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Move Personal folders to another Drive in Windows

March 14, 2022 by Rickard Svard

A guide to move personal folders to a different path

Is your C: drive getting crowded? Would you like to move the personal folders to another drive to free up space? Maybe it’s one of the personal system folders like My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos or My Download folder that is taking up a lot of space. If you have another hard drive, consider moving some system folders to a second volume.

Because the locations of system folders are listed in the Windows registry and sometimes hard-wired in programs, personal system folders cannot be moved by conventional methods nor can you use a standard shortcut file. Instead they are redirected using symbolic links. For redirecting personal system folders, Windows 7 has a built-in procedure. Here is how it works:

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Chocolatey bulk installation of applications

februari 23, 2022 by Rickard Svard

Chocolatey – Once Chocolatey is installed, many applications can be installed with a command. I always check first if there is installation from Chocolatey.

I install all these programs with one command:

choco install <programnamn> -y

[-y] written at the end to avoid confirming each installation.

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Autologin in Windows even when netplwiz does not work

september 10, 2020 by Rickard Svard

First try netplwiz if you can uncheck the box, then just make settings in the program. If netplwiz does not work, you can change the registry for Windows.

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Support for Windows 7 ends 14 January 2020

november 6, 2019 by Rickard Svard

when Windows 7 released on 22 October 2009 Microsoft stated that Windows 7 would get product support in 10 year. When the 10-year period ends, Microsoft will no longer provide support for Windows 7. This means that we can instead invest in new technologies and support of the recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver innovative experiences.

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View the signal strength of the WLAN [Wi-Fi]

september 10, 2019 by Rickard Svard

Different ways to display the signal strength WLAN [WiFi] with command or program.

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Clear the cache for Offline Files in Windows 7

september 3, 2019 by Rickard Svard

I Windows 7 there is no user interface to delete the cache for Offline Files (CSC cache). The only way to remove the cache is to use the registry key.

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Reboot the computer via LAN

november 8, 2018 by Rickard Svard

To reboot a computer via LAN, you can type the command:

shutdown /r /t 3 /m \\DATORNAMN

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Start up the computer takes an unreasonably long time

October 20, 2018 by Rickard Svard

Sometimes booting the computer will take an unreasonably long time, even though it made the appropriate measures. Then I recommend to check if there are four large files in the folder path:

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Problems will be assigned IP number in Windows 10

september 27, 2017 by Rickard Svard

Problems will be assigned IP number can apply both with and without cable. I have not understood what caused it but the symptoms are addressed with the instructions below. Typical symptoms is that no or incorrect IP numbers [type 169.245.x.x] assigned to the NIC. It can be seen by the command window [CMD] write ipconfig /all or right-click the icon for each network adapter and select Status > Information.

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Download Windows 10 Creators Update

september 27, 2017 by Rickard Svard

Here is the link to the page to download Windows 10 Creators Update.

https://support.microsoft.com/sv-se/help/4028685/windows-get-the-windows-10-creators-update

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Behind the involuntary Windows 10 the upgrades

June 2, 2016 by Rickard Svard

Many have complained about Microsoft's aggressive campaign of persuasion for Windows 10 the upgrades. Some have even argued that the operating system be upgraded against their will – and maybe they have a point.

Last week did Microsoft blow in it and selected Windows 10 as a recommended update for all. Those who have automatic updates turned on has therefore been given an upgrade scheduled – if users do not themselves intervene and actively declines. At the same time updated Microsoft instructions for how to upgrade to the latest operating system, and there is a rare formulation. One that violates all what we learned about how Windows interface works.

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Outlook does not save the password

October 15, 2015 by Rickard Svard

Unable to save incoming email password.

The explanation that I found is that “checksummor” error in Windows settings registry. So it is not an error in the server and it is not the wrong password that is saved in the settings of Outlook, but it is Windows that thinks it is the wrong password.
There are two good ways to circumvent this problem:

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