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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management, Kevryl
said: No, there are no users listed there, thanks Jeff. This may sound like a stupid question, but... When you boot your computer, what username do you use to log onto the computer? Click on Start, type "user" into the search box, and select "user accounts" from the list. What user account name is shown? Click on "Manage another account" and what user accounts are listed? -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org Double ROT13 encoded for your protection Tips for Evil Geniuses: 14. If I am working on an optical mind control device, I will remove all extraneous mirrors from the lab and wear polarized contact lenses at all times. |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:01 -0700, Kevryl
wrote: Thank you Ken. You're welcome. Maybe it gives them better ability to moderate the oposts? I think that's at least in part their view. However it wasn't the only solution to that problem, nor even the best one, as I'm concerned. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:01 -0700, Kevryl wrote: Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that there will be any Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroups. Apparently Microsoft has decided that web-based forums are better than newsgroups and they are putting their efforts there. I'm personally sorry that's the case, but it's their decision, not mine. Go to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ult.aspx?tab=2 However there is at least one non-Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroup: alt.windows7.general. Not all servers carry it (at least not yet), but here's one free news server that does: aioe.org -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup . -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:01 -0700, Kevryl
wrote: Thank you Ken. You're welcome. Maybe it gives them better ability to moderate the oposts? I think that's at least in part their view. However it wasn't the only solution to that problem, nor even the best one, as I'm concerned. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:01 -0700, Kevryl wrote: Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that there will be any Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroups. Apparently Microsoft has decided that web-based forums are better than newsgroups and they are putting their efforts there. I'm personally sorry that's the case, but it's their decision, not mine. Go to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ult.aspx?tab=2 However there is at least one non-Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroup: alt.windows7.general. Not all servers carry it (at least not yet), but here's one free news server that does: aioe.org -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup . -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Hi, Kevryl.
As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Hi, Kevryl.
As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Thanks, R.C. for the useful info. Yes, I well remember when "folders" were
"directories", and when you could read the whole "config.sys" file while between taking sips of coffee! oh, and do you remember (fondly) those real, hard-copy manuals, keyboard templates and quick-reference flip-cards that came with software like Lotus 1-2-3 and Enable? And I wonder why mass-file handling and filtering capabilities of programmes like Borland's X-tree were never incorporated by Microsoft into their limited "Explorer" windows? Once the extended filenames came into being it seemed to me that trying to find anything, guessing characters that would be substututed and appended after the first 6 (was it?) made using DOS directory commnds rather impractical. However I'll keep your info as a reference and look back into it. Anyway, back to the present: I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. In the User tree where "default" was listed, I think I right-clicked the default folder name. Whatever I did there was the option to "move down one position" (or very similar wording). I did that and all the folders, including my own magically appeared! Go figure! As I'm looking for where I found that (its not under the right-click menu any longer) the "search sub-directories" that I kept getting when my folder was invisible is also not to be found. The nuances of Windows 7 are quite puzzling to me at this early stage. :-| Cheers, Kevryl. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Kevryl. As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! . |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Thanks, R.C. for the useful info. Yes, I well remember when "folders" were
"directories", and when you could read the whole "config.sys" file while between taking sips of coffee! oh, and do you remember (fondly) those real, hard-copy manuals, keyboard templates and quick-reference flip-cards that came with software like Lotus 1-2-3 and Enable? And I wonder why mass-file handling and filtering capabilities of programmes like Borland's X-tree were never incorporated by Microsoft into their limited "Explorer" windows? Once the extended filenames came into being it seemed to me that trying to find anything, guessing characters that would be substututed and appended after the first 6 (was it?) made using DOS directory commnds rather impractical. However I'll keep your info as a reference and look back into it. Anyway, back to the present: I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. In the User tree where "default" was listed, I think I right-clicked the default folder name. Whatever I did there was the option to "move down one position" (or very similar wording). I did that and all the folders, including my own magically appeared! Go figure! As I'm looking for where I found that (its not under the right-click menu any longer) the "search sub-directories" that I kept getting when my folder was invisible is also not to be found. The nuances of Windows 7 are quite puzzling to me at this early stage. :-| Cheers, Kevryl. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Kevryl. As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! . |
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Windows 7 My user folder is invisible
Hi, Kevryl.
Ah, memories! Some fun, some not. ;^} Even in Win7, I often find that Dir /s in an elevated "DOS" window is still much faster and more effective than pressing Start and typing in what I'm looking for - but not always. Often, Search is so fast it's amazing; it sometimes finds what I want before I can finish typing the search word. But some things the GUI simply can't do. For example, the Dir /x command will reveal the 8.3 Short File Name for any Long File Name. VERY handy for when the LFN includes a space or other illegal character. Or when the LFN is just too long to qualify as an SFN. Dir /x shows the SFNs in a column before the LFNs, but only for each LFN that does not also qualify as an SFN. I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. I don't know how you did it either, but don't argue with success. ;) Like each other step up the learning curve, it will take a few days to get comfy with Win7; after that, only a few users choose to go back to their earlier system. I recall how angry and irritated my then-8-year-old son was in 1978 when TRS-80's Level II BASIC replaced the simple, tiny 4 KB Level I BASIC. ("What's a Syntax Error? Why can't it just say 'WHAT?' like it did before?") RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Thanks, R.C. for the useful info. Yes, I well remember when "folders" were "directories", and when you could read the whole "config.sys" file while between taking sips of coffee! oh, and do you remember (fondly) those real, hard-copy manuals, keyboard templates and quick-reference flip-cards that came with software like Lotus 1-2-3 and Enable? And I wonder why mass-file handling and filtering capabilities of programmes like Borland's X-tree were never incorporated by Microsoft into their limited "Explorer" windows? Once the extended filenames came into being it seemed to me that trying to find anything, guessing characters that would be substututed and appended after the first 6 (was it?) made using DOS directory commnds rather impractical. However I'll keep your info as a reference and look back into it. Anyway, back to the present: I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. In the User tree where "default" was listed, I think I right-clicked the default folder name. Whatever I did there was the option to "move down one position" (or very similar wording). I did that and all the folders, including my own magically appeared! Go figure! As I'm looking for where I found that (its not under the right-click menu any longer) the "search sub-directories" that I kept getting when my folder was invisible is also not to be found. The nuances of Windows 7 are quite puzzling to me at this early stage. :-| Cheers, Kevryl. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Kevryl. As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! |
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Ah, "Dir /x" - THAT'S the secret! Thanks I shall note that one.
8 years old eh? Yes I too recall the frustrations of "syntax error", as if the system new what one was doing but, like a teacher was bloody-mindedly impressing a point! LOL. I guess now, at 40 odd he probably runs rings around both of us? Cheers, have a great day. Kevryl PS: I keep ticking "notify me of replies", but it never does. :-( "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Kevryl. Ah, memories! Some fun, some not. ;^} Even in Win7, I often find that Dir /s in an elevated "DOS" window is still much faster and more effective than pressing Start and typing in what I'm looking for - but not always. Often, Search is so fast it's amazing; it sometimes finds what I want before I can finish typing the search word. But some things the GUI simply can't do. For example, the Dir /x command will reveal the 8.3 Short File Name for any Long File Name. VERY handy for when the LFN includes a space or other illegal character. Or when the LFN is just too long to qualify as an SFN. Dir /x shows the SFNs in a column before the LFNs, but only for each LFN that does not also qualify as an SFN. I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. I don't know how you did it either, but don't argue with success. ;) Like each other step up the learning curve, it will take a few days to get comfy with Win7; after that, only a few users choose to go back to their earlier system. I recall how angry and irritated my then-8-year-old son was in 1978 when TRS-80's Level II BASIC replaced the simple, tiny 4 KB Level I BASIC. ("What's a Syntax Error? Why can't it just say 'WHAT?' like it did before?") RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Thanks, R.C. for the useful info. Yes, I well remember when "folders" were "directories", and when you could read the whole "config.sys" file while between taking sips of coffee! oh, and do you remember (fondly) those real, hard-copy manuals, keyboard templates and quick-reference flip-cards that came with software like Lotus 1-2-3 and Enable? And I wonder why mass-file handling and filtering capabilities of programmes like Borland's X-tree were never incorporated by Microsoft into their limited "Explorer" windows? Once the extended filenames came into being it seemed to me that trying to find anything, guessing characters that would be substututed and appended after the first 6 (was it?) made using DOS directory commnds rather impractical. However I'll keep your info as a reference and look back into it. Anyway, back to the present: I stumbled on a "fix" for the problem of finding my user folder (though I can't find how I did it now,. In the User tree where "default" was listed, I think I right-clicked the default folder name. Whatever I did there was the option to "move down one position" (or very similar wording). I did that and all the folders, including my own magically appeared! Go figure! As I'm looking for where I found that (its not under the right-click menu any longer) the "search sub-directories" that I kept getting when my folder was invisible is also not to be found. The nuances of Windows 7 are quite puzzling to me at this early stage. :-| Cheers, Kevryl. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Kevryl. As Ken explained, MS has decided that there will be NO Win7 newsgroups - and I'm as disappointed as Ken about this. :( As to your C:\Users\Kevryl folder tree... immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, Is this in Windows Explorer? What IS your username? Might it possibly include "illegal" characters? It should not, of course, because Windows should not let you create such a username in the first place, but strange things happen sometimes. In an elevated Command Prompt window, you should be able to use the Dir command, held over from MS-DOS days when "folders" were Directories. (As with any command here, just type Dir /? to see a mini-Help file listing the switches and parameters available with this command.) Start with your username: Dir C:\kevryl /s/a The /s and /a switches search all subfolders and list all files, even those with Hidden, System or other attributes. If a file or folder named "kevryl" is anywhere in Drive C: it should show up and you can read the full pathname. (You could also search for "outlook.pst", of course.) If that doesn't work, post back with details about what you did - step by step - and what result you saw - verbatim; please don't paraphrase any error message that might appear. Several other techniques are available to fine-tune Dir searches. I'm assuming of course that you are an Administrator and logged in as such. RC "Kevryl" wrote in message ... Hello all, Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group. I have just bought 2 identical machines with Win 7 installed. My user account is there on both (libraries documents right click properties) immediately under c:\users, but when I go to c: drive, I find only public and default, and when invited to "search in sub-folders" an unintelligibnle mish-mash of files and folders appear, and still my own user folder is not visible (even after playing with the alphabetical selection down arrow). I have gone into folder options/view and selected "show hidden folders, files and drives" and even unticked "hide unprotected operating system files". My user account still wont appear so I can get into it and copy my "outlook.pst" file from the old machine into its rightful place on the new ones. If anyone can help me with this issue, and how to get from this mish-mash of flattened out fiolders and files into a real directory structure I'd be most appreciative! . |