the Windows Users directory to a location other than the default, you know it can be quite an undertaking. Reader Roobs wrote in detailing how he moved his Windows 7 ...

On Windows 11/10, the User Account/Profile at the location %SystemDrive%\Users\<UserName> contains files, folders, and data that the associated user can access easily ...

Another day means another Windows update, and this time it comes with a warning from Microsoft. You may have noticed a new folder in your root C:\ folder after applying the latest cumulative update ...

I have been given the job of getting around an issue with our VPN that our network architect has been ignoring as "I'm too busy with *IMPORTANT* things to do". Easy for him to say as he isn't the one ...

If you have photographs, videos, documents and PDFs saved to your computer, and who doesn't, you're using folders to organize them. Just like their real-world counterparts, folders are useful to keep ...

User profile folders on Windows 10 or 11 are important directories that store personal files, app settings, and system configuration of each created account. It is located in the system drive ...

This is more of an administrative sanity thing than a problem, per se... I've got a file share full of user home directories, where they can save stuff that they don't need to share with each other.

The ransomware defense baked into Windows 10 and 11 lets users and admins protect certain folders from “untrusted” apps. But it may block apps you trust, causing frustration and wasted time. Caution ...